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Palance ranch sells for $6.5 million
| Monday, May 12 2008 5:47 PM
Last Updated: Wednesday, May 14 2008 9:01 AM
Holly Brooke Ranch, Jack Palance’s spread in Cummings Valley, has changed hands.
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Milano Land & Cattle Co. LLC paid about $6.5 million for the bulk of the nearly 900-acre property southwest of Tehachapi on Banducci Road, county records indicate.
The company has a Bear Valley Springs address. Messages left for members Mark and Jessie Milano weren’t returned Monday.
State business records list Steve Farkas as the entity’s agent for service. Farkas is an attorney for Paramount Petroleum Corp., an asphalt manufacturer in Paramount. He was not available for comment Monday.
Jo Anne Huckins of the Cummings Valley Protective Association, a group that seeks to preserve the valley’s natural and agricultural beauty, said Monday that it’s her understanding the land’s status as a cattle ranch won’t change.
“The ranch itself has so much history and is such an integral part of Cummings Valley. We’re delighted to have it remain a ranch,” she said.
The property includes land that was once used by herders seeking respite for their sheep from the valley floor’s heat, Huckins said.
Palance bought the ranch in 1964 and named it after his two daughters, Holly and Brooke.
The late actor visited the ranch nearly every day to paint, write and wander the hills, his wife, Elaine Palance, said in an October 2007 interview.
Many of her husband’s belongings were auctioned at the ranch last fall.
Palance died in 2006, at age 87.
The legendary performer won a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award in 1991 for his role as Curly Washburn in “City Slickers,” and was nominated for earlier roles in “Shane” and “Sudden Fear”.
— Californian staff writer Gretchen Wenner contributed to this report.