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Motley, but the house isn’t

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Times Staff Writer

Motley Crue bassist Nikki Sixx and his wife, former “Baywatch” star Donna D’Errico, finally finished refurbishing their Agoura Hills home of eight years, and now they’ve put it on the market at close to $3 million.

During the last four or five years, D’Errico orchestrated an updating of the 6,000-plus-square-foot house on 40 acres. Remodeling the 1982 house included a complete overhaul of the kitchen.

Between renovation projects, the actress, 38, and her 48-year-old, spiky-haired, glam-rock husband busied themselves in their careers. Then in April, after nine years of marriage, she filed for divorce.

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There is one bright spot: The house looks better than ever. It is one of those ironies in life.

The Spanish-style villa has six bedrooms, 4 1/2 bathrooms, a family room, a formal dining room and a bonus room. The master bedroom suite has a balcony, vaulted ceiling, two walk-in closets, a spa tub, a steam shower and a redwood sauna. One of the other bedrooms was designed as a sound studio. All the closets are cedar-lined.

The kitchen was remodeled in 2002 with granite counters, slate floors, hand-hewn oak cabinets, top-of-the-line appliances, a copper sink and a built-in

cappuccino machine. D’Errico

designed the kitchen, built by Tobe Laughton of Dreamworks Construction. The grounds have a pool, spa, meditation garden, vegetable garden, playground and mountain views. The villa is in a gated community of four homes. Each is on a 40-acre parcel. A river-rock waterfall accents the house’s double-door entry, which is reached by a private drive.

Sixx, a founding member of Motley Crue in 1981, is on a national tour with Aerosmith. “Shout at the Devil” (1983) was one of the band’s early hits. More recently, Motley Crue’s 1984 single “Looks That Kill” was used in the 2003 movie “Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle.” And the band also performed “Kickstart My Heart” for this summer’s “Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby,” a NASCAR parody film starring Will Ferrell.

D’Errico, who played Donna Marco on “Baywatch” and was Playmate of the Month for September 1995, is writing her autobiography. She appears in the upcoming movie “Intervention,” which also features Jennifer Tilly and Andie MacDowell.

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Veronica Aravena and Matthew Schroeder, both of Rodeo Realty in Calabasas, have the listing.

Athlete in training sprints to Venice

Everything is going swimmingly for seven-time Olympic medalist Amanda Beard, who has moved from Tucson to Venice so she can train for the Beijing Olympics in summer 2008.

The 24-year-old, who 10 years ago earned the first of two Olympic gold medals and captured the hearts of fans when she carried a teddy bear to each race, has purchased a Venice home for close to its asking price of $1,045,000.

The house, a contemporary, was built in 1939 and has three bedrooms and one bathroom in 1,021 square feet. The home also has a courtyard, granite counters in the kitchen, a sauna and a Japanese garden.

What it doesn’t have is a pool.

The home Beard owns in Tucson, where she lived while attending the University of Arizona to study retail and consumer sciences, has a pool, a spa and a fire pit. The 3,000-square-foot, Santa Fe-style house on 2 acres is listed at $899,000.

Beard chose Venice because it isn’t far from where she grew up in Orange County, or from USC, where she plans to train for the next Olympics with a former coach. She has competed as a swimmer in three Olympic Games.

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Tami Pardee of Pardee Properties, Re/Max All Cities, represented Beard as the buyer’s agent. The Venice home was listed by Jennifer Gainey and Richard Holbrook of Prudential California, John Aaroe division.

‘I’ll be back’? Not this time

A Pacific Palisades home once owned by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and his wife, Maria Shriver, has come on the market at $26.9 million.

When the state’s first couple bought their current home four years ago in a gated Brentwood community for about $11.9 million, they kept four lots, including three houses on 5 acres, in the Palisades.

They had planned to build a 25,000- to 30,000-square-foot compound in place of the houses but instead eventually sold all of their Palisades properties.

There are two lots totaling 2.5 acres in the current offering, which includes a gated 10,000-square-foot house with seven bedrooms and seven bathrooms, a great room, lawns, a tennis court and a pool. A year-round stream runs through the yard.

The property has an orchard with plum, peach, avocado and orange trees. There are corrals housing potbellied pigs, turkeys and goats, and there is a pond full of koi and ducks. The house has direct access to horse trails and the polo fields of what was Will Rogers’ former home.

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Rodrigo Iglesias of Sotheby’s International Realty, Brentwood, has the listing.

Latest direction: the Sunset Strip

Young Hollywood hits the Hollywood Hills again. Greg Coolidge, 33-year-old director of the Jessica Simpson movie “Employee of the Month,” has purchased a house for the first time. The home, in the Sunset Strip area, sold for about $2 million.

The mid-century house has three bedrooms and three bathrooms in about 2,400 square feet. The single-story home has city and canyon views, walls of glass, walnut floors, and new windows. The house, built in 1954, was extensively remodeled.

Geoffrey Grisham and Robert Risher of Coldwell Banker, Beverly Hills, were the listing agents. The sellers were W. Ryan Johnson and Mark Coston, designers and contractors.

“Employee of the Month,” costarring Dane Cook, is due out this Friday.

Stacy C. Wilson of Elite Realty Network represented Coolidge in buying.

ruth.ryon@latimes.com

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