The deal? New home, same town
Selma Blair, who costars with Christian Slater in the upcoming political thriller "The Deal," has sold a home in West Hollywood for about $1.2 million and purchased another one in the same neighborhood for slightly more than $1.3 million.
The home she bought is on several adjoining lots. The house was built in 1922 and has four bedrooms in nearly 3,000 square feet, according to public records.
The house she sold has two bedrooms in about 1,500 square feet, and it was built in 1930. Blair had owned it since March 2001, when she bought it for $645,000.
Blair sold the house in December, right after she bought her new home.
The actress married Ahmet Zappa, musician son of the late rocker Frank Zappa, early last year at the Coldwater Canyon home of writer-actress Carrie Fisher.
Blair, 32, was cast opposite Topher Grace and Scarlett Johansson in the comedy "In Good Company," and she starred with Tracey Ullman and Johnny Knoxville in the film "A Dirty Shame." She starred as Liz Sherman in "Hellboy," also released last year.
Earlier, she co-starred in such movies as "A Guy Thing" (2003) and "The Sweetest Thing" (2002), with Cameron Diaz and Christina Applegate. She also had a supporting role in "Legally Blonde" (2001).
Hancock Park out one 'grim reaper'
Jasmine Guy, who played one of the grim reapers in Showtime's "Dead Like Me," has sold her Hancock Park home for about $1.8 million.
The house, which Guy had owned since 2000, is Mediterranean in style and has five bedrooms and four bathrooms in nearly 3,800 square feet. The home, built in 1924, also has a sweeping staircase, vintage light fixtures, a butler's pantry, a finished basement, a breakfast room, a pool and a spa.
Guy, 40, is perhaps best known for playing the glamorous Whitley Gilbert on the NBC sitcom "A Different World," a spinoff of "The Cosby Show." Guy was a member of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center and met her husband, businessman Terrence Duckette, when touring in 1997 as the murderess vamp Velma Kelly in the musical "Chicago."
Last year, Guy wrote the book "Afeni Shakur: Evolution of a Revolutionary," a record of conversations with her friend, the mother of slain rapper-actor Tupac Shakur.
In December, the National Assn. for the Advancement of Colored People honored the actress at "An Evening With Jasmine Guy" at the MGM Tower Theater in Century City. She founded the dance program at A Place Called Home, a safe house in South-Central Los Angeles.
