Gene Hackman's $6 Million Santa Fe Home Where He Died Alongside Wife Finds a Buyer in Less Than 2 Weeks

Gene Hackman's $6 Million Santa Fe Home Where He Died Alongside Wife Finds a Buyer in Less Than 2 Weeks

The prolific actor and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, were found dead at the estate in February 2025

Marina Watts

Tue, January 27, 2026 at 4:39 PM UTC

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Betsy Arakawa and Gene Hackman in Los Angeles, California in 1994 Ron Galella/Ron Galella Collection via Getty — Betsy Arakawa and Gene Hackman in Los Angeles, California in 1994
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Gene Hackman's Santa Fe compound has found a buyer days after hitting the market for $6.25 million
The property features a main house and guest house, both with three bedrooms, along with a lap pool, putting green, and acres of woodland
Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, were found dead at their home in February 2025

Gene Hackman's Santa Fe estate found a buyer just 11 days after hitting the market.

The $6.25 million, 53-acre property was officially listed on Jan. 16 by Tara S. Earley and Ricky Allen of Sotheby’s International Realty. As of Jan. 27, the house was listed as pending a sale.

"There will be some buyers that are just averse to purchasing a property where a death has occurred," Earley told the Wall Street Journal at the time of the listing. "There are other buyers for whom that doesn’t matter. We are selling the property on its virtues and all of the positives."

"We just priced it based on what we felt was the fair market value." Per WSJ, the couple's personal effects had been removed and the home was professionally staged.

Hackman, 95, Betsy Arakawa, 65, and one of their three dogs were found dead at their home on Feb. 26, 2025, in advanced states of decomposition. A search warrant affidavit reviewed by PEOPLE reported that Hackman had been found in the mudroom, while Arakawa was found in the bathroom.

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Weeks later, an autopsy was performed, and a timeline was established.

Arakawa died from hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, caused by hantavirus, which is a flu-like illness connected to rodent droppings, saliva, and urine. She died days before Hackman, and her last outward communication was via email on Feb. 11.

Hackman, meanwhile, died of severe heart disease, high blood pressure, and advanced Alzheimer's disease. It's likely that Hackman, whose pacemaker last showed activity on Feb. 17, was at home with his wife's body for days.

A small, private memorial was held for Hackman and Arakawa in April in Santa Fe.

Hackman lived in Santa Fe since the 1990s, telling Architectural Digest in 1990 that he found the city “had a kind of magic in it" after having filmed a couple of movies there.

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His estate features a lap pool, a pagoda-covered hot tub, a putting green, and an artist's studio among the acres of woodland. Both the main house and guest house have three bedrooms each.

The main house boasts floor-to-ceiling windows letting in natural light, along with a cozy library where the couple spent movie nights. The couple slowly built up the property through the years

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