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Actress-director Diane Keaton has purchased a home in Laguna Beach for about $1.7 million.
The house, which has five bedrooms and 4.5 baths in slightly more than 3,000 square feet, is on the ocean side of Pacific Coast Highway and is a short walk to the sand.
Built in 1924, the residence has been remodeled several times and was in the process of being upgraded when Keaton closed escrow.
Keaton loves refurbishing older houses, and she is well-known for her fine taste in decor and architecture.
Last year, she sold her Beverly Hills home, which she restored, to Madonna for $6.5 million. The Spanish-style house had not been on the market.
The Laguna home that Keaton just purchased was not on the market, either.
Keaton, 55, directed the pilot for the new Fox-TV series “Pasadena,” about an old-money family and its dark secrets, and she is developing a 10-part series on the women’s rights movement for HBO. She will also star in the upcoming CBS movie “Crossed Over.”
Keaton co-starred in the movies “Town & Country” (2001) and “Hanging Up” (2000), which she also directed.
She won a best actress Oscar for “Annie Hall” (1977), and she has published several collections of her photographs.
Don Stratton of Coldwell Banker-North Laguna represented Keaton in her purchase, and Sarah Rutherford of Summit Real Estate represented the seller.
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Singer Nick Carter of the Backstreet Boys has sold his Santa Ynez Valley home for its most recent listing price of $2.9 million.
The 101-acre property--with a 10,000-square-foot house, a pool and a tennis court--was originally listed months ago at $3.3 million.
Built about nine years ago, the estate also has a small lake, a bar and a guest apartment.
Carter has owned the property since fall 1999. The pop star, 21, spent so much time on the road he seldom used the property, although his family, which also has a home on the Palos Verdes Peninsula, lived there.
The Backstreet Boys have been raising money for the wife and family of Daniel Lee, a carpenter for the band who died aboard the first hijacked plane to hit the World Trade Center. Lee’s wife gave birth to their second child two days after the terrorist attacks.
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Heather Tom, who stars on the CBS daytime series “The Young and the Restless,” has put her Burbank home on the market and purchased a larger house in Glendale.
Her Burbank home is listed at $579,000. Tom has owned it since 1999 and had refurbished and expanded it.
Situated on a tree-lined street, the home has three bedrooms and two baths in about 1,900 square feet. The family room and master suite have cathedral ceilings. There are French doors opening onto a tile deck.
Tom, 25, has won two Daytime Emmys playing Victoria Newman on “The Young and The Restless.” She has been on the show for 10 years.
Jane Kim of Ramsey-Shilling, Toluca Lake, has the listing.
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Haim Saban, whose company created the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, has purchased a 2-acre-plus lot next to his Beverly Hills-area home for $9 million.
Saban and his wife, Cheryl, live in a French chateau-style home that they built after selling their smaller Beverly Hills home in 1996.
Their smaller home had eight bedrooms in nearly 12,000 square feet.
Before the lot purchase that just closed escrow, their current home was on about five acres.
The Sabans also have homes in Malibu and Acapulco.
The children’s TV mogul, 56, owned half of Fox Family Worldwide, the parent of the Fox Family Channel, until he exercised an option earlier this year to force Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., owner of the other half, to buy his share. News Corp. sold Fox Family Channel in July to the Walt Disney Co. for $3 billion.
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Danny Sugerman, longtime manager of the Doors, and his wife, Oliver North’s former assistant Fawn Hall, have put their Sunset Strip-area house on the market at $995,000.
The couple, married since 1993, plan to move to a slightly larger home nearby.
The house they listed has two bedrooms in 1,400-plus square feet. Built in 1950, the single-story home also has city views from every room; a pool, a spa and a deck, which overlooks the L.A. Basin. There is also a koi pond with a waterfall.
Hall, 40, came to national attention in the late ‘80s when she testified at a congressional hearing that she helped North shred documents linking him to the Iran-Contra scandal.
The Pentagon office of Hall’s stepfather, Ronald C. Hall, was destroyed during the recent terrorist attacks, but he was home sick at the time, sources said. He is a photographer for the Air Force.
Wilma Hall, Fawn Hall’s mother, works in the White House for the CIA director.
Sugerman, in his mid-40s, has worked for the Doors since he saw the late Jim Morrison and the group perform in 1967. Sugerman also became the bestselling author of such books as the Morrison biography, “No One Here Gets Out Alive” (1980). He is working on a sequel to his book “Wonderland Avenue” (1990).
Jeffrey Hobgood and Richard Klug of Sotheby’s International Realty in Beverly Hills co-listed the property with Brad Downs of Prudential John Aaroe, Beverly Hills.
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Pianist-singer Michael Feinstein, one of the best interpreters of works by such songwriters as George and Ira Gershwin and Cole Porter, has listed his Laguna Beach home at just under $2.4 million.
Feinstein, 45, apparently decided to sell because he doesn’t use the Laguna house much. He also has a home in Los Feliz and an apartment in New York.
The Laguna house, which he has owned for about a year, has two bedrooms and 3.5 baths in just under 3,000 square feet. Built in 1972, the home also has city and coastline views, a media room and three view decks.
Dona Dixon and Bob Boyd of Coldwell Banker, Laguna Beach, have the listing.
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