The sale was due to Paltrow's desire to downsize, her realtor told the Wall Street Journal, now that her (and singer Chris Martin's) children, Apple and Moses, are growing up and attending college at Vanderbilt and Brown, respectively.

Gwyneth Paltrow’s 1950s house in the Lower Mandeville Canyon neighbourhood of Los Angeles has sold for $US22 million ($AU35.2 million) after seven months on the market. It’s substantially less than her original asking price of $US29,990,000 ($AU48 million).