Oscar-winning actress Gwyneth Paltrow will soon have Mom nearby when she's out in the Hamptons.
Sources tell RealLI that Paltrow's mother, actress Blythe Danner, is set to build a house on a vacant parcel adjacent to her daughter's home in Amagansett.
The Bluff Road property was purchased last month by West Fourth Street Trust for $3.4 million. The Paltrows are said to be the name behind that trust. The sellers were the heirs of author and editor Joel Carmichael, who had lived on the land for 40 years.
In 1966 Carmichael was instrumental in salvaging the circa 1902 Amagansett Life Saving Station by purchasing the building for 75 cents. He paid $10,000 to move the structure to his property where it sat until last year, when it was donated by the family to the Town of East Hampton. Today, it sits behind the East Hampton Marine Museum.
The 2.3-acre Carmichael property was put on the market over a year ago for $6.25 million with Martha Perlin of The Corcoran Group. The property was later subdivided, and sources say that Danner won out in a lively bidding war over the 1-plus acre parcel she will build on. The remaining parcel with a two-bedroom cottage is still for sale at $3 million. Perlin declined to comment on the sale, as did Danner and Paltrow.
Paltrow and rocker husband Chris Martin -- parents of Apple and Moses -- purchased their nearby home for $5.4 million in 2006. The home was featured last year in Home and Garden.
