Champ’s Westside match over

Pete Sampras has sold his Benedict Canyon home for $3 million, according to public records. The tennis champ had listed the Beverly Hills-area home in August 2003 at $3.75 million.

He had owned the house since 1998, a couple of years before he married Bridgette Wilson, who played the bride-to-be in “The Wedding Planner” (2001) and costarred in the action-thriller “Extreme Ops” (2002). The couple was married at the Benedict Canyon home in 2000. About two years later, they bought another Beverly Hills-area home in the mid-$8-million range.

The house Sampras sold has four bedrooms and four bathrooms in 5,000 square feet. The home is on about 1 1/2 acres, with a pool, at the end of a long, gated drive. There is, of course, a tennis court on the property.

Sampras had purchased the home for about $2.5 million from Kenny G. The saxophonist-songwriter had maintained a recording studio there. Sampras used it as a family room. The country-traditional house was built in 1976 and later remodeled.

After buying the house, Sampras, now 33, won the U.S. Open. As defending U.S. Open champion, he withdrew from the event in 2003. In August of that year, he retired as a professional tennis player and became an investor, partner and special consultant to Tennis magazine and tennis.com. Sampras had been one of the top three players in the world for nine years in a row. He won a record 13 Grand Slams.

Jordan Cohen of Re/Max Olson Estate Brokerage, Westlake Village, represented Sampras in the Benedict Canyon home sale, real estate sources said.

Design College founder lists home

Sabrina Kay, fashion designer and founder of California Design College, has listed her home in the gated Mid-Wilshire community of Fremont Place at about $2.7 million.

Kay has lived in the home since the end of 1999, when she completed refurbishing the house, which has five bedrooms and 4 1/2 bathrooms, including a guest apartment. The 3,800-square-foot home, built in 1923, also has a breakfast room, a wine cellar and air conditioning. Furnishings are available at extra cost.

Linda Morrow Hadley and Diana Knox of Coldwell Banker, Hancock Park, have the listing.

Production heads’ joint venture

Scott Aversano, president of production for Scott Rudin Productions and executive producer of the film “The Manchurian Candidate,” released in July, and Sherryl Clark, president of production at Kopelson Entertainment, have purchased a Beverly Hills-area home for $1.5 million.

The Country English-style home, built in 1945 but recently renovated, has three bedrooms and three bathrooms in slightly more than 3,000 square feet. The house, behind gates, also has a master suite with a 16-foot-high ceiling, a two-story entry with cobblestone flooring and a living room with a vaulted ceiling.

Janis Lynn Hoffman of Boardwalk Realty, Marina del Rey, represented the buyers.

Governor sells Palisades parcel

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and his wife, Maria Shriver, have sold the final parcel in their 5.3-acre Pacific Palisades compound. The selling price for the home, on nearly 1 1/4 acres with a pool, pool house and tennis court, was close to its $4.95-million asking price.

The compound had been listed about a year ago at nearly $18 million. Two of the parcels, including one with two houses, were sold recently to separate buyers. The two-house parcel sold for close to $7.95 million. The other, with one house, sold for about $3.4 million.

The Country English-style house that just sold has four bedrooms and six bathrooms in 5,700 square feet, plus paneled walls and beveled-glass windows.

The Schwarzeneggers moved in 2002 to a newly built Brentwood home they bought for $11.9 million. Now that he is governor, he lives at the Hyatt in Sacramento from Sunday to Thursday. He goes home to Brentwood on the weekends.

Rodrigo Iglesias of Coldwell Banker-Brentwood East handled both sides of the latest Pacific Palisades sale.

NBC exec buys in Westlake Village

Manuel Abud, vice president of NBC and general manager of Telemundo Los Angeles, and his wife, Angelica, have sold their Calabasas home for close to its $2-million asking price and purchased a Westlake Village residence for $1.25 million. Telemundo is the second-largest Spanish-language TV network in the U.S., and it is owned by NBC.

The Abuds’ new home is closer to where his speedboat is docked in Oxnard. The whole family goes boating, and they are thinking of buying a second, smaller boat for the lake near their new home. The house, built in 1988 and recently remodeled, has four bedrooms in slightly more than 3,500 square feet. It also has a step-down office and library, a pool and a spa.

Their former home, built in 1996, has five bedrooms in 4,600 square feet. It also has a pool, spa and tennis and sport court with basketball hoop and lights.

June Abramson of Coldwell Banker, Sherman Oaks, represented the Abuds in selling their home. She and Marge Young, in the same office, also represented them in their purchase. Mark Tyoran of Re/Max Olson, Westlake, represented the buyers of the Calabasas property. Anna Aarons and Andrea McCabe of Young Realtors had the Westlake Village listing.

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