‘I’ll Take Realty for $1 Million’
ALEX TREBEK, host of the quiz show “Jeopardy!” and moderator of the annual “National Geography Bee” special, has listed his Mulholland Drive home at about $1 million.
“It’s a great bachelor or couple’s house, or for families with kids over 10 or 12, but it’s not a great house for toddlers,” he said. Trebek, 55, and his wife, Jean, 31, have two children under age 5. “That’s why we moved,” he said.
They relocated to a home in Studio City that they considered more of a family house and, about 18 months ago, started using the Mulholland house as a rental. Among the lessees was actor Robert Urich, another source said. Urich rented the house for six months while filming in Los Angeles.
Trebek toyed with the idea of getting another tenant, but now he’s ready to sell the house, which he designed and built for himself when he was a bachelor in 1984. He and his wife were married in 1990.
To live there, he said, “you have to like a modern-style house. It has lots of open space. The house has 19-foot-high ceilings in the [master] bedroom and living room, and the den overlooks the bedroom.” The master suite also has a fireplace, spa and steam shower.
There are four bedrooms in 5,500 square feet, as well as a 24-foot-long gallery; sun deck, and terraces with San Fernando Valley views. The home is on two acres.
Steven Bijan of RE/MAX on the Boulevard, in Sherman Oaks, and Aida Poladian of Ramsey-Shilling, Toluca Lake, share the listing.
TED FIELD, executive producer of “The Tie That Binds,” has sold his Beverly Hills home to investor-developer Barry Taper, son of philanthropist Mark Taper, for about $6 million, sources say.
Field, who also produced “Three Men and a Baby” and “Three Men and a Little Lady,” had owned the seven-bedroom, 25,000-square-foot house, on an acre, since 1990, when he paid about $12 million for it. The home has a pool, tennis court and projection room.
Field is said to have leased a house in the Beverly Hills area for close to $40,000 a month.
Stan Herman-Stephen Shapiro & Associates, Beverly Hills, represented Field in the sale, with Joe Babajian of Fred Sands Estates, Beverly Hills, and Sue Krajchir of Sands’ Marina office representing Taper, other sources said. Stan Richman of the Prudential-Jon Douglas Co., Beverly Hills, negotiated the deal on the house that Field leased.
The GEORGE S. PATTON family estate in San Marino has been listed at $3.75 million. Known as Lake Vineyard, the 25-room mansion was designed and built in 1910 for the parents of Gen. George Patton Jr.
The general, who died in 1945, was born in 1885 on the 400-acre ranch where the mansion was built. The ranch was later subdivided; the house now sits on about 1.5 acres.
The elder Patton had the four-story 12,000-square-foot house built after he had served as district attorney of Los Angeles County and before he became the first mayor of San Marino. His son had graduated from West Point at the time but always considered the mansion his family home.
The elder Patton and Henry E. Huntington, whose estate was next door where the Huntington Library and Art Gallery is now, played poker together and shared a private office in the basement of Lake Vineyard.
It was in that office that the two friends, who were prominent in real estate development, planned the city of San Marino. The elder Patton, who was mayor of San Marino from 1913 to 1924, died in 1927. Anne Patton, the general’s sister, lived there until just before she died in 1971. The family sold the mansion a year later.
The house has eight bedrooms, a tennis court, koi ponds, a free-form pool, wine cellar, elevator and a 16-car subterranean garage, which was built by the current owners, a physician and his wife.
Irene Agajanian of Keeler Dilbeck, San Marino, has the listing.
