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HOT PROPERTY
By Ann Brenoff
Actress Mel Harris lists a house in Pacific Palisades
May 11, 2008

Hot Property
By Ann Brenoff
Googling Ken Belanger is like scanning the program for "Friday Night Fights:" "Ken Belanger Hits Ulf Samuelsson," "Ken Belanger KOs Brad Brown." The former National Hockey League player's legendary fights are all over YouTube.
May 18, 2008

Hot Property
By Ann Brenoff
Googling Ken Belanger is like scanning the program for "Friday Night Fights:" "Ken Belanger Hits Ulf Samuelsson," "Ken Belanger KOs Brad Brown." The former National Hockey League player's legendary fights are all over YouTube.
October 10, 2010

Hot Property
By Ann Brenoff
Don't you just love aging rockers? Especially the ones who are good to their mothers?
October 10, 2010

Is it back to the Westside for Tom Arnold?
Hot Property
By Ann Brenoff
The comic actor traded Beverly Hills for the Valley. Now he's selling his Tarzana house.
May 4, 2008

Hot Property
By Ann Brenoff
"Who's the Boss?" star Tony Danza may have learned that it wasn't him in this real estate market.
May 1, 2008

HOT PROPERTY
By Ann Brenoff
This is one of those "if walls could speak" places. Aldous and Laura Huxley's presence is felt throughout this historic estate on Mulholland Drive that just came on the market at $1.95 million. Built in the 1930s, it very much remains a period house. The 4,000-square-foot four-bedroom, three-bathroom Spanish Mission-style home is situated on 30,000 square feet of gardens and meditation paths -- all perched under the Hollywood sign, which is visible from the home's northern windows.
April 16, 2008

HOT PROPERTY
By Ann Brenoff
For 85 episodes of "thirtysomething," actress Mel Harris played Hope Murdoch Steadman -- a writer and stay-at-home mother who struggles with her desire to be at home with her kids and to work. From 1987 to 1991, millions of real-life mothers kept a weekly date with Hope, hoping to glean a shred of insight on how to walk this tightrope -- or at least identifying with the walk.
May 1, 2008

HOT PROPERTY
By Ann Brenoff
Pssst . . . hey, buddy, what do you have on the 50-yard line?
May 1, 2008

HOT PROPERTY
By Ann Brenoff
Aaron Kamin, guitarist, songwriter and a founding member of the MTV award-winning band the Calling, has listed his Studio City home for sale for $1,199,000.
May 1, 2008

Hot Property
By Ann Brenoff
Not unlike Saul Steinberg's famous 1976 New Yorker magazine cover illustration called "View of the World From 9th Avenue," there are those who see the Westside of Los Angeles as the center of the universe -- and every place else is, well, elsewhere.
April 28, 2008

Dan Aykroyd's Palisades palace
HOT PROPERTY
By Ann Brenoff
Aykroyd and wife Donna Dixon pay $14.5 million for their new home. And the pool -- ooh la la!
April 27, 2008

HOT PROPERTY
By Ann Brenoff
Add this to your list of life's regrets: You may never sleep on the same pillow as Robert Duvall. I know; I'm weeping too.
April 23, 2008

Singer Dido sells Hollywood Hills home
Hot Property
By Ann Brenoff
"Roswell" fans know Dido as the singer of the show's "Here With Me" theme. The rest of us know her as the singer of those New Agey songs that stay stuck in our heads long after we want them to.
April 22, 2008

Hot Property
By Ann Brenoff
How do billionaires play?
April 21, 2008

Kenny Chesney lists Malibu home for $7.95 million
HOT PROPERTY
By Ann Brenoff
The singer is selling the Carbon Canyon house he just bought in February.
April 20, 2008

Hot Property
By Ann Brenoff
Hollywood über agent Toni Howard and her husband, producer David Yarnell, have purchased an 18th-floor junior penthouse in a full-service, luxury Westwood condominium building for $3.3 million, according to public records. The unit was listed at $3,679,000.
April 17, 2008

Channing Tatum buys a bit of 'paradise' in Laurel Canyon
HOT PROPERTY
By Ann Brenoff
The actor pays nearly $2.6 million for a home with a Balinese tree house feel.
April 15, 2008

Warren Christopher is selling his 1930s home near Beverly Hills
HOT PROPERTY
By Ann Brenoff
The former U.S. secretary of State and his wife will move to a Century City condo.
April 11, 2008

By Ruth Ryon
Hot Property was just an idea when I first mentioned it to Dick Turpin, then-editor of The Times' Real Estate section. I thought there might be a column in the short stories I had been writing about people and real estate, but I never guessed I would spend the next 23 1/2 years focusing on Hot Property, which became -- to my delight -- a must-read, especially in Hollywood.
April 13, 2008

Stamos, Muniz follow Depp's lead in buying L.A. lofts
Hot Property
By Ruth Ryon
Editor's note: After more than 1,300 columns, this is Ruth Ryon's last installment of the feature she created in 1984. Hot Property was kicked off on Nov. 25 of that year with an item on Johnny Carson's purchase of a Malibu home for $9.5 million, a record setter at the time. Read her farewell on Page 12.
April 13, 2008

By Ruth Ryon
The Rancho Mirage home purchased for $3 million by Coco Crisp of the Boston Red Sox was formerly owned by Rachel McLish, who won the first U.S. Women's Body Building Championship in Atlantic City in 1980.
April 10, 2008

Angelina Jolie's body double is selling her Silver Lake bungalow
HOT PROPERTY
By Ann Brenoff
Kate Clarke is asking $724,000 for the home.
April 9, 2008

Exclusive: Schwarzenegger ponies up for property in Santa Barbara County
Hot Property
By Ann Brenoff
The Rancho Monte Alegre project has roots in historic Carpinteria ranchland.
April 8, 2008

Nicole Kidman, Keith Urban buy Brentwood home
Hot Property
By Ruth Ryon
Oscar-winning actress Nicole Kidman has come back to Brentwood, where she lived for years before splitting with Tom Cruise in 2001.
April 6, 2008

Music industry's Paul Oakenfold lists home with Bowl view
Hot Property
By Ruth Ryon
Legendary DJ, music producer, re-mixer and record mogul Paul Oakenfold will give up one of the most unusual views in the Hollywood Hills when he sells his house, listed at $10 million.
March 30, 2008

Tobey Maguire buys a Brentwood home site for $9.7 million
Hot Property
By Ruth Ryon
The 'Spider-Man' star acquires an acre-sized lot -- tear-down already accomplished -- for his family's future home.
March 23, 2008

Sean Hayes lists Hancock Park home for almost $9 million
HOT PROPERTY
By Ruth Ryon
Sean Hayes, who played Jack McFarland in the NBC sitcom "Will & Grace," must have gotten word that the housing slump hasn't hurt sales in the upper tiers of the market. He has listed his Hancock Park home at close to $9 million, according to area real estate agents.
March 16, 2008

Mix Master Mike's new Sunset Strip crib
By Ruth Ryon
Mixmaster Mike, a 37-year-old turntablist and resident DJ with the hip-hop group the Beastie Boys, has purchased a home in the Sunset Strip area for $990,000.
March 9, 2008

Their project, Conan O'Brien's leap of faith
HOT PROPERTY
By Ruth Ryon
Entertainment figures Michael Manheim and Janus Cercone developed the Brentwood home that went to the late-night host.
March 2, 2008

Grant Show has listed his Hollywood Hills home for close to $2 million
HOT PROPERTY
By Ruth Ryon
Moving farther from Melrose?
March 2, 2008

HOT PROPERTY
By Ruth Ryon
Meeting the parents is one thing, finding a buyer is quite another.
February 24, 2008

Jaime Pressly re-lists her Tarzana home
HOT PROPERTY
By Ruth Ryon
On the market last year for nearly $1.4 million, it's back -- at a discount
February 17, 2008

Plenty of room for the whole Mencia family
Hot Property
By Ruth Ryon
This is one of those celebrity deals that practically requires a score card.
February 10, 2008

Eddie Murphy, Nicole Mitchell Murphy sell Granite Bay home for $6.1 million
HOT PROPERTY
By Ruth Ryon
Let's face it: Eddie Murphy has his hands full. First he exchanged vows with producer Tracey Edmonds on New Year's Day on a private island off Bora Bora. Then the pair announced their split just two weeks later, before they even had the chance to make their ceremonial union legal in the United States.
February 3, 2008

Sampras lists Beverly Hills home
Hot Property
By Ruth Ryon
Pete Sampras and his wife, actress Bridgette Wilson, have put their Beverly Hills home on the market for
January 27, 2008

Conan O'Brien's all set for late nights in L.A.
Hot Property
By Ruth Ryon
Conan O'Brien isn't expected to take Jay Leno's place on "The Tonight Show" until 2009, but he will soon move closer with his purchase of a Brentwood compound listed at just under $10.5 million.
January 20, 2008

Suzanne Somers lists her Palm Springs Shangri-La
Hot Property
By Ruth Ryon
At first glance, it looked like a typical holiday photo card sent out by actress-entrepreneur Suzanne Somers, her husband, producer Alan Hamel, and their family. But the rubble pile behind them in the photo was the couple's former Malibu home, burned to the ground by a brush fire in January 2007.
January 13, 2008

An L.A. loft for high-flying Depp
HOT PROPERTY
By Ruth Ryon
Johnny Depp has been busier than any pirate in the Caribbean, and that could be why the downtown L.A. loft he bought in the fall for close to $2 million is still vacant.
January 6, 2008

Nicolas Cage's treasure: a 1940 Bel-Air home
HOT PROPERTY
By Ruth Ryon
When lean times come to the housing market, even the rich and famous can feel the pinch.
December 30, 2007

Hip-hopping out of his Hills house
By Ruth Ryon
If all you want for Christmas is a home once owned by a celebrity, you're in luck. There are several on the market.
December 23, 2007

Does he also drive a hard bargain?
HOT PROPERTY
By Ruth Ryon
Actor and racing enthusiast Frankie Muniz lists a Sunset Strip-area home for sale.
December 16, 2007

Luke Walton's choice of beach city is a slam-dunk
HOT PROPERTY
By Ruth Ryon
There was a time when Manhattan Beach residents would have said there was no life east of Sepulveda Boulevard.
December 9, 2007

Style diva Rachel Zoe selling Hollywood Hills home
HOT PROPERTY
By Ruth Ryon
On a bad-hair day in Hollywood, it's Rachel Zoe to the rescue.
December 2, 2007

For Magic Johnson, Dana Point vacation home's a slam dunk
HOT PROPERTY
By Ruth Ryon
It took a year to find it, but L.A. Lakers legend Earvin "Magic" Johnson and his wife, Cookie, have purchased what they call their "vacation home" in time for Thanksgiving.

Beck, Ribisi buy in West L.A.
HOT PROPERTY
By Ruth Ryon
We know what likely will be in Beck's moving boxes: two turntables and a microphone, of course. Yes, the Grammy-winning singer-songwriter-guitarist has bought yet another house in Los Angeles.
November 11, 2007

Matthew McConaughey to park in Malibu
Hot Property
By Ruth Ryon
Matthew McConaughey is on the move in Malibu -- from a 28-foot, $65,000 Airstream in an RV park to a $10-million home on slightly more than an acre.
November 4, 2007

Brand-new house for Loni Anderson
Hot Property
By Ruth Ryon
Loni Anderson is the latest person in the entertainment industry to discover Jon Goldstein.
October 28, 2007

Spears gets a new lease, Malibu style
HOT PROPERTY
By Ruth Ryon
Britney Spears . . . again? The 25-year-old pop princess, in a custody battle with her former husband -- 29-year-old Kevin Federline -- has leased a Malibu home with the option to buy it in six months. The asking price is slightly more than $9 million.
October 21, 2007

Perhaps he didn't blend in
HOT PROPERTY
By Ruth Ryon
Since summer, when he started on a 91-date world tour, shock-rocker Marilyn Manson has been gone a lot from his home in Chatsworth.
October 14, 2007

Denise Richards expands her world
Hot Property
By Ruth Ryon
The world may not have been enough for James Bond girl Denise Richards, and her Hidden Hills house may not have been large enough for this single mom and her two daughters.
October 7, 2007

O'Hurley waltzes into the home market
HOT PROPERTY
By Ruth Ryon
Actor John O'Hurley may soon be dancing with the stars in another ZIP Code.
September 30, 2007

Camera shy . . . for now
HOT PROPERTY
By Ruth Ryon
British rocker Ozzy Osbourne has been uncharacteristically quiet about the late-summer sale of his Beverly Hills house to pop star Christina Aguilera for close to $11.9 million.
September 23, 2007

Wayne Gretzky sells his Southern California home
HOT PROPERTY
By Ruth Ryon
The Great One has morphed into the Grape One, according to the headlines in Canadian papers.
September 16, 2007

It's the gated life for Paris Hilton
Hot Property
By Ruth Ryon
Paris Hilton has a new home, and it's behind gates, not bars.
September 9, 2007

Dixie Chick comes to roost in L.A.
By Ruth Ryon
Lead Dixie Chick singer Natalie Maines and her husband, actor Adrian Pasdar, in Los Angeles for a meeting last month, went home with an unplanned souvenir from the city of angels: a $5.6-million home in Brentwood that they will call home.
September 2, 2007

A new base of operations for 'JAG's' Bell
HOT PROPERTY
By Ruth Ryon
It's back to the military life for actress Catherine Bell, who costarred for nine seasons on "JAG." Now she is a star on "Army Wives," and much like a real military wife, she is pulling up stakes when duty calls.
August 26, 2007

Obviously, he got a hefty raise
HOT PROPERTY
By Ruth Ryon
Before Steve Carell became famous for his roles in the film "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" and as a pushy boss in the NBC series "The Office," he had a house built that he just sold for $1.5 million.
August 19, 2007

Kids spell 'relocation' for Angela Bassett
HOT PROPERTY
By Ruth Ryon
The actor and her husband Courtney B. Vance seek a place with good public schools.
August 12, 2007

McCourts to Malibu for $33.5 million
HOT PROPERTY
By Ruth Ryon
Frank and Jamie McCourt buy the Malibu beachfront home of Courteney Cox and David Arquette.
August 5, 2007

Taking an L.A. break
HOT PROPERTY
By Ruth Ryon
Never one to miss a beat, hip-hop mogul Damon Dash has sold his Benedict Canyon home of five years for $3.6 million.
July 15, 2007

A Python exits zoo
HOT PROPERTY
By Ruth Ryon
It's not Monty Python's Flying Circus, but British actor John Cleese has put Stalloreggi (the King's Stables) on the market in Montecito at $28 million.
July 8, 2007

Joey McIntyre hoofs it over to Hancock Park
HOT PROPERTY
By Ruth Ryon
The former pop star, who recently appeared on 'Dancing With the Stars,' sells his home in Venice.
July 1, 2007

'Spider-Man's' Maguire gives up his nest
HOT PROPERTY
By Ruth Ryon
"Spider-Man 3" is a box-office smash, and now Tobey Maguire, who played Spidey in all three films, is cashing in on selling his Hollywood Hills home.
June 17, 2007

Due for a location transformation
HOT PROPERTY
By Ruth Ryon
What happens in Vegas may stay in Vegas, but what happened in the homeownership life of Josh Duhamel, a star of the TV series "Las Vegas" and the upcoming summer movie "Transformers," hasn't stayed in Brentwood.
June 10, 2007

A titanic swath up for grabs
HOT PROPERTY
By Ruth Ryon
James Cameron, whose ship came in when he won three Oscars for producing, directing and editing "Titanic," has put his 730 acres of Malibu ranchland on the market at close to $25 million.
June 3, 2007

It's time for his next invention
HOT PROPERTY
By Ruth Ryon
Actor Christopher Lloyd, who appears in a national TV commercial as Emmett "Doc" Brown — the eccentric scientist he played in the movie "Back to the Future" (1985) and its sequels — has listed his residence in Montecito at close to $11.3 million.
May 27, 2007

Foxx's next production: A dream house in Hidden Valley
HOT PROPERTY
By Ruth Ryon
The Oscar-winning star of "Ray," is fond of recalling what Ray Charles once told him: "If you feel it, then you know it's right."
May 20, 2007

Boxer exits the ring in Big Bear
HOT PROPERTY
By Ruth Ryon
Oscar De La Hoya, who lost the World Boxing Council's super-welterweight belt in May to Floyd Mayweather Jr., has sold his Big Bear Lake property for about $2.1 million.
May 13, 2007

He shows them the money
HOT PROPERTY
By Ruth Ryon
Despite speculation that Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are having marital problems, he just bought a Beverly Hills home for his family that cost close to $35 million.
May 6, 2007

It's a 'go' for this big bro
HOT PROPERTY
By Ruth Ryon
Emmy Award winner Brad Garrett, who played Ray Romano's big brother, Robert, on the hit CBS series "Everybody Loves Raymond," is "looking to make a move."
April 29, 2007

So, Bündchen can pretty up New York awhile
REAL ESTATE
By Ruth Ryon
The supermodel sells her home in the Hollywood Hills for $4 million and nests in the East.
April 22, 2007

Amazon king's domain
HOT PROPERTY
By Ruth Ryon
For Jeffrey Bezos, the brains behind Amazon.com, 1994 was a very good year.
April 15, 2007

Avril Lavigne, the 'Girlfriend' next door in Bel-Air
HOT PROPERTY
By Ruth Ryon
While Canadian-born superstar Avril Lavigne was recording the chorus of her latest hit, "Girlfriend," she also was talking L.A. real estate.
April 8, 2007

Playa Vista scores with Laker coach
HOT PROPERTY
By Ruth Ryon
It's a bird, it's a plane, it's Kurt Rambis, assistant coach for the Los Angeles Lakers. Rambis, nicknamed "Superman" when he started wearing thick, Clark Kent-type eyeglasses as a Laker player, and his wife, Linda, have bought a town home in Playa Vista for $1.2 million.
July 16, 2006


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