His Malibu Digs for Sale --and Rent
Actor Richard Gere has put his Malibu home up for lease at $75,000 a month.
Gere co-stars with Winona Ryder in the movie “Autumn in New York,” due out in August, and he stars in “Dr. T and the Women,” to be released in October.
He and Julia Roberts, who co-starred in “Runaway Bride” (1999), are expected to make a sequel to “Pretty Woman” (1990). He also starred in “Red Corner” (1997).
Gere, 50, and former “Law & Order” star Carey Lowell, 39, had a son in February. They live mainly in New York, where he co-founded Tibet House, dedicated to preserving Tibetan culture. Gere, also president of the International Campaign for Tibet, is a follower of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, who is speaking at public events this week in L.A.
Gere’s home, a compound on 2.2 acres that he has owned since 1995, has been on and off the market since March 1999. The home is for sale at $10 million but is for lease in July and August.
The compound, with 90 feet of private beach, includes a three-bedroom, 2,500-square-foot main house on a bluff, two guest houses, a cottage on the sand, a pool and a tennis court.
Chris Cortazzo of Coldwell Banker Previews, Malibu West, has the listing.
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Kelly Lange, who co-anchors the daily KCBS-TV show “Women2Women News,” has sold her Mulholland-area home for about $2.6 million. Lange anchored the KNBC-TV news for 28 years before she left the station in 1998.
She had owned the house for five years. Built in 1993, the house has six bedrooms in 10,000 square feet. It also has valley views, a library, office, gym, sauna and pool.
She sold it to sports attorney Gary Gittelsohn and his wife, Ellen, who has directed such TV comedy series as “Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place,” “Dharma & Greg,” “Everybody Loves Raymond” and “Friends.”
Maral Ani Avakian of Hurwitz-James Co., Beverly Hills, represented the buyers; Joe Babajian and Judy Cycon of Fred Sands Estates, Beverly Hills, had the listing.
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Baseball Hall-of-Famer Brooks Robinson, who played for the Baltimore Orioles for 23 years, has sold his Dana Point summer home for $1.6 million.
Robinson, 62, won 16 straight Gold Gloves from 1960 to 1975 as the best third baseman in the American League. He retired from playing ball in 1977.
He and his wife, Connie, owned the Monarch Beach-area home for about 10 years. The five-bedroom, 5,600-square-foot home has ocean views and a pool.
The Robinsons maintain their primary residence in a nine-home gated community with an 18-hole golf course, just outside of Baltimore.
Bill Cote had the listing at the Cote Realty Group, Corona del Mar.
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