Mel Gibson sells Malibu mansion for 30 million dollars

0 Comments | AFP, July, 2007

LOS ANGELES (AFP) — It only has six bedrooms but it comes with a sterling view of the Pacific -- and so actor-producer Mel Gibson has sold his Malibu beachside mansion for nearly 30 million dollars, local press reported Sunday.

Gibson, the star of scores of films including the Mad Max and Lethal Weapon movies and Braveheart, and producer- director of the controversial "The Passion of the Christ," cleared a cool six million dollars on the Mediterranean-styled home of 7,000 square feet (650 square meters) four years after he bought it for 24 million dollars, the Los Angeles Times said.

Built in 1981, it has only six bedrooms but 10 bathrooms, a gym, a pool and a wine cellar, and 155 feet (47 meters) of prime ocean beachfront in the exclusive colony for Hollywood's...