Chevy Revs Up for N.Y. Move
CHEVY CHASE, who has been planning to move to Westchester County in New York since last fall, has put his Pacific Palisades home of a dozen years on the market at about $2.2 million.
Chase, 51, stars as a Seattle-based prosecutor in the just-released movie “Man of the House,” co-starring Farrah Fawcett. An original member of TV’s “Saturday Night Live,” he has starred in such hits as the “National Lampoon” films, and he has won Emmy Awards as a writer and an actor. He produced and hosted a TV talk show in 1993.
Built in 1980, his country Tudor-style home has four bedrooms plus two maid’s quarters in nearly 7,700 square feet. The master suite has a sauna and a fireplace. There is also a two-story guest house with a recording studio; tennis court and pool on the one-acre grounds.
In December, Chase listed a five-acre-plus site near his Palisades house at $3 million. The site and house are in a guard-gated community.
He and his wife, Jayni, had planned to build a residence on the parcel, which he bought in 1990. The couple and their three children have homes in the Hamptons and Aspen.
Their Palisades home and vacant site, which comes with 17,000-square-foot house plans and $1.2 million in improvements, are listed with Joyce Spector of Jon Douglas Co.’s Palisades Sunset office.
DANNY GOLDBERG, who took over as chairman of Warner Bros. Records in January and has moved to Los Angeles with his family from New York, has purchased a Hancock Park estate once owned by late financier/philanthropist/art collector Howard Ahmanson, according to public records.
Built in 1929, the 14,000-square-foot house, on 1.5 acres with a tennis court, was sold for about $3 million, sources say. The red-brick, English-style house has five master bedroom suites; chauffeur’s and maid’s quarters; an elevator, marble-paneled library and music room.
Ahmanson, founder of Home Savings & Loan, had built a $3-billion plus empire from humble beginnings when he died in 1968. His widow--Caroline Leonetti Ahmanson, head of her own modeling/talent agency--sold the home about 20 years ago to a doctor and his wife, who raised their three children there. The couple originally listed the home in 1992 at $4.25 million.
The home was listed by Kay Pick and Mike Silverman of Mike Silverman Estates, a Jon Douglas Co., and the buyer was represented by Michelle Martin of Jon Douglas Co., Beverly Hills.
PILAR WAYNE, who was married to actor John Wayne, has sold her Newport Beach home for close to its last asking price of $1.4 million to Janet Ford, president of Santa Ana-based ACM, a company specializing in environmental maintenance, sources say.
Wayne, mother of three of the Oscar winner’s children, listed the home in 1992 at $5 million. “With her kids grown, 7,000 square feet was too much to handle,” a source said.
The five-bedroom home--on about an acre with a tennis court, pavilion and court kitchen--was built three years after the actor’s death in 1979, but he visited the site many times.
“He loved the lot, and I just wish he could have seen the completion of our dream house,” Pilar Wayne said through her spokesman. The lot, overlooking Newport’s Back Bay, also has views of the mountains.
Bill Feeney of Waterfront Homes, Orange County affiliate of Sotheby’s International Realty, had the listing.
Emmy Award-winning actress MARIETTE HARTLEY and her husband, French producer/director PATRICK BOYRIVEN, have sold their Encino home for close to $995,000, sources say.
The 4,000-square-foot, five-bedroom home, on an acre with a tennis court, was listed last fall after the owners then decided to move to New York and keep a smaller home in L.A.
The home was purchased by writer/producer Robert Schlitt (“A Perry Mason Mystery: The Case of the Grimacing Governor,” “Father Dowling Mysteries,” “Matlock”) and his wife, Cathy. Her father, longtime Beverly Hills realtor Charles Schleussner, represented the couple.
The sellers were represented by Cissy Wellman-Guydus of Jon Douglas Co., Bel-Air, who also handled actor Efrem Zimbalist Jr.’s recent Encino home sale, at just under its last asking price of $1.65 million.
British actor MALCOLM McDOWELL--who has homes in Santa Monica, Ojai and London--has listed his four-bedroom, get-away in Italy at about $1 million with Jean-Marie Webster in Malibu.
McDowell, who appears with Lori Petty in the film “Tank Girl,” was married to actress Mary Steenburgen when he bought the nearly 400-year-old home, which he has owned for about 12 years. (He and Steenburgen, engaged now to actor Ted Danson, were divorced in 1990.)
McDowell decided to sell his Tuscany home because “he has only been there once in the past six years,” his spokeswoman said. The home has four updated baths, central heat and a modern kitchen. It also has a pizza oven, and is on nearly three acres with olive groves and a pool.
