Heidi Names Her Price: $1.8M
Reputed Hollywood madam HEIDI FLEISS’ Beverly Hills-area home has been listed for sale at just under $1.8 million.
Fleiss, 27, was indicted last fall by a grand jury on pandering and narcotics charges. She is accused of operating a call-girl ring catering to prominent Hollywood figures.
The home, listed for $1,795,000, is a one-story villa with three bedrooms and maid’s quarters in about 3,500 square feet, and is said to have “generous entertainment areas with unobstructed views from downtown to the ocean.”
Built in the 1950s, the house has been owned since July, 1992, by Fleiss’ father, Dr. Paul Fleiss, a Los Feliz pediatrician. The house formerly belonged to actor Michael Douglas.
Heidi’s father also owned her previous home in West Hollywood, which just sold for close to its asking price of $299,000, sources say.
Kurt Rappaport of Myra Nourmand & Associates in Beverly Hills has the listing on the Beverly Hills-area home, other sources said. Rappaport was also involved in the doctor’s purchase of the Beverly Hills-area home and sale of the West Hollywood house.
JANE SEYMOUR, star of the CBS series “Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman,” and her ex-husband, David Flynn, have sold their 3.5-acre Montecito estate to singer/songwriter Jeff Lynne, one of the founders of the Electric Light Orchestra, sources say.
The house sold for about $2.9 million, sources say. It was listed at $6.2 million in 1991.
Seymour, who has remarried since divorcing Flynn, is living in Malibu now. Flynn, a business manager involved in real estate businesses, lives in Santa Barbara.
The Montecito home, which Seymour and Flynn owned for several years, was built in the early 1920s but was later remodeled. It has a four-bedroom, 5,000-square-foot main house and three guest cottages, a tennis court, two creeks, rolling lawns and a motorcourt.
Bob Lamborn and Bonnie Jo Danely, both of Pitts & Bachman in Montecito, co-listed the residence, Flynn said, and Stephanie Taliaferro of Jon Douglas Co., Montecito, represented the buyer, a divorced woman with two teen-agers.
A Pacific Palisades home reportedly built in 1928 for opera star AMELITA GALLI-CURCI has been sold for close to its last asking price of just under $2 million, sources say.
The three-level, 32-room home was on the market about three years ago at $12 million. The 9,000-square-foot house, taken back by the lender through foreclosure, has terraced gardens and an aviary.
Galli-Curci, who died in 1963, had a home during her later years in Westwood, which is now owned by actor Carroll O’Connor. That home was designed by the late architect Wallace Neff.
The Palisades home, owned by American Savings Bank, was listed by Adam Blumenstein of Jon Douglas Co.’s Santa Monica office. Dennis Frusciano of Fred Sands’ Pacific Palisades office represented the buyer, described as a local businessman.
A La Habra Heights home with a sod roof, a glass-bottom bathtub situated over a koi pond and an interior waterfall is on the market at $850,000 or $1.2 million, depending on whether the buyer wants three or five acres. Two of the acres are bare land.
Loret Sayler, who owns the home with her husband, Jack, designed the nearly 4,000-square-foot house, which was built 17 years ago.
“She used a sod roof to integrate the house with its natural setting,” said listing agent Pam Kennedy of Coldwell Banker Roberts Real Estate in Whitter.
The waterfall was built inside the house because the Saylers like the sound of rain. The sod roof is planted with red apple, a succulent that is drought- and fire-resistant.
The Saylers listed their home, with city and valley views, because they plan to move to Northern California now that their children are in college.
La Habra Heights, an incorporated city 25 miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles, has been home to several sports celebrities including Texas Rangers pitcher Rick Honeycutt.
Screenwriter JOHN M. WILSON, who recently completed his 40th script for Fox TV’s “Code 3,” has purchased his first home, a two-bedroom house in West Hollywood.
Wilson, who also wrote “The Complete Guide to Magazine Article Writing,” paid about $300,000 for the residence, built in 1931, sources say. Kim Schneider of Coldwell Banker, Hancock Park, was the selling agent.
An 11,000-square-foot home on 15 acres has come on the market at La Selva Beach, just south of Monterey, at $4.5 million.
“I call it ‘the Malibu of the north’ because the area is becoming known for its oceanfront estates,” said Caroline Cocciardi, who spent four years building the house with her husband, Jack Eitzen. The house has 6-foot-high, bronze-inlaid front doors, which weigh half a ton each, and 70 marble columns, which flank the home’s perimeter.
After they were married in 1985, the owners toured Europe. “Now we want to sell the house and go back to Italy to study the architecture some more,” she said. Vince Brown of ERA in Soquel, near Capitola, Calif. has the listing.
