Feeling overexposed on the Malibu beach
Pamela Anderson, the Playboy Playmate who went on to portray a lifeguard on “Baywatch,” liked the beach so much that in 2000 she rented a home in Malibu for $16,000 a month.
In 2001, she bought a house there. Now she has the itch to move again. She listed her 2,300-square-foot home, in the gated Malibu Colony, at $6.5 million.
Has Anderson lost interest in the beach? Area real estate agents say she just wants more privacy.
The house she’s selling has a large yard and is on what the Multiple Listing Service describes as “the garden side” of Malibu Colony. It is also called “the land side,” because it is in a row of houses behind those facing the ocean.
Anderson’s house has deeded beach access across the street, and so she has more privacy than homeowners whose houses have beachgoers using their beach frontage.
Because of its location, Anderson’s house may not be worth as much as a house on the ocean, but considering that she paid $1.8 million for it, she should get a nice return.
The 1959 house already had been remodeled when Anderson purchased it, but she also did some refurbishing. It has three bedrooms, three bathrooms and a detached office/guest quarters/game room. And the buyer can arrange to purchase the home furnished.
“The living areas are warm and inviting, done with amazing taste,” the MLS reports, describing the interiors as vintage French Country in style with “a dreamy master, having a covered veranda overlooking an extremely private yard.”
Anderson, 38, is divorced with two children. She stars as a bookstore employee in the Fox sitcom “Stacked” (2005), which she also produces. It has been on hiatus and is due to air again June 1.
Andy Lyon at Prudential Malibu Realty has the listing, according to the MLS.
‘Desperate’ for privacy at home
James Denton, who plays mysterious plumber Mike Delfino on the ABC series “Desperate Housewives,” has settled into his new Glendale home, which he purchased for about $1.5 million.
This is the second time that Denton, 43, has bought a home in the area. He wanted more privacy for himself and his family, InStyle magazine has reported.
The house he purchased has four bedrooms and three bathrooms in about 2,600 square feet. On an acre-sized lot at the end of a private drive, the house, behind gates, is secluded while being close to the studios.
The ranch-style house, built in the ‘40s, also has downtown and valley views, mature trees, a treehouse and a 30-foot-long pool.
On ‘Earl’s’ list: settling down
Ethan Suplee’s decision to buy a $2-million house in Studio City is the result of his landing the role of Randy, Jason Lee’s on-screen younger brother in the new NBC sitcom “My Name Is Earl.”
Now that he is a TV regular, Suplee, 29, can spend more time with his wife, Brandy Lewis, and their family at home. Before “Earl,” he spent the last half-decade on location for movie shoots in such places as Romania, New Zealand and Montreal.
His new home belonged to actress Jane Fonda during the Vietnam War years. It was purchased from her more than 30 years ago by Richard Kline, co-producer of such game shows as “Win, Lose or Draw.” Kline raised 14 children there, most of whom he adopted.
With most of the children grown and gone, Kline decided to sell the house, which has seven bedrooms and four bathrooms in 6,000 square feet. The bedrooms can be converted into additional offices, an exercise room or a media room.
Resembling a mountain lodge, the home, built in 1951, has lofts, skylights, pine floors and beamed cathedral ceilings. It also has three fireplaces, a study, a game room and a deck. Next to the main house in the park-like setting of nearly an acre are the guesthouse, gazebo, waterfall and pool.
Pierre Stooss, with Prudential California Realty in Studio City, represented Suplee and his wife in buying.
Bob Hurwitz of Hurwitz-James Co., Beverly Hills, had the listing.
Buying, with help from the family
Timothy Puzo, grandson of “Godfather” novelist and Oscar-winning screenwriter Mario Puzo, has purchased a condo in a Hollywood building filled with homeowners and renters in their 20s and early 30s.
Puzo’s family wanted to buy him a grander home, but he wanted to buy it himself, according to listing agent Janine Jones of Sotheby’s International Realty, Sunset. In the end, she said, his father gave him a hand. The condo sold for $485,000.
The 1,200-square-foot unit has two bedrooms, two bathrooms, double-paned glass windows, a new kitchen, a balcony and a stone fireplace. The building, in the Hollywood Hills north of Franklin Avenue, also has a common pool and sauna.
Writer opts to run for cloud cover
Clay Graham, an executive producer and writer for “The Drew Carey Show” (1995 to 2004), has traded views of the ocean for those of Mt. Hood. The switch came with the sale of his four-bedroom, four-bathroom Pacific Palisades home, which had been listed at just under $4 million.
Graham intends on spending more time at his new, 5,500-square-foot home on nearly an acre in the West Hills area of Portland, Ore. He said he plans to focus on writing movies, and he decided that he doesn’t need to live full-time near Hollywood to do that. Besides, he has a pied-a-terre in the Hollywood Hills.
Of course, his neighbors will be different in Portland. In the Palisades, they included presidents of two TV networks and creators of “Seinfeld” and “The Simpsons.” He doesn’t yet know his Portland neighbors, but his house there was previously owned by Frederick Paulsell, one of the original investors in Costco.
In the plus column for Portland is that Graham’s home is surrounded by forests and hiking trails.
Jennifer Field of Coldwell Banker had the Palisades listing.
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