Beach Boy Sells Home, Though Not for a Song
Former Beach Boy Brian Wilson has sold his home in the Beverly Hills area for $2.6 million.
The third volume in the “Beach Boys Greatest Hits” series is due to be released Feb. 1 to coincide with the ABC-TV miniseries “The Beach Boys: An American Family.” A&E; will present “Biography--Brian Wilson” on Feb. 20.
Wilson, who performed some of his ‘60s classics on New Year’s Eve at the Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center, and his wife, Melinda, bought a newly built, Beverly Hills-area home last year in the mid-$3-million range. The six-bedroom, nearly 9,000-square-foot house is in a guard-gated community.
His former home has six bedrooms in 6,000 square feet. Built in 1990, the house has an office, family room, pool and spa.
The singer-songwriter, 57, had owned the house since 1995, the year he and his wife were married. They have two children. He also has two grown daughters--singers Carnie and Wendy Wilson--from a previous marriage.
Judy Cycon and Joe Babajian of Fred Sands Estates, Beverly Hills, had the listing on the Wilsons’ former home. Natalie Janger of DBL, Beverly Hills, represented the buyer.
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Actress Tanya Roberts, who went from the final season of “Charlie’s Angels” in 1980-81 to the James Bond movie “A View to a Kill” (1985) to her current series, “That ‘70s Show” and her screenwriter husband, Barry, have purchased a Hollywood Hills home for $1 million.
The actress, in her early 40s, plays the pretty mother who turns the neighborhood boys’ heads on “That ‘70s Show.”
The couple’s new four-bedroom, 3,800-square-foot home is on an acre-sized promontory with city views.
Valerie Friedman of Fred Sands Estates, Beverly Hills, represented both sides of the transaction.
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Producer Irwin Yablans and his wife, Diana, have purchased a former Hollywood Hills home of the late comedian Groucho Marx, and listed their three-bedroom condo in a high-rise overlooking Beverly Hills.
Producer of the “Halloween” movies of the ‘80s, Yablans has a 25-acre home in the Santa Ynez Valley, where he raises and shows cutting horses, but he plans to spend more time in Los Angeles developing film projects.
The couple bought the former home of Marx, who died in 1977, for $1.4 million. Built in 1935, the remodeled home was Marx’s residence during the ‘40s. The four-bedroom, 3,600-square-foot home has a pool and spa.
The couple’s three-bedroom condo is listed at $950,000 with Barbara Tenenbaum at Fred Sands Estates, Beverly Hills. She also represented the couple in buying the former Marx home from Michael Eisenberg of Celebrity Properties.
