Celebrity Real Estate 05/15
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Jack Nicholson, who costars with Leonardo DiCaprio and Matt Damon in
director Martin Scorsese's upcoming gangster movie "The Departed," has
purchased the Beverly Hills-area home of his longtime friend and
neighbor Marlon Brando for $5 million.
Brando, who won best actor Academy Awards for his roles in "On the
Waterfront" (1954) and "The Godfather" (1972), died in July 2004 at age
80. At the time, Nicholson called his friend "a monumental artist like
Michelangelo or Picasso" and predicted that "his influence will be
there long into the future."
Brando and Nicholson, who costarred in the movie "The Missouri Breaks"
(1976), were neighbors for more than 30 years. Brando had lived in his
house since 1960.
His 12-room home, built on a hilltop in 1954, has three bedrooms and
four bathrooms in slightly more than 3,000 square feet, according to
public records. The house is on almost an acre and has a pool.
Christie's plans to auction off items from the house June 30 in New
York. Among the items are a foosball table and other furniture;
ceramics, pictures, sculptures and personal mementos. Christie's bills
it as "the most significant entertainment celebrity estate" to come to
the auction house since "The Personal Property of Marilyn Monroe" sale
in 1991.
Brando spent much of his life as a recluse, staying in the house or on
his French Polynesian atoll of Tetiaroa, a cluster of a dozen islands
about 26 miles north of Tahiti. Plans were announced in March for a
lavish eco-hotel, called the Brando, to be built there by 2008. Brando
bought the atoll in 1965 after filming "Mutiny on the Bounty" (1962) in
French Polynesia.
Nicholson, 68, won best actor Oscars for his roles in "One Flew Over
the Cuckoo's Nest" (1975) and "As Good as It Gets" (1997). He won a
best supporting Oscar for "Terms of Endearment" (1983). "The Departed"
is being filmed in New York. A release date hasn't been scheduled yet.
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Mark Burnett, creator and an executive producer of the television
reality series "Survivor" and "The Apprentice," has purchased an estate
at the end of a long private drive in Malibu in the high $20-million
range.
The home, on slightly more than three acres, has city and ocean views.
There is a master-bedroom suite plus three family bedrooms and staff
quarters in the house, which also has a breakfast room, an office and
two patios.
The London-born Burnett, 44, was on Time magazine's 2004 list of the
"100 Most Influential People." Burnett is on the board of the Elizabeth
Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation.
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The Beverly Hills home for many years of the late Albert R. "Cubby"
Broccoli, producer of most of the James Bond films, has come on the
market at $28 million.
Broccoli died in 1996 at age 87. His widow, Dana, died in March 2004 at
82. She was president of the company that owns the film rights to Ian
Fleming's Bond novels. She also helped her husband select Sean Connery
to play Bond.
The house, owned by the Broccoli family since 1969, was built in 1928
for silent-screen star Hobart Bosworth, a familiar figure for a time as
he rode his white horse on a bridle path along Sunset Boulevard.
Bosworth sold the home in 1933 to actor William Powell, who hired James
Dolena to redesign the Spanish house and turn it into a Georgian
mansion.
The home, on nearly 3.2 acres of manicured grounds, has a
9,000-square-foot main residence with eight bedrooms and two staff
quarters.
There is a courtyard room in which many banquets have been held. The
gated estate also has a pool, screening room and tennis court.
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Actress Susan Sullivan, best known for her roles on "Dharma & Greg" and
"Falcon Crest," has put her Hollywood Hills home on the market at just
under $2.4 million. She plans to move to Bel-Air.
The Hollywood Hills home is on one level and is Southwestern in style
with four bedrooms and 4 1/2 bathrooms in 3,700 square feet. The gated
compound, built in 1959, includes a guesthouse.
Sullivan played Cameron Diaz's mother in the film "My Best Friend's
Wedding" (1997) and portrayed the mother-in-law of Dharma on the TV
series "Dharma & Greg" (1997). Sullivan, now 60, also costarred in the
'80s on the CBS prime-time soap opera "Falcon Crest."
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Joan Dangerfield, widow of comedian Rodney Dangerfield, has purchased a
home in the Hollywood Hills for close to its asking price of $6.85
million.
She sold a Wilshire condo that she had shared with the comic for more
than its $3.9-million asking price, and she sold their former Little
Holmby home for more than $2.7 million. Rodney Dangerfield died in
October at 82.
His widow's new Hollywood Hills home is Art Deco in style and has 5,400
square feet. There are city-to-ocean views, floor-to-ceiling walls of
glass, an infinity pool and a spa. A long driveway leads to the
four-bedroom, five-bathroom house. John Andrews Group Architects and
designer-developer Rob Davis designed the house.
The condo that Joan Dangerfield sold has 20-foot ceilings, a dining
room and a large master-bedroom suite. It's in an Art Deco high-rise.
Among amenities of the Little Holmby house is an indoor pool.