Comedic actress Kristin Johnston was recently signed to a stage production at the Lucille Lortel Theater this fall so she's not leaving New York City but she may be leaving the West Village. Cityfile found the listing for Johnston's condo. Her colorful duplex measures 1,541 square feet and has two bedrooms. As the listing puts it, the best part is the solarium which enjoys a south-facing view of the planted terrace and has built-in seating and glass walls. In the main space a dining upholstered banquette seats 10 and the kitchen has an open counter to the living room. The style is a bit eclectic and busy with a hodgepodge of wallpapers and clusters of vibrantly-colored accent pillows. It is listed at $1.795 million.

Shaquille O'Neal has finally unloaded his Miami mansion for $16 million - $2 million less than he paid for the place - after nearly five years. The basketball superstar bought the Star Island spread in 2004 for $18.2 million, and first listed it for sale in 2005 for $32 million. The home was listed at $29 million when it was our estate of the day last summer, then the price dropped to $22 million before climbing back up to $25 million, then going back down to $22.5 million. Quite the real estate roller coaster. The Miami Herald reports that the new owner who reportedly coughed up $16 million in cash is said to be a European businessman who plans to renovate the estate. According to the South Beach Real Estate Blog, the buyer is none other than Vladislav Doronin, the handsome Russian billionaire who's dating supermodel Naomi Campbell. The Mediterranean-style main house has eight bedrooms, an indoor basketball court, gym, steam room and sauna. The 2.5 acre grounds include a tennis court, six-car garage, dock, two-bedroom guest house and Shaq's pool complete with Superman logo.

Two and a half Catalina? That's the property website name for the home being put up for sale by Charlie Sheen's wife Brooke Mueller. The pair, who recently added twins to their family, have listed their 1927 Mediterranean in the Los Feliz area of Los Angeles. The LA Times Hot Property column broke the news that the home is listed for $3.697 million and reports that the Sheens spent the past year restoring the gated villa but are now looking for a home with a bit more room.

This classic Southern California Spanish-style home has four bedrooms in 4,179 square feet. White walls contrast against dark wood floors and a wood-beamed ceiling. The remodeled kitchen features a steel stove, green cabinets and a patio-like stone floor. Some of the decorating elements are a bit busy. A bathroom appears to have a leather-coated wall. The palatial glass cabinet of a shower in the master bedroom has a tile design that while striking, does not exactly inspire relaxation. The master bedroom does have a great private balcony area that is partially covered so you have your choice of sun or shade. The property includes a fountain in the tiled front courtyard and in the back there is a pool with a stone waterfall. This home is listed at $3.697 million. Property Shark's records show that Mueller picked up the home (through an LLC) for $2.575 million in late 2007.

Last month Joan Rivers put her New York City penthouse on the market for $25 million as part of her decision to move to California to be closer to her daughter, Melissa. It turns out that her Connecticut country house is also on the market. The Real Estalker led us to the listing for Rivers' home in New Milford, Connecticut.

Her four-bedroom country home is a bit more relaxed than her Manhattan abode although it still has touches that make it uniquely Joan Rivers such as the obligatory leopard print rug in one of rooms. The Real Estalker unearthed an article about the home in Architectural Digest from February 2003 in which Rivers, with her characteristically sharp tongue, said the home had looked like a Denny's before she got to it. She bought the property for $1,438,400 in 2000. After taking ownership, she had the home pulled down to the foundation and then created the current home salvaging only the stone fireplace in the living room and a few stone columns from the original home.

Rivers favors an elegant style fussied up with all sorts of expensive antiques. The many tchotchkes are all high quality, there are just too many of them. For example, it's hard to imagine why an oil painting has been stuck above the stove in the kitchen or why blue-and-white ceramics teeter on a heavy beam above a bed in one of the guest rooms. The master bedroom is a girly pink fantasy complete with a canopy bed facing what appears to be an illustration of Joan and Melissa Rivers hanging over the fireplace. And the less said about the statuary in the master bath, the better. The over-75-acre property includes a swimming pool and pool house, detached barn/garage and a private pond. This home is listed at $6.5 million through Klemm real estate.

We seem to have a motivated seller in the form of model-turned-actress Estella Warren. The Real Estalker reveals that the lovely "Planet of the Apes" star has put her home on Cielo Drive in Beverly Hills on the market for $1.95 million. Even the listing description conveys a certain sense of urgency saying that it is available immediately. The relatively small home (2,247 square feet) has three bedrooms and is lacking many of the bells and whistles of some Hollywood homes like a media room or a large eat-in kitchen. Warren paid $1.78 million for the home which is on the same street as the home which was the site of the Manson murders. As the Real Estalker reminds us, the Polanski/Tate house has since been torn down.

This home is clearly staged for sale with white walls, white furnishings and those poppy color accents and vaguely contemporary paintings meant to make a home seem fashionable. The home was built in 1959 and though it has been updated some charming details such as the French doors and a colored glass bathroom window are in evidence. The kitchen has a bit of an odd color scheme with a red tile back splash and gray cabinets. The maser bedroom has glass doors that lead to the garden and the master bath includes a large grayish shower with a bench. Outside there is a basic pool and a brick patio with views of the hillside. Unlike some celebs who seem to start with a high price and then scramble backward it seems that Ms. Warren has a fairly realistic sale price but in this market who's to say if that will be enough for a fast sale.

Beautiful blonde Brit actress Sienna Miller has put her posh London townhouse (above) up for sale at £995,000, or about $1.6 million. The starlet, as well known for her roles in films like Alfie as for a heated romance with Jude Law, apparently favors a "Manhattan meets Morocco" vibe judging by the décor at the residence situated somewhere between Marylebone and St. John's Wood not far from her pal Kate Moss' pad, though there seems to be some debate about how posh the location really is.

The house, which boasts both a fireplace and a terrace, features a striking ground floor studio-style reception room with a galleried study area as well as a louche lower ground floor entertaining area complete with a Turkish bath and sauna. The Real Estalker notes that Miller purchased the house 2007 for £1.2 million, or about $1.9 million (at the current deflated rate of exchange) which means that even if she gets her full asking price, she stands to lose at least $325,000 on the deal.

Actor and race car driver Patrick Dempsey had his Bel Air, California home on the market earlier this year for $3.595 million. Later it was cut to $3.295 million and went into escrow. Meanwhile Dempsey and his family bought a new home in Brentwood. But something must have happened on the way to the closing because his old home is back on the market with a new lower price. The Real Estalker dishes that he paid $3.1 million for the home in 2006 so he will likely be losing money on this home. The charming New England style home has been exquisitely done in a contemporary style with deep shades of paint on the walls contrasting with cream trim and wood floors. It has a large living room, formal dining room, a chef's kitchen with white subway tiles that opens to family room and four bedrooms. The backyard includes a pool and a treehouse. The new listing is here.

This week Dempsey is in France, he is racing a Ferrari 430 GT in the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

Model Elle Macpherson is the latest celeb to drop the price of her home more than once. The Australian supermodel first put her London home on the market for £9.5 million last summer. The seven-story, Grade II-listed property is located in the Notting Hill area. Macpherson dropped the price to £8.95 million a while back but now she has switched agencies and dropped the price to £7.5 million.

She has a recurring role in a new television show, "The Beautiful Life" which will debut in the U.S. this fall. She bought the home in November 2006 after her break-up with multi-millionaire Arpad Busson, the father of her two children. Busson is now engaged to Uma Thurman. The Victorian property was built in the 1850s and has six bedrooms. It has been redone in a modern style and includes a large kitchen with multiple islands. Listing pictures are in the gallery below.

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I noticed a strange thing on our search results today, lots of people looking for info on Jon and Kate Gosselin. Curious I did a little news searching and found that the couple is like celebs and non-celebs alike, having trouble selling their old house. Their five-bedroom home in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania has been on the market for around three months for $325,000. The couple paid $280,000 for the home in 2006. The new owners will get the Gosselins' washer and dryer as well as upgrades made during the course of their television show and the storage cubicles that held the belongings of their eight children. The modest lot also includes a storage shed. The couple moved into a $1.1 million home on 24 acres in Wernersville, Pennsylvania last fall. The home's price seems to be in line with other homes in the area but the Elizabethtown market does have a lot of homes up for sale at a time when not much is moving on the real esatate market.

As Newsday reports, Richard Gere already has a home in North Haven, New York and so he's a motivated seller when it comes to his Water Mill home. Richard Gere and wife Carey Lowell have lowered the asking price for the seven-bedroom farmhouse from $8.8 million to $7.2 million,

Gere had his New York apartment in Julian Schnabel's Palazzo Chupi on the market for almost a year (it was last listed at $15 million but the listing has now disappeared). The charming Too Many Maples in Water Mill was bought by Gere and Lowell for $2.75 million back in 2001. The home is on a 1.2 acre lot that includes a swimming pool, guest house and artist's studio. The gracious country residence has been given a comfortable renovation that has the offhand casual appeal that it often takes quite a bit of money to attain. Antique wood floors and vintage light fixtures add to the classic style. Details like a farmhouse style table in the dining room and white marble counter tops set the stage for lazy food-filled weekends while the wide porch offers the perfect place to wile away the afternoon. What say you, is this photogenic home owned by a photogenic couple right priced now or will they have to dip closer to the $5 million mark in order to get it to contract?

I didn't give this one full estate of the day treatment when I first heard about it but a deep price cut makes a welcome excuse. Fashion designer and stylist Randolph Duke put his glamorous home in the Hollywood Hills on the market last December for $8.5 million. The Real Estalker reported that Duke bought his three-lot spread in 2004 for $2.25 million and hired Xten Architecture to build a custom cantilevered home that juts out over the hillside and has retracting glass walls allowing stunning views over Los Angeles from nearly every angle in the home.

When you aren't facing restrictions to make a home family friendly or budget friendly you can do some pretty amazing things. This three-bedroom home wasn't designed for private space. It's a home for parties, for trysts, for photo shoots and for viewing the city below from that particular vantage point that actually makes you believe you have the world by the tail.

The ample use of faux fur, the white couches, rough hewn wood stools and tables and the stacked stone fireplace keep it from being straight contemporary. The result is a magazine layout of a home right down to the sliver of silver reflecting pool which is more like a piece of house jewelry than any functional cooling-off device. The home isn't for everyone and so the price has been trimmed to a less wallet-pinching $6.5 million.

Add another to our list of slow-selling celebrities (sports stars edition). Dan Marino has had his Weston, Florida compound on the market for around three years. It was once listed at $15.9 million but now, as the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties reports, the famous quarterback will throw in $1.5 million worth of designer furniture and a signed football, too. Marino and his wife Claire are now asking $13.5 million for the 15,000-square-foot Tuscan home. The couple is looking to downsize but it has been slow going.

The Mediterranean-style villa is on a four-acre spot in the Windmill Ranch Estates community. It is surrounded by a lake with fresh bass. The home's large pool area connects the main house with other areas. The property has two guest houses, staff quarters, an exercise room and a wine cellar. There are ten bedrooms total. Even with the over $2 million discount it may take Marino a while longer to sell this home.

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The Red Hot Chili Peppers have amassed some lovely real estate during their years as a band. The Real Estalker reveals that Michael Balzary, aka Flea, the band's energetic bass player has listed his Malibu getaway home for sale. Flea, who lost a different home in the Malibu fire of 2007 also owns this compound on two acres in the Encinal Bluffs area. He bought this home in January of 2007 for $9.98 million and renovated the main home and two guest houses, one of which appears to be in use as a music studio. The contemporary main home has beautiful tree trunk floors and a large main living space with beamed ceilings and white walls. The open kitchen has views of the ocean. The home includes a master suite with an ocean view and the home also includes a loft. One guest house looks to have a couple of bedrooms. Outside there is a large lawn, several seating areas, a built-in barbecue center and a hot tub area. This home is listed at $13.676 million. Check out the property website (red hot chili ocean?) here.

As my colleague Jared Paul Stern reported back in March, Rihanna has done some major house hunting in Los Angeles. But according to Jennifer Gould Keil of the NY Post's Gimme Shelter, the young star is settling in SoHo for the summer. She is said to be close to inking a deal on a three-bedroom apartment on Greene Street. The listing has it at $22,000 a month but Rihanna is said to only be spending $18,000. Most scurry away from the city once summer hits but Rihanna is currently taking acting classes to prepare for her first movie. At least the apartment comes with a decent-sized terrace so that she can relax in the sun while learning her lines.

Actress Kirsten Dunst is selling her Hollywood Hills "celebrity retreat" (see video tour above) for $1.7 million. The 2,062-sq.-ft. Mid-Century-style spread has 3 bedrooms and 2.5 baths, the Real Estalker reports, and massive entry gates, a curved drive and state of the art security system assure maximum privacy. The living room has heated terrazzo floors, a peaked and beamed white ceiling and navy blue walls, and a fireplace. A sliding glass door opens to a large multi-level entertainment deck sitting nestled in the trees at the front of the property. A secluded court yard off the master bedroom features a romantic in-ground spa. Dunst, who bought the house in 2003 for $1.25 million, had reportedly lived there with her former beau Jake Gyllenhaal.