Staging a Move From the Hills

Jason Priestley, who is appearing on the London stage this year in Warren Leight’s play “Side Man,” has sold his Hollywood Hills home for about its $1.8-million asking price.

The buyer is Nancy Miller, an executive producer and a co-creator of the Lifetime series “Any Day Now,” starring Annie Potts and Lorraine Toussaint. The show will return for a third season at 8 p.m. July 23

Priestley, 30, played Brandon Walsh in the Fox series “Beverly Hills, 90210” from 1990 to 1998.

After he left the series, he directed “Barenaked in America,” a documentary about the Canadian band Barenaked Ladies. He also starred in and directed a TV remake of the movie “Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye,” and he appeared with Ashley Judd and Ewan McGregor in the movie “Eye of the Beholder,” released in January.

The house he sold was built in 1929 and has four bedrooms in about 3,000 square feet, behind gates. The home also has a pool and city-to-ocean views.

Fred Henry at DBL, Sunset, had the listing; Boni Bryant of DBL, Los Feliz, represented Miller, sources said.

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Violinist Albert Stern has listed his Malibu home at just under $6 million.

Stern, who has played violin in Carnegie Hall and at the Western United States premiere of Paul McCartney’s “Liverpool Oratorio,” is selling his ocean-view estate on 5.5 acres because he isn’t there as often as he is in Europe or on his 65-acre California ranch, where he breeds racing horses.

Built by Stern in 1953, the gated 14,000-square-foot Malibu home has eight bedrooms, a gym-ballet studio, artist’s studio, media room, library, pool and equestrian center with a nine-stall barn. A 30-by-75-foot living room-concert salon was designed to have concert hall acoustics, and Stern has used it as a recording studio.

Bob Hurwitz of Hurwitz-James Co., Brentwood, has the listing.

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Model-actress Elizabeth Hurley, who recently broke up with actor Hugh Grant, just finished leasing a Beverly Hills home where she was staying while filming “Bedazzled,” which co-stars Brendan Fraser and is due out in August.

The house, which Hurley leased for three months, has been leased at various times by the band ‘N Sync, actress Mercedes Ruehl and singer Sarah Brightman.

Developer Bob Bisno is leasing the house now for 18 months at $9,000 a month. Bisno, whose TransAction Cos. is a development partner in the Water Garden II complex in Santa Monica, is leasing while building a home nearby.

Built in 1927, the five-bedroom villa is owned by former stage actress Bijou Durden, widow of Wally Durden, longtime manager of the Beverly Hills Hotel.

Michael Barton of Coldwell Banker Previews, Beverly Hills, had the listing, and Steve Levine of Hilton & Hyland represented Bisno in the lease, sources said.

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