Anne Heche Gets Stuff Out of the House

Wed., Jul. 18, 2007 6:33 PM PDT by Natalie Finn

That yellow armchair is going to look great in Vancouver.

A Los Angeles judge ruled Tuesday that Anne Heche can, for now, hang onto the furniture, statues and artwork she has removed from the Hancock Park home she used to share with estranged hubby Coley Laffoon.

The freelance videographer, however, gets "temporary exclusive use and occupancy of the residence" where he has been living with their five-year-old son, Homer, until the home is either sold or until further notice from the court, according to court documents signed by L.A. County Superior Court Judge Frederick Shaller. (View the order)

Another hearing on the matter is set for Aug. 15, until which Heche can't take anything else from her once-shared digs. Also included in yesterday's filing was a notation that Heche's request for a temporary domestic violence restraining order has been withdrawn.

Earlier this month, Laffoon petitioned the court to make Heche return a number of items she took from their house on Las Palmas Avenue, as well as enjoin her from moving anything else, seeing as he was already bereft of the master bed, his desk, the yoga room rugs and various other things.

Laffoon also said that, when he was packing for a trip, he discovered that several pairs of pants were missing from his closet and that the buttons had been yanked from 19 of his shirts.

Heche countered immediately (didn't mention the buttons, however), saying that everything she had taken from the residence was there before she swapped vows with Laffoon in September 2001.

Documents filed Friday included a declaration from photographer Art Streiber, who snapped pictures of the house July 30 and July 31, 2001, for an InStyle spread.

Streiber stated that everything Heche listed as belonging to her before she married Laffoon—the Balinese statues, the antique desk and chair, the pink bedding, the library table, the buffet table, etc.—were all there six years ago.

Heche stated in papers filed July 6 that she had repeatedly asked Laffoon for an inventory of the community property he wanted to keep, but that he kept putting her off.

So, she took what she felt belonged to her anyway to furnish her house in Vancouver, where she's currently filming the second season of the ABC sitcom Men in Trees.

"Even without my furniture, the Las Palmas residence is fully furnished," Heche stated in documents filed yesterday.

Laffoon filed for divorce in February and the pair have been at it practically ever since. The mightily divided duo are currently sharing custody of Homer, with Heche getting every other weekend with him while she's in Canada and then every other week while she's in Los Angeles, which the court has determined to be the boy's primary residence.