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Chris O'Donnell's brother John is behind johnnie-O, a line of "West Coast Preppy" apparel. Lacoste has the alligator, Ralph Lauren has the polo pony, Johnnie-O has a silhouette of a surfer and a board as its logo. The logo serves as the lodestar for the brand, typifying an outdoorsy and casual lifestyle. The line includes polo shirts, t-shirts, belts, hoodies and more for men, women and children.

The brand has attracted plenty of celebrity attention including quarterback Drew Brees, tennis player Pete Sampras, baseball player Barry Zito, Adrian Grenier and Luke Wilson. The brand contributes to a number of charities including Autism Speaks, The BreesDream Foundation, Friends of Golf Foundation and The John Thomas Dye School Foundation.

From the LA Times Hot Properties:
--Celebrity manager Rick Yorn has sold his Brentwood house for $9.35 million.
-- Wrestler Stone Cold Steve Austin listed his 3,881-square-foot house in Malibu for $3,895,000 originally, it just sold for $2.5 million.
--The home belonging to Kanye West's mom, Donda West is expected to get another price cut, to $1.595 million. The contemporary home in the Playa del Rey area of Los Angeles was originally priced at $1.945 million and was dropped to $1.745 million at the end of May. The listing is here.
--The Polaroid house, shown above, is located on Malibu's Carbon Beach, has been home to plenty of A-list parties but with Malibu's new paparazzi crackdown the home is looking for just one owner. The property has 80 feet of beach frontage and has approved plans to build a 6,000 square foot estate with a beachfront pool and spa as well as the existing home. It is listed at $32 million.

From the NY Post's Real Estate section:
--Fashion designer Tommy Hilfiger is about to list his Plaza apartment for $50 million. The apartment is located in the northeast dome on the 18th and 19th floors of the building and includes four bedrooms, a formal dining room, large living room, library and gourmet kitchen.
--Paul McCartney is looking for a New York City apartment closer to the Upper East Side apartment of his new flame Nancy Shevell.
--Denis Leary's TV series "Rescue Me" has just signed a six-month lease with Loft 14, the 10-story condominium building at 135 W. 14th St., where taping of their fifth season will begin this month. The lease is for $14,000 a month and the apartment has a real asking price of $2,375 million.

From Berg Properties Big Time Listings:
--Actor Chris O'Donnell has paid an undisclosed amount for a house in Pacific Palisades. The seller bought it last year for $4.675 million. He sold his last house in Pacific Palisades for $5.05 million.
--Jamie Foxx has sold his Tarzana home. It was our estate of the day back in June.
--Nicolas Cage's Bel Air home is back on the market, this time for $29.999 million. It hit the market last September for $35 million and was later pulled. The listing for the classic home which has been owned by both Dean Martin and Tom Jones is here.
--Glenn Frey has paid $7.75 million for a six-bedroom estate in Hana, Hawaii, on Maui.
--Kiefer Sutherland has paid $8.25 million for a t five-story town house in Manhattan's West Village.

From the Real Estalker:
--Looks like neither Donald Trump nor the mystery buyer have picked up Ed McMahon's house. It is still listed at $4.6 million.
--Rumor has it that Cher has sold her Malibu mansion which was listed at $45 million.
--Stevie Wonder has put his home in Los Feliz on the market for $3.2 million.
--Nascar racer Denny Hamlin has put his North Carolina home on the market. It's our estate of the day later today.
----via Boston.com, quarterback Tom Brady is a real estate winner. He converted a Beacon Street town house into four condos and sold three of them saving the top floors floors for himself. As a result he earned back more than he paid two years ago for the building. His total proceeds were $7.95 million which is $1.71 million more than he paid for the entire building, according to public deed records.
--via Nashville City Paper, country singer Kix Brooks of Brooks & Dunn and his wife Barbara are the buyers in Nashville's biggest home sale of the year. They paid $5.45 million in August for a new house in Forest Hills.
--via the Real Deal, Moby sold his penthouse at the El Dorado, the twin-towered cooperative apartment at 300 Central Park West near 90th Street, for $6.7 million. It was our estate of the day in July of 2007 when it was priced at $7.5 million.
--Dane Cook has picked up a four-bedroom home in the Hollywood Hills for $7,078,412.

From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--Basketball player Allen Iverson has reduced the price on his Villanova, Pennsylvania home by 37%. We will be checking this out as our estate of the day on Monday.
--Basketball player Rasheed Wallace has cut the price on his Portland, Oregon home. It will be our estate of the day on Tuesday.
--Actor Matthew Modine has purchased a condominium in New York's Chelsea section for $1.7 million.
--Leonard Ross who put the Hearst estate in Beverly Hills on the market for $165 million has taken it off the market. He has decided to keep the home.

From the NY Observer's Manhattan Transfers:
-- A co-op penthouse in 1060 Fifith Avenue has sold for $48,836,000 setting a new co-op price record in Manhattan. Hedge fund manager Scott Bommer and wife Donya. The couple bought the home for $46 million penthouse back in January. The buyer is listed anonymously on the deed as Park View Trust.
--Writer Ian Buruma spent $1,495,000 on an apartment at the Kalahari on West 116th Street. He and Eri Hotta, who taught at Oxford until 2005, closed last month.
--Ben Stiller spent $10 million on a duplex in a prewar orange-brick co-op on Riverside Drive in the West 80s, the same building that his parents, Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara, have lived in for years.

From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:
--Kenneth Cole and his wife Maria Cuomo Cole, have just paid $14.5 million for a five-bedroom, five-bath prewar co-op apartment at One Sutton Place South.
--Real-estate investor/enthusiast Michael Hirtenstein has added even more space to his TriBeCa bachelor pad at One York taking it from a huge 6,600 square feet to a gargantuan 11,000 square feet of interior space plus 6,000 square feet of exterior space.
--So far Andie McDowell, Christie Brinkley and Rosie O'Donnell have all checked out the nine remaining residences at 10 West End Ave.

From the NY Observer's Manhattan Transfers:
--The former Guccione townhouse sold for just $49 million to hedge fund titan Philip Falcone. Amazing considering it was once listed, albeit briefly and foolishly for $99 million.
--TV home renovator Bob Vila spent $4 million on a townhouse in 2004. He has now renovated and is asking $11.5 million. The renovation was filmed for season 15 of the TV show Bob Vila's Home Again. The house is now two duplexes plus a full floor apartment as well as rear half-floor apartments on the first and fourth floors, which Mr. Vila couldn't touch because there are still rent-stabilized tenants there. The penthouse is being rented for the year at around $15,000 per month, and the duplex downstairs is rented at around $10,000. The listing is here.
--Estée Lauder CEO and president (and grandson) William P. Lauder has gotten in at snooty 778 Park Avenue, despite a scandal with a love child. Lauder paid $27,5 million for his apartment.
--A trader named Ping Jiang, managing director at billionaire Steven Cohen's hedge fund SAC Capital, paid $16.5 million for a 4,000-square-foot co-op at the Dakota and was accepted by the coop board even though a former trader at SAC filed a lawsuit alleging that Mr. Jiang had forced him to take black-market female hormones.
--The most expensive co-op listing ever on Central Park West listed at $36 million by music mogul Steve Gottlieb, is no longer listed. Sold or is Gottilieb looking for a little less publicity since his label TVT Records has filed for bankruptcy protection.

From Berg Properties Big Time Listings:
--Actor Malcolm Gets has sold his three-bedroom house in Los Feliz for $1,069,500.
-- via the NY Observer, "Harry Potter" actor Daniel Radcliffe has paid $4.9 million for a three-bedroom condo unit in Manhattan's Morton Square development.
--One of my all time favorite estates of the day, the Ursus Major home in Bel-Air, shown above, that belonged to Wilt Chamberlain sold for $6.555 million. It was listed for a whopping $11.5 million when we made it an estate of the day in December 2006.
--The Malibu beach house that Paris Hilton rented last summer can be yours this summer for $80,000 a month for a minimum of two months. The listing is here.

From the Real Estalker:
--The Real Estalker Mama checks out Sidney Kimmel's $81.5 million pleasure palace in Palm Beach.
--Author and radio host Garrison Keillor has put his seven-bedroom Minnesota home on the market for $1.65 million. He bought in 1998 for $710,000. The listing is here.
--Actor Chris O'Donnell has put his Pacific Palisades home on the market for $5.395 million.
--Fleur de Lys, the $125 million Saperstein home in Holmby Hills just may have found a buyer.
--Greek shipping heir Paris Latsis has put his Beverly Hills Post Office area home on the market for $15 million. It is our estate of the day later today.
--Kanye West has sold the Beverly Hills teardown house he purchased a year ago for $7,150,000 and then listed for $8,699,000. The purchase price isn't known.
--via the NY Post's Page Six, Nicole Richie and Joel Madden have purchased a million dollar apartment on The Bowery in New York City.
--Cher has put her Malibu mansion on to the market as a "pocket listing" and is looking for a rumored $40 million for the place.

From the LA Times Hot Properties:
--Mary Lynn Rajskub, an actress seen on the TV show "24" has placed her Venice, CA bungalow on the market for $1,299,000. The listing is here, it's as cute as she is.
--Mixmaster Mike, a 37-year-old DJ with the Beastie Boys, has purchased a home in the Sunset Strip area for $990,000.
--Stacey Bendet, the designer-owner of the women's clothing boutique Alice & Olivia, has bought a John Woolf home in the Sunset Strip area for close to $3 million. She plans to used the home as a style salon and party pad and Moby will be using the guest house as a recording studio.
Alicia Piazza, wife of baseball catcher Mike Piazza, has listed a loft she owns in downtown Long Beach at $689,000. She and Piazza recently bought a home in the Miami Beach area for $10 million.

From AOL Real Estate:
--Home deals under $250,000.