Stand-Up Comic, Move-Up Buyer
Comedian LOUIE ANDERSON just sold his two-bedroom, two-bath Hollywood Hills house to a magician from Orange County and plans to move into larger, more expensive quarters, said Anderson’s real estate agent, Brett Lawyer, of Douglas Properties.
“He hasn’t bought another place yet but will trade up considerably, because his career is moving up,” Lawyer elaborated.
Anderson starred with Roseanne Barr in the live “America’s Fun Couple Summer Tour” before appearing in the Eddie Murphy movie “Coming to America” and the new TV program “The Jim Henson Hour” in April. He’s appeared often on the “Tonight Show,” “Late Night With David Letterman” and “The Arsenio Hall Show,” and he recently got a six-show commitment for his own sitcom on NBC.
Anderson bought the two-story, contemporary-style house, built on land owned at one time by actor James Dean, about two years ago and sold it within two weeks of being put on the market for a little under $600,000, Lawyer said.
And, by the way, you can see Lawyer in the HBO film “Behind the Scenes of Lethal Weapon 2” with actor Mel Gibson. Lawyer, who represented Gibson last year in the purchase of a home in Malibu, plays a fellow who is after Gibson to pay his newspaper subscription.
Speaking of MEL GIBSON . . . the $5-million Malibu compound leased by the actor before he purchased his house in March has been leased for the summer by San Francisco entrepreneur, Ron Cowan, owner of KJAZ Radio and developer of a 1,000-acre new town in the Bay Area. The house was listed for rent at $45,000 a month. Cowan is building a 21,000-square-foot main residence for himself on 4 acres at the top of Mt. Tiburon.
The Malibu home, on 2.3 acres, has a tennis court, pool, pool house and several guest homes, with a golf cart to transport the lessee to a house right on the beach. Ronna Brand leased the home to Cowan through her Beverly Hills company.
Sheik Mohammed Al-Fassi’s former Beverly Hills property on Sunset Boulevard is back on the market at $20 million.
Tony Murray--a Frenchman with real estate in Acapulco, Paris and New York--has owned the 3.58-acre parcel since May, when he bought the smaller part of the subdivided land for $6 million. He bought the larger, two-acre part of the parcel in January for about the same amount. The property was subdivided after the sheik’s fire-damaged mansion was bulldozed.
Murray is the fellow who just paid about $5 million for the Beverly Hills home of producer Robert Evans, who was linked last week to the murder in the “Cotton Club” hearing.
Bruce Nelson of Asher Dann & Associates has the Sunset listing.
Comedian LARRY MILLER, who has appeared on “Late Night With David Letterman” and was on “The Tonight Show” three times during the first three months of this year, bought a condo in Los Feliz for a bit more than $500,000. He chose a ninth-floor unit mainly for security, because he is a collector of early California Impressionist paintings.
PETER SCOLARI, who is in the cast of CBS-TV’s “Newhart” and was a co-star of ABC-TV’s “Bosom Buddies,” has purchased a Mediterranean-style home near UCLA.
He and his wife, Deborah, moved from Hollywood Hills to their new home so they could be within walking distance of Westwood Village. They also wanted a smaller neighborhood feeling where they could raise their young children.
The Scolaris bought the two-story home, built about 60 years ago, from husband and wife physicians who had lived there for 22 years. The three-bedroom, three-bath residence plus a maid’s quarters and a pool was sold for close to its $1,095,000 asking price, said industry sources not involved in the sale.
The transaction was handled by Natalie Janger and Jane Lewis of Mike Silverman & Associates, Jeanne Valvo of Fred Sands Estates and Scolari’s business managers, Nigro, Karlin & Segal.
Best-selling novelist DANIELLE STEEL and her shipping magnate husband, John Traina, plan to divide their time more now between their homes in Los Angeles, New York, Napa Valley and, possibly, a new one in San Francisco, where they’ve put their 15-bedroom mansion on the market for $5.5 million. The 18,000-square-foot Pacific Heights home has been a San Francisco landmark since it was built at the turn of the century.
When we said last week that director JOHN LANDIS has practically demolished Rock Hudson’s former Beverly Hills home and is building a 7,000-square-foot- plus mansion in place of the late actor’s 5,000-square-foot hacienda, we didn’t realize that the plus part in the Landis plans is so BIG: The house will be 18,000 square feet in size, we hear now, by the time Landis is finished with it next Easter.
