Coleman Laffoon has spent close to two decades selling real estate in Los Angeles, largely out of public view since his marriage to the actress Anne Heche ended in 2009. That hasn’t changed. What’s brought his name back this year is a court case that belongs to his son, not to him.
His son Homer, who administers Heche’s estate, told a Los Angeles probate court in November that he had reached a settlement with one of the creditors chasing money from it. In June, that same creditor said no such deal existed. Homer is 24. Four years after his mother’s death, her estate still cannot cover what it owes.
Laffoon isn’t part of that case, and hasn’t filed anything in it. What follows is what’s known about the rest of his life, separate from his son’s fight.
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His marriage to Anne Heche, and the divorce that followed
Laffoon met Heche around 2000, while working as a cameraman on a documentary about Ellen DeGeneres, not long after Heche’s relationship with DeGeneres ended. They married in September 2001, and their son Homer was born the following March.
The divorce that followed looked nothing like how the marriage started. Divorce filings from 2007 show both sides questioning the other’s fitness as a parent, and the case dragged on for two years before it was finalised in March 2009, with the pair splitting custody of Homer. The friction outlasted the paperwork. Months later, Heche called him a “lazy ass” on The Late Show with David Letterman. He told Us Weekly at the time that he had spent that particular day showing two clients different condos.
Whatever was left of that friction wasn’t visible in 2022. His tribute to her, posted the day her death was announced, was warm and unguarded. He said he still loved her, and that their son was surrounded by family.
What Laffoon does now
He got his California real estate licence in November 2007 (DRE #01836162) and was working at Hilton & Hyland, the Beverly Hills firm founded by Rick Hilton, within a couple of years. These days he runs a small team called The Laffoon Group at Compass with his wife, Alexi, whom he married in 2015. For years it was just the two of them. In May 2025 they brought on their first outside agent, calling the setup “old school” in the announcement.
One property from that stretch says more than a job title could. In 2020, Laffoon and Alexi bought a run-down house in the Miracle Mile neighbourhood and rebuilt it themselves, living through the renovation with their children during the pandemic. He’s described it as the house where the family homeschooled their children and hosted holidays for years. They listed it in November 2025 and sold it by the end of December for $2,625,000, with Laffoon acting as his own listing agent.
“Now she’s ready for a new family to walk in and fall in love.”
The five years he didn’t mention
The renovation years overlap with something else. In August 2025, Laffoon posted that he had just been told he was cancer free, five years after finishing treatment. He didn’t name the type of cancer, and hadn’t said anything about the diagnosis while it was happening, meaning he raised a growing family and rebuilt a house through treatment without mentioning it once. He thanked his oncologist and his wife, and wrote about attending funerals for three friends who weren’t as fortunate. It’s the only time he’s discussed it.
Where things stand for Laffoon today
None of that touches the court case. Homer remains in charge of untangling Heche’s estate, and the dispute over what it owes, including to the tenant of the home she crashed into in 2022, still isn’t settled. If Coleman Laffoon has said anything about it, none of it has been reported. He’s kept doing what he’s done since 2007: selling real estate in Los Angeles, and raising a family that’s grown to five children.
