From one buddy to another
Jack Nicholson, who costars with Leonardo DiCaprio and Matt Damon in director Martin Scorsese’s upcoming gangster movie “The Departed,” has purchased the Beverly Hills-area home of his longtime friend and neighbor Marlon Brando for $5 million.
Brando, who won best actor Academy Awards for his roles in “On the Waterfront” (1954) and “The Godfather” (1972), died in July 2004 at age 80. At the time, Nicholson called his friend “a monumental artist like Michelangelo or Picasso” and predicted that “his influence will be there long into the future.”
Brando and Nicholson, who costarred in the movie “The Missouri Breaks” (1976), were neighbors for more than 30 years. Brando had lived in his house since 1960.
His 12-room home, built on a hilltop in 1954, has three bedrooms and four bathrooms in slightly more than 3,000 square feet, according to public records. The house is on almost an acre and has a pool.
Christie’s plans to auction off items from the house June 30 in New York. Among the items are a foosball table and other furniture; ceramics, pictures, sculptures and personal mementos. Christie’s bills it as “the most significant entertainment celebrity estate” to come to the auction house since “The Personal Property of Marilyn Monroe” sale in 1991.
Brando spent much of his life as a recluse, staying in the house or on his French Polynesian atoll of Tetiaroa, a cluster of a dozen islands about 26 miles north of Tahiti. Plans were announced in March for a lavish eco-hotel, called the Brando, to be built there by 2008. Brando bought the atoll in 1965 after filming “Mutiny on the Bounty” (1962) in French Polynesia.
Nicholson, 68, won best actor Oscars for his roles in “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” (1975) and “As Good as It Gets” (1997). He won a best supporting Oscar for “Terms of Endearment” (1983). “The Departed” is being filmed in New York. A release date hasn’t been scheduled yet.
‘Survivor’ creator roughs it in Malibu
Mark Burnett, creator and an executive producer of the television reality series “Survivor” and “The Apprentice,” has purchased an estate at the end of a long private drive in Malibu in the high $20-million range.
The home, on slightly more than three acres, has city and ocean views. There is a master-bedroom suite plus three family bedrooms and staff quarters in the house, which also has a breakfast room, an office and two patios.
The London-born Burnett, 44, was on Time magazine’s 2004 list of the “100 Most Influential People.” Burnett is on the board of the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation.
The house with
a 007 legacy
The Beverly Hills home for many years of the late Albert R. “Cubby” Broccoli, producer of most of the James Bond films, has come on the market at $28 million.
Broccoli died in 1996 at age 87. His widow, Dana, died in March 2004 at 82. She was president of the company that owns the film rights to Ian Fleming’s Bond novels. She also helped her husband select Sean Connery to play Bond.
The house, owned by the Broccoli family since 1969, was built in 1928 for silent-screen star Hobart Bosworth, a familiar figure for a time as he rode his white horse on a bridle path along Sunset Boulevard. Bosworth sold the home in 1933 to actor William Powell, who hired James Dolena to redesign the Spanish house and turn it into a Georgian mansion.
The home, on nearly 3.2 acres of manicured grounds, has a 9,000-square-foot main residence with eight bedrooms and two staff quarters.
There is a courtyard room in which many banquets have been held. The gated estate also has a pool, screening room and tennis court.
Delphine Mann of Coldwell Banker Previews, Beverly Hills, has the listing.
‘Falcon Crest’ star to take flight
Actress Susan Sullivan, best known for her roles on “Dharma & Greg” and “Falcon Crest,” has put her Hollywood Hills home on the market at just under $2.4 million. She plans to move to Bel-Air.
The Hollywood Hills home is on one level and is Southwestern in style with four bedrooms and 4 1/2 bathrooms in 3,700 square feet. The gated compound, built in 1959, includes a guesthouse.
Sullivan played Cameron Diaz’s mother in the film “My Best Friend’s Wedding” (1997) and portrayed the mother-in-law of Dharma on the TV series “Dharma & Greg” (1997). Sullivan, now 60, also costarred in the ‘80s on the CBS prime-time soap opera “Falcon Crest.”
Ben Young Mason and Joyce Rey of Coldwell Banker, Beverly Hills, have the listing.
Comedian’s widow resettles in Hills
Joan Dangerfield, widow of comedian Rodney Dangerfield, has purchased a home in the Hollywood Hills for close to its asking price of $6.85 million.
She sold a Wilshire condo that she had shared with the comic for more than its $3.9-million asking price, and she sold their former Little Holmby home for more than $2.7 million. Rodney Dangerfield died in October at 82.
His widow’s new Hollywood Hills home is Art Deco in style and has 5,400 square feet. There are city-to-ocean views, floor-to-ceiling walls of glass, an infinity pool and a spa. A long driveway leads to the four-bedroom, five-bathroom house. John Andrews Group Architects and designer-developer Rob Davis designed the house.
The condo that Joan Dangerfield sold has 20-foot ceilings, a dining room and a large master-bedroom suite. It’s in an Art Deco high-rise. Among amenities of the Little Holmby house is an indoor pool.
Bennett Carr of Prudential John Aaroe, Beverly Hills, had the listing on the Hollywood Hills home, and Steve Levine of Hilton & Hyland represented Joan Dangerfield in buying and selling.
Jane Siegal of Coldwell Banker, Beverly Hills North, represented the buyer of the condo.
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