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Reprise of her role in Palisades

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Times Staff Writer

Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell have purchased a Pacific Palisades home for close to its asking price of $4.5 million, according to public records.

The actors bought a gated, traditional-style estate with five bedrooms and 5 1/2 bathrooms in about 6,000 square feet. The home, built in the ‘50s, has a formal living room with a fireplace, a kitchen with a breakfast area, a bonus room with a fireplace, a loft bedroom that could be used as a playroom or office, and a master bedroom suite with a sitting area. The yard has a rose garden, pool and spa.

The couple have had another home in the area as well as one in Malibu, which they have been refurbishing.

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The actress, 59, co-starred with Susan Sarandon in “The Banger Sisters” (2002). Hawn was recently in India scouting locations for her upcoming comedy “Ashes to Ashes,” about a woman who loses her husband’s ashes on her way to bury them in Nepal. Hawn will star in the film and will write and direct it.

Russell, 53, played a psychiatrist trying to help Tom Cruise in director Cameron Crowe’s “Vanilla Sky” (2001). He will costar opposite Kelly Preston as super-powered parents in the upcoming Walt Disney comedy “Sky High.”

Hawn and Russell have been together since 1982, when they met during filming of the movie “Swing Shift.”

Bob Hurwitz of Hurwitz James Co., Beverly Hills, had the listing on the home they purchased.

A party-hearty house in Malibu

The Malibu home of the late comedian Buddy Hackett has gone into escrow, real estate sources said. The asking price was between $4 million and $5 million.

The three-bedroom, 3,000-square-foot contemporary-style house was the scene of many parties in the ‘60s and ‘70s when Hackett had a show on the Las Vegas Strip. John Wayne and Sammy Davis Jr. partied in the Malibu home. Hackett died in June 2003 at age 78.

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The home sits on slightly more than two acres on a bluff. Reached by way of a private road, the gated estate has walls of glass, concrete floors and ocean views. There is private access to the beach. A former owner of the property was actress Mary Astor.

Three years before his death, Hackett and his wife, Sherry, founded Singita Animal Sanctuary as a nonprofit organization dedicated to the rescue and adoption of abandoned cats and dogs.

Sherry Hackett has just broken ground on the Buddy Hackett Singita Animal Sanctuary in the northern San Fernando Valley. It is a 15,000-square-foot, no-kill kennel.

The Hackett Trust is represented by Chris Laib, Prudential California Realty, John Aaroe Division, Los Feliz. The buyer is represented by Ellen Francisco, Coldwell Banker, Malibu.

A condo away from King Kong

The Century City home of more than 30 years of the late actress Fay Wray, who played the heroine in the 1933 film “King Kong,” has been sold in the mid-$400,000 range. Wray died in August at age 96.

Her one-bedroom, 832-square-foot condo is on the 19th floor of a tower built in the ‘60s. The unit has a golf course and city views. The buyer is a local real estate appraiser. Wray also kept a condo in New York.

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Shirley Bilfield of Coldwell Banker, Beverly Hills South, handled both sides of the transaction.

Basketball player sells house, gym

Chris Mills, who went to Fairfax High School before he was selected by the Cleveland Cavaliers in the 1993 NBA draft, has sold his home in the North Ranch area of Westlake Village for a little more than $4 million. In February, the Boston Celtics traded Mills, 34, to the Atlanta Hawks. In March, he retired.

He built the house in 2001. It has seven bedrooms and 8 1/2 bathrooms in about 9,000 square feet. There is a 1,500-square-foot detached gym. The home, on three acres, also has a five-car garage, an infinity pool, a spa, and views of the canyons and the Conejo Valley.

Mills, who owns a post-production company for music videos, sold his home because he is having another one built in a gated community in the San Fernando Valley.

It was purchased by Tina Valcarenghi, a Westlake businesswoman.

Jordan Cohen of Re/Max Estate Brokerage in Westlake Village represented Mills in his real estate transactions, and Nicole Van Parys of Coldwell Banker, Westlake Village, represented Valcarenghi.

To see previous columns on celebrity transactions visit latimes.com/hotproperty.

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