Nicolas Cage Puts Bel Air Mansion on the Market for $35 Million
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Nicolas Cage is leaving Bel-Air. The actor has put his home in the tony community on the market for $35 million. He bought the seven-bedroom, seven-bathroom spread eight years ago for a mere $7 million.
The 11,000-square-foot Tudor-style home sits on an acre just above Sunset Blvd. It has a two-story entrance, a front yard fountain, an Olympic-sized swimming pool and a two-bedroom guest house.
Singer Tom Jones owned the home for 20 years before Cage, and before that it belonged to crooner Dean Martin.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Home values in the area have increased 90 percent since Cage bought the place in 1998, according to DataQuick Information Systems.
The 42-year-old actor won't be lacking for places to stay. He owns other homes in Southern California, and earlier this year bought a castle in Bavaria and a private island in the Bahamas, according to People magazine.
Cage won a best actor Oscar for "Leaving Las Vegas."
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Earlier this year he played a cop tracking a missing child in "The Wicker Man" and a Port Authority officer in the Oliver Stone film "World Trade Center."