Nanny Ditches Her Post in Hancock Park
Fran Drescher, who starred in the CBS sitcom “The Nanny” (1993-99), and her estranged husband, producer Peter Marc Jacobson, have sold their Hancock Park home for about $589,000.
Drescher, 41, will make her Broadway debut this season in the new black comedy “Sweet Deliverance” by Eric Houston.
The buyers were producer-screenwriter Alfred Gough and his wife, Beth Corets, manager of business and legal affairs, Playboy Entertainment Group.
Gough was a writer for “Lethal Weapon 4” (1998) and wrote the upcoming movie “Shanghai Noon,” starring Jackie Chan. Gough is also writer, executive producer and creator of the UPN series, “The Strip.”
The Spanish-style house, built in 1923, has three bedrooms and two baths with steam showers. Drescher and Jacobson had owned the 1,500-square-foot home since 1986. She has been living recently in Malibu.
Lisa Hutchins of Coldwell Banker, Hancock Park, had the listing, and Jeffrey Young at Progressive Properties represented the buyers.
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Emmy-winning composer Billy Goldenberg has put his Toluca Lake home of 24 years on the market at just under $1.2 million.
Goldenberg composed themes for such TV series as “Kojak,” “Rhoda” and “Harry O.” He is working with actress Bea Arthur on a one-woman show for Broadway. He owns a co-op in New York.
Built in 1941, his Toluca Lake home has three bedrooms and a guest studio in 2,800 square feet. Cape Cod in style, the house has panoramic lake views from nearly every room. The estate also has a boat dock.
Ray Brogliatti of Fred Sands Realtors, Studio City, has the listing.
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Tom Hennesy, who starred as Gill Man in the 3-D film “Revenge of the Creature” (1955) and appeared in such westerns as John Ford’s “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance” (1962), has listed his Malibu beachfront home at $7.5 million.
The property, three lots on 2.4 acres, has a six-bedroom, seven-bath bluff-top house with a road that leads almost to the water. The lots are available together or separately.
The 6-foot-5, 280-pound Hennesy, a former stuntman as well as an actor, also played football for USC in the Rose Bowl games of 1943 and 1944.
He later became a teacher, working with such young stars as Natalie Wood and Sal Mineo while they were filming “Rebel Without a Cause” (1955). Later, he headed his family’s Huntington Beach oil production company, which was sold in 1991.
Donald Richstone of Coldwell Banker Previews, Malibu, has the listing.
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