LOS ANGELES _ After spending much of the last year changing spots in Santa Barbara County, Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi are turning their attention back to L.A.
In recent weeks, the entertainment power couple has bought a Beverly Hills home steeped in Old Hollywood history for $15 million. They've also quietly sold another home in the area for $35 million, records show.
The home they just bought _ a Hollywood Regency designed by architect-to-the-stars John Elgin Woolf and built in 1962 _ was the longtime home of late actress and philanthropist Marjorie Lord. Lord was best known for her role as wife to Danny Thomas' character in "Make Room for Daddy" as well as the spinoff "Make Room for Granddaddy."
After Lord's death in 2015, the property came up for sale in 2016 and sold for $8.3 million. It has since been restored by Los Angeles-based design firm Marmol Radziner.
Now polished to a fine sheen, the single-story house boasts scaled formal rooms, web-patterned wood ceilings and original Pullman entry doors. A circular foyer sits beyond the entry. Floor-to-ceiling windows in nearly every room take in city-to-ocean views.
The 5,100 square feet of living space also holds a reimagined kitchen with a skylight-topped island, a breakfast nook, a family room and a den/office.
The curving design of the house encapsulates private courtyards for each of the five bedrooms and 4.5 bathrooms. A covered patio lined with columns, a barbecue and a small swimming pool complete the grounds.
The home DeGeneres and De Rossi sold sits on about three-quarters of an acre. It has four bedrooms, eight bathrooms and nearly 6,000 square feet of living space, tax records show. The couple had owned the property for about three years.
The other property was sold off-market to Sue Gross, the ex-wife of billionaire investor Bill Gross.
DeGeneres, 60, has won multiple Emmys for "The Ellen DeGeneres Show," which premiered in 2003.
Last year she co-created and produced the show "Little Big Shots" with Steve Harvey.
De Rossi, 45, has television credits that include the legal drama "Ally McBeal" and the sitcom "Arrested Development."
