Celebrities on the move
Amanda Donohoe has been looking for a flat since she sold her Los Angeles villa four years ago
Evening Standard Reporter5 April 2012
- It's murder finding a flat!Screen siren Amanda Donohoe is counting on the success of her new ITV cop series, Murder City, to re-establish herself on the London property ladder. "I've been homeless since I sold my Los Angeles villa four years ago," she tells me.
"At the moment I'm renting a great place in Hampstead. I would love to buy in the same area but prices are prohibitively expensive. I got burnt in the property crash back in 1989 and so must be careful."
The ever-controversial actress, who played a lesbian in the television series LA Law and stripped in the West End production of The Graduate, remains resolutely single, however. "I'm a bit of a loner," she muses.
- Fancy a footballer's lifestyle?Not even a character from ITV's Footballers' Wives would feel disgraced owning former Chelsea player Frank Leboeuf's five-bedroom mansion in Richmond. Four hundred yards from Richmond Park, it boasts five reception rooms and an indoor swimming pool. The former French World Cup player, who has two children, Hugo and Jade, with his wife Beatrice, is asking £1.85 million through John D Wood.
- Paparazzo snaps up guest-houseYou might think that London's top paparazzo, Richard Young, would buy his holiday home in St Tropez or Tuscany. Instead, he has chosen the bracing sea air of Felixstowe in Suffolk. "We've bought a 10-bedroom former guest-house overlooking the promenade," says Young, who is married to jewellery designer Susan Walker. In June, North Kensington-based Young celebrates 30 years of snapping celebrities, with a book, Shooting Stars, and a Covent Garden exhibition.
- Sale falls through for HeseltineBad news for writer Annabel Heseltine, daughter of former deputy prime minister Lord Heseltine. Last autumn she and her plastic surgeon husband, Peter Butler, put their five-bedroom Victorian house in Kensington on the market to move with their children to the country. They accepted an offer near their £4.45 million asking price. "The sale has fallen through and they've taken it off the market," says Knight Frank.
