Newlywed actress and model Milla Jovovich, the weapon-toting glammando from the Resident Evil films, has sold a Beverly Hills Post Office area home for $2.75 million.

Although she lived in the John Woolf-designed, Hollywood Regency-style home for a couple of years after her 2001 purchase, the Ukraine-born cover girl with the striking eyes more recently had been renting it out.

The 3,582-square-foot home, with four bedrooms and four bathrooms, sits on about 1.2 acres at the end of a cul-de-sac. The master bedroom suite has a sitting room, a two-sided fireplace, dual bathrooms and spacious walk-in closets. At the back of the house, glass doors face a clover-shaped pool with a spa and provide canyon and city views.

The house, built in 1975, came on the market in February at $3,299,000. Public records show she paid $1.8 million for it.

Jovovich, 33, and director-writer Paul W.S. Anderson, 44, were married last month in an outdoor ceremony at another home she owns in the Los Angeles area.

Anderson, a director, producer and writer for the Resident Evil sci-fi thriller films, met Jovovich when they worked on the first of the series together. BING CROSBY ONCE

LIVED ON THE GROUNDS

Still referred to as the Bing Crosby Estate, an L.A. home that has had a succession of Hollywood owners is listed at $10 million.

The singer and actor lived on the property in the Toluca Lake section from 1936 until early January 1943, when the 20-room house there was gutted in a Christmas tree fire, according to Los Angeles Times news reports. The damage to the structure and its contents was estimated at $200,000, and the family's cocker spaniel, a complete collection of Crosby's recordings, his golf trophies and his pipe collection were lost.

Crosby, who was golfing at the time of the fire, said he felt fortunate that his wife, Dixie Lee, and their four sons escaped injury.

His film stand-in Leo Lynn and his brother Larry Crosby helped sift through the ruins and found $2,000 in the pocket of one of Bing Crosby's coats.

The rebuilt Southern Colonial that stands on the site today has six bedrooms, 5 ½ bathrooms and five fireplaces in 7,132 square feet. There is a living room with marble fireplace, a billiards room and a den with a wet bar.

The two acres of gated grounds include rose gardens, fruit trees, a tennis court with grandstands, an Olympic-size pool, a 2 ½-bathroom cabana with changing rooms, sitting area and a kitchen, and a two-bedroom, two-bathroom guesthouse with a kitchen.

The estate was a childhood home of Micky Dolenz, the Monkees drummer and singer.

Subsequent owners included actor Andy Griffith in the 1980s and actor Jerry Van Dyke and his wife, Shirley, who sold the home in 1997 for $1.93 million, according to public records.

EX-RAVENS CORNERBACK

LISTS POST OFFICE HOME

Former Baltimore Ravens cornerback Chris McAlister has listed his Beverly Hills Post Office area home at $7.9 million.

The gated, French Normandy-style estate with five bedrooms and seven bathrooms in 9,375 square feet has been his home during the off-season. He plans to move to Maryland.

The house, built in 1990, has a two-bathroom master suite, a two-level living room and four fireplaces. There is a koi pond, a putting green and a pool with a spa.

The view from the three-quarter-acre lot was his favorite feature of the house, McAlister said. ``I could see Catalina (Island) from the front of the house and the entire (San Fernando) Valley from the back.''

McAlister, 32, was released by the Ravens in February. He has been rehabbing from knee surgery.

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