Olympian to Make Tracks

JACKIE JOYNER-KERSEE and her husband, BOB KERSEE, are selling the Canoga Park home that they bought during the 1988 Olympics, when she won her first gold medals.

The track star, who is in training for the Indoor World Championships in Toronto March 12-14 and plans to compete in the 1996 Olympics, won gold medals in the heptathlon at the Olympics last year and in 1988, when she also won the long jump.

“Now she’s becoming more of a businesswoman,” said Kersee, who not only coaches his 30-year-old wife but is also the head track coach for women at UCLA. Joyner-Kersee just started a sports management and marketing company in St. Louis, “mainly connecting athletic celebrities with corporate America,” her husband explained.

Although she was graduated from UCLA, Joyner-Kersee grew up in East St. Louis, Ill., where she still works out, when she can, with the girls’ track team at her high school. She also has a charitable foundation that operates out of St. Louis.

“We purchased a home there that will allow her to travel easier between October and January, when she’s not in training,” Kersee said. “We train here from January to June, and from July on, we’re in and out of L.A. through January.

“So we decided that instead of two houses, we’d move a lot of our stuff back there and keep a small town home here.” They haven’t yet purchased a town house but probably will stay in the San Fernando Valley, he said, because “I used to coach at Cal State Northridge, and I always liked the valley.”

Their Canoga Park house, which was newly built when they bought it two years after they were married, has four bedrooms and three baths in about 2,500 square feet. It also has a sun room with a spa.

The home is listed at $365,000 with Ron and Jennette Jones at Gateway Financial Services Group in Torrance.

JERRY SEINFELD has sold his West Hollywood condo and is about ready to move to the Hollywood Hills house he bought last summer.

The TV sitcom star/stand-up comic, who is a bachelor, sold his condo to a Westside attorney, who is also a bachelor, for close to its $290,000 asking price. Seinfeld bought his Hollywood Hills home for nearly $3 million. He also has a place in New York.

The condo was his home when he was in Los Angeles for about six years. The three-level unit, in a small complex, has soaring ceilings, a wood-burning fireplace and an outdoor area with views of the city and the St. James’ Club on Sunset Strip.

Patricia Hodson of Dalton, Brown & Long represented the buyer, and Colleen McAuley of Prudential Realty represented Seinfeld.

Screenwriters LESLIE DIXON and TOM ROPELEWSKI have bought a Beverly Hills home that was built for auto dealer Earle C. Anthony in 1909 by brothers Charles and Henry Greene, architects renowned for their expensive, Craftsman-style homes, mostly in Pasadena.

Dixon is best known for her work on “Outrageous Fortune” (1987), co-starring Bette Midler and Shelley Long, and “Overboard” (1987), co-starring Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn.

The 4,200-square-foot house was built at Wilshire Boulevard and Berendo Street but was moved to its current site after it was purchased by film star Norman Kerry in 1923.

“We had no desire to move ever again but we went to see the house for fun, and my husband and I got the bug. The next thing you know, our life’s savings went out the window,” Dixon said of the home, which sold for about $1.7 million. “It never occurred to me that we’d own a Greene & Greene house; I was just hoping to own a piece of Greene & Greene furniture.”

The couple, who plan to move into their new home in a month or two after refinishing the floors, have listed their 3,700-square-foot, Hollywood Hills home at $695,000. She and her husband restored the interiors after buying the house seven years ago.

Tony Shultz and Judi Smythe of Fred Sands’ Hollywood Hills office share the $695,000 listing; Geneal Arnoult of Sands’ Studio City office represented the screenwriters in buying their new home, and Carole Sukman of Rodeo Realty represented the sellers.

Actress/singer CONSTANCE MOORE, who made her screen debut in 1938 and appeared in a number of movies as well as on Broadway, and her husband/agent Johnny Maschio--who once represented such stars as John Wayne, Humphrey Bogart, Lana Turner and Marilyn Monroe--have put their Beverly Hills-area home of 23 years on the market.

Built in 1963, the three-bedroom home, plus maid’s quarters, has city and ocean views. It’s listed at $649,000 with Miriam Burby and Nancy and Nanda Hinds, all of Jon Douglas Co., Beverly Hills. The three agents recently sold the John Barrymore estate in the same area for what other sources said was close to its $6-million asking price.