TV’s Josh Duhamel sells Brentwood home

What happens in Vegas may stay in Vegas, but what happened in the homeownership life of Josh Duhamel, a star of the TV series "Las Vegas" and the upcoming summer movie "Transformers," hasn't stayed in Brentwood.

That's where the 34-year-old actor sold his home of 2 1/2 years for close to the asking price of $2.4 million.

There were multiple offers. The buyer is a business executive with residences in New York, Hong Kong and, now, Los Angeles.

Duhamel listed the 2,500-square-foot house because he wanted larger quarters. The contemporary-style home has skylights and a wall of glass facing the ocean. There are canyon, city, mountain and pool views.

The three-bedroom house, built in 1956, has been updated and has a kitchen with a center island, a wet bar and a dramatic backyard with a spa and an infinity pool.

Duhamel did a lot of the renovation and landscaping work himself, having learned some things about carpentry and making other home improvements while growing up in North Dakota.

The actor plays Danny McCoy in "Las Vegas" and Captain Lennox in the Michael Bay-directed "Transformers," due out June 27 in L.A.

ESPN analyst scores big

with search for dream home

Steve Lavin, former UCLA head basketball coach turned ESPN and ABC college basketball analyst, has listed his Newport Beach home at close to $4 million.

Lavin, 42, wants to buy in Brentwood or Corona del Mar. He's also exploring the market for a second home in his hometown of San Francisco.

The sports analyst is planning to marry actress Mary Ann Jarou in August.

The house he is selling is Old World Tuscan in style and has four bedrooms, 4 1/2 baths and Italian gardens. It also has three masonry fireplaces, a bonus room and hand-molded clay roof tiles. It was built in 2004.

"Fired" apprentice fires up

restaurant, new home plans

Donald Trump may have rattled attorney Kristine Lefebvre when he said, "You're fired," just before this season's finale of "The Apprentice" on NBC.

Lefebvre quickly recovered, however, when she got a phone call from Hugh Hefner asking her to appear on the cover of the June issue of Playboy. She accepted the offer.

More good fortune followed when Lefebvre and her husband, chef Ludovic Lefebvre -- formerly of L'Orangerie, which shut its doors, and Bastide, which is closed for renovations -- sold their four-bedroom, 3 1/2-bath Studio City home, with its open floor plan and valley views, for about $1.5 million.

Now the couple are looking for a new home and a new restaurant. Ludovic Lefebvre, author of the bestselling cookbook "Crave," is scouting locations and hopes to open a restaurant of his own by year's end.