‘Dr.’ Thicke’s Rx for Dream
Actor/TV show host ALAN THICKE, who plays psychiatrist Dr. Jason Seaver in the long-running ABC sitcom “Growing Pains,” has purchased a $3.5-million-plus lot in a gated community overlooking Beverly Hills, and he plans to build his dream house there, sources say.
Thicke is in Vancouver, British Columbia, making the Disney TV movie “Still Not Quite Human.” Earlier this year, he hosted the TV special “The Walt Disney World Happy Easter Parade” and appeared in “Voices That Care” and “Welcome Home America,” TV tributes to U.S. troops serving in the Persian Gulf War.
The five-bedroom, 10,000-square-foot home will feature a music studio/rehearsal room, disco and state-of-the-art media room, sources said.
He’s also having a soccer field designed for a corner of his lot. The main house will be reached at the end of a long driveway.
Thicke’s property is in the 225-acre Beverly Park, a private enclave with a four-acre park, jogging track and waterfall between Coldwater and Benedict canyons.
Among the well-known people who own property there are Lakers star Magic Johnson, actress-singer Pia Zadora, producers Jon Peters and Alan Ladd Jr., industrialist Lord Gordon White, Warner Bros. executive Michael Solomon, drummer Alex Van Halen and producers Richard and Lili Zanuck.
The Zanucks were the last to move into the 16-home community in the southern part Beverly Park. They are living in their guest quarters while completing their main house. The couple produced “Driving Miss Daisy,” and he is producing while she is directing the upcoming film “Rush.”
Van Halen, who put his Montecito retreat on the market in June at about $2.1 million, is just due to break ground on a 16,000-square-foot, Mediterranean-style home on 3.66 acres he bought about a year ago in the northern part of the community, where half of the 64 lots have been sold.
Thicke probably won’t start construction for about nine months, sources said.
He lives with his two teen-age sons in a Spanish-style home in Toluca Lake, but he also owns a three-bedroom, French villa just north of the Sunset Strip that he recently remodeled. An investor signed a lease/purchase agreement in June for that property through Cecelia Waeschle of Prudential Rodeo Realty. The villa was listed at $1.85 million.
Margie Oswald and Joyce Rey of Prudential Rodeo Realty represented Thicke in his Beverly Park purchase from Adler Development Group.
Former Laker center KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR has put his Bel-Air home on the market at $4.3 million.
The Mediterranean-style house was built for him in 1985 after an electrical fire two years earlier caused $1.5-million damage to his former home on the 1.5-acre site.
The fire also destroyed his 3,000 jazz albums, collection of expensive prayer rugs and dozens of trophies and other memorabilia.
Jabbar, who has a vacation home on Kauai, is said to be looking to buy a house with a “head-on ocean view.”
His Bel-Air home has four bedrooms and maid’s quarters in about 10,000 square feet. The main house also has 14-foot-high ceilings and extra large, 12-foot-deep stairs, which lead from his bedroom to the kitchen.
There is also a guest house and sports center on the property. The center has a subterranean racquetball court, gym, bar, steam rooms and showers.
Marty Selko built the house, and Ruth and Julian Pregulman of Fred Sands’ Estates office in Beverly Hills have the listing. Neither Selko nor anybody at Sands was available for comment.
MIKE MEDAVOY, chairman of Tri-Star Pictures (“Terminator” and “Judgment Day”), and his wife, Patricia, were expected to move last week, after press time, into their newly built home overlooking the San Fernando Valley.
The stately looking, 7,000-square-foot house is on a cul de sac off Mulholland Drive. The home’s value was estimated at $8 million.
The Medavoys have been renting a Beverly Hills house for the past couple of years while their home was being built. The rental is on the market at $2.6 million.
JOHN VEITCH--co-producer of “Rainbow Drive,” which aired last fall on Showtime, and former Columbia Pictures president--and his wife, Carol Lee, have purchased a Malibu home with 40 feet of beach frontage for $2.5 million, sources say.
The two-story, Mediterranean-style house has three bedrooms plus maid’s quarters in 2,400 square feet.
The couple’s main residence remains in Bel-Air.
September Kimble and Bobbie McCall of Alvarez, Hyland & Young had the listing but couldn’t be reached for comment.
Former Beatles drummer RINGO STARR and his wife, actress Barbara Bach, have hired a top designer and are enlarging and extensively redesigning the Beverly Hills home they bought a few weeks ago.
“They’ll probably be completed with the work in about six months,” said Ray Evans, Jon Douglas Co., the realtor who represented the couple in buying the house. The $3.3-million sale was reported in Hot Property on July 7.
