Busy by the Bay, He’s Burning His L.A. Bridges
Actor Don Johnson’s Beverly Hills-area home is on the market for $3.25 million.
Johnson, 49, spends most of his time in San Francisco, where he plays the title role in the CBS series “Nash Bridges,” co-starring Cheech Marin.
Since the series started, Johnson’s Beverly Hills-area house has been leased at various times to such entertainment figures as rock singer Ozzy Osbourne. Johnson has owned the home for about 10 years.
Built in 1941 but recently renovated, the gated Cape Cod-style house has five bedrooms and five baths in about 6,000 square feet.
It is on slightly more than an acre with a tennis court, garden and pool.
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Pia Zadora has sold her Malibu home for close to $5 million. The singer-actress, who performed in the 1995 Broadway musical “Crazy for You,” occasionally appears in movie cameos and in concert.
After buying the house in 1990, Zadora and her then-husband, businessman Meshulam Riklis, razed and rebuilt it. The seven-bedroom, 4,600-square-foot house has a courtyard, pool on an ocean-side deck and 45 feet of beach frontage.
The asking price was $6.1 million.
Before her 1995 divorce from Riklis, Zadora, now 45, owned Pickfair, the home of early screen stars Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks. Today Riklis owns the house, which he gutted, rebuilt and once listed at $40 million.
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Actor Louis Mandylor, who plays Los Angeles Police Det. Louis Malone on the CBS comedy-action series “Martial Law,” has become a first-time home buyer with his $400,000 purchase of a three-bedroom house with a pool in the hills overlooking the Sunset Strip.
Mandylor, 32, moved from his native Australia to Hollywood in the early ‘90s. He co-starred in the Jean-Claude Van Damme movie “The Quest” (1996), appeared in the TV movie “Renegade Force” (1998) and was in series such as “Grace Under Fire.”
He plans to renovate his 1,500-square-foot home, which was built in 1950. He intends to make it look “like a country cottage with lush grounds,” said his real estate agent, Helen Terplak of Coldwell Banker-Jon Douglas Co., Sunset Strip.
Erik Lerner of Mossler, Deasy & Doe, Beverly Hills, had the listing.
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For the Record: The Web site address for the Staples Center, where actor Tom Hanks leased a luxury suite (Hot Property, Jan. 28), is https://staplescenterla.com. Among events that may be held at the L.A. arena are next year’s Grammy Awards, not the ’99 show.
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