Allen Heads for Palisades Goal
Los Angeles Raiders running back MARCUS ALLEN is getting ready to move into his new Pacific Palisades home, and he has put his Brentwood condo on the market.
Allen, the 1981 Heisman Trophy winner from USC, bought a Pacific Palisades tear-down a year ago for close to its $1.25-million asking price. He razed the house, rebuilt it and is planning to move into it in February.
His new home has three bedrooms plus maid’s quarters in about 5,000 square feet of space.
It is contemporary in style with 25-foot ceilings, lots of glass and a reflecting pool around the house.
He has lived in his current home since 1982. It is a penthouse with two bedrooms and a den in 2,300 square feet of space. The unit is in a three-story building with a pool.
Jody Fine of Fred Sands’ Pacific Palisades office sold Allen his new property and has the listing on his Brentwood condo.
PAIGE RENSE, editor-in-chief of Architectural Digest and Bon Appetit magazines, has put her Montecito home on the market at $1,695,000.
“She’s owned it for about 2 1/2 years and fixed it up herself,” said listing agent Barry Bowen of Pitts & Bachmann, Santa Barbara. Rense also wrote the book “Decorating for Celebrities.”
Her Montecito property includes a five-bedroom, 5,000-square-foot home and a two-bedroom, 1,200-square-foot guest house, all built in the 1940s, on 1.2 acres. A circular drive leads from a swimming pool and cabana to the main house.
“She has several properties,” Bowen said, “and she was thinking of moving into this one but decided against it. She has one on the beach here that she lives in now and one in Santa Fe that she just sold.”
Rense’s beach home was featured last year in Architectural Digest, he added.
MURIEL SLATKIN, a former owner of the Beverly Hills Hotel, has purchased a Wilshire penthouse for $8.5 million, sources say.
Slatkin sold her longtime Beverly Hills home in November to the Sultan of Brunei for $12.5 million in cash.
The 9,000-square-foot penthouse was completed in 1989 and was put on the market at $14 million. The most recent asking price was $9.8 million.
Among its features are a master suite, guest suite and maid’s quarters. The unit also has two elevators, a gym and butler’s pantry.
Probably the most memorable feature is a 12-foot high, black granite urinal in the man’s bath. A gentle sheet of water is electronically activated and flows from the ceiling down the granite face when anyone approaches.
The penthouse covers more than half the top floor and a portion of the roof of the 21-story, 66-unit Wilshire House.
The unit was developed by Steven Dunn and listed by Marilyn Dunn of Rodeo Realty.
The WRIGLEY MANSION in Phoenix, built between 1930 and ’31 for chewing-gum magnate William Wrigley and his family, is on the market at $4 million, including a Steinway player piano and some other original furnishings.
The Wrigleys, who maintained their primary residence in Chicago, also had homes in Pasadena and Santa Catalina Island, which they used for a few weeks each winter.
The Phoenix home, which has 25 rooms in about 20,000 square feet, has interior walls inlaid with hand-painted tiles fired at the Wrigleys’ kiln in Catalina.
The white adobe, trimmed in turquoise, has six bedrooms, eight former bedrooms that have been converted into office/meeting rooms; two kitchens, 11 baths, seven fireplaces, and a 1,040-square-foot multipurpose room that can accommodate up to 150 people.
Since the Wrigley family sold the 6.2-acre property in 1973, the home has traded hands five times and has been used as a conference center and private club as well as a private residence. A bank has owned the property since a trustee sale last July.
The property is listed with Don Arones and Margaret Lloyd of Grubb & Ellis and Sharon Dupont and Marilyn Cummings of Russ Lyon Realty.
Stand-up comedienne/comedy writer ROBERTA KENT, who has appeared in Las Vegas with Barry Manilow and Suzanne Somers, has sold her family home in the Trousdale section of Beverly Hills for close to its asking price of $1,495,000.
Kent will be on a Showtime special in February or March and performs regularly at the Comedy Store.
The buyer viewed the property a couple of weeks ago on a Sunday, opened escrow the next day and closed escrow the third day. The home, which was built in the ‘60s and is a little less than 4,000 square feet in size, has three bedrooms, maid’s quarters, a pool and a mountain view.
Ronna Brand, owner of Brand Realty, had the listing, and Steve Levine of Asher Dann & Associates, represented the buyer.
EDWARD SAYEGH, a prominent voice coach and concert pianist, has purchased a 16th-floor condo in the Park Towers in Glendale.
Sayegh has been vocal coach to many of the leads of “Les Miserables,” “Phantom of the Opera,” “Miss Saigon” and the Berlin, New York, Metropolitan and Los Angeles opera companies.
The condo is a second home for Sayegh, who makes his primary residence in San Francisco.
He paid $259,000 for the two-bedroom, 1,500-square-foot condo in the 180-unit complex. The twin, 18-story towers, which were built in 1984, have two doormen, tennis courts, pool, spas, racquetball courts and a gym.
Phyllis Serra-Harb of Dilbeck Realtors represented Sayegh in his purchase.
