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BARBARA CARRERA, who co-starred with the late Bette Davis in the 1989 movie “Wicked Stepmother” and regularly appeared on the CBS series “Dallas” as the vamp Angelica Neros, has put her Bel-Air home of several years on the market to move to Europe, sources said.

Carrera, a former Eileen Ford fashion model, played a villainess in the 1983 James Bond film “Never Say Never Again” and a tycoon in the 1989 movie “Loverboy” with Kirstie Alley and Carrie Fisher.

She also appeared in the 1982-85 TV series “Matt Houston,” the 1981 mini-series “Masada” and the 1978 mini-series “Centennial.” A 1977 issue of Playboy magazine featured her on its cover.

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Carrera, who was born in Managua to an American-born father and a Nicaraguan mother, enrolled at the Sorbonne in 1975 to study painting but instead went to Hollywood. She’s doing a lot of painting now and plans to do more in Europe, sources said.

A year ago, she completely renovated her Bel-Air home, which was built in 1955. She made the house lighter and brighter, with high ceilings for displaying her artwork.

The house has three bedrooms plus maid’s quarters and 4 1/2 baths in about 2,300 square feet. It also has a meditation room, a motor court and a large back yard with a pool and a spa.

“She put in a remote-control device so she can fill her bathtub and turn on her lights and music from miles away,” said Elaine Young, who has the $1,695,000 listing with Alvarez, Hyland & Young, Beverly Hills.

The home is behind lush foliage on a quiet cul-de-sac in upper Bel-Air.

Restaurateur WOLFGANG PUCK and his wife, Barbara Lazaroff, have leased a beach home in Malibu for several months at a total value of nearly $3 million, sources say.

They rented the house to be close to their newest restaurant, Granita, which opened in early September just steps from the Malibu Colony.

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Lazaroff designed the interiors, as she has at their other restaurants: Spago on Sunset Strip, Chinois on Main Street in Santa Monica and Eureka on Bundy Drive in West L.A.

Their new, 3,500-square-foot home, fronting the ocean in a secluded beach cove, is about a year old and was formerly occupied by Cher, who bought a newer house nearby.

Amy Young of Spinello Realty listed the property leased byPuck and Lazaroff, but Young was unavailable for comment.

Actress MARCY WALKER, who played Eden Capwell on the daytime drama “Santa Barbara” for the past eight years, has purchased a home in Studio City for close to its $799,000 listing price.

Walker, who also played Liz Colby in “All My Children,” left the “Santa Barbara” cast in July and is now starring in Steven J. Cannell’s new crime-and-action series “Palace Guard,” which airs on CBS Fridays at 10 p.m.

Walker’s new home has two bedroom suites in about 2,700 square feet. The house was built in the ‘30s but was gutted and rebuilt last year. Now it’s light and airy, featuring bleached hardwood floors and many windows, all behind gates.

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Delila Bottoms of Coldwell Banker’s Sherman Oaks East office handled the purchase for Walker and represented her in selling her previous residence in Studio City.

Actor/writer JOE BOLOGNA and his actress/writer wife, Renee Taylor, are trying to lease out their Beverly Hills home while they spend the next several months in a house in Vermont, where they plan to work together on a writing project. They also own a home in New Jersey.

The couple has collaborated for years on such projects as the Broadway play and screen version of “Lovers and Other Strangers,” a collection of one-acts due to open at the newly refurbished Ivar Theatre in Hollywood this winter.

Bologna most recently played a Mafia thug in the ABC movie “An Inconvenient Woman,” which aired in May.

Their Tudor-style, Beverly Hills home has four bedrooms, an office and maid’s quarters in 4,349 square feet. The property also has a koi pond, pool, spa, cabana, motor court and gardens.

The house was built in 1926, and they have owned it since 1974. Michele Orgel of Prudential Rodeo Realty has the listing at $7,400 a month.

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JOE LEEWAY, one of the founders and members of the British pop group the Thompson Twins, and his wife, Robin, are moving to San Francisco and have put their house in the Walnut Acres area of Woodland Hills on the market.

The Thompson Twins, the British trio that had seven Top 20 singles in the United States in the ‘80s, is probably best known for their hits “Hold Me Now” in 1984 and “Lay Your Hands on Me” in 1985. Leeway left the band in 1986 and is now forming a new group, the Oblivion Seekers.

His Woodland Hills house has three bedrooms and two baths in about 2,000 square feet. It’s Hansel-and-Gretel in style and also has a built-in sound system, a hot tub and electric gates.

Heather Simms in Fred Sands’ Woodland Hills office has the $449,000 listing.

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