The Beachside Avenue lots sold for a combined $45 million, according to real estate agent Leslie Clarke of Compass. The sellers, former commodities trader Andrew Bentley and his wife Fiona Garland, built the sprawling waterfront home at 120-122 Beachside Avenue and had a 75-foot swimming pool built on the adjacent property, along with a modern shed.
One of the properties was previously owned by TV personality Phil Donahue and his wife, actress Marlo Thomas, who Bentley and Garland bought for $20 million in 2013. They bought the other in 2010 for another $20 million, according to property records.
Another former property of the famous couple, at 114 Beachside Avenue, held the previous price record for the area when it sold for $25 million in 2006.
The mansion at 120-122 Beachside Avenue spans more than 11,000 square feet and sits on more than six acres. It originally hit the market alone in 2020 asking $28 million. After being on and off the market for the next few years, it returned early this year for $25 million.
The home features five bedrooms, six bathrooms and a four-car garage.
Clarke said combining the properties provided a “unique opportunity for the buyer to own nearly 40 acres, which could not have happened anywhere else.”
Bentley and Garland appear to be trying to liquidate their holdings on the exclusive stretch of road along the Long Island Sound. The pair also listed the former properties of disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein for $21 million in 2023.
Those properties, at 26 and 28 Beachside Avenue, were sold for more than $17 million combined in separate but related transactions, according to Clarke. Bentley and Garland bought them in 2018 for $16 million.
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