Rocker Lists to Tune of $2M
SAMMY HAGAR, lead singer of the rock band Van Halen, has put his Malibu home on the market at $2.25 million.
“My real true residences are now in Mill Valley, Carmel and Mexico,” he said by phone from Paris, where he and the band were on tour. “When we were recording, it was convenient having the house (in Malibu), but during the past nine months, I’ve only been there twice.”
Van Halen started a world tour in March to support their “Van Halen Live: Right Here Right Now” CD/cassette and home video laser disc. A North American tour is scheduled this summer.
This also marks Van Halen’s 15th anniversary of being signed as recording artists out of the L.A. club scene. Hagar had enjoyed a successful solo career for 10 years when he joined Van Halen in 1985.
Hagar, 45, has owned his Malibu house since 1986. “It was 5 years old when I bought it,” he said, “and it’s cool. One of the really neat things is where it sits, 77 steps down to the beach. You can hear, smell and feel the ocean from where you are while lying in bed.”
A contemporary Cape Cod on a bluff behind gates, the house has six bedrooms in 5,000 square feet. Sixteen feet of French doors lead from the living room to a patio, grassy back yard and hot tub overlooking Broad Beach.
“Every room has a different environment--my ex-wife was good at decorating,” said Hagar, who was married for 23 years and has two children. “But I don’t need a house in L.A. That’s why it’s being sold and divided up (through divorce).”
He still has two oceanfront homes: a 2,000-square-foot condo near Van Halen’s Cabo Wabo Cantina in Cabo San Lucas and a 1,400-square-foot cement home, which he says was designed to look like an upside-down boat, in Carmel. He also has a cement and glass home in Mill Valley.
His Malibu home is listed with Lynette Bishop of Douglas Properties in Malibu.
MILTON BERLE has purchased a condo in the Wilshire Corridor high-rise where he has been renting for two years.
The 84-year-old comedian, who was among the first seven people inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame when it was formed in 1984, liked the building so much that after selling his longtime home in Beverly Hills, he bought a corner unit for about $600,000, sources say.
His new home, on one of the higher floors of the 18-story building, has two bedrooms and a den with unobstructed city and mountain views. Joy Hudson of RE/MAX, Beverly Hills, had the listing.
Producer GALE ANNE HURD (“Terminator 2, Judgment Day,” 1991; “The Abyss,” 1989; “Alien Nation,” 1988; “Aliens,” 1986) has purchased the Beverly Hills home of Madonna’s personal manager, Freddie De Mann, for about $3.75 million, according to public records.
The gated home, on about an acre, first came on the market last October at $4.7 million. It was most recently listed at $3,995,000. Built in 1934 but recently updated, the three-story house has five bedrooms, a gym, media room and wine cellar in nearly 7,500 square feet.
Hurd and her husband, producer/director Brian De Palma, reportedly moved a couple of years ago to Northern California after selling her Malibu home to pop singer Janet Jackson and his Hollywood Hills house to Mark Mothersbaugh, co-founder of the New Wave group Devo.
De Mann and his wife, Candy, indicated last fall that they wanted to buy another in-town residence. At the time, they had a five-bedroom Malibu home as well as the Beverly Hills estate.
STEVEN BAUER, who made his film debut as Al Pacino’s right-hand man and short-lived brother-in-law in “Scarface” (1983) and replaced Ken Wahl in the TV series “Wiseguys” (1990), just signed a one-year lease on a house in Malibu at $7,000 a month, sources say.
The home is owned by Sela Ward, who plays Chicago fashion designer Teddy Reed in the NBC Saturday night drama “Sisters,” and her husband, businessman Howard Sherman.
The 3,000-square-foot house was totally remodeled recently and has a master bedroom and living room with ocean views. Bauer was represented by Ira Greenspon, and the homeowners were represented by Bob Rubenstein, both of Malibu Realty, the sources said.
A Pasadena mansion that was built in 1893 for banker Frank C. Bolt and was used in the 1991 Warren Beatty film “Bugsy” is on the market at $1,875,000.
The nearly 9,000-square-foot house is Craftsman in style. It underwent several additions in 1908, when it was purchased by E. W. Knowlton, an entrepreneur who made a fortune in patent medicines.
The home remained in Knowlton’s family until the 1980s, when it was sold to some friends of the current owners, who bought it in 1986 and have been restoring it ever since. It’s listed with John Tartaglione of Douglas Properties, Pasadena.
