Hitter Touches Base on 2 Coasts

New York Yankees outfielder DANNY TARTABULL has purchased a home in Malibu for about $2.5 million, sources say.

Tartabull, one of the best power hitters in baseball, is in the second year of his five-year, $25.5-million contract with the Yankees. He, his wife Kellie and their three children have been bi-coastal for some time, with homes in New Jersey and Malibu.

“He loves Malibu and just wanted a larger house there,” said co-selling agent Clive Egdes of Jon Douglas Co.’s Studio City office.

Tartabull, 31, bought a former Malibu Showcase House, with seven bedrooms in nearly 9,000 square feet. The hillside home, built a couple of years ago, has an ocean view from every room and an underwater view of its swimming pool from a window in the changing room.

The 2,700-square-foot master suite occupies the entire third level of the home, and it has two conversation areas and a marble fireplace. There is a circular entry-courtyard on the grounds with a fountain and flower gardens.

Tartabull has had plans since the spring of 1992 to build an 11-bedroom, 27,000-square-foot home on three acres in Rancho Santa Fe Farms, with a batting cage, water slide, indoor/outdoor pool and 11-foot-deep saltwater aquarium with a net separating sharks and swans.

“He still has his property down there, and it might be where he eventually retires and builds,” Egdes said.

Tartabull leased out his former Malibu home for six months, at $5,000 a month, to some victims of the Northridge earthquake. Egdes and Paul Skikne, of the Douglas Co.’s Brentwood office, represented Tartabull in leasing out his home and buying the new one.

Jim and Bobette Halverson of Jon Douglas Co., Malibu, and Myra Nourmand of Nourmand & Associates, Beverly Hills, represented the sellers of the home that Tartabull just bought. The sellers built the home for themselves, then decided to sell it.

The Malibu retreat of DINAH SHORE, who died at 76 in February in her Beverly Hills home, has come on the market at $4.5 million.

“It’s as cheery and sunny as you would expect of this lovely lady,” said Carol Rapf of Jim Rapf & Associates, who co-listed the home with Jerry and Jack Pritchett of Pritchett Realty. Both firms are in Malibu.

Shore, who earned nine gold records and 10 Emmys as well as a Peabody, had a succession of TV shows from the 1950s until the 1990s. Known for years as “TV’s reigning Southern songbird,” the Tennessee-born entertainer hosted musical, variety and talk shows.

She bought the Malibu home from director George Seaton in 1978. Seaton, who died in 1979, directed the films “Miracle on 34th Street,” “Charley’s Aunt” and “Airport.”

Built in 1962 and later remodeled by Shore, the 4,500-square-foot house, which has an elevator and media room, has a guest wing with three bedrooms and three baths in addition to a master suite that occupies the entire second floor, except for a small artist’s studio.

The home, which has 42 feet of beachfront, has a dining area on the ocean side of the house. Shore loved to cook and did so often on her talk shows.

Her Malibu home also has a dining area off the kitchen that has a large round table, built by actor George Montgomery, with a Lazy Susan in the middle. Montgomery, who was married to Shore for 18 years until they divorced in the 1960s, was at her side, with their two grown children, when she died.

Singer/songwriter MELISSA ETHERIDGE, who won a Grammy last year for her rock song “Ain’t It Heavy,” has purchased a Hollywood Hills home for about $1.3 million, public records show.

Etheridge bought the house from Edward R. Pressman, co-producer of the Jack Nicholson film “Hoffa” and the late Brandon Lee film “The Crow.” Pressman bought a home in Santa Monica last year for slightly more than $3 million.

The hacienda-style, walled and gated home that Etheridge purchased has four bedrooms in about 3,000 square feet, and was built in 1933.

TERENCE YOUNG--who directed such James Bond films as “Dr. No,” “From Russia With Love” and “Thunderball”--has put his villa in France on the market. It is for sale at $4 million and for lease, during the Cannes Film Festival this Thursday through May 23, at $2,000 a day.

The house has seven bedrooms and baths, a pool house, 10 phones and a security system. The villa is on an acre with ocean views, one mile from the beach and center of Cannes.

Young, 78, maintains his residence in France but has had homes in London, Beverly Hills and Switzerland, said Mike Silverman of Mike Silverman Estates, a Jon Douglas Co. Silverman shares the listing with Ron De Salvo of Douglas Estates, Beverly Hills.