This Suits His Tastes
Anthony Hopkins has purchased an L.A.-area home for about $3.8 million.
The Oscar-winning actor, who was born in Wales and knighted by the queen of England in 1993, became a U.S. citizen last year at age 62.
He bought a Cape Cod-style home, built in the 1950s on a bluff overlooking the ocean.
The five-bedroom, 4,000-square-foot home, on about an acre with a pool, also has a master suite with a fireplace, spa and sauna.
Hopkins has long had a home in England with his second wife, Jennifer Ann Lynton, but since he came to the United States in 1974, he has spent many years working and living here, most recently in the Santa Monica area.
Hopkins has been in negotiations to reprise his Academy Award-winning role as Hannibal Lecter in a prequel based on Thomas Harris’ 1981 bestseller “Red Dragon.” Hopkins starred as Lecter in “The Silence of the Lambs” (1991) and this year’s “Hannibal.”
Among his many other films are “M:I-2,” the John Woo-directed sequel to “Mission: Impossible” (2000); “Titus” (1999); “Instinct” (1999); “Meet Joe Black” (1998); “The Mask of Zorro” (1998); “Amistad” (1997); “Surviving Picasso” (1996); and “Legends of the Fall” (1994).
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Actor Tom Jane, who appears in the just-released movie “Original Sin” as part of a romantic triangle opposite Antonio Banderas and Angelina Jolie and who just completed a co-starring role with Cameron Diaz in the upcoming romantic comedy “The Sweetest Thing,” has become a first-time home buyer with his purchase of a Silver Lake house for $549,000.
A fixer with two bedrooms, one bath and views of the lake and the downtown skyline, the house is already getting a major overhaul.
Built in 1940, the house has beamed ceilings, two fireplaces, hardwood floors, a granite counter in the kitchen, an artist’s or musician’s studio, and a beautifully landscaped yard.
Jane, in his early 30s, won acclaim this year in his role as baseball star Mickey Mantle in Billy Crystal’s HBO drama “61*,” due to be released on video in September. The blond actor with piercing green eyes and a strong cleft chin was on the list of E! Online’s picks for this year’s 16 most promising young stars.
Michael Caldwell of Housing Solutions represented Jane in his purchase; Lane Aronson of Prudential John Aaroe had the listing.
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Dot-com entrepreneur Robert McNulty, who was chairman and chief executive of Shopping.com Inc. before launching TheBigStore.com, has sold his home on Harbor Island in Orange County, which had been on the market at $24 million.
Some Realtors not involved in the deal say that the property sold for about $14.8 million; however, other Realtors have said that the selling price is more than $18 million.
McNulty paid close to $14 million for the house and its furnishings in 1999, real estate sources said at the time.
Built in 1991, the 18,000-square-foot house has eight bedrooms, 13 baths and a 6,000-square-foot basement, part of which can accommodate eight cars. The house sits on half an acre on the water.
TheBigStore.com, which sold a variety of products from books to computers over the Internet, laid off most of its 200 employees last year and was listed in Fortune magazine on Jan. 8 as being one of 135 dot-coms that went bankrupt or shut down in 2000.
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The longtime Topanga home of actress Lynn Redgrave and her ex-husband and former manager, director John Clark, is on the market at $2.3 million, but Clark says he doesn’t want to sell.
“It’s out there to be sold, but I don’t want to leave,” he said. “Lynn divorced me 21/2 years ago, but I continued to live here. I’ve lived here now for 21 years.”
The couple, married for 32 years, bought the home in 1980. It was built in 1978. Clark said that he is appealing an order to sell the property as part of their divorce settlement.
The Country English estate is on about five acres and includes a five-bedroom main house and a guest cottage. The main house also has a family room, a large stone fireplace and French doors leading to a fruit orchard, rose garden, pool, spa and tennis court.
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Ross LaManna, who wrote the original “Rush Hour” (1998) movie and the just-published novel “Acid Test” (Ballantine Books), and his attorney-fashion consultant wife, Lynn, have listed their home near the Los Angeles County Museum of Art at $639,000.
The couple has owned the house, in the central Miracle Mile-Museum Square area, for 10 years. They want to move closer to Pasadena.
“It has good mojo,” he said. Not only did he write “Rush Hour” there, but he created the idea and characters for “Rush Hour 2,” which enabled him to write the book. “Rush Hour 2” was released Friday, two days after his debut novel, a mystery-thriller, was published.
Built in 1925 and restored by the LaMannas, the Country English-style house has three bedrooms in slightly more than 1,800 square feet. The house also has a high-peaked ceiling in the living room and a large, bright office.
“There is a 400-square-foot office in the room above the garage or carriage house,” the screenwriter-novelist said. The home has air conditioning and is wired for computers.
Barry Sloane at Sotheby’s International Realty has the listing.
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A four-unit Westwood apartment building designed by Richard Neutra and built in 1937 is on the market as a single-family compound, priced at just under $1.4 million.
The owners, a couple who bought the building from the Neutra Trust, are architects who have made the complex their home for four years.
They plan to scale down now that their two children are leaving home to attend school.
Early tenants included film stars Delores Del Rio, Orson Welles, Luise Rainer and Rainer’s husband, playwright Clifford Odets.
The restored seven-bedroom building, known as the Strathmore apartments, is a city historic-cultural monument.
Mike Hatfield and Peter Mullins of AP RealEstate, Santa Monica, have the listing.
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