Sunday Real Estate Round-Up

From the San Francisco Chronicle:
--Andy Warhol's estate Eothen, has finally been sold to Millard Drexler, the chief executive of clothing retailer J. Crew. The exact price hasn't been given but it is said to be well below the $50 million asking price and could be below the $30 million mark.

From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:
--Model Carmen Kass has sold her Greenwich Village loft for $1.6 million.
--Manhattan mega-developer Sheldon Solow has bought the last large tract of land on exclusive Georgica Pond in the Hamptons for about $25 million.
--Debrah Lee Charatan, the sham wife of cross-dressing real estate scion Robert Durst, who admitting to shooting his Texas neighbor and chopping up the body got quite a windfall for her troubles. She has purchased dog-food czar Leonard Stern's Bridgehampton estate for $11 million.
--Jazz trumpeter Chris Botti, has bought a SoHo co-op for $3.7 million.

From the NY Observer's Manhattan Transfers:
Philanthropist Loida Lewis has put her ninth- and 10th-floor duplex at 834 Fifth Avenue on the market for $45 million. The home has four wood-burning fireplaces, a "restaurant kitchen" and "breakfast room" and a one-bedroom "mezzanine" apartment between the ninth and 10th floors.
--Ted Allen of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy has sold his $2.75 million five-room loft at the Chelsea Atelier and will be renovating a brownstone in Brooklyn.
--Last October, Robert De Niro paid $20.9 million for a fourth- and fifth-floor duplex at 88 Central Park West and he recently was outbid on another apartment in the building by N.J. Nicholas Jr., a director of Boston Scientific.
--A new penthouse on the highest floor in Soho is on the market for $26.5 million. It is our estate of the day later today.

From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--Miami Heat center Shaquille O'Neal has raised the priced on his Miami Beach home, shown above. It is now listed at $35 million -- $3 million more than when he first listed it in 2005. The listing is here.
--Johnson & Johnson heiress Elizabeth Ross Johnson is selling the Manhattan townhouse she bought from Meryl Streep just over a year ago for $9.1 million. Her price is $15.95 million and the listing is here.
--The Pound RIdge home of the late Christopher and Dana Reeve has apparently found a buyer.

From the LA Times Hot Property:
--Omar Epps and his wife, Keisha Spivey have purchased a Sherman Oaks home for around $2.2 million.
--Olympic gold medalist, swimmer Lenny Krayzelburg has fixed and flipped a 1923 home in the Hollywood Hills, buying it for slightly more than $1 million and selling it for $2.5 million.
--Actor Josh Cooke has purchased the Hollywood Hills home of Dennis Hammer, executive producer of "Heroes" and "Crossing Jordan," for about $1.3 million.
--The Lipetz House, the Silver Lake home, a home shot by architectural photographer Julius Shulman and California Modernist Raphael Soriano's first residential commission as an architect, has been purchased for slightly more than $1 million by Annie Weisman and Bill Macomber.

From the NY Times Big Deal:
The Kress family home on Fifth Avenue has been put on the market for more than $50 million. The home takes up two floors and has five bedrooms.
--A 9,500-square-foot town house on West 73rd Street just off Central Park West decorated with busts of Roosevelt and Freud will be auctioned off in March; its estimated price is $7 million. Pictures of the home are here.
--Gwyneth Paltrow has signed a contract to buy the last unsold apartment at River Lofts in TriBeCa for just over $5 million.