‘Knight’ Lists Old Castle

Actor-comedian Martin Lawrence, who stars in the upcoming fish-out-of-water comedy “Black Knight,” has put his Westlake Village home on the market at $2.65 million.

Lawrence, who has owned the home for about three years, purchased a Beverly Hills-area estate on 2.8 acres for just under $13 million in January.

He didn’t list his Westlake Village house for a while because he was busy refurbishing his new home before moving in. The six-bedroom, 14,000-square-foot house in the Beverly Hills area was built in 1991.

The Westlake Village home, in a gate-guarded community, has five bedrooms in about 6,800 square feet, built in the mid-1990s. With extensive colonnades, the house has an estimated 9,200 square feet and is on a corner lot of about 1.2 acres.

The home also has a motor court, four-car garage, 26-foot-high foyer with a spiral staircase and two crystal chandeliers, a master wing with a private staircase, a pool and gardens.

Lawrence, 36, starred in the movie “Big Momma’s House” (2000), and he co-starred this year with Danny DeVito in “What’s the Worst That Could Happen?” In “Black Knight,” he plays a medieval theme-park worker who finds himself in 14th century England after a bizarre moat accident. “Black Knight” is due to open in November.

Lawrence, who recently reached the $20-million-a-film pay level of Hollywood’s top stars, also will be featured in the movies “National Security,” due out in 2002, and “Blue Streak 2,” set to start shooting this fall.

Kay Cole of Prudential John Aaroe Estates, Woodland Hills, and Nick Segal of DBL Realtors, Sunset, share the listing.

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Tom Cruise has been living in a Westside estate leased at $55,000 a month, Hollywood sources say.

The home has eight bedrooms plus guest accommodations in less than 7,000 square feet. The property also has a pool and a tennis court.

The home is on several acres behind gates. It was built in the 1920s but is said to be in “immaculate condition.”

Hidden from the street, the estate has appealed to such former celebrity tenants as Eddie Murphy and Elton John. It has been available to lease on a long-and short-term basis, once for as much as $75,000 a month, a source said.

Cruise was living in his five-bedroom Pacific Palisades house with his wife, actress Nicole Kidman, until they announced their separation earlier this year.

She remained in the house, and he temporarily rented a suite in the Hotel Bel-Air, other media reported. (Suites there range from $675 to $3,000 a night.) Cruise was living in the rented Westside house when their divorce became final on Aug. 8, sources said.

The actor, 39, starred this year in director Cameron Crowe’s movie “Vanilla Sky,” due out in December, and he teamed with Steven Spielberg on the futuristic thriller “Minority Report,” due out next June. Cruise also was executive producer of the movie “The Others,” starring his ex-wife.

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Producer Gale Anne Hurd and her husband, screenwriter Jonathan Hensleigh, have listed their Beverly Hills-area home at $11.9 million.

Hurd has produced such hit movies as “Terminator” (1984), “Aliens” (1986) and “Armageddon” (1998). Hensleigh has written screenplays for such films as “Armageddon,” “Jumanji” (1995) and “Die Hard With a Vengeance” (1995).

The couple plans to move to Pasadena to a larger house on 2.5 acres, real estate sources said.

Their Beverly Hills-area house, on just under an acre, has eight bedrooms in about 14,600 square feet. It was built in 1995 by Peter Morton, co-founder of the Hard Rock Cafe and owner of the trendy West Hollywood restaurant Morton’s.

The home also has a state-of-the-art screening room, a gym, an office, a pool, rolling lawns, fruit trees and city views.

Hurd is producing the upcoming sci-fi movie “Clockstoppers,” starring Jesse Bradford, French Stewart and Julia Sweeney. Hurd is also expected to produce the first feature film based on the comic book character Incredible Hulk.

Hensleigh, one of the film industry’s high-profile writers, is working on the film project “Gemini Man,” from an idea by Darren Lemke.

Joe Babajian of Prudential John Aaroe, Beverly Hills, and Joan Duffy of the firm’s Sherman Oaks office share the Beverly Hills-area listing.

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Amanda de Cadenet, a game-show personality in England before she became an actress and then a photographer for prominent European magazines, bought a Hollywood Hills house and sold another house in the same area. Both are in the $700,000 range, each about 2,400 square feet. Now she is redesigning the interior of the new house.

De Cadenet, 28, is the ex-wife of Duran Duran bass guitarist John Taylor. When she was 22, she bought the house she just sold after divorcing Taylor. More recently, she has been said to be a girlfriend of actor Keanu Reeves and London-based Levi’s model Nick Kamen.

Kathrin Nicholson of Westside Estate Agency had the listing on the house that de Cadenet sold, and Wayne Saks of Coldwell Banker represented the buyer, real estate sources said.

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A Santa Ynez Valley ranch with an adobe house built in 1890 has come on the market at $2.65 million.

The house, which has walls that are up to a foot thick in some places, was originally used as a settler’s home along the stagecoach line on the famous San Marcos Pass.

In the early 1900s, the house was turned into a bordello. Later, it became the main house of the 150-acre Rancho Quinta Ladera and its equestrian facilities, including a system of riding trails leading into Los Padres National Forest.

The ranch, across the street from Rancho San Marcos Golf Course, also has a two-bedroom guest house, a swimming pool, a cabana and views of Lake Cachuma, the valley and the mountains.

Gene O’Hagan of Sotheby’s International Realty, Santa Barbara/Montecito, has the listing.