One Step Closer to Taking a Year Off
Ellen DeGeneres and Anne Heche have put their Hancock Park home on the market at $3.5 million.
The former star of the ABC sitcom “Ellen” told The Times in December that she and her partner, who co-stars in the remake of “Psycho,” wanted to sell the house and take a year off. There have been subsequent reports of them moving to Montecito.
Their Hancock Park home of about a year was built in the 1920s but was extensively refurbished by DeGeneres and Heche. The Spanish-style home has a master suite with a deck, two other bedrooms and a basement in about 5,000 square feet. The home also has a pool.
DeGeneres, 40, made TV history when her character disclosed her homosexuality in April 1997, and became the first openly gay lead in a series. Besides “Psycho,” Heche, 29, co-starred in the 1998 movies “Six Days/Seven Nights” and “Return to Paradise.”
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Martina Navratilova has listed her 100-acre Aspen, Colo., horse ranch at $7.9 million, according to the Jan. 12 issue of duPont Registry.
At 28, the tennis star first went to Aspen in 1984 for Christmas. She bought a small house there by 1985 and three years later hired local architects Michael Ernemann and Harry Teague to design her 7,229-square-foot contemporary home.
The Czechoslovakia-born Navratilova, 42, is spending more time in Europe, and she has decided she doesn’t need a large home.
The house has a floor-to-ceiling glass wall, media room, gym and master suite with a library. There is also a two-bedroom caretaker’s apartment and a new horse barn on the property.
Carol Ann Jacobson Realty Inc. in Aspen has the listing.
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Charles Shyer and Nancy Meyers, who co-wrote “The Parent Trap” and “Father of the Bride Part II” (1995) as well as “Baby Boom” (1987) and other movies, have sold their home in the hills of Sherman Oaks for just under $1.4 million. Shyer, 57, and Meyers, 48, are also producers and directors.
Their home, of almost 20 years, was built in 1935 by cowboy star Tom Mix. The home, on half an acre, has a four-bedroom, 4,500-square-foot house plus a guest house, stables and a pool.
Dr. Alex Tovar, a San Fernando Valley surgeon, and his wife, Maria, are the buyers. They were represented by Rick Chimienti of DBL Estates, Beverly Hills.
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