Farrah Buys Place for Guests
FARRAH FAWCETT, who plays an anchorwoman for an all-sports network in the CBS sitcom “Good Sports,” has bought a home next door to hers in Bel-Air for her guests and household help, sources say.
Fawcett, who co-stars in the sitcom with her live-in companion Ryan O’Neal, left the 1976 girl-detective TV show “Charlie’s Angels” to take acclaimed roles as a battered husband-killer in TV’s “The Burning Bed” (1984) and a terrorized rape victim in “Extremities,” Off Broadway (1983) and in film (1986).
She was married to actor Lee Majors before linking up with O’Neal, by whom she has a son, born in 1985. Fawcett has owned her Bel-Air residence for several years, buying out Majors’ interest in 1982.
She paid close to the $1.69-million asking price for the house next door, which was about land value, sources said.
The ranch-style house has three bedrooms and two baths in about 2,500 square feet, built an estimated 50 years ago. It sits on 2.4 acres with gardens and sweeping views of the city, ocean and Stone Canyon Reservoir.
Fawcett’s longtime home, next door, is on a 2.8-acre hilltop and has a racquetball court and a wet bar overlooking Los Angeles.
O’Neal owns a house in Malibu. He put much of the money he earned starring in such ‘70s movies as “Love Story” and “Paper Moon” into trailer parks for senior citizens, he was quoted as saying in the February issue of Vanity Fair magazine, which featured him and Fawcett on the cover. In the story, he estimated his real estate holdings at $20 million.
Prudential Rodeo Realty handled both sides of Fawcett’s latest transaction, with Sue Wittner and Nona Horowitz representing the seller and Marge Oswald representing the buyer. None was available for comment.
JANE FONDA has put the Santa Barbara ranch she has owned since 1977 on the market at $5.75 million.
The actress-aerobicist has used the 158-acre complex, known as Laurel Springs Ranch, for a family getaway, children’s camp and health and fitness spa.
The ranch has a 5,300-square-foot lodge with nine bedrooms and four baths; eight houses, ranging from about 515 to 3,400 square feet; an 1,800-square-foot theater; a dance platform; a barn with seven stalls, and a free-standing, 1,400-square-foot gym.
There are hiking and riding trails; a riding ring, baseball diamond, fruit orchard, pond for canoeing, 22-by-42-foot, solar-heated swimming pool and three private wells on the property.
Fonda is selling her ranch because she has spent less and less time there during the past few years, and her children are both grown, sources said. Her son was just graduated from high school, and her daughter is in graduate school in New York.
Fonda is also engaged to marry media mogul Ted Turner, who owns a 131,000-acre rance in Bozeman, Mont. Fonda’s main residence is in Santa Monica.
Her ranch is listed with Lauren Temkin of Coldwell Banker, Santa Barbara.
Basketball player LaSALLE THOMPSON, 29-year-old starting forward with the Indiana Pacers, has closed escrow on a newly built Hollywood Hills home for $1.5 million, sources say.
His new home has three stories and ceilings that are 20 feet tall. Thompson is 6 foot 10.
The home also has four bedrooms and four baths plus maid’s quarters in about 7,000 square feet. There is a swimming pool, spa and cabana on the property.
Thompson also has homes in Indianapolis and Sacramento, where he lived and played ball before being traded to the Pacers. He is originally from Cincinnati.
He bought in Southern California because he likes the weather and the music and restaurant scenes, sources said. He also has friends here.
Ariana Millo of Fred Sands’ Beverly Center office represented Thompson in the deal, and sports attorney Fred Slaughter helped in the negotiations.
JEROME (GERRY) COHEN, director of the Fox TV series “Married With Children,” has purchased a Studio City home built about 30 years ago for the late actress Ann Sheridan.
Cohen paid just under $1 million for the residence, which has three bedrooms and four baths in about 3,500 square feet.
The house has etched glass and arched double doors in the entry; a glass block and stainless-steel fireplace mantel; glass-block wet bar, and a “floating stairway.” The home also has high ceilings, an indoor koi pond, an outdoor swimming pool and views of Universal City.
“In the 14 years I’ve been in Southern California, I’ve lived in eight to 10 places all over the city, and I’m happier here than anywhere,” Cohen, a New York City native, said of his new home, which he terms “Hollywood ultra-contemporary.”
“The previous owners put about $250,000 into re-doing it,” he said.
Peter Bruni and Wes Bales of Elite Properties, Beverly Hills, represented Cohen.
Realtor FRED SANDS, who now owns the all-business radio station KBLA as well as the heavy metal station KNAC, just finished building a new home for himself in Bel-Air.
It’s an 8,000-square-foot contemporary with a sculpture garden and high ceilings to house his art collection. Architect Ted Grenzbach designed it with Darryl Rockefeller as consulting architect and Cindy Sands, Fred’s wife, doing the interiors.
Sands listed his nearby, 1920s Mediterranean-style home with six bedrooms in 8,000 square feet at $5,275,000 with Steve Moore in the Sands Estates division.
