David Letterman once produced a TV special starring comedian Carol Leifer that was called "Carol Doesn't Leifer Anymore." And now it's true. Leifer has moved out of her house in the Hollywood Hills.
The "Seinfeld" writer turned Nick at Nite executive producer and her partner, Lori Wolf, have relocated to a larger home in the Santa Monica Mountains that they purchased for close to $3.2 million.
The couple bought a 5,000-square-foot, traditional-style home with five bedrooms, 4 1/2 bathrooms and slightly more than half an acre of park-like grounds with mountain, city and treetop views.
They wanted more space because they are adopting a baby boy. "But I love the other house so much, we kept it," Leifer said.
She and Wolf, who works in commercial real estate, rented out their former home, which is a 2,600-square-foot contemporary with three bedrooms, a den, a media room, a maid's room, a pool and city-to-mountain views. Leifer bought the home in 1998 for $900,000.
It has been just over a year since Leifer also bought what she has described as "a little jewel" of a house with 2,100 square feet -- and dubbed an artist's or writer's hideaway -- 100 yards from her Hollywood Hills home. Leifer sold the hideaway before she and Wolf bought in the Santa Monica Mountains.
Leifer, who turned 50 on Thursday, is a fixture on the stand-up circuit, and she is executive producer of an upcoming Nick at Nite show that stars Darlene Westgor, who as winner of the cable channel's search for America's funniest mom earned a shot at her own sitcom. Filming on the pilot has been completed.
Eric Lowry of Coldwell Banker, Sunset, represented Leifer in her real estate transactions.
She was in love, but that was then
When it comes to real estate, it would appear that Sharon Stone is fickle.
It seems like only yesterday that the actress bought a Beverly Hills-area home for just under $11 million. Actually, it was in April.
Now the five-bedroom, 9,000-square-foot home, on nearly 5 acres, is on the market again, this time at $12.5 million -- not high enough, it would seem, to be an attempt to fix and flip the house, which appeared to be in good shape, anyway. The gated estate, built in 1991, was completely refurbished in 2004, the same year Stone divorced San Francisco Chronicle editor Phil Bronstein.
So what's up?
A quick call to the listing agents revealed that Stone, who already owned a house in the area, never moved into this one, although she loved it at first sight.
