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Inside Hugh Jackman's Breathtaking Real Estate Portfolio amid Divorce from Deborra-lee Furness
Hugh Jackman and Deborra-lee Furness's divorce comes with a bevy of impressive assets that will be divided up among the spouses of nearly three decades. Furness, 69, officially filed for divorce from Jackman, 56, on May 23, nearly two years after they first announced their split in 2023. As of Friday, May 30, the pair are awaiting a judge's signoff to finalize their nearly $400 million settlement. Throughout their marriage, the former couple occupied properties around the world, including in the U.S., U.K. and their native Australia. At present, their high-ticket homes include a two-story apartment in New York City's Chelsea neighborhood, a penthouse overlooking Bondi Beach in Sydney and a waterfront home in the Hamptons. Jackman and Furness purchased their impressive downtown Manhattan abode for about $21 million in 2022, just a year before announcing their split, according to Architectural Digest. The penthouse apartment comes in at nearly 5,000 square feet spread across two floors, plus another 3,700 square feet of outdoor space — the ultimate N.Y.C luxury. It's located near the Hudson River in a starchitect-designed building in an area that is well known for its eye-catching facades and famous tenants. Recently Jackman has been spending much of his time in New York, where he is currently juggling two gigs on stage, starring in an Off-Broadway show, Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes, and a concert series at Radio City Music Hall, called From New York, With Love. Jackman and Furness have bought, sold and rented numerous apartments and homes around Sydney since they first met on the set of an Australian TV series in 1995 and married the following year. Their most recent acquisition appears to be an ultra-modern condo overlooking the city's famous Bondi Beach. They paid a reported $6 million for the three-bedroom, two-bathroom spread in 2016, per AD. Jackman is regularly spotted making the most of the property's stunning seaside setting. In December 2024, he was photographed after having taken a summer dip in the ocean wearing a pair of blue-and-white patterned drawstring board shorts. Long before buying their current house, Jackman, Furness and their two children, son Oscar and daughter Ava, were already regular visitors to the world-famous stretch of sand. The one home the former couple shared with the world is their modernist Hamptons hideaway, which was published in an AD feature in November 2021. Jackman and Furness purchased an empty 2.5-acre waterfront plot for $3.5 million in 2015 and spent the next six years building a custom Long Island retreat with three bedrooms, five bathrooms, a guest house and access to a private beach. Furness called the place her "dream home,' sharing, "It's like, bucket list, tick it off. I've done it, and I loved it.' Jackman also praised his then-wife's decorating prowess. 'Because of Deb's design, it brings us all together," he told the outlet. Still, in 2023, the same year they announced their separation, they chose to list the house for rent for the entire summer, rather than use it themselves. The asking price was $166,000 per month, the New York Post reported at the time. They reportedly picked up an impressive London pied-a-terre in 2021, according to the Post, though at the time the property was not even complete, and it's not known whether they moved in. Another N.Y.C. property's status is also currently unknown: the three-story West Village penthouse the couple purchased for a reported $21 million in 2008. Their primary family home for many years, the 11,000 square foot property had five bedrooms, including a full-floor primary suite at the top. They listed it for sale for $39 million in 2022, but it remains unclear if the property has sold, per AD. Read the original article on People
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30-01-2025
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Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds Will Move to Dismiss Justin Baldoni's Lawsuit
Blake Lively and husband Ryan Reynolds told a federal judge Thursday that they will seek to dismiss Justin Baldoni's defamation lawsuit. Attorneys for the two sides are due in court Monday for the first hearing on the megafeud between the two 'It Ends With Us' co-stars. More from Variety Justin Baldoni Apologizes to Blake Lively Over 'It Ends With Us' Rewrites in Lengthy Voice Note: 'I Am Far From Perfect, I Am a Flawed Man' Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively Could Go to Trial in March 2026 Ryan Reynolds Makes Surprise Appearance at Hugh Jackman's 'From New York, With Love' Opening: 'He Is Genuinely the Best Human Being I Know' Lively has accused Baldoni, who was also the film's director, of sexually harassing her on set, and then retaliating with a smear campaign when she dared to speak up about it. Baldoni and his publicists have countered that Lively defamed them by taking text messages out of context and mischaracterizing their interactions. Baldoni also alleges that Lively and Reynolds pressured WME to drop him as a client, which WME denies. The couple's attorneys filed the notice Thursday in compliance with Judge Lewis Liman's order, which set out how the federal case will move forward. The judge asked for a letter that would 'indicate in one sentence the Defendant's intent to make a motion to dismiss.' Liman will set a deadline later to actually file the motion. 'The Lively-Reynolds Parties intend to move to dismiss Plaintiffs' complaint,' said Michael J. Gottlieb, following the judge's instruction to keep it short and sweet. Publicist Leslie Sloane, who was also named as a defendant in Baldoni's suit, filed a similar notice on Wednesday. The judge has said he expects to schedule a trial for March 2026, and asked the parties to file a plan that would allow for a trial by that date. In a rare moment of agreement, attorneys on both sides have also indicated they have no objection to consolidating the two federal cases into one proceeding. At the hearing on Monday, the two sides are expected to argue about the extrajudicial conduct of Baldoni's lawyer, Bryan Freedman. Lively's lawyers have argued that Freedman is making prejudicial comments in the press, which they say taints the jury pool. Freedman has countered that he has every right to defend his client publicly from Lively's media blitz. Best of Variety New Movies Out Now in Theaters: What to See This Week What's Coming to Netflix in February 2025 What's Coming to Disney+ in February 2025
Chicago Tribune
28-01-2025
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Review: Hugh Jackman's warm ‘From New York, with Love' has Broadway songs and a star wanting to share the spotlight
NEW YORK — Here's the thing about Hugh Jackman. His talent merits a spotlight, he looks very good (still) in a spotlight and, unlike the vast majority of his peers, he can absolutely be relied upon to know the name of the spotlight operator. Jackman, for the record, also has learned the names of the veteran pair of Radio City Music Hall house organists, the musicians in his more-than-amply sized orchestra, his backup singers, his clutch of dancers. On the opening night of Jackman's new show 'From New York, with Love' at Radio City Music Hall — a 24-show residency that continues weekends, on and off, through October — he introduced so many people to his fans, about the only people left anonymous were the grand old venue's ushers. Jackman, who at 56 has entered what you might call the Jean Valjean stage of his career, has morphed from a presence that I once heard accurately described as the corporal embodiment of pure sex to a warm-centered, bearded Aussie patriarch who now has been famous long enough to learn that the lasting satisfactions of celebrity come from your power to shine the spotlight on someone else. Thus he paid ample props to BFF Gus Worland, a pal since kindergarten sitting in the seats and a media personality who has campaigned to draw attention to the suicide problem among men. He introduced his physical trainer, Beth Lewis, told us of her long-held dream to be a Rockette and then produced out of his hat two actual Rockettes from the wings so as to fulfill said dream. And he even grabbed what might have been the world's most introverted violinist from the back of his band and pushed her into the spotlight, sprawling sheet music and all. It was not an easy match. 'She can't wait to get back up there,' Jackman said to the audience, as the fine fiddler scurried back to a clearly preferred anonymity. Still, there was a new glint in her eye from this Ozdust ballroom. For much of the audience, though, the most thrilling guest star of 'Hugh Jackman Live From New York, with Love' was Jackman's BFF No. 2, the actor Ryan Reynolds, who caused a big flurry when he first wandered to his seat and then popped up with a microphone to do a vox populi bit with the crowd before delivering an unsolicited, and clearly genuinely felt homage to Jackman's qualities as a pal and mentor, or in the preferred parlance, the 'gotcha for life' friend that we all should make sure stands permanently at our side. When it came to those two, one had to wonder, who was doing whom the bigger favor? Either way, healing was on the agenda, even if the name of Jackman's widely reported belle Sutton Foster at no point escaped his lips. He certainly is entitled to that much privacy. Jackman's show is a blend of Broadway (the Friday set list included 'You Will Be Found' from 'Dear Evan Hansen,' 'Ya Got Trouble' from 'The Music Man' and a measure or three from 'Oklahoma'), homages to his movie career ('Stars' from 'Les Miserables,' several selections from 'The Greatest Showman,' a clip or two from 'Wolverine') and, most substantially, the songs of Australia's own Peter Allen. That allowed Jackman to pay tribute to fellow Aussie Olivia Newton-John by performing (quite beautifully), 'I Honestly Love You.' This former Boy from Oz also rolled out Allen's 'Don't Cry Out Loud,' once a big hit for Elkie Brooks, and, most movingly of all, 'Quiet Please, There's a Lady on the Stage,' written by Allen in tribute to his fading mother-in-law, Judy Garland. If Qantas were smart, they'd be running charters for this show, such is Jackman's palpable affection for his home country, even if he did wrap things up with 'New York, New York,' a city that long has loved him just as much. The man of the night is in fine voice: Such big stars in their mid-50s often forge rewarding shows to attend, for all the reasons above yet before the vibratos start to lengthen and the need to maintain fame in the face of callow youths ('Who's that again, dad?') starts to intrude. For sure, it's hard to imagine a performer in his 30s comparably worrying about whether this two-hour, intermission-less show placed too much pressure on the typical male bladder, but Jackman's enormous charm and user-friendly architecture is perhaps best summed up by his freely offered assurance that anyone headed by necessity to the Gentleman's Lounge need not apologize but move proudly up the aisle, perhaps saying hello to the crew on the light board as they pass them by. Chris Jones is a Tribune critic.
