If you want to sell a this house attractive, why not also make a little money using it in film shoots? Today's home in Upper Brookville,NY was recently used in two episodes of the trendy television show "Gossip Girl" but has a scandalous past all its own. It will be showcased in the upcoming season which will include scenes from a "white party." The home has also been used in a Kohl's commercial and Ludacris filmed an AT &T commercial in June. The home is certainly party ready with a foyer with dual wraparound staircases perfect for dramatic descents, a 65-foot ballroom, a gym and a saltwater swimming pool that sits in a greenhouse-like glass enclosure. The five-bedroom home is on five acres which back up to an arboretum.

This estate may also be familiar to long-time readers of this column, in fact it was an estate of the day in 2007. That's when the home was seized as part of "Operation VIN City," an 18-month investigation that busted up the largest stolen car ring on the East Coast. It was the home of ringleader Michael Pescatore and was sold at auction by the Treasury Department on March 22. Real estate agent Kim Greenberg and her fiancé, real estate developer, Fred Rudd picked up the home for $8.3 million which is pretty close to what two sharp commenters guessed it would go for in my 2007 post.. Now it's all prettied up and on the market for $12.9 million.

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It's hard not to envy Mariah Carey's Hamptons adventures. Last summer she made herself cozy in Tommy Hilfiger's tribute to the tasteful use of orange and this summer Braden Keil of the NY Post reports that Mariah is renting Stone Meadow Farm in East Hampton for on week for $125,000 (less than half of the reported $350,000 she spent on Hilfiger's pad but that was for a month).

Like Hilfiger's place was, this one is also up for sale. Stone Meadow Farm is on eight acres and has a 18,000 square foot house with 10 bedrooms and 12.5 bathrooms done up in white and dark brown with white walls and furnishings and dark wood floors and wood tables. The shingled expanse includes a 3500 sq ft finished lower level with a spa and media room.

The grounds include two separate cottages to house guests or staff as well as stone courtyards, large patios, a heated Gunite pool and a tennis court. The barn can stable five horses and there are ample riding fields. This home is listed for $19.95 million.

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Another tremendously expensive property has gone on the market in the Hamptons. Braden Keil's Gimme Shelter column in the NY Post reported on today's estate, a 12-bedroom home that is nearly 18,000 square feet. The property is owned by Juergen Friedrich, who ran the European division of Esprit sportswear and has spent a great deal of money updating the home, which was built in 1902 and designed by Grosvenor Atterbury. The country home sits on 9.11 acres that include old trees, flowering shrubs, evergreen perimeters, rose gardens. indoor pool, outdoor pool with pavilion, tennis court, paddle court, gymnasium, carriage house and a four-car garage. At nearly 3,000 square feet, the master bedroom suite is larger than many homes. What may hurt it on the real estate market is that it is not on the water. But if you can live without that, it's a pretty impressive property. It is listed at $67.5 million.

Rentals in the Hamptons are already getting scarce but those with the money can buy this historic waterfront estate on Quantuck Bay and offer the perfect summer vacation for family and friends.

Henry Bacon, once with McKim, Mead & White, and best known for his design of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C.,was commissioned to design this historic shingle-style manor. In an extensive three-year renovation in the mid 1990s, the architectural details, floors and fixtures were carefully restored and all the luxuries of modern-day living were added.

The 10.37 acre estate is completely private, bordered on the front by 64 century-old European pruned Catalpa trees. The back border stretches across more than 1,000 feet of waterfront, complete with deep-water dock.

The main residence is around 16,000 square feet on three floors with nine bedrooms, nine full and two half baths, six original fireplaces and 5,000 square feet of hand-pegged mahogany decks and brick & bluestone terraces. There are water views from 22 of the 24 rooms.

The grand entry foyer has a three-story hand carved staircase that leads through the reception gallery to a formal living room with a fireplace as well as a banquet-sized dining room with a fireplace and murals recreated from the works of William Merritt Chase and Childe Hassam, who painted in the area more than a hundred years ago.

Other living areas include a billiards room, a sunroom and a chef's kitchen with a large dining area surrounded on three sides by water views. The ground floor also has a pantry with espresso bar, an office, two powder rooms and a large laundry room. The downstairs cantina has a temperature & humidity controlled wine cellar.

In addition to the sprawling 1,000 square foot master suite, which has two large mahogany decks plus his & her baths and dressing rooms; the second floor has a center hall with adjacent office with covered mahogany deck, a living room and three bedrooms with baths.

The third floor has an oversized living room with a mahogany deck and vaulted ceiling, five bedrooms and four baths, an exercise room, a walk-in cedar closet and a laundry room.

There is also an original 2,000 square foot poolside carriage house covered in century-old grape vines that has been updated to include his & her baths and dressing rooms and a full service kitchen. Other buildings include an oak paneled guest cottage, oversized four car garage and a two-story three-bedroom and bath gardener's house with a separate driveway. The grounds include recreation and meditation areas, a Lord & Burnham greenhouse, a Har-Tru tennis court and a heated gunite pool with waterfall spa all set amidst acres of expansive lawns and gardens . It is listed with Mark Roter (631 288 5233) and Marcia Altman (631 288 5004) Co-Exclusive Brokers Brown Harris Stevens, Westhampton Beach for $39 million.

Today's estate is classic upstate New York. The Wiccopee House in East Fishkill was built in 1894 and redesigned in 1929 by Aymar Embury II who was best known for designing the Brooklyn Bridge and Central Park Zoo. Th three story colonial has a traditional white clapboard exterior with black shutters with a wooden elliptical fan over the front door and a widow's walk. There are over 7,000 square feet of space including a beautiful formal library with built-in book shelves and fireplace, a study with hand painted tiles surrounding the fireplace and half round book shelves, and a drawing room with French doors to the side terrace. The formal dining room fills out the window-ringed half round and the kitchen has obviously had a redesign with state of the art appliances. Upstairs there are four bedrooms and a large master suite in the process of being renovated. The third floor is home to a game room, bedroom, bath (in progress), and a storage area. The land is nearly 18 acres with lawns, gardens, an in-ground pool with a cabana, clay tennis court, paddocks and a carriage house with two bedrooms. It is listed at $2.495 million.

I first heard about Sand Dollar Development's plans to turn the Warner LeRoy estate in Amagansett, NY around this time last year. This Southwood Court home was the Hamptons Cottage & Gardens "idea house" which was on display this summer. The 6,500-square-foot house has six bedrooms and was inspired by an affluent young hedge fund manager with a wife and child. The interiors are the work of 20 designers and the editors of Hamptons Cottage & Gardens. Unfortunately we only have five pictures but the highly designed home reminds me a bit of Kelsey Grammer's Bridgehampton home. This one is listed at $6.75 million.

From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:
--Naomi Campbell has finally sold her Park Avenue apartment for below last asking price of $4.95 million. Campbell has bought a one-bedroom in the Cipriani Residences and is about to go to contract on a large two-bedroom in the high $2 million range.
-- J. Christopher Flowers, a former Goldman Sachs executive, has spent $89 million on multiple Upper East Side residences in just the past two months. First he paid a record New York price of $53 million for a 25-room townhouse, then he spent $19 million last month for a duplex co-op and finally he closed on a 21-room townhouse at 12 E. 73rd St.
--A $65 million state is listed for sale in Sagaponack in the Hamptons. The15-acre oceanfront/pond-front estate consists of six contiguous parcels, with more than 500 feet of direct oceanfront. The property has a public road going through it which makes it better for a developer than for someone looking for a single estate. The property also includes a five-bedroom house with a pool. The listing is here.
--In South Florida, the residents of Briny Breezes Mobile Home Park will be become millionaires if they agree to sell a 43-acre tract of oceanfront land where their trailer homes are parked. The board of the park has approved the sale pending ratification by the residents. The buyers, Boca Raton-based Ocean Land Investments, Inc. are offering $510 million for the property which will be split among the 488 owners.

From the LA Times Hot Property:
--Matthew McConaughey has put his Sunset Strip hideaway, behind gates, for nearly $3.3 million. The five-bedroom home which was built in the 1970s is already in escrow. An adjacent property that the actor owns is for sale for t $1.6 million.
--Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, has purchased a four-bedroom Malibu home listed at close to $10.5 million. The property also has a two-bedroom guesthouse and guest apartment.
--A Hollywood Hills home that once belonged to Rock Hudson is on the market for $1.989 million. The two-bedroom home was built in 1949. It's our estate of the day this afternoon.
--Dago Gonzalez, a video director who has worked with Madonna has purchased a West Hollywood home from interior designer James Magni for $1.3 million.

From the NY Observer's Manhattan Transfers:
-- All-Star third baseman David Wright has gone to contract for a 4,109-square-foot penthouse at Infinity Flats, a condo development on 21st Street. The full-floor apartment was listed for $6.5 million but Wright apparently paid less. Tom Brady has also been spotted checking out the building.
-- Lawyer Marc Bern paid $8.75 million for an eight-room setup at 944 Park.
--Ad man Martin Puris sold his 79th Street duplex to billionaire Christopher Flowers for a reported $19 million. Puris paid $5.8 million for a two-bedroom apartment at the 160 East 72nd Street co-op.

From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--Fiber-optics pioneer David Huber has paid $14.9 million for a home in Naples, Fla. and has put his house in Glenwood, Maryland for $1.3 million.The listing for the five-bedroom brick Maryland home is here.
--Seattle Seahawk Deion Branch has purchased a four-bedroom home in Kirkland, Washington for $1.7 million.
--The founder of the defunct online retailer Cyberian Outpost, Darryl Peck, has sold his Connecticut home for $3.125 million, which is nearly $2 million less than its 2003 asking price. Peck and his wife, Anne, bought the property in 1993 for $625,000 and added on to it. expanded the existing 3,000-square-foot house.

From the NY Observer's Manhattan Transfers:
--Painter Buffie Johnson's estate has sold a three-story loft building at 102 Greene Street for over $9 million.
--Filmmaker and son of Roy Licthtenstein, Mitchell Lichtenstein paid $2.65 million for an 1848 Greek Revival brownstone at 120 West 12th Street in 2003 has sold it for $7.25 million to hedge-fund man Oskar Lewnowski.

From the NY TImes Big Deal:
--We've heard about the troubles with the Stanhope before, looks like it is an ongoing situation with only a few buyers plunking down over $10 million for apartments. The latest plan is to create some sexy model apartments to attract new buyers.
--Manhattan House, a luxury apartment complex, is the site of the most expensive condo conversion ($1.1 billion) in New York and may have contributed to the death by pneumonia of one of its residents, Martin Burwick, who was in his 90s. The remaining residents are still fighting eviction.
--Deals involving two Harlem town houses were stopped earlier this month when Edward Myers Jr., a longtime Harlem real estate investor, refused to sell his properties to buyers represented by the Corcoran Group because of recent complaints of fair-housing law violations in Corcoran's Brooklyn Heights office.

From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:
--Documentary filmmaker Alexandra Pelosi, daughter of Rep. Nancy Pelosi, has spent $1.425 million for a two-bedroom apartment at 108 Fifth Ave.
--Music composers Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman have listed their three-bedroom apartment for $5.7 million.
--Hamptons broker Tara Newman has sold the same Sag Harbor mansion for the third time - this time bringing in $6,850,000 for the Hannibal French House, built in 1875 and designed by Stanford White's mentor, Minard Lefevre.
--Developer Stephen Ross, chairman of the Related Companies is selling his prewar apartment at 956 Fifth Ave. to Bruce Beal, a Related executive vice president, for $10 million.
--Coscan, a company that is building townhouses in Pompano, Florida, has introduced the College Tuition Incentive Program. When you buy a home, you receive a free four-year college education for one child or grandchild at any Florida state school or community college.
--Vince Vaughn has just paid $12 million for a 7,880-square-foot duplex penthouse in Chicago. The new apartment was originally listed for $10.6 million.

From The Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--Boxer Oscar De La Hoya is looking to sell his retreat and training facility in Big Bear Lake, Calif. for $2.5 million. The listing is here for the property which includes a 3,900-square-foot main house and a 3,262-square-foot three-bedroom guest house. The four-car garage, which De La Hoya used as a gym, has a steam room, office and murals that depict significant moments in the boxer's career.
--Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis is looking to sell an oceanfront home in Florida for $10.9 million. Lewis bought the 6,788-square-foot home in March 2004 for $5.2 million. The listing is here.
--Sports-team executive Joel Glazer and his wife, Angela, have sold their house in Palm Beach for just under $13 million.

From Forbes Movers and Shakers:
--Television writer/producer Frank Lupo has put his Pacific Palisades home on the market for $3.25 million. The home, shown above, has five bedrooms, a pool and an outdoor entertaining area. The listing is here.

From the LA Times Hot Property:
--Singer Michelle Branch has listed her Calabasas home at close to $3.3 million.
--Author Nancy Taylor Rosenberg has put her Marina del Rey home on the market at $2.1 million.
--Norm Pattiz, the founder and chairman of Westwood One, and his wife, DJ Mary Pattiz, have sold their Beverly Hills-area home for $20 million.
--A Lake View Terrace ranch once owned by movie mogul Cecil B. DeMille is for sale at $14.8 million. The listing is here.

From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:
--A Manhattan Supreme Court judge has prohibited the sale of Dr. Nicholas Bartha's townhouse at 34 E. 62nd St. due to pending lawsuts.
--THe MTV VMA Style Villa at the Bryant Park Hotel included model for Trump's newest project, the Trump Grande Ocean Resort & Residences in Sunny Isles Beach, Fla.,
--The potential owner of the former Fifth Avenue co-op apartment of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis still hasn't been approved by the board yet so no deal so far.
--Eve Weinstein has dropped the price on her duplex at 88 Central Park West to $23 million, not a surprise since she has already bought new digs.
--The Park Avenue apartment of the late Evelyn Annenberg Jaffe Hall is being sold. The full-floor Park Avenue apartment had a a last asking price of $23.75 million,

From the LA Times Hot Property:
--Priscilla Presley has sold her Arrowhead house for close to its $2.5-million asking price.
--Yet another sports celeb moves to Manhattan Beach. Jeff Garcia, the backup quarterback for the Philadelphia Eagles, and his girlfriend, Carmella DeCesare have purchased a three-level house for about $2.8 million.
--Tom Joyner has bought a home in Beverly Hills for close to its $5.4-million listing price.
--"American Idol" music director-bandleader Rickey Minor and his wife, Karen have bought a condominium in Hancock Park for $910,000.

From The Real Estate Journal:
--The MGM Mirage is asking $28 million for a Las Vegas home once owned by casino magnate Steve Wynn. The MGM Mirage bought the house as part of its purchase of the Mirage Resorts. Peek inside later, it's our estate of the day.
--The Hawaii home of Sidney Frank, who created the successful Grey Goose vodka brand, was recently sold for $10.5 million to a group of investors who then re-sold it for an undisclosed sum.
--Susan Sontag's Manhattan penthouse, shown above, has sold. It had an asking price of $3.75 million.

As we mentioned earlier in our real estate round-up, NBC personality Stone Phillips is eager to ditch this lovely penthouse. We thought we'd help him out by listing it as our estate of the day. Phillips and his wife recently cut the price on this  two-bedroom, three-level penthouse with views of  Central Park, the skyline and the Hudson River. The apartment has a 300-square-foot terrace with an outdoor sound system and landmarked facade obelisk sculptures. The kitchen has oak cabinets and a heated floor. The dining room has leather paneled walls and the living room has herringbone oak floors an ten-foot ceilings. It is all yours for $4.45 million. After the jump, an apartment as handsome and bland as the anchor himself.

From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:
--Jewelry designer David Yurman and his wife Sybil are doing the multiple apartments in one building thing, this time paying  $3.125 million for a second-floor apartment in their Greenwich Street building. The new unit has two bedrooms and they already own a triplex loft with four bedrooms and  a 4,000-square-foot roof terrace.
--One of Jackie Kennedy Onassis' childhood summer homes is on the market for $25 million. Lasata is on 6.4 acres on Further Lane in East Hampton. We like it so much it's our estate of the day later on today.
--Gerald Schwartz, the chairman and CEO of Toronto-based Onex Corp., has paid $18.25 million for an oceanfront home on Nantucket. Sandhill is a circa 1860s, eight-bedroom home. You can see a picture here.
--Robert Kraft, owner of the New England Patriots, has bought in at the Plaza.
--A new luxury co-tel will be going up on Fifth Avenue. A 56-story building will be going up at 400 Fifth Ave.
--The former Westchester home Dr. Herman Tarnower, the Scarsdale Diet doctor has been demolished so that a couple of $6 million spec homes can be put up there.
--Naomi Campbell is out cruising for apartments on the Upper East Side, she is looking for a place with separate maid's quarters (it's so much harder to assault them when they are in other rooms).
   
From the NY Observer's Manhattan Transfers:
--We mentioned earlier this week that Contact Music reported the price drop on Britney's New York loft but it was actually reported first here.
 --Hockey player Mark Messier has sold his his 3,300-square-foot apartment for $3.047 million.
--Another celebrity price drop, Bob Guccione's mansion, shown above, once listed at $99,999,999 is selling for a far more reasonable $45 million.
 --Over at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel  the onetime home of Mark Swartz, the former chief financial officer at Tyco, has been sold for $16.75 million and the duplex penthouse, owned by Oracle executive Roger Bamford, was recently sold for just shy of $20 million. The NY Observer reports that the 9,455-square-foot apartment on the 23rd floor is for sale but it looks like it has already been sold.

The LA Times reports that Tim Curry's former home in the Los Feliz hills is for sale for $4.3 million. The listing for the colorful Mediterranean style home is here.

From the LA Times Hot Property:
--Rick Dees and his wife actress Julie McWhirter have put their Toluca Lake home on the market for  just under $6 million. The four-bedroom home was built in the 1930s and was once owned by Bette Davis. The listing (no pics) is here.
--Rick Gomez who is on the TV show "What About Brian" sold his Silver Lake home for slightly more than its $939,000 asking price and bought a Los Feliz home for $1.5 million.
--Maurice Greene, the 2000 Olympic Games 100-meter-dash champion has put his Chatsworth home on the market for $3.1 million. The listing for the home known as the Stream house is here.
--David Permut, producer of "Face/Off" and "Dragnet," has put his condo on the market at close to $1.35 million. The listing for condo is here.

Today's estate is an older beauty. Pointe Breeze is located in Larchmont, New York and was built in 1892. The home sits on 1.6 acres in Larchmont, New York and has harbor views. The home has been lovingly renovated and. The traditional home has wide porches, a large stone fireplace,and lots of beautiful woodwork details. The seven-bedroom home is 8059 sq. ft. and the grounds include your own stone jetty, private beach, private dock, a carriage house, and a gunite pool and spa. It is listed at $12.9 million. Pictures of this classic East Coast beach house after the jump.

From the LA Times Hot Property:
--Another Wallace Neff house (Brad and Jen's house is also a Neff)  has hit the market. This time Bob Newhart is selling one. it's a five bedroom home on 1.3 acres. Newhart and his wife bought it in 1990 for $4.2 million. Now they are asking $22 million. Wow.
--Michael Milken, the junk-bond king has purchased a one-bedroom, 1,200-square-foot unit in the celeb-infested Sierra Towers. The condo had an asking price of $1.65 million.
--Reagan Silber, who is part of  Edge Group which is developing a $2.5 billion condo/casino complex in Las Vegas, has sold his Bel-Air home for $25 million. He bought the home 2001 for $6 million and remodeled it.
--The Beverly Hills house built in 1928 for  actress Ruth Chatterton and her husband Ralph Forbes has sold for $6.4 million.
--Michael Corbett, host  "Mansions and Millionaires" on "Extra" has sold a Palm Springs house he renovated and put on the market for $1 million. He  is also the author of a book called "Find It, Fix It, Flip It" and gives seminars on the subject.

From the NY Post Gimme Shelter:
--  Billionaire Ron Burkle wants to spend "up to $50 million" for a larger Manhattan apartment. Given the market something tells me this won't be a problem. He looked at one of our favorites, 704 Broadway, famous for its rooftop pool which was used in a  "Sex and the City" episode. The apartment has now been temporarily pulled after at least a year on the market. Burke also tried his luck at Trump World Tower but his offer for a 17,000 square-foot duplex was rejected.
--George Clooney is filing in Bedford New York at a Westchester mansion that is on the market for $18 million (shown above). The listing is here. Clooney goes to Bedford over the next few days.
--A 50-acre plot of land in the Hamptons has sold for $33 million to a developer.

From the NY Times Big Deal:
--House hunting is tough even for billionaire, François Pinault was turned down at 50 Gramercy Park North after a long negotiation. Apparently Mr. Pinault, who owns Christie's  had a lot of demands.
--Yet another fussy billionaire, David Geffen has paid $31.5 million for an apartment that was originally listed at $39 million. The apartment is  on the top two floors of 810 Fifth Avenue, at 62nd Street, the other part of a triplex once owned by Nelson A. Rockefeller.
--NFL commissioner  Paul Tagliabue, and his wife, Chandler, sold their Park Avenue co-op in January to Marne Obernauer Jr., an owner of the Colorado Rockies baseball team. The three-bedroom apartment, at 885 Park Avenue, at 78th Street, was listed for $9 million. He bought a much smaller co-op which was listed for $3.5 million.

From the NY Observer's Manhattan Transfers:
--Michael Calderone takes a long look at 30 Crosby. Now that Courtney Love has left the building, those in search of pricey but less high-profile digs are quietly clustering around 30 Crosby. Maybe this means there is hope for Lenny Kravitz's home which is undergoing a redecoration before being listed again.

We keep hearing about the real estate doings at the full-service condo complex. One Beacon Court in New York. Movie director Joe Roth and Avon heiress Sandra McConnell have both bought in but you could trump them both by picking up this beauty. The huge terraced penthouse has 12 rooms including five bedrooms with  8,687 square feet of interior space and over 2,000 square feet of terrace. The main reason to purchase this penthouse is the floor-to-ceiling windows that offer breathtaking views Central Park and the skyline and beyond. It is listed at $31.25 million. More views of a lifetime after the jump.