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    Prince’s Bandmate Is Selling Her Longtime Hollywood Hills Home for $3 Million

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    Lisa Coleman acquired a French Normandy Revival residence in the Hollywood Hills 40 years ago and proceeded to create lots of memories. The Emmy-winning musician—best known for her time as a keyboardist and pianist with Prince’s backup band, The Revolution—spent much of her time there composing music as part of the Emmy-winning duo Wendy & Lisa. She also whipped up tunes in a detached studio alongside the likes of Seal, Grace Jones, Steve Perry, and even Prince himself.

    Now, four decades later, Coleman is ready to part with her longtime home and is putting the property up for sale, asking a speck under $3 million, around $2.6 million more than the $37,000 she paid for the place back in the mid-1980s. Tina Marie Phan and Howard Stevens of Nourmand & Associates share the listing.

    A wood-paneled dining room is accented with stained-glass windows.

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    Originally designed and built in the late 1920s by noted architect Charles David Grolle, the multi-story turreted structure is tucked away on two parcels of gated and terraced land spanning almost half an acre in the historic Hollywoodland pocket of Beachwood Canyon. Inside, four en suite bedrooms and an equal number of baths are filtered across roughly 3,200 square feet of restored and renovated living space adorned with winding staircases, stained-glass windows, refinished hardwood floors, arched doorways, and soaring exposed-beam ceilings.

    Standing out is a step-up great room boasting a fireplace integrated into a bookshelf-lined nook, a large steel-framed window overlooking the Hollywood sign, and green-trimmed French doors spilling out to a curving balcony. A wood-paneled dining room flows to the kitchen, which is outfitted with a black-and-white-checkered porcelain floor, stained birch cabinetry, CaesarStone countertops, a Viking range, a woven stainless-steel backsplash, and a breakfast banquette decorated with a pair of carved wood figures. Elsewhere is a one-bedroom, one-bath suite within the separate recording space.

    The recording studio has been used by Wendy & Lisa, Seal, Grace Jones, Steve Perry, and Prince.

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    Outdoors, the park-like grounds were redesigned by Coleman’s wife of 21 years, music producer and manager Renata Kanclerz, and host a three-tier vineyard with Merlot and Thompson Seedless grapes, as well as Fuji apple and avocado trees. The lower portion of the property has a two-car garage, but the couple usually parks on a flat pad behind the house that was once home to Coleman’s pink 1964 Mercury Montclair Marauder, the car rumored to have inspired Prince’s Little Red Corvette.

    Per Mansion Global, she is selling because her and Kanclerz’s daughter has left for college on the East Coast, and they are relocating to be closer to her. “It was a hard decision to make because I really love this house,” Coleman said, “but I know someone will fall in love with it like I did.”

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    Wendy Bowman

    Wendy Bowman is a real estate writer at Robb Report. Before that, she was a freelancer for Modern Luxury and several other media outlets, where she primarily covered luxury properties for…

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      A Prime-Time Soap Opera Icon’s Rosy Hollywood Hills Home is Up for Grabs at $6 Million

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      Two years after his death at age 84, the longtime Los Angeles estate of prime-time soap opera writer and producer David Jacobs is now on the market in the Beachwood Canyon neighborhood of Hollywood Hills for just under $6 million after it was initially priced at $7 million. Ed Solorzano and Lauren Ravitz of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices California Properties hold the listing.

      A Baltimore native who started out as a writer of magazine articles and nonfiction books, Jacobs went on to create two of the small screen’s most popular shows of all time—Dallas and its spinoff Knots Landing, both of which ran for 14 seasons and notched a total of 700 episodes between them. He’s also known for Paradise, Four Corners, Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, and Homefront.

      A spacious double-height living room spills out to a terracotta-lined deck.

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      Custom built in 1984 and designed by architects Michael Pearce and Richard Clemenson, the rose-hued architectural spread is perched on two contiguous parcels spanning over an acre. Three separate structures set at the end of a lengthy gated driveway include a main home, a guesthouse, and a studio-topped garage, for a combined total of four bedrooms and eight baths in roughly 6,400 square feet.

      The primary dwelling features three bedrooms and six baths in 4,000 square feet. Three levels boast ’80s-appropriate details, beginning with a pastel color palette and extending to bleached oak floors and copious glass blocks. Expansive windows and multiple patios and terraces overlook picturesque views of Griffith Observatory, the Hollywood sign, the downtown skyline, and the ocean beyond.

      The pool and sundeck are separated by a modern take on a mono-style colonnade.

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      Main-level highlights include a double-height living room warmed by a fireplace, a dining area, and a tiled kitchen outfitted with a stainless island and matching stainless appliances, plus a breakfast nook. A downstairs primary suite comes with a stone fireplace, a private balcony, a dressing room, and dual walk-in closets and baths, while a loft and flex space on the topmost floor are currently being used as an entertainment area and an office.

      Outdoors, the grounds are showcased by a long, rectangular swimming pool that flows through a maroon colonnade-like structure to the grass-trimmed sundeck, as well as a barbecue station, a flat play area, and several spots ideal for alfresco lounging and entertaining. Rounding it all out is the one-bedroom, two-bath guesthouse with a glass-ceilinged living room and a kitchenette, along with the two-car garage and its upper-level studio space.

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      Wendy Bowman

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      Rapper G-Eazy’s $3.7 Million Hollywood Hills Home Comes With a Professional Recording Studio

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      Since he’s been living in New York for more than a year now, Gerald Gillum—better known to his fans as G-Eazy—has decided to part ways with the Spanish Colonial villa in Los Angeles he affectionately refers to as Gerryland. The Oakland-born rapper and record producer has stuck a $3.7 million price tag on the towering residence, which is tucked away in the Beachwood Canyon neighborhood of Hollywood Hills.

      Though the ask is almost $2 million more than the nearly $1.8 million he paid ER and Salem actor Shane West for the late 1970s abode back in 2016, G-Eazy completely remodeled the digs during his tenure in collaboration with Melody Jimenez of MA Creative. Subsequently described by Architectural Digest as a “low-key hideaway in which to work and collaborate with fellow artists,” the place has four bedrooms and five baths in roughly 3,600 square feet of character-filled living space boasting rustic hardwood floors, custom Italian and Moroccan tile, and artisanal ironwork throughout.

      An entry vestibule has a step-down living room on one side and a dining area on the other.

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      “This was the first home G-EAZY ever bought, even turning the guesthouse into a studio,” says Raul Sanchez Jr. of Christie’s International Real Estate Southern California, who holds the listing. “He poured a lot of money into the home, remodeling the kitchen, the walk-in closet, the fixtures are all custom, and of course, the studio, where he wrote many of his biggest hits.”

      Sequestered behind walls and a gated entrance in the storied Hollywoodland enclave, the creamy stucco and stair-laced structure is perched upon a steep, almost quarter-acre parcel overlooking jetliner views that include the Hollywood Sign. Inside the double wood and glass front doors, an entry vestibule displaying a curving iron-railed staircase steps down to a living room resting beneath a vaulted wood-beam ceiling and sporting an all-white fireplace and French doors opening out to a slender balcony. The nearby dining room connects to a stylish eat-in kitchen, which is outfitted with dark green cabinetry, marble countertops, and Wolf appliances.

      The two-story guesthouse features a recording studio on the lower level and a lounge area up top.

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      Elsewhere is a posh primary suite flaunting a former bedroom that’s been transformed into a massive walk-in closet to house the No Limit and Me, Myself & I performer’s extensive collection of sneakers and leather jackets, along with Juliet balconies and a masculine bath spotlighted by a glass-encased steam shower. Outdoors, the grounds host several alfresco lounging and entertaining spots enhanced by a saltwater pool with a Baja shelf, plus a fire pit and a built-in barbecue.

      Topping it all off is the self-contained two-story guesthouse, which is accessible via stairs and a snazzy elevator and houses a lounge area on the upper level and a professional-grade recording studio with a kitchenette and a shower down below. There’s also a street-level two-car garage.

      Click here for more photos of the Hollywood Hills residence.

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      Authors

      Wendy Bowman

      Wendy Bowman is a real estate writer at Robb Report. Before that, she was a freelancer for Modern Luxury and several other media outlets, where she primarily covered luxury properties for…

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