A ‘Young Gun’ Hits the Beach
Actor EMILIO ESTEVEZ, son of activist actor Martin Sheen and brother of actor Charlie Sheen, has become a first-time homebuyer with his $2.2-million purchase of a newly built house near his parents’ home in Malibu.
Estevez, 28, appeared in the western movie “Young Guns” and “Young Guns 2,” and he wrote and directed the comedy “Men at Work,” in which he also co-starred with his brother.
Estevez is in Atlanta, filming the movie “Freejack,” co-starring Rolling Stones singer Mick Jagger in his first film role in 20 years. Estevez plays a young race car driver who is in a crash and wakes up 20 years in the future, where he meets a bounty hunter, played by Jagger.
The house that Estevez, a bachelor, bought has four bedrooms and 4 1/2 baths in about 4,000 square feet, designed to be Santa Fe in style. It also has a spa, fireplace and what was described as “a great roof deck.”
The home faces the ocean and has about 45 feet of beachfront in a secluded area of Broad Beach, a door away from a house that Estevez was renting, sources say.
His new home is one of seven custom residences being built on property formerly owned by guitarist Neil Young, who played with Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young before forming Neil Young & Crazy Horse. Construction is being completed on five of the houses and has just started on the other two.
Estevez, who was the first to buy one of the seven houses, was beginning to move in when he had to go on location, a source said. The actor negotiated to buy his property two years ago, “so he got a good price,” the source added.
The remaining houses are on the market from $2.5 million to $8 million, and one of these, which is next door to Estevez’s, has just been leased for the summer at $30,000 a month.
The seven homes are a project of Stuart Miller Development, a client of Robert Rubenstein of Malibu Realty. Neither the builder nor the realtor was available for comment.
MICHAEL CHOW--of Mr. Chow’s restaurants in Beverly Hills, Paris, London, Hong Kong and Kyoto--and his girlfriend, high-fashion designer EVA CHUN, have purchased a Holmby Hills home for $3.5 million, which they plan to tear down.
Built in 1948, the one-story house on 1.1 acres of land has four bedrooms and 5 1/2 baths in 7,000 square feet.
“They plan to build a big house,” said Steve Levine of Asher Dann & Associates, who represented the buyers. Zizi Pak of Prudential Rodeo Realty had the listing.
Chow, who designed the Armani boutique on Rodeo Drive, is designing the home to be a 12,000-square-foot French chateau with a slate roof and a limestone facade, Levine said. “They’re off to Europe to finalize the design,” he added.
Both Chow and Chun have homes in Beverly Hills.
Actress JANE SEYMOUR, who starred in last year’s CBS movie “Angel of Death” and co-starred in the 1989 ABC mini-series “War and Remembrance,” and her husband, David Flynn, have separated and put their primary U.S. residence, in Santa Barbara, on the market at $6.2 million.
Built in the early ‘20s, the main house has three bedrooms and three baths plus maid’s quarters in about 5,000 square feet.
There are three guest cottages on the 3.5-acre estate, which is zoned for horses and has a tennis court that was once a stable. The gated property also has two creeks, rolling lawns and a motor court.
The couple also have at least two properties in the Beverly Hills area that will come on the market in the next few months as Flynn completes construction on them.
One will be listed at about $3.2 million; the other probably will be priced in the $6-million range. Seymour is expected to keep one of their homes in England, her native country. Jana Jones of Alvarez, Hyland & Young has the listings.
A Beverly Hills-area property, owned by a succession of celebrities before the house on it was razed and replaced by a new one, has been listed at $39 million.
The two-acre site, up a winding road behind the Beverly Hills Hotel, was owned by silent-screen star JOHN GILBERT, then movie actress MIRIAM HOPKINS, followed by film producer DAVID O. SELZNICK and his then-wife, JENNIFER JONES, and finally, singer ELTON JOHN.
John sold the 1920s Mediterranean in 1981 to businessman Mark Slotkin, who planned to remodel it but tore it down because of structural problems. Slotkin just completed a 28,000-square-foot French chateau in its place.
The new house has five bedroom suites with carpets, wallpaper and ceiling decorations patterned after carpets in some 18th-Century chateaux in France; an 8x8-foot glass-block shower in the master bath and a playroom with a coffered ceiling of leather and gold trim.
The home also has a huge marble entry, large beveled and stained glass windows, balconies with panoramic city-to-ocean views and a sweeping staircase of solid bronze and walnut against an upholstered wall.
“It cost $400,000 just for the railing,” said Bruce Nelson, who has the listing at his John Bruce Nelson & Associates’ Beverly Hills office.
