Anne Heche and Ellen DeGeneres selling home after split

Monday, Sept. 4, 2000 | 10:11 a.m.

The 4,000-square-foot house was built in the 1940s but has been substantially renovated, the Los Angeles Times reported Sunday.

The farmhouse-style structure is white with beamed ceilings and has four bedrooms, including two master suites.

The pair purchased the 10-acre property in 1998. It includes working avocado and citrus orchards, flower gardens, rolling lawns, a pool and many oak trees.

Heche, 31, and DeGeneres, 42, became one of the nation's most recognizable lesbian couples during their 3 1/2 years together.

They announced their breakup Aug. 19. Heche was hospitalized just hours later after parking her car along a Central California highway and wandering up to a rural Fresno home where she supposedly made strange statements to the occupants.

Heche was treated at a hospital, but additional details were never made available.

The two still own a Hollywood Hills home, which they bought for $1.7 million in June 1999.

DeGeneres was the first openly gay lead on television with her ABC sitcom "Ellen."

The pair collaborated on an HBO film, "If These Walls Could Talk II,' in April. Heche directed DeGeneres and Sharon Stone in the story of a lesbian couple trying to have a baby - a tale said to mirror the plans of Heche and DeGeneres.

Heche starred in the remake of "Psycho" as well as "Volcano," "Six Days, Seven Nights" and "Return to Paradise."