Barbs now flow from on high
Don Rickles, king of the insult comedians, and his wife, Barbara, have settled into their new Point Dume home and sold their longtime Malibu Colony residence for just under its $11.5-million asking price.
Their Colony home, with about 80 feet of beachfront, was first listed at $13.5 million in February 2004. The couple had lived in the home since the late ‘70s.
Among its features are a 5,000-square-foot main house, a detached guesthouse, a north-south tennis court, a terrace and a pool looking out onto the ocean. The home, built in the early ‘70s, has six bedrooms and 7 1/2 bathrooms, a sitting room, fireplace and coastline views.
Their new home in Point Dume has ocean views but is not a beachfront property. It has four bedrooms in about 6,000 square feet. Other features include a library, a tennis court, a pool, gardens and a private path down to the water.
The couple bought that home for close to its $3.6-million asking price. They then retained designer Ron Wilson and his partner, Joe Guidera, to redo the interiors.
The 79-year-old comedian, who started in vaudeville, is still a headliner in the nightclubs and casinos of Las Vegas and Atlantic City, N.J.
Steve Moore of Prudential John Aaroe, Beverly Hills, represented the couple in both transactions.
A case of needing a bit more space
Lisa Vidal, who will play James Spader’s new love interest on the series “Boston Legal,” and her husband, Jay Cohen, have put their Studio City home on the market at close to $2.4 million.
The 1941 traditional has five bedrooms and three bathrooms. There is also a detached guesthouse with a bathroom and a kitchen, for a total of about 3,300 square feet of living space. The 8,000-square-foot property also includes a pool.
The pair bought a larger home, Cohen said, because they needed more room for their three kids.
Vidal, 40, was on “ER” for three years as Sandy Lopez, Dr. Kerry Weaver’s girlfriend who dies in the series.
Cohen, director of leasing for Re/Max Commercial in Sherman Oaks, is handling the listing.
Not for a song in Beverly Hills
Tim Truman, a film and TV music composer, has sold his Beverly Hills-area home for just under $3 million.
The contemporary-style, 3,400-square-foot house, built in 1966, has two bedrooms, four bathrooms, a great room, floor-to-ceiling windows and teak floors. The master bedroom suite has a sitting room, gym-office and his-and-hers closets.
There are city, canyon and ocean views, as well as a pool with limestone and wood decking.
Truman, who is in his early 40s, wrote the theme for the prime-time soap “Melrose Place.” He will perform a live concert of his original work this summer with the Seattle Symphony.
David Kramer of Hilton & Hyland, Beverly Hills, had the listing. Jade Mills of Coldwell Banker-Beverly Hills represented the buyer.
In Sherman Oaks, the doctor is in
Anjul Nigam, who has appeared as a doctor on the ABC medical drama “Grey’s Anatomy,” and his wife, Anjalika Mathur Nigam, have sold their two-bedroom Encino cottage and purchased a four-bedroom home in Sherman Oaks.
They sold the 800-square-foot cottage for slightly more than its $525,000 listing price. They bought the 1,750-square-foot house for $750,000, also slightly more than the asking price.
The actor, 40, has appeared in “Medium,” “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation,” “CSI: New York” and “ER.”
Craig Paul of Re/Max on the Boulevard, Encino, represented the couple in their sale and purchase.
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