Actor Jack Thompson selling Coffs Harbour beachfront retreat but keeping hinterland getaway: Title Tattle
The NSW mid-north coast beachfront retreat of the quintessential Australian actor Jack Thompson – 10.6 hectares at Woolgoolga, some 20 minutes north of Coffs Harbour – has been listed for sale.
It comes with about 100 metres of beach frontage.
The private holding, which also comes with lake and creek frontage, has been listed with $2 million plus hopes.
The four-bedroom, 20-year-old house sit on land with the potential to be subdivided into eight blocks, subject to council approval.
Thompson purchased the property in 1995 for $390,000, according to RP Data.
The actor is retaining another property in the hinterland behind Woolgoolga, where he had his much-publicised 15-year ménage-a-trois relationship until the mid-1980s.
The then 440-hectare cattle farm was bought in 1969 – when he was just out of the army – for $8500. Over one 10-year period he planted 23,000 trees – blackbutt, tallowwood and hoop pine.
He also has a long-owned Woollahra terrace.
His family’s Blue Mountains pub, the Hotel Gearin in Katoomba sold last year for $1.925 million.
The Woolgoolga property been listed by Nicole Cardow Real from Nicole Cardow Real Estate, in conjunction with Bill Bridges of Ballard Property Woollahra.
Actor Russell Crowe maintains a 420-hectare plus farm near the village of Nana Glen, which has cost $3 million plus between 1999 and 2008 as further land has been consolidated.
Crowe began his acting career as a six-year-old with Thompson in 1970 on the Spyforce series, and then more famously in The Sum of Us, the 1994 film.
