Star-Studded Ranchland

JOHN FORSYTHE, who won two Golden Globe awards for Best Actor as Denver oil magnate Blake Carrington in the long-running ABC nighttime-soap “Dynasty,” and his wife, Julie, have purchased a home in the Santa Ynez Valley, about 30 miles north of Santa Barbara.

The couple, who will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary in December, bought a 30-acre ranch with a one-story, rambling home for about $1.6 million. Some of the celebrities who own ranches nearby are Michael Jackson, Fess Parker, James Garner and John and Bo Derek.

Forsythe, who plans to be in the Santa Ynez Valley between TV and film projects, most recently played Sen. William Powers in Norman Lear’s comedy series “The Powers That Be,” which aired on NBC until January.

He was the voice of Charlie on “Charlie’s Angels” and starred in the TV series “Bachelor Father.” He has three adult children and six grandchildren.

“Our grandchildren love it up there,” said Forsythe’s wife about their ranch and surrounding area. She is overseeing a refurbishing and expansion of the 3,000-square-foot ranch house, built about 40 years ago for the Pillsbury food-manufacturing family.

Among her additions is a solarium like the one she created in their L.A.-area home. She’s also having a bedroom built onto a small guest house. “And we’ll probably put in a tennis court,” she said. Her husband is an avid tennis player and also owns and races thoroughbred horses.

“We have a barn with a couple of horses up there already,” she continued. “And we’ll have raspberries, oranges and apples . . . we’ll also have a chance to grow all those organic vegetables we love. We’re looking forward to being among the flowers and the trees.”

They don’t expect to move there until September unless they sell their Pacific Palisades home sooner. Priced at $3.9 million, the English manor-style house, with four bedrooms and a 40-foot-long living room in about 6,000 square feet, was built for them in 1983.

W. T. Hayer of Solvang had the listing on the Forsythes’ new home, and the Forsythes were represented by Wally Wolf of Hanson Land & Livestock Co. Delphine Mann of Jon Douglas Co., Beverly Hills, and Phyllis Avery of the firm’s Brentwood office share the Palisades listing.

Actor STEVEN SEAGAL (“Under Siege”) and his wife, actress Kelly LeBrock (“The Woman in Red,” “Weird Science”) have put their Santa Ynez Valley ranch on the market at $5.9 million.

The 178-acre ranch, which they bought in 1990, has a four-bedroom main house; two-bedroom maid’s quarters; guest house with a gym/office; a foreman’s house, 50-acre vineyard, martial-arts facility, horse barn, horse-exercise pool and long lanes of cottonwood trees.

Kerry Mormann of Santa Barbara and David Mossler and Bill Long, both of Mossler Deasy & Doe in Beverly Hills, share the listing.

DOUGLAS CRAMER--who co-produced such TV shows as “Hotel,” “Dynasty” and “The Love Boat” before turning Danielle Steel’s novels (“Heartbeat,” “Secrets,” “Daddy”) into TV movies--is selling a 40-acre farm that he bought in the early 1980s.

The farm is part of Cramer’s 200-acre, Santa Ynez Valley holdings, which include his home and private museum, where he keeps much of his modern-art collection. He’s selling the farm because his family doesn’t use it anymore.

The farm--where he keeps miniature ostriches, sheep and horses--is for sale at $1.1 million with W. T. Hayer, T. Hayer & Associates, Solvang.

WESTERLY, the 31-room Santa Ynez Valley mansion that sat half-built for nearly 20 years before its current owners finished it, is on the market at $4.8 million.

It was first listed for sale in 1991 at $7.9 million. The replacement value was estimated at $8 million, say its owners, but they are ready to move on.

“The house called out for us to finish it,” said Lois Landau, who owns it with her husband, Kenneth. “When Ken came out to see it, it was a boarded-up shell.” Fletcher Jones, the financial wizard behind Computer Sciences Corp., was building it for himself when he was killed in a plane crash.

Ken Landau installed the plumbing and electrical systems and did all the rest of the finish work in the 24,000-square-foot house, which is on 101 acres, with a pool and two tennis courts. Diana Anderson of Fred Sands’ Santa Ynez Valley Properties in Solvang shares the listing with Lois Landau, who is with Sands’ Montecito office.

On another 100-acre parcel that was originally part of Fletcher Jones’ 3,600-acre Santa Ynez Valley property, attorney Donald Petroni, a partner with O’Melveny & Myers, and his wife, Ann, are just completing their retreat.

The Mission-style, 10,000-square-foot house has four bedrooms, a cupola and two kitchens. “My husband loves to cook,” his wife said. The Petronis’ main residence is in Bel-Air.