And Bel-Air Makes Three
Actor RICHARD GERE and his wife, model CINDY CRAWFORD, have purchased a Bel-Air home for just under $5 million, sources say.
Gere, 43, plays a Civil War soldier thought long dead who returns home in the romantic film “Sommersby,” co-starring Jodie Foster. He also co-stars in the upcoming movie “Intersection,” co-starring Sharon Stone and Lolita Davidovich, and plays a cameo in the HBO film about AIDS “And the Band Played On,” which will air this fall.
He is also known for his starring roles in “Pretty Woman” (1990) and “An Officer and a Gentleman” (1982).
Gere is an outspoken supporter of the Dalai Lama and the plight of the Tibetan people, who are under Communist Chinese domination.
Crawford, 27, is a super-model who is also an MTV reporter and exercise video queen.
The couple bought a restored Georgian-style home on an acre with rolling lawns. The house, slightly less than 10,000 square feet in size, was originally built in 1938 but was gutted two years ago and rebuilt.
The former owners, who have relocated to Colorado, bought the home two years ago for nearly $4 million and put more than $2 million into it, adding an entertainment center, guest quarters and several bedrooms, sources say.
Gere and Crawford, who bought a Malibu home for just under $2 million shortly after they were married in late 1989, have been commuting between their homes in Los Angeles and Manhattan, except when he has been filming “Intersection” in Vancouver, B.C.
The home they just purchased had been co-listed by Cecelia Waeschle and Joyce Flaherty, both of Rodeo Realty. Gere and Crawford were represented by Lynne Wilkes of Jon Douglas Co.’s Beverly Hills office.
Actor JUDD HIRSCH has put his two-acre Sherman Oaks home on the market at $795,000.
“He’s selling because he mainly lives in New York now,” said listing agent Joy Hudson of RE/MAX Realty, Beverly Hills. The Emmy- and Tony Award-winning actor, who starred in the TV series “Taxi” and “Dear John,” appeared in such films as “Running on Empty” (1988) and “Ordinary People” (1980).
Hirsch, 58, was starring on Broadway in the hit play “Conversations With My Father” when he was married last Christmas Eve to his longtime friend Bonnie Chalkin.
He has lived in a two-bedroom house that he built on the Sherman Oaks property since 1979. Hirsch also did much of the work on an 18-foot-high, five-level waterfall there. A second, two-bedroom house on the lot dates back to the 1920s.
Hirsch has also listed an adjacent half-acre property, with a two-bedroom house, at $450,000. He has owned that home since 1984, when he bought it so he would have more land.
Academy Award-winning actor GEORGE KENNEDY and his wife, JOAN, have sold their home on Channel Islands Harbor for about $800,000, sources say.
The 68-year-old character actor, who won an Oscar as best supporting actor while playing Paul Newman’s fellow convict in “Cool Hand Luke” (1967), played Father Dave in the 1992 TV movie “Final Shot: The Hank Gathers Story.” He also appeared in “The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear” (1991) and “The Naked Gun” (1988).
“His wife couldn’t handle the moist air, so they’re moving to the south end of Ventura County, where the climate is warmer,” a source said.
The home that they sold is on the waterfront, in Oxnard, and has a boat dock. Built in 1980, the two-story, brick residence has three bedrooms in about 3,500 square feet.
It was purchased by a Los Angeles businessman and his family as a second home. George French with Pacific Shores Realty, Channel Islands Harbor, represented the buyers.
French star CHRIS LAMBERT, who played Tarzan in “Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes” (1984), and his wife, DIANE LANE, who played Charlie Chaplin’s third wife, actress Paulette Goddard, in the movie “Chaplin” (1992), have leased a Malibu home for a year.
The Cape Cod-style house had been for sale at nearly $4 million. The Lamberts loved it and its 60 feet of beachfront but were not interested in buying it. So they persuaded the owner to let them sign a lease, sources say.
Lane, 30, appears in the just-released Disney film “Indian Summer,” and Lambert, 36, stars in “Fortress,” which has been released in Australia, Italy and France and is expected to be seen here in August. Bob Rubenstein of Malibu Realty represented the home owner in the lease.
ROBIN GREEN, an Emmy Award-winning writer/producer of the CBS series “Northern Exposure,” has put her Hollywood Hills house on the market and is “looking to move to the Westside burbs,” she says.
She figures it’s time to complete a journey west that began in Rhode Island and might end in Pacific Palisades. “You can’t get much more west than that--or more unlike Cicely, Alaska,” she quipped. (Cicely is the fictional town in “Northern Exposure,” which is actually filmed in Roslyn, Wash.)
Her two-bedroom home, above Sunset Strip with a city-lights view, is listed at $525,000 with Fiora Aston, Fred Sands’ Entertainment Division, Century City.
