The Real Estalker mentioned that mega producer Brad Grey had bought a place in Bel-Air in April for $22 million. Now his Pacific Palisades home has hit the market. Grey and his wife Jill are divorcing. Their shingled home sits on two acres of grounds that include a large duck pond, pool and tennis court. The home itself was built by Grey in the late 1990s and has over 13,000 square feet of space. It's an Arts and Crafts inspired home molded to the Southern California lifestyle with large windows and an open floorplan. The home includes a formal living room and dining room as well as a more casual family room for lounging around. One curious feature is the den which has two large stainless steel refrigerator-like units which may be humidors. A large paneled office makes an excellent place for doing business at home. The lower level is built for recreation with a huge wine cellar, 35mm projection theater and a gym. The huge master suite includes a sitting room, terrace, wet bar, and dual walk in closets and dual bathrooms. The home has been staged which explains the blandly perfect decor. Like the Real Estalker, I tend to think the $29.99 million listing price is more than a bit steep even with the ample land. The water bill alone for all those lawns will certainly require a large bank account.


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Last week our Sunday estate was the home of a former "ER" actress, this week we've got another TV actress, Mel Harris, most famous for her role as the winsome and whiny Hope on the show "thirtysomething." The LA Times Hot Property column reports that Harris has listed her Pacific Palisades property, a charming four-bedroom Country English-style home. She has owned the home for five years and it has been remodeled with a new marble-countered kitchen and bathrooms. There are older details to love such as the Batchelder tile fireplace in the living room and the beautiful beams and archways. The new master bathroom is a bit too over the top for a house of this scale and graciousness and the travertine tile in the kitchen seems like it would be a better fit for a Florida flip than for this older Californian. The home was originally listed at $4.347 million but is already down to $4.197 million which still seems like a lot of cash for 4,5000 square feet even in the pricey Palisades.

Today's home is a bit of old Hollywood tradition in Pacific Palisades, California. The home is now on Amalfi Drive but was built in 1924 with an address on Haldeman Road. At that time, the Uplifters Club owned Rustic Canyon where several members built homes. It is said that the home was designed by architect William Dodd, an Uplifters Club member who designed what is now the Rustic Canyon Recreation Center. The home was later bought by Hal Roach Studios, and became a Hollywood hangout for some of Hollywood's early big stars such as Harold Lloyd, Jean Harlow and Will Rogers. It was reputedly occupied by Stan Laurel of Laurel and Hardy during his divorces. The home is, as the listing admits, in need of a lot of work but it has, as they say, lovely bones. The property website says "restoration or wrecking ball?" Restoration, please! This home is listed at $5 million.

When it comes to the world of Britney Spears, you just never know. The gossip game of did she or didn't she surrounds this girl on a multitude of levels. One of those levels is definitely real estate. It has been widely reported this week that Britney checked out today's estate in Pacific Palisades not once but twice. They even report she flushed all the toilets and took a swim in the pool during her visit to the pad. Now the Real Estalker says she hears it's not a go and I trust her judgment but I'm taking a look at this house anyway mainly because I just like to imagine what Britters might have thought as she went flouncing through here.

The home has five bedrooms and is located on a nice three-acre chunk of land which has been landscaped with waterfalls, koi ponds and fruit trees. Lovely stuff but perhaps a little tranquil sounding for a nightlife-loving young girl. Britney seems to like the Tuscan look as evidenced by her last real estate adventure in Beverly Hills. And it does have a celebrity pedigree. As Mr. Big Time reports, it was owned by Ray Liotta from 1995 to 2003 (he bought it for $2.25 million).

This home was built in the early 1990s and it's got a smidgen more character on the interior than other homes we have seen with this look. The current owners certainly have some interesting taste in art which must have captivated Brit and the entourage. And I am not quite sure what to make of the massive room with the huge bed, the foosball table and the pool table in it. The two marble master bathrooms seem to be a pop princess' dream (if a bit of an unsafe place to give the kiddies a bath). It is listed at $6.65 million.