Place is too small for the troops
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.
Richards, who graduated from “Starship Troopers” to “Drop Dead Gorgeous” before she joined 007 in “The World Is Not Enough,” has listed her 5,188-square-foot house on slightly more than an acre for $3.9 million.
The house has five bedrooms, an office, a gym, equestrian facilities, an outdoor kitchen, a pool and a spa. The home, which has been remodeled, is set on park-like grounds.
Richards, 36, and her two daughters, lived in the home for slightly more than a year before she determined they needed more indoor space. She bought a five-bedroom, 5,600-square-foot house on an acre with a pool for about $4.6 million. That home is also in tony Hidden Hills.
Jacqui Bell at Coldwell Banker, Pacific Palisades, has the listing.
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Ex-Partridge roosts in a loft condo
Danny Bonaduce has had a tough time. And what do the tough do when the going gets tough? They get going.
After his wife, Gretchen, announced plans to divorce the former “Partridge Family” child star after 16 years of marriage, Bonaduce listed his Los Feliz home for sale for $4.5 million and bought himself an $825,000 condo in Hollywood.
The Los Feliz home is a classic, Spanish Andalusian mansion, built in 1926 by architect Harry Hayden Whiteley. It has four bedrooms and five bathrooms in 7,000 square feet. There is a theater, gardens and views to the mountains and ocean.
Gated at the street, the home has a two-story, hand-painted ceiling and a restored entry. The three-story house also has a media room, a gym and a patio.
Bonaduce bought a 2,300-square-foot condo in a newly built, six-unit building in Hollywood. It has two bedrooms and 3 1/2 bathrooms. The development has roof terraces, a game room and a work studio.
Ann Marie Milanese of Show4You Realty in Glendale co-listed the house with independent Realtor Lynne Beavers and represented Bonaduce in buying.
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Another Paris
on the L.A. map
Here comes Paris, but it isn’t Hilton. It’s Paris Barclay, the Emmy-winning director-producer. Barclay, 51, bought a home in Valley Village for close to $1.7 million and sold another in the Hollywood Hills for slightly more than $1.7 million.
Barclay wanted a residence with more space.
His new Valley Village home has five bedrooms and 4 1/2 bathrooms in 5,300 square feet. The house, built in 2006, is a contemporary Mediterranean with a two-story living room, a family room and an office. The Hollywood Hills home he sold has five bedrooms and five bathrooms in about 4,400 square feet. That house, built in 2004, is also Mediterranean in style and has a master-bedroom suite that overlooks a lushly landscaped yard with a pool and a spa.
Barclay won two Emmys for directing episodes of ABC’s “NYPD Blue.” He is co-executive producer and principal director of HBO’s new series “In Treatment,” starring Gabriel Byrne, Blair Underwood and Dianne Wiest. He serves as first vice president of the Directors Guild of America.
Manvel Tabakian and Merry Prestidge of Coldwell Banker, Los Feliz, represented Barclay in buying and selling his homes.
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‘60s hip and it’s close to the Strip
Australian cinematographer Dion Beebe, who won an Oscar for his work on the 2005 movie “Memoirs of a Geisha,” has listed his Hollywood home at close to $1.9 million.
The contemporary-style compound, built in 1960, has a two-bedroom, two-bathroom main house with an open, indoor-outdoor floor plan, floor-to-ceiling windows, large decks and patios, a bright kitchen, a media room and city, canyon and mountain views. There is a one-bedroom guesthouse and a swimming pool.
The one-story home is described as “a hip retreat” in the Hollywood Hills -- quiet but close to the Strip.
Besides “Memoirs of a Geisha,” Beebe worked on the films “Chicago,” “Collateral” and “Miami Vice.”
Sharona Alperin of Sotheby’s International Realty, Sunset, has the listing.
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A key shift for L.A. music exec
Jeffrey Bischoff, founder and president of the music-merchandising company Cinder Block, is putting his traditional-style Los Feliz home on the market at nearly $1.8 million.
The former rock musician is a merchandising and licensing guru to the music world.
Bischoff bought the Los Feliz house because his business is based in Oakland, and he grew weary of staying in hotels when he traveled to L.A. on business; however, he is now selling the house to buy a condo on the Westside and a ranch in Napa Valley.
The home he’s selling has three bedrooms and 3 1/2 bathrooms in 2,500 square feet. The house has a circular driveway, a new roof and air conditioning. It was built in 1949 and is in a neighborhood that’s been favored by music notables including Madonna, Gwen Stefani and Michael Feinstein.
Michael Tunick of Sotheby’s International Realty, Sunset, has the listing.
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