Their villa is filled to the gills
It’s a full house for Miguel Ferrer, who plays Dr. Garret Macy on the NBC series “Crossing Jordan,” and his wife, entertainment executive Lori Weintraub Ferrer.
The couple, married in September, have four sons between them, and the family needs more space. So they have put their Spanish villa in the Hollywood Hills on the market at just under $2.5 million.
The gated, nearly 4,000-square-foot home has three bedrooms, including a master-bedroom suite with a sitting room, fireplace, office loft, bathroom and walk-in closet. The two-story living room has a Spanish-style plaster fireplace with a large hearth. French doors open to a courtyard with a pool and a spa. There is also a guesthouse and a motor court.
The home was built in 1969 by the late Fred Smathers, who designed homes in the Hollywood Hills during the late ‘60s and early ‘70s. Ferrer, the son of singer-actress Rosemary Clooney and actor Jose Ferrer and cousin to George Clooney, saw an ad for the house before he bought it in 2002 and “went crazy,” he said at the time, because he had known Smathers and his work. After buying the villa, Ferrer restored it with a contractor who also had known the designer-builder.
Before buying the home, Ferrer commuted from a Gramercy Park apartment in New York to work on “Crossing Jordan” in Los Angeles. He often stayed in the guesthouse of his mother’s Beverly Hills home of 50 years. After she died in 2002, the home was sold and torn down.
Deirdre Daniels of Coldwell Banker Previews, Brentwood East, has the Hollywood Hills listing.
Quaids double up in the Palisades
Dennis Quaid, who costars with Rene Russo in the remake of the comedy film “Yours, Mine and Ours,” and his wife, Kimberly, have purchased a Pacific Palisades property for about its asking price of $6 million.
If this sounds familiar, it’s because the house is next door to the one they bought last July.
This time they purchased an acre-plus property that has two 2,600-square-foot houses and a meditation garden. Like their other property, the one they just bought is zoned for horses, but there is more room to keep them and better access. The parcel comes with a road and a bridge as well as a year-round stream.
The house they purchased in the summer for nearly $8 million is a newly built, 8,400-square-foot home on slightly less than an acre. The Quaids intend to keep both properties.
The seller is Geraldine Clark, widow of actor Dane Clark, a contract player with Warner Bros. in the ‘40s and ‘50s who costarred with Humphrey Bogart and Cary Grant.
Geraldine Clark, also the listing agent, is with Coldwell Banker, Beverly Hills East. Kimberly Quaid is an agent with Coldwell Banker, Brentwood East.
Soon there will be no Sand in Malibu
Shauna Sand, an actress and former Playboy Playmate who appears in the Eurythmics’ video for the song “I’ve Got a Life” and in Weezer’s video for the song “Beverly Hills,” has listed her Malibu townhouse at just under $1.7 million. Furnishings are available at extra cost.
The ocean-view condo overlooks Broad Beach and has three bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, a large patio, a grassy yard, a fireplace in the master bathroom, a laundry room and such common amenities as a gym, a pool and a spa.
The unit is in one of the newer complexes in Malibu. It was built in 2002, the same year that Lorenzo Lamas filed for divorce from Sand after six years of marriage and three daughters.
Sand, 34, is selling because she plans to work overseas. The May 1996 Playmate of the month, she appears regularly at promotional events for Playboy.
Chad Rogers of Hilton & Hyland, Beverly Hills, has the listing.
He knows where he’s going to
Michael Masser, a 2006 nominee for the Songwriters Hall of Fame, has sold his home in Encino for close to $2.3 million.
Masser, who traded Wall Street for a career writing songs for Diana Ross and Whitney Houston in the ‘70s and ‘80s, sold in Encino because he and his wife, Ogniana, were spending more time at their home in Rancho Mirage.
They love the mountains and the climate, they said, and he finds the desert to be conducive to writing.
The couple owned the Encino residence for only two years, having purchased it in late 2003 for about $1.75 million.
The house, built in the ‘60s and rebuilt in 2001, has four bedrooms and 5 1/2 bathrooms in 3,900 square feet. The gated estate on 1.2 acres also has a motor court, pool, spa, pool house and sports court.
In 1973, Masser wrote and produced Diana Ross’ “Touch Me in the Morning.” He was nominated for a best-song Oscar for “Theme From ‘Mahogany’ (Do You Know Where You’re Going To?)”
Carol Wolfe, of Coldwell Banker, Encino, had the Encino listing.
Treetop soon to turn over new leaf
Producer-manager Seth Ersoff has purchased the Skinner Treetop Residence in the Beverly Hills area, and he plans to restore it.
The house, built about 1957 with a two-story glass entry and walls of glass looking out at a wooded area, sold for close to its $1.8-million asking price.
The three-bedroom, 2,800-square-foot home, owned at one time by producer Don Simpson, is featured in the Taschen coffee table book of photos by Julius Schulman. The house was designed by architect Robert Skinner.
Ersoff also just completed a restoration of a 1931 Paul Williams-designed house in the Beverly Hills area, and he expects to put it on the market at $6 million. An addition was designed by architect Gus Duffy.
Jana Jones-Duffy and Fred Holley of Coldwell Banker, Beverly Hills, represented Ersoff in buying.
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