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Martial artist turned actor Steven Seagal (Under Siege, Today You Die) has placed his 12-acre compound home in the Scottsdale, Arizona desert up for sale, according to AZfamily.com. Seagal’s listing is unusual because the custom-built property seems to suggest in reality he believes he’s one of his action-movie characters: The house is literally bulletproof, with many, many “floor-to-ceiling bulletproof windows.”
The estate, which is located almost 3,000 feet above sea level, also has four bedrooms, a theater, swimming pool, spa, and three-car garage. The Los Angeles Times is reporting that the 9,000-square-foot home “is perched on a hillside lot and features lifelike statues that survey the exterior” with stone columns and skylights inside and an “infinity-edge pool overlooking the desert below” on one of the many decks.
As these real-estate bullet points (no pun intended) suggest, the house is not cheap: Seagal is currently looking to sell the home for $3.39 million. This would be pretty close to him breaking even after buying the property back in 2010 for $3.5 million, according to Curbed. A weird bit of trivia with that transaction is when Seagal moved to Scottsdale, Reese Witherspoon bought his former Los Angeles home for $7.2 million.
An action star who has worked steadily since the 1980s, Seagal has since the 2000s progressed from exclusively working in films to starring in a reality show, putting out a few albums, entrepreneurship (including a line of “therapeutic oils” and energy drinks), and releasing many direct-to-video movies. Since Exit Wounds–which he co-starred in with rapper DMX, who recently died at the age of 50–in 2001, it’s his A&E reality show Steven Seagal: Lawman that he’s likely best remembered for today. That series, which ran from 2009 to 2014, featured Seagal performing his duties as a reserve deputy sheriff in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana and Maricopa County, Arizona.
Memorably, Seagal had a brief cameo in a 2017 episode of Netflix’s Jack Whitehall: Travels with My Father, in which the British comedian and his dad have a chance encounter with Seagal in Thailand. Seagal spoofs his image a bit in the short appearance, but then can’t resist asserting his dominance by unexpectedly throwing Jack into a pond outside a hotel entrance–an experience Whitehall spoke to Uproxx about a few years ago.
