Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Maria Shriver Moves On and Out

About two years ago Your Mama heard from a trusted and reliable informant that Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver were poking around every twenty million dollar estate in the Brentwood area of Los Angeles.

Flash-forward to this week in May 2011 when the action flick actor/former governor and the journalist/authoress announced they'd gone splitsville. This parting of marital ways might be a surprise to many but for those in certain west coast real estate circles it's old news.

Several months ago a rumor slipped down the real estate gossip grapevine and into Your Mama's inbox that soon to be ex-Missus Schwarzenegger purchased a condo in a posh apartment tower along the Wilshire Corridor near Century City. We subsequently peeped and poked around in the property records but did not then nor do we now find any records that reflect such a purchase.

Early yesterday morning, in the wake of the former couple's announcement, we sent a covert communique over to one of our better connected real estate insiders, let's call her Polly Platinumtriangle, to see what she knew about the matter. Miz Shriver reportedly moved from the family's Brentwood mansion several months ago and according to Polly P. the former first lady of California is currently camped out in a leased house in Malibu. Polly P. also whispered in Your Mama's big ear that soon to be ex-Missus Schwarzenegger is thisclose to acquiring a sizable bacherlorette pad on the same street in Brentwood as blogging entrepreneur Ariana Huffington and actress/chat show hostess Ricki Lake.

Since 2002 the Schwarzenegger-Shriver family homestead has been an approximately 14,500 square foot multi-winged Mediterranean-style mansion on 5.83 acres in a swank gated enclave above Mandeville Canyon (shown above) that property records reveal was purchased in April of 2002 for $4,863,000. As many of the children already know, the Schwarzenegger-Shriver estate is in the same small development where pigskinner Tom Brady and his supermodel wife Gisele Bündchen are in the end stages of building a 20,000 square foot "green" mansion, as if a 20,000 square foot house for a family of 3 or 4 can ever really be considered "green."

Whether the former governor will stay put in the family mansion or whether he'll seek an sexy bachelor pad is not (yet) known to Your Mama.

16 comments:

WrteStufLA said...

Is that the same gated community where Michelle Pfeiffer and David E. Kelley live? And $4.8-mill seems very low for that particular property, even in 2002 -- is it possible that was the cost of only the land, and they then built the house?

angie said...

Hmmm.. in light of recent developments, I'm guessing the reports that Prince William and his Princess will be staying with the Schwarzeneggers for a couple days at the end of their Canadian tour in July are incorrect.

Anonymous said...

Tax records indicate a bill last year of $152000, which would equate to about a 13000000 home...it would appear that the 5mm price was for the land alone...

looks like this street (chalon) is the beverly park of brentwood!

Anonymous said...

Angie...I think they would rather stay with Posh and Becks!

Anonymous said...

I pray that Maria doesn't look back!

Anonymous said...

Wonder what the settlement will be if they divorce....

Anonymous said...

Why is no one addressing the fact that Maria and not Arnold has moved out of the marital home on the guard gated extension of Chalon Rd.?
This is certainly not the way these things usually go down, and especially when there are still kids at home, one of whom reportedly goes to school locally in Brentwood.

angie said...

Anon 12:15, good point. Even if the reports are true, I think the palace might want to reconsider having a newly married couple stay with newly a separated one, considering it's current marriage success rate.

angie said...

Anon 1:03, it's probably a non-issue. I heard on one of the cable news stations last night that Maria has a net worth of her own somewhere in the $125MM range.

luke220 said...

I am disappointed that she isn't moving back to Massachusetts and running for the senate. She could even win.

Mike in Brentwood said...

Mama, who recently bought the house at the top of this road, 12700 Chalon, for $26,000,000? Details, please!

Anonymous said...

I have a guess (no more than that) about why they are splitting up. I guess that when Arnold married Maria she was a big step up in prestige for him, but after he became governor, he began to feel important enough not to need her anymore.

Anonymous said...

This is in Brentwood Country Estates.

Carla In California said...

So very sorry to learn about this split. Maria Shriver is such a very nice person and down to earth too. No snob here. I hope they get back together or at least, Arnold cleans up his poop!

C-L said...

Hey Mike in Brentwood..

* A member of the QATAR Royal Family (i think the President) bought the house at 12700 CHALON RD. Its been SOLD Twice in the last few years for between $24-26M each time..

C-L :)

Anonymous said...

The house at 12700 Chalon that just sold for $26M is right next door to the house Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen are building. Nice neighborhood. Very private.