Russell Crowe quietly offloads trophy mansion to ex-wife Danielle Spencer

Actor Russell Crowe. Photo / Getty Images

Gladiator star Russell Crowe has quietly offloaded his trophy Sydney mansion to ex-wife Danielle Spencer six years after they bought it for $11m.

Rissell Crowe has quietly offloaded his trophy Sydney mansion Te Puke to his former wife Danielle Spencer, six years after they bought it for $11m, said news.com.au.

The Gladiator and Master and Commander star, whose Hollywood career has meant long absences from Australia, has transferred ownership solely to Danielle Spencer.

Spencer has lived at the seven bedroom, four bathroom Rose Bay home with the former couple's sons, Charlie and Tennyson, since 2011.

Te Puke mansion in Sydney. Photo / Supplied

Set on 1200 square metres overlooking the fairways of the Royal Sydney Golf Club Te Puke, pronounced "teh-pook-eh'', is Maori for "hill".

Spencer set her heart on the Federation house after a four-year search for a family home aside from their waterfront apartment at the Finger Wharf in Woolloomooloo.

The couple had considered and rejected Le Manoir, a palatial Bellevue Hill property which was too expensive and needed too much work, and the pricey waterfront Point Piper mansion, Altona.

But the year following the purchase, the couple split as Crowe continued to fly around the world making back-to-back movies which have cemented his reputation as a force in Hollywood.

Crowe and Spencer met on the set of the Australian film The Crossing in 1989 when she had the higher profile from her role on TV's The Flying Doctors.

Their initial relationship lasted five years, while he made his name in 1992's Romper Stomper and then left Australia and Spencer behind him.

Crowe had romances with co-stars including Sharon Stone, Kim Basinger and Meg Ryan.
After five years apart, Crowe and Spencer reunited and married in 2003 at his Nana Glen farm in northern NSW.

Spencer put her career on hold for their sons Charlie, now 13, and Tennyson, 10.

Spencer made a comeback with the Seven Network's Dancing With The Stars, and has since restarted her singing career.

Crowe's movies have included

The Water Diviner, Noah, Les Miserables, The Man With The Iron Fists, Man of Steel

and

Boy Erased

, which comes out next year.

Danielle Spencer and Russell Crowe in 2011. File photo / Getty Images

The couple's separation was confirmed when Spencer, 48, emerged with a new partner, Adam Long, last year.

Crowe handed over his half of Te Puke to Spencer in November.