Hunk Falls for $2M Hacienda

CHRISTIAN SLATER, who stars as a Detroit comic-book seller who marries a warm-hearted hooker in the satirical, action-adventure film “True Romance,” has purchased a Spanish hacienda in the Hollywood Hills.

Slater, 24, also co-stars with Joe Pesci in an as-yet-untitled Barry Levinson film-spoof on Hollywood, due to be released next spring. In September, Slater beat out Tom Cruise and Mel Gibson at the MTV Movie Awards as most desirable male. Slater also stars in the 1993 film “Untamed Heart.”

Slater appeared on Broadway as a child actor before he co-starred in such diverse films as the black comedy cult-favorite “Heathers” (1989) and Kevin Costner’s “Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves” (1991).

The young actor bought a three-bedroom home on slightly more than an acre, gated at the street, for just under $2 million, sources say. The asking price had been $2.2 million. The 3-year-old home has a 5,500-square-foot main residence and a guest house.

Carl Romeo and Rod Ostrom at Jon Douglas Co.’s Sunset Strip office had the listing, and Slater was represented by Don Bozick of the same office, sources said.

Guns N’ Roses drummer MATT SORUM has purchased a Spanish-style home on about five acres in the mountains of Malibu for just under $1 million, sources say.

The four-bedroom, 4,000-square-foot house was built about 12 years ago. The gated estate, overlooking the ocean, also has a pool, spa and room for stables.

It was a first-time home purchase for the drummer, who was married in September in a Renaissance faire at Zuma Beach. Sorum’s bride, a model and actress named Kai, arrived in medieval maiden costume atop a black horse. Guests feasted on turkey legs and tofu.

Arleen Ruby of Prudential Rodeo Realty, Beverly Hills, represented the drummer in his home purchase. Brady Westwater and James Respondek, both of Jon Douglas Co., shared the listing.

GARY COOPER’S Holmby Hills home when he died in 1961 has come on the market at $3.45 million. Built for the Academy Award-winning actor in the 1950s, the 6,000-square-foot house, on 1.5 acres with a sculpted garden, has four bedrooms plus guest and double maids’ quarters.

The owner is the widow of Beldon Katleman, a pioneer Nevada hotel man who died in 1988. Katleman owned the El Rancho Vegas, a popular getaway for Hollywood stars until the hotel-casino, built in 1940, was razed by fire in 1960. (A hotel on another Las Vegas site later assumed the El Rancho name.)

Cecelia Waeschle and Joyce Rey of Rodeo Realty, Beverly Hills, share the listing.

The largest residential sale and largest house ever sold in the city of Whittier is how the $1.75-million, all-cash purchase of a newly built, 12,000-square-foot home named Enramada is being described.

The six-bedroom home on one acre--with screening and billiard rooms, a gym and a wine cellar--was purchased by an owner of golf courses who is from Hong Kong and divides his time between Honolulu and L.A. He bought the home as a place for his sons to live while attending a nearby college.

Carla Ramsing Lowinger at Century 21 Beachside, in Whittier, had the $1.8-million listing.

A newly built, 11,000-square-foot concrete, wood-and-glass home in the Hollywood Hills has been listed at $12 million.

European publisher PETER SCHINDLER spent five years building the house for himself and his wife, but the couple decided to spend more time in Europe than in California.

The home has a 28-foot-long, two-story foyer, with the second floor devoted to a wood-and-granite master suite, reached by way of a stainless steel-and-glass stairway. Other features are a boardroom office; theater with a billiard table and bar; three secondary bedrooms; a two-bedroom guest house, and a 360-degree view of Los Angeles.

Linda May and Steve Robinson at Fred Sands Estates, Beverly Hills, share the listing.

Beverly Hills realtor Mike Silverman had a truly “hot” listing during the fire earlier this month that burned more than 34,000 acres in the Los Padres National Forest north of Santa Barbara.

When he phoned his client, a businessman from France who owns a 5,000-acre horse ranch near the Santa Ynez Valley homes of Bo Derek and Michael Jackson, Silverman was told that the ranch was on fire and his client was being evacuated.

“When I called, it sounded like my listing was burning up,” Silverman said, “but luckily, the wind shifted. Only a few of the back acres were singed. The beauty of the ranch was not effected.” Neither was its asking price. It’s still $22 million.