To a Country Manor for the Holidays
Actress Jane Seymour and her husband, actor-director James Keach, left Los Angeles on Monday to spend Christmas at their home in England.
The home is a 14th century country manor on about 14 acres near Bath. Known as St. Catherine’s Court, the home has a main house with eight bedrooms, 6 1/2 baths, six reception rooms, ballroom, tennis court, Victorian pool and stables.
The couple also rents out the home at $16,500 a week, including a chef, maid and property manager.
“They rent it out, because it costs a fortune to keep it up,” Seymour’s spokesman said. The actress, 47, has owned the home for 16 years.
Seymour, star of the long-running but canceled “Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman,” co-stars with Keach in the ABC special “Modern Swiss Family Robinson,” to air Jan. 10.
The couple also just published, through G.P. Putnam’s Sons, the first two in a series of children’s books to benefit Childhelp USA, for abused children. The series, “This One ‘n That One,” is about the couple’s 3-year-old twins and their four siblings, depicted in the books as cats.
St. Catherine’s Court is handled by Wendy Wachtel and Alfredo Merat of Overseas Connection in Sag Harbor, N.Y.
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Sammo Hung, star of the CBS comedy-action series “Martial Law,” and his actress wife, Mina, have moved into the Encino home they bought this fall for about $689,000.
Hung, 46, has appeared in more than 140 kung fu movies, and he directed “Mr. Nice Guy” (1998), starring Jackie Chan.
The gated Encino home has four bedrooms in about 4,000 square feet and was built in 1934. The Hungs also have a home in his native Hong Kong.
Carol Wolfe of Coldwell Banker-Jon Douglas Co., Encino, had the listing; Irene Tsu, of the firm’s Beverly Hills office, represented the Hungs.
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Former Dodgers All-Star first baseman Steve Garvey and wife Candace have sold their Encino home for close to $1.4 million. The couple, now leasing in Bel-Air, moved because of their expanding family. Their third child was born in November.
The former baseball star, who turned 50 on Tuesday, heads a corporate consulting group and has done some acting, but he has said that he is “keeping an eye” on Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s seat, which is up in 2000.
The Country English-style home, where the Garveys had lived for nearly two years, is on 1.3 acres and has four bedrooms plus maid’s quarters in 3,400 square feet. The grounds have rose gardens, a pool and a paddle-tennis court.
Marsha Gold of Hilton & Hyland, Beverly Hills, had the listing.
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