Crooner’s Son Didn’t Get House for a Song
Singer Frank Sinatra Jr. has purchased a Westside home for just under $3 million.
Sinatra, 56, appeared as himself on “The Sopranos” in 1999. His father, one of America’s most famous entertainers, died in 1998.
The house, on two acres, has five bedrooms in about 7,000 square feet. There is a master suite with a balcony and spa-like bath plus three other family bedrooms and a maid’s quarters.
The home also has a breakfast area, two-story living room with a fireplace, a lagoon pool, tennis court and two-story guest house.
Maurice Umansky of Hilton & Hyland had the listing, sources said.
*
KABC co-anchor David Ono, who appears on Channel 7’s “Eyewitness News” in the mornings and late afternoons, has purchased the Studio City home of screenwriter-producer Duane Poole.
Poole, who wrote the 1998 movie “Shattered Image” (starring Billy Baldwin) and more than three dozen TV movies as well as several miniseries, bought another home in Studio City for close to its $869,000 asking price.
He was the writer and executive producer of the 1997 CBS adaptation of Truman Capote’s “A Christmas Memory” with Patty Duke, and he was the writer and producer of Truman Capote’s “One Christmas” (1994), featuring Katharine Hepburn.
Ono’s new home is on a private, gated street in the hills. The trilevel contemporary has three bedrooms and a media room in 3,700 square feet. It has a panoramic, San Fernando Valley view.
Poole’s new home has four bedrooms in 3,020 square feet. The traditional-style home was recently refurbished.
Matt Carson of Gibson & Associates, Studio City, represented Ono in buying, and he represented Poole in selling and buying. Steven Walker of Coldwell Banker, Studio City, had the listing on the house that Poole purchased.
*
Screenwriter Tedi Surafian has sold the Brentwood home where he wrote “Terminator 3” for about $1.3 million.
“Terminator 3,” starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, is expected to start filming in the new year, with a summer 2002 release. Surafian also wrote the movies “Tank Girl” (1995) and “The Road Killers” (1994).
Surafian, 34, had owned the two-bedroom home with a den since 1994.
Adrian Grant of Prudential John Aaroe, Beverly Hills, had the listing.
*
Hot Property runs Thursdays in SoCal Living and Sundays in Real Estate. Ryon may be reached at ruth.ryon@latimes.com.
