Prime-Time Stars Head for the Hills
BRIAN ROBBINS, who plays Eric Mardian in the ABC-TV sitcom “Head of the Class,” and HOLLY ROBINSON, who portrays Officer Judy Hoffs in the Fox-TV police series “21 Jump Street,” will have a new house to call home after their planned wedding in June.
The couple, in their early 20s, were expected to start moving furnishings this weekend into the Hollywood Hills house, which they purchased for $1.2 million.
The house was just completed after two years of construction.
Robbins calls it their “Santa Fe castle.” His spokesman, Jeff Ballard, described it as Santa Fe-style architecture, on several levels with a rounded, 20-foot-beam ceiling in the living room.
“It’s like being in the countryside, with all the hills around,” he said.
The home also has a lap pool and room for a basketball court. Robbins might add a small one later, said Ballard, “because he loves basketball.”
Robbins also loves the master suite, said Ballard, because it has his-and-hers baths and two fireplaces. The 4,600-square-foot house has three bedrooms, four baths and five fireplaces.
Robinson and Robbins both have houses elsewhere. Robinson shared her Beverly Hills home with her mother. Robbins owns another in Studio City. “He plans to sell his,” Ballard said. He’s asking $429,000 for it through Marc Levine at Century 21.
McDonald’s chain owner JOAN KROC, who recently built a mansion in Fairbanks Ranch, has sold her 6,500-square-foot La Jolla house for $2.25 million, thanks to a couple of grandmothers who jokingly call themselves the Golden Girls, after the TV sitcom.
The grandmothers, Cynthia Nyblade and Patty Luthy of Century 21 All Service Realtors in El Cajon, represented the buyers, an East County general engineering contractor and his wife. They are Mason and Laurel Pinnick, according to public records.
The property--a four-bedroom, seven bath house on nearly half an acre--was on the market for more than a year when Nyblade and Luthy started showing it. Coldwell Banker was the listing agent.
The house was built in 1981 by Jim Welch, who was once the husband of a San Diego beauty queen named Raquel, who became the famous actress.
BURT REYNOLDS is back in town.
The actor sold his Holmby Hills house of 11 years last August because he and his actress wife, Loni Anderson, were spending most of their time in Florida, but he just signed a lease for a Beverly Hills house.
“He moved full time to Florida, but he’s out here for several months of vacation,” said Stephen Shapiro of Stan Herman & Associates, who handled the lease but wouldn’t divulge its value.
Based on its $4-million listing price and using a formula that monthly rental is equal to three-quarters percent to 1% of value, however, Reynolds is paying $35,000 to $40,000 a month for the house, other industry sources suggested.
FRANK SINATRA’S former bachelor pad is scheduled to go on the auction block March 15 with sealed bids due by 5 p.m.
The house was listed with Mike Glickman Realty last October at $3,495,950 but apparently didn’t sell.
Ol’ Blue Eyes isn’t the current seller; he hasn’t lived there since early 1987.
He built the Paul Williams-designed house in the Beverly Hills Post Office Area in the ‘50s and sold it for about $1 million in February, 1987.
Developer Sheldon Slaten bought it eight months later. He added wall-to-wall and floor-to-ceiling windows, to take advantage of the views, and remodeled the kitchen.
The home still has a separate, 1,800-square-foot theater/guest house, which Sinatra used as a screening room, with a steam room and sauna.
The house also has three bedrooms and 5 1/2 baths. It was originally on the market for $4.5 million, according to the auctioneer, Kennedy-Wilson of Santa Monica.
Nearly 200 brokers and agents from Southern California and New Mexico who are members of the Laguna Beach-based Great Estates Network, an international organization of real estate companies, will visit several Santa Barbara properties Wednesday, including a 32-acre Hope Ranch estate where they will have lunch.
Known as “Few Oaks,” a tongue-in-cheek reference to the 335 oak trees on the property, the estate is listed at $17.9 million with Pitts & Bachmann, which will host a breakfast for the real estate group at the Cabrillo Art Center in Santa Barbara.
Brokers from Santa Fe, N.M., who are members of the Great Estates Network will host the luncheon.
Just in time for the Academy Awards March 26. . . .
Pioneer film exec MARVIN MIRISCH, who recently served as a vice president of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, and his wife, Florence, are expected to be among the first residents to move into the 28-story Blair House.
Blair House is the condo tower that was built on the Wilshire Corridor from the rusting skeleton of an abandoned project that stood there for about eight years.
Goldrich & Kest developed Blair House into 128 units, including four penthouses, priced from $525,000 to $3.5 million.
Among 86 units sold is the 23rd-story, three-bedroom condo purchased by the Mirisches. They paid about $1.4 million.
