Pete Sampras lists Beverly Hills home
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Pete Sampras and his wife, actress Bridgette Wilson, have put their Beverly Hills home on the market for
$25 million.
Before the 36-year-old tennis ace retired in 2003, he won a record 14 Grand Slam men's singles titles.
Sampras' 11,000-square-foot, English Tudor-style house, built in 1933, has been recently remodeled and expanded.
The walled and gated private estate has five bedrooms, including a master suite with his-and-her bathrooms. The home has a total of 12 bathrooms.
Other features are a detached guesthouse, a gym, a theater, a children's play yard, a pool, a putting green and -- of course -- a tennis court with a north-south orientation. The home is located on more than an acre of mature, landscaped grounds and has a circular driveway.
Wilson, 34, played the bride-to-be in "The Wedding Planner" (2001) and appeared in "CSI: Miami" (2003) and, more recently, "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" (the 2007 pilot and one episode).
Jordan Cohen, estates director at Re/Max-Olson & Associates Inc. in Westlake Village, has the listing.
Plenty of room to play ball on the beach now
L.A. Dodgers owners Frank and Jamie McCourt can't seem to get enough of the beach.
The couple bought a Malibu house in August, and they now have purchased the home next door as well.
The McCourts paid close to $19 million for the second house, which has three bedrooms and two bathrooms in less than 2,000 square feet. (They purchased their first home in Malibu for close to its $33.5-million asking price. The sellers of that home were actors Courteney Cox and David Arquette.)
Both of the McCourts' Malibu homes have beach frontage -- the first has 80 feet; the second, 66 feet. Their latest is a California bungalow built in 1949; their first, built in 1983, was designed by John Lautner, who studied with Frank Lloyd Wright. The four-bedroom, 5,500-square-foot house sits on a double lot and has exposed concrete, natural wood, skylights, a curved roof line and a pool.
The bungalow is already being renovated, with completion scheduled in July.
The McCourts have been active in the Los Angeles real estate scene. They bought a house in Holmby Hills for about $25 million in 2004, soon after they came to L.A. from Boston.
She was 'Torn' but sold anyway
