Malibu Buyer Is His Newest Role
John Cusack, who plays a puppeteer in the movie “Being John Malkovich,” has purchased a Malibu home for slightly more than $2 million.
Cusack, 33, also plays the late former New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller in the Tim Robbins-directed movie “Cradle Will Rock,” to be released in Los Angeles and New York Friday. The film, which also stars Susan Sarandon and Hank Azaria, tells true stories of Depression-era struggles between artistic and political interests, including the one that developed when Rockefeller commissioned Diego Rivera to create a mural for the lobby of Rockefeller Center.
Cusack also appears in the upcoming movie “High Fidelity,” about an immature record shop owner unlucky in love. It is due out in the new year.
Among the other movies in which Cusack has appeared are “Pushing Tin” (1999), “The Thin Red Line” (1998), “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil” (1997), “Con Air” (1997) and “Grosse Point Blank” (1997), which he co-wrote and co-produced.
Cusack’s new home has four bedrooms in about 3,300 square feet. Built in the 1970s, it also has a guest apartment with a private entrance; ocean views, decks and a patio.
Interscope Records co-chief Jimmy Iovine and his author-columnist wife, Vicki, have sold their Malibu home in the low $5-million range.
The music entrepreneur, 46, and his wife moved to Holmby Hills to be closer to his office in Westwood. She wrote the “Girlfriends’ ” guides to pregnancy and motherhood and is a columnist for The Times’ Southern California Living Section as well as a parenting correspondent for NBC’s “Later Today.”
In November, Jimmy Iovine and Universal Music Group head Doug Morris announced the formation of an Internet venture, “Jimmy and Doug’s Farm Club,” a Web site on which unsigned artists can post songs and vie for the attention of record company executives. The site should be running by February.
The Iovines listed their Malibu home more than a year ago. They bought their Holmby Hills home in April 1998 for $11.5 million. They spent many months having seismic work done to the house before moving in to it. The house was designed by Wallace Neff in 1937.
The Iovines built their Malibu home in 1990. The six-bedroom house of nearly 12,000 square feet is on about three acres. The ocean-view home also has a fenced-in play area, two family rooms, a children’s garden, air-conditioned and heated dog houses, a pool, gym, yoga room, screening room and office.
It was sold to an entertainment executive, Malibu sources said.
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Concert promoter and artist manager Bill Silva has purchased the Hollywood Hills home of hair transplant specialist Dr. L. Lee Bosley and his wife, Sandy, for about its $1.9-million asking price.
The one-story country villa has three bedrooms and two fireplaces in about 3,500 square feet. Built in 1972, the house also has a pool.
The doctor, founder and director of the Beverly Hills-based Bosley Medical Institute, and his wife sold their Hollywood Hills home because they bought a larger newly built home in the same area.
Silva, 40, formerly lived in San Diego, where his Bill Silva Presents became San Diego’s oldest and largest pop concert promotion company. He still has a San Diego home.
Doron Langer of Westside Estate Agency in Beverly Hills represented Silva; Drew Mandile and Brooke Knapp of Sotheby’s International Realty in Beverly Hills represented the Bosleys.
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A Bel-Air home that was designed in 1965 by architect Quincy Jones for the late attorney Edward Lasker and his wife, Cynthia, has been listed at $9 million.
The 7,400-square-foot house is on a 3.2-acre knoll and has a master suite plus four other bedrooms and two guest suites. The home also has a screening facility, gardens, a pool and city views.
Edward Lasker, son of advertising pioneer Albert Lasker, died in 1997 at 85.
Constance Chesnut of Coldwell Banker’s Beverly Hills North office has the listing.
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Architect Richard Landry, who has designed homes for such celebrities as Kenny G, Bruce Jenner and Sugar Ray Leonard, has completed construction on his own 5,000-square-foot home in Malibu.
The house was built from the wood of a 100-year-old barn in Quebec.
“The barn was two miles from my parents’ home,” the architect, 42, said. “I used all the barn wood in the house, but in a contemporary context.”
Landry’s new home has a two-story great room, a gym, a steam room, and a pool that looks like a water tank. Because he used rough materials like concrete blocks, he built the house for about $150 a square foot, he said. He also used some noncombustible materials. His house is on 11 acres in the mountains of Malibu.
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