New Beat Moves Her to Wilshire
TV personality and Revlon model DAISY FUENTES, the first video jockey to appear on both the Spanish language MTV and the original MTV, has leased a condo on the Wilshire Corridor for about $7,000 a month, sources say.
Fuentes is in town to take over as host of “America’s Funniest Home Videos” on ABC, a source said.
She will continue, however, as new host of MTV’s “House of Style,” in which she will host segments on location and in the “House of Style” studio in New York City’s Times Square, and she will remain a representative of Revlon’s cosmetic, fragrance and beauty lines.
Fuentes, 30, was born in Cuba but moved to Spain with her family when she was 3. Fluent in Spanish and English, she began her career in 1986 as a news reporter and anchor for a New York affiliate.
Later, she co-hosted several programs for MTV; made guest appearances on “Dream On” and “Cybill”; appeared on the covers of several magazines, including the Spanish-language versions of Cosmopolitan and Harper’s Bazaar; and hosted her own talk show on CNBC.
She has leased a three-bedroom 2,400-square-foot condo in a high-rise building for six months with an option for at least another six months, sources say.
The fully furnished unit, decorated in whites and creams, has a terrace, a spacious master suite and fireplace in the living room, which has city-to-ocean views.
Fuentes maintains homes in New Jersey and Miami, sources added.
Doris Lazner of Lazner Realty Co., Beverly Hills, represented Fuentes in her lease; Joan Cohen and Melinda Riddell of Sotheby’s International Realty had the listing.
Playboy magazine founder HUGH HEFNER has sold the Malibu retreat he bought in 1992 as a daytime beach house for his wife and two young sons. Escrow closed last week on the $2.1-million sale.
Hefner, 72, put the retreat on the market at just under $2.2 million about a year ago, because it no longer served his family’s purpose as a daytime refuge from the corporate life of the Playboy Mansion, where Hefner and his family live, Hefner’s spokesman said.
As the boys got older and started going to school, Hefner bought a house near the Holmby Hills mansion as a daytime retreat. Last year, he sold that house and bought the house next door to the mansion for the same purpose.
The Malibu house, which the Hefners remodeled, is 3,500 square feet and is on the water.
Katie Ribnick-Bentzen of Fred Sands Realtors, Malibu, represented the buyer, an owner of several mobile home parks in California, other sources said.
Screenwriter-director-comedian STEVE OEDEKERK, who made his writing-directing debut with the Jim Carrey movie “Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls” (1995), has listed his San Juan Capistrano home at a bit more than $1 million and purchased a two-acre estate nearby at close to its asking price of $2.75 million, sources say.
Oedekerk, 36, also wrote “The Nutty Professor” (1996) and “Nothing to Lose” (1997), which he directed and appears in as wacky security guard Baxter. He headlined his own 1997 NBC comedy special, “steve.oederkerk.com,” which aired in September.
A stand-up comic and TV sketch comedy writer during the late 1980s, Oedekerk met Carrey while both were performing at the Comedy Store, and in 1992 Oedekerk joined the writing staff of the Fox comedy “In Living Color,” sharing an office with Carrey.
The Mediterranean-style home that Oedekerk listed has five bedrooms and a loft, a rock pool, spa and waterfall and is in the gated community of Hunters Creek. He bought a 5,000-square-foot Spanish-style home with a 1,100-square-foot guest house, 3,600-square-foot clubhouse, pool and tennis court. Oedekerk is married and has a daughter.
John Miller, First Team Real Estate in Dana Point, has the listing and represented Oedekerk in his home purchase.
San Francisco-based designer JESSICA McCLINTOCK, known for her romantic prom dresses and accessories for nearly 30 years, has sold a Bel-Air home she has owned for about a year to a Westside financial advisor and his wife for close to its $2.1-million asking price, sources say.
McClintock is the head of a $145-million-plus company that also is known for its fragrances and home accessories, particularly a bedding and bath collection that targets 5- to 16-year-old girls.
The company, which opened its 25th boutique in San Francisco this year, provided formal dresses for the 1997 movie “Speed 2: Cruise Control.”
The house, one of a number owned by McClintock, was the home of actor Walter Pidgeon from the 1940s until he died in 1984. It remained his widow’s home until earlier this decade. Then it was sold to fashion designer David Dart, who sold it to McClintock.
Built in 1934, the country English-style house has six bedrooms in 4,500 square feet, behind gates.
Sally Brant of Coldwell Banker / Jon Douglas Co., Brentwood, represented the buyers, and Marykay Nibley of Fred Sands, Brentwood, had the listing, other sources said. Brant also has the $949,000 listing on the buyer’s four-bedroom former home in Little Holmby.
HERB NANAS, who co-produced such movies as “Mother” (1996) and “Two Days in the Valley” (1996), and his wife of 36 years, Felisa, have purchased a Mediterranean-style mini-estate in the Tarzana foothills for close to $750,000, sources say. The house was originally listed at $849,000.
After renting for many years in the Hollywood Hills, the couple bought the home to be near their children in the West Valley and business on the Westside, sources said.
Herb Nanas is a principal partner in Moress-Nanas-Hart Entertainment, which manages such actors as Albert Brooks, Joe Penny, Gary Busey and Lorenzo Lamas and supermodel Carol Alt. He is also an executive producer of Lamas’ upcoming syndicated TV series “Air America.”
Built in 1994, the house that the Nanases bought has four bedrooms in 3,500 square feet. The Nanases are installing security gates, a pool and an entertainment area. The half-acre site has a putting green.
Matthew Mealey and Dori Marler of Coldwell Banker-Jon Douglas Co., Encino, represented the sellers; Nevin Harrison of Geary Family Real Estate, Sherman Oaks, represented the Nanases.
DOS VISTAS, a 1,400-acre ranch that is contiguous to Ronald and Nancy Reagan’s 650-acre ranch in the Santa Barbara area, has been listed at $5.5 million, about the same asking price as the property of the former president and first lady.
The ranch, which shares a driveway with the Reagans’ Rancho del Cielo, has a 3,000-square-foot main house, a guest house, corrals, barns, a variety of trees and a large pond fed by a natural spring. Dos Vistas has, as it name indicates, two views: the ocean and the Santa Ynez Valley.
Gene O’Hagan of Fred Sands Estates, Montecito, and Kerry Mormann of Kerry Mormann Real Estate, Santa Barbara, share the listing.
