1991.12.29 - Los Angeles Times - Hot Property (Slash)

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HOT PROPERTY

Nell Leaves Hills for City

By RUTH RYON
TIMES STAFF WRITER

Actress/singer NELL CARTER, who played the boisterous housekeeper Nell Harper on the sitcom "Gimme a Break," has sold her home off Mulholland Drive in the Beverly Hills area to Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash.

Carter starred in the Long Beach Civic Light Operas production of “Hello. Dolly!" this fall and won a Tony a few years ago for her role in the production of "Ain’t Misbehavin’" at the Aquarius Theater in Hollywood.

She was recently divorced and wanted to move out of the hills and into town, a source said.

Slash, who is going on tour with Guns N’ Roses for a year and plans to lease his new home while he’s gone, bought Carter’s house for close to its asking price of $1.495,000, according to public records.

The gated home, on slightly more than an acre at the end of a long drive, has three bedrooms, maid's quarters and a large bonus room, all in about 4,000 square feet.

The bonus room has also been described as a media or recreation room. "The whole second floor is a party zone,” a source said.

Completed in 1964 but later remodeled, the house is a glass, post-and-beam contemporary with mountain-to-ocean and canyon views. The home also has a swimming pool and large courtyard.

Slash has been living in a Laurel Canyon house, which he plans to keep, sources say, for his pets: 16 snakes, eight cats and two Rottweilers.

Arleen Ruby of Prudential/Rodeo Realty, Beverly Hills, represented Slash, and Denny Kagasoff, Jon Douglas Co., represented Carter, but neither was available for comment.