Sandy Gallin, an executive producer of the WB series "Buffy, the Vampire Slayer" and "Angel," has listed one of his Malibu properties, the Carbon Beach home of the late comedian-actor Flip Wilson, at $15 million.
Gallin has represented such stars as Dolly Parton and Neil Diamond, but he has become almost as well-known in the L.A. area for redoing and selling houses. Earlier this month, he listed a different Malibu property--a home on just over three acres next to movie-TV mogul Barry Diller's former home--at $15 million. Gallin had purchased that home for an undisclosed price in April.
He bought the Wilson home a year ago. Wilson, who died in 1998 at age 64, had lived in the home for about 15 years. When Gallin bought it for about $3 million, the house was described as "a definite remodel."
Gallin refurbished the house and expanded it from 4,300 square feet to 6,700 square feet. The home, which is being sold with furnishings, has four bedrooms plus a maid's quarters and 60 feet of beach frontage.
June Scott of June Scott Estates, a Coldwell Banker Previews company in Beverly Hills, is co-listing the home with Chris Cortazzo of Coldwell Banker Previews, Malibu West. Scott also has Gallin's other listing.
Verna Harrah, widow of casino magnate William F. Harrah, has sold the Beverly Hills home that she bought in 1996 from the estate of jazz great Ella Fitzgerald.
The buyer was described as a business associate of Harrah's from the East Coast who is moving here.
Built in 1930, the 6,500-square-foot house, where Fitzgerald lived for 20 years before she died in 1996 at 78, has a room known as Ella's Pub, where Fitzgerald held jam sessions with jazz legends.
Harrah sold the house for just under $6 million in March but took months to close escrow so she could remodel a Bel-Air house she bought in March in the $8-million range. Built in 1926, the 14,000-square-foot house is on 1.5 acres.
Harrah, who sold her Malibu home in December to Herbalife founder Mark Hughes for $25 million, also bought a Bel-Air home this year for her son and his wife, sources said. The house, a newly built Tuscan villa with five bedrooms in 7,500 square feet, sold for its $5.95-million asking price.
The seller was builder-owner Edmund O'Neill, who had built it for himself and then decided that the house was too big for him, neighbors said.
