charlie sheen

From Move Trends:
--The price keeps changing on Charlie Sheen's former home. It was listed at $3.697 million when we first checked it out in 2009. Back in September of this year it was up to $4.1 million. Now it's at $3.75 million. Property Shark's records show that Sheen's soon-to-be-ex-wife Brooke Mueller picked up the home (through an LLC) for $2.575 million in late 2007.

From the NY Post:
--Hockey player Ilya Kovalchuk has paid $4.5 million for 2 empty acres on Frick Drive in Alpine, New Jersey and plans to build a 20,000-square-foot home.
--Rory Tahari has moved into a townhouse on a tree-lined Upper West Side street.
--Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen have been spotted apartment hunting at the Fairchild building at 55 Vestry St. in tony TriBeCa. That's where our spies spotted each of the tiny twins traipsing around on separate visits.
--Wall Street broker Dorone Ilan Farber just bought a $4.2 million co-op on East 71st Street. The three-bedroom unit had been on the market with a $4.4 million price tag. --Nicholas D'Aurizio, Nicolena handbag designer and "Project Runway" alum, recently checked out a one-bedroom, $2,575-per-month duplex at the new 75 Grand rental development.
--Celebrity dermatologist Doris Day, no relation to the actress, has bought a ground-floor office at the 10 E. 70th St. co-op building for $800,000.

From the LA Times:
--Former professional wrestler turned actor Tommy "Tiny" Lister has bought a home in Calabasas for $2.5 million.
--A Brentwood home designed by Roland Coate for director William A. Wellman has sold for $7.5 million. It hit the market back in February for $10 million.

From the Real Estalker:
--Fashion journalist Nina Garcia and her husband David Conrod have listed their New York City apartment for $8.5 million. The listing is here.

--The Real Estalker Mama checks out the home that Demi Lovato bought for her family in Sherman Oaks, California. The four-bedroom home cost $2.25 million and has a guest cottage which Lovato reportedly lived in.
--Academy Award winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black has bought a four bedroom home in Los Angeles for $1.455 million.

Charlie Sheen discovered his Patek Philippe watch was missing and tore apart his hotel room at the Plaza Hotel in New York City. A known watch collector with millions of dollars worth of watches, Charlie Sheen was lividly trying to locate his hard-to-get Patek Philippe Ref. 5970 watch. Collectors love the classic high-end Patek with a chronograph, perpetual calendar, and moon phase indicator. It is worth well over $100,000.

The media calls it a "Sheen Meltdown," but he was really just looking for his timepiece that went missing on October 28th. The story goes deeper, though. Sheen blamed his "date" that night Capri Anderson for taking the watch. The two apparently met earlier in the night and ended up back at Sheen's hotel room where things got a bit out of control. Drugs and alcohol are obviously implicated - and Capri is said to have quickly become afraid of the 45 year old actor before locking herself into a bathroom. Forget the girl, at this point Charlie couldn't find the watch. Later taken to a hospital, Sheen's Patek was still on the loose. Does the porn star have it? The bell hop? Someone else? Sources are unclear about the events that led Anderson to Sheen's hotel room, and there have been suggestions that he was back to his old ways of paying for sex. Let's just hope that Sheen didn't inadvertently hock the watch at a pawn shop to pay for Capri's "fee."

Despite the media fiasco, I just feel bad for Charlie. When you are a watch lover, and have a timepiece that rare, you'd scour the earth to get it back if lost.

Via TMZ and others.

Ariel Adams publishes the luxury watch reviews site aBlogtoRead.com.

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.

For every celebrity who closes down a clothing line, there's one just starting up. Charlie Sheen is the next celebrity to launch a line, after Scott Weiland, that is. Sheen's line of short-sleeved, button-up shirts, dubbed Da Vinci Collection by Charlie Sheen, aims to emulate retro casual shirts inspired by 1950s rockabilly culture. The shirts feature agoya shell buttons, retro patterns and contrasting color combos. They're set to go on sale in June at GlobalRebels.com. Sheen hopes to eventually sell them in major department stores as well. $59 - $79

Check out the New York Daily News's gallery of celebrities who wear their own lines: "Look! I wear my designs, too!"

From Berg Properties Celebrity Big Time Listings:
--Madonna's former house in Beverly Hills is listed for $17.495 million. The eight-bedroom mansion, shown here, is a Wallace Neff showplace that Madonna bought in 2000 for a reported $6.5 million from Diane Keaton, who had bought in 1996. Madonna listed the house in 2003 for $10.9 million and then reduced it to $8.9 million. The current owners recently refurbished the home. The listing is here.
--Spice Girl Melanie Brown has paid $3 million for a home in the Hollywood Hills, and has sold her Los Feliz home for an undisclosed price (the home she sold was listed at $1,499,000.
--Joely Fisher has reduced the price on her Encino home, down to $3.999 million. It was our estate of the day back June when it was listed at $4.75 million.
--Charlie Sheen's fiancee Brooke Mueller has sold her four-bedroom house in the Hollywood Hills for $2.317 million.
--The official purchase price on Anne Heche's house sale to Matt Olmstead was $3.66 million.
--A Mediterranean-style mansion in Los Feliz area that was owned by actor Lorenzo Lamas from 1996 until 1999 has sold for $4,150,000.
--A three-bedroom house in Beverly Hills that once was owned by the Monkees' Mike Nesmith has been reduced from $5,450,000 to $4,995,000. The property website is here.
--Jack Black has sold a 1,959-square-foot home in the Hollywood Hills for $1,210,000
--Former baseball star Hideo Nomo has sold his condo on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles for $1,200,000.
--A Bel-Air home once owned by Farrah Fawcett is listed for $4,195,000. The listing is here.
--The price for Ursa Major, the architectural beauty once owned by Wilt Chamberlain has been reduced from $11.5 million to $8,950,000. It was our estate of the day last December.
--Model Rachel Hunter and her hockey-player boyfriend Jarret Stoll have paid $3,645,000 for a house in Hermosa Beach.

From the Real Estalker:
--The Shabby Chic home of interior decorator Rachel Ashwell is for rent for in Malibu for $20,000 a month. The listing is here.
--It looks like designer Vera Wang's $35 million Park Avenue apartment has already gone to contract.
--Nic Cage has listed his Bel-Air manor for $35 million.
--Alex Band, of the band The Calling, has put his home in the Outpost Estates are of Los Angeles on the market for $2.995 million. The property website for the very charming for bedroom is here.
-Brad Garrett has dropped the price on his Hidden Hills home to $8,790,000.
--Damien Wayans, actor, director and nephew of Damon Wayans, has put his Los Angeles home on the market for $2.050 million. The listing is here.
--Linda Evans has listed her Beverly Hills home for rent for $14,500. The listing is here.

From the LA Times Hot Property:
--As we previously learned, Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne sold their Beverly Hills home to Christina Aguilera and hubby and have moved to Hidden Hills.
--Actress Denise Richards is also in Hidden Hills in a new home which had been listed for about $4.6 million.
--More Hidden Hills news, Melissa Etheridge already lived in the community but recently bought a larger house for $5.1 million.
--And one more Hidden Hills story, Graeme Revell, the award-winning film-music composer, just sold his home there for about $8 million.

From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:
--Pink Floyd musician Roger Waters has bought a five-story townhouse in New York for $14.995 million from Coach leather goods president Reed Krakoff.
--News anchor Campbell Brown and her political strategist husband Dan Senor are close to closing on a three-bedroom home in lower North Haven.
--Grey's Anatomy actress Chandra Wilson is buying a three-bedroom residence in Fifth on the Park, the 30-story condo complex going up in Harlem.
--Ex NFL player Tiki Barber is spending about $6 million to connect four adjacent condos at the Miraval complex at 515 East 72nd St.

Also from the NY Post:
--Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban have listed their Nashville home for $2.5 million. It is our estate of the day later today.



From the NY Observer's Manhattan Transfers:
--New York Rangers hockey player Scott Gomez has paid $3.2 million for a duplex penthouse at the Chelsea Mercantile on Seventh Avenue.
--Architect Thom Mayne has paid $2.675 million for a two-bedroom loft at 85 Mercer Street.
--Nobel-prize-winning novelist Orhan Pamuk has paid $1.8 million for an apartment at 355 Riverside Drive.

From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--Atlanta Hawks rookies Al Horford and Acie Law have both bought homes listed at about $1 million in gated communities on opposite sides of Atlanta. Horford bought a four-story Georgian-style townhouse in norther Atlanta. Law picked up a European-style single-family house in the southern part of the city.
--Actress Arlene Dahl's husband has listed their Sparkill, New York home for $8.5 million. The home was our estate of the day back in January.
--Professional golfer Justin Leonard has a tentative deal to sell his Dallas suburban home for close to his $6.8 million asking price.

As we mentioned earlier, this house is involved in the sordid drama of the Charlie Sheen/Denise Richards marriage. Richards bought the home after she first separated from Sheen on the recommendation of her friend Heather Locklear who lives down the street. According to the tabloids, Richards is now dating Locklear's soon-to-be ex, Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora. Locklear is allegedly dating David Spade.

Now that we've addressed the rumor mill, let's check out the house. It's located in the gated enclave of the North Ranch Country Club Estates. The home sits on one acre and has seven bedrooms and other details including a theater room, maids living quarters and a family room with a built-in entertainment center. It's in a private part of town and quite a large home but it looks like Richards moved her children's  toys in, added a couple of Pottery Barn couches and called it a day. The home is listed at $4.3 million. After the jump, someone didn't tidy up before the photo shoot...

From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:
--The former Fifth Avenue home of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis has been sold to an unidentified buyer. It was listed at $32 million and the current owner bought it for $9.5 million in 1995. Koch spent another $10 million renovating the  co-op apartment but now the apartment is too small for his growing family.
--Charlie Sheen has picked up a 7,500-square-foot estate on Mulholland Drive and his soon-to-be ex-wife Denise Richards has picked up a home in the Hidden Hills area.
--Steven Roth has moved into his prewar co-op apartment on Park Avenue and is selling his vacated residence a few blocks away.His full-floor 10-room co-op at 800 Park Avenue, show above is listed at $9 million. The unit has three family bedrooms,  servants' quarters with two bedrooms, a living room with a wood-burning fireplace, a library and an office. The listing is here.
--Gregory Olsen, the man who once paid $20 million to the Russian government to ride in a spaceship, has sold his Time Warner Center condo for $12.5 million to a Greek businessman.
--500 square feet, no kitchen, $2.4 million. The ultimate in expensive in New York is a studio in the St. Regis. The residences are some of the most expensive rooms in the city.
--Elle Macpherson is apartment hunting in Manhattan. She has been seen checking out the Armani-designed 20 Pine Street and 15 Broad Street.
--Interior designer Kitty Hawks has sold her two-bedroom apartment for just over $2 million.

From the NY Observer's Manhattan Transfers:
--Tina Fey and her husband, musician Jeff Richmond, have picked up an Upper West Side apartment for $550,000 that they will use as an office.
--Billionaire and MBNA heir Randolph Lerner purchased the  $27.5 million penthouse apartment at 740 Park Avenue. The apartment was formerly owned by Enid A. Haupt. As reported earlier in the NY Post, the family with four children may have a hard time negotiating this apartment which only has two bedrooms plus two smaller bedrooms in the staff quarters.
--The conversion of the Stanhope Hotel seems not to be going so well. The apartments which are listed at between $10 and $47 million have nine-foot-ceilings which can seem low in massively-sized apartments. The developer says its doing well but the brokers are less enthused by the low ceilings and high maintenance costs which make it hard to move the apartments.
 
From the NY Times Big Deal:
--No one seems to know how much was paid for a Convent Avenue townhouse which went to a Yale professor. The deed says $3.89 million but the buyer John Geanakoplos says it sold for less than that due to some special deal he won't give the details on.
--Tommy Hilfiger, the fashion designer who recently made news for his fight with Axl Rose, has agreed to pay about $18 million for a five-bedroom house on Further Lane in East Hampton. He plans to move in this summer and is creating his own furniture for the house.
--Hotelier Andre Balazs has put the loft apartment he lives in at 158 Mercer on the market for $10 million.

From the LA Times Hot Property:
--Weatherman Dallas Raines and his wife have bought a Pasadena house for just under $2 million.
--Norm Pattiz, the founder of Westwood One, has listed his Beverly Hills home for $27.5 million. The estate which was built in 1940 formerly belonged to Marlo Thomas and David Geffen. The listing is here.
--Agent Patrick Whitesell and his wife, newscaster Lauren Sanchez are looking for a family home in the San Fernando valley and have sold their  Pacific Palisades home for nearly $3.3 million.
--DJ Paul Oakenfold has sold his Hollywood Hills house for about $2.3 million.

From the Wall Street Journal:
--Former GE CEO, Jack Welch has sold his Fairfield, Connecticut home for $6.9 million, a little over half what he once asked for it. He paid  $3.25 million for the house known as Windswept back in 1990 and later bought two additional acres. The house sat on the market for three years.