Steal Slugger’s Home for $3.2M
San Francisco Giants slugger BARRY BONDS has put his home in Murrieta, in southern Riverside County, on the market at $3.2 million.
“He’s moving to be closer to his home base in San Francisco,” said Realtor Doug Irvine Jr., who shares the listing.
The outfielder, top National League vote-getter in the All-Star balloting in July, has been compared to Willie Mays and to his own father, Bobby Bonds, the National League’s best all-around player in the early ‘70s. The younger Bonds, 31, is making about $8 million to play baseball this year.
He also has been going through expensive divorce proceedings, expected to be concluded in November. Bonds and Sun, his wife of 6 1/2 years, separated in 1994. By this July, their legal fees totaled more than $760,000.
Sun (short for Susann) Bonds and the couple’s two children live in their home in the northern California city of Atherton, purchased for $2.5 million in 1993. Earlier this summer, she requested an increase in support payments, from $30,000 to $51,000 a month.
The power hitter has been living in their Murrieta home, which was purchased new in 1992. The home has a panoramic view of a golf course and the Temecula Valley.
The 11,000-square-foot, Mediterranean-style house, on 1.3 acres, has six bedrooms, a gym and a sauna. The home also has a juice bar, pizza oven and pool with waterfall.
The sale will include most of the furnishings, country-club membership and a one-acre lot next door.
Irvine, of Irvine Industries, shares the listing with his father, Doug Irvine Sr., of First Team Real Estate, both in Murrieta.
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An English couple who can trace their aristocratic lineage to a period before the Norman Conquest have listed their Rancho Santa Fe palace at $11 million.
The Mediterranean-style house, which the couple built in 1989, has eight bedrooms and 10 baths in 15,000 square feet.
It is on nine acres with a sunken tennis court, 80-foot-long pool with fountains, and several gardens.
Inside, the house resembles a grand English country house, complete with billiard and flower rooms, a wood-paneled library with a hidden bar, a formal drawing room, a wing for children, a butler’s pantry, an office and a boudoir.
The master suite, guest wing, maid’s quarters and caretaker’s apartment have kitchens.
There is also an elevator and a 5,000-bottle wine cellar in the house.
The owners are Ralph Rokeby-Johnson and his wife, Bridget. He was a partner in R.W. Sturge & Co. and chairman of Lloyd’s Underwriter’s Non-Marine Assn.
They decided to sell the home because they aren’t spending as much time in it as they had expected. They also have a home in South Africa.
They listed the home with Gary More of Rodeo Realty, Beverly Hills.
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REINHOLD WEEGE, creator and executive producer of the TV series “Night Court,” and his wife, Shelley, have bought a La Jolla home for about $4.4 million, sources say.
The four-bedroom, 5,300-square-foot home, is on 2.5 acres. It was first listed at $5.5 million.
“You can watch the hang gliders from the house,” a source said of the bluff-top home. The Weeges also have a home in Rancho Mirage.
The La Jolla house had been owned by the Salk Institute, which had received it as a donation.
The Weeges were represented in the purchase by Marty Vusich and Edward Mracek of Willis M. Allen Co., La Jolla.
The Salk Institute was represented by Phyllis Scripps and Liz Pruett, of the same realty firm.
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Billionaire businessman DAVID MURDOCK, chairman and CEO of Pacific Holding Co. and Dole Food Co., has been allowing his Bel-Air home, “Bellagio House,” to be shown to prospective buyers at $25 million, sources say.
The 64-room, 35,000-square-foot-plus house, owned for years by hotelier Conrad Hilton, is on 12 acres adjacent to the Bel-Air Country Club.
Murdock--who married Rosemary Clooney’s daughter, Maria, in 1992--has a ranch near his development of Lake Sherwood in Thousand Oaks, and he is planning to build a villa near his Lodge at Koele on Lanai. His villa will be one of about a dozen townhouses and villas being built there at prices of up to nearly $1 million each.
Murdock, 72, bought his Bel-Air home in 1980, after Hilton died, for $12.5 million.
