By Katherine Clarke

Just a month after hitting the market for $6.25 million, the longtime New Mexico home of Hollywood icon Gene Hackman has sold.

The Santa Fe compound where Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, were found dead last year went into contract after only eight days on the market, according to listing agent Tara S. Earley of Sotheby's International Realty. The deal closed Wednesday.

Earley declined to comment on the contract price, noting that New Mexico is one of about a dozen U.S. states where home-sale prices aren't required to be publicly disclosed.

Earley said the property had about 12 showings, and that its tragic history didn't seem to dissuade buyers. "I was a little bit surprised," she said. "Everybody that came to see the property, the circumstances did not bother them. If it was a hurdle, then they had gotten over it. We didn't have anybody that came to see the property and then said, 'Oh, I just can't deal with this."

The home sits on about 53 acres in the Summit, the gated community just northeast of downtown Santa Fe. There are typically few homes for sale in the Summit, Earley said, and an estate of this size is particularly rare.

She declined to identify the buyer but said it was someone familiar with the property and the local area. "They were ready to jump on it," said Earley, who had the listing with colleague Ricky Allen.

The roughly 13,000-square-foot contemporary estate has six bedrooms between a main house and a guesthouse, as well as a lap pool, hot tub, putting green and an artist's studio.

Hackman and Arakawa bought the site in the 1990s and built the three-bedroom main residence around 1997, adding the studio in 1999.

Hackman, known for films including "The French Connection" and "Unforgiven," and classical pianist Arakawa were found dead at the home in February 2025. Officials later said Hackman died of heart disease and Arakawa of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, a rodent-borne disease.

The buyer's agent, Chris Pearson Kramer of Sotheby's International Realty, declined to comment.

Write to Katherine Clarke at Katherine.Clarke@wsj.com

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February 18, 2026 14:28 ET (19:28 GMT)

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