‘Fall Guy’ Gives South a Tumble
LEE MAJORS, who stars in an upcoming CBS police show called “The Raven,” has sold his Malibu home of eight years for $4 million.
Majors, who co-starred in the docudrama “Fire” on ABC-TV last February and starred in the TV series “The Six Million Dollar Man” from 1974 to 1978 and “The Fall Guy” from 1981 to 1986, put his house, in Malibu Colony, on the market last May. He had been asking about $4.5 million for it.
“In the spirit of Thanksgiving, he has a lot to be thankful for,” said listing agent Jackie Bright of Mike Silverman & Associates, Beverly Hills. “He’ll start shooting in January on his new series, which will air in March, and he and his wife, Karen, are expecting twins in the spring.”
Majors, 51, bought his Malibu home just after he was divorced from actress Farrah Fawcett. He refurbished the two-story house two years later, turning its 4,000 square feet into what he liked to describe as “Aspen in Malibu.”
“It’s very Early American, real American West, down to its pull-chain toilets,” Bright explained, “and it has a Western-style, distressed wood bar with leather-upholstered bar stools as you enter the house, which looks out at 40 feet of beachfront.”
The home also has a sauna with piped-in music and a window looking out at the ocean; a gym with skylights, two master suites and a separate guest house, which Majors named “Camelot West” in honor of late actor Richard Burton, who appeared in a “Fall Guy” episode.
Elma R. Shoemaker, an heir to a grocery store chain, bought the home as a weekend retreat. Her permanent residence is in Pacific Palisades.
Majors and his wife bought a home in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., as their permanent residence, and he also owns a 100-acre horse farm in Virginia.
Shoemaker was represented by Chuck Barnum of Jon Douglas Co.’s Pacific Palisades office.
JANE FONDA was expected to close escrow after our deadline last week on the sale of her Santa Monica home, which she listed in late October.
The buyer, described as a “behind-the-scenes, entertainment person,” paid “very close” to the $2,695,000 asking price, sources said. “He made an offer the first week her house came on the market, and there were numerous back-up offers,” one elaborated.
The actress-aerobicist had owned the five-bedroom home with a gym since the early ‘80s, when she was married to Assemblyman Tom Hayden (D-Santa Monica).
After becoming engaged to Atlanta-based media mogul Ted Turner, Fonda listed her Santa Monica house and Santa Barbara ranch, which has been reduced from $5.7 million to $4,975,000.
The Santa Monica home had been listed by Sheila and Howard Greenberg, of Fred Sands’ Brentwood office. The seller was represented by JoAnn Brown of Sands’ Beverly Hills Estates office. None of the realtors was available for comment.
LeVAR BURTON, who plays blind pilot Lt. Geordi La Forge in the syndicated series “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” has become a first-time home buyer with his purchase of a 20-year-old house in the hills of Sherman Oaks.
Burton, 34, made his film debut at age 19 when he portrayed rebellious slave Kunta Kinte in the 1977 miniseries “Roots.” He then appeared in “Looking for Mr. Goodbar” in 1977 and “The Hunter,” actor Steve McQueen’s last film, in 1980. Burton is about to produce and direct his first movie, called “Malidoma.”
He paid about $700,000 for the house, which he plans to occupy by Christmas.
He’s adding a large master suite to the 3,000-square-foot home, which has three bedrooms, an office, swimming pool and city view. Joy Hudson of RE/MAX, Beverly Hills, represented Burton in his purchase.
FESS PARKER, who played Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone on film and TV, is opening his newly built wine-tasting room today at his Santa Barbara-area winery.
The room is in one of two main buildings in a 15,000-square-foot plant, expected to be completed next spring at a cost of about $6 million. The winery is on five acres of a 714-acre Santa Ynez Valley ranch owned by Parker and his wife, Marcy.
The Parkers live in a cottage on the ranch and a home in Palm Springs. They also have a 2,500-acre cattle ranch, which they’ve owned for 21 years, near Santa Maria.
CASA LAGUNA, a 20-room Laguna Beach bed ‘n’ breakfast that was built in the ‘30s as part of a private estate for the original owner of the Riverside Mission Inn, has been listed at $2,485,000 with Jeff Hyland of Alvarez, Hyland & Young, Beverly Hills.
“We’re selling it because my partners live near Stanford (University), and I live in Fresno, and we’re just too far away,” said Lee S. Kerr, who bought the property with his partners six years ago.
The Laguna bed ‘n’ breakfast was built as the guest and staff quarters for Mission Inn owner Frank Miller’s beach home.
“And it has the Mission style architecture that was his signature at the Mission Inn,” Kerr said. Casa Laguna has a bell tower, two Spanish style fountains and tiles produced on Santa Catalina Island.
