Paula Hart buys Malibu home with an ocean view

TV and movie executive Paula Hart and her husband, Leslie Gilliams, have bought a Malibu estate for $2.6 million.

The couple had been renting and were already in escrow on another house when they saw the ocean-view contemporary Mediterranean. Drawn by the high-tech and green features, including a central vacuum, solar power, tankless water heaters and well-water irrigation, they canceled the other purchase.

Built in 2007, the house includes a den, media room, four bedrooms and six bathrooms in 5,000 square feet. The 1.5-acre property has a seasonal stream, mature Eucalyptus trees, a saltwater swimming pool and an outdoor fire pit. A five-car garage has glass doors, and a long driveway extendind to the rear of the site provides more parking.

Hart has been an executive producer on such television series as “Melissa & Joey” (2010) and “Sabrina, the Teenage Witch” (1996-2003) and was a producer on the 2010 horror film “Nine Dead,” for which Gilliams was executive producer.

Frank Paul Barbano of Grand View Realty, Beverly Hills, had the listing, and John Cosentino of Pritchettt-Rapf & Associates, Malibu, represented the buyers.

lauren.beale@latimes.com