Keeping ‘Bridges’ Open to Malibu
CHEECH MARIN, who plays Joe Dominguez on Don Johnson’s CBS crime drama “Nash Bridges,” and his wife, artist Patti Heid, have decided to lease out one of the houses in their beachfront Malibu compound.
Marin was in three 1996 movies: “From Dusk Till Dawn,” “The Great White Hype” and “Tin Cup,” in which he sang “Estoy Sentado Aqui.” He also performed the song “Basketball Jones” for “Space Jam” (1996), played a short bartender in “Desperado” (1995) and was the voice of Banzai the hyena in “The Lion King” (1994).
A native of Los Angeles, Marin, 50, gained fame as half of Cheech & Chong, one of the top comedy acts of the 1970s and ‘80s. He played a temperamental chef in the CBS sitcom “The Golden Palace,” a spinoff of “The Golden Girls,” during the 1992-93 season.
At that time, he and his wife put their 1.6-acre Malibu estate on the market at $6.9 million. Later, they changed their minds about selling.
Since he started appearing in “Nash Bridges,” filmed in San Francisco, the couple decided to lease out one of the two houses on their Malibu estate. Whichever house is not leased will remain their part-time residence. They are already leasing a place in the San Francisco area.
Their so-called “beach house,” with 110 feet of private beach in Malibu, is available at $12,000 a month for a year or at $25,000 a month in July and August.
The four-bedroom, three-bath house is on a landscaped bluff of just under an acre. It has separate guest quarters with an office and steam room. There are also two guest rooms, each with a kitchenette and bath, over the garage.
The other house in the Marins’ compound is available at $10,000 a month. It has 30-foot ceilings in the living room, a loft-style master suite and two other bedrooms. It also has two pools and a walking path down to the beach.
Marin has owned the property since the mid-’70s. He and his wife have refurbished much of it, and they built the guest apartments and an observation deck.
Jack Pritchett of Pritchett-Rapf & Associates, Malibu, has the listing.
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VIRGINIA MADSEN, who appears in the upcoming courtroom movie “The Rainmaker” with Danny Glover and Danny DeVito, has settled into the former Hollywood Hills estate of early Hollywood screen star Helen Twelvetrees, who died in 1958 at the age of 49.
Madsen, 35, played Dixie DeLaughter in “Ghosts of Mississippi” (1996) and was in “The Prophecy” (1995) and “Candyman” (1992).
She bought the 4,000-square-foot home from Bill Bennett, president of Geffen Records, for just under $1 million, industry sources said. The gated home has a main house with four bedrooms and maid’s quarters plus a guest house.
It was built in the late 1920s for Twelvetrees, who co-starred with Maurice Chevalier in “Bedtime Story” (1933). She was in the early talkie “Her Man” (1930).
Madsen was represented by Jeanine Sales and Bennett was represented by Carole Gillie, both of John Aaroe & Associates at the Pacific Design Center.
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JERRY DOUGLAS, who has played patriarch John Abbott on the CBS daytime drama “The Young and the Restless” for 15 years, and his entertainment-reporter wife, Kym, have bought a Brentwood home for about $1.3 million and sold a Hollywood Hills house for $780,000, sources have said.
He appeared in the movies “JFK” (1991) and “Mommie Dearest” (1981). She has been on E! Entertainment’s “The Gossip Show” and HBO’s “World Entertainment Report.”
They bought a four-bedroom 3,500-square-foot house behind gates. The house was built a couple of years ago. They sold a four-bedroom 2,500-square-foot house built in 1951 with a two-story living room and city views.
Michael Collins, Joe Babajian and Mindy Williamson, all of Fred Sands’ Beverly Hills office, shared the listing on the Hollywood Hills house and represented the couple in buying their Brentwood home. Doug Taylor of Jon Douglas Co., Beverly Hills, had the Brentwood listing.
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ALI BONGO, son of the president of Gabon, has purchased a Beverly Hills house for nearly its $4.8-million asking price. The five-bedroom 11,000-square-foot house was built in 1992.
Gabon, in western central Africa, has been ruled by the 60-year-old Omar Bongo, once known as Albert Bernard Bongo, for 30 years. Ali Bongo, 40, has been described as an emissary of the president.
Kurt Rappaport of Stan Herman-Stephen Shapiro & Associates, Beverly Hills, represented the buyer, other sources said.
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PHILLIP BARLOW, president of Disney’s Buena Vista Pictures Distribution, has purchased a Hollywood Hills house known as “Wolf’s Lair” for about $2.4 million and listed his Laughlin Park home, built by Cecil B. DeMille for his daughter Cecilia, at just under $2 million.
“Wolf’s Lair” was built in 1927 by L. Milton Wolf, a developer who left a fairy-tale look on a number of houses in the neighborhood where “Wolf’s Lair” is situated, overlooking Lake Hollywood. The home resembles a small castle with its turrets, towers and ramparts.
After Wolf died in the ‘50s, the 1,900-square-foot original house and gate house, designed by architect John Lautner, were rented out to such celebrities as Doris Day and Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
The Laughlin Park home was built in 1930 but has been restored and has a media room, library, spa and sauna. The walled and gated house is listed with Jodi Hodges at Fred Sands’ Los Feliz and Sunset Strip offices, and Dorothy Carter at the Prudential-Douglas Co., Sunset Strip.
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BARRY NOLAN, a reporter on the TV show “Hard Copy,” has purchased a two-bedroom, two-bath condo in Santa Monica for just under $500,000.
The unit is in a development across the street from the beach and has ocean views. Nolan was renting in the building before he bought the condo.
Randi Pollock of Fred Sands’ Santa Monica office and Phyllis Pollock of Fred Sands’ Marina del Rey office represented both sides of the deal.
