Go inside Sundance beyond the film festival and the ski slopes. For over 50 years, Robert Redford's Sundance Resort in Utah has been a prominent incubator for achievements in cinema, culture, and conservation.
Redford sold the 2,600-acre Sundance Mountain Resort to Broadreach Capital Partners and Cedar Capital Partners for an undisclosed sum. According to Mr. Mavromihalis, Mr. Redford still owns around 1,800 acres in Utah, including his family's ranch in Sundance.
Attracted to the land for both its potential as a creative hub and a landmark resort, Redford also saw his purchase as an act of preservation. He wanted the stories of this land, originally a cool-temperature summer mecca for the Ute tribe, to live on for future generations, free from major development.
Robert Redford just wouldn't look right in a city. He's spent most of his life in places with more rocks than people, like his 250-acre ranch outside Santa Fe, New Mexico.
For decades, Redford's permanent residence has been in Utah, home of his Sundance Institute. He and his artist wife, Sibylle Szaggars, also own a Napa Valley wine-country retreat where they enjoy hobbies and hosting family and friends.
Redford has listed his 30-acre Horse Whisper Ranch for $4.9 million. The new owner will not only be buying gorgeous land surrounded by mountains, but also a small farmhouse, a wood shop, another building the listing calls a “garden hobby house,” three barns, and horse stalls.
Other structures include a workshop, wood shed, garden house, garage, hay barn, and horse stalls. A far larger property with ties to Redford, Montana's Climbing Arrow Ranch, recently hit the market for $136 million. Redford shot his 1992 film “A River Runs Through It” on parts of the 80,000-acre property.
Robert Redford originally agreed to play Blue and backed out at the last minute. He was sued by Paramount and afterward refused Roman Polanski's offer to play Guy Woodhouse in Paramount's Rosemary's Baby (1968).
The screen legend and his wife, artist Sibylle Szaggars Redford, first listed their Northern California home in October 2018 for $7.5 million with Steven Mavromihalis with Pacific Union International. Located in the heart of Napa Valley, their estate, nicknamed Danza del Sol, belonged to the couple for 14 years.
SUNDANCE, Utah, Dec. 11, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Robert Redford has agreed to sell the Sundance Mountain Resort to Broadreach Capital Partners and Cedar Capital Partners.
What does Robert Redford have to do with Sundance?
As a champion and curator of independent stories, the nonprofit Sundance Institute provides and preserves the space for artists in film and episodic storytelling to create and thrive. Robert Redford founded the Institute in 1981 to foster independence, risk-taking, and new voices in American film.
In the decades that followed Paul Newman and Robert Redford's two films together, it was clear that they forged a lifelong friendship through them. This bond went on to solidify the impact of the two films in each of their careers, serving as a sentimental backdrop amid their real life friendship off-screen.
Actor Robert Redford acquired the area in 1968, and established a year-round resort that would later spawn the independent Sundance Film Festival and the non-profit Sundance Institute. The resort was first listed as a census-designated place (CDP) before the 2020 census.
How much older is Paul Newman than Robert Redford?
“They were talking about other actors that were older than I was,” Redford said, adding that the studio heads “wanted someone like Marlon Brando, or somebody more known at the time.” Redford credits Paul Newman, 11 years older and then one of Hollywood's most bankable stars, for giving him his break.
When he was young, Redford didn't love school, so he pursued his interests in art and sports. He had a great talent for baseball and spent his years at Van Nuys High School on the baseball team, where his teammate was future pitching legend, Don Drysdale.
Michael Keaton lives somewhere in the Big Timber area near Livingston, but his exact location is unknown. Helena's Independent Record article from October 1986, reported that he owns a 565-acre ranch south of Big Timber.
Murdoch is the founder of Fox News and Wall Street Journal. Back in December of 2021, he bought the ranch for $200,000,000 dollars, which makes it the largest ranch sale in Montana's history. “This is a profound responsibility.
Beaverhead Ranch is a 113,000-acre working ranch in southwest Montana, with grazing rights on another 226,000 acres. The property was purchased by Rupert Murdoch in 2021 from the founder of Koch Industries, making it the biggest ranch sale in the state's history.
Now starting to downsize his property portfolio, The Old Man & the Gun star sold his life-long, 2,600-acre Sundance Mountain Resort for an undisclosed sum in 2020. Yet Mansion Global confirmed that Redford still owns approximately 1,800 acres of land in Utah, including his family home in Sundance.
Robert Redford has been a heartthrob through the decades but he was also known for his love of horses. In 1979 film The Electric Horseman, Redford played a down-on-his-luck rodeo star who steals a racehorse. The actor did all his own stunts with the equine actor, a five-year-old bay thoroughbred called Let's Merge.
