Pam Grier, 48, star of Quentin Tarantino's "Jackie Brown" (1997) and featured player in the new Showtime comedy series "Linc's," has just listed the Sherman Oaks house she shares with her live-in love, Kevin Evans and bought a Marina del Rey home, each for about $1.25 million.

Grier's career has taken a definite upward swing. Grier is also co-starring with Harvey Keitel and Kate Winslet in a new Jane Campion film, "Holy Smoke. " She first attained fame in the 1970s as the star of such movies as "Foxy Brown."

Grier and Evans plan to marry by the end of the year or in early 1999, citing as their reasons having a number of things in common, including the fact that they were both raised in Denver, were armed forces "brats" and seredipitously, shared the same childhood home when the Evans family purchased the Grier's home in 1981.

The Sherman Oaks home is a three-level contemporary on a hill boasting spectacular deck views of the San Fernando Valley and a swimming pool. It includes five bedrooms and four baths in approximately 5,700 square feet of living space.

Historical House of Murder Open for Garden Viewing

In Beverly Hills, it isn't just movie stars that commit murder. One notorious house of murder has been owned by the Beverly Hills Historical Society for more than 33 years.

Built in 1928 for Edward L. Doheny, son of L.A.'s first oil baron, the 55-room, 46,000-square-foot Tudor-style Greystone Mansion was a showplace. The estate, complete with stables, kennels, swimming pool, two tennis courts and English- and Italian-style gardens, cost $3.1 million in 1928, not counting the surrounding acreage and lavish gardens.

But, its unlucky owner lived there less than a year before he was shot and killed by his male secretary. The secretary then turned the gun on himself. The story is similar to the Hollywood movie and book of the same name, "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil."      

The house is closed to the public for all but one day a year, when the Beverly Hills Historical Society offers free tours to the public. The three gardens are open the rest of the year.

Published: August 26, 1998

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