Chief’s pursuit of a home ends in Los Feliz
L.A. Police Chief William J. Bratton and his wife, Court TV anchor Rikki Klieman, closed escrow last week on a home in Los Feliz, the area where he announced in the fall that they planned to buy.
The couple purchased a three-bedroom, nearly 3,000-square-foot house, which is behind walls, for close to its $1.3-million asking price.
The house has a courtyard entry, city views and a pool. It also has vaulted ceilings and hardwood floors. The post-and-beam home, completed in the mid-1960s, was recently updated.
Bratton and Klieman, both 54, previously split their time between a co-op in Manhattan, where he once headed the New York Police Department, and a house on Long Island. Klieman, whose show is based in New York, will commute between the two coasts.
In November, the new L.A. police chief told a crowd at an event at a landmark house on Franklin Avenue that he and his wife expected to live in Los Feliz.
Dorothy Carter and her son, Michael Orland, of DBL Realtors had the listing. Jon Olsen and Fred Hampton of Coldwell Banker represented the buyers.
A designated Angel’s penthouse
Brad Fullmer, the designated hitter who helped the Anaheim Angels win the World Series last year, has purchased a penthouse condominium in Pacific Palisades for just under $1 million.
Fullmer bought the condo as a place to stay when he is in the L.A. area. The 27-year-old left-handed hitter is originally from Chatsworth.
His two-bedroom condo is in a new building. It has ocean and mountain views.
Fullmer batted .289 with 19 homers and 59 runs batted in last season after the Angels acquired him from the Toronto Blue Jays.
In December, he became a free agent but rejoined the team within three weeks when he was signed to a one-year, $1-million contract.
Jordan Cohen of Re/Max Olson Estate Brokerage, Westlake Village, represented Fullmer in buying the penthouse; Joanne Lindsay of Prudential California, Brentwood, had the listing.
A model home hits the market
Angie Everhart, the model turned actress, has listed her Hollywood Hills home at just under $2 million.
The house, which she has owned since 1996, has five bedrooms and three bathrooms in 3,100 square feet. The home also has a pool plus a master bedroom with a fireplace and a closet that a viewer termed “fit for a diva.”
The house, built in 1960 on a promontory, has been described as having “amazing city views” and being in “move-in condition.”
Everhart, 33, made her acting debut in 1993 in the movie “Last Action Hero.” Last year she co-starred in the NBC drama series “UC: Undercover,” and she signed on to appear in the NBC miniseries “First to Die,” due to air in February.
Sheik’s onetime property for sale
The couple who bought the historic Max Whittier estate, known in the 1970s as the home of Saudi Sheik Mohammed al-Fassi, have changed their minds about building a 30,000-square-foot home on the prominent, now-vacant Beverly Hills site.
Instead, Andy Heyward, chairman and chief executive of DIC Entertainment, and his wife, Evelyn, bought a Malibu home for about $8 million in December, and they’ve listed the Beverly Hills property at just under $16 million, including house plans by architect Robert A.M. Stern, dean of the Yale University School of Architecture.
The Heywards decided that they didn’t want to go through the building process, said Kurt Rappaport of Westside Estate Agency, Beverly Hills. Rappaport has the listing and represented the pair in their Malibu purchase.
The couple bought the Beverly Hills site in April 2001. The 3.6-acre property, two blocks east of the Beverly Hills Hotel on Sunset Boulevard, provoked neighbors years ago when the sheik put brightly colored plastic flowers in the outdoor Grecian urns and painted the white-plaster statues of nudes on the front veranda in natural skin and hair tones. The sheik also painted the stately white mansion, owned at one time by Beverly Hills co-founder Whittier, lime green.
The house was gutted by fire in 1980. It was razed, after the sheik sold it, in 1985. The sheik died Dec. 24 in Egypt at age 50.
DIC Entertainment produces such animated series as “Liberty’s Kids,” “Inspector Gadget,” “Carmen Sandiego” and “Sabrina, the Teenage Witch.”
Rocker’s bachelor pad on the market
Dave Navarro, who has been a guitarist with the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Jane’s Addiction, has put his Sunset Strip-area home on the market at $675,000.
Navarro, 35, is apparently selling his bachelor pad because he and his fiancee, actress Carmen Electra, 30, bought a three-bedroom Beverly Hills home together last fall, according to several sources.
The two-bedroom, 1,600-square-foot home in the Sunset Strip area has what are described as “killer city views” and “an updated, stainless steel and black kitchen.” The contemporary home, with view decks and iron railings, was built in 1965.
Palm Springs hideaway listed
Mel Haber, owner of the celebrity haunts Melvyn’s Restaurant and Ingleside Inn in Palm Springs, has listed his desert residence at just under $2 million.
Haber put the house on the market because he and his wife, Stephanie, recently purchased a home in a gated golf-course community.
The house he listed is known as Melvyn’s Hideaway. The secluded hillside home, which Haber built in the Las Palmas area of town in 1987, has six bedrooms and 7.5 bathrooms in slightly more than 11,300 square feet. On almost an acre, the home also has a motor court entrance with waterfalls; a living room with soaring ceilings, a fireplace and a wet bar; an office/library overlooking the city and mountains; and a master suite with a sitting room, fireplace and his-and-hers bathrooms.
In 1975, Haber bought the Ingleside Inn, a 2-acre resort with a star-studded history dating back to the 1930s.
Frank Sinatra and Barbara Marx selected Melvyn’s, the dining room at the Ingleside Inn, for their pre-wedding dinner in 1976. Since then its guests have included Arnold Schwarzenegger, Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russell and John Travolta.
In its earlier days, the Ingleside hosted Greta Garbo, Howard Hughes, Clark Gable and Salvador Dali. Soprano Lily Pons came for a weekend and stayed for 13 years.
Blair Alexander and Sven Vennen have the listing at DBL Realtors, Palm Springs.
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