Robin Finds Nest Near Sunset Strip
Actress ROBIN GIVENS, recently divorced from heavyweight champ Mike Tyson, is buying a home on one of those bird-named streets above the Sunset Strip.
Escrow was due to close, at $1.95 million, after press time last week.
A regular on the weekly TV show “Head of the Class,” Givens owns another house in the hills farther east, near Mulholland Drive, described as “very small.” She’s asking nearly $800,000 for it.
The home she’s buying has three bedrooms and four baths in 4,344 square feet. It has been portrayed as “a great entertainment house, with large interior spaces, good ceiling heights and a pool.”
Listing broker Craig Brown--with Dalton, Brown & Long Realtors--said the house, built in 1965, was “redone very nicely, very elegantly.”
Sellers were Ralph Hughes and his son, Jerome, who own Mantigo Inc., a men’s skin-care line.
They bought a 2-acre estate in the old movie colony area of Palm Springs for just under $1 million, said Brown, who also represented them in that purchase.
The CECIL B. DE MILLE estate, partly owned at one time by Charlie Chaplin, will be toured Thursday by the press as a Design House preview. The public can get a look-see July 15-30 at the showcase, sponsored by the International Society of Interior Designers and the American Cancer Society, San Fernando Valley Unit.
There are actually two houses on the Los Feliz estate. The famous producer moved into his house in 1915, then occupied both houses when his neighbor, the legendary comedian, moved out in 1926. The houses were connected by a 60-foot-long, glass-enclosed loggia designed by architect Julia Morgan, who designed Hearst Castle.
De Mille died in 1959, but the estate was maintained by his family until last September, when it was sold to attorney Terence O’Toole and his wife, Evelyn.
The O’Tooles renovated the De Mille house. (Chaplin’s is actually The Design House.) And now the 2.5-acre, two-house estate is back on the market at $6.75 million, with Carolyn Heitzman and Jeff Hyland at Alvarez, Hyland & Young in Beverly Hills and Jodi Hodges, Dorothy Carter and Jon Aaroe at Jon Douglas Co.’s Los Feliz office.
