Farrah Fawcett

Ryan O'Neal was on hand in Washington D.C. as the red swimsuit that Farrah Fawcett wore for her popular 1976 poster was donated to the Smithsonian. The image shot by photographer Bruce McBroom had a smiling Farrah posing against the backdrop of a striped blanket. This simple poster adorned plenty of walls (12 million were sold) and inspired an entire nation of Farrah hair. Items from Fawcett's career were donated to the Smithsonian National Museum of American History.

Farrah Fawcett's nephew, Greg Walls, Ryan O'Neal and his daughter Tatum were on hand for the donation which also includes an original copy of the swimsuit poster, her personal Charlie's Angels script book, a Farrah Fawcett swimsuit jigsaw puzzle, a "Farrah Phenomenon" 1976 edition of TV Guide, a Charlie's Angels 1976 edition of Time magazine, an original 1977 Farrah Fawcett doll and a "Farrah's Glamour Center" hairstyling doll. The pieces will become part of the museum's Division of Culture and the Arts and will go on display this summer. Fawcett died in June 2009 from cancer.

Other items in the museum include the Muppets, which were enshrined last summer, Olympics-related items including Apolo Ohno speed skates, objects from "Peanuts" artist Charles Schultz, props from the television show "All In The Family" and Michael Jackson's hat.

It looks like Mariah Carey was only dreaming when she reportedly made an offer on Fleur de Lys, the $125 million Beverly Hills mansion once ranked as the world's most expensive estate (that title is now held by the $150 million Spelling mansion). According to the Real Estalker, the pop star just purchased this somewhat more modest mansion in Bel Air (above) that once belonged to Farrah Fawcett for about $7 million. The private gated estate on 3 acres designed in the Hamptons style and originally built in 1950 is about 10,000-sq.-ft. with 6 bedrooms and 7 baths.

The property features incredible 360-degree views and the renovated house has an "Aspen-style" great room, seven fireplaces, formal living and dining rooms, a library, media room, office, an eat in gourmet kitchen. The grounds boast three gated entrances, two motor courts, a huge rectangular swimming pool with a poolside pavilion, a large brick terrace, several lush lawns areas, a gazebo, and an Indoor racquetball court. The closing price is about $2.5 million less than the sellers were originally asking.

From the LA Times Hot Property:
--Entertainment lawyer and the mastermind behind the Hands Across America and "We Are the World" events, Ken Kragen, has listed his Beverly Hills home, shown above, for $5.595 million. The listing is here.
--Commercial composer Jonathan Elias has sold his 5,865-square-foot Santa Monica home for $4.395 million.
--Nicolas Cage has leased a unit in the downtown Biscuit Company Lofts with an option to buy. He may have picked up a 3,500-square-foot penthouse unit, which was listed at $4.9 million.

From the Real Estalker:
--Rumor has it that Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner may have picked up a 1930s Hollywood Georgian in Holmby Hills which has been listed at $27.5 million for around $22 million. The listing is here.
--Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott have picked up a home in the Westwood area of Los Angeles for $2.275 million.
--Anne Heche and James Tupper have put their West Vancouver, Canada home on the market for $2,450,00 (Canadian). Heche and Tupper bought the home for $2.2 million in May, 2007.
--Michael Bolton has put his Westport, Connecticut home on the market for $11 million. It's our estate of the day on Monday.

From Berg Properties Big Time Listings:
A five-bedroom house in Bel-Air that was once owned by Farrah Fawcett and Ryan O'Neal has come on the market for $9,500,000. The listing is here.
--Ryan Cabrera has put his Hollywood Hills home on the market, it's our estate of the day later today.
The four-bedroom home in the Hollywood Hills that previously belonged to Charlie Sheen's wife, Brooke Mueller is back on the market with a $2.395 million listing price (she sold it for $2.317 million last year). The property website is here.
--Actor Justin Long has listed his home for $1.495 million. The listing is here.

From the Luxury Property Blog:
--A home featured in the movie "Moonstruck" as Cher's character's house recently sold for close to $4 million.

From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:
--Baseball player Mike Piazza will officially list his duplex TriBeCa loft for $6.8 million in September and is looking for a bigger place in Manhattan.
-- Jocelyn Wildenstein spent nearly $8 million for a 3,000-square-foot condo on the Plaza and now another Wildenstein, thought to be Guy Wildenstein, bought on the floor below his former in-law for $31.7 million. Two apartments - 409 and 411 - sold for $21.926 million and $9.787 million under Wildenstein & Company.
--Model Adriana Lima and basketball player Marko Jaric are looking for an apartment in New York. The couple has been seen checking out the penthouse at 40 Walker, a new residential building in TriBeCa, which is listed at $7 million.
--from Page Six, --Ricky Gervais and his girlfriend Jane Fallon have spent $1.66 million for a one-bedroom condo at the converted Barbizon hotel on Lexington Avenue in Manhattan.

From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--President Ford's Vail, Colorado ski retreat is on the market for the second time in less than two years. Real-estate investor Kevin Hayes, bought the home in early 2007 after Ford's death for $6.65 million and says he spent over $4 million on renovations. He has listed the home for $14.9 million.
--NFL star Michael Strahan paid between $1.5 and $2 million for a loft in Manhattan's Tribeca neighborhood.
--Real-estate developer R. Donahue Peebles has listed his Washington, D.C., stone Tudor house for $8.3 million. It was our estate of the day on Saturday.

From Real LI:
--Baseball player Edgardo Alfonzo has reduced the price on his home in Little Neck, New York. It went on the market in late 2006 for $8 million and has now been lowered at least four times since then is now listed at $5.3 million. Alfonzo paid $900,000 for the property in 1999 and has spent nearly as much in remodeling. The listing is here.
--New York Jets linebacker Bryan Thomas has taken his Huntington home off the market and has decided to rent the property instead of selling.

From TMZ:
Michael Phelps spent $1.69 million for a condo on the waterfront in Baltimore, Md.

From the NY Observer's Manhattan Transfers:
--The Kress family penthouse, a 17-room Fifth Avenue apartment with ballroom ceilings imported from 17th-century Venetian palaces and marble staircases carved from Michelangelo's quarry was previously listed for $50 million then pulled off the market. Next month, the penthouse will be back on the market again with a listing price of around $45 million with Leighton Candler of Corcoran.


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From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--In Palm Beach, movie producer Sidney Kimmel, the founder and chairman of Jones Apparel, has put his oceanfront mansion up for sale for $81.5 million.
--After nearly two years and $3 million in price cuts, Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne have given up trying to sell their Malibu beach house, shown above, (which is currently listed at $10.995 million) and are now renting it for long-term lease at $37,500 a month or for short-term lease in the summer at $85,000 monthly.

From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:
--The Milbank Mansion, the lavish townhome otherwise known as the Bob Guccione townhouse has officially gone to contract and Braden Keil's sources say that the sale number may be under $50 million which is actually not bad for a 27-room, 22,000-square-foot, double-wide vintage home. Of course this makes us wonder what the final price will be for the Sloane townhouse which is currently listed at $64 million.
--News anchor Kaity Tong and her husband, Patrick Callahan, are finally moving back to their duplex penthouse in Chelsea which they left last summer when their home was discovered to have toxic mold. The developer of a condo project next door, Elad, though unsure if it caused the leak, offered to put the couple up at the Gramercy Park Hotel until the problem could be fixed.
--A vacant plot in desirable land in East Hampton is set to hit the market. The approximately 18-acre plot of vacant land bordering Lily Pond Lane and Apaquogue Road across the street from Steven Spielberg's estate have applied for permits to subdivide the land. One broker says it could be worth $8 million an acre or more.
--The Bridgehampton estate of Lyor Cohen, the chairman and CEO of Warner Music Group, is about to be listed for sale, it's about to be listed at around $9.5 million.

From the NY Observer's Manhattan Transfers:
--Private equity boss Frederick Iseman and his ex-wife are dealing with the terms of their break-up, which promised that the ex-Mrs. Iseman would have lifetime use of the co-op. But Iseman has bought out the missus for $5 million then transferred ownership to trusts run by his family. He will also be paying her five yearly sums, adding up to about $10.5 million. The couple is also divvying up the furnishings and fine art including sharing join custody of the den lamp.
--More about the Sloane townhouse, the mansion was previously divided into 11 apartment units and it seems that luring out the tenants before the listing was no easy task.
--Dr. William A. Haseltine, the former chairman and CEO of the Human Genome Science pharmaceutical corporation,has paid $9.7 million for an 86th-floor apartment at the Trump World Tower.
--Dancer George Faison, who left Alvin Ailey's company in 1969 to start his own troupe and is now the artistic director of the Faison Firehouse Theater in Harlem, has sold his West End townhouse for $5.95 million.

From Berg Properties Big Time Listings:
--Oprah Winfrey has sold a 4,806-square-foot, 39th-floor penthouse in Atlanta's Buckhead area for $1.8 million.
--Saxophonist Kenny G has paid $2.85 million for a four-bedroom house in Los Angeles' Studio City area.
--Designer-developer Xorin Balbes has sold a six-bedroom "significantly rehabbed house" in the Bird Streets area of Los Angeles' Hollywood Hills for $5.725 million.
--A four-bedroom house in Ojai that was recently owned by actor and director Harold Ramis, and that was designed by architect Wallace Neff, is on the market for $6.95 million. The listing indicates it has already gone to contract.
-- A 2,867-square-foot house in Bel-Air that once was owned by Farrah Fawcett has sold for $3.608 million.
--'Gilmore Girls' actress Melissa McCarthy has sold her 1,284-square-foot house in West Hollywood for $1.325 million.
--Dan Aykroyd has put another Los Angeles home on the market. This one is listed at $2.595 million. The listing is here.

From the NY Times Big Deal:
--Brokers find interesting things sometimes when they show an apartment. Sharon E. Baum of the Corcoran Group walked in on a string quartet rehearsal when showing an apartment at 27 West 67th Street, owned by the estate of Albert Fuller, a harpsichordist. The duplex apartment had been used for decades as a musical salon and performance space, and while it was on the market, it was still being used for rehearsals. The sale of Fuller's apartment will benefit the Helicon Foundation, which was founded by Mr. Fuller in the 1980s to support the early instrument movement. The apartment is listed at $2.975 million, the listing is here.

From the Real Estalker:
--Mariah Carey has picked up a four-bedroom home on Windermere Island in the Bahamas that was listed at $4.9 million.
--The Real Estalker Mama checks out the Wanamaker-Munn mansion which we mentioned back in December. The $33 million very grand and lovely home is full of beautiful spaces that evoke the spirit of old New York. The listing is here.
--The Real Estalker Mama reveals some floor plans from the monstrously pricey One Hyde Park development in London.
--Louwana, the Palm Beach, Florida house belonging to the late Aimee de Heeren is available for lease at $90,000 per month. It sits on an ocean front parcel that sits next to the estate Donald Trump has on the market for $125 million.
--Artist/director Julian Schnabel has listed two apartments at his Palazzo Chupi building, a $27 million duplex and a $32 million triplex. It is our estate of the day later today.
--San Diego Padres pitcher Randy Wolf, who recently bought a house belonging to guitarist Slash has listed his Calabasas home for $4.25 million. Rumor has it that he may have already sold the home to another musician Richie Sambora of Bon Jovi.

From the LA Times Hot Property:
--Actress Teri Polo has listed her Manhattan Beach home for $2.559 million. The listing for the contemporary home is here.
--Frank Sinatra Jr. just purchased a home in the Beverly Hills Post Office area for $4.1 million.
--A home that once belonged to Deanna Durbin, who in 1939 won "a special Oscar" along with Mickey Rooney "for their significant contributions . . . as juvenile players," is now on the market at $10.5 million. The home was built in 1938 and has eight bedrooms. The listing is here.
--A West Hollywood home owned by Loretta Young and producer Tom Lewis for almost 30 years has come on the market for $2.985 million. The listing is here.

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From Berg Properties Celebrity Big Time Listings:
--Madonna's former house in Beverly Hills is listed for $17.495 million. The eight-bedroom mansion, shown here, is a Wallace Neff showplace that Madonna bought in 2000 for a reported $6.5 million from Diane Keaton, who had bought in 1996. Madonna listed the house in 2003 for $10.9 million and then reduced it to $8.9 million. The current owners recently refurbished the home. The listing is here.
--Spice Girl Melanie Brown has paid $3 million for a home in the Hollywood Hills, and has sold her Los Feliz home for an undisclosed price (the home she sold was listed at $1,499,000.
--Joely Fisher has reduced the price on her Encino home, down to $3.999 million. It was our estate of the day back June when it was listed at $4.75 million.
--Charlie Sheen's fiancee Brooke Mueller has sold her four-bedroom house in the Hollywood Hills for $2.317 million.
--The official purchase price on Anne Heche's house sale to Matt Olmstead was $3.66 million.
--A Mediterranean-style mansion in Los Feliz area that was owned by actor Lorenzo Lamas from 1996 until 1999 has sold for $4,150,000.
--A three-bedroom house in Beverly Hills that once was owned by the Monkees' Mike Nesmith has been reduced from $5,450,000 to $4,995,000. The property website is here.
--Jack Black has sold a 1,959-square-foot home in the Hollywood Hills for $1,210,000
--Former baseball star Hideo Nomo has sold his condo on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles for $1,200,000.
--A Bel-Air home once owned by Farrah Fawcett is listed for $4,195,000. The listing is here.
--The price for Ursa Major, the architectural beauty once owned by Wilt Chamberlain has been reduced from $11.5 million to $8,950,000. It was our estate of the day last December.
--Model Rachel Hunter and her hockey-player boyfriend Jarret Stoll have paid $3,645,000 for a house in Hermosa Beach.

From the Real Estalker:
--The Shabby Chic home of interior decorator Rachel Ashwell is for rent for in Malibu for $20,000 a month. The listing is here.
--It looks like designer Vera Wang's $35 million Park Avenue apartment has already gone to contract.
--Nic Cage has listed his Bel-Air manor for $35 million.
--Alex Band, of the band The Calling, has put his home in the Outpost Estates are of Los Angeles on the market for $2.995 million. The property website for the very charming for bedroom is here.
-Brad Garrett has dropped the price on his Hidden Hills home to $8,790,000.
--Damien Wayans, actor, director and nephew of Damon Wayans, has put his Los Angeles home on the market for $2.050 million. The listing is here.
--Linda Evans has listed her Beverly Hills home for rent for $14,500. The listing is here.

From the LA Times Hot Property:
--As we previously learned, Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne sold their Beverly Hills home to Christina Aguilera and hubby and have moved to Hidden Hills.
--Actress Denise Richards is also in Hidden Hills in a new home which had been listed for about $4.6 million.
--More Hidden Hills news, Melissa Etheridge already lived in the community but recently bought a larger house for $5.1 million.
--And one more Hidden Hills story, Graeme Revell, the award-winning film-music composer, just sold his home there for about $8 million.

From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:
--Pink Floyd musician Roger Waters has bought a five-story townhouse in New York for $14.995 million from Coach leather goods president Reed Krakoff.
--News anchor Campbell Brown and her political strategist husband Dan Senor are close to closing on a three-bedroom home in lower North Haven.
--Grey's Anatomy actress Chandra Wilson is buying a three-bedroom residence in Fifth on the Park, the 30-story condo complex going up in Harlem.
--Ex NFL player Tiki Barber is spending about $6 million to connect four adjacent condos at the Miraval complex at 515 East 72nd St.

Also from the NY Post:
--Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban have listed their Nashville home for $2.5 million. It is our estate of the day later today.



From the NY Observer's Manhattan Transfers:
--New York Rangers hockey player Scott Gomez has paid $3.2 million for a duplex penthouse at the Chelsea Mercantile on Seventh Avenue.
--Architect Thom Mayne has paid $2.675 million for a two-bedroom loft at 85 Mercer Street.
--Nobel-prize-winning novelist Orhan Pamuk has paid $1.8 million for an apartment at 355 Riverside Drive.

From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--Atlanta Hawks rookies Al Horford and Acie Law have both bought homes listed at about $1 million in gated communities on opposite sides of Atlanta. Horford bought a four-story Georgian-style townhouse in norther Atlanta. Law picked up a European-style single-family house in the southern part of the city.
--Actress Arlene Dahl's husband has listed their Sparkill, New York home for $8.5 million. The home was our estate of the day back in January.
--Professional golfer Justin Leonard has a tentative deal to sell his Dallas suburban home for close to his $6.8 million asking price.