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Fleetwood’s Mac ready to pack

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Times Staff Writer

John McVie, the Mac of Fleetwood Mac, and his wife, Julie, have listed their longtime home in the western San Fernando Valley at just under $1.6 million.

The McVies have owned the home, on 1.5-plus acres in the gated community of Bell Canyon, since it was built in 1988. The Mediterranean-style house has five bedrooms and 4 1/2 bathrooms in about 4,500 square feet. The home also has a rock pool with a waterfall, a private driveway, and canyon and city views.

Fleetwood Mac, which produced numerous hits including “Go Your Own Way” and “Don’t Stop,” was named for drummer Mick Fleetwood and bass player McVie. It started as a blues band in 1967, but the sound softened with the addition, in the early ‘70s, of singer-songwriter-keyboardist Christine Perfect, who later married and divorced McVie.

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Fleetwood Mac has had its ups and downs over the years, but the band was infused with new life when “Don’t Stop” became a theme song for the Clinton campaign. The band toured this year as well as in 2003 with its most recent album, “Say You Will.”

Jordan Cohen of Re/Max Olson Estates Brokerage, Westlake Village, has the listing.

Go-Go gone gone from Burbank

Jane Wiedlin, guitarist and founding member of the all-female rock group the Go-Go’s, has put her 1928 Spanish-style home in the Burbank hills on the market at $1.25 million.

She is selling the house because she has been on tour in Japan with her band and she and her husband, professional chef David Trotter, have purchased 500 acres of forest in Panama that includes a coffee-bean farm, several rivers, some hot springs and such wildlife as monkeys and jaguars. The couple plans to build a small but luxurious resort there for nature lovers.

Their Burbank home, in a canyon, has four bedrooms, two bathrooms, a music room, a sunroom, a sitting room, two fireplaces and all of its original French doors and doorknobs. The three-story Country Spanish-style home, with turrets and beamed ceilings, is on nearly two acres and backs up to 2,000 acres of open space.

The Go-Go’s formed in the ‘80s, and Wiedlin recorded a solo album in 1985. She recently released the album “Kissproof World.”

Dennis and Mimi Martino of Prudential, John Aaroe, Beverly Hills, have the listing.

Disney artist’s home is sold

The Toluca Lake home of the late John Hench, a longtime Disney artist and designer, has been sold for slightly more than its asking price of $799,000.

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The 1,700-square-foot home, built in 1936, sold almost immediately after being put on the market. It includes the three-bedroom, two-bathroom house and its garage, which had been turned into Hench’s studio.

Hench, who died at 95 in February, had a career of nearly 65 years at Disney, where he worked on animated and live-action films, played a key role in the creation of the Disney theme parks and painted official portraits of Mickey Mouse.

He also helped to create Tomorrowland at Disneyland. Until Hench fell ill two weeks before his death, he worked at Imagineering in Glendale every day.

Anita Rich and the Rich Group at Coldwell Banker, Studio City, had the listing.

A noted adobe built on stuffing

A Mount Washington house built in 1937 for the woman whose name lives on as Mrs. Cubbison’s Stuffing has been sold for just under $800,000.

Glenn Williams, a clothing designer, bought and is refurbishing the two-bedroom, nearly 2,200-square-foot house built for Harry George Cubbison, president of a baking company, and his wife, Sophie.

Sophie Cubbison is believed to have designed the Spanish-style home herself, working closely with the builder. The house is described in “Los Angeles: An Architectural Guide,” by David Gebhard and Robert Winter, as an adobe structure that “is much more convincing than most of the 19th century adobes.” The home also has an orchard-like setting and a labyrinth of stone pathways.

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Sophie Cubbison established prepackaged poultry stuffing as an alternative to home-prepared dressing. From the ‘50s into the ‘70s, she appeared on TV shows as a cooking expert. She sold the baking company, in which she worked with her husband, and the Mount Washington house after he died there in 1953. She died in her early 90s in 1982.

Terry Nunn of Coldwell Banker, Los Feliz, handled both sides of the transaction.

Craftsman selling Topanga home

Tomas Braverman, a master furniture craftsman who has had many celebrity clients, has put his Casa Pequena (which translates as “small house”) in Topanga Canyon on the market at just under $1.5 million.

The Moorish, Spanish-style house, which Braverman built himself, has two bedrooms and two bathrooms in about 3,600 square feet. It includes hand-carved windows, doors and cabinetry, all made by Braverman.

The Old World furniture maker, who has moved to Hawaii, maintained a studio next to his Topanga home, which is near a creek and a group of oak trees.

Braverman, known for his ornately carved and functional-art wood pieces, has had such clients as Robert De Niro, Larry Hagman, Rock Hudson, Robert Wagner and Steven Spielberg.

Fiora Aston of Coldwell Banker, Brentwood East, has the listing.

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

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