Her Extra Territory

Actress Drew Barrymore has purchased a Hollywood Hills home on nearly 1.5 acres for about $4.5 million.

Barrymore had been leasing since her former Beverly Hills-area home sustained fire damage in February 2001. She subsequently sold that property.

Described as a “two-story, mid-century ranch with a long private drive,” the compound she bought includes a four-bedroom main house with a two-story living room, a guest house and a guard house that is staffed full time.

The estate, estimated to have about 9,000 square feet of living space, also has a gym, five fireplaces and a billiard room with a bar. The grounds, behind gates, have a motor court, views from downtown L.A. to the ocean, a pool and a yard with pathways and gardens.

Barrymore, 27, has a leading role in the comedy “Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,” due out later this year, and stars opposite Ben Stiller in “The Duplex,” expected to be released in 2003.

She starred in “Riding in Cars With Boys” (2001) and co-starred with Cameron Diaz and Lucy Liu in the movie version of the 1970s TV series “Charlie’s Angels” (2000), which she also produced. Barrymore also appeared at age 7 in “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial,” re-released in March.

Brett Lawyer and Ed Fitz of Nourmand & Associates, Beverly Hills, represented Barrymore in buying, according to sources not involved in the deal.

Mariska Hargitay, who plays Detective Olivia Benson on the NBC series “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,” has listed her Sunset Strip-area home at just under $1.5 million.

The actress, daughter of the late actress Jayne Mansfield and former bodybuilder-actor Mickey Hargitay, has been living in New York and periodically leasing out the house. It’s also available to lease at $8,750 a month.

Built in 1988, the Mediterranean-style home has five bedrooms in about 3,000 square feet. The home also has city views, arched doorways, a loft/office with a fireplace, a two-story guest house and a newly built pool.

Hargitay was 3 when her mother was killed at 34 in a car accident in 1967. The little girl and two of her brothers from Mansfield’s marriage to Mickey Hargitay were asleep in the back seat at the time of the accident, and none of the children was injured.

Mansfield had divorced Hargitay before the crash, but he raised his daughter.

Chuck Russell, director of “The Scorpion King” and director-executive producer of other films such as “Eraser” (1996) and “The Mask” (1994), has sold his Bel-Air home for just under $2.9 million, sources said.

The director, who is in his 40s, recently bought a larger Westside home in a gated community.

The 7,000-square-foot house that they sold has four bedrooms, a gym and an entertainment room that opens to a tennis court and a lagoon pool with a waterfall.

June Scott of Coldwell Banker, Beverly Hills North, had the listing.

Patrick Doyle, who composed the music for “Bridget Jones’s Diary” and “Gosford Park,” and his wife, Leslie, have purchased a home in the Beverly Hills area for close to its $1.6-million asking price.

The Scottish film composer, 49, and his wife also have homes in London and France.

They bought a California ranch-style home with a pool. The house, with three bedrooms and maid’s quarters in about 3,600 square feet, was built in the 1940s.

Jana Jones-Duffy and Fred Holley of Coldwell Banker, Beverly Hills South, represented the couple in their purchase.

Max Kleven, who directed the underwater unit in “What Lies Beneath” (2000) and has been director of action units on such films as the upcoming “Spider-Man,” has listed his gated ranch and tennis estate on about 7.5 acres in Agua Dulce, 14 miles north of the San Fernando Valley, at $2.8 million, fully furnished including a grand piano.

Kleven, a producer-director-writer with more than 30 years of experience in filmmaking, plans to sell his estate because he has taken an interest in building a Southwest-style home on nearby land.

He renovated the Mediterranean-style home he listed, adding a wall of glass. Built in 1974, the three-bedroom, 4,000-square-foot main house has views of the Sierra foothills, heated floors and fireplaces in the kitchen and living room. The property also has a three-bedroom, 2,000-square-foot guest house; a lighted tennis court; a pool; a pool house with a fireplace; a six-car garage; a motor home garage; two workshops; nine corrals; and a tack room.

Michael Rodgers and John Barker have the listing at Pinnacle Estate Properties, Northridge.

Brad Pitt was once in escrow to buy an 11,000-square-foot home being constructed by Steve Meepos on 2.5 acres in the Beverly Hills area, but he didn’t want to wait for the house being built there to be completed, sources said. Neither did Lisa Kudrow, who also expressed interest in buying it.

So now it is on the market at $13.9 million.

The house, behind gates, will have five bedrooms, guest and maid’s quarters, a media room, a tennis court, a pool, 100-year-old pine trees and city-to-ocean views.

It’s being built on the site of actor Michael Caine’s former home, which Meepos razed. It was noted for its indoor-outdoor pool, which was turned into a spa by a subsequent owner.

Caine’s house was built by Woolworth dime-store heiress Barbara Hutton for her son, Lance Reventlow, in 1956. Designed in the shape of an L for Lance, the house did not take full advantage of the views, as does the newly built home.

Meepos kept the tennis court but is turning a tennis cabana into a pavilion, and he is building a pool house twice the size of the original.

Jeff Hyland of Hilton & Hyland, Beverly Hills, has the listing.

High-end residential real estate on the Westside has been hotter than ever, according to Cecelia Waeschle, who tracks high-end sales for Coldwell Banker.

“Since I started doing the list in 1987, the number of home sales at more than $3 million each has quadrupled,” she said.

This year to date, 99 homes have sold at more than $3 million each, in contrast with 82 for the same period of last year. Forty have been sold so far this year at more than $5 million each; at this point last year, there were 32.

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