Let's face it: Eddie Murphy has his hands full. First he exchanged vows with producer Tracey Edmonds on New Year's Day on a private island off Bora Bora. Then the pair announced their split just two weeks later, before they even had the chance to make their ceremonial union legal in the United States.
Meanwhile, his first wife, model Nicole Mitchell Murphy, is moving on as well. She and Murphy have sold their Granite Bay compound, near Sacramento, for $6.1 million.
The 10-bedroom, multilevel home in a gated community has an 11,000-square-foot main house and a detached, 5,200-square-foot guesthouse. There are two guest suites.
Henry Singleton property: The credit with a photograph of an interior room at the Henry Singleton estate in Holmby Hills that accompanied the Feb. 3 Hot Property column misspelled the last name of photographer Lee Brubaker, of BrubakerPhotography.com, as Brubak.
Singleton estate photo credit: The credit with a photo of an interior room at the Henry Singleton estate in Holmby Hills that accompanied the Feb. 3 Hot Property column misspelled the last name of photographer Lee Brubaker, of BrubakerPhotography.com, as Brubak.
The Murphys considered it their vacation home. It sits on 2.5-plus acres of lush grounds and has views of Folsom Lake.
There is a home theater with a video-game arcade, a tennis court, a gym, an infinity pool, a spa and an outdoor kitchen with a barbecue. The compound was built in 1996 and redone by the couple after they bought it in 1998.
Nicole also has her Calabasas home on the market at slightly under $10 million. That home has six bedrooms in 9,200 square feet.
Eddie, 46, and Nicole, 40, were married for 12 years and have five children. The divorce was final in 2006.
The comic actor starred in such blockbusters as the "Doctor Dolittle" and "Nutty Professor" movies. He was also the voice of Donkey in the "Shrek" movies and costarred in "Dreamgirls" (2006).
Moe Abourched at MSM Luxury Estates-Re/Max OTB Estates, in Sherman Oaks, had the Granite Bay listing.
Neff is a bargain at $85 million
Imagine listing a property at $85 million and not being able to toot its horn as the most expensive residential listing on the Westside.
Winner of the highest price-tag award goes to the 1920s-era Beverly Hills estate that was once owned by newspaper czar William Randolph Hearst and his girlfriend, actress Marion Davies, and is on the market at $165 million.
But for a mere $85 million, there is the home once owned by Henry Singleton, co-founder of Teledyne Inc.
It was the last major work of architect Wallace Neff, according to "Wallace Neff: Architect of California's Golden Age," compiled and edited by the architect's son, Wallace Neff Jr. The architect designed an estimated 500 to 600 homes in his lifetime.
The Southern Colonial-style home in Holmby Hills was built in 1970, and this is the first time it has been offered for purchase.
