Golden Age siren Jane Russell received her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960, at the same time as her Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) co-star Marilyn Monroe—their hand and footprints are in the forecourt of Graumann’s Chinese Theater—and in the 1970s and ’80s she was the ubiquitous spokesperson for Playtex bras and girdles.
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In 1985, the year before her last on-screen appearance in an episode of Hunter, she and her third and last husband, real estate broker John Peoples, bought a Santa Barbara estate that she sold for close to its $1.9 million asking price in 2000, the year following Peoples’ death. The property last changed hands in 2005 for $2.12 million, and now, the creekside compound has returned to market as an idyllic retreat with a Tinseltown pedigree at $8.25 million. Kate Blackwood and Santa Van Der Laarse at Compass share the listing.
The 1.25-acre spread is sequestered down a private lane and includes a 3,678-square-foot main residence and a separate one-bedroom guesthouse, plus a self-contained one-bed/one-bath apartment above the garage and a freestanding pool house with another kitchen and bath. Altogether, there are six bedrooms and four and a half bathrooms…