Surf’s Up at Malibu Rental
Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen have rented, for three months, a five-bedroom home in Malibu that was listed for lease at $50,000 a month.
The actors rented one of the original Malibu beach houses, built about 1930 but remodeled over the years. The 3,500-square-foot house, behind gates, has a large deck off the master suite, which is on the water. The house also has bleached beamed ceilings and wood floors.
Danson sold his Malibu home a year ago to actor Michael Madsen for about $2.4 million. Danson and Steenburgen maintain homes in Brentwood and Martha’s Vineyard, Mass.
Danson, American Oceans Campaign co-founder, and Steenburgen campaigned for Al Gore for president before the California primary. An Arkansas native, Steenburgen is a friend of President and Mrs. Clinton, both of whom attended the couple’s wedding in 1995.
The Emmy-winning Danson, 52, starred in the popular NBC sitcom “Cheers” (1982-1993) before he played a doctor in the CBS sitcom “Becker.”
The Oscar-winning Steenburgen (best supporting actress, “Melvin and Howard,” 1980), 47, co-starred with Danson in the CBS sitcom “Ink” (1996-97) and the miniseries “Gulliver’s Travels” (1996). She made her Broadway debut in “Candida” (1993) and her L.A. stage debut in “Marvin’s Room” (1994).
They both started out in the theater world in New York, where they have indicated they would like to return after their children are out of the house. Steenburgen is said to be a supporter of Hillary Clinton in her run there for the U.S. Senate.
Katie Bentzen of Fred Sands Realtors, Malibu, had the listing on the rental, Malibu real estate sources said.
The Beverly Hills home of the late director Vincente Minnelli, actress Liza Minnelli’s father, has come on the market for the first time in 30 years. The asking price is $3.5 million.
Earlier this year, Liza Minnelli, 54, canceled her touring Broadway show “Minnelli on Minnelli” (a musical tribute to her late father) because of pain and double pneumonia. She will be undergoing back surgery soon.
The house, where she lived as a young woman, is in the heart of Beverly Hills, across the street from the Beverly Hills Hotel. The four-bedroom, 6,000-square-foot house has been owned by the Minnelli family since long before the director died in 1986.
Built in 1925 and redesigned by John Woolf during the 1960s, the house has a large pool and a grand motor court on nearly an acre.
Vincente Minnelli was known for such Hollywood musicals as “An American in Paris” (1951) and other movies such as the Vincent Van Gogh biography “Lust for Life” (1956).
The director won an Oscar for “Gigi” in 1958 and made his last film, “A Matter of Time,” starring Liza Minnelli, in 1976. He was married from 1945 to 1951 to Liza’s mother, actress Judy Garland, whom he directed in three films, including “Meet Me in St. Louis” (1944).
Holly Davis of Coldwell Banker, Pacific Palisades, and Jerry Jolton of the firm’s Beverly Hills South office share the listing.
Actress Linda Evans, who played Krystal Carrington on the hit ABC series “Dynasty” (1981-89) and is now a celebrity endorser of health supplements and skin-care products such as Rejuvinique, has listed her 3.5-acre, waterfront home near Tacoma, Wash., at $2.5 million.
Her housekeeper of 25 years is retiring to her native Belize, and so Evans, 57, “isn’t sure that she will stay in the area,” said Heidi Bright, who shares the listing with her husband, Bruce Gunnels, both of Coldwell Banker Bain Associates in Bellevue, Wash.
“She bought up here when she was still filming ‘Dynasty,’ and she moved here in 1990, but she has homes in other places,” Bright said.
Among Evans’ homes is a Beverly Hills-area house with four bedrooms in nearly 4,000 square feet. The master suite has a fireplace, sauna, steam bath and spa. The house also has had a heart-shaped lawn.
Singer-actress Dolly Parton has leased the home for several years. When Evans moved to the Northwest in 1990, she leased the house to Johnny Carson’s sidekick, Ed McMahon.
Evans’ house near Tacoma has six bedrooms in about 11,000 square feet and was built in 1919. It also has a four-car heated garage, a heated greenhouse and a boat dock. The estate overlooks Gravelly Lake, about 40 minutes from Bill Gates’ home on Lake Washington in suburban Medina, Wash.
“If her house had been built on Lake Washington, it would be worth $12.5 million, but there is no public access to Gravelly Lake,” Bright said. Evans was interviewed about the home in this month’s duPont Registry.
A Laurel Canyon home formerly owned by Yanni, the Greek-born, New Age musician who had a long-term relationship until recently with actress Linda Evans, has come has on the market again, this time at $495,000.
Yanni, a keyboardist and composer, sold the three-bedroom, 1,500-square-foot hideaway, with a sound studio, in 1994 so that he could move to Washington state to be with Evans.
The house, which Yanni sold to a corporation, is listed with Leah and Tom Steuer at Prudential John Aaroe, Beverly Hills.
Hairstylist Christophe Schatteman, who once gave President Clinton a haircut aboard Air Force One at LAX that caused a traffic jam on the tarmac, and his designer wife, Danielle, have sold their Beverly Hills-area home for about its $1.95-million asking price.
The couple sold their home because Danielle wants to redo another house, which they just purchased in the same area. They plan to turn their new home into a Tuscan-style farmhouse after they return from a vacation in France.
Christophe Salon has boasted such clients as Nicole Kidman, Goldie Hawn and Steven Spielberg. A cut by Christophe has cost upward of $250.
Danielle owns the Melrose Avenue home-furnishings store known as Decadence.
She redesigned the country-style house that she and her husband just sold to Stephen A. Luckman of the Luckman real estate development family. The 2.5-story house has four bedrooms and maid’s quarters in 5,700 square feet, plus a pool.
Deborah Moore of Coldwell Banker, Beverly Hills, represented the Schattemans in buying and selling; Bette Lethe of Sotheby’s, Brentwood, represented Luckman.
“Graceland,” not the one in Memphis, Tenn., but a look-alike in Orlando, Fla., has come on the market just days before the 23rd anniversary of Elvis Presley’s death on Aug. 16. If he had lived, the rock ‘n’ roll legend would be 65.
Priced at $550,000, the Orlando house is a near-replica, on the exterior, of Presley’s famous Memphis home, but the interiors have been redesigned and updated.
The owners, a couple of retirees who were Elvis Presley fans, have owned the home since January 1995. The house, which the sellers renovated, was built in 1982.
“The developer was a huge Elvis fan, and he wanted to build a themed subdivision, also called ‘Graceland,’ but he ran out of money, and the house was eventually foreclosed upon,” said listing agent John D. Smith of 100% Real Estate Inc. in Orlando.
The 7,000-plus-square-foot house has six bedroom suites, each themed like the original Graceland: the Blue Room, Green Room, Brown Room and Jungle Room. There is also a music room. The near-replica sits on two acres behind gates like those at Graceland in Memphis, but the Orlando property has a guitar-shaped pool.
Presley owned a number of homes in the L.A. area, including one in Palm Springs called “The King’s Hideaway,” which is available to lease at $5,000 a week.
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* Inside: Liza Minnelli, Linda Evans, Yanni and Christophe Schatteman.
