Yankee Clipper’s 1937 House Is on the Block
The San Francisco home of the late Joe DiMaggio is for sale at $1.4 million. The baseball great had owned the home, in the Marina area, since 1937, when he joined the Yankees. He had been living there and in a house in Florida when he died in March at 84.
He also lived in the San Francisco house with actress Marilyn Monroe after their wedding in 1954. Monroe helped him wash his car in front of the house and sunbathed in the backyard, neighbors say. The marriage lasted nine months.
DiMaggio’s parents, brothers and sister also lived in the four-bedroom, 2,100-square-foot home at various times.
The house has changed little since it was built the year DiMaggio bought it, but it was bolted to its foundation after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake.
DiMaggio spent considerable time in the home because his grandchildren and great-grandchildren live in the area. He was born in nearby Martinez.
Joan Smith of TRI-Coldwell Banker in San Francisco has the listing.
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Winona Ryder, who stars in the upcoming movie “Girl Interrupted,” has sold her former home in the Beverly Hills area for about $900,000.
Ryder, 27, listed the home at slightly more than $1 million in the fall. Earlier in 1998, she bought a house nearby for $2.5 million.
The two-time Oscar nominee most recently co-starred in Woody Allen’s movie “Celebrity” (1998) and “Alien Resurrection” (1997). Ryder has been linked romantically with actor Matt Damon.
Ryder sold her house to a former “Seinfeld” writer.
Built in 1926, the Spanish-style house has three bedrooms in 2,000 square feet. Ryder had owned the home since 1996, when she restored it. The house has limestone floors and a large fireplace with a limestone hearth.
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Sandra Gooch, founder of the pioneering natural-food market chain Mrs. Gooch’s, and her husband, Harry Lederman, have sold their Tarzana home for $1.3 million, $5,000 over the asking price. They had bought the house in 1996 from singer Natalie Cole and refurbished it.
The five-bedroom, 5,200-square-foot house has a 1,300-square-foot guest quarters. The couple moved to the Beverly Hills-area community of Mulholland Estates, where they have built and sold several houses. Gooch, in her 60s, sold her company to Whole Foods Markets in 1993.
Kevin J. Burchett of Fred Sands Estates, Pacific Palisades, and Judy Cycon, of the firm’s Beverly Hills office, had the listing. Bernie Kozak, of the firm’s Tarzana office, represented the buyers, a business executive and his wife.
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