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Sunday Real Estate Round-Up, 01/23/11

Filed under: Estates, Celebrity Shopping

From the LA Times:
--Chris Ursitti, chief executive of GreenHouse Holdings, a global energy and ethanol company in San Diego, has listed a house he built on spec in Pacific Palisades for $9.495 million. The listing is with Madison Hildebrand.
Actor and teen star Carlos Pena Jr. has bought a Mediterranean-style home in the San Fernando Valley for close to its $1.5-million asking price.
--Television writer Lyla Oliver has sold her Santa Monica home for $1.902 million.

From the NY Post:
--Jennifer Aniston was spotted touring an $8.75 million penthouse at 552 LaGuardia Place in the Village. The listing for the five-bedroom apartment is here.
--Jon Pollock, senior portfolio manager at Elliott Associates, bought three ninth-floor units last year and planned to merge them into an almost 8,500-square-foot mega-home at the Apthorp on the Upper West Side. He paid close to $14 million, but now he wants to sell. He's asking $17 million for all three units, or $11.5 million for two units he's already combined.
--Designers/reality TV couple Bob and Cortney Novogratz are redecorating 16 Minetta Lane, once home to late designer Robert Isabell, and holding a party there next week to publicize its return to the market with a $3.95 million asking price.
--Hedge-fund honcho Robert Jaffe has just purchased the five-story townhouse at 138 E. 71st St., which once belonged to Diandra Douglas, ex-wife of actor Michael Douglas for $7.25 million.
--Aaron Tighe, son of commercial real estate queen Mary Ann Tighe has just closed on a prewar co-op at 4 E. 72nd St. He and his wife, Kimberly, bought the four-bedroom, 4½-bathroom duplex for around $5.9 million.
--Jared Kushner has put his duplex at 21 Astor Place on the market for $4.1 million, and he and wife Ivanka Trump are getting ready to buy a four-bedroom, 4,200-square-foot penthouse at Trump Park Avenue. The unit is unofficially on the market for $16 million.

From TMZ:
--The Bel-Air home of Zsa Zsa Gabor is set to hit the market at $28 million.

From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--Billionaire software entrepreneur Tom Siebel has sold his 62,000-acre Montana cattle ranch. The N Bar Ranch had been listed at $45 million.
--Metro Networks founder David I. Saperstein has cut the of Hummingbird Nest Ranch, his approximately 125-acre equestrian estate in Southern California from $75 million to $49.5 million. It was our estate of the day back in 2007.
--Talent manager Sandy Gallin is contracted to sell his Bridgehampton, New York estate. The home was first listed for $32 million in 2009 but was most recently priced at $20 million.

Gallery: Sandy Gallin In Bridgehampton

From the Real Estalker:
--Dennis Quaid may have purchased a six-bedroom home in Austin, Texas that was on the market for $12.5 million.
--Queen Latifah may be renting Jane Fonda's Atlanta, Georgia loft which is still on the market for $2.5 million. it was listed at $4.5 million when it was our estate of the day back in May 2010.

Gallery: Jane Fonda In Atlanta, Estate of the Day

--Mel Brooks has listed a three-bedroom home in Santa Monica for $5.995 million. The listing is here.
--Will Smith and his wife Jada Pinkett Smith paid $910,000 for a five-bedroom home in Woodland Hills, California that is believed to have been purchased for family or friends.

From Chicago Breaking Business:
--Interior designer and talk show host Nate Berkus has listed his seven-room, full-floor condo Chicago's Gold Coast for $2.65 million. The listing is here.

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Ashlee Simpson's Stingray Skirt

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Filed under: Apparel, Celebrity Shopping

The updated version of Melrose Place is launching this fall promising as much soapy intrigue as the original. One of the stars, Ashlee Simpson Wentz was recently spotted in the striking outfit above featuring the high-waisted crown skirt by David Alexander. The skirt is almost reminiscent of the short skirts worn by Heather Locklear in the original but with an updated edge courtesy of leather details which highlight the curves of the female body. The skirt is available in stingray or gold leather and sells for $400.

Alexander himself could practically be a character on the show. The young designer (he's just 24) is the son of a former Dallas Cowboy cheerleader and beauty queen. Alexander went pre-law before deciding to follow his passion for fashion studying at FIDM and the Parsons New School of Design in New York City. He has already commanded young Hollywood's attention by dressing Khloe Kardashian, Vanessa Minillo and Britney Spears. We'll be seeing a lot more from him in the future.

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