New role: Man about Brentwood
Ben Affleck, who plays a successful Hollywood talent agent opposite Rebecca Romijn in the upcoming movie “Man About Town,” has purchased a Brentwood home for slightly more than $4.6 million.
The country traditional-style home, on an acre of rolling lawns and gardens, has five bedrooms and 5 1/2 bathrooms in about 4,500 square feet. The gated, two-story house also has a master-bedroom suite with a spa tub, a steam shower and marble floors. There is an ocean view from the master quarters.
The home also has a breakfast room, a wood-paneled library and four fireplaces. The house was built in 1937, but was recently renovated. The garage was turned into a guest room.
Affleck, 32, costarred last year in “Jersey Girl” and “Surviving Christmas.” “Man About Town” is still in production, with no release date yet. It has been nearly seven years since Affleck and actor Matt Damon won an Oscar for writing the screenplay for “Good Will Hunting.”
A Dallas Cowboy’s play of the day
Keyshawn Johnson, Dallas Cowboy receiver, has sold the Beverly Hills-area home he allowed Esquire magazine to use last fall as its second-annual design house.
The selling price was between $10 million and $11 million, and the house was acquired by a European buyer.
Architect Richard Landry designed the home, which was completed in September. It has six bedrooms and nine bathrooms in nearly 12,000 square feet and sits on about 4 acres in a gated community with canyon and city views.
Johnson, 32, was an All-American at USC before the New York Jets drafted him. He also played with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers before signing with the Cowboys.
Stephen Shapiro and Annie Constantinesco at Westside Estate Agency, Beverly Hills, had the listing.
Beautiful vistas par for the course
Shigeki Maruyama, a top golfer from Japan, has purchased a Bel-Air home on 3.2 acres for $7.6 million.
The house, built in 1986, has seven bedrooms and 9 1/2 bathrooms in 10,000-plus square feet. The modern-style home has views of the Stone Canyon Reservoir, the Pacific, Catalina, downtown L.A. and the San Fernando Valley.
The grounds include a long, gated driveway as well as a tennis court and a pool. The home also has a gym, a media room, an office, a sauna and a wine cellar.
Maruyama, 35, won one tournament each year on the world’s pro tour between 2001 and 2003. In October, he made his first appearance in three years on the Japan GTO circuit in the first round of the Bridgestone Open in his hometown of Chiba.
Maruyama, known for his sense of humor, has been reported as saying he is grateful for any crowd support but has one wish: that the crowd learn to pronounce his name correctly.
“They are saying Mary-Ya-Na, not Maru-Ya-Ma,” he said, “and I am thinking, ‘Why are they yelling marijuana at me?’ ”
John Woodward IV of Coldwell Banker, Beverly Hills North, had the listing along with Bobby Syed of the same office.
She’s no longer flexing in the O.C.
A fitness expert and host of the Maui-based ESPN2 show “Kiana’s Flex Appeal,” Kiana Tom, and her firefighter husband, Dennis Breshears, have put their Italian-style ocean-view home in San Clemente on the market for just under $3 million. They purchased a more expensive home in the L.A. area.
The 6,000-square-foot listed home has a 2,000-square-foot master-bedroom suite and a 600-square-foot closet. There is a home theater, 1,200-bottle wine cellar, a piano lounge, a spa, a dry sauna and an exercise room. Fourteen television sets are included.
Tom appeared with Jean-Claude Van Damme in the movie “Universal Soldier: The Return” (1999), and she wrote the book “Kiana’s Body Sculpting.”
Patrick Tenore, president of Nationwide Realty in Newport Beach, has the listing.
Theatrical flourish to Eagle Rock sale
An Eagle Rock home built in 1930 for theatrical entrepreneur Alexander Pantages has been sold for close to $2 million.
Pantages, a Greek immigrant who made a fortune during the early 1900s creating a vaudeville circuit and commissioning the design and construction of elaborate theaters in several U.S. cities, hired B. Marcus Priteca, known for his Art Deco style, to design the six-bedroom, nearly 6,000-square-foot home on almost an acre.
Hand-painted tiles and handcrafted light fixtures are among the many original touches remaining in the Spanish-style house, which also has a full-size basketball court.
The sale was a record high for Eagle Rock. The buyers were the Nalliah Mahendra Rajah family, owners of Montessori schools and other firms in Eagle Rock, Hollywood and West Covina.
Emmanuel “Long” Gealogo represented the buyers; Dilbeck Realtors had the listing.
