From Big Screen to Bigger Ranch
KELLY LeBROCK and her husband, STEVEN SEAGAL, who appear together in the action film “Hard to Kill,” just added 100 acres to an 80-acre ranch they bought earlier this year in the Santa Ynez Valley, about 30 miles north of Santa Barbara.
LeBrock, who starred in the movie “Woman in Red” and was also in “Weird Science,” was a model for Vogue magazine when she met Seagal, a martial arts wizard, in Tokyo. He later became an actor and won acclaim for his role in the film “Above the Law.” His latest movie, “Marked for Death,” opened in October.
The couple had a home in the Hollywood Hills before buying the ranch, near singer Michael Jackson’s, in February. They closed escrow a few days ago on the additional acreage.
They paid $2.85 million for the 80-acre ranch, which includes a 6,000-square-foot-plus ranch-style house with a pool, under spreading oak trees. The property also has barns, staff quarters and a guest house.
They paid $1.75 million for the contiguous, 100-acre parcel, 50 acres of which have been leased and planted in grapes by Firestone Vineyard. Brooks Firestone and his family lived on the ranch for six years before moving to a 2,300-acre cattle ranch.
“I talked to him (Seagal) a lot about how to farm his grapes, but after I saw him in ‘Hard to Kill,’ I started calling him ‘sir,’ ” Firestone said with a chuckle. “He reportedly has a black belt in karate and is a big guy; he has everybody’s respect up here.”
W. “T” Hayer of Coldwell Banker Western Properties in Solvang had the listing, and Ruth Nigg of Prudential California, Thousand Oaks, and Marilyn Jones of Prudential Rodeo Realty, Beverly Hills, represented the buyers.
SAMMY DAVIS JR.’s Beverly Hills estate, with a circular drive and a fountain, has been put on the market, in probate proceedings, at $4.25 million.
The entertainer, who died in the home last May, had owned the 1.25-acre property since the early ‘70s.
The gated estate has about seven bedrooms in the two-story, 10,900-square-foot main house, which also has a media room, a pool room, guest and children’s wings and a master suite with its own living room and office.
There is also a pool house on the property, with two bedrooms and three baths, and a separate structure that Davis called his “gourmet kitchen,” with a kitchen and dining room.
“He was a gourmet cook,” said Elaine Hunt, who has the listing with Spinello Realty in Malibu.
The house has been remodeled since it was built in 1938. “And it has very large rooms, but they could use some modernizing,” Hunt said.
Actress HEATHER LOCKLEAR and her husband, Motley Crue drummer TOMMY LEE, have sold their five-bedroom house in Woodland Hills, with a 23-foot-long recording studio in the attic, to an Encino attorney for about $1.3 million, sources say. They were asking $1,495,000.
Locklear and Lee have moved into a home they were having built, at a cost in the $2-million range, in Westlake Village.
Karen Feinstein of Fred Sands’ Encino office represented the buyers, and Lee Hauser of Sands’ Sherman Oaks East office had the listing.
The house that actress JEAN WALLACE and actor CORNEL WILDE built about 25 years ago in Trousdale Estates has been sold for $1.9 million to Peter A. Pannakker, former owner of an antique gallery on La Cienega Boulevard who also has a home in Honolulu, sources say.
The asking price last July was $2.95 million.
Wilde died about a year ago; Wallace died last February. Her three sons, one by Wilde and two by actor Franchot Tone, were the sellers.
The five-bedroom, 5,000-square-foot house had been listed with Kay Pick of Mike Silverman & Associates. Don Robinson of Jon Douglas Co.’s Sunset Strip office represented the buyer. The agents were unavailable for comment.
A three-bedroom, 4,000-square-foot house on Ocean Front Walk in Venice, which won an architectural award as best residential design this year in Los Angeles, has been listed at $2.4 million.
Designed by Albuquerque architect Antoine Predock, the house was cited in October by the Los Angeles chapter of the American Institute of Architects.
Among its features is a 9-by-13-foot red-framed window, which pivots horizontally and faces the beach, and a 5 1/2-foot tall, 24-foot wide block of black granite, which separates the house from the public walk along the beach 5 feet below. A thin film of water recirculates over the face and sides of the monolith.
Elaine Spierer at Jon Douglas Co.’s Marina Del Rey office has the listing.
Multimillionaire industrialist MESHULAM RIKLIS, husband of entertainer PIA ZADORA, is building a beauty shop, sources say, in an office building along trendy Melrose Avenue.
“We’ve been messed up for two months now,” complained one of the tenants in the building. “They’re tearing out the whole front of the building.”
It will be one of three shops owned by Riklis when it’s completed, sources say, with the others in Atlantic City and Las Vegas.
