"Jennifer Aniston has made her first home purchase since she and Brad Pitt parted ways.
The Emmy-winning actress is buying a house in Beverly Hills for $15 million (all figures U.S.). The home, designed in the early 1970s by architect Hal Levitt, is being rebuilt and entered escrow while in construction. The one-storey house, on about a quarter hectare, has six bedrooms and seven bathrooms in 9,000-plus square feet, according to public records.
Levitt, whose trademark is grey-and-black-onyx terrazzo floors, is popular with the celebrity crowd. Since Aniston and her actor-husband called it quits, she has been leasing a two-bedroom home with 50 feet of beachfront in Malibu. The house rents in the vicinity of $25,000 to $30,000 a month on a year's lease. Rent on the property would skyrocket to $100,000 a month or more in July and August on a month-to-month lease.
Aniston often walks her dogs on the beach and barbecues in the rental's kitchen with Friends pal and Malibu neighbour Courteney Cox Arquette.
In April of this year, Aniston and Pitt sold their Wallace Neff-designed Beverly Hills home for close to its $24.95 million asking price.
Her split from Pitt was followed by films The Break-Up and Rumor Has It. Aniston, 37, is making her movie-directing debut this month at a Glamour magazine event with the short film Room 10. "
Source: TheStar.com