An Extended Family Man

Sylvester Stallone, who stars in the upcoming black comedy-gangster movie “Avenging Angelo,” has purchased a Beverly Hills-area home for $16 million, according to a source close to the actor and Westside Realtors not involved in the deal.

“He owns it; it is his. He bought it himself so his relatives will have a place to stay,” the Hollywood source said.

Stallone already owns a large estate next to the property that he has no intention of selling, sources said.

Built in 1997, the 15,000-square-foot house that Stallone reportedly purchased has a master suite with two bathrooms plus three other bedrooms, a gym, a billiard room, a screening room, a two-story reading room, a 10-foot long aquarium, an indoor pool with skylights, a 100-foot-long outdoor pool and a tennis court.

The estate is on two-plus acres behind gates, like Stallone’s other home, which he bought in 1998 for about $10 million before he expanded and totally refurbished it.

That house, an Italian-style villa, has more than seven bedrooms in an estimated 20,000 square feet. He and his wife, model Jennifer Flavin, live there with their two children.

Besides using the second house as a place for his extended family to stay when they come to visit, Stallone, who likes to paint, may want to use the house as an artist’s studio, a real estate source suggested. The house has a gallery entrance described as being “ideal for art.”

“Avenging Angelo,” shot this spring in Canada and Italy, co-stars Madeleine Stowe, Andy Garcia and the late Anthony Quinn. The film is due out next year.

Stallone, 55, also starred this year in the movies “Driven” and “D-Tox.”

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Ellen DeGeneres, whose new sitcom “The Ellen Show” will get a sneak peek on CBS the day after she hosts the Sept. 16 Primetime Emmy Awards, has put her Hollywood Hills pied-a-terre on the market at just under $2 million.

“She’s moving on,” a real estate source said.

DeGeneres, 43, has owned the contemporary-style house since June 1999, when she and actress Anne Heche were together.

At the time, they also had a home in Ojai, which DeGeneres sold in July. The asking price on the Ojai home was $2.75 million.

The Hollywood Hills home, in the Sunset Strip area, has three bedrooms, a den/media room and an office in about 3,000 square feet.

Built in 1966, the house, which was recently remodeled, also has walls of glass and a pool.

“The Ellen Show” will settle into its regular 8 p.m. Friday slot on Sept. 21.

Barry Sloane, who specializes in historic and architecturally significant properties at Sotheby’s International Realty, Beverly Hills, has the listing.

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A Laguna Beach house built in 1979 on a cliff over the ocean by the late Boyd Jefferies, one of the nation’s most powerful traders of big blocks of stock until he pleaded guilty in 1987 to two counts of securities fraud, has been sold for close to its $17.9-million asking price, area Realtors said.

Escrow closed Friday on the home, known as Pacific Reflections.

The house was listed at $19.9 million a year ago in July. It had been owned since 1996 by a tech guru who seldom went there.

The property had been on and off the market for several years and was listed in early 1999 at $21 million.

The former owner bought it for $16.5 million.

Architect Fred Briggs designed the 12,500-square-foot home.

It has a tennis court, a gym, an eight-car garage and a glass-bottomed stairway that reveals the ocean and leads to the master suite with its domed ceiling, which can be opened electronically.

The buyer is an Orange County businessman.

He listed his Laguna Beach home at $11.5 million. That house has five bedrooms and a home theater in just under 7,000 square feet.

A few steps from the beach, the house also has 120 feet of ocean frontage.

Judy Blossom of Summit Real Estate Group, Laguna Beach, has the listing and represented the businessman in purchasing Pacific Reflections.

Linda May and Dawn Ross of Coldwell Banker, Beverly Hills North, and Nancy Lavigne of Coldwell Banker, Corona del Mar, had the listing.

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“Frasier” star Kelsey Grammer has sold his Hollywood Hills home to Alison Dexter, senior vice president of Nickelodeon Productions, for $720,000.

Grammer, 46, and his wife, Camille, had been using the home when in town, but the couple, who live mainly in Malibu, decided that they weren’t spending enough time in the Hollywood Hills to keep the home there, a source said when it came on the market in July.

The Hollywood Hills home has three bedrooms in slightly more than 2,100 square feet. It also has a deck and city-to-ocean views.

Built in 1964, the contemporary-style house was renovated just before the actor bought it in March 2000.

Grammer also did some refurbishing, sources have said.

Rochelle Tetrault of DBL Beverly Hills represented the buyer; Debby Berg of Prudential John Aaroe, Pacific Design Center, had the listing.

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Caresse Henry, Madonna’s manager, and Jorge Hinojosa, an entertainment manager and technology consultant whose clients include rapper-actor Ice-T, have purchased a Hollywood Hills home for about its $1.69-million list price.

Built in 1937, the Monterey Colonial-style home has three bedrooms and three bathrooms in about 5,000 square feet. The home also has a large yard and a pool.

Barry Peele of Sotheby’s International Realty, Beverly Hills, represented the buyers.

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Actor Robert Blake is looking to buy a home in Hidden Hills, where he expects to move from his longtime Studio City home, listed at $1,098,000.

Contrary to other reports, Blake, 66, hasn’t yet relocated, although he plans to move closer to a home he owns where his oldest daughter lives. She has been helping to take care of Blake’s infant daughter since his wife, Bonny Lee Bakley, was slain in May.

Built in 1937, Blake’s Studio City home is a ranch-style compound with a three-bedroom house that includes a large master suite, a one-bedroom guest house and a two-bedroom house in the rear with a gym, dance/workout room and sauna.

The rustic 5,000-square-foot compound is in a neighborhood populated with film-industry folks. Blake has owned the home since 1983.

Patty Ray of Prudential John Aaroe, Studio City, has the listing.