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From the LA Times:
--A legendary Hollywood Hills party house owned by English photographer Richard Franklin is listed at $7.5 million. The home has been rented to a variety of entertainment figures and is a bachelor pad and photo studio with a two-story disco, a theater with a floor-to-ceiling movie screen, a casino, a gym a grotto with a hot tub, a pool and a canopied deck. The listing is here.
--The childhood home of Oscar-winning actress and singer Judy Garland has sold in Bel-Air for $5.2 million. The 1938 two-story house designed by Wallace Neff went on the market at $5.5 million just a few weeks ago.

From the Real Estalker:
--The listing for Jennifer Aniston's $42 million Beverly Hills mansion is now live with Jade Mills.

From the NY Post:
--An apartment at 15 Central Park West once rented by Mark Wahlberg has just closed $16.5 million in an all-cash deal.
--Actress Judith Light (she was on "Who's the Boss?" and "Ugly Betty") was spotted apartment hunting at 136 E. 64th St., where she visited a $2.15 million, two-bedroom unit.
--Mary J. Blige has just listed her 25-room Saddle River, New Jersey mansion for $13.9 million. She paid about $12 million for it in 2008.The listing is here (no photos yet).
Rachel Uchitel nearly nabbed Chris Noth as a buyer for her three-bedroom unit at 77 Park Ave., which is listed for $1.95 million. But Noth opted for something closer to the CBS Studio.
-- Alec Baldwin was spotted touring the $12.95 million penthouse at 22 Mercer St..
--Former American Idol contestant Sanjaya Malakar has rented two-bedroom unit on East 63rd Street while he's in the city.
--Carmelo Anthony checked out Zydrunas Ilgauskas' $37,500-a-month townhouse at 24 Thompson St.

From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--Charlie Sheen is in escrow to a buy home in the Beverly Hills, California neighborhood he already lives in for $7.5 million. The home is currently owned by Mike Medavoy, chief executive of Phoenix Pictures who bought the home several months ago for $6 million. See pictures here.
--Trees Ranch, a 2,070-acre ranch in Utah has hit the market for $30 million. The property is partly owned by the heirs of the late Jim Trees, CEO of New York investment firm Fischer, Francis, Trees & Watts. The listing is here.
--Diego Arria, the Venezuelan ambassador to the United Nations, recently sold his Roxbury, Conn., home for $7.75 million.

Saturday night, Cara Buono, right, Faye Miller on "Mad Men, " ascended the carpet-covered cobblestone that leads up to the Chateau Marmont hotel in Hollywood wearing stilettos to attend an Entertainment Weekly fete honoring SAG Awards nominees, presented by L'Oreal Paris. Chunky jewel-tone stones by David Yurman dangled from her earlobes. Her voluptuous figure was highlighted by a sparkly black dress by Oday Shakar with a broad V-neck. "I have to tell you, I was ready," she said of her ability to march up the steep driveway in heels. "It's just getting out of the car."

Sophisticated beyond her years, Ariel Winter, of "Modern Family," had just celebrated her 13th birthday. One didn't expect the tween to have caught "No Strings Attached" to celebrate. "I'm a very big fan of Natalie Portman," she told Luxist. "I recently met her at the Golden Globes. She's pregnant, and she's beautiful!"

Upstairs at the Chateau, a notorious hangout for Hollywood bad boys (Dennis Hopper in the 1960s) and fun-loving starlets, the back garden, reminiscent of a hilltop cloister in the north of France, had been tented with clear plastic. The five women who played the Ward and Eklund sisters in "The Fighter" were tressed like sirens, not like the bleached and teased 1980s throwbacks they played onscreen. Bianca Hunter, Cathy "Pork" Eklund, said endured a "double-process platinum blonde" coif for the film and a "gray tooth." Jenna Lamia, Sherri Ward, said her "Fighter" wardrobe consisted of "a yard of acid-washed denim."

Seated for dinner in an alcove to the right of the front desk, Mark Ruffalo and his wife joined Chevy Chase. "I tried to keep cool, but I had to drool on him a little bit," Ruffalo said of Chase while he and his wife made their way back to their room at the Chateau. "He's seriously cool."
Nearby, funny man David Spade carried two drinks with one hand.

With a blonde upsweep, Sharon Stone appeared angelic in a backless white gown with thin black spaghetti straps during the 17th Annual Summer Benefit for Watermill Center on July 24. Stone then busted a few oddly spastic moves. "I think a bug just flew up my dress," she offered at the mike. "What an awkward moment . . . for the bug." Shades of "Basic Instinct."

Watermill Center, an endless rectangular modernist structure, began as a 30,000-square-foot Western Union research facility on a former outpost of the Shinnecock Indian Nation. Robert Wilson, considered a key figure in experimental theater, spearheaded the summer art colony and museum on the East End of New York's Long Island. He is best known for his 1976 piece "Einstein on the Beach," with music by Philip Glass.

In summer, Wilson and the Watermill Center host artists from around the globe who join the kibbutz-like arts community, where artists not only create, but also wash plates and prune trees.

During cocktails, tiki torches lit a path to dancers that decorated a maze of outdoor art installations in the woods. Created by 70 artists from 12 nations, including Kuwait, Russia, and Thailand, the vignettes interpreted the evening's ethereal "Paradiso" theme.

From the LA Times Hot Properties:
--A gated Mediterranean owned by actor Pierce Brosnan has come on the market in Malibu at $3.9 million. The listing is here.
--NBA free agent Carlos Boozer and his wife, Cece, have sold their Coconut Grove, Florida estate for $5.5 million.
--Actor Craig Sheffer has listed his home on Malibou Lake in the Agoura Hills area at $1.699 million. The home was formerly owned by actress Elizabeth Montgomery and has a Moroccan-style conversational area that centers on a fireplace (shown above).
--The former Santa Monica beach house of silent film star Douglas Fairbanks Sr. has sold for $6,862,000.
--Legendary Los Angeles Kings goalie Rogie Vachon has listed his Venice-area home for $1.488 million. The listing is with his daughter-in-law, Renee Vachon of Nourmand & Associates.

From the NY Post:
--"Sopranos" star Michael Imperioli has put his four-story TriBeCa townhouse on the market for $6.995 million. The listing for the striking red and gold home is with Raphael DeNiro.
--Designer Elie Tahari and his wife, Rory, have separated and found an unnamed buyer for their 141 Prince St. triplex. The sale closed at $27.5 million, more than the unofficial $22 million asking price.
--Alec Baldwin is still apartment hunting ad was most recently spotted at 225 Lafayette St. in Nolita.
--DJ and record producer Danny Tenaglia has a signed contract to sell his condo at the Arris Lofts building in Long Island City for $1.24 million.

From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--Microsoft Corp. co-founder Paul Allen has bought an oceanfront home in Malibu for more than $25 million. The home was listed for $29.5 million
--Victoria Reggie Kennedy, the widow of Senator Edward M. Kennedy, has formally put their Washington home on the market for just under $8 million. It was our estate of the day back in January.

--A bayfront mansion in Newport Beach, California listed at $38 million has sold for $27 million.

From Newsday's Real LI:
--William J. Bratton, who has headed the police forces of New York City, Boston and Los Angeles, has purchased a home in Hampton Bays. He and his wife, cable TV newscaster Rikki Jo Klieman, recently left Los Angeles. They paid $880,000 for the house in early June.
--A six-bedroom waterfront home in the Hamptons is being offered with a cherry red 1966 Ford Cobra replica said to be worth $50,000 to $60,000. The home is listed for $5.499 million with Enzo Morabito.

From Newsday's Real LI:
--Bollywood film producer Aron Govil has listed his 15-room Colonial in Old Brookville, New York for $6.9 million.
--Rapper 50 Cent is selling a one-acre property in Dix Hills for $499,999.
--Kimora Lee Simmons has sold her East Hampton house for $650,000. It had been listed at $800,000.


From the NY Post:
-- Alec Baldwin continues to apartment hunt in New York City. He was seen checking out a $14.95 million triplex penthouse at 54 Bond St., in NoHo's old Bouwerie Lane Theatre. He was also spotted at the New Museum Building at 158 Mercer St. in SoHo looking at two apartments in the $7 million range.
-- Dylan McDermott has been seen looking for apartments in the West Village.
--Agnes Nolan, a legend in the field of luxury real estate, wants to sell her own trophy apartment, a penthouse duplex at 271 Central Park West. The co-op, where she has lived since 1964, is on the market for $13.9 million.
--Yankees star Alex Rodriguez maybe close to signing a $12 million contract for a house on North Bay Road in Miami.

From the Real Estalker:
--Hollywood talent agent and power player Mike Ovitz has listed a Brentwood, California home for $8.5 million.

From the LA Times Hot Properties:
--A Hollywood Hills home owned by TV dance show judge and producer Nigel Lythgoe has been listed for $2.649 million.

--Eyeworks television production company founder Reinout Oerlemans has sold his Beverly Hills contemporary for $12.5 million.

--Walton Goggins, who starred in the crime drama "The Shield" from 2002 to 2008, is putting his remodeled Hollywood Hills home on the market for $1.175 million.
-- A Beverly Hills house designed by architect Wallace Neff in 1956 for Groucho Marx has sold for $8.8 million. It was listed at $12.9 million when we covered it as an estate of the day.


From the NY Post:
4Kids Entertainment CEO Al Kahn has picked up Bernie Madoff's old penthouse and listed his apartment at the Time Warner Center for $33.6 million. The listing is here.

--Interior designer Jamie Drake is close to closing on the sale of his home in East Hampton. He is reportedly selling for $2.75 million.

--Alec Baldwin seems to have been spotted everywhere in New York looking for an apartment. He was most recently spotted in SoHo last week, where he checked out the $13.75 million penthouse duplex at 34 Greene St.
--Joseph Plumeri, the CEO of Willis Group Holdings, has reportedly gone into contract to buy a 15th- floor apartment at 995 Fifth Avenue which had been listed most recently for $23.5 million.

From the Real Estalker:
--Actress Kate Walsh listed her home in the Los Feliz area of Los Angeles with an asking price of $3,995,000.
--Deion Sanders has listed a three-bedroom penthouse at the Azure building in Dallas, Texas for $7.5 million. His mansion in Prosper, Texas is still on the market for $21 million.

From Homes of the Rich:
--Real estate developer, Lee Najjar, the rumored "Big Poppa" of "Real Housewives of Atlanta" housewife Kim Zolciak has put his Atlanta mansion up for sale for $25 million. The nine-bedroom home, shown above, was completed this year but retained the original 1920s facade. It has multiple kitchens, a ballroom, theater, hair/nail salon, smoking room and recording studio.

Stockworth Realty Group is selling Orlando Magic star Dwight Howard's four-bedroom home near southwest Orlando. It is listed at $2.95 million.


From the Chicago Tribune's Elite Street:
--NBA player Ben Wallace has reduced the price on his former Lake Forest, Illinois mansion. It is now listed at $2.49 million.

--Former Bears quarterback and current ESPN commentator Brian Griese has sold his four-bedroom house in Glencoe, Illinois for $2.125 million.

From the NY Post:
--Houston Rockets owner Leslie Alexander has just closed on a $25 million penthouse at the new Superior Ink condo building in the West Village. Superior Ink already has a list of buyers in contract that includes Hilary Swank, Marc Jacobs and NASCAR star Jimmie Johnson. But a week later the unit has hit the market for $39.5 million (via Curbed). His Hamptons home is for sale for $20.5 million.
--Designer Tory Burch has bought the Howard Gittis home at 500 Ox Pasture Lane in Southampton. Sources say the mansion and an adjacent parcel of land was sold separately to Burch and another buyer for around $40 million. The home had been on the market at a variety of prices over the years but Corcoran Group broker Tim Davis split up the estate into different parcels to attract buyers. Burch bought the house, and a neighbor bought an adjacent parcel because he didn't want to see anything developed on the land.
--Kimberly Dawn Neumann, a 39-year-old Broadway actress is the winner of the contest conducted by discount clothing retailer Daffy's that offered a two-bedroom apartment in the West Village for $700 a month for 10 months.
--An Italian-born real estate mogul and diplomat, Daniele Bodini,has just bought an apartment above Sting's duplex at 88 Central Park West.Bodini paid $10.9 million for the seventh-floor, 3,500-square-foot co-op. Sting's 6,600-square-foot apartment has been on and off the market, it currently remains on at $19 million.


From Cityfile's Buyers and Sellers:
--The townhouse at 11 East 82nd Street that we covered earlier this year as an estate of the day has gone into contract after more than a year and a half on the market. The limestone mansion was most recently priced at $29.5 million.

--Filmmaker Keiko Ibi put her one-bedroom condo at 15 Central Park West on the market for $3.75 million earlier this year. Now she and her seventh floor neighbors, Young-oh and Byungwha Yoon, have listed their two apartments together for a combined $10.285 million. The listing is here.
--Three months after he paid $12 million for a 49th-floor apartment at One Beacon Court, Archibald "Archie" Cox, Jr. has sold his former apartment in the same building for $5 million.
--via the NY Times, Hedge funder John Griffin and his wife Amy, who paid $32.25 million for a full-floor apartment at 1030 Fifth Avenue last year have listed their old apartment in the same building for $16.5 million.
--Photographer Kelly Klein, Calvin Klein's second ex-wife, has paid $2.091 million for a two-bedroom co-op at 2 West 67th Street.
--Bjork and Matthew Barney have closed on the purchase of a condo at 160 Henry Street in Brooklyn Heights. Their former place at 180 West Houston Street is still on the market for $1.7 million.
--Attorney Bruce Kaye and his wife Deborah have sold their two-bedroom condo at 15 Cenral Park West for $11.7 million. They paid $7.8 million in July 2008.
--Brandon Fradd, founder of the hedge fund Apollo Medical Partners, has sold his apartment at 68 Jane Street for $3.7 million.
--Investor Paul Cejas has dropped the price of his apartment at 834 Fifth Avenue from $18.5 million to $16.5 million. The listing is here.
--via NY Mag, Alec Baldwin has taken his apartment at the El Dorado off the market just a month after listing it. Will he be sticking around?

--Artist Bruce Robbins has dropped the price of his loft at 43 Clarkson Street. It was first listed for $4.895 million back in 2008 and is now for sale for $3.249 million.
--via Real Deal, Turkish tycoon Turgay Ciner has picked up a second apartment at the Plaza. He paid $10.725 million for an apartment two floors below the 17th-floor apartment he bought in January 2008 for $9.16 million.
--via Curbed, Paul O'Reilly-Hyland and Joelle Wyser-Pratte, who are both managing partners at Ounavarra Capital, have put their 4,700-square-foot Sutton Place townhouse on the market. The renovated manse at 3 Riverview Terrace is currently listed for $19 million.
--via Curbed, NYC's skinniest townhouse has had a price cut, from $2.75 million to $2.499 million.

From the NY Observer's Manhattan Transfers:
--An apartment which was once on the market for $80 million has sold for $37.5 million.

--A condo at the 40 Mercer Street building designed by architect, Jean Nouvel has sold for $4.22 million. It was once listed as high as $7.25 million.
--Andrei Vavilov, the Russian oligarch who sued the Plaza last year over a duplex penthouse and triplex penthouse he was supposed to buy there for $53.5 million, then paid $11 million for another unit, has finally left the building. He sold his apartment for $8.4 million.

From Homes and Property UK:
--A home in the Notting Hill area of London which was lived in for three years by Salman Rushdie is now listed for £2.25 million.

From the LA Times Hot Properties:
--Actress Jennifer Carpenter, who stars on "Dexter" with her husband, Michael C. Hall, has listed her two-bedroom Hollywood Hills home for $695,000. The listing is here.
--Phoenix Pictures Chairman and co-founder Mike Medavoy and his wife, Irena, have purchased a Beverly Hills home for $5.85 million.
---A 1929 Los Feliz home once owned actor Cary Grant and, later, drummer Chad Smith of the Red Hot Chili Peppers has come on the market at $3.485 million. The listing is here.

From Move Trends:
--Johnny Knoxville has dropped the price on his Beechwood Canyon home, shown above, from $2.295 million to $1.995 million. The listing for the four-bedroom home is here.
From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:
--Has Nicolas Cage found a buyer for his New York apartment. The three-bedroom residence in the Olympic Tower apartment is listed at $9.75 million.

--Queen Latifah is staying at theGreenwich Club Residences condo building while at work on her new film, "Just Wright."
--Oliver Stone's "Wall Street 2" starts shooting next month and location scouts are still busy checking out apartments. A version of the script has one character living at 15 Central Park West.



From the Real Estalker:
--Former "Girl Next Door" Holly Madison has put her Santa Monica condo up for sale. She bought the condo last year for $760,000 and has listed it for $700,000.

--Listing pics are up on Alec Baldwin's three-bedroom apartment at the El Dorado. It is listed at $7.5 million.

--Australian fashion designer Collette Dinnigan has put her five-bedroom home in Sydney, Australia on the market.

From Cityfile's Buyers and Sellers:
--Real Housewives of New York star Jill Zarin and her husband, Bobby have dropped the price on their three-bedroom condo at 401 East 60th Street from $3.2 million to $2.995 million.

--Former Treasury Secretary W. Michael Blumenthal and his wife, Barbara, have purchased an apartment at 1095 Park Avenue for $5.6 million.
-Fortress Investment Group co-founder Randal Nardone has dropped the price of his condo at 240 Riverside Boulevard it was listed at $11.75 million six months ago and is now at $10.95 million.
--Attorney Harvey Spear and his wife, Ruth, have put their apartment at 765 Park Avenue on the market. The 11-room residence is listed for $12.5 million.
--via the NY Observer, the 8,300-square-foot triplex at 260 West Broadway that is famous for its in-house mural by Keith Haring, is no longer up for sale. After failing to sell for $13.25 million it is now a $35,000-a-month rental.

--Gotham Makker, an investor and former portfolio manager at Ken Griffin's Citadel Investment Group, has sold an apartment at 15 Central Park West for $12.5 million. He and his wife, Vicky, bought the home in March 2008 for $13.3 million.
--Jonathan Zrihen, the president and CEO of the cosmetics company Clarins Group USA, and his wife Laetitia have paid $2.075 million for a three-bedroom condo at the Belaire at 524 East 72nd Street.
--Beny Alagem, the founder of Packard Bell Electronics and now the owner of the Beverly Hills Hilton, has sold his three-bedroom condo at 15 Central Park West. It was listed at $24 million.
--Soap opera star Roger Horvath has listed his Soho apartment for $2.99 million.
--Eli Zahavi, the owner of EZ Energy Ltd., and his wife Gabriela have closed on the sale of their 25th-floor apartment at 15 Central Park West. It sold for $7.35 million to an entity called Metropark Investments Limited Partnership.
--from the NY Post, Jacob "Kobi" Alexander, the former CEO of Comverse Technology and now a fugitive from justice, has found a tenant for his condo at the Park Imperial on West 56th Street. The full-floor apartment is being rented by an "Asian-based hedge fund head" for $100,000 a month.
--Hassan Nemazee, the banker and Democratic mega-fundraiser charged with forging financial documents to get Citibank to give him a $74 million loan is under house arrest in his $20 million, 14th floor co-op at 770 Park Avenue.
--Investment banker Tom Whalen and his wife Dana English have closed on the sale of their townhouse at 34 West 10th Street which sold for $15.4 million to an entity called Go Yard LLC.
--Arvind and Shilpa Sanger have paid $11.98 million for a penthouse at 170 East End Avenue.
--Philanthropists Amnon and Caren Heller Barness have cut the price of their penthouse at Trump Park Avenue for the third time since listing it for $15 million last year.It is now listed for $11.995 million.
--via the NY Observer, disgraced financier Ezra Merkin hasn't decided to put his duplex apartment at 740 Park up for sale yet, but he may be forced to do so soon.
--via the Real Deal, Actress Molly Shannon has sold her apartment at 66 Ninth Avenue for $2.61 million, it was most recently listed for $2.85 million.
--via the NY Post, developer Bruce Ratner has sold his 4,500-square-foot home in Montauk to art dealer David Zwirner for $10 million.

From Newsday's Real LI:
--Mets closer Francisco Rodriguez has paid $2.3 million for a six-bedroom mansion in Upper Brookville, NY.
--orporate security guru Richard "Bo" Dietl's home in the gated Stone Hill community of North Hills is on the market for $3.295 million. He bought the home for $2.3 million in 2004. The listing is here.

From The Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--Blackstone Group co-founder Steve Schwarzman and his wife Christine have put their East Hampton home on the market. The 2.1-acre property, which the couple purchased for $2.3 million in 1996, is listed for $7.2 million.
--Director Judd Apatow and his wife Leslie Mann have bought a five-bedroom home in the Brentwood Park area of Los Angeles. THe home wasn't officially listed but had been shopped quietly for $20 million.
--A winery and two vineyards that make up Palmer Vineyards on the north fork of New York's Long Island are on the market for $10.8 million.

From the Chicago Tribune's Elite Street:
--U.S. Secretary of Education and former Chicagoan Arne Duncan has sold his four-bedroom townhouse in his native Hyde Park for $525,000. Duncan and his wife, Karen, purchased the 2,460-square-foot town home in 1999 for $257,500, according to public records.
Radio sportscaster Steve Kashul has put his Naperville, Illinois home on the market for $524,900. It has a full-size bowling alley in the basement.

From the LA Times Hot Properties:
--Actress Natasha Henstridge has sold her Sherman Oaks, California home. It was listed at $1.75 million.
--Comedienne Ruth Buzzi sold her Hollywood Hills home to film producer Daniel Dubiecki for $1.021 million.
--NFL analyst and former player Robert Griffith has listed a Lake Arrowhead site for sale at $799,999.
--Baltimore Ravens player Trevor Pryce and his wife, Sonya, have sold their Calabasas home for $2.1 million.
The former West Hollywood three-bedroom condo of Oscar-winning actress Bette Davis is for sale at $2.45 million. The listing is here.

From Berg Properties Big Time Listings:
--Actress Milla Jovovich has sold a four-bedroom, 3,582-square-foot house in Beverly Hills for $2.75 million.


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From Berg Properties Big Time Listings:
--Tennis star Sebastien Grosjean has listed an eight-bedroom mansion he owns in Boca Raton, Florida, shown above, for $2.79 million. The listing is here.
--via the NY Observer, Nobel-prize-winning economist Paul Krugman has bought a three-bedroom apartment on Riverside Drive for $1.7 million.
--Actress Melissa McCarthy and her actor husband Ben Falcone sold their Los Feliz home for $2.495 million to director Jake Kasdan and his singer-songwriter wife, Inara George. This makes the second time in three years that McCarthy has sold a house to this couple.
--A Las Vegas home that once belong to hp-hop record producer Suge Knight has been listed at $1.495 million.
Singer John Ondrasik has sold his 4,078-square-foot house in Los Angeles' Encino area for $1.095 million.
--A five-bedroom, 4,822-square-foot house in Tarzana, California that actor Wilmer Valderrama had owned until selling it in early 2008 for $1,750,000 is back on the market for $1.895 million. The listing is here.

From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:
--Alec Baldwin wants to sell his co-op in the Eldorado on Central Park West, it has been listed at $8.9 million (the listing, without photos, is here). He is looking at an apartment in the Dakota and has his eye on this four-bedroom beauty listed at $12.5 million.
--Real estate fanatic Michael Hirtenstein, who walked away from a $7 million deposit and spent about $6.5 million in construction and design costs on more than $25 million worth of combined apartments at One York is now getting a better deal to buy one of the condos back. He was to spend more than $25 million for six units that totaled nearly 11,000 square feet but will now pay about $16.5 million for five units that total about 9,000 square feet and his original $7 million deposit will be applied to this purchase.
-- Antonio Versace, nephew of the late Gianni Versace has bought a new bachelor pad at 44 Mercer St. in SoHo which was listed at $2.7 million.
--Former General Electric CEO Jack Welch is buying a three-bedroom condo right next door to a unit he already owns on the 46th floor of One Beacon Court. Welch's new 2,669-foot unit had an asking price of $8.995 million. Welch bought his current apartment for $6.25 million back in 2005.
--Michael Holtz, who owns Smart Flyer, is in negotiations to buy a six-story townhouse at 400 West St which is listed at $25 million. This is the one which is owned and was designed by Cortney and Bob Novogratz and includes a basketball court.
--Claire Danes and her actor fiance, Hugh Dancy, have been spotted house-hunting in Columbia County, a few hours outside New York City.

From Cityfile's Buyers and Sellers:
--Investor Enrique Foster Gittes is cutting another $2 million off the price of his 13,000-square-foot townhouse at 12 East 63rd Street. It was first priced at $28.75 million back in April and now the home is currently listed for $21.5 million.
--Donald Trump Jr. and wife Vanessa have closed on an apartment at The Sovereign on East 58th Street. They paid $1.125 million for the 1,800-square-foot apartment.
--via the NY Times, Brooklyn's most expensive apartment is a beautiful $25 million unit inside a clocktower.
--Kimberly Guilfoyle, the Fox News anchor was once married to San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom, has split from her second husband Eric Villency and paid $1.3 million for a three-bedroom co-op at 229 East 79th Street.
--Bruce Lisman, the former co-head of global equities at Bear Stearns, has finally closed on the sale of his apartment at 923 Fifth Avenue. It sold for $12.8 million, which is $300,000 less than what Lisman paid for it in 2006.
--Michael Birkin, who recently stepped down as vice chairman of Omnicom Group, has picked up a full-floor loft in SoHo for $4.75 million.
--J.B. Perrette, president of digital distribution for NBC Universal, and his wife Amy paid $3.995 million for a penthouse at 140 West 22nd Street in Chelsea.
--via the NY Observer, Iris Cantor, the widow of Cantor Fitzgerald founder Bernie Cantor, has finally gone into contract to sell her penthouse at 110 Central Park South. She bought the four-bedroom home for $15 million in 2006 and it had been listed recently for $11.9 million.
--Pro golfer Cristie Kerr and her husband, Aviator Sports president Erik Stevens bought a condo at One Morton Square for $2.3 million.
--via the NY Observer, hedge funder Steve Eisman has sold his apartment at 1125 Park Avenue for $5.2 million, $1.795 million less than what he paid for it in March 2008.
--Fashion photographer Ruven Afanador has paid $2.15 million for a two-bedroom penthouse at 263 Ninth Avenue in Chelsea.
--via Curbed, the former Noho loft of jazz legend Charles Mingus at 5 Great Jones Street, which went on the market for $1.995 million in February, sold for $1.85 million last month.
----via the NY Post, more news on the Greenwich, Connecticut home that Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel are rumored to have bought. It could be a 25.5-acre estate on Conyers Farm Drive, which closed last month for $18.7 million.
--Director Stephen Daldry paid $3.8 million for a five-floor townhouse in Chelsea. . The 4,600-square-foot property is currently configured as a three-unit house and is in need of renovation.
--Actress Kristen Johnston has found a buyer for her duplex at 296 West 10th Street one month after she first put it on the market. It was listed for $1.795 million when it went into contract late last month.
--Dr. Gary Roubin, Lenox Hill's chief of interventional cardiology, has upped the price of his Upper East Side home. It was first listed for $22 million in May 2008 then lowered to $16.5 million now it's back up to $18 million.
--via the NY Post, the East 51st Street townhouse once occupied by fashion illustrator and art collector J. Hyde Crawford has been sold for $7 million to the Organization of the Islamic Conference, a group affiliated with the United Nations.



From the Real Estalker:
--George Hamilton has listed a two-bedroom condo in West Palm Beach, Florida for $1.2 million. The listing is here.