Sheen Takes a Shine to Malibu
Actor CHARLIE SHEEN has settled into his new home in the hills above Malibu.
Sheen stars as a disgraced flier who gets a second chance to be one of the best-of-the-best flyboys in the just-released “Hot Shots,” a spoof of the movie “Top Gun.”
He also co-starred in “Platoon,” “Wall Street,” “Major League,” “The Rookie” and “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.” He has appeared in more than 20 films since making his TV acting debut at age 9 in the CBS feature “The Execution of Private Slovik,” starring his father, actor Martin Sheen.
Charlie Sheen bought his new home two years ago for $1.2 million. He put $2 million into renovations, which took two years to complete.
The house, which he describes as Post-Modern in style, has two bedrooms in 6,800 square feet. It has only two bedrooms “because he didn’t want to sacrifice the ideas he had for his other rooms,” he said through his spokesman, Jeff Ballard.
The home--which has game and TV rooms and a gym--has a fire-station pole between the second and first floors. There is a batting cage, swimming pool, spa, grotto, two saunas and waterfalls on the three-acre property.
Sheen also owns an airport hangar, where he stores his collection of more than 20 muscle and vintage cars, and a two-bedroom, beachfront condo in Malibu, which he has owned for four years. He intends to keep the condo.
“He decided to stay in Malibu because he likes the secluded feeling of the community, though he’s not a big fan of the ocean,” Ballard said.
Sheen, 25, was born in New York City but grew up and went to school in Malibu. His parents and brother, actor Emilio Estevez, also live in Malibu.
The Beverly Hills home of silent screen star CHARLIE CHAPLIN, which was built for him in 1922 by his own studio and used until he moved to Switzerland about 1950, has been listed at $5 million.
The Mediterranean-style estate--with four bedrooms and three maid’s rooms in about 11,000 square feet--is now owned by the Republic of the Philippines, which took title in April.
“We filed a litigation case against (the late former Philippines President) Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos to recover all of the assets they allegedly stole from the government, and one of the properties was this one, which they bought (in the early 1980s) under the name of (actor) George Hamilton,” said Mike Alejandrino, a local representative of a Philippines government commission.
“When the Marcoses were taken out of power, they claimed that their properties were in foreclosure and that George Hamilton didn’t own this one anymore, so we had to go after the corporations that claimed to own it, and those corporations were owned by (former Saudi arms dealer) Adnan Khashoggi.”
To settle a Los Angeles civil lawsuit against him, Khashoggi agreed to turn over any properties that were in his name but were actually owned by the Marcoses.
The Beverly Hills house turned out to be the only such property, the spokesman said, and Khashoggi quit-claimed it to the Philippines government.
Terry de Sousa at Coldwell Banker has the listing.
Singer/entertainer CHARO just leased her eight-bedroom, Beverly Hills home to a European family at $14,000 a month for at least six months, say sources not involved in the deal.
The Spanish-style, gated estate, which is 13,000 square feet in size, had been for lease through Natalie Janger at Mike Silverman & Associates.
Charo has owned the home since she bought it about 1970 when she was married to the late bandleader Xavier Cugat, whose paintings still hang in the Beverly Hills house.
Charo lives near Hanalei, Kauai, Hawaii, where she also has a restaurant.
PATTE BARHAM BOYNE--author of the just-published “Peasant to Palace, Rasputin’s Cookbook” and daughter of the late Dr. Frank F. Barham, longtime publisher of the Los Angeles Herald-Express, forerunner of the now-defunct Los Angeles Herald-Examiner--has put 5,000 acres that she owns in Santa Barbara County on the market at $80 million.
The property is suitable for vineyards and grazing but also includes oil leases. John Bruce Nelson & Associates, Beverly Hills, has the listing.
Composer IGOR STRAVINSKY’S Hollywood home of about 25 years has come on the market at nearly $1.7 million.
Stravinsky, who died in 1971 at the age of 88, wrote “The Firebird” and “The Rite of Spring” ballets and the opera-oratorio “Oedipus Rex.”
His friend, retired LAPD detective Harvey Kossack, has owned the three-bedroom, three-bath home, just north of the Sunset Strip, for the past 25 years.
Kossack has maintained the rose garden that Stravinsky meticulously tended and is including Stravinsky’s wicker patio furniture and credenza in the purchase price.
“When Stravinsky lived in the house, there was a door that famous actors of the time signed when they came to visit, but Stravinsky’s maid decided to clean the door one day and wiped away all of those autographs,” said Rob Novinger, who has the listing with Rodeo Realty’s Sunset Strip office.
Kossack decided to sell the house because he and his wife are relocating to Hawaii.
