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Hefners List House Where Sons Were Raised

» Featured Columnists | By Ruth Ryon | March 20, 2009 7:55 AM ET



Hugh Hefner and his wife, Kimberley, bought a home about a dozen years ago that they have just put on the market for close to $28 million.

The couple purchased the home, next to the party-friendly Playboy mansion in Holmby Hills, as a place to jointly raise their sons Marston, 18, and Cooper, 17. The Hefners decided to sell the home now that the boys will be heading off to college.

The two-story home has five bedrooms and seven bathrooms in about 7,300 square feet. It has a formal living room, a family room, a library, a dining room and a newly remodeled kitchen. It has a morning room, a butler's pantry, two staff rooms and a three-car garage.

The original wood paneling, hand-carved staircase, leaded glass windows and hand-painted walls lend a sense of history to the home, built in 1929 for the sister of Arthur Letts Jr., the original owner of the Playboy mansion, owned now by Playboy Enterprises.

Philanthropist Lita Annenberg Hazen, sister of Walter Annenberg, later bought the property with her husband, Joe Hazen, the former director and vice president of Warner Bros., responsible for signing Elvis Presley, Shirley MacLaine and Burt Lancaster to long-term movie contracts.

The English manor-style house, designed by Arthur Kelly, is walled and gated, with a door in the wall between the properties for easier access.

The home sits on 2.3 flat acres of parklike grounds, which back up to the Los Angeles Country Club, and include a pool and more than enough room for a tennis court.

Joyce Rey and Stacy Gottula of Coldwell Banker Previews International have the listing.



Sally Field, the Oscar-winning actress now into her third year as a star of the weekly TV series "Brothers & Sisters," has put her Malibu home on the market at just under $7 million.

The two-story, ranch-style home, built in1958 and recently updated, previously belonged to singer-actress Olivia Newton-John.

It has a private master-bedroom wing, a media room and an ocean view. It has five bedrooms and six bathrooms in just under 6,000 square feet.

The home sits on three acres and has separate guest quarters plus a pool, a tennis court, a three-stall horse paddock and direct access to riding trails on 2,000 acres of park land.

Field, 62, played Mrs. Gump in the 1994 movie "Forrest Gump."

Brant Didden of Pritchett-Rapf & Associates in Malibu has the listing.



Maura Tierney, who has played a nurse and then a doctor in her 190 episodes as ER's Abby Lockhart, is planning to sell her Hancock Park home, and the actress, 44, has listed it at close to $2.2 million.

The Craftsman-style home, which Tierney restored while maintaining period details, has a two-story guesthouse, a pool, a spa, a kitchen with stainless-steel appliances, a balcony off the master-bedroom suite, a fireplace and French doors that open onto a wooden deck, and a brick patio with a fireplace outside.

The home has four bedrooms and three bathrooms in about 3,050 square feet and was built in 1913.


"ER" is in its final season. Tierney also played Caroline in "Baby Mama" in 2008.

Emil Alexander of Prudential California Realty, Pacific Palisades, has the listing.



Campanile Restaurant owner-chef Mark Peel and his wife, Daphne Brogdon, have sold their Windsor Square house for $3.25 million.

Peel, head chef of Spago when it opened in 1982, paid about $3.1 million for the home last year. The house, built in 1920, had been remodeled, and it truly has a chef's kitchen. The house also has five bedrooms and four bathrooms in just under 4,000 square feet.

Peel is cofounder of La Brea Bakery, and he has written several cookbooks.

Sue Carr of Coldwell Banker's Hancock Park South office and Janet Loveland of Coldwell Banker, Hancock Park North, represented the buyer.



Golfer Jim Furyk, the 38-year-old, 13-time winner on the PGA Tour, has put his contemporary home in Maui on the market at $7.5 million.

The single-level house, completed in 2005, has five bedrooms in 6,400 square feet, and it is in Plantation Estates, a gated community of 76 home sites. The homes have views of the ocean, mountains and golf course, site of the annual Mercedes-Benz Championship.

Furyk, who won the championship in 2001, hired Rick Ryniak to design a home for the golfer, his wife Tabitha, and their two children. Ryniak has designed houses for actor Kelsey Grammer and musician Carlos Santana.




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