Anchor Plots Her Next Move
KNBC-TV news anchor KELLY LANGE, who became a novelist this year with her murder mystery “Trophy Wife”(Simon & Schuster), has purchased a newly built Bel-Air home for just under $1.9 million. The original asking price was $2.6 million.
Lange had been renting for a couple of years, since she sold her Florentine-style villa in the Hollywood Hills for about $2.5 million, sources say.
The Hollywood Hills house was one of several that she had built for herself during the past dozen or so years. She also had a house built that she sold to film director William Friedkin (“The Exorcist,” “The French Connection”) for $1.9 million before they married in 1987.
They were divorced in 1990. By then, Lange shared ownership of the house, and they sold it in 1992 for $3 million. She also sold a house she had built next door for about $3 million in 1991.
Lange did not build her new home, which is Mediterranean in style and has six bedrooms and nine baths in 10,000 square feet. It also has a gym, pool, spa and city views.
It had been listed by Daina Cullen of Jon Douglas Co., Brentwood Court. Lange was represented in her purchase by Joy Denton of Fred Sands Estates, Beverly Hills.
FRANK and BARBARA SINATRA are selling their Rancho Mirage home for nearly $4.9 million to a Canadian businessman “with ties to Southern California,” sources say. The buyer and his wife have visited the 2.5-acre compound several times since it was listed in March, a source added.
The selling price includes furnishings except for the artwork and one of the two pianos. The singing legend/Oscar-winning actor, 79, and his wife have said that they decided to sell because they were spending more time in Malibu and Beverly Hills and less time in the desert.
SHANE BLACK, one of Hollywood’s hottest young screenwriters and creator of the “Lethal Weapon” series, has purchased a 64-year-old French Normandy home in Fremont Place, near downtown L.A., at about $2.4 million, and he has listed his Sunset Strip home at $695,000.
Last summer, New Line Cinema paid $4 million for Black’s script “The Long Kiss Goodnight,” which Renny Harlin is to direct with his wife, Geena Davis, playing the lead.
Designed by Elmer Grey, who designed the Pasadena Playhouse and--with partner Myron Hunt--designed the Henry Huntington Library in San Marino, Black’s new home has six bedrooms in 12,500 square feet. It also has a guest house, chauffeur’s quarters, an elevator, and a third floor with a dance floor, lounge, pool table, bar, kitchen, and seating for 20.
Black’s Sunset Strip house has three bedrooms; a two-story living room, and walls of glass. The home is listed with David Gray of Jon Douglas Co., Beverly Hills, who represented Black in his purchase. John Woodward, of the firm’s Hancock Park office, had the Fremont Place listing.
Singer/songwriter BARRY WHITE, whose album “The Icon Is Love” went platinum in December and earned him top male album and song of the year (“Practice What You Preach”) Soul Train awards in March, has put his Sherman Oaks home of about 20 years on the market at $599,000. “He’s selling because he has moved to Las Vegas,” a spokesman for White said.
White’s 7,500-square-foot house has a screening room, a pool with a 50-foot waterfall, and valley views. The home is listed with Karen Basin Miller, Bob Miller Real Estate, Studio City.
White, 50, grew up in Watts, and he worked as a pianist and arranger for nearly a dozen years before he had a hit record.
After producing Love Unlimited Group’s first hit “Walking in the Rain With the One I Love,” he recorded “I’m Gonna Love You Just a Little More Baby.” It was his first of 10 Top 40 hits during the ‘70s, when he was known as “Dr. Love.” White has had a number of gold and platinum records, but “The Icon Is Love” was his first platinum album in more than 15 years.
A 21-room Pasadena estate that has been in 20 feature films (“Three Men and a Little Lady,” “Rocky V”), 40 commercials, and more than three dozen TV series (“Dynasty,” “Murder She Wrote”) has been listed at $3.35 million.
Designed by architect Paul Williams and built in 1929, the 13,0 0 0-square-foot home, at 160 S. San Rafael Ave., is also open to the public through April 14 as a Showcase House of Design, to benefit the Pasadena Junior Philharmonic.
The Tudor-style home, on 3.5 acres, is owned by Marc and Mary Perkins, co-owners of the Parkway Grill restaurant and Raymond Theater, both in Pasadena. “I’ve lived there for 20 years, and it’s just time for me to go,” Marc Perkins said. “I’ve enjoyed it, but my wife and I have no kids, and we rattle around in it.” Mark Ogden of Podley Caughey & Doan and John Tartaglione of Jon Douglas Co.’s Pasadena office share the listing.
