Beach pad belonged to Judy Garland
LOS ANGELES — A Malibu beach house where actress-singer Judy Garland, who starred in The Wizard of Oz, once lived has sold in a deal completed off-market for $3.545 million US.
The buyers are television and documentary writer-directorproducer Cynthia Harrison-Wallach and her husband, real estate investment company head Lewis Wallach.
Set on the sands in the Las Tunas Beach area, the Cape Codstyle house was built in 1947 and originally was owned by Garland’s second husband, stage and film director Vincente Minnelli.
Extensively renovated three years ago, the two-bedroom, 2.5-bathroom house makes the most of oceanfront living with ipewood decking and balconies extending from the master suite. A walled courtyard sits off the front.
Inside, the 1,800 square feet of living space features white oak floors, built-ins and vaulted and beamed ceilings. A two-sided fireplace is shared by the living and dining rooms. In the kitchen, which has been updated, marble countertops are teamed with Viking stainless-steel appliances.
“It really is a special property,” said real estate agent Jory Burton of Sotheby’s International Realty, who represented the buyers. “To find something on the sand, at this price, is pretty rare.”
Harrison-Wallach is a coexecutive producer of the TV series Dogfights and a writerproducer for the documentary Rogue Waves. Wallach is president and chief executive of the property investment and management firm Professional Financial Investors.
America’s Top Model’s Banks sells investment
Model Tyra Banks has sold, for $8.9 million, a Pacific Palisades home she bought as an investment. Banks paid $7.35 million for the property, which sits on a halfacre bluff with panoramic ocean views, two years ago.
The tri-level house, originally built in 1950 and extensively renovated, is approached through a gated courtyard with a waterfall feature. Inside, its 6,100 square feet features high ceilings, a great room, a media room and an office. There are four fireplaces — including one in the living room with a marble slab surround — five bedrooms and six bathrooms.
Wood-panelled doors open on the main floor to an expansive patio space with a fire pit, an outdoor kitchen and dining area. Manicured box hedges and formal landscaping complete the walled and gated setting.
Banks, 44, has been on a buying and selling spree. This year, she listed and sold a Pacific Palisades townhome and bought another contemporary-style house in the area for $6.995 million. Another home she owns in Pacific Palisades is for sale at $4.25 million.
The California native began her career as a model before expanding into acting, producing and writing.
The 24th season of her show, America’s Next Top Model, premièred in January.
Punky Brewster star quits Spanish Revival
Actress Soleil Moon Frye, of Punky Brewster fame, and her husband, film and television producer Jason Goldberg, have sold their home in Hancock Park in Los Angeles for $4.507 million.
It had been listed for $4.595 million.
Set back from the street and obscured by mature landscaping, the Spanish Revival-style house features four bedrooms, 5.5 bathrooms, a garden-view living room and a den.
Period fireplaces are among the original character details. Exotic items such as artistic tile work and pendant lighting give off a slightly Moroccan feel.
The two-storey home, built in 1919, sits on one-third of an acre and has an oval swimming pool, a vine-wrapped loggia, lawns and mature trees.
Tucked in a back corner is a fire pit. There’s also a detached home theatre.
Frye and Goldberg bought the property more than a decade ago for $3.2 million.
Frye, 41, got her start as a child actor and is known for playing the title role in the 1980s sitcom Punky Brewster.
Goldberg, in his mid-40s, is a longtime production partner of Ashton Kutcher’s. He is co-creator and executive producer of the hidden-camera series Punk’d and the reality show Beauty and the Geek.
Former Kardashian-West mansion back on market
The minimalist mansion that Kim Kardashian and Kanye West sold last year is back on the market at $18 million.
Ukrainian billionaire and aspiring singer Marina Acton is the seller. She bought it from the couple last November for $17.8 million, records show.
Set on nearly an acre in the guard-gated community of Bel Air Crest, the property forsakes hyper-luxury flourishes for the austere.
Walls of glass bring colour into the spare interior, which otherwise features a palette of white and grey.
There’s a fireplace in the twostorey living room. In the centreisland kitchen, stainless-steel appliances interrupt the monochromatic scheme.
Seven bedrooms and seven bathrooms, including a massive master suite with a freestanding tub, round out the 9,000-squarefoot floor plan.
In the grassy backyard, a swimming pool, spa and pavilion take in panoramic canyon and mountain views.
West and Kardashian picked up the home five years ago for $9 million, records show. Before their renovations, it was a Mediterranean-style villa filled with wrought-iron rails, parquet floors and wood-beamed ceilings.
They currently reside in Hidden Hills, where they own a large French country-style compound.
Hockey hall of famer Selanne makes his move
Former pro hockey player Teemu Selanne has listed his sprawling estate in Orange County’s Coto de Caza for sale at $6.9 million.
The spread centres on a singlestorey Mediterranean-style home set on six acres in the gated Los Ranchos area.
The 9,400-square-foot house, built in 1994, is surrounded by a three-hole golf course, tennis court, rock-surrounded pool with waterfalls, riding arenas, guesthouse and a barn.
There are five bedrooms and seven bathrooms in the main house. Two apartments are located above the barn.
Selanne, 47, played in the National Hockey League for 21 seasons.
The former Anaheim Duck right winger was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame last year and is an Olympic medallist.