Sorry, Pals, Pad’s Going
Actor Charlie Sheen, who married actress Denise Richards in mid-June, has again put his contemporary-style home overlooking Malibu Lake on the market, this time at $3.6 million.
Sheen originally listed his 2.5-acre furnished home and compound a year ago at $4.5 million. When it fell out of escrow, he took it off the market.
Now he and his bride want to move on to create a different type of home. The compound has been described as “the ultimate bachelor pad,” and it was the scene of many parties during Sheen’s wilder days.
The four-bedroom, 6,000-square-foot home has a poker room, cigar room, billiards room and media room with four TVs. The house also has an office and a batting cage. Sheen loves baseball and has temperature-controlled cases for his collections of baseball memorabilia.
Besides the main house, there is a guest house, which Sheen turned into “the aqua room” with walls of salt-water aquariums. There also is a full gym.
One of the more unusual features is a fire pole in the master suite, which descends from a closet to the front entrance. There is an infinity pool, rock spa and grotto on the grounds.
Sheen, 36, spent 10 years redesigning the home, which was built in 1991.
In the fall of 2000, he replaced Michael J. Fox on the ABC sitcom “Spin City,” which was canceled this spring. Sheen co-starred in such movies as “Platoon” (1986) and “Wall Street” (1987).
He met his wife in 2000 while shooting the movie “Good Advice.” They began dating after Richards made a guest appearance on “Spin City” last year. They announced their engagement in January.
Richards, 31, appears in the movie “Undercover Brother.” She played James Bond girl and nuclear physicist Christmas Jones in “The World Is Not Enough” (1999). She co-stars in the upcoming movies “The Third Wheel” and “Empire.”
Adrian Grant of Prudential John Aaroe & Associates, Beverly Hills, has the listing.
Shavo Odadjian, bassist with the rock band System of a Down, has become a first-time home buyer with his purchase of a Woodland Hills house for $690,000, $5,000 more than the asking price.
Odadjian, 26, bought a five-bedroom, 3,400-square-foot house that was built in 1964. The house has been updated and has a kitchen with a commercial stove, granite counters and marble floors. The master suite has a spa tub, steam shower and walk-in closet. The grounds have a pool and spa.
The main-stage lineup of the U.S. leg of the Ozzfest 2002 summer music tour features System of a Down as well as Ozzy Osbourne, P.O.D., Rob Zombie, Drowning Pool, Adema, and Zakk Wylde’s Black Label Society.
System of a Down, formed in 1994, sold 750,000 copies of its 1998 American Records debut and had a modern-rock radio hit with its song “Sugar.” The group is known for its raging sound, social conscience and onstage theatrics, with its four members streaked with paint. The band’s recent “Toxicity” album sold about 4 million copies.
Chad Rogers at Hilton & Hyland, Beverly Hills, represented Odadjian in his purchase.
The Trousdale Estates home of the late art director-producer Jacque Mapes and his late companion, producer Ross Hunter, has come on the market for the first time since it was built in 1966. The asking price is just under $4 million.
Mapes died in June at 88. He was art director for such musicals as “Singin’ in the Rain” (1952).
He and Hunter, who died at 75 in 1996, produced the films “Thoroughly Modern Millie” (1967), starring Julie Andrews, and “Airport” (1970). Hunter produced more than 60 movies, including “Flower Drum Song” (1961), “Pillow Talk” (1959) and “Tammy and the Bachelor” (1957).
The couple worked with architect Hal Levit in the design and construction of the Trousdale house, which has two master suites--each with its own sitting room--and two guest suites in more than 7,100 square feet.
Designed for entertaining, the house has rooms that open onto the grounds with a pool and city-to-ocean views. The living room has a fireplace and a wet bar. A screening room area has a bathroom, steam room and separate entrance.
Cissy Wellman of Coldwell Banker Previews in Brentwood and Studio City has the listing.
Andrew Tennenbaum, co-producer of “The Bourne Identity,” and his wife, former Napa Valley chef Julie Anne, have purchased a home in the Beverly Hills area for close to its asking price of $895,000.
Andrew Tennenbaum is also a personal manager of writers and directors at Flashpoint Entertainment, which he heads.
The three-bedroom, three-bathroom home was built in 1941 for Roswell Hoffman, who was recognized in the film industry for his camera work and special effects for director Alfred Hitchcock. Hoffman died last year.
The Tennenbaums are restoring and updating the home with its lawns, greenhouses and extensive gardens.
Judy Lubin of DBL Exceptional Homes represented the buyers, sources said.
Michael McColl, an actor/voice-over artist heard in ad campaigns for such movies as “Die Another Day,” and Gwyn Fawcett, actress and founding member of the Circle X Theatre in West Hollywood, have purchased a nearly $800,000 house south of Ventura Boulevard in the San Fernando Valley.
The gated, French Normandy-style home was built in 1936 and has two bedrooms, an office or third bedroom, and two bathrooms in about 2,600 square feet.
McColl also has been involved in Circle X productions, and Fawcett has appeared on the TV series “That’s Life” (2001-02).
Robert Lee Walters of Leland Properties, Studio City, represented the buyers, and Robert E. Howell, Coldwell Banker, Beverly Hills East, had the listing.
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