He’s Found the Perfect Place for His Emmy
“Will & Grace” star Sean Hayes, who plays Will’s friend Jack on the NBC comedy series, has purchased a Hancock Park home for about $1.6 million.
The Country English-style house has three bedrooms and a maid’s quarters in slightly more than 4,000 square feet. Built in 1930, the two-story house also has an elevator, two fireplaces, a pool and a spa.
Hayes, who won an Emmy for outstanding supporting actor in a comedy series for “Will & Grace” (1999/2000), also did the voice of Mr. Tinkles, a feline out to take over the world, in the movie “Cats & Dogs.”
The actor, 31, has performed stand-up comedy in Chicago and L.A. and was a member of the improv group Second City. He starred in his first movie, “Billy’s Hollywood Screen Kiss,” in 1998. He supported himself at Illinois State University as a classical pianist and musician in a pop band.
In August, Hayes was in the news after he was driving in the mid-Wilshire area, noticed a gunshot victim in the street and pulled over to help. Hayes called 911 on his cell phone, alerted neighbors and pressed his shirt against the wound to stop the bleeding.
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Sylvester Stallone has put the Beverly Hills-area home he bought in September back on the market, this time at $16.95 million, $50,000 more than the asking price when he purchased it.
The four bedroom, 15,000-square-foot home, which he bought for $16 million, is next door to his seven-bedroom, 20,000-square-foot residence.
He bought the second house, he said at the time, for his visiting relatives. Stallone was out of town on business last week and unavailable to comment on why he decided to re-list the house, his spokesman said.
The actor has owned the property next door, where he lives, since 1998, when he bought it for about $10 million. He then expanded and totally refurbished the estate.
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Mark McGwire has purchased some land in a master-planned community in Irvine, where he plans to build a home for his retirement from baseball, Orange County sources not involved in the deal said.
The star hitter, who went to USC in the early ‘80s, has long had a retreat in Southern California.
McGwire is said to have bought two lots in the first phase of the Irvine Co.’s Shady Canyon. Custom-home sites there average 27,000 square feet in size. Selling prices range from $550,000 to $2.5 million each, sources said. The development also will include a couple dozen smaller homes.
McGwire’s lots are on a bluff with golf-course views. His home is expected to be one of about 400 to be built in the 1,000-acre-plus community in the San Joaquin Hills.
McGwire, 38, announced his retirement on Nov. 11. He played for the Oakland A’s as a first baseman before he was traded to the St. Louis Cardinals in 1997.
McGwire broke Roger Maris’ home-run record in 1998 with his 62nd homer, but McGwire’s single-season home-run record of 70 was topped this year by Barry Bonds’ 73.
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Laker second-year forward Devean George has purchased a two-bedroom home in Manhattan Beach for $450,000.
Built in 1985, the home, in the gated community of Manhattan Village, also has 2.5 bathrooms in its nearly 1,600 square feet.
George, a Lakers 1999 draft pick, plans to use the home as his main residence.
George, 23, has been described as the player whose overall ability most closely resembles Laker star Kobe Bryant’s, although George hasn’t yet blossomed into a player of Bryant’s caliber.
George signed a three-year guaranteed contract with the Lakers in 1999 worth about $2 million.
Phyllis Cohen-Edwards of Shorewood Realtors in Manhattan Beach represented George in his purchase.
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Wendy Finerman, producer of the Oscar-winning best picture “Forrest Gump,” has put her Holmby Hills home on the market at $12 million.
Finerman had owned the home with her ex-husband, Mark Canton, chairman of Columbia Tri-Star Motion Picture Cos. Finerman filed for divorce in 1997.
The home, on just under an acre, has 10 bedrooms, including a two-story, three-bedroom guest house. Other features are a projection theater, gym, kitchen with a breakfast area, north/south tennis court, pool and grassy lawns. The Cape Cod-style house was built in 1952.
Finerman had the vision to turn Winston Groom’s novel “Forrest Gump” into a movie, and she had the tenacity to stick with the idea for nine years until the film was released in 1994. It won six Oscars including best director and best actor. Finerman also was executive producer of “I Like It Like That” (1994), and she was a producer of the movie “Stepmom” (1998).
June Scott of June Scott Estates, a Coldwell Banker Previews company, has the listing.
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Writer-producer Zvia Dimbort and her husband, Danny Dimbort, founder and president of Nu Image Films, have started remodeling a mid-century modern-style house they bought recently in Beverly Hills for $1.6 million.
The four-bedroom home has curved walls, decorative rock work, a pool, a spa and canyon and city views.
The movie “Cold Heart,” co-written and co-produced by Zvia Dimbort, stars Nastassja Kinski and is due out later this year.
Nu Image Films has been involved in the production and distribution of such movies as “In God We Trust,” starring Christian Slater and Val Kilmer, “Edges of the Lord,” starring Haley Joel Osment and William Dafoe, and “Ticker,” starring Tom Sizemore, Dennis Hopper and Steven Seagal.
Raquel Kaufman of Avant Garde Properties in Beverly Hills and Rick Chimienti of DBL Estates, Beverly Hills, represented the Dimborts; Joe Babajian and Kyle Grasso of Prudential John Aaroe, Beverly Hills, had the listing.
