Exclusive | Jane Fondas idyllic former home, once surveiled by the CIA, hits the market for a steal

An idyllic Hollywood Hills home where Jane Fonda once lived is now on the market for $1.99 million, The Post has learned.Built in 1924, the gated, five-bedroom Mediterranean Revival-style villa is at 2001 Holly Hill Terrace.It’s where Fonda lived for a time during her marriage to the French film director Roger Vadim (they were married from 1965 to 1973), according to the listing.

It’s also where Fonda lived with her second husband, the late political activist and politician Tom Hayden, whom she married days after her divorce from Vadim was finalized, according to LA city planning documents.While living in the house, which she rented rather than owned, Fonda came under surveillance by the CIA for speaking out against the Vietnam War.They famously intercepted and opened Fonda’s mail — four letters written to her from the Soviet Union.According to a document seen by Gimme Shelter — declassified in 2018 — Fonda’s name and Holly Hill Terrace address appear in CIA files as number 22, in a list of 50 names and addresses tracked by the agency in 1971.The CIA opened mail sent from the Soviet Union to American citizens living in the US from the 1950s to 1973, according to National Security Archive documents.

“That is illegal and we stopped it in 1973,” then-CIA Director William Colby reportedly told President Gerald Ford in 1975, according to reports.But nevertheless, it remains a fascinating part of the history of the house.

The home itself a majestic stucco-clad residence at the end of a cul-de-sac in Whitley Heights, one of Hollywood’s most historic residential neighborhoods.It was also the last project of developer H.J.

Whitley, who built the neighborhood to look like an Italian hillside village.The historic district was once filled with Old Hollywood legends including Rudolph Valentino, Bette Davis, Jean Harlow, Rosalind Russell, Janet Gaynor, Carmen Miranda and William Faulkner.The home features a two-story veranda that was added in 1941, and it ...