Sunday Real Estate Round-Up

From the LA Times Hot Property:

•Ellen DeGeneres is settling into new digs. She bought a compound for $15 million and property next door for a total of $22 million. The compound sits on an acre and has views from downtown to the ocean. She is also selling off other parcels she owns including her two-acre Hollywood Hills compound, which was on the the market in June for $12.95 million.
•Proof that having a gimmick pays off, Elvira, Mistress of the Dark (otherwise known as Cassandra Peterson) is sell her Los Feliz home (shown here) for $2.9 million and heading to Santa Barbara. The three bedroom home has a pool, playhouse and separate maid's quarters. The listing is here.
•Carlos Boozer of the Utah Jazz has bought a 10 bedroom home on the Westside for $8.6 million.
•A home built for actor John Barrymore in the 1930s is for sale for $5.195 million. The listing is here.

From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:

•We've been chasing this rumor since June and the price keeps rising, now it turns out that the 40-acre de Menil property in East Hampton is about to sell for $105 million.
•Robert Burns is selling his full-floor co-op for the $37 million. The fifth floor home has five bedrooms, a marble gallery, an industrial-grade kitchen and a pine-paneled library.

•Whoops, last week  it was reported that Howard Stern was buying the property next to his Southampton lot. Turns out it  was Leonard Stern who was signing the check. Stern, the Hartz Mountain chairman, has bought the $27 million home and put his other Hamptons home, a four bedroom in Bridgehampton, on the market for $12.5 million.

From the NY Times Big Deal:

•Holly Hunter, who is expecting twins, is moving to a four-bedroom unit on Fifth Avenue that she bought from another twins-producing actress, Julia Roberts.
•Lew Frankfort, chairman of Coach owns a four-story apartment at the Beresford that extends into one of the three towers in the building and he has even bought the attic with high ceilings near the tower's top. There is a tower room with the panoramic views. He's not the only one with a tower in  the Beresford,  Helen Gurley Brown and John McEnroe each have one although Frankfort's may have more space.
•Eve Chilton Weinstein may have lost a tubby husband (she's the ex of  Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein) but she's gained some nice real estate. She's now sole owner of their Manhattan apartment. The duplex co-op, a combo of two units on lower Central Park West has been transferred to her name.