Arnolds’ Offer Is Hit With Singer
Singer-actress PAULA ABDUL has sold her Beverly Hills-area home to actor-comic TOM ARNOLD and his wife, Julie, for close to its asking price of $2.4 million.
Abdul, 36, co-stars in the romance mystery “The Waiting Game,” set for August on the Movie Channel. She also signed a multi-record deal with Mercury Records last fall. Her “Opposites Attract” music video won a Grammy in 1990.
Arnold, 39, was recently cast in the Oliver Stone-directed gridiron drama, “On Any Given Sunday” and the indie film “Shepherd,” about a group of high school jocks who try to cover up a murder.
The home, which Abdul had owned since 1991, when she paid about $2.98 million for it, had been on the market since fall 1996, when Abdul married L.A. clothing manufacturer Brad Beckerman. Abdul filed for divorce in March and recently moved to a condo she bought in West Hollywood, sources say.
The Arnolds have been living at their 20-acre horse ranch near Malibu, but they had wanted to move closer to town for some time. The ranch was listed in December at $3.9 million.
Built in 1990, the home Abdul sold is in a guard-gated community and has five bedrooms in 6,800 square feet.
The Spanish-style walled and gated villa has a rotunda entry with a fresco on the ceiling, heavy beams and carved stone fireplaces. The house also has a gym, koi pond and lagoon-style pool with an island and a beach.
Barbara Robinson of DBL Realtors, Beverly Hills, had the listing, and Christine Forrest of Coldwell Banker-Jon Douglas Co.’s Beverly Hills north office represented the Arnolds, other sources said.
Actor MIGUEL FERRER, co-star of the NBC midseason replacement show “Lateline” and the eldest son of late actor Jose Ferrer and singer Rosemary Clooney, and his wife, actress LEILANI SARELLE, have listed their Woodland Hills home at slightly more than $1.2 million.
“Lateline” was picked up for 13 more episodes as a midseason replacement next year, so the couple is moving to New York, where the comedy series, about a late-night network news show, will be filmed. It was shot in Hollywood this year.
Ferrer, 43, plays the tough-minded executive producer of “Lateline.” His breakthrough role was as a greedy businessman in “RoboCop” (1987). He also gained notice as the irritable FBI forensics expert on “Twin Peaks” (1990-91). He and his wife met on the set of “Harvest” (1993), in which he starred. She appeared in “Basic Instinct” (1992).
Their home, in the gate-guarded Westchester County Estates, has five bedrooms in 5,500 square feet. The Mediterranean-style house also has a courtyard with a fountain; a three-story entry; four fireplaces; a master suite with a sauna and a wet bar; and a library, gym, pool, spa and waterfall.
The home, built in 1986 and owned by Ferrer and Sarelle since the end of 1995, is listed with Selma Bates of Coldwell Banker-Jon Douglas Co., Woodland Hills.
Rep. MARY BONO (R-Palm Springs), Sonny Bono’s widow, has sold the Palm Springs home that she and her late husband bought in 1986, the year they were married, and she has purchased a smaller, newer home in a nearby community.
“It was a tough decision but a good move,” said Scott Lyle of Scott Lyle Realtors, who represented Bono in her sale and purchase.
“The estate [that she sold] is very large, with approximately 9,000 square feet on about two acres, and it required a lot of attention.”
Bono, 36, sold her home for $1.4 million. She bought a 5,600-square-foot home with a pool for $875,000.
The buyers of the Bono home are physicist A.S. Joseph, a former executive of Rockwell International, and D’Arcy Hill Joseph, an award-winning artist. The Josephs formerly lived in Simi Valley. They also have a home in Lake Arrowhead.
Karen Stearns with Coldwell Banker, Eadie Adams Realty, Palm Springs, represented the buyers.
The last home of billionaire industrialist ARMAND HAMMER, who died at age 92 in 1990, has been sold for slightly more than $2 million.
Built in 1936, the 4,400-square-foot Holmby Hills home has four bedrooms and a guest house plus an indoor pool. The house also has a front-door knocker in the shape of an arm with a hammer.
Hammer, founder and chairman of Occidental Petroleum, entertained several U.S. presidents in the library of the house, where he lived after marrying Frances in 1956. His wife, who died in 1989 at 87, had owned the home before they were married.
Sue Ann Simon of Coldwell Banker-Jon Douglas Co., Beverly Hills, had the listing.
A Bel-Air home built by MADELYN FIORITO JONES, widow of popular 1930s and ‘40s bandleader TED FIORITO, has been listed for the first time at $5.75 million.
Fiorito, who also collaborated in writing such songs as the Al Jolson hit “Toot, Toot, Tootsie, Goodbye,” died in 1971. His widow later remarried.
She built the 10,000-square-foot Bel-Air estate on a four-acre promontory with a tennis court 12 years ago. The house has massive walls to display art. Jones owned two art galleries in Palm Springs. She lived in the house for several years, then moved to the desert.
In recent years, she has leased out the house, which has floor-to-ceiling glass walls, an atrium with a terrace overlooking the pool and grounds, a gym, an office and a 200-foot-long driveway.
The five-bedroom home, which also has city-to-ocean views, is listed with Cecelia Waeschle and Joyce Rey of Coldwell Banker-Jon Douglas Co., Beverly Hills.
