Actor couple Jennifer Connelly and Paul Bettany recently swapped their Park Slope mansion at 17 Prospect Park West for a penthouse apartment in Manhattan. Connelly, best known for her turns in “A Beautiful Mind” and “He’s Just Not That into You,” and Bettany, who took on a villainous role in “The Da Vinci Code,” found their new home at 288 West Street, which cost a reported $6.99 million according to Curbed, and was less “creepy” than the Park Slope spot, according to Connelly. On last Friday’s “Late Night with Conan O’Brien,” Connelly revealed that her children were so skeeved out by the family’s Brooklyn mansion that they slept on her bedroom floor to avoid being alone, causing her concern that child services might intervene.

Husband-and-wife actors Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick are rumored to own a
townhouse on Prospect Park West in Brooklyn. Sources told the New York
Post that a company connected to Parker bought the townhouse, which was
previously owned by Jennifer Connelly and Paul Bettany. Limited
liability company Harken Pretty purchased the nine-bedroom home, which
is now undergoing renovation, for $8.45 million in December. It is much
larger than the townhouse Parker and Broderick currently own in the
West Village. [more]