Clipper Guard Shoots for Hills

Clippers guard MARK JACKSON, who was acquired from the New York Knicks in September as part of a three-team trade, has leased a newly built, Beverly Hills-area home, which he may buy, his business manager said last week.

The Brooklyn-born Jackson, who was at the tail end of a five-year contract with the Knicks when he was traded, may purchase the home if he signs a long-term contract with the Clippers this year, said Ron Hacker of Global West Management, Santa Monica.

As a point guard with the Knicks, Jackson, 27, was named rookie of the year in 1988, after completing college at St. John’s in Jamaica, N.Y. He’s married to singer/actress Desiree Coleman, who is touring in Japan and recording her second album. Her first album was produced by Motown.

The couple will help design the landscaping and decor before they, their 1-year-old son and dog, move into the leased house, which has four bedrooms in about 6,000 square feet. The contemporary Mediterranean is on a hill in Benedict Canyon and has a long drive, behind gates.

It also has 12-foot-high ceilings and 9-foot-tall doors “so his 7-foot-tall teammates should feel comfortable visiting,” Hacker said.

The villa, which Jackson leased at $7,000 a month, has been on the market at $2,295,000, but it also has been in foreclosure.

“The lenders have assured us that they would honor the lease and give him (Jackson) a right of first refusal to buy the property,” Hacker said. “Mark’s decision will be subject to signing a long-term contract with the Clippers and getting his wife’s blessings after the two of them get comfortable with the area.”

Even then, the basketball star would remain bi-coastal, Hacker said. Jackson owns a townhouse in New York, which he plans to sell after completing construction on a 13,000-square-foot home in Saddle River, N.J. His parents live in a New York home that he bought for them after he was named rookie of the year, Hacker added.

The Beverly Hills-area home has been listed with Victoria Lockwood and Kathy Balaban of Alvarez, Hyland & Young. Century West Financial represents Jackson.

Actor/director ALAN THICKE has put a Hollywood Hills home he has used as a pied-a-terre on the market at $1,785,000.

Thicke, who ended his seven-year run as the father in the ABC sitcom “Growing Pains,” played Dr. Jonas Carson in the Disney Channel’s comedy/adventure “Still Not Quite Human,” which aired in May.

His main residence is in Toluca Lake, but he also owns a home in Montecito and some land at Beverly Park, overlooking Beverly Hills, where he may build. He bought the Hollywood Hills home a couple of years ago and recently leased it out until it sells.

The home has four bedrooms, a pool, spa and city views. Finton Power and Nancy Sill share the listing at Prudential Rodeo Realty, Sunset Strip.

“Designing Women” producers HARRY THOMASON and LINDA BLOODWORTH-THOMASON apparently will decorate “in house, by the studio” their new Santa Barbara County home, which President-elect Bill Clinton and his wife, Hillary, are expected to visit frequently.

That’s what Sandy Tubis, of Firestone-James in Century City, says she was told when she phoned the producers to see if her company might design the interiors. “I thought they might like to use some real designing women,” she said of her female-owned firm, whose celebrity clients have included Pia Zadora, Don Drysdale and Bret Saberhagen.

The Thomasons were represented in their year-long lease of the house, which had been on the market at $8 million, by Lois Landau of Fred Sands’ Montecito office.

Producer LARRY THOMPSON, who bought actor Kirk Douglas’ Hidden Valley estate four years ago, has acquired a $1-million leasehold getaway in Monaco.

“It’s on the rock itself, where you can’t buy properties,” he said. The two-bedroom apartment, which is on a 99-year lease, is on The Palais du Poluis facing the Royal Palace.

Thompson, who goes to Monaco two to three times a year but plans to do more work in Europe, found the apartment through fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld, who has a home next door.

Thompson produced the 1984 film “Crimes of Passion,” starring Kathleen Turner, and the TV movies “The Woman He Loved” (1988), about the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, and “Lucy & Desi: Before the Laughter” (1991), about Lucille Ball & Desi Arnaz. He is preparing to produce the ABC mini-series “The Seven Deadly Sins,” which he plans to film partly in Europe.

HOWARD HEIN--who counts Madonna, Princess Lee Radziwill, Julie Andrews, Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor and Danielle Steele among the clientele of his Randolph & Hein furniture/design firm--has just sold his company’s West Hollywood penthouse and bought a Santa Ynez Valley retreat, which he plans to remodel.

He also expects to triple the 2,500-square-foot ranch house and add a pool and stables to the acre-plus home.

Hein, who sold the West Hollywood condo for about $315,000, owns a tri-level, 7,000-square-foot townhouse in the Pacific Heights area of San Francisco and a country home in Kentfield, a suburb in Marin County.

Victoria Feldman of Brand Realty, Beverly Hills, represented Hein in his Southern Californiadeals.