Leeza Co-Hosts Move, Remodel

LEEZA GIBBONS, co-host and reporter of Paramount Television’s “Entertainment Tonight,” and her husband, actor Steve Meadows, are doing some remodeling but have settled into their new home in a northwestern part of Hollywood in time for the holidays.

Gibbons, 34, has been on “Entertainment Tonight” for eight years. In addition, she hosts the new syndicated radio shows--”The Leeza Gibbons Entertainment Report” and “Entertainment This Week With Leeza Gibbons.” The radio shows will be taped from her new home once a studio being built there is completed.

Meadows--who played Kathleen Turner’s boyfriend “Boom-Boom” in last summer’s movie “V. I. Warshawski” and a self-absorbed, callous younger man with whom Dyan Cannon falls in love in the 1990 film “The End of Innocence”--is also an architect and is overseeing construction of the studio and other refurbishing.

Gibbons has a 2-year-old daughter and is expecting a baby in February. The family moved from a smaller house in Beverly Hills.

Their new, Mediterranean-style home has nine bedrooms and 6 1/2 baths in three stories and 11,000-plus square feet. The nearly one-acre property is gated and also has a pool and a city view.

Gibbons and Meadows bought their new home for about its $1,995,000 asking price, according to public records. The pair purchased the property from former KCBS General Manager Robert Hyland, who resigned last May.

The house was built in 1924, but Hyland and his wife had totally renovated it after buying it in 1984.

They’re leasing in Tarzana while he is considering several job offers, said Bob Zay, who was the Jon Douglas Co. listing agent for the house that the Hylands sold.

BRIAN DE PALMA, producer/director of the 1990 film “Bonfire of the Vanities” and director of the 1987 movie “The Untouchables” and 1986 film “Wise Guys,” has sold his Hollywood Hills house to Mark Mothersbaugh, co-founder of the New Wave group Devo.

De Palma and his wife, Gale Anne Hurd, recently moved to Northern California. Hurd was executive producer of the 1991 movie “Terminator 2: Judgment Day,” and she also produced “The Abyss” in 1989, “Alien Nation” in 1988 and “Aliens” in 1986.

Hurd had owned a home in Malibu before the couple and their baby relocated.

Mothersbaugh was studying art at Kent State when he met Jerry Casale, and they formed Devo, with Mothersbaugh as the vocalist. Devo scored platinum hits in the ‘80s with “Whip It” and “Girl U Want.”

Since then, Mothersbaugh, who has lived in Los Angeles since 1978, has gone on tour with the group but has also created several albums on his own of computer compositions, and he composes music for films. He also regularly exhibits his original acrylics.

He bought De Palma’s home of five years for close to its $1.5-million asking price, sources said. The home has three bedrooms, a guest house, pool, large lawn and what a realtor described as “a drop-dead city view.”

Jana Jones and Aileen Comora of Alvarez, Hyland & Young had the listing, and Saundra Renard of Rodeo Realty represented the buyer. None was available for comment.

A 4,600-acre, Santa Ynez Valley cattle ranch, between singer Michael Jackson’s ranch and a home owned by actress Bo Derek and her husband, actor/producer/director John Derek, has been reduced from $35 million to $22 million.

The property--which includes a two-building, 8,000-square-foot residence with eight bedrooms; a well and several barns, corrals and natural springs--is owned by a tycoon whose permanent residence is in France. He also owns an island in the South Pacific.

“The owner plans to build a house on another property that he owns nearby, and so he has decided that he doesn’t need the ranch,” said listing broker Mike Silverman of Beverly Hills.

JOHN GLEN--who directed the James Bond films “Licence to Kill,” “The Living Daylights,” “A View to a Kill,” “Octopussy” and “For Your Eyes Only”--and his wife, Jeannie, have put their Century City condo up for lease while they’re in Europe, where he’s directing the movie “Christopher Columbus.”

The two-bedroom unit, in a high-rise with a pool and a spa, is available to lease for six months to a year, fully furnished, at $3,500 a month. Joy Hudson of RE/MAX, Beverly Hills, has the listing.

The Glens bought the unit through Hudson four years ago, and they recently refurnished it.