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Actress PAMELA ANDERSON, a former Playboy centerfold who stars in the syndicated series "Baywatch," has purchased the Malibu townhouse she had been renting for a couple of years.
Anderson, 27, was detective Mike Hammer's secretary Velda in the CBS movie "Come Die With Me," a Mickey Spillane mystery that aired Tuesday night.
A native of British Columbia, Anderson became a spokesmodel for a beer company after her image was projected on a scoreboard screen at a Canadian football game in 1989.
She went on to pose for five Playboy covers, including the one in November, and to play Lisa the Tool Girl, TV handyman Tim Allen's assistant on ABC's "Home Improvement," which she left after the '93 season to focus on "Baywatch," playing flower child C.J. Parker.
Anderson bought the Malibu townhouse for $270,000. She had been renting it at $1,725 a month. The unit, in a security-gated complex with a pool, has two bedrooms in about 1,700 square feet. Anderson spent more than $100,000 in remodeling...