Pharrell would be happy to spin off L.A. home
LOS ANGELES — Even in real estate, Pharrell Williams’s style stands out. The Grammy-winning artist’s Hollywood Hills home — a dazzling glass-covered compound known as the Skyline Residence — has come up for sale at $11.95 million US.
Williams has a penchant for buying architecturally interesting estates. Earlier this year, he put his 17,000-square-foot mansion that looks like a supervillain’s lair on the market for $16.95 million in Beverly Hills.
The Skyline Residence boasts a similar dramatic look, stretching across 1.5 acres on a ridgetop setting with sweeping views of the city and valley below. The home was designed and built in 2007 by Hagy Belzberg, the architect responsible for the striking subterranean Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust in Pan Pacific Park.
Covered in concrete and glass, the lowslung abode boasts vast open living spaces with clean lines, hardwood floors and white gallery walls. Highlights include a spacious foyer, minimalist kitchen and dining area anchored by a garden wall. The master suite, one of five bedrooms, tacks on a builtin fireplace and green marble bathroom.
Walls of glass open out back, where a thin stretch of lawn adjoins an infinity pool. The scenic estate also includes a two-storey guesthouse with a bedroom and kitchen and a front garden with a movie projector.
A singer, rapper, producer and fashion designer, Williams, known simply as Pharrell, formed the hip-hop production duo the Neptunes in the mid-1990s and started the band N.E.R.D. later that decade. The 47-year-old has won 13 Grammys and received two Oscar nominations, including one for his hit song Happy.
End of a run for Kutcher, Kunis in Beverly Hills
Married actors Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis are looking to shed their Beverly Hills home of six years, listing the property for sale at $13.995 million.
That’s $3.78 million more than the power couple paid for the estate a few months after getting engaged in 2014.
Built about two decades ago and since updated, the estate spans half an acre in the gated community of Hidden Valley near Franklin Canyon Park.
A three-storey traditional-style house is at the heart of the estate and has five bedrooms and 5.5 bathrooms in 7,351 square feet. A landscaped yard and flagstone walkway approach the house, which draws the eye with stone accents and black plantation shutters.
French doors, oak floors and crown moulding touch up the common spaces. The formal living room expands to a mahogany office, and the chef’s kitchen leads to a breakfast nook and family room with a fireplace. Other highlights include a gym, sauna and wine cellar.
A covered patio extends off the back of the home, descending to a grassy yard with a swimming pool, spa and grill.
Kutcher and Kunis both gained fame in the late 1990s as part of the cast of
That ’70s Show. Kutcher has since appeared in the films My Boss’s Daughter,
The Butterfly Effect and Jobs. Kunis has film credits that include Forgetting Sarah
Marshall and Black Swan, the latter of which earned her a Golden Globe nomination.
His wild, wild west
The Malibu home of Robert Conrad, the actor known for his popular roles on the 1960s shows Hawaiian Eye and The Wild,
Wild West, has come up for sale in Malibu for $5.195 million.
Conrad, who died in February at 84, bought the oceanview property in 2011 for $1.35 million and reimagined the existing 1970s residence into a light-filled contemporary. The house faces a stretch of beach where the actor learned to surf in the 1950s, according to listing agent Rochelle Maize of Nourmand and Associates.
“Robert really enjoyed the Malibu lifestyle and taking advantage of the fiveminute walk to the beach to surf,” Maize said.
Designed to capture the view, the twostorey house has high ceilings, walls of glass and a wrap-around balcony that extends the living space outdoors. The 3,765-square-foot floor plan includes a twostorey living room, four bedrooms and five bathrooms.
Outside, some three-quarters of an acre hold a salt-water swimming pool, an outdoor kitchen and a fire pit. A beach volleyball court and putting green sit off to the side.
Conrad, who was renowned for performing his own stunts, became an overnight star after Hawaiian Eye debuted in 1959 and cemented his status in the 1960s as the two-fisted star of The Wild, Wild West. A native of Chicago, he also appeared in the show Baa Baa Black Sheep as well as the films Young Dillinger (1966) and The Lady in Red (1979).
He’s lost his home-court advantage
Former Los Angeles Lakers guard Jordan Clarkson has made a move in the San Fernando Valley, selling his home in Woodland Hills for $3.25 million.
Clarkson, 27, purchased the fivebedroom, seven-bathroom Cape Codinspired house in 2018 — nearly two months after being traded by the Lakers to the Cleveland Cavaliers — for $3.199 million.
Built in 2018, the 5,800-square-foot home features high ceilings, crisp white millwork and hardwood floors throughout. A doubleisland kitchen, a wine vault and a home theatre are among details of note. The master suite, which has its own fireplace and a walk-in closet, opens to a terrace overlooking the backyard.
The house sits on about half an acre with a cabana, an outdoor kitchen and a saltwater swimming pool and spa.
Clarkson found himself on the move for the second time in his career last year when the Cavaliers dealt him in December to Utah. The combo guard was averaging 15.1 points in 63 games last year before the NBA season was put on hiatus due to concerns over the pandemic.
He is in the final year of a four-year, $50million extension he originally signed with the Lakers in 2016.
Sale in store for Skyhill Studios
The Hollywood Hills home that late musician-songwriter Leon Russell once used as a recording studio has come up for sale at $1.398 million.
The green-hued ranch-style house is where Russell lived and recorded in the late 1960s and early ’70s. The Moody Blues and singer-songwriter Marc Benno, as well as blues guitarists Albert and Freddie King, were among those to record with the multi-instrumentalist at the home, which was known as Skyhill Studios.
It’s also where Russell recorded some of his own studio albums including his first solo LP, Leon Russell, with the likes of Joe Cocker, Mick Jagger, Buddy Harman, Eric Clapton and Ringo Starr, among others.
Resembling something out of a time capsule, the 2,892-square-foot house has a rock-wall fireplace in the living room, a den, four bedrooms and three bathrooms. Lush landscaping surrounds a backyard patio.
Russell, who died in 2016 at 74, performed piano rock, blues, gospel and country music. As a songwriter, his hits include A Song for You, Tight Rope and This Masquerade. As a producer, he worked on albums for artists including Cocker and Bob Dylan.
He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2011.
The property last sold in 1972 for $60,000.