Mother-to-Be Is Scaling Down
MADONNA has purchased a Mediterranean-style Los Feliz home, built in the 1920s, for $2.7 million, sources say.
The home was described as having a five-bedroom, 3,500-square-foot main house and a two-bedroom guest cottage. “She’s scaling down,” a source said.
The singer-actress has had her nine-level, 7,800-square-foot Hollywood home on the market for some time, most recently at $6.5 million. Her Hollywood house is also Mediterranean in style and was built in the ‘20s.
Madonna, who turned 38 on Aug. 16, is expecting her first child in November. The father, personal trainer Carlos Leon, and Madonna have been said to be living in her Manhattan co-op. She also has a house in Miami.
Madonna’s Los Feliz home, which was recently restored, was designed by the late architect Wallace Neff, sources say. It had been listed at $3.2 million.
“Evita,” the Alan Parker film in which Madonna stars as the Argentine First Lady Eva Peron, recently completed filming and is set for release in December.
Madonna won a Grammy for her “Madonna: Blonde Ambition World Tour Live” video in 1992 and has co-starred in such films as “Body of Evidence” (1993), “A League of Their Own” (1992) and “Dick Tracy” (1990).
Wrestler-actor TERRY “HULK” HOGAN, who stars in the upcoming action-comedy movie “The Secret Agent Club,” and his wife, Linda, have listed their Chatsworth property at just under $1.5 million.
The four-acre site, zoned for hourses, is in a gate-guarded community and has 250 feet of private lake frontage.
The site has a house, garage and barn on it but comes with plans for an 8,000-square-foot French Country-style estate. Built in 1950, the existing, 3,700-square-foot house has been described as “a tear-down” because of its “considerable deferred maintenance.”
The Hogans bought the property about eight years ago from comedian Redd Foxx, who died in 1991. The Hogans had considered building the 8,000-square-foot house in Chatsworth but opted, instead, to build a larger house in Florida, where they were living with their two children.
The family just moved into its newly built house, an 18,000-square-foot Country French-style home on the Gulf of Mexico near Tampa, where the wrestler, 43, was raised.
The house has tall doorways and two-story kitchen and master bedroom ceilings, all designed especially for the 6-foot-6 Hogan. There are also a gym, a boat house, pond-like swimming pool with waterfalls and many hand-crafted features, including 400-year-old roof tiles imported from France.
Gail Claridge of Westlake Village, the wrestler’s mother-in-law, designed the Florida house and the Chatsworth plans. Jeff Foster, married to Claridge’s other daughter, Christie, has the listing with the Prudential California Realty, North Ranch office, Westlake Village.
Guns N’ Roses guitarist SLASH, also known for his new band Slash’s Snakepit, has sold his Hollywood Hills house for close to its $1.3-million asking price, and he has purchased a Beverly Hills home for nearly $2.2 million, sources say.
His new home, a Spanish-style house built in 1929, is more than 11,000 square feet. His former home, which he had owned for a couple of years, is about 5,500 square feet.
Slash, 30, and singer Axl Rose are the best known members of Guns N’ Roses, the heavy rock band formed in the late 1980s.
Arleen Ruby of Nourmand & Associates, Beverly Hills, represented Slash in his sale and purchase; Terry Talbot of the same firm had the listing on Slash’s new home.
Former L.A. Raiders wide receiver WILLIE GAULT and his model-writer wife, DAINESSE, have listed their home in the southern part of Venice Beach at $1.2 million. They are looking for a larger home with a yard and tennis court, sources say. The couple have two children.
Gault, 35, is a former Olympic hurdler who played with the Chicago Bears before he was traded to the Raiders in 1988. He has appeared on TV as a sports commentator and as an actor, most recently in “Run for the Dream: The Gail Devers Story,” which was seen on Showtime in June.
The home has five bedrooms in about 4,500 square feet and three levels plus a rooftop deck overlooking the ocean. The Mediterranean-style home was built in 1989.
It’s listed with Michele Blackmon of Re/Max in Beverly Hills.
A 50-year-old house on three acres in Holmby Hills has been sold in the low $4-million range to a developer who plans to raze the residence, sources say.
The site, sold by a French industrialist, is in a neighborhood of homes owned by such celebrities as Gregory Peck, the Walt Disney family, Barbra Streisand and David Geffen.
Raymond Bekeris, John Bruce Nelson & Associates, represented both sides of the transaction.
