This is one of those celebrity deals that practically requires a score card.
Carlos Mencia, the wit behind Comedy Central's "Mind of Mencia," and his wife, Amy, have bought the Encino home of actor Eddie Cibrian ("Saved by the Bell," "Third Watch," "Say It Isn't So," "The Cave") and his wife, Brandi, for close to its asking price of $4.4 million.
Mencia, a stand-up comic in such hot spots as the Comedy Store since he was 19, wanted a larger house. The 40-year-old is the 17th of 18 children and apparently has a lot of company.
The Mencias liked Encino, where they had been living, so they house-hunted there. What they found was the walled and gated Mediterranean-style home belonging to the 34-year-old Cibrian (one of People Magazine's 100 Most Beautiful People in 2006) and his wife, a model.
Now, the Mencias are relocating to their new Encino home, which the Cibrians had refurbished from top to bottom before they put it on the market.
The residence, built in 1992, has six bedrooms and eight bathrooms in 8,500 square feet -- two master-bedroom suites and six en suite bedrooms.
The house has a family room with a wet bar, a kitchen with two dishwashers, a banquet-sized dining room, a home theater with seating for 15 or more, a pool, a barbecue pavilion and a six-car garage, which could be used for four cars and a limo.
The Mencias decided to keep their former home for his family, and the Cibrians have moved to a gated community in Calabasas.
Carol Wolfe of Coldwell Banker Previews, Encino, and Barry Dantagnan of the firm's Sherman Oaks office had the listing on the house the Cibrians sold, and Olga Laron with Nelson Shelton & Associates, Beverly Hills, represented the Mencias in their purchase.
He's off to swim
with the Dolphins
Former UCLA head football coach Karl Dorrell has put his five-bedroom, three-bathroom home in Stevenson Ranch on the market at $1,125,000.
Dorrell, who played football for UCLA, where he was a noted wide receiver, is moving to Florida, where he has been hired as wide receiver coach for the NFL's Miami Dolphins. He was wide receiver coach for the Denver Broncos from 2000 to 2002, before spending five seasons at UCLA. He was fired in December.
His 3,500-square-foot Stevenson Ranch house, built in 2000, has a pool, a large yard and an outdoor fireplace.
The home, on a cul-de-sac, also has window shutters, stainless-steel kitchen appliances and a master closet with organizers.
