Chelsea Handler

Online auction leader Charity Folks has teamed up with Jet Blue Airways for their "Bid for Good" online auction to benefit KaBOOM! and DoSomething.org for a new auction that includes more than 60 destination trips and other unique celebrity and sports experiences. As you might expect, every package includes airfare on Jet Blue.

The celebrity packages offer VIP access such as a meet-and-greet with Tim McGraw and tickets to one of his 2011 concerts; a set-visit in Los Angeles to "Chelsea Lately" and a meeting with Chelsea Handler; a pair of tickets to see Cher in Las Vegas and insider green room access at "Jimmy Kimmel Live!"

The package that is receiving the most attention is a sports package with four tickets, a private tour and the opportunity to throw out the first pitch at Fenway Park at a Boston Red Sox game. Other sports package are pit passes to the 2011 Daytona 500; playing in the David Ortiz Celebrity Golf Classic in a celebrity foursome in the exotic Dominican Republic and two Trophy Club tickets to the 2011 U.S. Open.

The travel package includes some of the most desired destinations including a trip to New York City for Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week and your own personal photo shoot; a trip to Bermuda's famous Fairmont Hotel; a tropical paradise visit to Barbados; a luxury stay at the Cotton Bay Village in Saint Lucia; a dinner and stay lakeside at the W Chicago and a lavish stay at the Atlantis Resort at Paradise Island in the Bahamas. The auction ends November 11 at 3:00 p.m.

From the Los Angeles Times:
Los Angeles poster artist Robbie Conal and his wife, movie and television title designer Deborah Ross, have listed their Gregory Ain-designed home in Mar Vista for $1.149 million. The home is in a development of 52 so-called "Modernique Homes." The pair added bamboo floors, a new kitchen and an art studio.

--Artist Ed Ruscha has sold his Point Dume-area home in Malibu for $4 million.
--The Studio City home of the late model agent Nina Blanchard has sold for $1.1 million.
--The late Nancy M. Daly's former Malibu home, which recently sold for more than $40 million, has been leased out for $200,000 a month by the new owner.
--Singer-songwriter Graham Nash and his wife, Susan, have sold their longtime Encino home for its asking price of $1.6 million.
--A Bel-Air compound owned by the late real estate broker Jon Douglas has come on the market at $18.7 million. The listing is here.

From the NY Post:
--Julia Roberts has purchased a penthouse co-op at 45 W. 10th St. for $3.895 million.
--Technology investor Peter Thiel, a Facebook billionaire and PayPal co-founder, is renting a three-bedroom apartment at 15 Union Square West.
--Gerard Butler recently checked out a $7.995 million townhouse condo at 385 W. 12th St.
--Ad man Alan Levenstein, former vice chairman at Bozell Worldwide, and his wife, Gail, who ran the private-client division at Bill Blass for many years, have put their 2,200-square-foot, second-floor co-op at 75 Central Park West on the market for $4.25 million.The listing is here.

From the Wall Street Journal:
The Boca Raton, Florida home of former Tyco chief executive Dennis Kozlowski has had a price cut to $19.5 million. The 1.6-acre waterfront compound is composed of five adjacent lots and has more than 600 feet of waterfront. It was listed at $24.5 million when we checked it out last year. His former North Hampton, New Hampshire home will be up for auction on November 9 and is our estate of the day tomorrow.

A three-story home on San Francisco's Telegraph Hill is for sale for $12.9 million. The home's current owner is Sandra Lloyd-Smith, ex-wife of the late Texas oil tycoon Robert Mosbacher. The listing is here.

From the NY Times:
--Many of New York City's ultrarich are choosing to rent rather than buy, spending between $10,000 and $100,000 a month.
--Walter Cronkite's summer home on Martha's Vineyard has gone to contract. It had an asking price of $12.25 million.

From the NY Observer:
--George Robb, Jr., the founder of the RPM Nautical Foundation, who until last year was married to model Veronica Webb, has picked up an apartment at 15 Broad Street for $2.785 million.
--John Eck, the president of NBC TV, and his wife Malia have just bought a condo at 43 Clarkson Street in the Far West Village for $3.675 million.
--Zachary Kestenbaum runs who, with his father, runs Building Link, a digital management system for residential properties, has bought a $4 million coop at 1095 Park Avenue.
--Edwin C. Cohen, son of Nixon Treasury Secretary Edwin S. Cohen, has sold his his Central Park West coop for $9.75 million. He bought the home for $11 million in 2006.
--Leonard Stern has paid $14.25 million for a Soho penthouse at 495 West Broadway.
-- Dickson Chu, who is in charge of development and products for Citi, and wife Kristin have paid $2.7 million for a unit at Extell's Aerial West at 245 West 99th Street.
--Writer Vicky Ward and publisher Matthew Doull have sold their Bleecker Street townhouse for $6 million.
--Former CNN anchor Campbell Brown and her pundit husband Dan Senor have moved into The Hastings at 71 Murray Street buying a loft for $4.495 million.
--Judith Greenberg Seinfeld who used to work in perfume and is now a real estate maven picked up a unit at 27 West 67th Street for $4.7 million.
--Bruce and Marlo Wrobel have sold their four-story home at 150 Lincoln Place to Roopal Luhana and Birbal Kaikini for the asking price of $3.195 million.
--Roger A. Enrico, former CEO of PepsiCo. and current Dreamworks Animation chairman has purchased a three-bedroom at 37 West 12th Street at the Butterfield House for $3.14 million.

Super-premium vodka Belvedere is holding a global competition to recruit its next global brand ambassador.

The public can apply via Belvedere's Facebook page, www.facebook.com/BelvedereDreamJob!!. Entrants can upload videos demonstrating why they think they have the right stuff. The campaign kicked off on the 'Chelsea Lately' show hosted by Chelsea Handler.

The cut-off date for uploading videos is October 16 for the chance to win a one-year $100,000 contract, and the opportunity to gain international recognition while traveling the world with current Belvedere ambassador Claire Smith!

After the polls close on October 16, the semi finalists in each region around the world will be contacted about the next challenge. In December, both Chelsea Handler and Claire Smith will join the celebrity judges panel during the Finalist Competition to determine who will win the role of the Belvedere Global Ambassador in 2011.

Belvedere, named after the presidential palace of Poland, comes from a century old distillery in the small town of Żyrardow, just West of Warsaw.

Dankowskie Gold Rye is the single grain ingredient, and it is distilled four times. It typically retails for around $40.00 for a 750 ml bottle.

Liquor brands often sponsor music shows but you don't get quite so many liquor-sponsored book tours. But would we expect anything less from a woman who once wrote a book titled "Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea." To promote her latest book "Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang" Chelsea Handler is embarking on a 21 city tour presented by Belvedere Vodka. The tour begins March 10th in Chicago and winds up May 15 at New York City's Radio City Music Hall. The talk show host will be performing her comedy shows and also is expected to meet her fans at bookstores in cities along the route of the tour. Belvedere will host private after-parties for Chelsea's gigs across the country.

"We were thrilled to be chosen by Chelsea last year as her preferred & favorite vodka," Charles Gibb, President of Millennium, the vodka & rum division of Moet Hennessy, producer of Belvedere said in a press release. "As a vodka connoisseur, her decision to choose Belvedere is a true testament to the quality of our vodka, and we are delighted to be supporting her on this exciting tour". Tickets for the Live Nation-produced Belvedere Presents Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang tour go on sale beginning on January 15, 2010. Celebrity tie-ins seem to be a strategy for Belvedere which also has a deal with Bruce Willis for its Sobiewski brand.

From Jaunted:
--The New Orleans home used in the movie "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" is now on the market. The Victorian-era mansion, shown above, has six bedrooms, a library, music room and reception hall. It is listed at $2.85 million.

From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--The house where the reality show "Momma's Boys" was recently filmed, the gorgeous Terra Bella estate in Santa Barbara, California, has had another price reduction. The home was for sale for $39.5 million when it was our estate of the day in 2007 but is now listed at $21.8 million, 45% below its original listing. The listing is here.
--Goldman Sachs Co-President Jon Winkelried has cut the price of his Nantucket beach estate to $38.5 million, down 30% from October's original price of $55 million.

From the International Herald Tribune's Raising the Roof:
--Two ambitious Dubai projects are reportedly on hold. The Nakheel Tower was designed as the tallest building in the world but construction on the foundation has been halted. The $95 billion Jumeira Gardens project is also said to be in limbo.
--A medieval castle once ruled by Charlemagne, the "King of the Franks," is for sale in Italy. The castle on the border of Tuscany and Umbria dates to 802 and is priced at €13 million.

From the Real Estalker:
--Guns N' Roses and Velvet Revolver drummer Matt Sorum has placed his home in the Doheny Estates area of the Hollywood Hills on the market for $2.975 million. The listing is here.
--Comedienne Chelsea Handler and E! executive Ted Harbert soent $3.7 million on a condo in the Azzure building in Marina del Rey, California.

From the LA Times Hot Properties:
--Old Lion Manor, a lavish mansion once owned by "The Exorcist" author William Peter Blatty is on the market for $27.5 million. We'll be checking it out later this week as an estate of the day.
--Actor Nick Bakay has sold his Sierrra Towers condo in West Hollywood for $2 million.
--Actress Julie Bowen has put her Studio City home on the market. It's our estate of the day later today.
--Deborah Pratt, who wrote, acted in and co-produced the TV series "Quantum Leap," has listed her five-bedroom Holmby Hills-area home for $3.895 million. The listing is here.
--Singer Daniel Powter has listed his four-bedroom contemporary home in the Brentwood area for $2.295 million. The listing is here.

From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:
--Fashion designer Marc Jacobs has rented an apartment at 40 Mercer Street for $30,000 a month. The building is also home to Harry Potter/"Equus" star Daniel Radcliffe who listed his apartment for rent in 2007 for $20,000 a month.
-- TV journalist Cathleen Trigg-Jones and her husband, plastic surgeon, Michael Jones, have put their Hamilton Heights townhouse on the market for $4 million. The listing is here.

From Berg Properties Big Time Listings:
--Actress and TV personality Caroline Rhea has sold her Hancock Park home for $3.2 million.
--Mr. Big Time rounds up Warren Beatty's real estate listings including a large spread in Beverly Hills.
--The Roy Rogers Double R Bar Ranch in Victorville, California is on the market for $8.5 million. The listing is here.
--A home in Encino once owned by Macy Gray has had a significant price cut down to $8.485 million. It was originally listed at $11.7 million. The listing is here.
--A home used in the Bachelor and Bachelorette television shows has had another price cut. The six-bedroom Agoura Hills, California mansion is now listed at $6.75 million, down from an original price of $13 million. The listing is here.