James McClain Although the property actually sold back in March, right as the Los Angeles COVID-19 lockdowns were just beginning, it’s only now that Reese Witherspoon‘s stealthy acquisition of a trophy Brentwood compound has become public knowledge. The Academy Award-winning actress-turned-media mogul and her husband Jim Toth quietly bent and snapped their way into the bucolic estate, which happens to be one of the most private properties on L.A.’s Westside.That’s not an exaggeration.