Toni Collette is being sued over a housing
contractual dispute. Source: Supplied
The Daily
Telegraph reports
Emmy
award-winning Aussie actress Toni Collette could be forced to pay an $850,000
non-performance claim over her alleged failure to settle on a five-bedroom
Sydney residence.
The property dispute before the NSW
Supreme Court started in October after 39-year-old Collette and her husband,
musician Dave Galafassi, signed a contract to buy the double-fronted $6.35
million terrace, but then pulled out of what would have been a landmark sale
for the area.
The owners - Susie and Nick Kelly,
CEOs of men's clothing label Industrie - have now resold the house for a much
more modest $5.5 million and are suing the couple for the difference.
Collette and Galafassi are yet to
enter a defence for their alleged contractual non-performance.
PropertyObserver.com.au says the
matter will go back to court next week, when the claim is expected to be
updated to $850,000.
The pair - who have two children, Sage,
4, and Arlo, 1 - have had a bad run on the real estate market recently.
After struggling to sell their
Bronte cottage, which they bought for $4.4 million in 2009, they finally agreed
to let it go for $3.5 million.
The couple then settled for an undisclosed
amount on their $1.32 million Spanish-style LA home.
Instead of buying the Sydney house
in Paddington, Collette and Galafassi ended up settling not far from their
Bronte house, with a reported $5.5 million purchase.
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