Nell Leaves Hills for City

Actress/singer NELL CARTER, who played the boisterous housekeeper Nell Harper on the sitcom “Gimme a Break,” has sold her home off Mulholland Drive in the Beverly Hills area to Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash.

Carter starred in the Long Beach Civic Light Opera’s production of “Hello, Dolly!” this fall and won a Tony a few years ago for her role in the production of “Ain’t Misbehavin’ ” at the Aquarius Theater in Hollywood.

She was recently divorced and wanted to move out of the hills and into town, a source said.

Slash, who is going on tour with Guns N’ Roses for a year and plans to lease his new home while he’s gone, bought Carter’s house for close to its asking price of $1,495,000, according to public records.

The gated home, on slightly more than an acre at the end of a long drive, has three bedrooms, maid’s quarters and a large bonus room, all in about 4,000 square feet.

The bonus room has also been described as a media or recreation room. “The whole second floor is a party zone,” a source said.

Completed in 1964 but later remodeled, the house is a glass, post-and-beam contemporary with mountain-to-ocean and canyon views. The home also has a swimming pool and large courtyard.

Slash has been living in a Laurel Canyon house, which he plans to keep, sources say, for his pets: 16 snakes, eight cats and two Rottweilers.

Arleen Ruby of Prudential/Rodeo Realty, Beverly Hills, represented Slash, and Denny Kagasoff, Jon Douglas Co., represented Carter, but neither was available for comment.

Actor ROB LOWE has bought a house off Mulholland Drive for about $1.25 million, sources say.

He’s selling his former home, also in the Hollywood Hills, for nearly $1.15 million. Escrow is due to close in January on that home, a contemporary with about 3,000 square feet that Lowe has owned for about four years.

Lowe and his wife of three months, Sharyl, bought a Cape Cod-style home with four bedrooms, a den and a guest house on slightly more than an acre of land. The main house, which is about 3,500 square feet in size, is undergoing some remodeling.

Marsha Block of Alvarez, Hyland & Young, Beverly Hills, represented the Lowes in their purchase and sale, but she couldn’t be reached for comment.

A Pacific Palisades villa built in 1928 by opera star AMELITA GALLI-CURCI, who died in 1963, has been reduced in price from about $12 million to $9.6 million.

The three-level home has 32 rooms, including seven bedrooms and a staff/guest apartment. The nearly one-acre property also has terraced gardens, a horse stable, spa, swimming pool and aviary with exotic birds.

The seller, a local businessman, has owned the home since 1984, and he restored it in 1988.

The home is listed with Dennis Frusciano and Jody Fine of Fred Sands’ Pacific Palisades office.