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RSVIP: Celebrating the SAG Awards

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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.

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Stars Auction Clothes For Haiti

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Charity

We've already covered a variety of stars donating money to help the victims of the Haiti quake and now stars are holding auctions to raise money. Meryl Streep, Gerard Butler, Amy Poehler and Olivia Wilde are donating their outfits worn at the 67th Golden Globes. The outfits will be auctioned off by Artists for Peace and Justice and sold to the public on eBay.

In other auction news, Serena Williams has set herself the goal of raising $92,000 in 92 days through an online auction of her personal clothing and memorabilia to raise money for Haiti earthquake victims, as well as schools and charities. Her eBay auction began Monday with items and includes so far tennis outfits, sneakers and a Phoenix Suns jersey signed by Steve Nash. She plans to put up new items each week.

Friday's "Hope for Haiti" telethon will be hosted by George Clooney, Wyclef Jean and Anderson Cooper. Christina Aguilera, Bono, Alicia Keys, Sting and Justin Timberlake have signed on to perform and Tom Cruise and Julia Roberts have signed up to answer phones.

Gallery: Auctions For Haiti

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Sunday Real Estate Round-Up

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Filed under: Estates, Celebrity Shopping

From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:
-- Scarlett Johansson has been checking out a one-bedroom penthouse apartment in the Chelsea Club.
--Diandra Douglas, the ex-wife of Michael Douglas has listed the Upper East Side townhouse she renovated for $10.25 million. She bought the 16-foot-wide brownstone in September 2005 for $5.45 million.
--Ellen Barkin has dished about the West Village townhouse she bought after her divorce from Ronald Perelman in a recent issue of More magazine. She paid $7.5 million for the vintage home on West 12th Street.
--Interior designer Jamie Drake has bought a two-bedroom condo in the Annabelle Selldorf-designed building going up in the Chelsea arts district.
--"Trading Spaces" designer Laura Day and her husband have bought a fixer-upper townhouse for $7.75 million.
--Ping Jiang, a managing director at SAC Capital Management, has paid $16.5 million for a seventh-floor two-bedroom apartment in the same building where Yoko Ono, Lauren Bacall, Connie Chung and Maury Povich reside.

From the NY Observer's Manhattan Transfers:
--Saturday Night Live star Amy Poehler and Arrested Development alum Will Arnett have sold their fifth-floor condo at 1 Morton Square for $2.2 million. They bought a condo higher up in the building for $5,275,000.
--Opera diva Renée Fleming has paid $4,262,700 for eight and a half rooms in need of renovation atop 200 West 86th Street.
--The Soho loft that belonged to the later writer Olivia Goldsmith has been sold for $2.7 million.
--Art patron Elizabeth A. Sackler, whose name is affixed to the Brooklyn Museum's new Center for Feminist Art, has sold her sixth-floor co-op at 14 East 90th for $5.2 million. She has reportedly bought the penthouse in the building for $10.5 million.

From Berg Properties Big Time Listings:
--Actor John Clark Gable, the son of Clark Gable has sold one Malibu house for $2.8 million and bought a second one for $2.15 million.
--Ali Landry has reduced asking price of her house in Los Feliz from $2.395 million to $2.325 million.
--Shad Gregory Moss, formerly known as Lil' Bow Wow, has listed his four-bedroom house in Duluth, Ga. for $1.5 million. Check out the young man's taste in decor at the listing here.
From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--Tony Randall's widow Harlan has put their apartment, shown above, in the Beresford building in Manhattan on the market for $17.5 million. The listing is here.
--Film producer Gale Anne Hurd and her husband, screenwriter Jonathan Hensleigh have put $15 million for their Pasadena, Calif., home on the market. It's our estate of the day later today.

From the Real Estalker:
--Lucy Lawless and Rob Tapert have put their Studio City home on the market for $3.695 million. You can check out the charming home with colorful and quirky details here.
--Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell are renting out their Broad Beach Road house in Malibu for $95,000 per month.

From The LA Times Hot Property:
--Oscar De La Hoya, the people's champion who lost the World Boxing Council's super-welterweight belt last weekend in his match against Floyd Mayweather Jr., has sold his Big Bear Lake property for about $2.1 million to Tito Ortiz of the Ultimate Fighting Championship.
*--Neil Patrick Harris has bought a new home in Sherman Oaks for slightly more than its $1.5-million asking price and put his Studio City home of eight years on the market at close to $1.3 million.
--Kate Jackson has sold her former home in Sherman Oaks for $800,000.
--Matt Battaglia, who has a recurring role as Agent Jennings on "24," and his wife, Tina, have sold their Studio City home for $1.6 million.
--William Lawrence Boyd, who played Hopalong Cassidy owned a Palm Desert home that will be auctioned on June 2. The two-bedroom home will be sold with no minimum bid to the highest bidder.

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