Two Santa Fe real-estate agents claim in a lawsuit that they were cheated out of commissions on Val Kilmer's sale of ranch property near Rowe.

Robert Jacobs and Pam Sawyer say Kilmer signed a listing agreement with them, Darlene Streit and Sotheby's International Realty on Feb. 11, 2011.

Yet after the sale to a Texas oil and gas executive and his wife on Sept. 30, Jacobs and Sawyer contend, they did not receive commissions, while Kevin Bobolsky and Christopher Cortazzo did.

The complaint for unspecified damages filed in state District Court in Santa Fe on Jan. 11 by lawyer Andras Szantho names as defendants Bobolsky, Cortazzo, Tommy Gardner, Greg Antonsen, Coldwell Banker and Sotheby's International Realty.

Antonsen, who works at Sotheby's with Gardner and Streit, declined to comment.

Jacobs and Sawyer used to be associated with Sotheby's, but now work with Keller Williams Realty.

Another former Sotheby's associate, Bobolsky now works with Santa Fe Properties.

Cortazzo works for Coldwell Banker's office in Malibu, Calif.

Kilmer, a 52-year-old actor known for such film roles as Jim Morrison in The Doors (1991) and the title character in Batman Forever (1995), has lived in the Santa Fe area for nearly two decades. In 2000, he sold his Tesuque estate and moved to the ranch along the Pecos River.

In 2009, after talking about running for governor, Kilmer put the property on the market with an asking price of $33 million. The property included 5,330 acres of land and a 10-bedroom, 11,573-square-foot house.

Kilmer finally got permission to rent out three guesthouses on his ranch after he appeared before the San Miguel County Commission to explain comments attributed to him in two national magazines in which he referred to drunks, murderers and "borderline criminals" in New Mexico.

In 2010, he dropped the price of the ranch to $23 million. Last fall, oil executive Benjamin A. Strickling III and his wife, Roxann, who list their business address in Midland, Texas, bought it for a reported $18.5 million. The standard 6 percent commission on that sale would be $1.11 million.

It's not clear whether Kilmer will remain in New Mexico. According to imdb.com, his next film will be Mark Twain and Mary Baker Eddy, about the writer's "screed" against the founder of Christian Science, Kilmer's religion.

Contact Tom Sharpe at 986-3080 or tsharpe@sfnewmexican.com.