Some country croonin’ near Beverly Hills
Grammy-winning singer Reba McEntire, who stars in the WB sitcom “Reba,” and her husband-manager, Narvel Blackstock, have purchased a Beverly Hills-area home for $9 million, according to local Realtors.
The country star, who played Annie Oakley in her 2001 debut as a stage actress in “Annie Get Your Gun” on Broadway, and her husband bought a six-bedroom 9,000-plus-square-foot house on 2 acres behind gates.
The grounds have a tennis court, pool, spa and city and canyon views. The house, built in the early ‘90s, has a basement, breakfast bar, library/study, service entrance and wine cellar.
Earlier this month, McEntire, 47, marked a milestone in her musical career when “Reba McEntire Live” became her 15th album to go platinum, reaching the million-sales mark.
Backstage at the American Music Awards in January, she announced that she plans to spend part of her summer recording a new studio album. She probably will do that during the summer hiatus from her TV series.
McEntire had her first No. 1 hit, “Can’t Even Get the Blues,” in January 1983. Since then she has won multiple Grammy Awards, made her feature-film acting debut in “Tremors” (1990), gone on tour many times and written her autobiography and a collection of essays.
McEntire also recently became a co-executive producer of her hit TV series, now in its second year.
Blackstock has been her manager since before they were married in 1989. Together, they built Starstruck Entertainment to include all aspects of her career.
Production shifts to home in hills
Stuart Krasnow, executive producer of the NBC show “Dog Eat Dog,” and his partner, casting director Fred Risher, have purchased a Hollywood Hills home for about $1.3 million.
The 2,400-square-foot house has two bedrooms, including a master bedroom with a fireplace. The home also has 20-foot ceilings, floor-to-ceiling glass walls, a den, a pool, a spa and city views.
Krasnow also has worked in producing such other TV shows as “Weakest Link” and “Ricki Lake.”
Rick Chimienti at DBL Estates, Beverly Hills, represented the buyers, and Alexa D. Fiery at Prudential John Aaroe, Encino, had the listing.
Oscar nominee
off to Hamptons
Oscar nominee Renee Zellweger’s Westside home has been listed at about $7.5 million, real estate sources said.
Zellweger, who received a best-actress Oscar nomination and a Golden Globe award for her role as Roxie Hart in the movie “Chicago,” is planning to relocate to the East Coast and has purchased a house in New York in the Hamptons, sources added.
There have been some design and updating changes in the Westside house since it was bought through a trust last summer for close to $6.8 million. Among the changes: a room was turned into a closet, Realtors said.
Built in the 1930s, the traditional-style, walled and gated house has seven bedrooms in 6,400 square feet. The home also has a state-of-the-art kitchen, a paneled library, a guesthouse, a pool and pool house, and a motor court.
Zellweger, 33, was nominated for a best actress Oscar last year for her role in “Bridget Jones’s Diary.” She is expected to reprise the character in the sequel, “The Edge of Reason.”
Lloyd Wright
house on market
A Lloyd Wright-designed home -- on nearly 5 horse-zoned acres in a 133-acre L.A.-owned park in Runyon Canyon Park -- is on the market at $3.45 million.
The three-bedroom, 2,000-square-foot home, built as a guesthouse in 1948, was owned for more than 30 years by film director Alan Handley, who remodeled the interior.
The listing includes approved plans for an 8,500-square-foot main residence, designed to complement the Wright house.
The property, part of the 160-acre Huntington Hartford estate before it was subdivided and the Wright house was built, is one of the few estate parcels available for development along the Mulholland corridor.
Carl Romeo of DBL Realtors, Sunset Strip office, has the listing.
Conried family
lists 1928 house
A Hollywood Hills home owned at different times by author Upton Sinclair and character actor Hans Conried has been listed at just under $1.9 million.
The house has been in the Conried family for more than 50 years.
The Shakespearean-trained actor died at 64 in 1982. He starred in the movie “The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T” (1953) and played Uncle Tonoose in the 1950s and ‘60s TV series “Make Room for Daddy” and “The Danny Thomas Show.”
The Spanish-style house was a model home in 1929 for the Hollywood Knolls subdivision.
The house, built in 1928, has six bedrooms and six bathrooms in 6,000 square feet.
It is on a promontory with views of L.A. and Lake Hollywood, a reservoir built in 1924.
The home also has hand-carved woodwork, original, hand-painted tile, high ceilings, two fireplaces, a library, a family room, a den, a chauffeur’s quarters, a motor court and a pool.
Bruce Walker of Prudential California Realty Estate Properties, John Aaroe division, in Beverly Hills has the listing.
She’s sold her
penthouse loft
Portia de Rossi, who starred as attorney Nelle Porter on the series “Ally McBeal” and played Carolyn Bessette Kennedy in TBS’ January movie “America’s Prince: The John F. Kennedy Jr. Story,” has sold her two-bedroom, 2.5-bathroom penthouse in West Hollywood for close to its $925,000 asking price.
De Rossi bought a $2.1-million home in a nearby area last July.
The buyer was described as a dermatologist from San Francisco.
The actress, 30, had remodeled the 2,200-square-foot penthouse to look like a New York loft.
The third-floor unit, originally an artist’s studio, has a stainless-steel kitchen, a master suite with skylights and city views.
The 1930s building was once home to Marilyn Monroe and Rock Hudson.
Ryan Collier and Lauren Polan of Coldwell Banker’s Beverly Hills North office represented de Rossi in her sale.
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