Lowe-Down on Family’s Move
Actor ROB LOWE and his parents, Barbara and Stephen Wilson, are selling their compound in Malibu, where the family lived until recently.
Lowe’s brother Micah, 18, will leave home in September to attend Santa Barbara City College and their actor brother, Chad, 23, is renting in the Hollywood Hills.
Chad Lowe appeared in this year’s ABC mini-series “An Inconvenient Woman” and starred in the 1990 film “Nobody’s Perfect” and CBS movie “So Proudly We Hail.”
Rob Lowe, 27, bought a house in the Hollywood Hills, where he moved after completely remodeling it. He stars in an ABC movie, “Season of Fear,” to air this fall; hosted a “Saturday Night Live” segment last year, and has starred in such films as “Bad Influence,” “The Outsiders,” “Oxford Blues” and “St. Elmo’s Fire.”
“After his success in ‘St. Elmo’s Fire’ (in 1985), he built his own house, a studio, on the Malibu property,” said Carol Rapf, who shares the $1,995,000 listing with her son, Matt Rapf, at Jim Rapf & Associates. The studio is now used as a guest house.
There are two other cottages on the gated, 1.12-acre site: a library-office and the main dwelling, built in 1957, with three bedrooms and a family room.
The living quarters, which total about 2,100 square feet, are nestled in a grove of eucalyptus trees, with beach access but no ocean views.
The family purchased the home in 1987 but lived in Malibu for 15 years. Before that, they lived in Colorado.
“The boys grew up and attended school in Malibu,” Carol Rapf said. Rob and Chad Lowe developed an interest in making movies about the same time as their boyhood pals and Malibu neighbors, actors Emilio Estevez, Charlie Sheen and Sean Penn.
“They all grew up making home movies and surfing,” Rapf said.
Their brothers’ mother, a writer who is working on a book about dreams, and stepfather, a psychiatrist, plan to relocate to a smaller residence.
Comedian W. C. FIELDS’s Toluca Lake home during the ‘30s and ‘40s has been sold to Peter W. Casey, producer/writer of the NBC sitcom “Wings,” and his writer wife, Rosemary.
The 1.2-acre property--with two boat docks and 300 feet of lake front--closed escrow last week at $2.9 million. Asking price was $3.5 million. The Caseys plan to tear down the four-bedroom, 3,400-square-foot house, which was built in 1925.
“When W. C. Fields lived there, he’d take a boat across the lake to the Lakeside Country Club, have a few drinks, then go back to his house and sit there, shooting the ducks,” said listing agent Jack Sammons of Fred Sands’ Sherman Oaks office. Fields died in 1946.
The property was sold by attorney Jon T. Green, whose father, attorney Herschel B. Green, lived in the house after Fields.
The elder Green, who died in 1988, helped to form Toluca Lake and represented such Hollywood personalities as Jack Benny, Mae West, Charlie Chaplin and Howard Hughes. Herschel Green negotiated the first hangar lease for the Spruce Goose, sources said.
The Caseys will continue to live in their existing West Valley residence until their new home is completed on the Toluca Lake site.
A Hollywood Hills house built in the early 1940s by the late director VINCENTE MINNELLI for his then-wife, actress Judy Garland, has come on the market at $1,895,000.
The five-bedroom, 5,500-square-foot house--with a pool, projection room and guest house--is where the couple lived when their daughter, actress-singer Liza Minnelli, was born.
Minnelli lived there about 15 years, and later residents included such celebs as Sean Connery, Robert Culp and Sammy Davis Jr., sources said.
The present owner, John Cestare, acquired it in 1975. Cestare, an ex-talk-show host on cable television and Hollywood agent, is relocating to Palm Springs, according to listing agent Gila Yashari at Asher Dann & Associates.
Actress REGINA KRUEGER, who co-starred as Sgt. Clancy on the ABC’s recently canceled “Father Dowling Mysteries” and will star as pioneer movie maker Alice Guy Blanche in a feature movie to be filmed this fall, has purchased her first home. It’s a Victorian style in Colorado, just west of Denver and north of Aspen.
Krueger, who is 30-something and also maintains an apartment in the Los Feliz area, paid about $350,000 for the 3,500-square-foot house, built in 1881, on 7.5 acres.
“It needs work, so I’m putting about $150,000 into it, and I’m turning a big barn on the property into a sound studio,” said the actress, who formed a company a few months ago to produce and direct a syndicated comedy radio show called “On the Air,” based on the Golden Age of Radio.
A Sunset Strip-area condo once owned by the late actor/producer JACK WEBB (of “Dragnet” fame) and later by record mogul David Geffen has been listed at $1,395,000, including furnishings and $40,000 stereo system, with Jeff Hyland of Alvarez, Hyland & Young, Beverly Hills.
The one-bedroom, 2,000-square-foot-plus pied-a-terre was created by combining two units in the 26-year-old Sierra Towers. The view-oriented condo, with a 40-foot-long balcony, is on the 26th and 27th floors of the 32-story building.
GARY A. ADELSON, a producer of the Steven Seagal film “Hard to Kill” and son of Los Angeles businessman and former Lorimar Telepictures Chairman Merv Adelson (estranged husband of TV interviewer Barbara Walters), has sold a lot in Brentwood for nearly $2 million. The asking price was about $2.4 million.
Janet Factor at Prudential California Realty handled the transaction but was unavailable for comment.
