Honestly, she loves Malibu

Olivia Newton-John has purchased a Malibu house for nearly $6 million, and the singer-actress has put her other Malibu home, smaller but closer to the beach, on the market at $6.5 million.

The house that Newton-John bought has six bedrooms and seven bathrooms in about 6,500 square feet. The Mediterranean-style estate, on slightly more than an acre, has a pool and a guesthouse.

The home that Newton-John is selling has five bedrooms and five bathrooms in close to 5,000 square feet. The Country English-style house is near the beach and has mountain views. It also has a pool.

The Grammy-winning Newton-John, 56, had more than two dozen pop hits between the early ‘70s and mid-’80s, including “I Honestly Love You” and “Physical.” Born in England and raised in Australia, she made her American film debut costarring with John Travolta in the movie-musical “Grease” (1978).

Newton-John starred in the 1994 CBS movie “A Christmas Romance,” featuring her daughter, Chloe. In 2000, Newton-John co-starred with Beau Bridges in the film “Sordid Lives,” and in 2001, she performed a song for the movie “The Wedding Planner.”

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Dodgers owners add an outfield

Jamie McCourt, vice chairman of the L.A. Dodgers, has purchased a Holmby Hills home for its asking price of $6.5 million, according to public records.

The property is adjacent to the home she and her husband, Frank McCourt, bought in April for about $25 million. He struck a deal a year ago this month to buy the Dodgers from News Corp. for $430 million. Later, he named his wife vice chairman of the team, making her baseball’s highest-ranking female.

She bought a 1.7-acre parcel with a one-story, 8,400-square-foot house, built in the mid-’50s. Added to the 2.6-acre estate the couple bought in April, it is one of the largest parcels in Holmby Hills.

Whether the couple plan to tear down the house she just purchased is not known. The Country French-style home, which needs refurbishing, has three bedrooms, quarters for two maids and a media room. The villa they bought in April has six bedrooms and 10 bathrooms in 20,000 square feet. It was built in 1990 and refurbished in 2000.

The property Jamie McCourt just purchased was owned by the late Jean Perkins Stuart, a former New York model who beat out nearly 280 other candidates to be named “Miss Park Avenue 1939.”

In 1944, she married Frank Freeman Jr., son of a Paramount Studios executive, and they moved to California. A second marriage, in 1954, paired the former model with Reginald Stuart, whose father was president of Carnation Co. and was one of the 20th century’s leading U.S. industrialists.

Reginald and Jean Stuart traveled extensively, acquiring antiques and other items, many of which will be auctioned Oct. 25 and 26 by Bonhams & Butterfields in Los Angeles.

Jean Perkins Stuart died in February.

John A. Woodward IV of Coldwell Banker, Beverly Hills North, represented both sides of the real estate transaction.

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Ex-Lakers star sells Calabasas home

Mitch Richmond, the former L.A. Lakers guard and six-time NBA All-Star named in September as a special assistant in the front office of the Golden State Warriors, and his wife, Juli, have sold their Calabasas home for $3.4 million. The Richmonds are building another house in the same area.

The home they sold has five bedrooms, a game room and theater, a study, an office and a 2,000-square-foot gym in slightly more than 10,000 square feet. The house, which is in a gated community, also features a pool and a spa, as well as pastoral views.

The Richmonds bought the Mediterranean-style home for about $3 million in 2001 -- the year he joined the Lakers -- from football star Keyshawn Johnson, who built the house in 2000.

Mitch Richmond, 39, played as a guard for the Golden State Warriors during three of his 14 years with the NBA.

Richmond was a Los Angeles Laker when the team won the 2002 NBA Championship.

Jordan Cohen of Re/Max Olson Estates Brokerage, Westlake Village, had the listing, and Barbara Alpert of Coldwell Banker, Calabasas, represented the buyers.

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‘Alien’ life in Shadow Hills

Lance Henriksen, who reprised his “Aliens” role as the gruff but sympathetic android named Bishop in this year’s film “Alien vs. Predator,” and his wife, Jane, have listed their Shadow Hills home on 15 acres at $2.75 million. They plan to live closer to the ocean, and they want a new challenge in refurbishing, real estate agents said.

The Henriksens remodeled the Mediterranean-style home they are selling. The house, built in the ‘50s, has three bedrooms and three bathrooms in slightly more than 4,400 square feet.

The kitchen has marble counters and stainless-steel appliances. There is a gated drive and a courtyard entrance. The open floor plan includes three fireplaces and a spiral stairway connecting the main living area to the second-floor master bedroom. There is also a separate studio building on the equestrian-zoned grounds.

Lance Henriksen, 64, is also a ceramist. He is known lately for making tiles with his vision of an alien on them. Earlier in his life, he created ceramic murals in New York.

His life story reads like an action-adventure novel. Henriksen lived in Borneo with relatives when he was a young boy and rode freight cars across the country when he was 12. Later, he joined the crew of a windjammer in the Bahamas. As a young man, he played an extra in a movie in which a stunt double taught him to pilot a plane and advised him to become an actor.

Henriksen has now appeared in films for more than 20 years, playing major roles in the “Alien” series, “Scream” (2000) and “The Terminator” (1984), which also earned him a screenwriting credit. He was a regular on the Fox series “Millennium” (1996-1999) and appeared on such other TV shows as “Tales From the Crypt.”

Diane Madsen and Mark Bua of Coldwell Banker, Studio City, have the listing.

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WeHo woos production guru

Lilly Kilvert, a production designer who worked on “The Last Samurai” (2003), has sold her three-bedroom, 2 1/2 -bathroom Hancock Park house for $1.45 million.

Kilvert, who recently worked on the upcoming film “The Pink Panther,” bought a two-bedroom, two-bathroom loft in West Hollywood for $700,000.

Tim Enright of the Enright Co. represented both sides of Kilvert’s Hancock Park house sale.

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