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Nicole Murphy might be most famous for being Eddie Murphy's ex-wife (and now Michael Strahan's fiancee) but she also had a career as a model and now has launched her own line of jewelry. Murphy and her business partner Yolanda Braddy created Friendship, Love and Peace, a line of necklaces and bracelets composed of beads in a variety of materials. Prices range from under $100 for simple lava stone bead bracelets to over $6,000 for a knotted bracelet with champagne diamond-covered beads. The designs are meant to appeal to both men and women and the different textures give the pieces an organic tactile quality. The jewelry can be ordered online and is set to appear in boutiques and department stores later this year. Stars that have worn the pieces include Adam Lambert and Slash.

On the market, off the market, and back on again, We've been seeing Nicole Murphy, ex-wife of Eddie Murphy, try to sell her home in the Calabasas area of Southern California since 2007. It's hard to say why this one hasn't sold but the LA Times Hot Property column reports that she's trying again.

The home in The Oaks gated community has seven bedrooms and a Spanish hacienda style that includes high vaulted ceilings, crown molding, custom stone work, hand painted tiles, floor to ceiling windows, arched walk ways, distressed hardwoods, terra cotta flooring, and hand-forged iron light fixtures and railings. The open family room includes a wet bar and wine cellar and a home theater offers stadium seating. The master suite has a formal entry with travertine floors, a balcony, two walk in closets, his and hers vanities, a spa and a large walk-in shower. The grounds provide places to play with a pool and spa, a barbeque area with a refrigerator, ice maker, warming drawer and wet bar and a casita with a full kitchen and an indoor and an outdoor fireplace, fountains and walking paths with mountain vista views. It has been listed as high as $9.995 million in the past but is now listed at $8.495 million and may need more of a price cut to finally move into the sold column.

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From the NY Observer's Manhattan Transfers:
--A four-story Upper East Side townhouse 152-156 East 81st Street, shown above, has gone on the market for $45 million. It has a a 3,000-square-foot garden, 38-foot-wide drawing room. two libraries and one sitting room; a parlor-floor dry bar and a "wine cellar/grotto" in the basement. The listing is here.
--Moby is an investor in a a four-floor, six-room, three-bedroom unit at Landmark 17 which was sold to gas broker Javier Loya and his interior designer wife Lucinda for $4.35 million.
--Michael Novogratz's a former Goldman Sachs partner who is behind Fortress Investment Group and officially became a billionaire last February his company went public once rented a 5,000-square-foot loft at 400 West 14th Street that had listed for $37,500 per month. The hedge fund executive's family even made changes to the rental. Now they've moved to their renovated Tribeca apartment and the their old apartment is listed at $29,000 a month. Check out the listing here.

From the Real Estalker:
--Stephen Dorff has listed his Chelsea apartment. It was our estate of the day on Friday.
--Faith Hill and Tim McGraw have listed their Beverly Park estate, it is our photo-heavy estate of the day later today.
----Lawyer Chris Darden has put his Tarzana home on the market for $2.199 million.
--Madison Hildebrand, a real estate agent who appears on Bravo's Million Dollar Listing show has listed his Malibu townhouse for $1.27 million.


From the LA Times Hot Property:
--Ving Rhames has listed a five-bedroom home in Brentwood. It was our estate of the day on Saturday.
--American pop artist Edward Ruscha has listed his Malibu beach house for $7.15 million. The listing is here.
--Barbi Benton, Hugh Hefner's former live-in girlfriend, Hee Haw star and frequent Fantasy Island and Love Boat guest star, has listed her Bel-Air home with her husband, George Gradow, a real estate developer.The pair live in Aspen and have rented the Bel-Air home to a variety of celebrities including Prince, Mariah Carey and Michael Caine. The property website for this elaborate home is here.
--Nicole Murphy, Eddie Murphy's ex-wife has re-listed her Calabasas house, asking $8.495 million. Last October it was on the market at $9.95 million. The listing is here.
--The Beverly Hills estate of three-time Oscar-winning songwriter Ray Evans is listed for sale at $9.995 million. Evans, with his partner Jay Livingston penned "Que Sera, Sera," "Silver Bells" and "Buttons and Bows." He lived in this mid-century modern house for more than 50 years. It's a real beauty, check out the property website.
--The owners of Stonepine the Stonepine Estate Resort in Carmel Valley, Gordon and Noel Irwin Hentschel have put their longtime Bel-Air home on the market for $18 million. The French Normandy-style home also rents for $65,000 a month. The listing is here.
--Beck has listed his Malibu home for $2.399 million. The listing is here.
--Tori Spelling has listed her home in the Westwood area of Los Angeles for $2.395 million.

From Berg Properties Big Time Listings:
--Actress Annabeth Gish has paid $1.65 million for a 1,476-square-foot house in Valley Village.
--A seven-bedroom house in Sherman Oaks once owned by model Rachel Hunter has been listed for $3.495 million. The property website is here.
--A five-bedroom home in Encino where Ashley and Mary-Kate Olsen spent a good amount of their youth is on the market for $2.795 million. The listing is here.
Public records reveal that Brad Garrett got $7,500,000 for his five bedroom home in Hidden Hills.

From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:
--Alexis Stewart has relisted her bright white TriBeCa apartment at the same price, $12.4 million, with a new broker. The listing is here.
--A 16-room duplex at 1030 Fifth Ave. has been reduced by $13 million since it first went on the market last June for $47.5 million. The owners are still set to make a profit though, they paid just $2 million for it in the 1980s. The listing for the now $34.5 million apartment is here.
--Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit has sold a four-bedroom co-op at 300 E. 85th St. to Pantelis Apessos, a fellow Citigroup executive for $2.25 million.
--John Paulson, a hedge-fund manager who pocketed as much as $3 billion last year on bets against subprime mortgages, had a buyer with a signed contract walk away from his $16.9 million listing on Ox Pasture Road in Southampton. The home is still on the market, the listing is here. Meanwhile Paulson has spent more than $41 million for a 10-acre estate down the street known as Old Trees.

From the Wall Street Journals' Private Properties:
--The former home of Truman Capote in the Hamptons recently went on the market for $14.6 million.
--In Tel Aviv, two high-floor apartments in a planned 27-story condominium designed by architect Richard Meier have gone to contract for about $15 million each.
--James Guercio, who produced early albums by the rock group Chicago, has placed a large piece of Wyoming land up for sale for $75 million. The property has more than 80,000 acres including the legendary OW, V Bar C, Pitchfork, Wolf and LX Bar Ranches along with two downtown Sheridan office buildings, and the old Birney Store & Saloon.The listing is here.

From Newsday's Real LI:
Socialite and actress Jennifer Creel and her ex-husband Lawrence have sold a five-year-old, 3,500-square-foot home on Fisher's Island for $3.05 million.

From the International Herald Tribune's Raising the Roof:
--The Montreal Ritz Carlton has officially started selling 50 new residences starting at $1.75 million for the apartments, which range from 1,060 to 5,640 square feet. The apartments are scheduled for completion in 2010.
--Cacique, the $800 million development in Costa Rica being developed by AOL founder Steve Case has been delayed and now won't break ground until 2010, at the earliest.