Giving Up His Venice Views

Actor Dudley Moore has sold his longtime home on Venice Beach for $2.5 million.

The Oscar-nominated actor (“Arthur,” 1981) has been suffering from the rare degenerative brain disorder PSP (progressive supranuclear palsy), which causes loss of memory and balance and leads to paralysis. He was diagnosed with the disorder in 1998.

Moore, 64, became a film star in “10” (1979) after moving to Los Angeles from England in 1975. He made a number of other movies, including “Mickey and Maude” (1985) before starring in the CBS-TV series “Dudley” and “Daddy’s Girls” during the ‘90s.

Moore first gained fame in England and on Broadway in the satirical revue “Beyond the Fringe” and in a two-man act with the late Peter Cook.

Moore also has been an accomplished pianist who has scored movies, recorded jazz albums and appeared in concert with the L.A. Philharmonic.

He had lived at his beach home, which he built, since the ‘70s. The single-family home has four bedrooms in 4,400 square feet.

Debra Berman and Pat Kandel of Coldwell Banker Previews, Marina del Rey, represented the buyer, a businessman living in the area.

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Mark Hughes, president and founder of Herbalife International, has sold his Malibu Colony home for about $8 million.

In December, Hughes, 43, bought the Malibu beachfront home of Verna Harrah, widow of the late casino magnate William F. Harrah, for a record sale of about $25 million. He is also building a home on a 157-acre site overlooking Beverly Hills, which he bought from entertainer-entrepreneur Merv Griffin.

The Cape Cod-style Malibu Colony home has six bedrooms in 4,000 square feet and 90 feet of beach frontage.

Jerry Jolton of Coldwell Banker, Beverly Hills South, and Marcus Beck of the firm in Malibu had the listing. Valerie Fitzgerald of Coldwell Banker, Beverly Hills South, represented the buyer, whom real-estate sources described as “a 29-year-old from Silicon Valley.”

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Dr. Howard Murad, who built an El Segundo-based skin-care company into a $60-million-a-year business, has listed a Beverly Hills-area home that he owns at about $6.6 million.

Murad, 59, has been a dermatologist in Los Angeles since 1972. He has been living in Marina del Rey.

Built in 1990, the Beverly Hills-area house has eight bedrooms in 11,500 square feet. It also has an elevator, massage room with sauna, and such golfing features as putting greens, a sand trap and a driving range. The house is on slightly less than an acre.

Joe Babajian and Victoria Lockwood of Fred Sands Estates, Beverly Hills, have the listing.

Hot Property runs Thursdays in SoCal Living and Sundays in Real Estate. Ryon may be reached at ruth.ryon@latimes.com.