For Sitcom Star, It’s ‘Just Move Me’
Laura San Giacomo, who co-stars in the NBC sitcom “Just Shoot Me,” has sold her Studio City home for close to its $549,000 asking price and has purchased a larger home in a nearby area.
The house she sold has three bedrooms in slightly more than 1,800 square feet. Built in 1935, the updated home also has a balcony off the master suite overlooking a black-bottom lagoon pool, a spa and a park-like yard.
Giacomo and her then-husband, actor Cameron Dye, bought it in 1993. They were married in 1990 and divorced in 1998.
The buyers are Jim Gifford, chief financial officer of a local manufacturing company, and Kevin Lewman, an estate specialist with an international law firm.
The stage-trained actress, 39, appeared in regional theater and off-Broadway before making her film debut in “sex, lies and videotape” (1989). The next year, she had a supporting role as Julia Roberts’ hooker friend in “Pretty Woman,” and she was Tom Selleck’s leading lady in “Quigley Down Under.”
Before co-starring in “Just Shoot Me,” she was in the highly acclaimed miniseries “Stephen King’s ‘The Stand”’ on ABC (1994).
Barry Weiss of Re/Max on the Boulevard represented the buyers, and Chuck and Carol Bartlett of Prudential John Aaroe had the listing and represented Giacomo in buying her new home, sources said.
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Megyn Price, co-star of the new Fox sitcom “Grounded for Life,” has purchased a home in Sherman Oaks for about its $895,000 asking price.
The home has three bedrooms plus maid’s quarters and an office in about 3,000 square feet. Built in 1959, the remodeled house also has a pool, spa and valley views.
Price, who plays young mom Claudia Finnerty on “Grounded for Life,” was a regular in the casts of the TV series “Lateline” and “Common Law,” and she has appeared in “Will & Grace,” “The Drew Carey Show” and “Quantum Leap.” She also was in the 1999 movies “Mystery, Alaska” and “Love Happens.”
Carol Wolfe of Coldwell Banker, Encino, had the listing, and Bryan Abrams of Prudential John Aaroe, Studio City, represented Price, sources said.
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Larry Drake, who won two Emmy Awards for outstanding supporting actor in a drama series for his role as the developmentally challenged Benny on the NBC series “L.A. Law” (1987-94), has put his Hollywood Hills home on the market at $859,000.
The house has four bedrooms in about 3,500 square feet. Built in 1926, the English Norman-style villa also has sweeping city views and a bonus area off the master suite, which has a soaking tub and a steam shower.
Drake is selling because he has been doing a lot of work out of town and wants a smaller residence here.
The 52-year-old actor has played Administrator Chellick in the TV series “Star Trek: Voyager” (2000-2001), and he portrayed Dr. Griggs in the TV movie “Runaway Virus” (2000). He also co-starred in the TV series “Prey” (1997-98) and had a pivotal role in the NBC miniseries “Peter Benchley’s ‘The Beast”(1996).
A veteran of the stage, Drake has appeared a number of times at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego.
Patricia Ruben and Konstantine Valissarakos of DBL Los Feliz have the listing.
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Gary Stone, recently promoted to chief operating officer of Dallas-based Hispanic Broadcasting Corp., and his wife, Claudia, have listed their five-bedroom Calabasas home at just under $1.65 million. The couple planto buy a house in the Dallas area.
Their Calabasas home was built in 1991 and is on a golf course with valley and mountain views.
Mediterranean-Spanish in style, the nearly 5,800-square-foot home also has four fireplaces, a master suite with his and her baths, a spa tub and sauna, and a yard with a pool and spa. The guard-gated community has tennis courts.
Gary Stone has been with HBC for more than 15 years. He began his broadcasting career in 1969 as a disc jockey. He later moved to sales at HBC and was general manager of sales in Houston.
In 1999 he was transferred from Houston to Los Angeles after being promoted to vice president and general manager of HBC’s L.A. stations. HBC, the largest Spanish-language radio broadcaster in the United States, owns and operates more than 47 radio stations in 13 markets.
Steff Boardman of Coldwell Banker Previews, Woodland Hills, has the listing.
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