John Leguizamo Says Voicing Sid the Sloth in ‘Ice Age’ Paid for a New York Brownstone, a Hamptons Beach House, and Both His Kids’ College Tuition

27 Jul 2026, 15:00 by Stella Cereus · Thought Catalog

Updated 10 minutes ago, July 27, 2026

The role that let him do his silliest work also built his real estate portfolio. He was paid scale for the original in 2002 and only negotiated a bigger salary after the sequels started clearing hundreds of millions.

John Leguizamo in Beverly Hills at a November 2006 event celebrating the DVD release of Ice Age: The Meltdown. Photo by Chad Buchanan / Getty Images.

The paycheck that changed things came from the third film, 2009’s ‘Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs.’ By then Leguizamo had leverage the first movie never gave him, and he told Page Six that installment “got me a brownstone. It got me a beachfront house in the Hamptons, it got me two pools!”

John Leguizamo at the Hotel Ritz in Madrid during a promotional appearance for his film ‘Empire’ in March 2003. Photo by Carlos Alvarez / Getty Images.

He’d been paid scale for the 2002 original and negotiated up only after the 2006 sequel earned $667 million. The real estate followed: a $5.75 million West Village townhouse in 2008 that he and wife Justine Maurer spent a year renovating, and a $1.227 million beach house in Amagansett in 2012.

Both his kids went through school on that money too. Daughter Allegra studied theater at Northwestern, son Lucas earned a political science degree at Vassar, and in 2023 Leguizamo reportedly bought Allegra a $1.66 million apartment near the family brownstone.

A massive promotional screen for ‘Ice Age: Boiling Point — Only in Theaters February 2027′ towers over Andrew Cripps, Head of Theatrical Distribution, as he addresses the crowd during Walt Disney Studios’ presentation at CinemaCon in Las Vegas on April 16, 2026. Photo by Valerie Macon / AFP via Getty Images.

The franchise has since grown into a $6 billion business across films, TV specials, merchandise, and games. Leguizamo reprises Sid in ‘Ice Age: Boiling Point,’ out February 5, 2027, reuniting him with Ray Romano and Denis Leary alongside Queen Latifah and Jennifer Lopez.

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