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From Cityfile's Buyers and Sellers:
--Vicki Rosen-Solomon, the widow of private equity exec Adam Solomon, is selling her co-op at 956 Fifth Avenue, shown above. The three-bedroom apartment is listed for $14.575 million.
--via Curbed, Dan and Cynthia Lufkin have cut their unique townhouse at 455 Central Park West. The former chapel, which first hit the market 18 months ago for $17.5 million is now listed for $12.5 million.

--via the Real Deal, Russian real estate investor Janna Bullock sold her townhouse on East 67th Street in January for $24.925 million. Now she's looking to sell her 21-foot-wide mansion at 14 East 82nd Street for $20 million.
--via Curbed, an 18th floor Museum Tower condo belonging to Dan Wise, the Arizona accountant arrested for running a Ponzi scheme back in April, is going up for auction. The one-bedroom, 1.5-bath apartment, which Wise bought for $1.45 million in 2006, is going on the auction block on Oct. 22nd with an opening bid of $750,000.
--Risa Meyer, the daughter of late socialite Kitty Meyer, has dropped the price of her condo at Trump Parc East. The three-bedroom apartment was first listed at $14.8 million and is now listed for $11.6 million.
-- Sam Siegal, an analyst at Bruce Kovner's Caxton Associates hedge fund, and his wife Randi, have paid $4.5 million for an apartment at 150 East 86th Street.
--via the NY Post, Chelsea Piers co-founder Roland Betts has put his 780-acre property near Norfolk, Conn. up for sale. Betts, who once hoped to build a golf club on the site, has listed the land and nine-bedroom home for $24 million.
--Luke and Julie Janklow have lowered the price of their West 12th Street townhouse again. It was first listed for $24.975 million in January and is now listed at $17.95 million.
--Shire Realty CEO Rena Shulsky has put her penthouse at 812 Fifth Avenue on the market for $11.75 million.
--Investor Enrique Foster Gittes keeps changing the price of his townhouse at 12 East 63rd Street. It is now listed for $23 million.
--Photographer Jade Albert has paid $2.595 million for a three-bedroom apartment at the Olcott at 27 West 72nd Street.

From the LA Times Hot Properties:
--Retired fashion designer Geary Roark has listed his Studio City home at $1,099,000. The listing for the Robert Byrd-designed storybook ranch is here.
--Film producer Jon Peters has sold a 6.5-acre residential lot in the Beverly Hills Post Office area for $12 million. This property which includes a 14-car underground garage and office was once listed for $39.5 million last year but was put back on the market in March for $19.995 million.
--A Bel-Air estate designed by Gerard Colcord is listed at $12.95 million. The home has previously been owned by Bob Newhart, soap star Deidre Hall and Univision's former CEO. The listing is here.

From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:
--Musician/artist David Byrne has been spotted checking out a $3.2 million three-bedroom unit at One York.
--Tennis ace Caroline Wozniacki, the runner-up in this year's US Open, recently checked out a three-bedroom, three-bathroom penthouse in Williamburg's new Edge development.
--Jean Thomas-Fox, the 1960s backup singer for legends like Ella Fitzgerald has sold her apartment at 88 Central Park West to hedge funder Paolo Pellegrini for close to $10 million. Thomas-Fox and her husband, writer Ray Errol Fox, have signed a contract to buy a two-bedroom in the Apthorp for around $2.5 million.
--Celebrity photographer Timothy White's 4,000-square-foot penthouse at 448 W. 37th St. is on the market for $4.9 million. The listing is here.

From the NY Observer's Manhattan Transfers:
--Walter Cronkite's former apartment at the UN Plaza will soon be up for sale. Joanna Simon, the listing broker says the two-bedroom co-op will hit the market "within the month" for $2.995 million.
--Theater and movie producer Marty Richards is still trying to sell his River House apartment. We first checked out this duplex when it was listed for $29 million. It's now listed for $13.5 million.

--Brian Brille, Bank of America's former head of investment banking who was named president of the bank's Asia-Pacific region three weeks ago, has put his apartment at Trump Park Avenue on the market for $14.75 million.
--Playwright Neil Simon and his wife Elaine have picked up their fourth apartment at the Ritz Tower on Park Avenue. The couple paid $1.225 million for the two-bedroom on the building's 14th floor.


From Newsday's Real LI:
--Bad Company drummer Simon Kirke and his wife, interior designer Lorraine Kirke, have dropped the price of their home in East Hampton. It went on the market for $14.95 million in 2007 and is now listed for $8.995 million.

From the Real Estalker:
--Whoopi Goldberg has bought a Colonial-style home on 2.4 acres in West Orange, NJ. It was originally listed for $2.999 million, Goldberg closed on the house for $2.8 million. Her NYC apartment remains on the market.

--Designer Domenico Dolce of Dolce & Gabbana has spent $29 million on two penthouse units at the "Sky Garage" building in New York City.
--Amaury Nolasco and Jennifer Morrison have picked up a home in the Laurel Canyon area of Los Angeles for $2.55 million.
--A home in the Beachwood Canyon area of Los Angeles rented by Sam Ronson is up for rent for $4,395 a month. The listing is here.
Sean Penn has picked up film producer Robert Chartoff's Cliff May designed Malibu home. The home was frst on the market in 2008 for $8.75 million. The price was later cut to $4.499 million. Penn paid a bargain rate of $3.8 million for the three bedroom home. His home in Ross, California remains on the market for $10 million.

From Berg Properties Big Time Listings:
--Dylan McDermott has put his Brentwood home on the market, it's our estate of the day later today.
--via Cityfile, actress Jamie-Lynn Sigler has sold her two-bedroom loft condominium unit in Manhattan's TriBeCa area for $2.9 million.
--Actress Michelle Forbes has placed her three-bedroom house in the Hollywood Hills, shown above, on the market for $1.15 million. The listing is here.
--Singer and actor Mac Davis has paid $4.9 milion for a t,098-square-foot house in Brentwood.

From the Real Estalker:
--Molly Sims has put her Hollywood Hills home on the market for $2.99 million. It was our estate of the day on Friday.
--Landscape designer Jay Griffith has put his 2.5 acre expanse in Malibu on the market for $3.9 million. The property includes a three-bedroom midcentury house, studio, vintage barn and an ocean view gazebo. The listing is here.
--via the NY Post, Mariah Carey is renting a house in East Hampton for $125,000 for one week. The home, Stone Meadow Farm is for sale and will be our estate of the day on Tuesday.

From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:
--Philip Seymour Hoffman and his longtime girlfriend, costume designer Mimi O'Donnell have picked up a three-bedroom loft in the West Village for $4.25 million.
--Rachel Ray's Hamptons deal is finally done. According to public records, she paid $2.1 million for her 6-acre place in the Shinnecock Hills area of Southampton and her husband, John Cusimano, was not listed on the deed transfer.
--Another megadeal in the Hamptons? Braden Keils' sources say a Middle Eastern investor is considering buying both the 115-acre Two Trees Farm in Bridgehampton and the adjoining 60-acre Three Ponds Farm. The two properties have a list price of $163 million.
--Entertainment mogul Edgar Bronfman Jr. has gone to contract to sell his Amagansett estate, which had a last asking price of $14.7 million.
--Myrna Ronson,the former wife of the late British developer Howard Ronson, has paid $7.75 million for a three-bedroom, 5½-bath duplex co-op at 4 E. 72nd St.
--Model YaYa DaCosta has bought a one-bedroom pad at a condo conversion on Riverside Drive in Hamilton Heights. The America's Next Top Model contender's unit is around 650 square feet and had a list price of $330,000.

From Newsday:
--Jets QB Chad Pennington's Long Island home is on the market for $3.95 million. It was our estate of the day on Saturday.
--Another former Jet's QB Vinny Testaverde's home in Oyster Bay Cove, NY is also up for grabs. That will be Monday's estate of the day.
--Retired Jet Curtis Martin took his Garden City penthouse off the market earlier this year, after having listed it for $3.099 million.
--Jets linebacker Bryan Thomas sold a property he owns in Long Beach earlier this year that he had listed for $680,000.
--Jets cornerback Dave Barrett has listed his Melville, NY townhouse for $899,000. The listing is here.

From the LA Times Hot Property:
--Sharon Stone has been unable to sell her Beverly HIlls home, now she's renting it out for $35,000 a month (she was originally asking $58,000 a month).
--Film producer and Modernist-house collector Michael LaFetra just sold one of his Modernist treasures, a mid-century modern three-bedroom in Brentwood for $3,501,500.
--Producer Gary Goetzman has bought a Sherman Oaks home for $4.1 million.

From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
-- Sean Penn and Robin Wright Penn have put their San Francisco-area home on the market for $15 million.
--Naomi Watts and Liev Schreiber have planned to relist two condominiums they'd planned to turn into one at New York's One Madison Park high-rise. Instead, they now intend to purchase a larger apartment at the development's planned annex. The two apartments are to be listed at $3.525 million and $4.15 million and occupy the entire 27th floor of the glass-tower luxury development.
--Seth Gerszberg, a founder of the fashion brand Ecko, last week sold a vacant Miami Beach parcel for $12.1 million.

From the NY Observer's Manhattan Transfers:
--1980s software magnate Peter Norton paid $6.8 million for a penthouse at The Greenwich on West 13th Street.
--Russian automobile and oil billionaire Boris Berezovsky has sold his 30th-floor apartment at Trump International on Central Park West for $7.55 million.
--Cliff Chenfeld, the lawyer and music entrepreneur behind the Kidz Bob concert tour paid $7.965 million for a 14-room, 5,200-square-foot loft at 219 West 81st Street last month but has decided he will likely put it back on the market soon.
--Morgan Hertzan, an ex-MTV executive who launched LX.TV, an online television luxury lifestyle brand and his wife, Beth, just spent $1.72 million on a condo at 240 West 98th Street.

From the NY Times:
--Linda Lavin, who was TV's "Alice" has picked up a one-bedroom apartment at 200 Central Park South. It was listed for $949,000.
--Big doings at New York's famous 740 Park Avenue building. Two apartments next door to each other are for sale, one for $38 million and one for $35 million and could be combined into one monster apartment of nearly 14,000 square feet, with nine bedrooms if the co-op board gives it the okay.