Golf’s Mega-Star Is Taking a Shot at Beach Life

Tiger Woods, the No. 1 golfer in official world rankings, has purchased a newly built townhouse in Manhattan Beach for just under $1 million.

Woods became the Professional Golf Assn. player of the year in 1998 when he was 22. He won the 1997 Masters by a record 12 shots.

He lives primarily in Florida but stays in the Manhattan Beach townhouse when he’s in the Los Angeles area.

The townhouse has three bedrooms and 3 1/2 baths in 2,200 square feet. The contemporary-style home is a block from the ocean and has what was described as “an unblockable ocean view.”

John Altamura and Mark Appel of AA Development built the townhouse. Altamura, with South Bay Brokers, also was the listing broker; Appel, an architect, designed the townhouse.

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Actor Bruce Dern, who starred in February as a death-row inmate on the TNT movie “The Premonition,” and his wife, Andrea, have sold their Malibu home for about its $4.95-million asking price, said realty sources not involved in the deal.

The home was built in the 1920s by Oscar-winning director Frank Capra (“It’s a Wonderful Life,” “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington”). Dern, 62, won an Oscar nomination for his portrayal of a Vietnam veteran in “Coming Home” (1978). He is the father of actress Laura Dern.

The Derns sold their home of 25 years because they wanted a larger garden. The 6,100-square-foot house has four bedrooms, a greenhouse and 60 feet of beach frontage.

The house was listed with June Scott of June Scott Estates, a Coldwell Banker-Jon Douglas Co.; Mark Hess of Coldwell Banker, Beverly Hills; and Paula Reddish of Beverly Hills.

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Former “Partridge Family” star Danny Bonaduce and his wife, Gretchen, have purchased a newly built ocean-view home in the Hollywood Hills for $1 million.

Until December, when his station switched to an R&B; classics format, Bonaduce was a radio personality on WBIX-FM in New York.

“I’m moving to continue to do radio for Chancellor Media in L.A.,” he said. He wouldn’t elaborate, but executives of the company, which owns about eight L.A. stations as well as WBIX, have said that they plan to keep Bonaduce on their team.

Bonaduce, 39, was on “The Partridge Family” in the ‘70s. He started in radio in the late ‘80s. Since the Bonaduces were married nine years ago, he has appeared on radio in Chicago and Detroit as well as New York.

Their four-level home has five bedrooms, an elevator and four fireplaces in about 5,500 square feet.

“We’ll split the 800-square-foot [media] room, so half will be a theater and half will be a club, where we can sing karaoke,” he said.

Patrick Norman of Celebrity Properties, Beverly Hills, represented the Bonaduces.

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