Actor Christopher Meloni Sells New Canaan Estate

Actor Christopher Meloni, known for his roles on “Law and Order” and “Oz,” recently sold his New Canaan estate for $4.3 million and reportedly bought the home once owned by 1950s-1960s TV stars Ozzie and Harriet Nelson.

The 14-room New Canaan home, at 982 Oenoke Ridge Rd., was sold on Dec. 11 (with papers filed with the New Canaan Town Clerk’s Office on Dec. 23). Variety reports in its Dec. 16 edition that Meloni and his wife “recently” bought a home in the hills just above Hollywood.

The couple is upsizing, not downsizing, at least in price — their new home cost $5.25 million, according to the author of Variety’s article, “Mark David” whose job title, according to the publication, is “real estalker” and who cites his sources as “real estate yenta Yolanda Yakketyyak” and “Lucy Spillerguts.” (The Curbed and Zillow websites are citing Variety for information about the new purchase.)

If you watched The Entourage, you my recognize the exterior, which was used as the image of the exterior of character Ari Gold’s home, according to Variety.

The four-acre New Canaan estate, now owned by Robert McNamara and Bonnie McEaneaney, has five bedrooms, 6.5 bathrooms and 8,063 square feet of interior space, according to the house’s Web page on Zillow.com (which is where the information about the house and pictures for this article were found). There are balconies in the back and a swimming pool, along with a paneled game room inside the mansion.

On the property there’s a barn capable of storing six cars and with a second story.

McEaneaney is the widow Eamon McEneaney, “a senior vice president at Cantor FitzGerald and legendary in the sport of lacrosse, was killed in the terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center,” according to the website for her book, “Messages: Signs, Visits, and Premonitions from Loved Ones Lost on 9/11,” published by HarperCollins in 2010.

The website also says:

“Her first book project, A Bend in the Road(Cornell Library, 2004) was a compilation of her husband’s writing. Bonnie is a board member of Voices of September 11th, the leading family advocacy group committed to supporting the evolving needs of those impacted by the 9/11 terrorist attacks.”

The New Canaan manse was sold at a slight loss -- bought in the spring of 2012 for $4,381,000 the couple sold it less than three years later for $4,300,000.

The Meloni-Williams’ new home, according to Zillow.com, was built in 1916 and has “5 bedrooms and 7 bathrooms and sits on a nearly half-acre lot with a pool and a three-car garage.” The place is said to be haunted, and Ozzie’s model train, which was (is?) in the pub room, sometimes turned on by itself, according to Zillow.

They’ve also got another real-estate transaction planned (or did as of Dec. 16), Variety reports: “Meloni and Williams still own a 3,000-square-foot apartment in Manhattan that’s been on and off the market since March 2012 at a variety of prices, from a high of $12 million down to $9.95 million.” (No bizarrely named real estate source was named by Variety for that news.)

Meloni bought and sold his New Canaan real estate together with his wife, Sherman Williams-Meloni, both trustees of the “Williams-Meloni Family Trust of 2002.”

No, Ms. Williams-Meloni does not share her maiden same name with the paint company established in 1866. That would be “Sherwin-Williams.” It’s easy to imagine that she gets reminded of that a lot — she’s an interior designer.