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Sunday Real Estate Round-Up, 02/21/10

Filed under: Estates, Celebrity Shopping


From The Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--Giancarlo Giammetti, the longtime companion of Italian fashion designer Valentino has listed his Tuscan estate, shown above, for €18 million (about $24.7 million).

--Film financier Ryan Kavanaugh has sold his Malibu, California beach home to Todd Phillips, director of the film "The Hangover," for $9 million.
--HBO Co-President Richard Plepler and his wife, Lisa, have sold their home in western Connecticut for $2.65 million.

From ShelterPop:
A home used in the original "Beverly Hills, 90210" is on the market for $10.5 million. The property was used for the exterior shots of Donna, David and Kelly's apartment building during the later years of the show.

From the South Beach Real Estate Blog:
--Lil Wayne has listed his four-bedroom Miami Beach condo for $2.799 million.

From Homes and Properties UK:
--Comedian Ricky Gervais may be moving to New York but has no intention of selling his renovated London home.
--Also heading to NYC is historian Andrew Roberts who is looking for a four-bedroom Upper East Side apartment because his wife, Susan Gilchrist, has been appointed North American head of Brunswick PR group. The couple plan to keep their Grade II-listed Belgravia house in South Eaton Place.
--Controversial Scottish sculptor and writer Jimmy Boyle is selling Villa Jereca, his five-bedroom Marrakech riad, for £2.2 million through Quintessentially Estates. The listing is here.
--Actress Charlotte Riley, best-known for playing Cathy in the ITV mini-series Wuthering Heights, shares a West Kensington council flat with three actress friends but still longs for the countryside.

From the LA Times Hot Properties:
Palomino Hacienda, a home that Michael Jackson rented in Las Vegas for two years, is now on the market for $12.8 million.

--Two-time Stanley Cup winning hockey player Oleg Tverdovsky has purchased a Mediterranean home in Bel-Air for $5.4 million.
--A Malibu beach home once owned by Robert Redford has come on the market for $13.8 million.The listing is here.
--Music industry executive Phil Quartararo has listed his walled and gated Brentwood home for $13.25 million. The website for the Spanish Colonial Revival home is here.

From Zillow Blog:
--Plaxico Burress, the former NY Giants receiver who went to jail on a weapons charge is facing foreclosure on his home in Lighthouse Point, Florida.
--Jon and Kate Gosselin have finally sold their Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania home for $258,000 which is $22,000 less than they paid for the home in 2006.


From Move Trends:
--Julianna Marguiles has dropped the price on her Santa Monica home. When we checked it out as an estate of the day in 2008 it was listed at $4.5 million but it can now be had for $3.295 million.

--The house used in Ferris Bueller's Day Off has had a price cut. It was once listed at $2.3 million but is now at $1.8 million.

--The home used in the New Moon movie as the Cullen home has had a price cut. It was listed $3.298 million but is now at $2.998 million (Canadian).

--Greg Gaffin, the leader singer of the band Bad Religion has listed his home in Lansing, New York for $650,000.
--The LaLaurie Mansion, one of two homes Nicolas Cage once owned in New Orleans, is back on the market for $2.9 million,which is $1 million less than Cage originally listed the house for.

Great Gastby Rolls-Royce up for Auction

Filed under: Luxury Cars & Autos, Auctions


The 1928 Rolls-Royce (above) driven by Robert Redford in the big screen version of The Great Gatsby is being auctioned off by Bonhams during the Greenwich Concours d'Elegance in Connecticut on June 7. The 40/50hp Phantom I Ascot Dual Cowl Sport Phaeton with coachwork by Brewster is estimated at $150,000 - $200,000. Owned by Massachusetts collector Ted Leonard, who lent it for the 1974 film, the car is largely original with minimal restoration. It was however painted a buttery yellow and its leather upholstery died green to match the description in F. Scott Fitzgerald's original text: "It was a rich cream color, bright with nickel, swollen here and there in its monstrous length with triumphant hat-boxes and supper-boxes and tool-boxes, and terraced with a labyrinth of wind-shields that mirrored a dozen suns."

Sundance Institute, Charity of the Day

Filed under: Charity, Charity of the Day


Although there are plenty of causes, both locally and around the world, that need money for urgent and life-saving purposes, there is something to be said for giving a little energy and money to saving the arts as well. What is the world without beauty and creativity? One such charity is the Sundance Institute, founded by Robert Redford in 1981 as a way to "discover, support, and inspire independent film and theatre artists from the United States and around the world," and to get those works out to audiences. Perhaps most famous for its annual "Sundance Film Festival," the Sundance Institute has many programs and different ways to get involved so get inspired and check it out.

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