In Malibu, Maybe He’s Found What He’s Looking For

The guitarist Edge, who co-founded Irish rock band U2 with Bono in 1978, has purchased a home in Malibu for $2 million.

Built in the ‘30s, the house has two bedrooms and four baths in nearly 4,000 square feet. The home also has a pool.

Edge, 39, whose real name is Dave Evans, grew up in Ireland but was the son of Welsh parents. The four members of the multiple Grammy-winning U2 began their careers in the studios and the pubs of Dublin. Edge and Bono changed their names the year they started the band, which was first known as Feedback, then the Hype and finally, in 1980, U2, for the name of the Cold War spy plane.

Edge and his bandmates recently released the album “All That You Can’t Leave Behind.”

Judy Leach of DBL, Beverly Hills, represented Edge in his purchase; Melanie Trivette and Margaret Hauptman of Coldwell Banker, Malibu, had the listing.

Thomas Sawyer, head writer for the Angela Lansbury series “Murder, She Wrote” (1992-1996), and his wife, Holly, have purchased a three-bedroom farmhouse in Sakonnet, R.I., for $850,000.

The Sawyers, who have four children and three cats, will continue to maintain the Malibu home where they have lived for the last 23 years.

Their colonial-style, 3,100-square-foot farmhouse was built in 1842.

Sawyer’s first novel, “The Sixteenth Man,” based on the Kennedy assassination, will be published in trade paperback by iUniverse.com in January.

A Claremont house that was owned by George Charles Sumner Benson, founding president of Claremont Men’s College, now known as Claremont McKenna College, has been sold for $320,000.

Benson, who died at 91 in March 1999, was the third generation of his family to take a leading part in the Claremont colleges. His grandfather, Charles Burt Sumner, was a founder of Pomona College. His uncle, George Stedman Sumner, was controller and professor of economics at Pomona College.

Benson also was a high-ranking Pentagon official during the Vietnam War.

Upon his death, his estate gifted the home back to the college, which has sold it to architect Marta Perlas and her husband, graphic artist Kipp Kobayashi. Perlas teaches at Cal Poly Pomona.

Designed by architect Theodore Criley, the house was built in about 1955 and has three bedrooms in 1,700 square feet. Its post-and-beam construction includes vaulted ceilings, walls of glass and extensive woodwork.

Geoff T. Hamill had the listing, at $337,500, with Coldwell Banker, Claremont.

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