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From the LA Times Hot Properties:
--The Bel-Air home of director and artist Stephen Verona is for sale $4.395 million. The red tile-roofed villa, shown above, includes gardens and a gazebo. The property website is here.
--Television writer Daniel Freudenberger has listed his historic Cheviot Hills home for $3.695 million. The listing is with Ben Lee Properties.


From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich has paid $19.5 million for a Tuscan-style home in the Hollywood Hills.
--George Stephanopoulos, co-host of ABC's "Good Morning America" show and a former adviser to President Bill Clinton, has bought a home in East Hampton, N.Y., for $3.5 million.
--Interior designer Cindy Rinfret, whose clients other local residents Tommy Hilfiger and television personality Regis Philbin, has put her Greenwich, Connecticut home on the market for $14.5 million.



From the NY Post:
--Katie Lee, the cookbook author and ex-wife of Billy Joel is said to be selling her 23 Perry Street that she and Joel once shared and that she bought from Joel for $3 million after their split last year. It is expected to be listed with Dolly Lenz for $12.9 million.
--Jeffrey Loria, the art-dealing owner of the Florida Marlins, has picked up part of the Howard Gittis' Southampton estate on Ox Pasture Lane. The estate was divided into three portions and sold for a combined $38.5 million to Loria and designer Tory Burch.
--Someone wants in at the Trump International Hotel and Tower. A Russian family walked away from a deal to buy an $18.5 million, 5,500-square-foot penthouse at the tower but it was auctioned off for more than $31 million. It is reportedly gutted and a renovation could cost $10 million.
--Julianne Moore was spotted checking out the Soho Mews development looking at two townhouse units priced around $5 million to $5.5 million. Her townhouse remains on the market for $11.995 million.


From the Real Estalker:
--Billionaire Jerry Perenchio has added to his huge Bel Air estate by picking up a $9.2 million property across the street from his home.
--The seven-bedroom home that Michael Jackson rented in las Vegas for around six months has sold for $3.1 million. The home in Las Vegas he was interested in buying remains on the market at $16.5 million.


From Zillow Blog:
--Sean Penn and Robin Wright have sold their Marin County home. The price was not revealed but the home was first listed their home for sale in August 2008 for $15 million.

From the Chicago Tribune's Elite Street:
--Charlotte Bobcats and former Chicago Bulls center Tyson Chandler has listed his six-bedroom mansion for $3.395 million. He bought the home for $4 million and in the past he tried to sell it for as much as $4.9 million. The listing is here.

--Former Chicago Bears quarterback Rex Grossman has sold his 36th-floor condominium in Chicago's Trump International Hotel & Tower for $2 million.
--Chicago sportscaster Steve Kashul has sold his three-bedroom, ranch-style house in Naperville, complete with a basement bowling alley, for $475,000.

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.