A Chevy in Their Future

Actor/producer/writer CHEVY CHASE and his wife, Jayni, have purchased a second home in Snowmass Village, Colo., 12 miles from Aspen.

The Chases’ permanent residence is in a gated development in Pacific Palisades, where they live with their three children.

Chase got his big break in 1974 to write for the first cast of NBC’s late-night comedy hit “Saturday Night Live.” He had earned two Emmys for performing as well as writing by the time he left the show in 1976 to star with Goldie Hawn in the movie “Foul Play.”

Since then, he has appeared in such films as “Three Amigos,” “Caddyshack,” National Lampoon’s “Vacation” series and “Nothing But Trouble,” released earlier this year.

He’s now producing and starring in “The Memoirs of an Invisible Man,” a comedy expected to be released at Christmas about a New York City securities analyst who becomes the object of a CIA hunt after a scientific accident makes him invisible.

Jayni was a production coordinator when she married the actor in 1982.

The Chases paid $2.1-million for their Colorado home, which is Southwestern in style with seven bedrooms and 7 1/2 baths in 4,600 square feet.

The 12-year-old home has four guest suites, each with its own theme, and a private, outdoor spa for each of the suites.

The house is in Woodrun, the most expensive residential area of town. There are few homes on the market in Woodrun, but the highest-priced ones are of the ski-in, ski-out variety, like the Chases’. Among the Chases’ celebrity neighbors at Woodrun are singer Neil Diamond and super-agent Michael Ovitz.

Gary Quist of Prudential’s Snowmass office helped the Chases make their purchase.

Actor BURT REYNOLDS has renewed his lease on the Bel-Air home he has been sharing since last year with his wife, actress Loni Anderson, and their young son.

Reynolds leased the newly built home at $40,000 a month just before his CBS sitcom “Evening Shade” debuted last fall.

The gated, two-acre estate has a 15,000-square-foot main house with eight bedrooms and 11 baths and a guest house. Bobbi Ward of Asher Dann & Associates represented Reynolds in the lease transaction.

Pop star MADONNA has apparently dropped plans to buy an $8-million-plus Bel-Air home on which she had entered escrow.

The home has been the residence of Abraham Lurie, who filed for bankruptcy in June. Lurie, Marina del Rey’s biggest developer with holdings representing nearly one-fifth of the marina, has been involved in a battle with his Saudi partners for control of his properties. The house is in the name of Lurie’s wife.

Motley Crue bassist NIKKI SIXX has sold his house in Hidden Hills for about $1.2 million and purchased a newly built home in the Conejo Valley for slightly more than $3 million, sources say.

He and his wife, Brandi, and baby boy, Gunner, have moved into the Conejo Valley home, which has six bedrooms and chauffeur’s quarters in 11,000 square feet.

The home also has a 40-x-44-foot swimming pool and a golf course and valley view.

Sixx sold his five-bedroom Hidden Hills home, with a pool and a spa, to Scott Carlin, a senior vice president of Warner Bros. Television.

Leslie Sopkin at White House Properties, Woodland Hills, represented Sixx in his sale and purchase. Sandy Lebowitz of Fred Sands’ Sherman Oaks office represented Carlin.

The Beverly Hills home of silent screen star CHARLIE CHAPLIN, which was built for him in 1922 by his own studios and used until he moved to Switzerland about 1950, has been listed at $5 million.

The Mediterranean-style estate--with four bedrooms and three maid’s rooms in about 11,000 square feet--is now owned by the Republic of the Philippines, which took title in April.

“We filed a litigation case against (the late former Philippines President) Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos to recover all of the assets they allegedly stole from the government, and one of the properties was this one, which they bought (in the early 1980s) under the name of (actor) George Hamilton,” said Mike Alejandrino, a local representative of a Philippines government commission.

“When the Marcoses were taken out of power, they claimed that their properties were in foreclosure and that George Hamilton didn’t own this one anymore, so we had to go after the corporations that claimed to own it, and those corporations were owned by (former Saudi arms dealer) Adnan Khashoggi.”

To settle a Los Angeles civil lawsuit against him, Khashoggi agreed to turn over any properties that were in his name but were actually owned by the Marcoses.

The Beverly Hills house turned out to be the only such property, the spokesman said, and Khashoggi quit-claimed it to the Philippines government.

Terry de Sousa at Coldwell Banker has the listing.

Producer GARY A. ADELSON, who last month sold a Brentwood lot that he owned for nearly $2 million, has put his home in the Beverly Hills Post Office area on the market at $2.75 million with Joe Babajian of Fred Sands’ Estates office, Beverly Hills.

Adelson, producer of the Steven Seagal film “Hard to Kill,” is the son of former Lorimar Telepictures Chairman Merv Adelson.