Mighty Pilates Owner Buys Robert Redford’s Tiburon Home

The owner of Mighty Pilates bought Robert Redford’s Tiburon home for $4.65 million — $500,000 above the asking price.

Cricket Wardein, founder of the Santa Monica-based fitness chain, bought the 2,800-square-foot house at 2517 Mar East Street, the Wall Street Journal and San Francisco Chronicle reported.

The actor and director known for such films as “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” and “The Horse Whisperer” listed the split-level cottage flanked by redwoods this month for $4.15 million.

The Academy Award-winning founder of the Sundance Film Festival bought the four-bedroom, three-bathroom home in 2020 for $3.1 million.

The brown shake cottage, built in 1968 on 0.2 acres, overlooks San Francisco Bay, with views from Keil Cove to Angel Island and beyond. It has a large family room, two-car garage, front garden and patio, with expansive decks facing south and east.

Redford, 88, and his wife, artist Sibylle Szaggars Redford, expressed their deep connection to the home and the town of Tiburon.

But they mostly live in Santa Fe, N.M., where Sibylle runs an art gallery. They also own homes in California and Utah, where Redford founded the Sundance Institute and Sundance Resort.

Wardein is a huge fan of Redford; her favorite movies include “The Sting” and “Ordinary People,” which Redford directed.

But she didn’t know the Tiburon property belonged to him until her agent told her, according to the WSJ. She and her 13-year-old daughter wrote a letter to the Redfords, telling them they loved the “creative energy” of the home.

“That’s an intangible you don’t know if you’ll find or not,” Wardein told the newspaper. She also ended up buying three paintings from Szaggars Redford that will continue to hang in the house as a “forever nod” to the prior owner.

While the connection with the star is “fun,” Wardein said, she loved the house either way.

Tiburon is among the richest towns in the Bay Area, and home prices have soared since the pandemic. The typical sale price of a Tiburon house last month was $3.2 million, up 12 percent from November last year, according to Redfin.

Brokers Steven Mavromihalis of Compass represented the seller. Sara Downs of Golden Gate Sotheby’s International Realty represented the buyer.

— Dana Bartholomew