She’ll Work Her Magic on New Los Feliz Home

Beth Broderick, who has played Aunt Zelda on the ABC series “Sabrina, the Teenage Witch” since it began airing in 1996, has sold her Los Feliz home for $800,000 and purchased another house nearby that she is refurbishing.

“I love Los Feliz,” she said. “I couldn’t leave it.”

Broderick, who also appears in the upcoming black-comedy movie “Psycho Beach Party,” is a founding director of Momentum, a New York City organization that helps people with AIDS and HIV, and she was a founding member of an L.A. Mission program that helps homeless women.

She owned her former home for two years. Built in 1962, the house, which she updated, has two bedrooms in about 1,600 square feet.

Built in the late ‘20s, her new home is slightly larger but also has two bedrooms. “I am doing a major remodel,” she said. The house has two fireplaces and a pool.

The actress, 41, sold her former home, with a pool and city views, to first-time home buyer Michael Thelan, 30. He is vice president of Windsor Media, headed by former Warner Bros. Co-Chairman Terry Semel.

Ryan Fitzgerald of Fred Sands Estates, Beverly Hills, represented Broderick in her sale and purchase; attorney Mark Rosenberg represented Thelan.

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Neil Patrick Harris, who co-starred in the NBC sitcom “Stark Raving Mad” and appeared in the movie “The Next Best Thing,” has sold his Sherman Oaks home for $570,000.

Harris, 27, gained fame in the TV series “Doogie Howser, M.D.” (1989-93). He played King Charles VII in the ’99 miniseries “Joan of Arc.”

Harris had owned his three-bedroom, 2,000-square-foot home in the foothills for about nine years. The house was built in 1940. Harris moved in the fall to another house that he owns in the L.A. area.

Monty Iceman of Gibson Realtors, Studio City, had the listing.

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Judge Joseph A. Wapner, the Superior Court judge who ruled “The People’s Court” TV show for 12 years starting in 1981, and his wife, Mickey, have sold their Bel-Air home of 35 years for about its $1.2-million asking price.

The Wapners will move in August to a Century City condo that they bought in June for $1.45 million.

The judge’s “Animal Court,” which premiered in 1998, is shown on cable TV. His wife wrote the book “Women at Risk of Heart Attack” (Pangloss Press, 1997). Proceeds from the sale of the book benefit research into female stress and heart disease.

Built in 1962, their 4,000-square-foot Bel-Air home has three bedrooms, a den, a family room, library and two fireplaces. It also has a pool and spa.

Sid Kibrick of Nourmand & Associates, Beverly Hills, had the listing on the Wapners’ house. Kibrick played Woim in “Our Gang” shorts of the ‘30s.

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