Celebrity real estate 07/30
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Singer Eddie Fisher and his wife, Betty Lin, have sold a Hollywood Hills
home, which they owned with her family, for $5.35 million.
Her son and daughter-in-law lived in the house, which was purchased for
$3.2 million in 1996, three years after the singer and his wife, a Hong Kong
heiress, were married. They live in San Francisco.
This year's sale is a high point for the Sunset Plaza area, real estate
sources said. The asking price was $6.25 million.
Eddie Fisher, 71, co-wrote the book "Been There, Done That," published by
St. Martin's Press in 1999. The singer, who bridged the gap between Frank
Sinatra and Elvis Presley as a teen singing idol of the '50s, still ranks high
in terms of record sales.
He also had many celebrity wives, including actresses Debbie Reynolds,
Elizabeth Taylor and Connie Stevens. Reynolds and Taylor will co-star this fall
with Shirley MacLaine and Lauren Bacall in the ABC movie "These Old Broads,"
co-written by Carrie Fisher, Eddie Fisher's daughter with Reynolds.
Eddie Fisher also hosted his own TV show in the '50s, before he won
tabloid notoriety with his divorce from Reynolds and marriage in 1959 to
Taylor. During the '60s and '70s, he headlined in Las Vegas.
The Hollywood Hills house was built in 1994 by a German manufacturer who
never lived there. A striking contemporary, the seven-bedroom three-story house
has an art gallery foyer with a glass ceiling and glass stairs.
The 11,000-square-foot home, on a promontory with panoramic city-to-ocean
views, also has a master suite, three family suites, a media room and a
two-bedroom guest house.
It was sold to a computer executive in his late 20s who is moving from the
East Coast.
Ernie Carswell and Theresa Jacobs of Coldwell Banker Previews, Beverly
Hills North, had the listing, and James Hancock, of the same office,
represented the buyer.
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The longtime Malibu retreat of the late Walter Matthau and his wife,
Carol, has come on the market at $5.5 million.
The Oscar-winning actor, best known for his many roles opposite Jack
Lemmon in such movies as "The Odd Couple" (1968) and "Grumpy Old Men" (1993),
died July 1 at 79. His most recent film was this year's comedy, "Hanging Up,"
with Diane Keaton, Meg Ryan and Lisa Kudrow.
The Matthaus had owned their Malibu home since 1987.
The traditional-style 4,200-square-foot house on the beach has four
bedrooms plus maid's quarters, a living room with a fireplace, a family room
and a master suite with a fireplace and deck.
Built in 1963, the house, described as "light and bright with wood
floors," has been refurbished.
Valerie Fitzgerald of Coldwell Banker Previews, Beverly Hills South, has
the listing.
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Paul Michael Glaser, actor-turned-director (he played Starsky in the '70s
TV series "Starsky and Hutch") and pediatric AIDS activist, has sold his Santa
Monica home for about its $3.6-million asking price.
Glaser, 57, was married to Elizabeth Glaser, who died of AIDS at 47 in
1994. She had contracted the HIV virus through a blood transfusion in 1981 and
unknowingly passed it on to the couple's infant daughter while nursing. The
Glasers' son, born in 1984, also contracted the virus from his mother.
After the couple's daughter died in 1988, Elizabeth Glaser co-founded the
Pediatric AIDS Foundation, which became the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS
Foundation in 1997.
Glaser has been directing TV shows and movies since his days on "Starsky
and Hutch." He made his debut as a feature-film producer for the Shaquille
O'Neal movie "Kazaam," which he also directed, in 1996. That same year he
married Tracy Barone, a production company executive.
The director-producer had lived in his home for about 18 years.
Described as "a classic 1924 hacienda," the 7,000-square-foot home, on a
double lot, includes a guest house. The buyer is a Pasadena sculptor.
Stephen Shapiro of Westside Estate Agency, Beverly Hills, had the listing.
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Robert L. Boyett of Miller/Boyett Productions has listed his townhouse in the
gated Century City community of Century Woods at $4.9 million. Boyett is moving
to New York along with his production offices.
He was executive producer for such recent TV series as "Two of a Kind,"
"Step by Step," "Family Matters," "Full House" and "Perfect Strangers."
His townhouse was built for him in 1994. It has five bedrooms and five
baths in about 7,000 square feet. It also has a courtyard with a fountain and
spa. The master suite has a fireplace, and there are three other suites.
The community has a tennis court, two swimming pools, a gym and a
24-hour-a-day security guard.
Ron Carlton of Hilton & Hyland, Beverly Hills, has the listing.
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Harvey and Ellen Knell, who own the Greene & Greene Blacker House in Pasadena,
have purchased a three-bedroom 2,500-square-foot neighboring home for close to
its $1.47-million asking price.
Before it was subdivided, the property on which the Blacker House sits
included the neighboring site.
Built in 1907 for retired Michigan lumberman Robert R. Blacker, the heavy
timbered mansion was, at 12,000 square feet, the largest and most elaborate
commission of Charles and Henry Greene in their wooden-bungalow style.
The house, one of about 50 homes in the L.A. area that will be open in
September for dinners to benefit the L.A. County Museum of Art, was purchased
by the Knells after a Texas cattleman, who bought it in 1985, stripped the
house of its Greene & Greene light fixtures, stained-glass doors and window
transoms. The Knells spent years restoring the house.
"Greene & Greene: The Blacker House," a coffee-table book about its
restoration, is expected to be published in August. It was written by Randell
L. Makinson, Thomas A. Heinz and actor Brad Pitt.
The actor, who owns a Craftsman-style house in the L.A. area, did a photo
essay for the book (Gibbs Smith Publisher, Salt Lake City, $49.95).
Boyd Smith and Maggie Navarro of Coldwell Banker Previews, Pasadena, were
selling agents for the neighboring property.
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