The Rap Doc Is In--a Larger Home
Music producer Andre Young, known to rap fans as Dr. Dre, and his wife, Nicole, have purchased a San Fernando Valley house for about $4.9 million.
The Grammy-winning entrepreneur, 34, is CEO of Aftermath Entertainment, a subsidiary record label of Interscope Communications. He and his protege Eminem collaborated on a song for the soundtrack of the movie “Wild Wild West.”
The Youngs bought an 18,000-square-foot home in a guard-gated community. They plan to renovate the house, which is closer to town than their Chatsworth home of three years.
They have listed that home at $4.9 million. Situated on 7 1/2 acres zoned for horses, the home has six bedrooms plus a two-bedroom staff apartment in about 15,000 square feet.
Built in 1986, the English country-style estate also has a guest house/cabana, a pool and waterfall, putting green, tennis court and tennis pavilion with kitchen.
Joan Cohen and Victoria Risko of Sotheby’s International Realty, Beverly Hills, represented the Youngs in buying their new home and share the listing on the Chatsworth estate.
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Dancer-actress Barrie Chase, Fred Astaire’s dancing partner in such movies as “Daddy Long Legs” (1955), and her husband, James Kaufman, have sold their Holmby Hills home of 25 years for $6.5 million.
The home, on 1.8 acres, was built in the ‘20s and has an 8,000-square-foot main house, a guest apartment, a cottage, a motor court, a pool, a greenhouse and gardens. The couple sold their home to travel, Chase has said.
Jeff Hyland and Rick Hilton of Hilton & Hyland, Beverly Hills, co-listed the property with Judy Hanauer of Coldwell Banker Previews. Ron De Salvo, also with Coldwell Banker, represented the buyer, a local businessman.
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“Teletubbies” promoter Kenn Viselman has purchased interior designer Thomas Beeton’s Hollywood Hills home at about $900,000, including some furnishings.
Viselman, 38, is president and CEO of Itsy Bitsy Entertainment Co., which licenses the show in this country and markets the toys. “Teletubbies” has been running since 1997 in Great Britain. The show had its premiere in the United States on PBS in 1998.
Viselman, who has offices in Manhattan, has a house in Orange County, N.Y., a loft on Broadway and a retreat in South Beach in Florida. His Hollywood Hills home, built in 1937, has two bedrooms, patios, a cabana, a courtyard, a garden and city views.
Stan Hackney of DBL Realtors, Sunset Strip, had the listing; Jane McGinn, of the same office, represented Viselman.
Hot Property is published Thursdays in SoCal Living and Sundays in Real Estate. Ryon may be reached by e-mail at ruth.ryon@latimes.com.
