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Kirk Douglas, who received the Screen Actors Guild Lifetime Achievement Award this year, and his wife, Anne, have purchased a Montecito home for $1.8 million.
The house, on one acre with golf course as well as mountain and ocean views, has three bedrooms in just under 4,000 square feet.
Built in the late ‘50s, it was restored in the mid-’90s.
The house was described as “sophisticated California ranch” in style, with “large, comfy rooms.”
The seller, designer Patrick Day, moved to the Firestone estate at the Thunderbird Country Club in Rancho Mirage. Day bought the 7,000-square-foot house for close to $1.8 million. The house had been owned by tire magnate-philanthropist Leonard Firestone, who died at 89 in 1996.
Douglas, 82, and his wife still have their Palm Springs home of 42 years for sale at just under $1.6 million, furnished, with Paul Shepard of Palm Springs. It was listed in November.
Tim Walsh of Village Properties in Santa Barbara had the listing on the house that the Douglases purchased. The selling agent was Linda Fareed of Pitts & Bachman. Allen B. Miller of Realty Executives in Palm Springs represented Day in buying the Firestone estate, listed by Nelda Linsk of Coldwell Banker-Eadie Adams Realty.
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The Holmby Hills home of tycoon Ronald Perelman, owner of Revlon, has been quitclaimed to Harvard-Westlake School, which owns adjacent property, for about $7.5 million, real estate sources say. The asking price had been $10 million.
The school tried to buy the five-bedroom 8,700-square-foot house, on 1 1/2 acres with a tennis court and entertainment center, in 1995; however, it was sold that year for about $4.8 million to Perelman, sources said.
Former L.A. Kings President Bruce McNall previously owned the home, which was listed in 1994 at about $5.6 million. At the time, the house had nearly $20 million in loans and judgments against it.
McNall, who paid about $7 million for the house in 1982, lost the property after entering bankruptcy proceedings and pleading guilty to four felonies involving bank fraud.
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Michael Fottrell, executive producer of the movie “Cruel Intentions” (1999) and co-producer of “Mighty Joe Young” (1998) and “Volcano” (1997), has purchased an Encino home for nearly $1.2 million and sold a Studio City home in the $700,000 range.
He bought a five-bedroom 5,500-square-foot house, built in 1978 and rebuilt four years ago. The house has 180-degree views of the city and mountains.
Vida Monify of Coldwell Banker-Previews, Encino, had the listing on the Encino home; Laurie Cohn of Fred Sands’ Studio City office represented Fottrell on his purchase.
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Edward Sayegh, a vocal coach to such stars as Linda Ronstadt and Sarah Jessica Parker as well as the Broadway and L.A. casts of “Ragtime” and the New York cast of “The Lion King,” and singer Scott Alan Taylor have purchased a 5,000-square-foot home in Glendale for about $895,000.
They were living in the San Francisco area, where they will keep a weekend residence along with their retreat in New York.
They were represented in their purchase by Phyllis Harb, then of MacGregor Realty, La Can~ada Flintridge, but now with Re/Max.
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A Beverly Hills-area home owned by longtime real estate broker Stan Herman is for sale at $2.95 million or for lease at $25,000 a month.
The home has been leased at various times by such personalities as actor Gene Hackman, actress Mary Tyler Moore and producer-director Mike Nichols and his wife, TV anchor Diane Sawyer.
Nichols and Sawyer leased the house in 1997 when he was working on “Primary Colors” with screenwriter Elaine May, who stayed in the guest house.
The home, on an acre, has two master suites and four fireplaces in the main house, a guest house with its own pool and a newly built tennis court.
Herman has the listing at Stan Herman & Associates, which he relaunched this week after a number of years as a principal of Stan Herman-Stephen Shapiro & Associates.
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A Channel Islands Harbor home owned by Hall and Deborah Hutchison of Panther Productions has been listed at $1.8 million.
Hall Hutchison is a real-time animation technical producer. Through Panther, he and his wife have been consulting producers on such programs as “Jay Jay, the Jet Airplane” on the Learning Channel. She created a company called Enchanted Tales, which produced such kits as “Survival Tactics to Unbreak Your Heart” and “100 Places to Meet a New Prince.”
The Hutchisons listed their house, on the water with 100 feet of dock space, when they purchased a ranch in Carpinteria, where they are growing avocados and cherimoyas.
The Channel Islands house has been refurbished since it was built about four years ago. The 5,000-square-foot house has a master suite and three guest apartments, each of which has a separate entrance. It also has minarets and other Arabian-style design touches.
The house is being shown by Paul O’Keeffe of Joyce Gibb Realtors, Santa Barbara; Barbara Koutnik of Coldwell Banker-Jon Douglas Co., Montecito; and Peter Bergman of Coldwell Banker-Bergman Estates, Marina del Rey.
