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Rush Limbaugh's Gaudy NYC Penthouse for Sale at $13.95 Million [UPDATE]

Filed under: Estates

It looks like Rush Limbaugh is making good on his threat to leave New York City because of the new tax hikes. The larger-than-life conservative commentator just listed his pre-war Fifth Avenue penthouse for sale at $13.95 million, Gawker reports. The gaudy 20th-floor penthouse (above) at 1049 Fifth Avenue, which Limbaugh purchased in 1994, features 10 rooms with expansive Central Park and Reservoir views and four terraces, two of which face the park. There's a double living room with a fireplace, a wood paneled library, large media room with a terrace, a kitchen with a breakfast room, a large dining room with two terraces, four bedrooms with en-suite baths, and his-and-hers dressing rooms and baths, each with an oversized tub and stall shower. In questionable taste are the hand painted mural ceilings and walls throughout by artist Richard Smith. Ditto the hand painted gold leaf moldings. The foyer entry floor is patterned Italian hand-cut marble with herringbone mahogany in the uncarpeted rooms, and walls are upholstered in Fortuny fabric. There's also a separate maid's room with bath on the third floor.

UPDATE: The asking price for Rush Limbaugh's Fifth Avenue Penthouse has dropped by $1 million. It is currently listed by Corcoran for $12.95 million.

Gallery: Rush Limbaugh on Fifth Ave.

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I'm Not Here, I'm Really Walking the Red Carpet

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Filed under: Celebrity Shopping, Cosmetics and Fragrance

NOT SOAP, RADIO, a beauty product company popular with celebs from Anna Kendrick to Penelope Cruz, has released a fabulous line of products we can use to pamper ourselves just like the stars.

I'm Not Here, I'm Really Walking the Red Carpet is a set of three items: Exfoliating Sugared Body Polish, Body Souffle Body Whipped Lotion, and Just Glow Dry Oil Perfume Spray in a series of "I'm Not Here, I'm Really ..." collections. Fans of the black and red currant, rose and jasmine blend Red Carpet set include Reese Witherspoon, Jennifer Aniston and Courteney Cox among others. For $59, you can have the same set -- and there's free shipping on orders over $50, as well as free samples available.

Our question is, do they use them for walking the red carpet, or for nights when they wish they were? Other collections include:

I'm not here, I'm really meditating in a zen garden -- lotus flower, cooling greens, ginger, melon
I'm not here, I'm really at the country club -- Champagne sugar: lemon, bergamot, dew fruit, pineapple, gardenia
I'm not here, I'm really up at a mountain retreat -- rhubarb, wild spearmint, jasmine, lily of the valley, vanilla
I'm not here, I'm really on holiday in Tuscany -- tangerine, neroli, bergamot, lime, sweet tea
I'm not here, I'm really island hopping -- coconut, lemongrass, vanilla, verbena, musk
I'm not here, I'm really on vacation in a quaint seaside village -- nectarine blossom, honey, peach, black currant, green mandarin

Those all sound like better places to be than our humble bathtubs. Let Not Soap, Radio transport you.

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Don Imus Asks $30 Million for Connecticut Mansion, Estate of the Day

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Filed under: Estates

Caustic radio personality Don Imus has just listed his waterfront Westport, Connecticut estate (above) for $30 million. The 10,000-sq.-ft. white clapboard "Greco-Georgian" Revival mansion features 16 rooms including six bedrooms and six baths, with classic white-painted wooden interiors, a library, and multiple bay windows, the Wall St. Journal reports. The four acre property also has a two-bedroom guest house and a two-bedroom gatehouse with parking for six cars.

The estate boasts 215 ft. of sandy beach frontage on Long Island Sound. Imus, 68, bought the property in 1997 for $4.6 million and finished building the house in 2000. If he does manage to get $30 million for it, he'll beat the price record for Westport - the tony town known for famed resident Martha Stewart - held by the $25 million sale in 2006 of talk-show host Phil Donahue's house, the Journal notes. The listing is here.

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Gallery: Don Imus in Westport

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American Airlines adding GrapeRadio

by Laura Malesich (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Luxury Travel & Hotels, Wine

Want an education on wine while flying to your next business trip? If you are aboard American Airlines then tune into GrapeRadio -- a podcast for oenophiles. Featuring prominent members of the wine business as well as tasting and buying tips, etiquette and varietal reminders, it will be the first wine-specific programming available on an airline. Apparently, GrapeRadio has been broadcasting online for a few years and already has a healthy following of 20,000 listeners nationwide. So here's to learning something they don't teach you in business school that may help further your career just by flying and listening along.

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