Hot Property: Lenny Dykstra's Thousand Oaks estate in default

 

The estate of former New York Met and Philadelphia Phillies outfielder Lenny Dykstra has been showing up on the Multiple Listing Service's pre-foreclosure activity report for the last several weeks. The Zillow.com blog posted an item on it in mid-April.

The Richard Landry-designed home is listed for sale at $25 million, having been priced as low as $16.5 million in December. It has been on the market for about a year. Public records show the baseball player purchased it for $18.5 million in August 2007. Ouch.

The seven-acre compound in Thousand Oaks is gated and has views of the Lake Sherwood community and the country club facilities.

Hat tip: Pete in Mar Vista.

-- Lauren Beale

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Photo: The main house has 12,713 square feet of living space, including a receiving parlor, a formal dining room and a state-of-the-art screening room. Credit: Sheila Cooper

 

For Foxx, 40 Acres And An Olympic-Sized Villa in Hidden Hills

Celebrities are always buying ginormous houses in and around LA, but the place Jamie Foxx just bought is, well, super-ginormous. Ruth Ryon has all the details, but they are worth repeating: Foxx just paid $10.5 million for a 17,000-square-foot Mediterranean-style villa that sits on 40 acres in the Thousand Oaks community of Hidden Valley.

40 acres and a mule? (No, that is Spike Lee's production company). Foxx could call his "40 acres and a Villa with 10 bedrooms, 12 bathrooms, an Olympic-size pool and two guesthouses," but that doesn't have much of a ring to it, does it?