Actor-director Mel Gibson lists his medieval-style Malibu mansion

Actor and director Mel Gibson has reportedly listed his medieval-themed Malibu mansion for $US17.5 million ($21.3 million). 

For sale through Compass, the main 611 square-metre, five bedroom, five bathroom home was built in 1996 and sits on 2.2 hectares of land. The property also has two swimming pools, beach access, and a separate guest house.  

The home’s various “old-world” themes are visible in the listing photos, including stone fireplaces and wooden chandeliers, decorative crucifixes, rosary beads and religious iconography, tapestries and a shower with stained-glass windows.

Property records show that Gibson bought the home in 2008 for $US11.5 million through a trust connected to his Icon Productions film company, four years after the release of his highly successful religoius epic The Passion of The Christ, which grossed over $US611 million dollars worldwide.

The previous owners were X-Files star David Duchovny and his then-wife, Tea Leoni. The couple had listed the property in June 2008 for $US12 million, the same year Duchovny entered rehab for treatment for a sex addiction.

Gibson’s later public life has been mired in controversy, including a well-publicised drink-driving arrest including an anti-semitic rant directed at a police officer in 2006, and a custody battle including domestic violence allegations during his split with girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva in 2010. 

Gibson had sold another property, a Frank Lloyd Wright-style Californian home that Grigorieva and his daughter had lived in post-split in February this year for $US2.1 million. 

He has, however, experienced recent professional success with his World War II film Hacksaw Ridge earning Best Picture and Best Director nominations at the 2017 Academy Awards, as well as winning two other Oscars.  He recently welcomed his ninth child with girlfriend and champion equestrian vaulter Rosalind Ross.

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