After eight years on the market, a Florida estate belonging to Oscar-winning actor Tommy Lee Jones has sold for $11.5 million. The Men In Black star is also an avid polo player, and the 55-acre property is home to two polo fields, two barns with numerous equipment rooms, a lake, and a nature preserve in addition to a four-bedroom, two-bathroom main house and a four-bedroom guest house. The new owner is reportedly a professional polo player.
Known as San Saba, the equestrian estate is located in the village of Wellington, near Palm Beach. Jones began purchasing it in pieces in 2002, when he bought the main part of the property for $2.95 million. He added to it with a $1.1 million purchase in 2003 and a $550,000 one in 2012, reports the South Florida Business Journal. Jones first listed the property in 2013, with a much higher asking price of $26.75 million.
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The Ad Astra actor is quite passionate about the sport of polo. He has made significant financial contributions to the polo team of his alma mater, Harvard, and even invited the team to play at San Saba, according to a 2008 article in The Harvard Crimson. “He is a generous and just an all-around nice guy,” the captain of the school's women's team at the time told the paper. “We have an arena and 14 horses [at Harvard] because he made it financially possible."
Jones's wife, Dawn Laurel-Jones, also plays polo competitively. The couple's other properties reportedly include a ranch in his native Texas and one in Buenos Aires.
