Our new neighbor... Tom Cruise

Yes, it's true. He purchased a home with an asking price of $22M (1100 acres) in Upperville (the west side of Middleburg).

What I heard (this I can't confirm), he is possibly creating a new production company with.... Dan Snyder????? Did anyone else hear anything about this deal?

 

(cut and pasted from the examiner.com)

Warning to all residents of Virginia horse country: Can you handle the truth? Well, brace yourselves: Turns out that luring TomKat to D.C. might be a mission impossible. Despite the fact that Upperville, Va., has been abuzz with rumors that Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes and daughter Suri were moving to a mammoth, $22 million property in the bucolic town, the buzz looks to be a bust. ... No matter how much Dan Snyder loves them.

Let the sadness and disappointment begin.

Cruise’s publicist and real-estate agents involved with the estate said Wednesday that Middleburg’s chitchat — which we reported in Wednesday’s edition — is off the mark. After all, there isn’t even a Church of Scientology out there! (Conspiracy theorists instantly posited that this was just a ploy by Cruise & Co. to fend off the paparazzi or just Cruise being his usual secretive self.)

Vicky Moon, local author of “The Middleburg Mystique,” said she had heard the rumors. “This is a small town, just like, say, Middletown, Ohio, the middle of America. Somehow stories float and the next thing you know, it has legs,” she said. Others wondered if the rumors were planted to jack real-estate prices in the area.

But now the town gossip has moved to this: If not TomKat, then who has the pockets to pick up this $22 million estate?

The property in question, called Llangollen, spans 1,100 acres, including an 18th-century nine-bedroom home, horse stables and a farm. A description on Luxist.com calls it “the ideal home for the modern day Jefferson.” It is under contract. The seller is octogenarian businessman Roy Ash, who worked for Hughes Aircraft after World War II. Ash also was director of the Office of Management and Budget under Presidents Nixon and Ford, and his recommendations led to the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency.

P. Diddy rumors can’t be far off. …

 

The property?

http://www.armfieldmillerripley.com/properties/llangollen/index.html