Think buying and selling a house these days is migraine-inducing?
Multiply it times four and pass the Excedrin to Dan Aykroyd.
Think buying and selling a house these days is migraine-inducing?
Multiply it times four and pass the Excedrin to Dan Aykroyd.
The comic actor and his wife, Donna Dixon, paid $14.5 million in February for a 5,244-square-foot house in Pacific Palisades that wasn't listed in the Multiple Listing Service.
Just two months earlier, they sold their 4,828-square-foot home on Woodrow Wilson Drive to "Vacation" star Beverly D'Angelo (you know, the actress who looks like Lauren Hutton) for $3.8 million, according to public records. It's a five- or six-bedroom, 5 1/2-bathroom, two-story home built in 1951 and has a pool and six fireplaces. (Apparently, there is no such thing as too many fireplaces.) The original listing price was $4.2 million back in November.
Then Aykroyd sold another property for $2.13 million in the Sunset Strip area that he owned with his brother, Peter. This 1922 Colonial-style house has three bedrooms and 2 1/2 bathrooms in about 4,100 square feet.
Lastly, Aykroyd and Dixon listed their 3,400-square-foot, three-story condo on Manhattan's Upper East Side for $7 million. It has four bedrooms, 4 1/2 bathrooms and unobstructed views of the Manhattan skyline, including the Empire State and Chrysler buildings. The town house occupies the top three floors of a 47-story postwar, full-service building with a 24-hour doorman, concierge and high-speed elevators.
New York listing agent Roger Erickson from Sotheby's International Realty reports no serious nibbles yet.
One purchase, two sales and one listing still active: Is Aykroyd a glutton for punishment or what?
The 55-year-old Aykroyd came on the public's radar in the 1970s as a cast member of "Saturday Night Live." His popular Blues Brothers routine with John Belushi remains a pop-culture staple. He is filming "Ghost Busters: The Video Game" and was in the 2007 movie "I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry."
Barry Sloane of Sotheby's International Realty was the listing agent on the two Los Angeles properties that sold, according to the MLS.
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