Where in the world is….? Celebrity (couple) #5: Paul Bettany and Jennifer Connelly, who paid $3.7M in 2003 for their 5,243-square-foot mansion in Brooklyn, NY
Today’s installment of “Where in the world is….?” should offer a partial response, at least, to many of our most loyal readers and commenters (tlp333, Ashley, Tara, etc.) who have inquired about the Brooklyn, N.Y. home of husband-and-wife actors Paul Bettany and Jennifer Connelly. We can provide details on their Brooklyn house, which they purchased in 2003 for $3,700,000, but we’re still looking for details on their house in Stowe, Vermont that they purchased not long ago.
Built in 1899, Bettany and Connelly’s 5,243-square-foot house in Brooklyn is at 17 Prospect Park West. Records show that the couple’s William & Belinda Shears Trust closed on the property on August 27, 2003, with the deal being recorded on January 23, 2004. (The trust name, we think, may have something to do with the Beatles, given the character’s name “Billy Shears” in “Sgt. Pepper’s LonelyHearts Club Band.”) The house sits on a minuscule, 2,500-square-foot (0.06-acre) parcel, according to public records. As an aside, the couple’s money manager, Carolyn Rossip Malcolm, also has had her name on the deeds of plenty of other celebrities’ homes, including Ethan Hawke and Lisa Loeb.
Bettany and Connelly’s house has some historic value to it. As our faithful commenter Tara helpfully noted earlier this month, another blog reported that Bettany and Connelly’s mansion once was owned by the late U.S. Rep. Francis Dorn, who represented Brooklyn in the House from 1953 until 1961.
Records show that in 1989, Dorn’s descendants sold the house to the man who sold it to Connelly and Bettany.
After buying the house, Bettany and Connelly suffered “two massive floods that completely trashed the whole kitchen,” Connelly told New York magazine in 2005. “Water coming out of the light fixtures. Pipes burst. Twice! They dispatched the fire department.’ Even so, Connelly told the magazine that the house has ‘a nice backyard and a place for the bicycles.”
The following year, New York magazine described the house as being “one of the most beautiful in all of Park Slope. Nestled on a shady corner opposite Prospect Park, it is distinguished without being ostentatious. Its Ionic columns and great arched windows seem typical rather than showy. The garden — the disrepair of which was once, Park Slope blogger tells me, a cause of consternation for some neighbors — is now a well-maintained torrent of tulips in varying shades of oxblood, peach, and white.”
By Bob Goldsborough at 24 January, 2008, 12:54 am
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It has been reported that Orlando Bloom only has two homes (London, England and Los Angeles, California-USA). His home in the Brentwood Section of Los Angeles (O.J. Simpson use to live in the same neighborhood) is currently up for rent (asking price $18,000.00 per month) and the house number is 2227. I do not know the street , but I think that he spends most of his time in London, England because that was his first home and Bloom had a lot or remodeling done to it. Besides his mother and sister both resides in the London area. I think that he only brought a home in the U.S. was because he was working on a long movie here and other people had told him that New York and Hollywood are the places to be.Sounds like he regretted paying for a pricely house filled with ivys hanging everywhere outside in Los Angeles and now has it up for rent. The house is white cement or some kind of brick. I have seen pictures with his wife (don’t think this marriage will last because she was 2 months pregnant when he proposed to her and they jumped the broom the following month) pulling up the friveway alone. They apear to working very hard to poise for the cameras ans prove how happy they are, but didn’t Orlando do the same with all the others?
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What I saw was a video of his wife pullling up in her car alone and getting out of the car. I saw the house number on this video and I think that the video is on youtubes or some other website. Hope this helps.
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Saying how are you filling today? I wish to have a good time with you latter on, if that’s possible, and have some collaberation work with you also.
At the moment, I’m spending time on heilling the world. To make this punnishment less severe, because you, and I know that’s what Micheal wanted to do to.
Sinserely: Brandon Moses
P.S. God bless.
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