A Bachelor Pad Spinoff
“Spin City” star Charlie Sheen has put his home--complete with furnishings--overlooking Malibu Lake on the market at $4.5 million.
Sheen just finished upgrading the home, which was a remodeling work-in-progress for 10 years.
He is selling the house because he has purchased another in the L.A. area to redo “with a whole new theme,” said his agent, Adrian Grant of Prudential John Aaroe & Associates, Beverly Hills.
Built in 1991, the home that Sheen is selling is on a 2.5-acre knoll at the foot of the Santa Monica Mountains. The compound includes a main house, guest house and full gym in an estimated 6,000 square feet.
The four-bedroom home has a master suite with a fire pole in the closet that descends to the front entrance “for a quick escape in case of fire,” Grant said.
Described as “the ultimate bachelor pad,” the house also has a poker room, cigar room, media room with four TVs, billiards room, office and batting cage.
“His biggest love is baseball, and he has temperature-controlled cases for his collections of baseball memorabilia,” Grant said.
Sheen turned his guest house into what he calls “the aqua room,” simulating an underwater experience. It has a miniature replica of a 17th century galleon and walls of salt-water aquariums.
The compound also has an infinity pool, rock spa and grotto.
Sheen, 35, joined “Spin City” last fall, replacing Michael J. Fox. Sheen’s role, his first in a series, earned him $125,000 per episode for the season.
The ABC sitcom was on TV last season opposite “The West Wing,” starring the actor’s father, Martin Sheen. Despite competing against the hit series, “Spin City,” in its fifth season, earned its highest ratings ever, drawing larger and younger audiences than earlier.
Charlie Sheen, who co-starred in such Oliver Stone movies as “Platoon” (1986) and “Wall Street” (1987), owns three other properties in the L.A. area as well as one in New York, where he films “Spin City.”
Actress Susan Anton, who will appear July 31 through Aug. 19 in “The Vagina Monologues” at the Canon Theatre in Beverly Hills, has sold her longtime Beverly Hills-area home, which she recently renovated after occasionally leasing it to various celebrities over the years.
“Dudley [Moore] and I owned a house that we sold when we were a couple, but this was the house I bought [in 1984] when we broke up,” she said. “It was always my house, but he did make it possible for me.”
Moore, who has been suffering from the degenerative disease progressive supranuclear palsy, was still on the title with Anton when the Coldwater Canyon house was sold for about $1.5 million to entertainment attorney Karl Austen of Armstrong, Hirsch, Jackoway, Tyerman and Wertheimer in Century City.
Built in 1953, the traditional-style house, behind gates, has five bedrooms in 3,800 square feet. It has walls of French doors opening to a pool; a country kitchen; a breakfast room with a fireplace; a master suite with a fireplace; and a loft with a sauna and a sitting area.
The 5-foot-2 Moore, 66, and 5-foot-11 Anton, 50, became a couple after she won the Miss California crown in 1969 and was the second runner-up in the Miss America contest of 1970. Later, she inherited the Muriel Cigar Girl title for TV commercials from singer Edie Adams, and she appeared on Broadway and on “Baywatch” (1992-94).
Anton and her husband, Jeff Lester, will mark their ninth wedding anniversary in August. They are leasing in Laurel Canyon while searching for another house to buy in the L.A. area.
Seven years ago, Anton and Lester moved their primary residence to Las Vegas, where she guest starred in the Great Radio City Music Hall Spectacular at the Flamingo Hilton Hotel. He still runs their Big Picture Studios in Las Vegas but recently opened offices in L.A. Now Anton and Lester are back to L.A. full time with a second home in Las Vegas, she said.
Anton recently released the CD “One Night,” recorded last fall at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel’s Cinegrill. It is her first album in 15 years. In June, she starred in “The Vagina Monologues” in San Francisco.
Billy Rose of Westside Estate Agency, Beverly Hills, represented the buyer; Lea Porter of Coldwell Banker, Beverly Hills, had the listing.
The Lake Arrowhead estate where actor Cary Grant married Woolworth heiress Barbara Hutton in July 1942 has come on the market at $1.5 million.
Designed by architect Paul Williams and built in 1935, the lakefront home has been owned by the same family since 1954. When Grant and Hutton were married there, it was owned by Grant’s agent, Frank Vincent.
The five-bedroom, 2,500-square-foot house is on an acre with about 375 feet of lake frontage. There is also a detached garage with an apartment and a private path to a cabana and boat dock.
George Schmitz of Lynne B. Wilson Realtors, and Heidi Lake of Sotheby’s International share the listing.
Charles Fernandez, who composed music for the TV movie “Tom Sawyer” (2000) and did the orchestrations for the TV series “Casper” (1995-98) and “Aladdin and the King of Thieves” (1996), and his bride, Dr. Traci Levens, of New Orleans, have purchased a newly built home in Mar Vista for slightly more than its $824,000 asking price. There were multiple offers on the house.
The couple, who have known each other since high school in New Orleans, were married in a formal wedding there earlier this year. They plan to hold a wedding reception in Hollywood in August.
Their home has four bedrooms in about 3,200 square feet, behind gates. The house also has a spa tub and a wine cooler.
Gloria Vitto of DBL Beverly Hills represented the buyers.
Fabrice Giger, chairman of an international entertainment firm known as the Humanoids Group, has purchased a Hollywood Hills home for $2.2 million.
The 1.5-acre, Tuscany-style estate has three bedrooms plus a two-bedroom, two-bath guest house. The 6,000-square-foot home, behind gates, also has a 1,000-bottle wine cellar, a pool and a spa.
The Humanoids Group has subsidiaries that include a graphic novel/comic book publishing house, a 3-D animation and visual effects studio, an animation software development company and an entity that develops interactive, role-playing computer games. The company has offices in Paris; Brussels; Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam; Geneva; and Los Angeles.
The Swiss-born Giger, 36, won an Emmy for his work as a producer of the 1998 Disney Channel program “Rolie Polie Olie.”
Eric Lowry of Coldwell Banker, Sunset, had the listing; Sean Davoodi of Gilleran Griffin Co. represented Giger in his purchase.
The former Roy Rogers and Dale Evans ranch in the Roy Rogers Estates area of Chatsworth has been listed at slightly more than $1.3 million.
The cowboy stars lived in the house, built in 1938, for about 20 years. Actor Val Kilmer’s father, inventor-developer Gene Kilmer, purchased it from Roy Rogers in the early ‘70s. The current owners put the property on the market because they are relocating.
The 4.4-acre site has a six-bedroom main house, a two-bedroom guest house, a tennis court and a pool.
The one-level, Spanish-style house has a wine cellar, game room, natural stone and petrified-wood fireplace, wood-paneled den and wet bar.
The property has many sandstone boulders, a 75-foot waterfall and a large RV parking area under one of the site’s 40 oak trees.
Maurice Kozak and Michael Harris of Coldwell Banker Previews, Encino, have the listing.
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