Producer Bruckheimer done, after a long run
Los Angeles Jerry Bruckheimer can call it a wrap in Brentwood. The prolific film and television producer, whose credits include the “Pirates of the Caribbean” and “CSI” franchises, has sold his architectural home in the Westside neighborhood for $11.5 million.
Set on three-quarters of an acre, the pristine International-style home was designed by Case Study architect Thornton Abell and built in 1956. Bruckheimer bought the property in 1994 from thenl.a. Mayor Richard Riordan, records show.
The streamlined steel-and-concrete house has a high ceiling, a skylight-topped library/study, an eat-in kitchen and a media room. Walls of steel-framed windows look into a center courtyard and outward on the leafy grounds.
The master suite occupies a separate wing and features a private garden. Including the studio/guesthouse, there are seven bedrooms, seven bathrooms and four fireplaces with massive hearths.
The studio/guesthouse overlooks the swimming pool and spa. Ponds, lush landscaping and mature trees complete the gated setting.
Bruckheimer, 74, has produced scores of blockbuster films including “The Rock” (1996), “Armageddon” (1998) and the “Beverly Hills Cop” and “Bad Boys” movies. He has shared 10 Primetime Emmys as an executive producer of the competition series “The Amazing Race.”
He’s downsized in Brentwood
After finding no takers at $38.5 million,
actor-musician Jim Belushi has lowered the price for his Brentwood estate to $29.995 million. The new price reflects a smaller estate; the property is now being offered without a second parcel of about half an acre. Whether the adjoining parcel is put up for sale is to be determined.
The Italianate villa-style mansion, designed by Oscar Shamamian and built in 2010, sits behind gates and is reached by a cobblestone driveway. Garden courtyards, creeping vines and salvaged clay roof tiles give the home an Old World ambience.
The 11,821 square feet of living space was designed by former White House decorator Michael Smith and features reclaimed fireplace mantels, hand-hewn hardwood floors and custom ironwork. In the common rooms, the walls are finished in Venetian plaster. Ceilings decorated in lacy plaster molding top the living and dining rooms.
An office/den, a sauna, a screening room, six bedrooms and 11 bathrooms are among other living spaces and amenities. The center-island kitchen opens to the garden-view family room.
The grounds, measuring about an acre, include expanses of lawn as well as stone fountains, pathways and space for outdoor dining. A pool house with a Jacuzzi and cold plunge sits near the swimming pool. Elsewhere is a detached guesthouse.
Belushi, 63, bought the property more than a decade ago for $8.3 million, records show.
The actor is known for his film roles in “Mr. Destiny” (1990) and “Jingle All the Way” (1996). He starred as the title character in the sitcom “According to Jim,” which ran for eight seasons.
A buyer must walk her red carpet
Producer and television host Melissa Rivers has put her Pacific Palisades home of about two decades on the market for $6.195 million.
Built in 1953, the two-story traditional features East Coastinspired design details, a study/ office, a center-island kitchen, six bedrooms and 5.25 bathrooms. The lower-level formal rooms open to the pool terrace; the upstairs master suite takes in tree-top and ocean views.
The 5,850 square feet of space also holds a living room with a fireplace, a formal dining room and a center-island kitchen that flows to the family room. A sunlit breakfast room with booth seating sits off the family room area.
Outside, the nearly onethird-acre lot includes a large paver patio, formal gardens and a swimming pool with a spa.
Rivers, 50, is the daughter of late comedian-television host Joan Rivers and late producer Edgar Rosenberg. She previously served as an executive producer and co-host of the E! series “Fashion Police,” which launched in 1995 and long fea-