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Steven Seagal sells essential oils farm

01:00 AM EDT on Saturday, July 7, 2007

By CHRISTINA S.N. LEWIS

The Wall Street Journal

Movie-action hero Steven Seagal has sold a 995-acre northern California farm he used to produce his line of aromatherapy oils, but he’s keeping the much larger ranch across the road.

Seagal sold the farm for about $2.5 million to rock musician Ando Hixson. The property, in Montague, 30 miles south of Oregon, had been listed for a year and a half for $3 million.

The actor paid just under $700,000 for the farm in 1999, public records show. There, Seagal grew lavender and other plants, then distilled them to use in his product line of organic oils, Diamond Lotus Essentials. The farm has a manager’s residence, a distillery, a hay barn and about 400 irrigated acres.

Seagal, 46, starred in a number of popular 1990s films featuring martial arts, such as Under Siege and Exit Wounds. He plans to keep the oils business but wanted to get out of the farming operations, according to the co-listing agent, Billy Long, of Ranch Marketing Associates. Seagal has no plans to sell his ranch residence across the road, a 7,000-acre spread called Lava Lakes, which he bought in the late 1990s, Long says.

Hixson, the buyer, played in Duke & the Drivers, a band started in the 1970s. The musician plans to expand the farming operation, Long says. Hixson couldn’t be reached for comment.

Til Death co-star Joely Fisher is offering her Los Angeles home for just under $4.3 million, down from her first price of $4.75 million set in early May.

The Encino property of about three-quarters of an acre includes a four-bedroom modern main house and two guest houses totaling about 4,500 square feet of enclosed space and a pool. Fisher, 39, and her cinematographer husband, Christopher Duddy, paid $3.5 million for the property less than two years ago and made some renovations and additions. Fisher stars on Fox’s Til Death, a sitcom where she plays one-half of an embittered married couple. Her parents are Connie Stevens and singer Eddie Fisher; her half-sister, the actress Carrie Fisher.

In Beverly Hills, actress Sharon Stone has relisted her roughly 8,000-square-foot home on nearly five acres for $11.5 million, $1 million less than what she was asking a year ago. Jory Burton, of Sotheby’s International Realty, Beverly Hills, has both the Fisher and Stone listings.

The family of John J. Donovan Sr., whose feud made headlines last year, is asking $6 million for a three-bedroom house on 3.5 acres on the North Shore of Massachusetts and $5.9 million for a house on 1.8 acres across the street.

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