Moving Out and Moving On
Tom Arnold, who co-stars with Steven Seagal in the movie “Exit Wounds,” has put his Beverly Hills-area home on the market at just under $3.4 million.
Arnold, who had lived in the home with his ex-wife, hairstylist Julie Champnella, wants to move on with his life and relocate closer to the city. He has been looking to buy in Hancock Park.
His Beverly Hills-area home is in a gated community off Mulholland Drive. It has five bedrooms in 6,800 square feet and includes a master suite with a sitting room and two walk-in closets. Built in 1990, the home also has a gym, wine cellar and lagoon-style pool.
Arnold bought the Spanish-style villa, at the end of a cul-de-sac, in June 1998 from singer-actress Paula Abdul for about $2.4 million.
He and wife Julie moved there from a 20-acre horse ranch near Malibu, which he sold in August 1998. The couple split in 1999. Arnold was divorced from TV star Roseanne in 1994.
He has written a script for a movie called “Man of the Year,” about a man with three divorces who is trying to figure out marriage. Arnold, 42, would play the lead.
Earlier this year, Arnold shot a pilot for a late-night TV show. He appeared in the movie “True Lies” (1994), starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, and he starred in the ‘90s sitcoms “The Jackie Thomas Show” and “The Tom Show.”
Stephen Shapiro at Westside Estate Agency, Beverly Hills, has the listing.
Singer-actress Helen Reddy has sold her Santa Monica home for slightly more than $1 million, and she plans to buy a home on Norfolk Island in her native Australia, where she will be based for the first time in 35 years.
Reddy, who is semiretired and in her late 50s, has been headquartered in the United States since 1966. She plans to divide her time between Australia and the United States.
She had owned her Santa Monica home since 1984. Built in 1927, the gated estate includes a 3,700-square-foot main house plus a two-bedroom, two-bath guest house. The main house has two master suites, each with an office and maid’s quarters or bonus room.
Reddy, best remembered for her hits “I Am Woman” and “You and Me Against the World,” is still performing in concerts in the United States and theater in London. She was scheduled to perform Friday and Saturday with the Pacific Symphony at the Orange County Performing Arts Center.
Mary Young in the Brentwood Court office of Coldwell Banker represented Reddy in the sale; Margo Lokos of White House Properties, Woodland Hills, represented the buyers, a family from Beverly Hills.
The Laguna Beach oceanfront home of the late Melvin Ellsworth, retired president of Fluor Corp., has come on the market at about $10 million.
Designed by architect Paul Williams, the traditional-style house was built in 1961 for Ellsworth and his wife, Aladine. He died in January 1990 at age 79. His wife died about six months ago.
The house, owned by the Ellsworths’ estate, is on a promontory in Emerald Bay, a gated enclave of 550 homes with coastline views and such well-known residents as billionaire financier Warren Buffett and former major-league baseball commissioner Peter Ueberroth.
Emerald Bay also has six tennis courts, a pool complex, numerous parks and a private, half-mile sandy beach.
The Ellsworths’ house has two master suites plus three additional bedrooms in 6,000 square feet. The home has ocean views from most rooms. It also has high ceilings and an elevator.
Melvin Ellsworth was president of the Irvine-based construction company, one of the largest publicly held companies in the nation, for eight years. In 1976 he stepped down as president but continued on Fluor’s board of directors until he retired in 1985.
Bill Cote of Cote Realty Group, Corona del Mar, has the listing.
Music veteran Joel Diamond, who produced 13-year-old pop singer Kaci’s first single release, “Paradise,” and his wife, Andrea, have listed their nearly 9,000-square-foot home in the Studio City hills at just less than $1.6 million. The Diamonds plan to buy a ranch in Malibu.
Their Studio City home has six bedrooms including a 1,000-square-foot master suite; two full kitchens; four fireplaces; a cedar fur-vault; a media room with a 6-foot-long wet bar; a 40-foot-long pool with a swim-up bar; an environmental chamber that simulates rain, wind and sun; and a secret room.
The home also has sweeping canyon views.
The Diamonds totally remodeled the home, built in 1980.
During his 30 years in the music industry, Joel Diamond has produced and/or written 26 gold and platinum records, working with Engelbert Humperdinck, David Hasselhoff, Phoebe Cates and others.
Christopher Bradley of Prudential-John Aaroe, Estates Division in Encino, has the listing.
Actress-model Amy Weber--who has appeared in the TV series “7th Heaven,” ’Port Charles” and “Melrose Place’--has purchased a San Fernando Valley condo for close to $280,000.
Weber, 26, bought a townhouse with three bedrooms, including a large master and lots of closet space.
Gloria Vitto at DBL, Beverly Hills, had the listing.
A 17,000-square-foot home built in Gig Harbor, Wash., to accommodate a Wurlitzer that is one of the largest home organs in the world has come on the market at $2.4 million.
The home, built in 1987, is on 11.3 acres with views of Puget Sound and Mt. Rainier. The organ, made in 1926, was previously in a Brooklyn theater.
Ron Abersold of John L. Scott Real Estate, Gig Harbor, has the listing.
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