This place? Bride’s not wedded to it
Maybe Katherine Heigl just didn’t have room in her closet for those 27 bridesmaid dresses?
The breakaway star of “Grey’s Anatomy” and “Roswell,” who is enjoying a newish marriage and box-office acclaim with “27 Dresses,” has listed the house she owned before she became really famous -- a Hollywood starter house. It’s in Los Feliz, and the asking price is $1.75 million.
The 2,400-square-foot redone contemporary has an open floor plan with glass walls that provide views from downtown to the ocean. It has three bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms and was built in 1935. There are hardwood floors throughout, and the two-story house has a bells-and-whistles kitchen with granite countertops. The master bedroom has French doors opening to a city-view balcony. The master bathroom has an oversized stone steam shower. The living room is replete with a fireplace.
Heigl, 29, seems to be on everyone’s short list of hot actresses these days. She’s certainly come a long way from the macabre “Bride of Chucky” (1998). She played teenage alien Isabel Evans on “Roswell” for three years, starting in 1999, while continuing her big-screen career. Heigl won an Emmy last year for her work on “Grey’s Anatomy.”
In December, she married musician Josh Kelley in Park City, Utah.
The property is co-listed by Dorothy Carter of Keller Williams Realty, Los Feliz, and Jay Solton of Sotheby’s International Realty, Brentwood.
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Making his Carbon Beach footprint
Did someone coat Malibu’s Carbon Beach with 24-karat gold flakes?
William J. Chadwick, who manages to keep the lowest profile of any member of the Carbon Beach Super Rich Club, just listed his 10,500-square-foot home at $65 million. If sold at that price, it could be a record for Malibu -- at least among transactions in the public eye.
Chadwick is a managing director of Chadwick Saylor & Co., a real estate investment banking and capital management firm with offices in Los Angeles and Atlanta. He was chairman of Exposition Park and the California Science Center and president of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Commission in 2005.
And former Gov. Gray Davis named him his point man to bring an NFL team to L.A. So maybe not everything Chadwick touches turns to gold.
But real estate watchers will be curious to see if his Midas touch works on the Carbon Beach house he listed: $65 million is a lot of moola, even for a piece of the billionaires’ beach.
The house, described by the listing agent as the “crown” of Carbon Beach, has 150 feet of beachfront, a 75-foot beachfront pool and spa. And then there is the mother of all home theaters, with 16 plush seats, a top-of-the-line sound system and top-quality viewing. There is also a full-wall-size aquarium, in case you tire of standing on the deck watching the dolphins cavort. And a wine cellar, in case you simply tire.
The master bedroom suite has his-and-hers bathrooms. The house has six bedrooms and nine bathrooms, a pub, a gym, and is wired for all sorts of electronic toys, present and future.
I’ve always been partial to this house since Chadwick, instead of completely stucco-ing up the public’s view of the ocean, very thoughtfully provided a peek of a sliver of grass and the wild blue yonder for those of us stuck in the gridlock along PCH. I have wondered, however, about the animal sculpture (Cow? Bull? Buffalo?) that he stuck on the grass. Perhaps he’ll bequeath it to music producer and neighbor Lou Adler.
Stephen Shapiro of WEA Realty, Beverly Hills, has the listing, according to the MLS.
WEA Realty has been busy along this stretch of high-end beachfront. Another WEA agent is said to have represented Canadian hedge fund mogul Gerry Schwartz in the recent purchase of three Carbon Beach properties for a combined price of about $42 million. Schwartz, chief executive of Onex Corp., is a well known supporter of Israel. Z magazine called him “one of Canada’s leading Israel lobbyists” and reported that one of his initiatives was to send hundreds of iPods to IDF troops. Sounds like a Malibu manuever to me.
His wife, Heather Reisman, is chief executive of Indigo Books and Music.
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A Python sheds his ranch at last
If life were simpler, we would keep only those people who get Monty Python humor and vote the rest off the island. And if actor extraordinaire John Cleese didn’t split your sides in that troupe, surely you got some belly laughs from “A Fish Called Wanda.”
We hope Cleese is laughing all the way to the bank. After being listed for about a year, his 14.6-acre Montecito equestrian ranch finally has sold. Originally, it was listed at $28 million, and though the sale isn’t recorded in public records, area real estate sources said it was in the vicinity of $16.5 million.
The buyer was none other than cellphone pioneer Craig McCaw, the beleaguered ex-husband of Wendy McCaw, owner of the Santa Barbara News-Press. Their divorce settlement was reportedly the largest in Washington state history and one of the largest ever in the United States.
Cleese, too, has entered the realm of marital morass. He has parted from his third wife, psychotherapist Alyce Faye Eichelberger -- which may be the reason for the sale.
The property has pro- fessional equine facilities, including a 16,000-square- foot barn. There is a completely padded central corridor area suitable for all-weather workouts (as if Montecito is plagued by bad weather?). There are two indoor-outdoor accessible exercise rooms, one with a lunge arena and one with a European hot walker. Trails lead to the ocean or nearby scenic Romero Canyon.
And that’s just for the horses. Things are pretty nice for the humans as well, with a Mediterranean-style home with garden and mountain views. There are three bedrooms, four bathrooms and a cobalt blue swimming pool. The square footage of the main house was unavailable from public records. Think big.
Cleese announced recently that he is writing a stage musical of his 1988 hit movie, “A Fish Called Wanda.”
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Mr. Blandings’ Dream House II
One of the world’s greatest leading men, Cary Grant, slept here. Actually, Grant did more than sleep here. He used this 1927 Palm Springs house as his personal hideaway for more than 20 years, starting in the 1950s. And now it’s on the market for $4,995,000.
The 6,000-square-foot Spanish farmhouse has six bedrooms and 5 1/2 bathrooms. It has a real Old Hollywood feel with a built-in dressing room and a studio.
There is a 40-foot-long great room, a saline pool and mountain views. Wallace Neff designed the guest wing, which has three bedrooms, each with stucco fireplaces and private bathrooms.
The compound is on a tree-lined street and sits on 1.5 acres in this desert community’s Movie Colony neighborhood -- an area so dubbed because of the many celebrities who once lived here.
Grant called this home Las Palomas, Spanish for “The Doves.” Many original features remain, including the double-thick whitewashed walls, hand-painted Spanish Tala- vera tiles in the kitchen and bathrooms, kiva fireplaces and terra-cotta roof tiles.
Jeffrey Hyland of Hilton & Hyland Real Estate, Beverly Hills, an affiliate of Christie’s Great Estates, co-listed the property with Tyler Morgan of Pacific Union GMAC Real Estate, Palm Springs.
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From shoe seller to home seller
If this how-I-got-into-the-movies story on Wikipedia is true, I love it. Nick Zano -- a model-turned-actor -- came to Hollywood seeking fortune and fame the old-fashioned way: He took a job selling shoes at Kenneth Cole.
But in a Schwab’s-drugstore moment, he was discovered by a customer -- a woman who worked for MTV and thought he had what it took to be an on-air personality. (Uh, good looks?) He landed the job of hosting MTV’s “Movie House.”
And now, with some movie credits under his belt and a couple of starlets on his arm, he’s diving into Hollywood’s favorite pastime: trying to sell his house. He’s listed his West Hollywood home at $995,000.
The three-bedroom, 1 1/2 -bathroom house has about 1,600 square feet and is just one block off Melrose. The house, built in 1924, has hardwood floors, wood-beamed ceilings, arched windows and balconies. There are courtyards both in front and in back of the gated property. Two of the bedrooms open to a deck.
The 30-year-old Zano played Vince in the WB sitcom “What I Like About You” -- and dated the series’ costar Amanda Bynes. He appears in “Beverly Hills Chihuahua,” due out in October and featuring the voices of Drew Barrymore and Salma Hayek.
Jon Bronson of Westside Estate Agency, Beverly Hills, has the listing.
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