Actor Finds Place in the Malibu Sun
ROBERT LOGGIA, who starred in the NBC series “Mancuso, FBI” and co-starred in the movie “Big” with Tom Hanks, has purchased a condo in Malibu with his wife, Audrey.
“It’s not their main residence,” said Georgie Bagley, who represented the buyer and seller in the deal, along with David Leanse. Both work out of Jon Douglas Co.’s Malibu office.
The Loggias’ primary home is in Beverly Hills; they bought the Malibu condo, on Broad Beach, as a place to go when he’s not working.
Besides starring in the recently canceled TV series, he has acted in about 50 films, including “Prizzi’s Honor” and “The Trail of the Pink Panther.” He is currently working on the film, “The Marrying Man,” with Kim Basinger and Alec Baldwin.
In the meantime, Audrey Loggia is redecorating and renovating the condo, replacing all the tile with marble and granite, Bagley said.
The townhouse-style condo, has two bedrooms, 2 1/2 baths, a loft, lots of windows, an ocean view, swimming pool, spa and tennis court, “which Bob especially likes,” Bagley said.
The condo is in one of two buildings constructed about six years ago. The complex, which is gated, has 14 units, which were leased and not available for sale until a few months ago. Actress Ally Sheedy was a tenant.
Now all but three of the condos have been sold, at prices from about $560,000 to $625,000, public records show.
Among the other buyers are Brion James, a character actor who appears in “Another 48 Hours” with Eddie Murphy and Nick Nolte and was also in “Blade Runner” and “Tango and Cash,” and his wife, actress Maxine John. Dan Crowder of Fred Sands’ new, west Malibu office had that listing.
Actress JULIE ANDREWS and her husband, director/producer BLAKE EDWARDS, have bought another house in Brentwood. They sold a house there last October, opting then to live full time in Malibu, where they still maintain a residence, sources say.
Their new Brentwood home was purchased through a trust for about $3.3 million, according to public records.
Described as “a storybook traditional,” it’s Cape Cod in style with a white picket fence, gardens, a swimming pool, three bedrooms, 4 1/2 baths and maid’s quarters. The house was built about 30 years ago.
“They sold their (former) Brentwood house because of the noise from San Vincente (Boulevard), but they regretted not having a home in the area, so decided to buy another one,” a source said.
Mystery/horror writer DEAN R. KOONTZ, who has authored more than 50 novels including “The Beastchild” and “The Demon Seed,” has put an Orange County home that he owns on the market at $1,275,000.
Koontz, who lives in the city of Orange, bought the 1.2-acre property in the Cowan Heights area of north Tustin about a year ago and had plans to remodel and expand the existing five-bedroom, 4 1/2-bath house for himself and his wife, Gerda.
“But his plans changed,” said Rina Springett, who has the listing with North Hills Realty, Tustin, an affiliate of Laguna Beach-based Great Estates Inc. “Now he and his wife are planning to live farther south, near the ocean.”
The Tustin property has a swimming pool, shuffleboard court, gazebo and an independent drip system for irrigating a cutting garden, more than 50 trees and a number of potted flowers.
Actor CORNEL WILDE and actress JEAN WALLACE built a contemporary home on a promontory in lower Trousdale Estates in Beverly Hills about 25 years ago that is on the market at $2.95 million.
Wilde, who was involved in more than 50 movies--first as an actor and then as a director, died last October. Wallace, who came to Hollywood in 1940 as an Earl Carroll girl at that showman’s legendary Hollywood nightclub and then starred in several films of the postwar years and beyond, died in February.
Cornel Wallace Wilde, their son, and Pascal and Thomas (Jeff) Tone, her sons by actor Franchot Tone, are selling the house, which has four bedrooms and maid’s quarters in about 5,000 square feet. Kay Pick has the listing at Mike Silverman & Associates, Beverly Hills.
DEBORAH HARMON, who co-starred in the movie “Used Cars” with Kurt Russell and the ABC sitcom “Just the 10 of Us,” has remodeled the Sherman Oaks home that she has owned for 12 years.
“I gave it your basic Beverly Hills face lift,” she said by telephone. “It was changed from a California ranch-style to a Nantucket, New England, look. . . . I redid the pool from a ‘50s, Fort Lauderdale motel look with a fake-looking turquoise bottom, to a pond with a gray bottom, which reminds me of Tahiti, where I honeymooned about a year ago.”
She not only redesigned the exterior but rehabbed every room of the three-bedroom, two-bath, 2,000-square-foot residence. “And I spent about four times as much as I thought I would--more than $100,000,” she said.
She and her husband, financial analyst Bill Blackwell, also own a condo in Palm Desert.
