A home to tickle Pink

R&B; pop singer Pink has purchased a Sherman Oaks home for close to its $2.2-million asking price.

Pink, who sings the theme song in the upcoming movie “Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle,” bought a four-bedroom, 5,000-square-foot home with a pool.

The Mediterranean-style villa was built in the ‘40s and updated recently. It has a new kitchen, 4 1/2 bathrooms, a two-story entrance and a master suite with a balcony.

Pink, 23, also filmed the video for “Feel Good Time,” the theme song to the “Charlie’s Angels” movie, which is due out June 27. Beck wrote the song. Pink has a small role in the film as owner of a motorcycle club.

Pink was given her nickname for the color her cheeks turn if she is embarrassed. When she dyed her hair pink, the color became her trademark. Her real name is Alecia Moore.

After releasing her first album, “Can’t Take Me Home,” in 2000, she was named Billboard’s best new female artist the same year. A year later, she sang the ‘70s hit “Lady Marmalade” with Christina Aguilera, Mya and Lil’ Kim for the film “Moulin Rouge.” Pink won a Grammy in 2002 for best pop collaboration with vocals for “Lady Marmalade,” and that year, she also appeared in the movie “Rollerball.”

A songwriter and a musician as well as a singer, Pink became an executive producer with her 2001 album “Missundaztood.” Earlier this year, in a national poll taken by Sugar magazine, the tattooed singer was named an inspiration for teenagers, surpassing Britney Spears as a role model.

Todd Marks and Lori Michele Marks of Prudential John Aaroe, Beverly Hills, had the listing, real estate sources said.

Applegate casts off Rogue’s Retreat

Christina Applegate, who will star opposite Will Ferrell in the DreamWorks movie “Anchor Man: The Legend of Ron Burgundy,” has sold a Hollywood Hills home that she has owned for slightly more than a decade for about $750,000.

Applegate, probably best known for playing Kelly Bundy on the Fox sitcom “Married ... With Children” (1987-97), hasn’t lived in the house for a few years, since she purchased another home in the same area in the $1-million range. She has used the house as a rental, and the tenants have included a number of musicians, Westside sources said. The house was built in the early 1900s and was called Rogues’ Retreat by actor David Niven, who was known for hosting many card parties when he lived there.

The 2,000-square-foot home has a main house and a guest cottage plus a three-car garage. The main house has two bedrooms and two bathrooms and is described as being log cabin-like in style. The home also has a large patio with a stone fireplace and a spa.

Applegate, 31, appeared with Gwyneth Paltrow as a flight attendant in the comedy film “View From the Top” and had a supporting role in the film “The Sweetest Thing” (2002). She also starred in the 1998 sitcom “Jesse.”

Fred Segal’s latest fashion statement

Retail giant Fred Segal has listed his Montecito home on Butterfly Beach, a few steps from the Four Seasons Resort, at $25 million.

Segal bought his property about three years ago. He put considerable energy and financial resources into the beachside compound, but he likes hot weather and has been spending most of his time at two of his other residences: one in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, the other in Palm Desert.

His Montecito home is on 2 acres with views of the Pacific and the Channel Islands. The grounds have a black-bottom pool, a spa and a Japanese tea garden.

In addition to the main house, there is a one-bedroom guesthouse with a sleeping porch and a fireplace. And there is a pool house with one bedroom and a sleeping porch.

In the ‘60s, Segal developed the hip-hugging, fashion jean, which made a comeback in 2001. Segal, in his 60s, owns Fred Segal clothing boutiques in Santa Monica and on Melrose Avenue.

Richard Mann of Coldwell Banker, Montecito, has the listing.

Welk’s golf retreat hits the market

The late bandleader Lawrence Welk’s home-away-from-home just north of Escondido has come on the market at $425,000.

Welk died at 89 in 1992. He built the two-bedroom, two-bathroom retreat in 1971 in his Champagne Village, a manufactured home park for seniors 55 and older.

Champagne Village started out as Esquire Oaks Mobile Home Park. It had 79 spaces when Welk, attracted by adjacent fairways, bought the mobile home park in the mid-’60s. Champagne Village is now a development of 457 manufactured homes. Welk’s, at the top of a hill, overlooks a golf course.

The band leader lived in Santa Monica but spent his leisure time in his 1,440-square-foot retreat, which was owned by his family until about eight months ago, when they sold it to a couple who already lived in Champagne Village.

Champagne Village residents own the land and an interest in such amenities as a pool, spa, tennis courts, clubhouse and exercise facility.

Fran Norman at Welk Village Realty in Escondido has the listing.

His Hanks-esque look graces Encino

Tom Everett Scott, who resembles Tom Hanks and made his feature-film debut as a teenager in the Hanks-directed movie “That Thing You Do!” (1996), has sold his Hollywood Hills home and purchased a house in Encino. Both sales were for slightly more than $1 mil- lion.

The Hollywood Hills home was built in 1925 and has four bedrooms in nearly 3,000 square feet. The Encino home was built about 1950 and has four bedrooms in 3,200 square feet.

Scott, who co-starred opposite Kim Delaney in the 2001 ABC series “Philly,” will co-star in the upcoming ABC series “Platonically Incorrect.”

High-priced sales droop on Westside

High-end home sales on the Westside are down somewhat for the first six months of this year in contrast with the same period of last year, according to Cecelia Waeschle of Coldwell Banker, Beverly Hills.

Waeschle, who has tracked upper-bracket house sales for more than 15 years, said that there were 154 sales over $3 million from January to June 2002, while there were 153 over $3 million for those months this year.

In the over $5-million category, there were 67 in 2002 and 42 in 2003.

In the $10-million-plus range, there were 12 in 2002 and nine in 2003. All except one of the nine were in Malibu, which had no sales exceeding $10 million during the first six months of 2002, she said.

As for celebrity deals, many of the purchases this year have been in the Hollywood Hills. Among them: Keanu Reeves bought a house at close to $5 million; Ellen DeGeneres at $6 million; Christina Aguilera at $5 million, and Courteney Cox and husband David Arquette at about $4.5 million.

In Beverly Hills, Reba McEntire and her husband and manager Narvel Blackstock bought a home for $9 million.

Among the highest Westside sales this year was the purchase by B. Wayne Hughes, co-founder of Public Storage Inc., of two adjacent Malibu homes for a total of $20 million.

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