Moving, But Not Burning Bridges
JEFF BRIDGES, who just started work as the legendary Wild Bill Hickok in the Western-adventure film “Wild Bill,” has put his Santa Monica home of 13 years on the market at $3.5 million.
“He’s not planning to move out of Southern California. He just wants to move farther out (of the L.A. area),” said Susan Stark, who shares the listing with Birgitte Michaelsen, both with Coldwell Banker, Brentwood.
Bridges, who plays an Irish-born leader of the Boston police bomb squad in the upcoming action film “Blown Away,” starred in the 1993 movie “Fearless” as an architect who survives a plane crash and leads a group of fellow passengers to safety.
When not at his Montana ranch or on location, the three-time Oscar nominee lives in his Santa Monica home with his photographer wife, Susan, and their three young daughters.
The home, which is gated and hidden behind tall hedges but has ocean and canyon views, was built in the 1920s and has four bedroom suites, each with a balcony; a solarium, butler’s pantry, office, gym, guest house and black-bottom pool.
The nearly 7,000-square-foot residence also has a ballroom that has been turned into a screening or music room. An accomplished amateur pianist, Bridges played his own keyboard scenes in “The Fabulous Baker Boys” (1989). He is also a painter, who had several of his works in “Fearless,” and a photographer, who had an exhibit in Santa Monica last fall.
Bridges, 44, was raised on the Westside with his older brother, actor Beau, and younger sister, actress Lucinda. Their parents, veteran actor Lloyd Bridges and former actress Dorothy Simpson, still live near the UCLA sorority house where they met.
The family has been described as “an unusually tight clan that functions . . . in the tradition of other great theatrical families, co-starring with each other. . . .”
Jeff and Lloyd Bridges co-star with Tommy Lee Jones in “Blown Away,” due to be released July 1, and Beau and Lloyd Bridges appear in the TV series “Harts of the West.” Jeff and Beau Bridges also co-starred, with Michelle Pfeiffer, in “The Fabulous Baker Boys.”
The Benedict Canyon home where actress SHARON TATE and four others were murdered by Charles Manson’s gang in 1968 has been torn down. In its place, a 17,000-square-foot Mediterranean villa is being built, with completion expected in nine months.
Al Weintraub, who has owned the property since 1991, said, “We’ll try to sell it, and if we don’t sell it, I’ll move into it.” The new home is for sale at $12.5 million.
Two years ago, the home in which the murders occurred was for sale at $4.95 million. Last year, it was rented by musician Trent Reznor, the mastermind behind Nine Inch Nails. Reznor set up a studio in the house to record an album for the synthesized-rock group.
The new home will have city-to-ocean views, a sunken north/south tennis court and an infinity pool on its 3.3-acre grounds. Jerry Sax and John Aaroe of John Aaroe & Associates, Beverly Hills, share the listing.
The Bel-Air home that Joan Rivers sold nearly five years ago for $5.2 million after she moved to New York has just been sold again, this time for about $2.5 million, according to public records. The last official asking price was just under $3.5 million.
Producer/department-store heir TED FIELD, who had purchased the home from Rivers so that one of his former wives could live in it, sold the home, because the ex-wife has remarried and relocated, sources say.
The buyer was described as “an overseas businessman” who was living in a condo on Wilshire Boulevard but wanted a house where he could live with his wife and three children.
Built in the 1930s by architect Paul Williams and renovated in 1986 by Rivers and her husband, the gated, two-story Colonial has six bedrooms in about 7,500 square feet. It’s on an acre with a rose garden, adjoining the Bel-Air Country Club.
Rivers and her husband, Edgar Rosenberg, purchased the house in 1981. He died in 1987. She bought a flat on New York’s Fifth Avenue in 1988 and sold the Bel-Air house in August, 1989.
The buyer was represented by Minoo Borookhim, Myra Nourmand and Kurt Rappaport, all of Nourmand & Associates, Beverly Hills.
CARYL KRISTENSEN, who co-stars with Marilyn Kentz on the NBC Saturday night comedy show “The Mommies,” and her husband, Len, have purchased a four-bedroom second home in Tarzana for about $500,000, sources say.
The couple’s primary residence is in Petaluma, where “The Mommies” stars, who were neighbors, parlayed their stand-up comedy act about car-pooling and morning sickness into the TV show. (They also just signed to do a yearlong, $20-million ad campaign for a dishwashing liquid, replacing Madge, the manicurist/confidante who pitched the product on TV for 26 years.)
Len Kristensen, an architect, plans to oversee a renovation of the 2,700-square-foot Tarzana home. Nicki Marcellino of Rodeo Realty, Sherman Oaks, was the selling broker.
