On the Market Once and Again
Sela Ward, who stars in the ABC drama series “Once and Again,” and her husband, businessman-entrepreneur Howard Sherman, have listed their Beverly Hills home at just under $2.5 million.
The couple are planning to move to larger quarters.
The Emmy-winning actress, 43, starred in the NBC series “Sisters” (1993-94) before she played the doomed broadcaster in “Almost Golden: The Jessica Savitch Story” on Lifetime in 1995.
Earlier this year, she produced and hosted the Lifetime documentary “The Changing Face of Beauty,” and she had a leading role and was executive producer of the CBS-TV movie “Catch a Falling Star.”
In “Once and Again,” she plays Lily Manning, a divorced mother of two who falls in love with a divorced father. She also appears in TV commercials for Sprint.
The Beverly Hills home has three bedrooms and maid’s quarters in about 3,600 square feet plus a guest house, gym, dining pavilion, pool and spa. Built in 1926, the Spanish-style home, in the flats of Beverly Hills, was designed by architect Paul Williams.
Margie Oswald of Coldwell Banker Previews, Beverly Hills South, has the listing.
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Bahador Mahboubi, the chewing-gum king from Iran who made a wad buying Rodeo Drive real estate and building--with other members of his family--the posh Beverly Hills retail complex known as the Rodeo Collection, has sold a 20,400-square-foot house that has been on the market for several years.
Once listed at $19 million, the house sold for $8 million.
The neoclassic Mediterranean-style house on an acre with parklike grounds and a tennis court was purchased by a socialite who recently sold her Santa Barbara home for $19 million.
The Beverly Hills home has 10 bedrooms and 12 baths plus a pool.
“I don’t think anybody ever lived in the house,” a Realtor said. It was built in 1990.
Mahboubi, whose daughter once referred to the family in The Times as “the Wrigleys of Iran,” introduced chewing gum to the Middle East in the 1940s. He brought his family to Beverly Hills in the late 1970s.
Joyce Flaherty of Coldwell Banker Previews, Beverly Hills South, represented the buyer, and Marty Geimer of the same office was the listing agent of record.
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EarthLink co-founder Kevin O’Donnell has listed his Malibu home, which he purchased from actor Bruce Willis in March 1999, at $8.5 million.
O’Donnell is selling because he is going to buy a property in New York, where he plans to spend more time, according to listing agent Valerie Fitzgerald of Coldwell Banker Previews, Beverly Hills South.
Willis had owned the home since 1987, the year he married actress Demi Moore. Willis completely refurbished the house, built in 1948. He and Moore separated in June 1998.
The Malibu home has five bedrooms in more than 7,000 square feet. The home also has 28-foot ceilings, an atrium, a wine cellar, three fireplaces, two offices, a professional screening room and a pool.
A Laguna Beach home built in 1979 on a cliff over the ocean for Boyd Jefferies, one of the nation’s most powerful traders of big blocks of stock until he pleaded guilty in 1987 to two counts of securities fraud, has come on the market at $19.9 million.
The house has been owned since 1996 by a tech guru who seldom goes there. It has been on and off the market for a couple of years, and was listed for $21 million in early 1999. He had purchased it for $16.5 million.
Designed by architect Fred Briggs, the 12,500-square-foot house has a tennis court, gym, eight-car garage and glass-bottomed stairway that reveals the ocean and leads to the master suite, which has a domed ceiling that can be opened.
Linda May and Dawn Ross of Coldwell Banker Previews, Beverly Hills North, share the listing with Nancy Lavigne of Coldwell Banker, Corona del Mar.
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Ewing “Lucky” Brown, who played the mean little rich kid named Stinky in “Our Gang” at Hal Roach Studios, has purchased a Sherman Oaks home in the $500,000 range. Later in his career, he became a film editor in the ‘50s and built his Movie Tech Studios in Hollywood in the ‘70s.
Brown, who also played Charlie Ryker in the classic 1953 movie “Shane,” and his wife, Jeanne, also sold their nearby home of at least 30 years for around $300,000. Built in 1947, the 1,600-square-foot home has two bedrooms; their new home has three.
Brown formed Movie Tech in 1957 to handle production and postproduction work. After he built his studios, he produced and directed such movies as “Whale of a Tale” with William Shatner and “Queen Victoria” for PBS.
Paul Bilski and Alexandra Degraeve of Re/Max on the Boulevard had the Browns’ listing.
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