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BURT REYNOLDS has leased a Bel-Air home for three months at $20,000 a month while he is in town shooting the first of three TV movies in which he will star, sources say.

The actor, who will play an ex-cop who is an ex-con, is also directing the movie, called “Hard Times.” It is due to air on TNT during the 1998-99 season.

Reynolds, who lives primarily in Florida, leased a five-bedroom, 5,200-square-foot house behind gates. The lease includes a housekeeper and furnishings, sources say.

Built in 1939, the house has a master suite with a fireplace, projection room, paneled office and balcony overlooking a pool, spa and park-like grounds.

The star of such movies as “Smokey and the Bandit” (1977), “The Cannonball Run” (1968) and their sequels won a Golden Globe award and Oscar nomination this year as best supporting actor for his role in “Boogie Nights.”

He stars in and co-produced “Big City Blues,” a black comedy screened at the WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival in April. The same month, he appeared in his first commercial for Elizabeth Taylor’s White Diamonds fragrance.

Reynolds, 62, won an Emmy as outstanding lead actor in a comedy series, starring in the CBS sitcom “Evening Shade” (1990-94).

Elaine Young and Barbara Eisner of DBL Realtors in Beverly Hills represented Reynolds in the lease, and Rick Hilton and Jeff Hyland of Hilton & Hyland in Beverly Hills had the listing, other sources said.

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The Holmby Hills home of the late LILLIAN and WALT DISNEY has been sold at close to its $8.9-million asking price to an investor with business connections in California and Mexico, sources say. Escrow closed last week.

The buyer is expected to expand the 5,000-square-foot house to accommodate his family and staff. Built about 1950 for the Disneys, the five-bedroom house sits on 2.6 acres of manicured lawns and flower gardens, behind gates.

The home came on the market for the first time in April. Walt died in 1966. Lillian died in December at 98.

Don Ellis at John Aaroe & Associates, Beverly Hills, had the listing.

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MILLA JOVOVICH, a rising star since she appeared in last summer’s sci-fi thriller “The Fifth Element” with Bruce Willis, has purchased a Hollywood home for about $800,000, sources say.

The actress-model co-stars with Denzel Washington in Spike Lee’s just-released “He Got Game.”

Jovovich, 22, married Luc Besson, “The Fifth Element” director, in December. Besson plans to direct her in the title role of “Joan of Arc,” to start filming in June. Her first starring role was in “Return to the Blue Lagoon” (1991).

She was born in the Ukraine but moved with her family to California when she was 5. At 12, she was named as one of Revlon’s Most Unforgettable Women in the World. More recently, she has been the international representative of L’Oreal.

Jovovich bought a five-bedroom, 6,000-square-foot villa with city views and a pool. The house was built in the 1960s.

Galina Blackman at Celebrity Properties, Beverly Hills, represented both sides of the real estate transaction.

A bay-front Newport Beach house has been sold at its asking price of $10 million, making it one of the highest home sales recorded in Orange County, sources say.

Built in 1965 on Lido Isle, the seven-bedroom, nine-bath house is on three lots and has a pool and a pier on Newport Harbor large enough for a 120-foot-plus yacht. The home also has a sandy beach.

The house is 10,000 square feet and also has a 3,500-square-foot basement, designed for yacht maintenance and storage.

The buyer, a manufacturer/designer of airplane parts, bought the property as a second home, sources said. The seller was the widow of a businessman who died about eight years ago. The couple had owned the home since it was built for them.

John McMonigle of Coast Newport Properties in Newport Beach had the listing, and Robert Giem, of the same office, represented the buyer, other sources said.

A five-bedroom estate with a sunken tennis court on 2.3 acres near the Sunset Strip has been listed at $16 million.

The house was built in the early 1990s on the site of the Sunset Plaza Apartments, once the home of such film stars as Carole Lombard and Katharine Hepburn. Built in 1938, the 25-unit, Paul Williams-designed complex was bulldozed in 1987.

The house has a large motor court and gardens; two dining rooms; a library, wine cellar, media center; and soaring, inlaid-wood ceilings.

The estate was put up for sale because its owners have relocated, sources say.

Joan Gardner of Coldwell Banker-Jon Douglas Co., Westwood, has the listing.

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ANNIE CHALLIS, recently named president of Stiefel Entertainment Management (with such clients as rock stars Rod Stewart and Scott Weiland), has sold her two-bedroom, English-style cottage in the Beverly Hills area.

The house was purchased by first-time home buyer Anne Lewis, who moved to L.A. from New York to produce “Access Hollywood.” She was formerly a writer, director and field producer for “Entertainment Tonight.”

Built in 1936, the home, which sold for about $700,000, was designed around an English country garden, sources say.

Lewis was represented by Debbie Hovsepian of Fred Sands Palos Verdes Realty. Challis, who bought a larger home, was represented in her sale and purchase by Debra Moore of Coldwell Banker-Jon Douglas Co., Beverly Hills, sources said.