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Crow ready to fly from Hollywood Hills

Grammy-winning singer Sheryl Crow has listed her compound in Hollywood Hills West at $15.95 million.

Grammy-winning singer Sheryl Crow has listed her compound in Hollywood Hills West at $15.95 million.

The 11-acre property includes a Spanish Revival main house, a 1909 Craftsman, a cottage built in 1885, an infinity-style swimming pool and a pergola with a fireplace and barbecue.

The main residence, built in 1914, features a two-storey foyer with wrought-iron stair railings, a step-down living room, original Spanish tiles, beam ceilings, a library, a wine cellar, a music room, four bedrooms and 3 1 /2 bathrooms.

Crow, 50, has sold more than 35 million albums.

Among her Grammy-winning songs are There Goes the Neighborhood, Sweet Child o' Mine and All I Wanna Do.

ONE LESS THING TO MANAGE

Actor Selma Blair has sold her house in Hollywood for $1.85 million.

The single-storey home, built in 1922 and updated to a contemporary style, features white wood floors, walls of glass, two fireplaces, three bedrooms and 3 1 /2 bathrooms in 2,918 square feet.

The gated property includes a patio area and a koi pond.

Blair, 40, stars with Charlie Sheen in the FX series Anger Management. Production of new episodes began in September and the comedy will return to the network in January. Her film work includes Homeland Security (2008), Purple Violets (2007), Hellboy (2004) and Legally Blonde (2001).

Blair bought the house in 2004 for $1.315 million, public records show.

TRIPLEX BOASTS STELLAR FORMER TENANTS

A triplex in West Hollywood that has counted film star Marilyn Monroe and singer Frank Sinatra among its former tenants has come on the market at $4.75 million.

Monroe's and Sinatra's rentals overlapped in 1961. She lived in hers and he used his apartment as a getaway, according to Mr. S: My Life With Frank Sinatra, written by George Jacobs, his valet at the time.

The owner is Beverly Coburn, actor James Coburn's first wife. She bought the building in 1989 for $1.643 million from interior designer Kalef Alaton, who had remodelled it.

There are a total of four bedrooms and six bathrooms in 5,637 square feet of living space.

MANILOW GETS A WINNING OFFER

Someone must have written the offer that made Barry Manilow sing. The crooner-pianist-producer has sold his beachfront compound in Malibu for $5.45 million.

Built in 1976, the gated contemporary sits on a promontory with a detached guesthouse.

Features include a step-down two-storey living room with walls of glass to take in the ocean view, vaulted ceilings, five bedrooms, 4 1 /2 bathrooms and 3,546 square feet of living space.

Manilow, 69, is a prolific song and ad-jingle writer. He won a pop vocal Grammy in 1978 for Copacabana (at the Copa). Among his hit recordings were Mandy, Could It Be Magic and I Write the Songs.

He paid $3.85 million for the property a decade ago, public records show.

ACTOR MILLER PLOTS A BREAKOUT

Wentworth Miller, the star of Prison Break, has sold a condo in Hancock Park and now is trying to make a break from his Altadena neighbourhood, listing his house at $1.59 million.

The Mission Revival-style home, built in 1910, is set on more than three-quarters of an acre. The master suite takes up the entire second floor of the 4,558-square-foot house, which has a total of three bedrooms and four bathrooms.