Hills (Holmby, Beverly) Are Alive With Sound of Moving
HUGH HEFNER and his wife, Kimberly, have sold the Beverly Glen house they bought in 1995 as a family retreat from life in the Playboy Mansion, their main residence.
The Playboy magazine founder and his wife, who was 1988 Playmate of the Year, remodeled the Beverly Glen house, which they sold for $2.2 million, say industry sources.
They had purchased the six-bedroom, 6,000-square-foot house, built in the 1930s, for $2 million. During remodeling last year, the house next door to the Playboy Mansion, in Holmby Hills, came on the market.
Partly because of its convenience and partly because it was a “sister house” to the Playboy Mansion, having been built in the 1920s by the same original owner, Hefner, now 71, and his wife, 34, decided to buy that house for $6.7 million and to sell the one in Beverly Glen.
The buyers of the Beverly Glen house are a local businessman and his wife, who were represented by Kurt Rappaport of Stan Herman/Stephen Shapiro & Associates, Beverly Hills.
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LUTHER VANDROSS, the veteran R&B; crooner known for his classic phrasing and rich baritone voice, has sold his Beverly Hills home of more than 10 years.
The Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter returned almost two years ago to New York City, where he was born 46 years ago today. He has said that he would “love to live in Los Angeles” but that most of his friends live in the East.
The Beverly Hills home was built in 1983 by former TV entertainment reporter Rona Barrett.
The nearly 10,000-square-foot house has five bedrooms plus maid’s quarters, three bars and a game room. It also has a 50-seat movie theater, which Vandross built. The home is on almost an acre behind gates and has a circular drive.
The house sold in the $3-million range, say sources not involved in the deal. The buyer was a foreign corporation. Vandross bought the house for $5.8 million in 1986.
Vandross has sung in several movies, including “Ruthless People” (1986) and “The Meteor Man” (1993), but he is better known for his concert and TV appearances and such albums as “Your Secret Love” (1996). He is also known for writing songs for such singers as Aretha Franklin, Diana Ross and Dionne Warwick.
Gila Yashari of Stan Herman/Stephen Shapiro & Associates, Beverly Hills, had the listing.
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Actor DERMOT MULRONEY, 33, and his wife, actress CATHERINE KEENER, 35, have bought the Los Feliz home of jazz pianist CHICK COREA, 55, and his wife, singer GAYLE MORAN, for $1.35 million, industry sources say.
Mulroney played Winona Ryder’s fiance in “How to Make an American Quilt,” and he portrayed a cop tracking a serial killer in “Copycat,” both 1995 movies. In 1996, he was in “Kansas City,” and he co-starred with Keener in the Tom DeCillo-directed movie “Box of Moonlight.”
Keener also worked with DeCillo in “Johnny Suede” (1992), starring Brad Pitt. She played Demi Moore’s sister-in-law in the 1996 HBO movie “If These Walls Could Talk.”
Corea and Moran sold their home of 20 years because their children are grown and Corea, who has won several Grammys, is on the road, recording and performing most of the year.
Built in 1933, the home has a four-bedroom main house with 20-foot ceilings, a sound studio, butler’s passage and pantry. There are also two guest houses, a pool and sauna.
The home had been listed by Tomi Bowling of Adrian Realty, and the buyers were represented by Karen Weiss of Fred Sands’ Los Feliz office.
The Malibu estate of the late composer, pianist and Grammy-winning arranger GORDON JENKINS and his late wife, BEVERLY, has been listed at $4.25 million.
During the 1940s, Beverly Jenkins was one of the best-known singers in radio as the “Miss” in “Six Hits and a Miss,” and she performed as a soloist on Dick Haymes’ radio show.
Gordon Jenkins, a member of the Songwriters Hall of Fame, won a Grammy for arrangements in Frank Sinatra’s “September of My Years” album. He arranged and conducted for Louis Armstrong, Judy Garland and Ella Fitzgerald. Jenkins died in 1984. His widow died in December.
Their Malibu property, with 60 feet of beach frontage, has been in the family for 50 years. The original Cape Cod-style house burned down, except for the still-existing recording studio, in the 1978 Malibu fire. The house built in 1980 has two master suites plus two other bedrooms.
Jack Pritchett of Pritchett-Rapf & Associates, Malibu, has the listing. He is a longtime family friend.
A circular Woodland Hills house designed by the late Oklahoma architect BRUCE GOFF, who designed the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s Pavilion for Japanese Art, has been listed at $379,000.
The 1,730-square-foot house is four stories high and 24 feet in diameter. The top floor is cantilevered over the other levels, which all look down on a fish pond. The 12-foot-wide stairwell is also an art gallery with sitting spaces. The 6-foot-wide front door pivots on a ball bearing. There is multicolored mosaic in the showers, fireplace and pond.
The home was Goff’s last design before he died in 1982 and is the only example of his residential work on the West Coast. The house was completed in 1988 by its owner, the late Al Struckus, a retired Rocketdyne engineer.
It is co-listed by Claudia Petroski and Robert L. Feigenbaum, both of Fred Sands Realtors, Woodland Hills.
