Elton Rents, but Not for a Song
Pop star ELTON JOHN is vacationing in Los Angeles, and he’s renting a newly built home off of Mulholland Drive at $75,000 for the month, sources say.
John’s latest album release is “To Be Continued,” a five-hour compilation of music from his 25-year career.
John, who lives in London, last vacationed here about a year ago. That time he rented a 7,000-square-foot house off of Benedict Canyon for two months at $50,000 a month.
The home he’s renting now also occupies 7,000 square feet, with five bedrooms and seven baths, behind gates. Though sources described it as “Connecticut farmhouse”-style, with a veranda across the front and a slate roof, English gardens border the rolling lawns.
The house also has a library, gym, swimming pool, fountains and a two-story guest house.
Workers who helped build the home said it has a two-story gourmet kitchen with cupboards all the way to the roof, reachable from a library-type ladder on a horizontal rail.
Jeremy Poole of Fred Sands Estates represented John in the current lease. The property is owned by real estate broker Timothy Enright and interior designer Brian Little, who collaborated on designing and building the home. The principals would not comment on the transaction.
JANE FONDA has nearly completed renovating a house that she bought last summer in Santa Fe for about $600,000.
Fonda bought the house, on 25 acres, before she got engaged to media magnate Ted Turner. It was described as “very small and plain” by sources.
Now the actress-aerobicist may put the property on the market, sources say, because Fonda and Turner are thinking of spending more of their free time in Montana.
Besides property in Atlanta, Turner owns a 131,000-acre ranch in Bozeman, Mont., not far from the spread owned by Fonda’s brother Peter.
Fonda’s main residence has been in Santa Monica.
The Holmby Hills home of the late JEROME OHRBACH, former president of Ohrbach’s department stores, has come on the market at $10.5 million.
Ohrbach, son of Nathan Ohrbach, founder of the stores, died last July at 82.
The house was built in 1932 for actress Barbara Stanwyck and actor Robert Taylor, who sold it to Jerome Ohrbach’s parents.
The 11,261-square-foot home, on 1.3 acres, has his-and-her master suites, three other bedroom suites and a two-bedroom maid’s wing. It also has a theater/party pavilion, bomb shelter, guest cottage, lagoon pool, tennis court and greenhouse.
It has two garages for six cars, a carport for two and a motor court with room for 20.
The property is listed with Joyce Rey and Cecelia Waeschle of Prudential Rodeo Realty.
After building a mansion in Pacific Palisades with the royalties from his bestseller, “The 8-Week Cholesterol Cure,” author ROBERT KOWALSKI, who is now working on “The 8-Week ‘Round the World Cookbook,” and his family decided they preferred their modest home in Venice.
So, after two years of construction, the Palisades estate has been put on the market at $4.4 million.
The English country-style home has five bedrooms in the main house, including a maid’s room and bath in an 800-square-foot basement. There is a sixth bedroom in a two-story guest house. The home also has a billiard room, children’s playroom, swimming pool and spa.
It’s listed with Greta Hunt, Jon Douglas Co., and Claudia DeKoven and Jody Fine, Fred Sands Realtors.
All-star first baseman MARK GRACE of the Chicago Cubs and his wife, model Michelle Messer, who has been studying acting in Los Angeles, have bought a house in Pacific Palisades for about $1.64 million, according to public records.
The newly built, Mediterranean-style house has four bedrooms and a maid’s room in about 7,000 square feet. The exterior is white, as are the interior walls, and Messer is using white in her decorating theme.
The couple also have a three-story townhouse in Chicago.
Linda G. Scott, manager of Prudential Rodeo Realty in Brentwood, represented the Graces.
