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Actress BROOKE SHIELDS and her husband, tennis star ANDRE AGASSI, have purchased a Pacific Palisades home for a bit more than $3 million, sources say.

The couple also have a home in Las Vegas that Agassi bought for about $2 million just before he and Shields were married in April, and he also owns a compound in a gated development in Las Vegas, his hometown.

Shields, 32, stars in the NBC sitcom “Suddenly Susan,” now in its second season. Agassi, 27, won the 1996 U.S. Olympic gold medal, 1995 Australian Open, 1994 U.S. Open and 1992 Wimbledon. This year, he has struggled with injuries and has withdrawn from several tournaments.

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This is the first home that either Shields or Agassi has owned in the L.A. area, sources say. Shields, a former model, rented after moving here last year from her native New York to do her series.

The Palisades house has six bedrooms in about 5,400 square feet. The library, kitchen and dining and living rooms are on the second floor.

Built in the 1980s, the house has been described as country style with post and beam construction. The home also has a pool.

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LISA RINNA, who plays restaurateur Taylor McBride on Fox’s prime-time soap “Melrose Place,” has put her former home in the hills of Sherman Oaks on the market at $335,000.

Rinna is the actress who replaced Hunter Tylo when “Melrose Place” producers terminated Tylo after she became pregnant. Tylo is alleging wrongful termination and discrimination in a suit.

Rinna, 33, is selling her Sherman Oaks house because she married former “L.A. Law” star Harry Hamlin, 44, in March, and they are living in the Beverly Hills area.

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Before joining “Melrose Place,” Rinna was on the NBC daytime drama “Days of Our Lives,” and she was the lead in Danielle Steel’s “Vanished,” an NBC movie. Hamlin, who appeared on the sitcom “Ink,” made his Broadway debut last year in the play “Summer and Smoke.”

Built in 1955, the two-bedroom 1,450-square-foot house has a wooden deck overlooking a garden and a number of mature trees. Rinna has owned the home for a few years.

Cissy Wellman of the Studio City and Brentwood offices of Coldwell Banker-Jon Douglas Co. has the listing.

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ANTHONY KIEDIS, lead singer of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, has sold his Hollywood home of seven years for just less than $600,000 to NBC TV’s “Extra” correspondent Suzanne Rico, sources say.

Kiedis, 35, is recovering from a motorcycle accident in July in which he shattered his wrist after being hit by a car. Since closing escrow, he has been staying with friends and looking for a larger house, sources said.

Built in 1989, the Hollywood house has three bedrooms in about 2,400 square feet, with views of the city and Griffith Park. The house also has a pool, spa and several terraces.

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The buyer plans to remodel, starting with a fireplace that Kiedis designed and had built of river rock in the shape of a female nude. (The Chili Peppers, founded in 1983, emerged in the ‘90s as a premier band, known at times for its focus on sex.)

Jory Burton of the Sunset Strip office of Coldwell Banker-Jon Douglas Co. represented the buyer, and Barry Sloane of Fred Sands’ Beverly Hills office had the listing, records show.

Entertainment lawyer TOM HANSEN and his wife, talent manager Judy Hofflund, have sold their home on the L.A. Country Club for about $1.2 million and bought a house on the Bel-Air golf course for about $3 million, sources say.

Hansen is a partner in Hansen, Jacobson, Teller & Hoberman, one of Hollywood’s busiest deal-making law firms.

Hansen, in his 40s, and his partner, Craig Jacobson, represented NBC’s “Friends” stars Jennifer Aniston and David Schwimmer and “Seinfeld” co-star Julia Louis-Dreyfus in securing their large pay hikes last year.

Hofflund’s management company, Hofflund Polone, has represented such clients as Laura Dern, Mia Farrow, Alan Rickman and Cybill Shepherd.

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Loren Judd of Stan Herman / Stephen Shapiro & Associates, Beverly Hills, represented Hansen and Hofflund in their real estate deals.

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A Coldwater Canyon house owned during the 1940s and ‘50s by late actress DOROTHY LAMOUR has come on the market at just less than $1.9 million.

The Georgian traditional style house was built in 1939. It has four bedrooms and a curved staircase in 4,100 square feet, and it is on an acre-plus.

Lamour, who died in 1996 at age 81, lived in the house during her heyday, when she was known for her portrayals of South Sea heroines dressed in her trademark silk sarong. She was in about 60 movies, including the Bob Hope-Bing Crosby road comedies.

The current owner, Norwegian venture capitalist Sven Hana, bought the house two months ago. If he doesn’t sell it as is, he may refurbish it, sources say.

Ed Fitz at Nourmand & Associates, Beverly Hills, has the listing.

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Australian producer-director-writer DAIZY GEDEON, who is developing a four-hour miniseries with Leo Mir based on their documentary “Lebanon . . . Imprisoned Splendour,” has leased a Malibu house at $6,000 a month, sources say.

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The Lebanese-born Australian journalist has said that she felt the need to come to terms with the country she left at age 5 in 1970, five years before conflict erupted there. She and Mir produced the documentary, narrated by Omar Sharif, who was born in Lebanon.

Gedeon leased a three-bedroom 3,000-square-foot house through May, a source said. The miniseries, “Lebanon: A Search for Identity,” is due to go into production next year in Lebanon, Australia, France and the United States. Gedeon and Mir are writing the teleplay; Gedeon will direct.

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