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From Cityfile's Buyers and Sellers:
--Eve Weinstein, the ex-wife of film mogul Harvey Weinstein, has lowered the price of her sixth-floor apartment at 1133 Fifth Avenue, shown above. It was first listed at $13.5 million and is now for sale for $11.9 million. The listing is here.
--A.R. "Tony" Sanchez Jr., the heir to a Texas oil and banking empire, has dropped the price of his apartment at the Metropolitan Tower at 146 West 57th Street. The five-bedroom apartment hit the market for $15 million last June and is now listed at $11 million. The listing is here.
--Samuel Nussbaum, an executive vice president at the insurance company WellPoint, has paid $2.095 million for a pied-à-terre at 70 Battery Place.
--via the NYT, entrepreneur Jerry Francesco and his wife, Lucille, paid $7.9 million for a penthouse at the Brompton on East 85th Street and are suing the building they used to call home, One Beacon Court.
--Tim Grumbacher, the former CEO of Bon-Ton department stores, and his wife Nancy have sold their co-op at 1133 Fifth Avenue. They purchased the three-bedroom apartment for $10.9 million in 2006 and first listed for $19.5 million last year, it sold for just $10.25 million.
--Architect Diane Procter has lowered the price of her NYC townhouse at 112 East 73rd Street. She bough the home with her husband Stephen Wang in 1994 for $750,000. The six-bedroom manse, which was transferred to Procter's name in 2006 and was listed for $16 million last October, but is now priced at $12.65 million. The listing is here.
--via the Real Deal, Bob Weinstein and his wife Annie Clayton have paid $15 million for a four-story, 6,580-square-foot townhouse at 39 West 70th Street.
--NBC chief Jeff Zucker's former duplex at 239 Central Park West which he sold to Marti Meyerson and her husband Jamie Hooper in 2006 for $15.7 million, is back on the market for $17.5 million. The listing is here.

From Berg Properties Big Time Listings:
Actress Melissa McCarthy (from Gilmore Girls and Samantha Who?) has put her home in the Oaks area of Los Angeles' Los Feliz neighborhood on the market for $2.495 million. The listing is here
--Olympic swimmer Lenny Krayzelburg's Hollywood Hills has gone to contract. It was last listed for $3.995 million.
--An estate in Los Angeles' Toluca Lake area that Bing Crosby once owned has been listed at $10 million. The listing is here.
--A three-bedroom, ranch-style house in the gated Summit neighborhood above Beverly Hills, that once was owned by Eddie and Alex Van Halen and was occupied by their mother until her death in 2005 is back on the market. The property had been sold for $1.5 million back then and has been given a remodel. At $2.789 million the listing says it's the cheapest home in the celeb-packed Summit area. The listing is here.
--Former Van Halen wife, Kelly van Halen has sold her five-bedroom home in Encino which was listed at $4.495 million when it was our estate of the day and was most recently at $3.975 million. Could the buyer be Bob Dylan?

From the Real Estalker:
--Actor Kevin Nealon and his wife Susan Yeagley have put their four-bedroom home in Manhattan Beach, California on the market for $3.25 million. The listing is here.
PR pro Lara Shriftman has put her West Hollywood home on the market for $2.85 million. The listing is here.
--Backstreet Boy Kevin Richardson has sold his Sunset Strip area house. It was listed at $3.977 million.


From the LA Times Hot Property:
Model turned home builder Cathleen Gallagher now has two homes on the market. She has dropped the price on three-story California Craftsman spec house from the $5.595 million it was listed at last November to $3.95 million. She also has a Provence-inspired custom five-bedroom that she designed on the market for $4.25 million.
--An Encino home built on nearly an acre of the former estate of legendary actor Clark Gable has come on the market at $4.2 million. The home is owned by William Morris legend Sam Haskell and his wife. The listing is here.
--Singer Leona Lewis has leased a home in the Hollywood Hills that was listed for nearly $9,000 a month.

From the Real Estalker:
--Producer Roger Birnbaum has listed his home on Summit Drive in Beverly Hills, shown above, for $16 million, even though records show he bought the home for $16.5 million in 2007. The listing is here.
--Comedian Chris Elliott has put his five-bedroom home in Ridgefield, Connecticut on the market for $1.689 million.
The famous Castillo del Lago estate, currently owned by commercial director Joe Pytka, has been listed for $14.95 million. The home, which was once reportedly lived in by Bugsy Siegel and was later owned by Madonna, is listed here.
--Rumor has it that Scarlett Johansson may soon list her home in the Outpost Estates area of Los Angeles for around $5,100,000 which is less than the $7,000,000 property records show she paid for the home.

From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--Former major-league centerfielder Devon White has cut the price on his Paradise Valley, Arizona mansion to $3.8 million a year after listing it for $4.7 million. The listing is here.
--Val Kilmer has put his New Mexico ranch on the market for $33 million.
--A pair of iconic Palm Springs homes are on the market, one owned by Cary Grant and one by Dinah Shore. We'll check them both out later today.

From Berg Properties Big Time Listings:
--Five for Fighting's John Ondrasik has listed his Encino home for $1.299 million. The listing is here.
--Actress Busy Philipps has sold her Hollywood home for $1.075 million which is almost $275,000 less than she paid for it in 2005.
Music producer Scott Humphrey appears to have a deal to sell his four-bedroom Hollywood Hills home which was listed for $2.695 million. It was our estate of the day last December.
An eight-bedroom house in Encino that once was owned by Kirstie Alley and later by Katey Sagal has been listed for $9.395 million. The listing is here.
--Dylan McDermott continues to cut the price on his Brentwood home. It was originally listed at $11 million when it was our estate of the day last August and is now listed at $6.9 million.
--Retired baseball star Eric Davis has put his four-bedroom house in Calabasas, California on the market for $2.399 million. The listing is here.

From Cityfile's Buyers and Sellers:
--Jane Beasley, the ex-wife of former GE chief Jack Welch, has put her condo at the Trump International up for sale for $28.8 million. The listing is here.
--Dr. Gary Roubin, an interventional cardiologist at Lenox Hill Hospital, and his wife Peta have gone into contract to sell their carriage house at 168 East 73rd Street which was most recently listed for $22 million.
--Ernst & Young executive Deborah Whitmore and her husband Kenneth paid $4 million for a penthouse condo at 140 West 22nd Street.
--Edwin Cohen, the founder of Carlin Ventures, has lowered the price of his three-bedroom apartment at 101 Central Park West for the third time since first listing it for $15 million last February. It's now priced at $10.75 million. The listing is here.
--via Curbed, author Gary Shteyngart has put his one-bedroom apartment at 575 Grand Street on the market for $450,000. The listing is here.
-- Attorney Bruce Kaye and his wife Deborah paid $7.8 million for a two-bedroom condo at 15 Central Park West less than a year ago and have now listed it for $11.9 million. The listing is here.
--via the NY Observer, Dr. Lindsay Rosenwald who once listed his four-bedroom apartment at Central Park West for $90 million is now renting it out for $75,000 a month.
--Haig Schneiderman, who owns the Knish Nosh knish chain and his wife Alison, have put their 4,000-square-foot apartment at 25 Central Park West on the market for $10.7 million. The listing is here.
--Hedge fund manager James Torrey and his wife Podie Lynch have closed on the sale of their duplex at 131 East 66th Street for $9 million. It was listed at $14.5 million last November and sold to John Heimann, a former exec at Merrill Lynch and his wife Maria-Cristina Anzola.
--Photographer Terry Richardson has paid $3.335 million for the three-story former fire station located at 185 Lafayette Street.
--Josh and Whitney Kroenke, the grandkids of Wal-Mart co-founder Bud Walton, have put their penthouse at 201 West 17th Street on the market for $2.995 million. The listing is here.

From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:
--Director Sam Mendes, Kate Winslet's husband, recently checked out the penthouse at 99 Jane St. The four-bedroom condo apartment is listed at $14.5 million. The penthouse currently belongs to money man Bruce Bent Jr, and his wife, Rebecca, a food writer. Jennifer Lopez, Kate Hudson and Meg Ryan have also looked at the penthouse.
--Britney Spears is renting a home in Alpine, New Jersey for $30,000 a month and is house hunting in the area looking at homes in the $20 million range.
--Comedian Lisa Lampanelli has paid $1.32 million for a two-bedroom condo at 2250 Broadway on the Upper West Side.

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From the LA Times Hot Properties:
Four-time Olympic gold medal winning swimmer Lenny Krayzelburg has put his bright white modern Sunset Strip-area home, shown above, on the market for $5.675 million. The virtual tour is here.
--Talk-show host Leeza Gibbons and her estranged husband, actor and architect Stephen Meadows, have listed their house in the Hollywood Hills at $7,395,000. We first saw this home back in 2006 when it was listed for just under $8 million. The eight-bedroom Mediterranean was built in 1926 and was once owned by Joan Crawford. The listing is here.
--Director Wolfgang Petersen has listed his Santa Monica home for sale for $3.95 million. It is our estate of the day later today.
--Milwaukee Brewers catcher Jason Kendall has listed a house he owns in Manhattan Beach at $7.3 million. The listing is here.
-- Rachel Ashwell, who created the Shabby Chic style, has listed her Brentwood home for sale at $4,395,000. Check out the Shabby Chic style at the listing here.

From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:
--The unnamed buyer of PH2001 is suing the Plaza residential limited partnership, developer El-Ad, the marketing arm of Stribling & Associates and others for breach of contract. That means that two of the six penthouses originally offered at the Plaza are in litigation. Right now about 25 Plaza residences are for sale.
--Freddie Mac CFO Anthony Piszel has put his Easton, Maryland home on the market for $4.975 million. It was our estate of the day on Friday.
--Nightclub boss JE Englebert says he and other residents in the new Gramercy Starck building on East 23rd Street aren't thrilled that the tenant in the retail space of the pricey building is McDonald's. He plans to sue.
--NASCAR Chairman Brian France has flipped his 15 Central Park West condo for an $8 million profit. He bought unit 34A a year ago for $10.793 million and has sold for $18.8 million.

From the Real Estalker:
--The Real Estalker Mama has heard a rumor that Google co-founder Sergey Brin and his wife Ann spent $8.5 million for a duplex in Manhattan's West Village.
--Lingerie model and Surreal Life star Caprice Bourret has put her home in London's Notting Hill neighborhood on the market. It was our estate of the day on Saturday.
--The Goldwyn mansion has just been listed. For $24 million you get nearly 11,000 square feet of Hollywood history. The Georgian style mansion on Laurel Lane was built in 1934 and entertained many of Hollywood's greats. The listing is here.
--Former Lehman's boss Joseph Gregory has put his Hamptons hideaway on the market for $32.5 million. I'll be checking it out as an estate of the day on Monday.
--"Girls Gone Wild" founder Joe Francis has been seen checking out La Villa Serena as a potential new playground for himself and his bevy of babes.
--Tina Sinatra has listed her home in the Beverly Hills post office area for $2.45 million. The listing is here.

From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--Actress Marsh Mason has put her New Mexico herb farm back on the market for $7.95 million which is about 30% below the original listing from last year. The listing is here.
--The Plaza Hotel's "Astor" suite has been listed for $55 million.
--Richard Holbrooke, who served as ambassador to the United Nations sold his Connecticut house for $1.125 million which is 25% less than the original listing.

From Newsday's Real LI:
--Jets coach Eric Mangini has sold his Garden City home for $2.225 million, taking a $75,000 loss on the property, he purchased the home for $2.3 million in 2006. Mangini and wife, Julie, purchased a six-bedroom Colonial in Morris County for $4 million.

From the NY Observer's Manhattan Transfers:
--Warner Music Group chairman-CEO Edgar Bronfman Jr. and his wife Clarissa have paid $28.5 million for the "Muppet mansion" an East 69th Street mansion was bought by Jim Henson in 1977 and turned into Muppets headquarters. It was on the market for $32 million, only three years after the current owners bought it from Jim Henson's estate for $12.4 million.
--Hedge fund manager Ray Iwanowski, just bought a 4,184-square-foot apartment at 823 Park Avenue for $13,567,500.
-- Some of the biggest multimillion-dollar real estate purchases in New York were made by executives at Lehman Brothers: In January 2007, the firm's chief executive, Dick Fuld, and his wife paid $21 million for a Park Avenue co-op, and a bunch of Lehman people bought in at 15 Central Park West: the co-head of Lehman Brothers Real Estate Partners, Raymond Mikulich, paid $17.9 million; Lehman CFO Erin Callan paid $6.48 million; the head of Lehman's European fixed-income sales, David Bizer, paid $5.3 million; and managing director Arthur Estey bought one of the building's biggest non-penthouse units for $16.9 million. Lehman's global head of investment management, George Herbert Walker IV, one of the president's cousins, paid $13.95 million for a townhouse at 6 East 10th Street in Greenwich Village.
-- Houston Rockets owner Leslie Alexander is picking up a place at Superior Ink, Robert A. M. Stern's new brick-and-stone, townhouse-and-apartment development on West 12th Street for around $25 million.
--Philadelphia Flyers and 76ers owner Ed Snider just sold his 36th-floor apartment at 15 Central Park West for $12.4 million, three weeks after he bought it for only $7.34 million.
--Zinc magnate Bill Flaherty and his wife, Tina Santi Flaherty, put the 10-room apartment on the market for $43 million. The listing is here(no good pics yet).