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Comedy Central Comic Keeps His 17 Siblings In Mind With Move

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By RUTH RYON, Los Angeles Times

Published: February 16, 2008

LOS ANGELES - This is one of those celebrity deals that practically requires a scorecard.

Carlos Mencia, the wit behind Comedy Central's "Mind of Mencia," and his wife, Amy, have bought the Los Angeles home of actor Eddie Cibrian ("Saved by the Bell," "Third Watch," "Say It Isn't So," "The Cave") and his wife, Brandi, for nearly its asking price of $4.4 million.

Mencia, a stand-up comic in local hot spots since he was 19, wanted a larger house. The 40-year-old is the 17th of 18 children and apparently has a lot of company.

The Mencias liked the Encino neighborhood where they had been living, so they house-hunted there. What they found was the walled and gated Mediterranean-style home belonging to the 34-year-old Cibrian (one of People Magazine's 100 most beautiful people in 2006) and his wife, a model.

Now the Mencias are relocating to their new Encino home, which the Cibrians had refurbished from top to bottom before they put it on the market.

The residence, built in 1992, has six bedrooms and eight bathrooms in 8,500 square feet.

The house has a family room with a wet bar, a kitchen with two dishwashers, a banquet-sized dining room, a home theater with seating for 15 or more, a pool, a barbecue pavilion and a six-car garage, which could be used for four cars and a limo.

The Mencias decided to keep their former home for his family, and the Cibrians have moved to a gated community in Calabasas, north of Los Angeles.

Mencia's show, entering its fourth season, returns March 3.

Coach Heads To Work For Dolphins

Former UCLA head football coach Karl Dorrell has put his five-bedroom, three-bathroom home on the market at $1,125,000.

Dorrell, who played football for UCLA, where he was a wide receiver, is moving to Florida, where he has been hired as wide receiver coach for the NFL's Miami Dolphins. He was wide receiver coach for the Denver Broncos from 2000 to 2002, before spending five seasons at UCLA. He was fired in December.

His 3,500-square-foot house on a cul-de-sac in Stevenson Ranch, north of Los Angeles, was built in 2000 and has a pool, a large yard and an outdoor fireplace.

Cray To Work His New Ranch

Guitarist-songwriter Robert Cray and his wife, playwright and filmmaker Susan Turner-Cray, have sold their Los Angeles house and bought a 5-acre Santa Ynez Valley ranch.

The house in the Los Feliz section sold for nearly $3.5 million; the ranch was purchased for about $2 million.

The ranch, 35 miles north of Santa Barbara, has a barn with an adjoining guesthouse, horse corrals and gardens. The main house has three bedrooms and three bathrooms in 4,800 square feet. There is a second story with an office and a playroom.

Cray, a blues artist, plans to continue touring the world performing works from his albums "Live From Across the Pond" and "Twenty."

Cray, 54, and his Robert Cray Band collected five Grammy Awards in the 1980s and 1990s.

Turner-Cray was an Edinburgh Festival winner for her play "Manchester Girl," which she wrote and performed. She also wrote and directed "Through Riley's Eyes."

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