Hot Property: Jay Tarses sells Pacific Palisades home for $2,817,000

Hot Property

By Ann Brenoff, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
July 3, 2008

Jay Tarses,a self-described Hollywood outsider, has sold his Pacific Palisades home for $2,817,000, according to the MLS.

Tarses, creator and producer of several critically acclaimed shows, including "The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd" and "The Slap Maxwell Story," has fostered the reputation of Hollywood maverick. He is credited with helping shape television by introducing a more serious spin and complex characters to sitcoms. Tarses, in collaboration with Tom Patchett, were the writers-producers for the original "Bob Newhart Show" on CBS in the 1970s.

Tarses is also dad to Jamie Tarses, who headed ABC's entertainment division from 1996 to 1999 -- the first woman to hold such a post at an American broadcast network. The character of Jordan McDeere, the head of a fictional network on the NBC show "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip," was loosely based on Jamie Tarses, who was a consultant to the show.

Jay Tarses was the original owner of the house he sold, built in 1987. The 2,915-square-foot, three-bedroom, 3 1/2 -bathroom house has ocean, coastline and mountain views. It has an updated kitchen and a fireplace in the master suite.

The house was originally listed in January at $3,489,000, and the price was lowered to $2,995,000 before the sale.

The listing agents were John Aberle and Marilyn Convey of Coldwell Banker, Pacific Palisades. Portia Park of that same office represented the buyer.

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