A new real estate listing from actor-turned-artist Jim Carrey is offering a glimpse of the longtime star’s art-filled Los Angeles home—which could be yours, for a cool $28.9 million.
The sprawling two-acre estate in the city’s Brentwood neighborhood features a 12,700-square-foot ranch home where Carrey has lived for 30 years. It is listed for sale with Sotheby’s International Realty.
“Every night the owls sang me lullabies and every morning I sipped my cup of joe with the hawks and hummingbirds, under a giant grandfather pine,” Carrey told the Wall Street Journal, calling the home “a place of enchantment and inspiration.”
Over the decades, the actor, who has painted since childhood, has filled much of the space with his own art, especially after splitting with actress Jenny McCarthy in 2010 after five years of dating.
Details from Jim Carrey’s Los Angeles home, now on the market for $28.9 million, with his painting Hooray We Are All Broken on the living room wall. Photo by Daniel Dahler, courtesy of Sotheby’s International Realty.
The brick facade home has five bedrooms and six bathrooms, plus a gym, a tennis court, an outdoor yoga and meditation platform, a rocky-lined pool with a waterfall, a spa, and a pool house with an infrared sauna and steam room.
Among the works seen on the walls of the home are Carrey’s massive painting Hooray We Are All Broken, hanging behind the sofa in a white-walled living room beneath a pitched beam ceiling with skylights.
He’s been quoted describing the work: “so-called reality is energy and color creating forms that rise out of nothing. Broken figures dancing for each other filled with pain and polkadots, sharing one frequency, yet believing they are separate.”
Carrey also has work outside, with his sculpture Ayla, of a naked woman looking through a window frame, displayed on the lawn. Other personalized decor details include costumes from some of Carrey’s most memorable film roles, such as the green Riddler suit from Batman Forever.
Details from Jim Carrey’s Los Angeles home, now on the market for $28.9 million, with his sculpture Ayla on the lawn. Photo by Daniel Dahler, courtesy of Sotheby’s International Realty.
The artwork and costumes don’t come with the house, but they do make prominent appearances in many of the listing’s photos—and some of Carrey’s work is still listed with Signature Gallery Group, which held a solo show of his work in Las Vegas in 2017.
Details from Jim Carrey’s Los Angeles home, now on the market for $28.9 million. Photo by Daniel Dahler, courtesy of Sotheby’s International Realty.
Details from Jim Carrey’s Los Angeles home, now on the market for $28.9 million, with his painting Hooray We Are All Broken on the living room wall. Photo by Daniel Dahler, courtesy of Sotheby’s International Realty.
Details from Jim Carrey’s Los Angeles home, now on the market for $28.9 million. Photo by Daniel Dahler, courtesy of Sotheby’s International Realty.
Details from Jim Carrey’s Los Angeles home, now on the market for $28.9 million. Photo by Daniel Dahler, courtesy of Sotheby’s International Realty.
Details from Jim Carrey’s Los Angeles home, now on the market for $28.9 million. Photo by Daniel Dahler, courtesy of Sotheby’s International Realty.
Details from Jim Carrey’s Los Angeles home, now on the market for $28.9 million. Photo by Daniel Dahler, courtesy of Sotheby’s International Realty.
Details from Jim Carrey’s Los Angeles home, now on the market for $28.9 million. Photo by Daniel Dahler, courtesy of Sotheby’s International Realty.
Details from Jim Carrey’s Los Angeles home, now on the market for $28.9 million. Photo by Daniel Dahler, courtesy of Sotheby’s International Realty.
Details from Jim Carrey’s Los Angeles home, now on the market for $28.9 million. Photo by Daniel Dahler, courtesy of Sotheby’s International Realty.
Details from Jim Carrey’s Los Angeles home, now on the market for $28.9 million. Photo by Daniel Dahler, courtesy of Sotheby’s International Realty.
LONDON (AP) — With a few daubs of a paintbrush, the Brontë sisters have got their dots back.
More than eight decades after it was installed, a memorial to the three 19th-century sibling novelists in London’s Westminster Abbey was amended Thursday to restore the diaereses – the two dots over the e in their surname.
The dots — which indicate that the name is pronounced “brontay” rather than “bront” — were omitted when the stone tablet commemorating Charlotte, Emily and Anne was erected in the abbey’s Poets’ Corner in October 1939, just after the outbreak of World War II.
They were restored after Brontë historian Sharon Wright, editor of the Brontë Society Gazette, raised the issue with Dean of Westminster David Hoyle. The abbey asked its stonemason to tap in the dots and its conservator to paint them.
“There’s no paper record for anyone complaining about this or mentioning this, so I just wanted to put it right, really,” Wright said. “These three Yorkshire women deserve their place here, but they also deserve to have their name spelled correctly.”
It’s believed the writers’ Irish father Patrick changed the spelling of his surname from Brunty or Prunty when he went to university in England.
Raised on the wild Yorkshire moors, all three sisters died before they were 40, leaving enduring novels including Charlotte’s “Jane Eyre,” Emily’s “Wuthering Heights” and Anne’s “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.”
Rebecca Yorke, director of the Brontë Society, welcomed the restoration.
“As the Brontës and their work are loved and respected all over the world, it’s entirely appropriate that their name is spelled correctly on their memorial,” she said.
