It's a full house for Miguel Ferrer, who plays Dr. Garret Macy on the NBC series "Crossing Jordan," and his wife, entertainment executive Lori Weintraub Ferrer.
The couple, married in September, have four sons between them, and the family needs more space. So they have put their Spanish villa in the Hollywood Hills on the market at just under $2.5 million.
The gated, nearly 4,000-square-foot home has three bedrooms, including a master-bedroom suite with a sitting room, fireplace, office loft, bathroom and walk-in closet. The two-story living room has a Spanish-style plaster fireplace with a large hearth. French doors open to a courtyard with a pool and a spa. There is also a guesthouse and a motor court.
The home was built in 1969 by the late Fred Smathers, who designed homes in the Hollywood Hills during the late '60s and early '70s. Ferrer, the son of singer-actress Rosemary Clooney and actor Jose Ferrer and cousin to George Clooney, saw an ad for the house before he bought it in 2002 and "went crazy," he said at the time, because he had known Smathers and his work. After buying the villa, Ferrer restored it with a contractor who also had known the designer-builder.
Before buying the home, Ferrer commuted from a Gramercy Park apartment in New York to work on "Crossing Jordan" in Los Angeles. He often stayed in the guesthouse of his mother's Beverly Hills home of 50 years. After she died in 2002, the home was sold and torn down.
Deirdre Daniels of Coldwell Banker Previews, Brentwood East, has the Hollywood Hills listing.
Quaids double up in the Palisades
Dennis Quaid, who costars with Rene Russo in the remake of the comedy film "Yours, Mine and Ours," and his wife, Kimberly, have purchased a Pacific Palisades property for about its asking price of $6 million.
If this sounds familiar, it's because the house is next door to the one they bought last July.
This time they purchased an acre-plus property that has two 2,600-square-foot houses and a meditation garden. Like their other property, the one they just bought is zoned for horses, but there is more room to keep them and better access. The parcel comes with a road and a bridge as well as a year-round stream.
The house they purchased in the summer for nearly $8 million is a newly built, 8,400-square-foot home on slightly less than an acre. The Quaids intend to keep both properties.
