Los Feliz Home Is Winfield Verdict
PAUL WINFIELD, who co-stars as a charming and crafty judge in the upcoming Warner Bros. movie “Presumed Innocent,” starring Harrison Ford and based on the best-selling murder-mystery, has purchased a home in the Los Feliz area of Los Angeles.
The gated, contemporary-style home was built about 12 years ago, and has three bedrooms and 3 1/2 baths in about 3,000 square feet, including a guest cottage. The interiors were described as “open and dramatic in a Spanish style, using tile and stucco.”
There is also a lap pool, which Winfield plans to enlarge, and mature cacti on the nearly 1-acre site, which has “views of Century City and, on a clear day, the ocean,” said a spokesman for Fred Sands Realtors.
The property was listed at just over $1 million with Gary Bergevin in the firm’s Los Feliz office and sold, another real estate source said, for $945,000.
Winfield moved from the Westside, where he was living in a condo, “because he wanted a house, and he wanted to be closer to the studios,” the Sands spokesman explained.
The neighborhood, near Ferndale Park, is popular with people who work in the film industry because of its proximity to the studios, she added, listing Pee Wee Herman, Diane Keaton and Tim Curry as other celebrity residents.
Winfield has appeared in dozens of films, including “Sounder” and “Star Trek II--The Wrath of Khan,” and he played Dr. Martin Luther King in an NBC-TV movie about the slain civil rights leader.
Actor JOSEPH COTTEN and his wife of 30 years, actress PATRICIA MEDINA, have put their Palm Springs home on the market. The residence has been a second home for the couple for several years.
Their main residence, a luxury condo, is in the Los Angeles area, where they plan to spend more time to be closer to Cotten’s doctors and friends, sources say. The 85-year-old actor had his voice box removed in January due to cancer, according to Daily Variety.
Known as “White Gables,” the Palm Springs home is a Spanish-style, walled and gated estate on about an acre with a pool. The nearly 50-year-old house has four bedrooms and five baths in about 4,000 square feet.
Cotten has used the house and its grounds, on a hillside overlooking Palm Springs, as a place to create some of his wood and metal sculptures, for which he has also become known.
The home, a few houses away from Mayor Sonny Bono’s and author Herman Wouk’s residences, is listed at $695,000 with Katrina Heinrich and Karen Aguilar at West World Properties in Palm Springs.
DANNY SERAPHINE, longtime drummer with the pop group Chicago, and his wife, Teddy, have sold their Westlake Village home for $1,275,000 and are getting ready for Chicago’s U.S. summer tour.
The Seraphines’ gated, 5,100-square-foot English manor-style estate was purchased by a film executive, said Deirdre J. Hollenbeck, who shared the $1,395,000 listing with Lin Paras of the James R. Gary & Co. Ltd.
The home, on nearly an acre overlooking the lake, has a five-bedroom, 4 1/2-bath main house; a swimming pool and pool house, a basketball court and a professional recording studio where it is said that many of Chicago’s hits were inspired.
Auto racer DICK SIMON, who is competing in the Long Beach Grand Prix this weekend, and his wife, Dianne, just moved into their new home at Dana Point.
A 20-year competitor in the Indianapolis 500 when he retired after the ’89 season, he still enters more than a dozen races all over the country each year.
The couple bought a 1,966-square-foot home--with two bedrooms and a den, which was completed a few days before the Long Beach race. The two-story house, in the gated development of Waterford Pointe, was purchased for $600,000 through Coldwell Banker.
The Simons owned a larger home at Capistrano Beach, but with their children grown, they wanted a smaller yet elegant residence where they could entertain race sponsors, they said.
Hockey star BERNIE NICHOLLS, who played with the Los Angeles Kings for about 10 years, but was recently traded to the New York Rangers, has put his Whittier home on the market at $1,575,000.
“Bernie and (his wife) Heather haven’t even been in the home for a year yet,” said John White of Friendly Hills Realty, who has the listing. The house was new when the Nichollses moved there from Hacienda Heights.
“They’re building a house now in Westchester (County) in New York,” White added. Their Whittier home is on a hill with a city view in a community known as Friendly Hills Estates.
The 5,400-square-foot house has four bedrooms, five baths, a wine cellar, pool, spa and what White calls “a sports court,” which is smaller than a regulation tennis court but can be used for paddle tennis, volleyball or basketball.
Actress MAUD ADAMS, probably best known for her title role in the James Bond film “Octopussy,” has bought, refurbished and sold several houses in the past few years in the Beverly Hills area, and now she’s doing another major rehab.
She has gutted a 24-year-old house, with five bedrooms and four baths in about 3,300 square feet, that she bought a few weeks ago for $960,000 from dancer/choreographer Miriam Nelson Meyers. Adams sold a house she remodeled in Benedict Canyon for about $2 million in February.
Leslie Michaels of Asher Dann & Associates represented Adams, and Bruce Kurnik of Re/Max in Beverly Hills represented Meyers.
