Oh wow, NFL cornerback and occasional aspiring wrestler Adam "Pacman" Jones is another athlete hoping for a big sale on his house. The flamboyant former Nashville Titan has moved on to the Dallas Cowboys and so he has put his Franklin, Tennessee home up for sale. And reading the blurb on the Real Estalker I knew I was in for a doozy. I've never seen quite so many gargantuan televisions in one place outside of a sports bar. The five-bedroom home is on 30 acres (the property website is called 30 acres and a lake). I'm not sure quite what to make of this one-- a big brick arch in the middle of a room for no good reason, a bedroom that appears to have a set of home theater seats plunked in front of a massive screen, a bathroom that seems to be designed based on the health clubs and gyms that Pacman Jones has likely seen a few of-- all these things combine to make a home that is many things but welcoming is not one of them. The property includes an eight-stall horse barn and a bucolic dock and lake spoiled by the addition of fountains. No pool but there is an above ground hot tub plunked onto the back deck. There are also two other homes on the property. Jones picked up the home in 2006 from an actress and a producer for $1.575 million and has listed it for $1,799,950 which the listing calls "priced well below market value." Maybe, but it will still be a hard sell.

From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:
--A look at the planned Nobu Hotel and Residences in the Financial District. The project, in which Robert De Niro is an investor, is a 62-story glass tower at 45 Broad Street that will include 77 "super-luxury" condos, a 128-room hotel, retail space and a Nobu restaurant on the third floor.
--Hillary Clinton's communications director Howard Wolfson and his wife, Terri McCullough, who's chief of staff for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, have sold their condo at 455 Central Park West for $1.91 million. Not much of a profit, they bought the condo in 2005 for just under $1.8 million.
--Former Mets and Yankees pitcher David Cone is looking for an in-town apartment. He was recently spotted in the Miraval Living condominium sales office on the Upper East Side.

From the NY Observer's Manhattan Transfers:
--Baron Eric de Rothschild just bought his painter wife, Maria-Beatrice Caracciolo Di Forino, a Village penthouse where she can do some work whenever they're staying in New York. According to deeds, they paid $1.15 million for the one-bedroom, 1,050-square-foot co-op at 40 West 12th Street.
--Hotelier Jeff Klein has sold his house at 153 West 18th Street for $5.95 million.
--The listing for the late Brooke Astor's duplex at 778 Park Avenue is finally online, we covered it as our estate of the day on Friday.

From Berg Properties Big Time Listings:
--Melissa Etheridge has sold a six-bedroom house in Hidden Hills for an undisclosed price after it had been listed for $4,995,000. The home was purchased by a two trusts (the Olivers Estate Trust and the Veronica Matsui Trust) which may indicate the home was purchased by a celebrity (the Real Estalker says Michael Bolton and Nicolette Sheridan are
--Actress and former MTV VJ Kari Wuhrer has sold a Craftsman-style house in Los Angeles' Windsor Square area for $1.7 million.
--Comedian Carlos Mencia and his wife, Amy, purchased an Encino, CA home in November from actor Eddie Cibrian for an official purchase price of $4.3 million.
--via the Observer, Elisabeth Hasselbeck and her NFL husband Tim have paid $3,25 million. for a condo on Manhattan's Upper West Side.

From the Real Estalker:
--The Real Estalker Mama drops a tasty blind item that a mystery billionaire will be bidding on the Kaufmann house auction that will be part of the Christie's auction on May 13.
--Action actor Jason Statham has been spotted checking out the Devlin Drive home, shown above, recently put on the market by Christina Aguilera for $7.995 million. The virtual tour of this amazing home is here.
--Former CSI: Miami actress Khandi Alexander has cut the price again on her Hollywood Hills home. It was ginally listed at $4,495,000 but is now down to $2,995,000 which is not much more than the $2,850,000 she paid back in January of 2006. The listing says "huge $1 million price reduction" in bold block letters with an army of exclamation points.
--Angela Bassett and Courtney Vance have dropped the price on their Hancock Park home from $5.999 million to $4.6 million. The listing is here.
--Britney Spears has been spotted touring a 7,350 square foot house on Tara Drive in the Clark Gable community of Encino.
--Dishonored Lord Conrad Black and Barbara Amiel are quietly putting their Palm Beach, Florida home on the market. No listing price yet but in 2007, the Palm Beach assessor valued the estate at $27,980,115 so we are likely looking at a fairly big number here.
--Football player Pacman Jones has listed Tennessee home, it's our estate of the day later today.
--Once again, Michael Jackson has forestalled foreclosure on Neverland.
--Louwana, a grand old Palm Beach, Florida estate has been listed for sale for $30 million. The listing is here.
--Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn have put their Malibu home for summer rent again for $95,000.

From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--More background on Roman Abramovich's purchase of Wildcat Ridge. Abramovich also bought another home in the area for $11.8 million in February.
--Baseball great Henry "Hank" Aaron has listed his West Palm Beach, Fla., home that borders a golf course for $900,000.
--A home in Corona del Mar, California has sold for about $28 million, a record for an Orange County off-water property, local brokers say.

From the LA Times Hot Property:
--Former NHL player Ken Belanger has put his three-bedroom Manhattan Beach townhouse on the market for $1.125 million. It is listed with Ed Kaminsky.

It's safe to say Uma Thurman won't be wearing Lancome any time soon. The actress has filed a $15 million lawsuit against the French cosmetics company saying that they continued use her face in their ads after her contract expired. The licensing agreement to use Thurman's image ended in 2004 but the suit says that the brand has continued to use her face to sell products around the world for the past four years. Lancome has filed their own suit saying that it did not violate the contract and does not owe her money. A spokesperson for L'Oreal, the owner of Lancome, said that the use of her image after the contract expired was not deliberate or intentional.

This isn't the first time we've seen celebrity endorsement gone wrong. Last year, watch company Raymond Weil sued Charlize Theron after she wore a Dior watch to an event while under an exclusive endorsement agreement with Weil.

At the Metropolitan Museum's star-studded Costume Institute Gala in Manhattan the other night, all the best-dressed men wore tuxedos by Tom Ford. While some fellows got creative with their black tie and others simply looked boring in notched lapel numbers, those who sported Ford's threads -- including Gisele Bundchen's football star beau Tom Brady, actors Djimon Hounsou and Jimmy Fallon, and A-list shoe designer Christian Louboutin -- were the evening's standouts.

Ford himself (pictured here with actress Natasha Richardson) went with a classic double-breasted dinner jacket with grosgrain lapels. Brady, Fallon and Louboutin all wore Ford's signature single-breasted peak lapel style; Brady and Fallon went the extra mile with matching waistcoats. Hounsou wore a black three-piece wool and cashmere suit which was equally elegant, as you'll see in the gallery below. Ford's suits start at about $5,000.

Madonna recently bought some more space in her New York City co-op building and now it looks like she's set to divest herself of some real estate. The Sun reports that Madonna is looking to sell Ashcombe, her English country house in Wiltshire. She and Guy Ritchie bought the home in 2001 for £9 million and are now hoping to put it on the market for £12 million. The eight-bedroom home is listed as a Grade II structure by English Heritage. It was originally part of a larger building and was restored in the 1930s and 1940s by the photographer Cecil Beaton. Madonna and Guy are reportedly selling because they do not spend enough time at the estate especially since Madonna has been recording and touring again. We wish them luck, this is certainly not the best time to be selling England's housing slump is starting to rival the problem we have had in the States.

[Thanks, Lana]

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger might be about to lose one of the perks of his job. Schwarzenegger regularly commutes by a Gulfstream IV provided by NetJets from Sacramento to Santa Monica but Bloomberg reports that a federal judge will decide on May 15 if he can continue to land at the municipal airport. The airport is a fast commute to Schwarzenegger's Brentwood home but Santa Monica city council members including the governor's brother-in-law, Bobby Shriver recently voted unanimously to ban the jets. The town of Santa Monica is now fighting the temporary restraining order obtained by the FAA that blocks enforcement of the ordinance and a U.S. District Court judge in Los Angeles will decide whether to allow the ban or send the matter to trial.

Part of the problem is that the Santa Monica airport is an older, small airport that was not built to accommodate jets that land at fast speeds and there is just one runway. There hasn't been an accident involving a jet on the runway but there are homes located very nearby. The FAA which wants to use the airport to help relieve air traffic in the crowded skies over Los Angeles has offered to add a concrete-like material at either end of the runway that would slow runaway jets and to help the city buy homes to make more room for planes landing and taking off. There is also a possibility that Santa Monica may try to close the airport in 2015, when its agreement with the FAA expires although it seems unlikely that will occur. As for Schwarzenegger, it's likely he will circumvent any potential ruling by either traveling by helicopter or landing at another airport but Bobby Shriver is already anticipating some teasing complaints around family gatherings from his beefy brother-in-law.

Add another sports figure to the ranks of the celebrity foreclosed. Baseball player and controversial author Jose Canseco has walked away from his $2.5 million home in Encino, an area of Los Angeles. Canseco has said in an interview that it didn't make financial sense to keep paying the mortgage on a home that was "basically owned by someone else." Canseco cited his multiple divorces as another factor in his financial woes. It sounds like Canseco isn't facing the dire financial situation that some other people (Latrell Sprewell for example) have faced but merely opted out. His nonchalance seems a bit cavalier at a time when people are really agonizing over their homes but it seems in the interview that he is keenly aware that his situation is different from others who are struggling.

The Nancy Davis Foundation was created in 1993, after Nancy learned she had multiple sclerosis. She was told by her doctor she would be lucky to even be able to perform simple tasks for much longer. Determined to prove her doctors dismal diagnosis wrong, she vowed to keep a positive attitude, an active lifestyle, and search for a cure. Today, the Race to Erase MS has grown into a spectacular celebrity gala benefit held annually, with over $30 million raised for multiple sclerosis research to date! All earnings go directly to one of the nation's top MS research centers. Here's a fashionable and easy way you can help, by purchasing a Nancy Davis MS T-Shirt. Cute and affordable, (only $25) that's a purchase you can feel good about!

Pamela Anderson is mainly known for her physical attributes but she's also a huge fan of shabby chic . And like another famous blonde, Tori Spelling, she's having one monster garage sale. The sale starts tomorrow morning at 8 a.m. sharp at the Malibu mansion she's been renting for the past year. The pink and black website for the sale has pictures of some of the items for sale include many pieces of white furniture including armoires, headboards, vanities, sofas and more. The sale also includes outdoor furniture, clay pots, scooters, skateboards, a Jacuzzi and even an electric car. There is no street parking and everyone who wants to go to the sale must take a shuttle from a local market to get there. If the crowds are anything like the hordes that turned out for Tori's sale, be prepared to wait in a long line to get in.

[via the Real Estalker]

The latest celebrity with a jewelry line is Dancing With The Stars cast-off Jane Seymour. Seymour who also has a furniture and home decor line and is a painter, has created Open Hearts by Jane Seymour to be sold at Kay Jewelers. The line was inspired by Seymour's "Healing Hearts" paintings and represents the idea that if one's heart is open it will never stay broken. The two open hearts linked together also symbolize that two people can be one, while still retaining their individuality. The line includes sterling silver charms as well as gold and diamond necklaces, earrings, bracelets and rings ranging from under $40 to $1,500. No word on if these jewels benefit charity likePetra Nemcova's heart jewelry does.

[via National Jeweler]

I've always thought British actress Alex Kingston was a class act and her home proves it, Celebrity Big TIme Listings found her Los Angeles home for sale. This 4,257-square-foot house in the Hollywood Hills was built in 1964 and remodeled by Paul Hinckley. The six-bedroom home just hit the market and probably won't remain on sale long, it's a beautiful home that gently treads the line between boring and zen. The living room has Douglas Fir ceilings, a two-sided fireplace and concrete floors. It has a beautiful Bulthaup kitchen and a meditation/spa room with an indoor/outdoor bath area.The master suite is located up a mahogany staircase and has a private balcony. The outdoors includes a large lawn, pool and spa and views of the Lake Hollywood reservoir. This home is listed at $4.75 million.

From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:
--Madonna has paid $7 million for the unit directly above her current 6,000-square-foot co-op at s 41 Central Park West. Last year, she filed suit against the building co-op board saying that they had wrongfully prevented her from buying the apartment. She also bought the apartment under her maiden name.
--Seagrams heir Edgar Bronfman Jr. is on the move again. The CEO of of Warner Music Group and his wife sold their East 64th Street townhouse last year for $50 million, then bought an 11-room co-op apartment at 1040 Fifth Ave. for about $19.5 million which they relisted for $24 million. They also paid $19.2 million for a 10-room penthouse condo in the Carhart Mansion but now that property is back up for sale, this time for $24.5 million. The listing is here.
--Kevin Spacey has reduced the price of his TriBeCa duplex apartment to $4.67 million. The three bedroom penthouse of nearly 2,300 square feet has a 900-square-foot terrace off the master bedroom with a built-in grill, planters with a timed irrigation system and retractable awnings. Bob at Big Time Listings unearthed the listing which can be found here.

From the NY Observer's Manhattan Transfers:
--Photographer Thomas Struth and his wife, the writer Tara Bray Smith, paid $2.1 million for a two-bedroom apartment on East 67th Street, near Park Avenue.
--Asher B. Edelman, a corporate raider-turned-art dealer and an inspiration for the character of Gordon Gekko from the movie Wall Street, has been leasing a townhouse at 134-136 East 74th Street for years. Why rent when he can afford to buy? Edelman says the market is still over-inflated. The house sold for $12 million this month to real estate magnate Laurence Gluck. Edelman just got a new one-year lease for "a little more" than $20,000 according to Gluck but he is planning to restore the building eventually.
--Brian Brille, the global head of investment banking for Bank of America, and his wife, Leslie Simmons Brille, have listed their brick mansion at 117-119 East 69th Street for $32 million after buying for $12.4 million back in 2005. The couple had plans to make it into a family home again (it had once belonged to Muppets creator Jim Henson and his company) but decided it was too much hassle and expense so they are selling the raw space.
--Carol Burnett sold her apartment at Trump International this month for $5.58 million.

From Berg Properties Big Time Listings:
--Actress Alex Kingston has listed her Hollywood Hills home for $4.75 million. it is our estate of the day later today.
--Actress Mary Lynn Rajskub has sold her 762-square-foot bungalow in Venice, CA for $1.2 million.
--Comedian Brett Butler has placed her Hollywood Hills home, shown above, on the market for $2.347 million. The listing shows that it has is in the process of being sold (it is listed as being "looking for backup"). The property website is here.

From the Real Estalker:
--Rumor has it that Veronica Hearst, who recently lost her Florida home Villa Venezia in a foreclosure fracas, has been encouraged to sell (or may have already sold) her pricey New York co-op at 4 East 66th Street before the dogs are at the gate in NYC.
--America Ferrera has picked up a house in the Hollywood Hills for $1.415 million.
--I knew Dwayne Wade's personalized house in Pinecrest, Florida would be a hard sell when I covered it as an estate of the day last year. One year later it's still on the market and the price has been reduced from $8.9 million to $4.999 million.
--Christina Aguilera and her husband Jordan Bratman have put their former residence on Devlin Drive in the Hollywood Hills on the market for $7.5995 million but the listing hasn't surfaced yet.

From the LA Times Hot Property:
--David Geffen has paid $9.8 million for a 1,473-square-foot house in Malibu that is located near his massive Malibu compound. Geffen owned the home once before, he bought it in 1996 for approximately $1.2 million and sold it two years later to Richard Lovett, president of Creative Artists Agency. In 2007, it was bought by Peter Morton, co-founder of the Hard Rock Cafe chain, who sold it back to Geffen earlier this year.
--Robert Duvall and his Argentine wife, Luciana, have sold their House of Jasmines, the seven-room boutique hotel near Salta, in northern Argentina.
--Dan Aykroyd has paid $14,500,000 to purchase a 5,244-square-foot house in Pacific Palisades.

From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--The Sonoma, CA home of Henry Harley "Hap" Arnold, who commanded U.S. Army air forces in World War II, has gone on the market for $2.65 million. The listing with Robert and Kathleen Leonard, of Sotheby's shows that it has already gone into escrow. The property includes a 2,000-square-foot house and a vineyard planted with Cabernet Sauvignon and Cabernet Franc.
--The Manhattan apartment of fashion designer Fernando Sanchez has gone on sale for $6.5 million. The 4,000-square-foot co-op in the Osborne has 10 rooms on three floors, with a 27-foot entry gallery, a formal dining room, a library and four baths. The listing is here with Stephen Wald.
--Prince is renting a Beverly Hills spec house created by developer George Santopietro. The home is still listed for $50 million and Prince is paying $200,000 a month.
--An Upper East Side townhouse lived in by Eleanor Roosevelt is now listed for rent for $60,000 and is also for sale for $19.95 million. The listing is here.

From AOL Real Estate:
--10 ways to transform outdoor space.
--What $1 million buys.
--Ghost cities of the future.
--Best cities for sellers.

While watching Oprah today I noticed environmentalist Sophie Uliano was wearing a cardigan by one of my favorite "green" designers. Deborah Lindquist has been the stylist to the stars for years, she has dressed everyone from Paris Hilton and Jessica Simpson to Gwen Stefani and Sharon Stone. Her signature line features the latest, most in demand fabrics like recycled cashmere, paired with today's hottest symbols like skulls and roses. Her style is nonchalant and relaxed, yet classically elegant. Her recycled cashmere cardigan is to die for, it features a skull applique and charming pearl buttons. Fabulous! This must have is available online for $286. Enjoy!

From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:
--NY Mets pitcher Johan Santana has gone to contract for just over $3 million on a three-bedroom, 3½-bath apartment at 170 East End Ave. but has also been spotted checking out a $17.5 million penthouse several floors above.
--Ben Stiller has been townhouse shopping in the West Village.
--Raffaello Follieri, the check-bouncing boyfriend of Anne Hathaway, reportedly kept one broker in limbo for almost six weeks regarding a $15.9 million West Village townhouse that the couple had checked out. There was an accepted offer but the $1.5 million deposit never arrived.

From the NY Observer's Manhattan Transfers:
--Ricky Kenig, a beauty and costume shop kingpin, is putting his Park Slope brownstone on the market for $3.2 million. He bought the home for $1,375,000 two years ago and gut-renovated it with details such as a three-story magnetized wall along the stairwell, a video monitor system, those cute little Kohler Hatbox toilets and a custom Philippe Starck shower.
--S. Christopher Meigher III, the chairman and CEO of society magazine Quest, and his wife withheld a few mortgage payments because they disagreed with their bank over a refi and nearly ended up having their two-unit apartment auctioned off. The Meighers got the refinancing rate they wanted and have settled the issue.
--Investor and environmental philanthropist. Dan Lufkin, has put his five-bedroom spread at 455 Central Park West on the market this week for $17.5 million which is around three times what he paid three years ago.The apartment, shown above, is a converted 19th-century chapel which has been beautifully restored, saving the antique French oak floors, arched windows, gold-leafed walls, stone columns, Gothic fireplace and, especially a 28-foot-high vaulted living room. More gorgeousness at the listing here.
Dora the Explorer co-creator Eric Weiner and wife Cherie Vogelstein, a playwright, have bought a high-floor, seven-room condo at Ariel West for $4.395 million.
--Leighton Candler, a Corcoran senior vice president, has been chosen to sell Brooke Astor's apartment. The listing for the $46 million apartment hasn't hit the internet yet.

From the LA Times Hot Property:
--Actor Channing Tatum has bought a Laurel Canyon property that was listed at $3.4 million for $2,595,000. Big Time Listings led us to the property website here.
--A home on Mulholland Drive that belonged to writers Aldous and Laura Huxley has hit the market for $1.95 million.
--Hollywood agent Toni Howard and her husband, producer David Yarnell, have purchased an 18th-floor junior penthouse in a luxury Westwood condominium building for $3.3 million.
--Karen Pankow, the ex-wife of Chicago trombone player James Pankow, has listed her Malibu home for $4.5 million. The listing for the contemporary home is here.
--Google's board chairman and chief executive, Eric Schmidt is the owner of Ellen DeGeneres's former Montecito estate. It was our estate of the day a year ago.

From Berg Properties Big Time Listings:
--Former "Grey's Anatomy" actor Isaiah Washington has sold his four-bedroom condo in Hancock Park for $1.5 million.
--Dido has sold her three-bedroom house in the Hollywood Hills for an undisclosed price after it had been on the market for $4.6 million.
--Sting picked up a 16th- and 17th-floor duplex unit in 15 Central Park West in New York City for $26.5 million.
--via the Palm Beach Post, movie producer and Jones Apparel Group founder Sidney Kimmel has sold his mansion in Palm Beach, Fla. for its $81,500,000 list price!

From the Real Estalker:
--The Real Estalker Mama takes us through the rumor mill reporting on the possible split of Dr. Phil McGraw and his wife Robin and the potential sale of their large Beverly Hills home. The latest estimates have the home hitting the market in the $16-18,000,000 range.
--Vincent Gallo may have found a buyer for the Wolff House.
--Los Angeles man about town Brent Bolthouse has put his sexy two-bedroom Lautner-designed hosue in the Hollywood Hills up for lease for $10,000 a month. The listing is here.
--Kirsten Dunst has spent around $3,000,000 for a three bedroom penthouse apartment in New York.
--Rumors continue to swirl over whether or not Tiger Woods really bought that $65 million house in Southampton.
--Another kerfuffle in Greenwich, Connecticut over a planned mega-mansion proposed for 18 Simmons Lane that would be over 30,000 square feet and include a gym, theater, wine cellar, staff quarters and 26 toilets.

From AOL Real Estate:
--Recession Proof Home Improvements

In Los Angeles there are few places to buy a celebrity's castoffs but you likely have to be a size two or four but if you are Oprah-sized (sizes 10 to 14) you might want to head to Chicago. Across the street from Oprah Winfrey's studios you'll find Oprah's Closet located in The Oprah Store, a souvenir shop full of Oprah-related accessories. Oprah's Closet features her designer cast-offs with names like Chanel, Prada and Yves Saint Laurent including a large selection of lightly worn shoes. The prices are still pretty high, these are designer duds after all and the provenance has its own value.