Now It’s Sunset Strip, 90069
JASON PRIESTLEY, who recently signed for an eighth year playing Brandon on the hit TV show “Beverly Hills, 90210,” has leased a Mediterranean-style house in the Sunset Strip area for four months at $10,000 a month, sources say.
Besides co-starring on the Fox series, Priestley, 27, has directed 14 episodes and was named a producer of the show in 1995. When the show was on hiatus last year, he co-starred in the independent movie “Love and Death on Long Island,” which was shown at Cannes this year. He also appears in the upcoming comedy film “Hacks,” co-starring Stephen Rea.
The one-time teen heartthrob, a former child star from Canada, also starred as a bookie-turned-hit man in the 1995 dark comedy “Coldblooded,” with Robert Loggia. The movie was produced by actor Michael J. Fox.
Priestley is a race-car enthusiast. He began racing in the early 1990s and by 1996 owned his own team, Triple Caution Racing, participating in Endurance Championship events, sanctioned by the International Motor Sports Assn.
He is leasing a house with three bedrooms and maid’s quarters in 4,000 square feet. The house, with city views and a pool, was built in the 1920s and was completely refurbished recently. Ice-skating star Katarina Witt leased the house earlier this year.
Priestley leased the house fully furnished, including linens and silver. He has lived in Los Angeles since 1987 and was sharing a home until this year with actress Christine Elise, his companion from 1992 until they separated recently, sources have said.
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DONNA MILLS, who played Abby Ewing in the prime-time CBS soap “Knots Landing” (1980-1989) and who last year joined the cast of the Fox prime-time soap “Melrose Place” in the recurring role as mother of fashion designer Jane Mancini (Josie Bissett), has put her Beverly Hills-area house on the market at just under $3 million.
Mills, in her early 50s, just left for Toronto to film “Moonlight Becomes You,” based on a novel by Mary Higgins Clark. It is due to air on the Family Channel this fall.
Mills first listed her house two years ago but then decided to stay there for a while with her infant daughter, whom Mills had just adopted. Mills wants to sell now because, she said, “I just want to move out of the hills and relocate farther west, where I want my daughter to go to school.” Mills has owned her home since 1985.
The country-style home, on two acres, was designed by architect Robert Byrd and built in 1953 but has been extensively renovated. There were five bedrooms in its 7,000 square feet before Mills turned one of the bedrooms into a playroom.
Among Mills’ additions is her favorite room, a blue-and-yellow kitchen with a center island. The gated home also has a living room, which overlooks a waterfall and pool, a family room and seven baths.
Joyce Rey and Cecelia Waeschle share the listing at the Prudential-Rodeo-Jon Douglas Co., Beverly Hills.
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BERNIE BRILLSTEIN, whose Brillstein-Grey Entertainment represents such stars as Brad Pitt and Nicolas Cage, and produces such programs as “The Larry Sanders Show” on HBO and “NewsRadio” on NBC, has sold his Beverly Hills home of 10 years for about $8.5 million to Steve Tisch, producer of the Oscar-winning “Forrest Gump” (1995), sources say.
Brillstein, 66, is said to have wanted to scale down.
Tisch, 47, is the son of Preston Robert Tisch, president and co-chief executive of Loew’s Corp. and a former U.S. postmaster general.
Built in the early 1930s, the English-style house was designed by the late architect Paul Williams and has nine bedrooms and a screening room in about 8,000 square feet.
The house is on almost eight mostly hilly acres and was owned at one time by the late actor Michael Landon and, more recently, by actor Bill Cosby.
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SANDY GALLIN, who has been the personal manager of such stars as Dolly Parton and Michael Jackson and is executive producer of the WB (Channel 5) series “Buffy, the Vampire Slayer,” has sold his Sunset Strip-area house for about $7 million, a record sale for the area, sources say.
Gallin, 56, had completely remodeled the five-bedroom house, which he bought in 1995 for about $2.4 million, sources have said. The 6,000-square-foot house was built in the 1920s and is on three acres with city views.
Gallin, who has built or remodeled about a dozen houses, also recently put his Malibu home, on 1.5 acres, on the market at $15 million. It has two guest houses, a gym, a movie theater and six fireplaces.
June Scott of June Scott Estates, a Jon Douglas Co., represented Gallin in the Sunset Strip-area sale and has his listing.
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JOELY FISHER, who plays Paige Clark on the sitcom “Ellen” and is the daughter of actress Connie Stevens and singer Eddie Fisher, has sold her Hollywood Hills home, and she and her husband of three months, cinematographer Christopher Duddy, have moved to Bel-Air, sources say.
Fisher, 29, sold her three-bedroom, 2,600-square-foot home, where she had lived for three years, for about $750,000, sources said.
The buyer was Sally Horchow, 26, an independent producer.
Horchow, a first-time home buyer, had been renting nearby. Fisher and Duddy, 35, wanted a larger house with a pool, sources said.
Horchow was represented by Ann M. Eysenring of Sotheby’s International Realty, Beverly Hills, and Fisher was represented by Debra Love of John Aaroe & Associates, Beverly Hills, other sources said.
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A Newport Beach house built in 1972 by the late businessman and philanthropist GEORGE HOAG II, founder of Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian in Newport Beach, has been sold for close to its $4.4-million asking price, a record sale for the Balboa Peninsula, sources say.
The six-bedroom, 6,000-square-foot home has 65 feet of grassy bay front, an elevator, a walk-in vault, a pool, a spa and a Japanese blue-tile roof.
The buyer was described as the owner of a company that makes medical devices; the seller, a retired real estate developer. Dave Wong of Coast Newport Properties represented both parties in the deal.
