Post by Trublu on Feb 2, 2008 14:14:49 GMT -5
Interesting article:
Ice-T, model wife buy in S. Chandler neighborhood
Megan Boehnke
The Arizona Republic
Jan. 31, 2008 02:03 PM
Rapper-turned-actor Ice-T and his swimsuit model wife have purchased a home in a cozy south Chandler neighborhood - a place where they plan to unwind away from the celebrity limelight by blending into a sea of HOA-regulated color schemes.
Nicole "CoCo" Marrow - who seven years ago married the former Cop Killer rapper who now plays a cop on TV - bought a home in Carino Estates in October. The real estate purchase, she said, will put an end to six years of renting property in Tempe.
CoCo's from the area. Ice-T has a son who lives in the Valley. So every winter and summer, during breaks from filming Law and Order: Special Victims Unit in New Jersey, the pair sojourn to the Valley.
"It's an escape out of the celebrity zone of New York or LA," said Ice-T, adding that it's close enough to Los Angeles and Las Vegas to make a quick business trip.
Marrow bought the four-bedroom, two-bath house - a regular 2,447-square-foot Shea tract home largely indistinguishable from others on the street - for $435,000. But neighbors say the celebrity couple have been renovating over the last several weeks and appear to be having extensive work done to the interior.
Because of the construction, the pair will stay with family this weekend during the Super Bowl festivities, CoCo said. They will host a flashy pre-Super Bowl party at Myst nightclub in Scottsdale on Saturday.
News of the famous folks moving in already is spreading on the street, which despite having "Estates" in the HOA's name is an ungated, unremarkable south Chandler neighborhood.
"My husband and I, we think it's very cool that somebody that we grew up with has moved into our neighborhood," said Nicole Hawkins, who lives across the street and owned an Ice-T cassette tape back in the day. "I saw him having CoCo pull her car into the garage and I was like, 'Oh my gosh, are you kidding me?'
"We just think it's a cool thing around here," she said.
Others on the block are less familiar with Ice-T's reputation as a founder of early-'90s gangsta rap, but instead know him for his role as Det. Fin Tutuola from Law and Order.
"I do watch the show," admitted Judy Goddard, a real estate agent who said when she first heard the news, she wasn't sure who Ice-T was. Now, she said, she thinks it's neat to have a celebrity buy a house across the street, even if Ice and his wife won't be living there year-round.
"It's nice, and I don't mind him being in the neighborhood," she said.
Despite the couple's celebrity status, the quiet neighborhood northeast of Queen Creek and Alma School roads should fit the lifestyle the pair lead while in Arizona: mostly catching movies, eating out and going to the mall, CoCo said.
Ice, she said, plays a lot of Xbox while here.
"When we're at home in New York, it's more like we're always going, going, going," CoCo said. "When we're settled in Arizona, it's more like we're doing a lot of eating and chilling. It's a really kicked-back, laid-back place."
After discussing their new digs with a reporter, CoCo handed the phone to her husband. There was still one question that really hadn't been answered.
Why this neighborhood?
"Who said I bought a house in Chandler?" he shot back.
Maricopa County public records, he was reminded.
"That's all you're going to get from Ice."
Ice-T, model wife buy in S. Chandler neighborhood
Megan Boehnke
The Arizona Republic
Jan. 31, 2008 02:03 PM
Rapper-turned-actor Ice-T and his swimsuit model wife have purchased a home in a cozy south Chandler neighborhood - a place where they plan to unwind away from the celebrity limelight by blending into a sea of HOA-regulated color schemes.
Nicole "CoCo" Marrow - who seven years ago married the former Cop Killer rapper who now plays a cop on TV - bought a home in Carino Estates in October. The real estate purchase, she said, will put an end to six years of renting property in Tempe.
CoCo's from the area. Ice-T has a son who lives in the Valley. So every winter and summer, during breaks from filming Law and Order: Special Victims Unit in New Jersey, the pair sojourn to the Valley.
"It's an escape out of the celebrity zone of New York or LA," said Ice-T, adding that it's close enough to Los Angeles and Las Vegas to make a quick business trip.
Marrow bought the four-bedroom, two-bath house - a regular 2,447-square-foot Shea tract home largely indistinguishable from others on the street - for $435,000. But neighbors say the celebrity couple have been renovating over the last several weeks and appear to be having extensive work done to the interior.
Because of the construction, the pair will stay with family this weekend during the Super Bowl festivities, CoCo said. They will host a flashy pre-Super Bowl party at Myst nightclub in Scottsdale on Saturday.
News of the famous folks moving in already is spreading on the street, which despite having "Estates" in the HOA's name is an ungated, unremarkable south Chandler neighborhood.
"My husband and I, we think it's very cool that somebody that we grew up with has moved into our neighborhood," said Nicole Hawkins, who lives across the street and owned an Ice-T cassette tape back in the day. "I saw him having CoCo pull her car into the garage and I was like, 'Oh my gosh, are you kidding me?'
"We just think it's a cool thing around here," she said.
Others on the block are less familiar with Ice-T's reputation as a founder of early-'90s gangsta rap, but instead know him for his role as Det. Fin Tutuola from Law and Order.
"I do watch the show," admitted Judy Goddard, a real estate agent who said when she first heard the news, she wasn't sure who Ice-T was. Now, she said, she thinks it's neat to have a celebrity buy a house across the street, even if Ice and his wife won't be living there year-round.
"It's nice, and I don't mind him being in the neighborhood," she said.
Despite the couple's celebrity status, the quiet neighborhood northeast of Queen Creek and Alma School roads should fit the lifestyle the pair lead while in Arizona: mostly catching movies, eating out and going to the mall, CoCo said.
Ice, she said, plays a lot of Xbox while here.
"When we're at home in New York, it's more like we're always going, going, going," CoCo said. "When we're settled in Arizona, it's more like we're doing a lot of eating and chilling. It's a really kicked-back, laid-back place."
After discussing their new digs with a reporter, CoCo handed the phone to her husband. There was still one question that really hadn't been answered.
Why this neighborhood?
"Who said I bought a house in Chandler?" he shot back.
Maricopa County public records, he was reminded.
"That's all you're going to get from Ice."