Drumming up interest in a new home
Rocker Tommy Lee has listed his home in the hills of Malibu at $3 million.
Lee is selling because he is engaged to singer-dancer Mayte Garcia, who was once wed to Prince, and they want to buy a house together in the L.A. area, real estate sources said.
“Both of his children [by ex-wife actress Pamela Anderson] were born while he was living there,” said co-listing agent Beth Ann Green.
Lee bought the house, described as Moorish in style, in 1995. The house was in the news in July 2001 when a 4-year-old boy accidentally drowned in the pool during a birthday party.
The house, built in 1991 on nearly 2.5 acres behind gates, has six bedrooms and 4.5 bathrooms in about 7,400 square feet. There is also a media room, a three-car garage and an elevator.
The former Motley Crue drummer, 40, recently released “Never,” his first solo album. Most of it was recorded in his Malibu home, sources say.
Green, at Coldwell Banker’s Beverly Hills East office, shares the listing with Tracy Bunetta at Coldwell Banker’s Malibu East office.
Manhattan Beach by way of Ukraine
Stanislav “Slava” Medvedenko, the young Ukrainian who joined the L.A. Lakers two years ago last summer as a backup forward, has purchased a Manhattan Beach home for $1.3 million.
Medvedenko, 23, is a first-time home buyer. He closed escrow last week on a five-bedroom, nearly 4,500-square-foot house built in 2000.
The home, on a corner lot, has a living room with a fireplace and a wet bar; a family room with a fireplace; a master suite with a fireplace and two balconies; an office and a three-car garage with a workbench.
The house has a spacious floor plan and high ceilings. The 6-foot-10, 250-pound basketball star played professionally in Ukraine and Lithuania before joining the Lakers.
Earlier this month, Medvedenko tore the tendon off the tip of his right pinkie finger, and he was expected to be out of play for as long as six weeks.
Brian Pane of Re/Max on the Boulevard in Studio City was the selling agent.
Thousand Oaks sale pushes ceiling
Writer-producer-director David Duclon and his wife, Deborah, have sold their home in the Westlake area of Thousand Oaks for close to its $10-million asking price. It is one of the highest home sales in the area, local Realtors say.
The buyers are Ray Scherr, former owner of the Guitar Center chain of music stores and founder of the Hollywood RockWalk (which honors musical innovators), and his wife, Janet. The Guitar Center is one of the nation’s largest music product retailers.
The Scherrs are also longtime supporters of the Alliance for the Arts in Thousand Oaks. A 400-seat theater there was renamed in their honor after the couple donated $1 million to the alliance in 1998.
David Duclon wrote and produced such TV series as “The Odd Couple,” “Happy Days,” “Laverne and Shirley,” “The Jeffersons,” “Silver Spoons,” “Punky Brewster,” “Family Matters” and “Malcolm & Eddie.” He and his wife sold the home, which they built in 1995, to scale down.
The chateau-style estate is on 4.5 acres behind gates. The 18,000-square-foot house is on a hill with golf course views.
The home also has five bedrooms, 11.5 bathrooms, an elevator, a library with a fireplace, a family room with a fireplace, a pub with fairway views, and a foyer with a sweeping staircase and a crystal chandelier.
The master suite has his-and-her wings with steam showers and whirlpool baths. His wing also has an office, kitchenette and balcony. Her wing has leaded-glass windows, twin walk-in closets and a chandelier.
There is an 1,800-square-foot guest house on the property as well as a pool, spa, five-car garage, sport court and motorcourt with a fountain.
Bob Hurwitz of Hurwitz-James in Beverly Hills had the listing and represented the buyers, sources said.
Beach home has a star-studded past
A Malibu beach house owned by singer Diana Ross at one time and the late actor Richard Harris at another sold the first day it was on the market for nearly its $7,995,000 asking price.
The contemporary home has four bedrooms and 3.5 bathrooms in about 2,900 square feet. It also has walls of glass facing the ocean.
Among its neighbors are such notables as David Geffen, Lawrence Ellison, Courteney Cox, David Arquette and Richard Riordan. The buyer is an executive in the entertainment industry.
Kurt Rappaport of Westside Estate Agency, Beverly Hills, represented both sides of the deal.
Bungalow traded up for a Tudor
Kevin Kilner, who plays Hamilton in the series “CSI: Miami,” has sold his California bungalow-style house in Spaulding Square for $845,000, and he bought a Tudor-style home in the Hollywood Hills for $867,000.
The two-bedroom house he bought was built in 1928 and is described as being in need of refurbishing. He sold his three-bedroom bungalow, built in 1917, to Norman Steinberg, who co-wrote the movie “Blazing Saddles” (1974). Steinberg, also known for writing “My Favorite Year” (1982), sold his four-bedroom home in Windsor Square to a businessman from El Paso for slightly more than $1.7 million. That house was built in 1922.
Kilner, 44, became an actor after a successful career as an investment banker managing accounts for Fortune 500 companies. He has appeared on such series as “China Beach” and “The Cosby Show.” He starred opposite Nancy Travis on the CBS sitcom “Almost Perfect” (1995-96) and was cast as Dad in the movie “American Pie 2” (2001).
Steinberg most recently has been executive producer of the series “Raising Dad,” which he also has directed. He was an executive producer of “Cosby,” for which he was also a writer.
Jeanine Sales at Hilton & Hyland, Beverly Hills, represented Kilner in his deals; Timothy Enright of the Enright Co. represented Steinberg in buying and selling; and Janet Caminite of DBL, Santa Monica, represented the buyer from El Paso, sources said.
Arranging sale of Malibu home
Kelley Love, who has arranged compositions for the Pandemonia Orchestra, has sold his Malibu home for its asking price of just under $1.3 million.
The recently renovated home, behind gates, has five bedrooms in 4,600 square feet. It was built in 1989. The three-level home also has a pool, spa, cabana, sauna, attached guest house and canyon views.
Ira Greespon of Ocean Pacific Realty, Malibu, represented the buyer, and Tom Clements of Pritchett-Rapf, Malibu, had the listing, sources said.
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