Ex-’Angel’ Gets Heavenly View

JACLYN SMITH--one of TV’s “Charlie’s Angels” who went on to make about 20 movies or miniseries, including the January NBC movie “In the Arms of a Killer”--has purchased a Bel-Air home for $4.5 million, sources say.

Since portraying detective Kelly Garrett in the 1976-1981 “Charlie’s Angels” series on ABC, Smith played Jackie Kennedy in the 1981 ABC miniseries “Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy;” George Washington’s sweetheart, Sally Fairfax, in the 1984 CBS miniseries “George Washington,” and Florence Nightingale in the 1985 NBC movie “Florence Nightingale.”

In the January film, she starred as a rookie cop who falls for a murder suspect.

She also introduced a successful, modestly priced sportswear collection at K mart last August and has been a spokeswoman for Max Factor. She has been married three times and has a son.

Smith bought a two-story house that was built in 1940, but was later completely remodeled. It has eight bedrooms and 10 1/2 baths in 9,000 square feet.

Originally designed by the late architect Roland Coate, the home is Georgian in style and has a professional gym, two family wings, two maids’ quarters and a library with a marble fireplace.

The home, which has mountain or city views from every room, is on slightly more than two acres and is reached by way of a long, private drive.

Producer/director IVAN REITMAN (“Ghostbusters,” “Ghostbusters II,” “Legal Eagles,” “Twins,” “Kindergarten Cop”) has purchased a six-bedroom tear-down in Beverly Hills for about $7 million, sources say.

The all-cash deal closed escrow in 10 days. The asking price had been $10 million.

The two-acre property, next to rock-star Bruce Springsteen’s home, has a French Regency, nearly 7,400-square-foot house on it, which was built in the 1950s.

“It will be years before Reitman, who already lives in Beverly Hills, will move to the property, because he will raze the house and rebuild,” a source said.

Designed by the late architect John Wolfe, the house was built for Frank Ross, producer of the 1953 film “The Robe,” on the site of an English-style home owned in the 1940s by pianist Artur Rubinstein.

The house built by Ross was sold to entrepreneur Tony Murray in 1990 for $6.2 million, sources say. Murray sold the house to Reitman.

Murray also owns several Beverly Hills properties, including the former site of the Sunset Boulevard mansion once owned by Saudi Sheik Mohammed al-Fassi, who painted it lime green and its statues of nudes in natural colors. The mansion, which had been gutted by fire, was razed in 1985.

The Malibu house where MADONNA and SEAN PENN were married with much fanfare in 1985 has been sold by the Resolution Trust Corp. for about $3.5 million, sour ces say.

Built in the early 1980s, the contemporary, five-bedroom, wood-and-glass home had been listed for sale in 1989 at $6.9 million. The RTC was asking $5.8 million. The buyer is an architect/builder.

The 7,000-square-foot home--which also has a pool, tennis court and gym--is on an acre-size bluff overlooking the ocean in Point Dume, next to Johnny Carson’s estate.

KEVIN CRONIN, lead singer with the rock band REO Speedwagon, has put his Encino home of about eight years on the market at just under $1.8 million.

Cronin, who is about to go on tour with his band, got married about a week ago, and he and his bride, Lisa, are planning to buy another home but plan to sell his Encino residence first.

The Encino house is Country English in style and has five bedrooms plus maid’s quarters in 5,000 square feet. Built in 1981, the home also has a wine cellar, wine-tasting room and a guest house with a complete recording studio in it.

There is also a tennis court, pool and spa on the gated property, which is listed by Joy Hudson of RE/MAX, Beverly Hills.

STEPFANIE KRAMER, who gave up her six-year role as Sgt. Dee Dee McCall on NBC’s “Hunter” to pursue a singing career, is now giving up Los Angeles for Colorado.

Or, as listing broker Jeanne Valvo, of Fred Sands Estates, describes it, “She’s giving up L.A. for a man.”

Kramer and financial adviser Mark Richards are planning to be wed later this month, and then they want to move to the Rocky Mountain state, where they’re building a home, Valvo said.

Kramer’s house, which is behind gates on Mulholland Drive, has three bedrooms in about 3,000 square feet.

The house was built in the 1950s, and Kramer has owned it for about four years. The asking price is just under $1.5 million.

PETER NORTON, who created the computer program that makes it possible to retrieve files that have seemingly been killed, and his wife, Eileen, not only bought a Santa Monica house for $8 million, as was reported here in April, but they also purchased a small ranch house in Brentwood that was formerly the office of the late architect Cliff May.

The Nortons, who are art collectors and philanthropists, are also busy restoring two houses they own in Martha’s Vineyard.

Linda Janger of Pace Properties represented the couple in buying the Westside properties, and Cliff May’s daughters--Marilyn Phillips and Melany Bourdon, both of Coldwell Banker--represented May’s estate. The May house sold for just under $500,000.