Carson Sidekick to Sell B.H. Home
ED McMAHON, Johnny Carson’s TV sidekick, put his Beverly Hills mansion on the market last week as part of his divorce settlement.
McMahon moved out after filing for divorce last July from Victoria, his wife of 13 years. Since then, he has been renting a nearby home owned by actress LINDA EVANS.
The house the McMahons are selling has six bedrooms, staff quarters, living and dining rooms, a family/projection room and a library--all in slightly more than 10,000 square feet.
It was built on a 30-acre site, which has been subdivided several times. Today it sits on three-quarters of an acre with a swimming pool and what the listing broker describes as “one of the oldest oak trees in town.” Paris Moskopoulos of Paris Realty has the $7.9-million listing.
“The McMahons spent lavishly refurbishing the house,” he said.
Georgian Colonial in style, it was built in the ‘30s for producer DAVID O. SELZNICK and his wife, Irene, daughter of movie mogul LOUIS B. MAYER. “They had tremendous parties up there, including one (in 1939) for the cast of ‘Gone With the Wind,’ ” Moskopoulos said.
Many years after the Selznicks owned the house, it was purchased by real estate tycoon DAVID MURDOCK, who later sold it to producer/department store heir TED FIELD. Field never lived there but sold the house about four years later to the McMahons.
Pop star ELTON JOHN has leased a house in the Beverly Hills Post Office Area while he’s here over the holidays at $50,000 for two months.
The Mediterranean-style house, just off Benedict Canyon, is estimated to be 7,000 square feet in size and has a kitchen on the second floor. The home was built about four years ago.
The singer/songwriter opened escrow on a Bel-Air house in September, but didn’t go through with the sale after he learned of the British tax consequences, an industry source said.
None of the brokers involved in the lease would discuss any of John’s real estate deals, but they are Jeremy Poole of Fred Sands Estates, who represented John, and Joyce Rey of Rodeo Realty and Lauren Irell of the Prudential California Realty, who had the rental listing.
ALAN LADD JR., chairman and CEO of Pathe Entertainment and co-chairman of the firm’s parent company, Pathe Communications, is finally selling the Beverly Hills house he has had on the market since last spring when he bought director IVAN REITMAN’S home.
Ladd’s former 11,770-square-foot residence is in escrow. Asking price was $4.25 million.
Built in 1922, the nine-bedroom, 2 1/2-bath house was extensively remodeled in 1964. Ladd bought it in 1985.
Last May, he bought the 7,177-square-foot Beverly Hills home owned by Reitman, director of “Ghostbusters II,” for $4.5 million.
ALAN THICKE, a star of the prime-time ABC-TV sitcom “Growing Pains” and host of the Saturday morning ABC show “Animal Crack-Ups,” is nearly finished with a rehab of the 55-year-old Toluca Lake house he bought about a year ago.
His main object was to turn a stark, contemporary look into a warm environment, said Melissa Love, who has been working on the house through her Alco West Designs in Pacific Palisades.
Love has been adding wood beams, a 30-foot cathedral ceiling and skylights to the screening room, where she also put a farmhouse hutch she found in France to house the actor’s electronic/audio system. She also has been expanding existing rooms in the rest of the nearly 6,000-square-foot house. The total renovation was estimated to cost more than $300,000.
MICHAEL NADER, who starred in TV’s “Dynasty” as Farnsworth (Dex) Dexter and the ABC movie “Lady Mobster,” has sold a home he owned in Hollywood’s Outpost Estates and bought a hideaway to remodel in Nichols Canyon in the Hollywood Hills.
When he sold his Outpost Estates home, in the $900,000 range, he had planned to move to a ranch he bought recently just north of the San Fernando Valley. Work kept him near town, however, so he purchased the Nichols Canyon house for $700,000. Nader was in New York last week filming a perfume commercial before he starts shooting a Roger Corman movie in which he will star.
Reta Rose and Grace Sielewicz handled the Outpost Estates deal and represented Nader in buying the Nichols Canyon house. Ray Evans of Jon Douglas Co. represented the seller.
COUNT ALBERTO BURRINI, who owns a chain of hotels in Europe, is building a 17,000-square-foot house in Malibu that is a replica of his villa in Siena, Italy.
It will have a pool, lap pool, tennis court, stables and 3,000-square-foot gallery for the count’s contemporary art collection, says Barbara Treiman, who is designing the interiors with her daughter, Laurie Levitt, a partner in Treiman’s Space Innovations Inc.
Treiman was given a budget of $985,000, but she anticipates that decor costs may run higher.
