Selling Suits This Model
Supermodel-actress Tyra Banks has put her Wilshire Corridor condo on the market at just under $1.2 million.
Banks has owned the condo since 1998 and listed it as she moved her Los Angeles base to a recently purchased house. Her main residence is in Orlando, Fla.
Her condo, a penthouse, is a corner unit with two bedrooms and 31/2 baths. The second bedroom is set up as a den-media room. The unit also has a separate maid’s quarters or office. The master suite has two walk-in closets.
The condo has two balconies, French doors and a long entry with marble floors. The unit is in a full-service building built in the late 1980s.
Banks, 27, worked for a week this summer at Tzone, a Southern California camp she started a couple of years ago to help build self-esteem in teenage girls. She continues to model for Victoria’s Secret.
Sue Ann Simon and Heather Saginor of Coldwell Banker Previews, Beverly Hills North, are co-listing the condo with Mary Brill of the firm’s Beverly Hills East office.
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Ellen DeGeneres, who was to have been host of the 53rd annual Emmy Awards before they were postponed for a second time last Sunday after the U.S. initiated military action against terrorists in Afghanistan, has closed escrow on a Beverly Hills area home, listed at about $3.5 million.
The traditional-style home has five bedrooms in slightly more than 5,000 square feet. Built in the ‘90s, it also has a gym, media room, park-like grounds and a pool.
DeGeneres put her Hollywood Hills pied-a-terre on the market in September at just under $2 million. The comedian, who stars in the new CBS sitcom “The Ellen Show,” has owned the Hollywood Hills house since June 1999, when she and actress Anne Heche were a couple. When the house went on the market, sources said that DeGeneres, 43, was “moving on.”
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Actress-singer Courtney Love has listed the Westside home she bought in June for $3 million. The asking price is about the same.
Love is selling because the house is too small for her, sources said. She is said to be leasing elsewhere while looking for another home in the L.A. area.
Built in the 1920s, the Spanish-style estate that Love is selling has five bedrooms in just under 3,700 square feet. It also has a steam room and a pool.
Love, 36, stars in the movie “Julie Johnson,” due out this fall. In July, she won a grand jury award at the Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Film Festival for her role in the movie. Love previously co-starred in “Man on the Moon” (1999) and “The People vs. Larry Flynt” (1996).
Love, who founded the rock band Hole, has been working with a new band, expected to perform at the Hollywood Bowl later this month. She was married to the late Kurt Cobain, who created the band Nirvana. Earlier this month, Love filed suit to prevent further release of Nirvana’s music and to have all masters of the band’s music returned to her.
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Tom Snyder, veteran broadcaster and former host of “The Late Late Show” on CBS, has put his Beverly Hills-area home of more than a decade on the market at $1.35 million.
Snyder, 65, has moved to the San Francisco Bay Area to a modern-style house with an ocean view.
His Beverly Hills-area home has four bedrooms in about 3,000 square feet. Built in 1951, the ivy-covered country-style house also has a large master suite with a pitched ceiling, canyon views and a pool.
Snyder was the host of “Tomorrow” on NBC from 1973 until 1982. He also was a news anchor on KABC-TV in Los Angeles before he started hosting “The Late Late Show” in 1995, following “The Late Show With David Letterman.” Snyder retired from “The Late Late Show” in 1999 and was succeeded by Craig Kilborn.
Johanna Falduto and Stephen Shapiro of Westside Estate Agency, Beverly Hills, have the listing.
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Brad Johnson, the former Marlboro Man who stars in Jerry Bruckheimer’s upcoming midseason TV series “OF: Special Ops Force,” and his wife, Laurie, have sold their Agua Dulce ranch for slightly more than $1 million. (Agua Dulce is about 14 miles north of Granada Hills.)
The couple, who just had their sixth child, had listed the five-acre ranch in June. They plan to make an 890-acre ranch in New Mexico their primary residence.
The L.A.-area ranch has a 4,000-square-foot main house, a barn with an apartment and an office, a workshop, a roping and riding arena, a pool, spa, gym, pastures and more than 220 trees.
Johnson, 41, was inducted into the National Cowboy Hall of Fame in 1994 to honor his role on the CBS series “Ned Blessing: The True Story of My Life.” Johnson appeared recently on “C.S.I.: Crime Scene Investigation.”
Michael Rodgers and John Barker of Pinnacle Estates Properties, Northridge, had the listing; Alan Mann and Bill Reid of Troop Realty in Simi Valley were the selling agents.
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Ed Kowalcyk, singer-guitarist with the rock band Live, has listed his Hollywood Hills home at just under $2.3 million. Kowalcyk plans to move to the beach.
His Hollywood Hills home has six bedrooms in 5,300 square feet. Built in the 1990s (though it has a ‘20s architectural design), the multilevel house, on a promontory behind gates, also has city views, a guest house and a pool.
Live just released “V” (Radioactive/MCA Records), the band’s fifth album of spirituality-infused music. Kowalcyk, about 30, mixes Eastern and Western philosophies in his lyrics calling for peace, love and tolerance.
After “V” was released on Sept. 18, radio stations picked up the song “Overcome” to honor victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attack, and a company called Camera Planet put together a video using footage from ground zero. The video and song have been played on VH1.
Jory Burton of DBL, Sunset, has the listing.
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