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Actress Mel Harris lists a house in Pacific Palisades
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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.
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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.
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Don't you just love aging rockers? Especially the ones who are good to their mothers?
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The comic actor traded Beverly Hills for the Valley. Now he's selling his Tarzana house.
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"Who's the Boss?" star Tony Danza may have learned that it wasn't him in this real estate market.
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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.
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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.
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Pssst . . . hey, buddy, what do you have on the 50-yard line?
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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.
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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.
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Aykroyd and wife Donna Dixon pay $14.5 million for their new home. And the pool -- ooh la la!
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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.
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"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.
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How do billionaires play?
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The singer is selling the Carbon Canyon house he just bought in February.
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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.
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The actor pays nearly $2.6 million for a home with a Balinese tree house feel.
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The former U.S. secretary of State and his wife will move to a Century City condo.
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.
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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.
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.
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Kate Clarke is asking $724,000 for the home.
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The Rancho Monte Alegre project has roots in historic Carpinteria ranchland.
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Oscar-winning actress Nicole Kidman has come back to Brentwood, where she lived for years before splitting with Tom Cruise in 2001.
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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.
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The 'Spider-Man' star acquires an acre-sized lot -- tear-down already accomplished -- for his family's future home.
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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.
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.
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Entertainment figures Michael Manheim and Janus Cercone developed the Brentwood home that went to the late-night host.
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Moving farther from Melrose?
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Meeting the parents is one thing, finding a buyer is quite another.
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On the market last year for nearly $1.4 million, it's back -- at a discount
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This is one of those celebrity deals that practically requires a score card.
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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.
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Pete Sampras and his wife, actress Bridgette Wilson, have put their Beverly Hills home on the market for
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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.
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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.
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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.
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When lean times come to the housing market, even the rich and famous can feel the pinch.
If all you want for Christmas is a home once owned by a celebrity, you're in luck. There are several on the market.
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Actor and racing enthusiast Frankie Muniz lists a Sunset Strip-area home for sale.
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There was a time when Manhattan Beach residents would have said there was no life east of Sepulveda Boulevard.
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On a bad-hair day in Hollywood, it's Rachel Zoe to the rescue.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Loni Anderson is the latest person in the entertainment industry to discover Jon Goldstein.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Actor John O'Hurley may soon be dancing with the stars in another ZIP Code.
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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.
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The Great One has morphed into the Grape One, according to the headlines in Canadian papers.
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Paris Hilton has a new home, and it's behind gates, not bars.
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.
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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.
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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.
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The actor and her husband Courtney B. Vance seek a place with good public schools.
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Frank and Jamie McCourt buy the Malibu beachfront home of Courteney Cox and David Arquette.
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Never one to miss a beat, hip-hop mogul Damon Dash has sold his Benedict Canyon home of five years for $3.6 million.
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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.
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The former pop star, who recently appeared on 'Dancing With the Stars,' sells his home in Venice.
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"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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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.
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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.
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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."
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The supermodel sells her home in the Hollywood Hills for $4 million and nests in the East.
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For Jeffrey Bezos, the brains behind Amazon.com, 1994 was a very good year.
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While Canadian-born superstar Avril Lavigne was recording the chorus of her latest hit, "Girlfriend," she also was talking L.A. real estate.
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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.