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SYLVESTER STALLONE has put his 11-acre Beverly Hills-area home on the market at $5.5 million. The actor/screenwriter/filmmaker also just sold his Kauai home of about seven years for just under $2 million, sources say. “He sold it because he’s living in Florida now and doesn’t use it as much,” a source said.
Stallone lives in a Miami mansion on Biscayne Bay, which he bought for $6 million a couple of years ago, sources have said.
He still owns a Malibu home, but he has listed all of his property in Kauai, including a $1-million home site next to the house he sold, a $1.7-million polo field and a five-acre, 14-lot subdivision.
Stallone has owned his Beverly Hills-area home, off Benedict Canyon, since December 1990, when he was said to have bought it from financier Kirk Kerkorian for $5.7 million. Stallone had leased the 8,400-square-foot house for three years before buying it. The house was the main residence on Kerkorian’s 31-acre estate, which was once listed at $25 million before the property was subdivided.
The house has a master and three guest suites; an art gallery, gym, pool, tennis court and lighted eight-hole putting green. Stallone added a movie theater to the house, which is on a promontory with mountain and canyon views.
Stallone, 49, became the highest paid performer in Hollywood last year with nearly $70 million in movie commitments, playing action-adventure heroes in such films as “Judge Dredd” and “Assassins.”
His next film, an action movie due out in the fall, is “Daylight” for Universal, but last month, with the 20th anniversary of his first “Rocky,” Stallone said he wanted to “go back to doing the things that drew” him into films in the first place, “dramas with ensemble casts.”
In June, he will play a shy, hearing-impaired sheriff in “Copland,” a project of Miramax, which released “Il Postino (The Postman)” and “Restoration.” “Copland” is also a departure for Stallone in that it has a budget of about $10 million; Stallone has been earning $20 million a film.
Stallone, twice divorced, is engaged to model Jennifer Flavin, and they are expecting a child in August. Nicole Segal has the Beverly Hills-area listing at the Estates Division, the Prudential-Jon Douglas Co., Brentwood. Pat Harrington, Harrington’s Paradise Properties in Kauai, represented Stallone in the house sale and has the listings on the actor’s other Kauai properties.
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Grammy Award-winning vocalist MELISSA ETHERIDGE has sold the Hollywood Hills home she bought in 1994 from producer Edward R. Pressman (“Hoffa,” “The Crow”). Etheridge, 34, sold her four-bedroom, Mediterranean-style house for about $1.3 million, sources say. She had paid about $1.2 million for it. Built in 1933, the nearly 3,000-square-foot house has a pool and city views.
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FRANK COLLISON, who plays telegraph operator Horace Bing on “Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman,” has completed a $150,000 remodeling and addition at his 2,100-square-foot La Crescenta home. Collison will film the 100th episode of the CBS series in May.
The addition is a 440-square-foot great room, which has 20 windows, two sets of French doors and a clerestory tower above a kitchen island. Now Collison, 48, and his wife, Sheila, can cook, dine and entertain in a bright open area, he says. They also expanded the existing master bath and bedrooms to bring in more light and outdoor access.
Jacek Lisiewicz and Laurie Weir of Arkhos-Tekton designed the room, built by Walker & Walker Construction in time for the arrival of the Collisons’ third child.
Lisiewicz was also co-designer of the Jack Rabbit Slim’s diner set for “Pulp Fiction,” Collison said.
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A West Hollywood building designed and used by the late architect LLOYD WRIGHT as his pied-a-terre and studio/office has been sold to the owners of Command A Studio, a firm that won a Grammy Award for designing Frank Zappa’s album “Civilization Phase III.”
Built in 1927, the 2,400-square-foot building, on the National Register of Historic Places and a city landmark, was sold for about $400,000, according to public records. Command A Studio will move into the landmark after it is restored with the help of Eric Wright, Lloyd Wright’s son and Frank Lloyd Wright’s grandson, sources say.
Trudi A. Katz, of John Aaroe & Associates at the Pacific Design Center, represented the buyers, and Stan Nelson and Chris Mara, both of the Prudential-Jon Douglas Co. in Beverly Hills, had the listing.
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A 10,000-square-foot Bel-Air house built in 1929 and owned at one time by silent-screen star CLARA BOW has come on the market at $3.5 million. The house was a design-showcase house in 1992, as a benefit for the Venice Family Clinic.
The home is listed with Joe Babajian and Judy Cycon, both of Fred Sands Estates, Beverly Hills.
