The actress Leah Remini has listed her home in the picturesque Studio City neighborhood of Los Angeles — and is doing so at a price cut.
Ms. Remini bought the six-bedroom, nine-bath property in 2003 for $3.75 million and first listed it on the market in September 2022 for $12,995,000. She received an offer just 10 days later, but ended up not selling. Now, she’s slashed half a million dollars off the price for the property, which stretches more than 10,000 square feet on a manicured and gated 1.58-acre lot, asking $12,499,000.
The home is in the neighborhood of Fryman Canyon, one of Los Angeles’s most prestigious and star-studded corners. Neighbors in this pocket of Hollywood, where idyllic residential blocks are lined with sycamore trees and graceful Tudor Revival style houses, include George and Amal Clooney, Lucy Liu and Bruno Mars.
The home was built in 2001 and is an amalgam of architectural styles with Mediterranean and English influences, plus a vine-covered lower level and a Spanish tile roof. Its grounds include a dance studio and a swimming pool flanked by mature trees and a stone hardscape for lounging; inside, the primary bedroom has a fireplace and views of the San Gabriel mountains while the entranceway opens into a handsome quarter-turn staircase that opens into a mezzanine. Much of the décor is stark monochrome; in the kitchen, white ceiling-height cabinets wrap around a gray center island topped by black pendant lights. The room is anchored by a bay window.
Ms. Remini, 53, bought the home at the height of her stardom as Carrie Heffernan, the lovable working-class antihero of CBS’s hit sitcom “The King of Queens,” which ran for nine seasons. A decade after moving in, in 2013, she famously quit the Church of Scientology, and two years later released a memoir on the exit, “Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology,” which was a New York Times best seller. She followed up the book with a documentary on A&E, “Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath,” for which she won two prime-time Emmys.
She has since become one of the most outspoken critics in the entertainment industry against the organization, whose members in Hollywood include John Travolta, Tom Cruise, Elisabeth Moss and the now convicted rapist Danny Masterson. In August, Ms. Remini filed a lawsuit against the Church of Scientology, in which she said that in the decade since breaking from the church, she had faced a “mob-style assault” of harassment and intimidation.
This is the third time Ms. Remini has listed the home this year; she previously decided to sell in January and then again in February, but later removed the listing both times. Representatives for Ms. Remini declined to speculate on the reason.
