Dolly Leaves Hills to Go on the Road
DOLLY PARTON has sold her home in the Hollywood Hills.
Escrow closed a few days ago on the three-bedroom house for close to its $2-million asking price, according to public records.
Parton kicked off a 70-city concert tour with Kenny Rogers in late February with a weeklong engagement at the new Mirage Hotel in Las Vegas.
She is expected to find a pied-a-terre in Los Angeles after she returns. Parton has a home in Tennessee, where she lives most of the time, her publicist said.
She bought the 12-year-old house, just off the Sunset Strip, about four years ago.
“She did a large remodel, adding decks and an outdoor living room to take advantage of the fabulous views,” said June Scott of June Scott & Associates, who sold the house to Parton and also represented the actress/singer in the sale. The house also has a den, swimming pool, a gym and big closets.
Parton added quarry tile with a hand-painted floral motif in the entry and expanded the master bath so she could have massage and makeup areas as well as a steam shower, sauna and tub with a spa.
“It was a very personal house to enhance her relaxation, and she liked it so much that at one point, she nearly didn’t sell it,” Scott said.
Parton took it off the market shortly after listing it, but the couple who wound up buying it were persistent, Scott explained. “They called and called, and finally, she agreed.”
Scott would only describe the buyers as “a local couple.” They were represented by June Davies of Scott’s Beverly Hills office.
KIIS-FM radio personality RICK DEES is selling his Tarzana house and building a home in Toluca Lake.
Escrow is expected to close Wednesday on the four-bedroom, three-bath house at $699,000, which was the asking price, sources say. Dress designer Lorrie Kabala was identified as the buyer.
The ranch-style, 33-year-old house was listed with Pat Wesel in Mike Glickman Realty’s Woodland Hills office.
JON PETERS and PIA ZADORA are about to become neighbors at Malibu Colony as well as at Beverly Park Estates, overlooking Beverly Hills, where they live across the street from each other.
The studio chief, who heads Columbia Pictures with Peter Guber, has purchased one of two Colony properties belonging to Zadora and her husband, Meshulam Riklis. Peters paid $3.5 million, public records show.
The entertainer and her husband are getting ready to move into a larger, nearly completed house that they have been building on their other Colony property.
Zadora left many children’s playthings in the home she sold, including a playhouse with a slide, for Peters’ toddler.
The house Peters bought from Zadora is about 6-years-old, said sources not involved in the transaction.
Carol and Matt Rapf of Jim Rapf & Associates handled the deal.
MITCH GAYLORD, 1984 Olympics gold medalist in gymnastics, has put his Bel-Air house on the market at $1,999,000.
Gaylord has owned the contemporary-style home for about a year.
“He’s selling to possibly move to New York to continue his acting career there,” said Joe Coons, who has the listing with Rodeo Realty.
Gaylord starred in the 1986 feature film “American Anthem” and has hosted several TV shows spotlighting young athletes.
His house has four bedrooms, 5 1/2 baths, maid’s quarters, a pool and spa.
JED ALLAN, a star of the daytime NBC-TV soap “Santa Barbara,” and his wife, Toby, have put their house in the Channel Islands area of Oxnard on the market, and they have purchased a beach lot nearby.
They bought the lot for $705,000 at Oxnard Shores, where they plan to build. Oxnard Shores is one of three main beach communities in the Oxnard area. Silver Strand and Hollywood Beach are the others.
The Allans’ house is at Hollywood Beach, and it was one of the first homes built there. Called “Windy Gables” for actor Clark Gable, one of its first occupants, the three-bedroom, 2 1/2-bath house was constructed in 1925 but was recently remodeled.
Hollywood Beach was also a retreat for actor Rudolph Valentino, whose movie “The Sheik” was filmed in the area in 1921. Valentino’s cottage is still there, said Bob Krakover of Pacific Shores Realty, who has the Allans’ $1,345,000 listing.
MILTON BERLE, whose longtime Beverly Hills home closed escrow at about $3 million last week, has leased a condo for himself and bought a co-op for his son, both on the Wilshire Corridor.
The comedian leased the three-bedroom, 2,900-square-foot condo for three years at $7,225 a month, and he purchased the one-bedroom co-op, about two blocks away, for just under $200,000, say sources who did not participate in the deals.
Berle’s condo is on the 10th floor of a high-rise building, and his maid’s quarters are on the ninth floor.
Steven Kowall and Glenn Purdy of Dalton, Brown & Long’s Sunset Strip office represented Berle in the lease and purchase.
EFREM ZIMBALIST JR. has listed the Encino home where he has lived for 35 years, at $3.75 million. The veteran actor is looking for a small ranch in San Ysidro.
His Encino property is slightly under 2 acres and has a lake, koi pond, stream, stables, riding ring, guest house, seven-car garage an a French Normandy-style country house with four bedrooms, 11 baths and 11 fireplaces.
Natalie Janger of Mike Silverman & Associates, Beverly Hills, shares the listing with Bill Gardner, a Montecito broker.
