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The Heart Truth's Red Dress Collection 2011 Fashion Show kicked off Fashion Week at Lincoln Center in New York last evening. The celebrity-studded affair celebrated the national awareness campaign for women about heart disease. Celebrity models included Ann Curry, Audrina Patridge, Camila Alves, Denise Richards, Dita Von Teese, Eve, Gayle King, Giuliana Rancic, Julianne Hough, Laila Ali, Linda Gray, Natasha Bedingfield, Patti LaBelle (see photo above and video below), Suzanne Somers (see photo below) and several others (featured in slideshow below). Watch the full video of the show on MyDaily.

There were plenty of celebrities in the audience to watch the presentation, including actor Matthew McConaughey and Apprentice-winning Bill Rancic, who were both there to cheer on their significant others (Camila Alves and Giuliana Rancic, respectively).

Many of the participants have a personal connection to heart disease, which motivated them to become involved in the show. "It turned out to be a lot of fun---now that it is over," The Today Show's Ann Curry, who was stunning in Carmen Marc Valvo (see slideshow below), told Luxist. "It wasn't so much fun leading up to it because I was kind of nervous. I have never done anything like this before."

A couple of weeks ago, I mentioned that Denise Richards had put her latest Hidden Hills home on the market but now the LA Times' Ann Brenoff has unearthed the property website so this is definitely worth a closer look. The New-England-style retreat is definitely an upgrade from the last time we featured a home of hers as estate of the day. The five-bedroom home has a gourmet kitchen, dining room, large living room and a sitting room in the master suite all done up in a Pamela Anderson style Shabby Chic decor. Richards has listed the house for $4.25 million which is around $100,000 less than she paid for it.

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From the LA Times Hot Property:
--Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood have picked up a home on the Malibu beachfront that had been listed at $5.45 million. Big Time Listings found the property website which is here.
--Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Carson Palmer has listed his Laguna Beach, California home. It's our estate of the day later today.
--Michael D. Kunce, the president of Armstrong Garden Centers and his wife, Marianne, have listed their palatial Claremont home, Villa Di Fiori, for $3 million. The listing is here.
--Stuntman-turned-director Scott Gillen has listed his midcentury modern in Malibu at $5.475 million. The property website is here.


From Big Time Listings:
--Teri Garr has sold her two-bedroom house in Brentwood. It was listed for $3,995,000.
--Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman have sold their two-bedroom condo unit in Encino after it had been on the market for $750,000.
--Andrew Alexander, who co-owns the Second City improvisational comedy troupe in Chicago has paid $1.395 million for a house in the Beverly Hills Post Office area.

From the Real Estalker:
--Denise Richards has put her Hidden Hills home on the market for $4.25 million. The listing is here.
--Paul Bettany and Jennifer Connelly's Brooklyn home has gone to contract. It was our estate of the day in May.
--Brett Butler has sold her home for $2 million.
--Producer Mark Brazill is still trying to unload the 1920s home in Los Feliz he bought from Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale. He paid $4.795 million for the home, relisted for $4.885 million and has now cut the price all the way down to $3.995 million which means he will take a huge loss on the home. The listing is here.
----Angela Bassett and Courtney Vance seem to have finally sold their Hancock Park home. The home which was originally listed at $5.999 million went all the way down to $3.9 million and is now listed as "looking for backup."
--CSI: Miami actress Khandi Alexander's home is back on the market for $2.995 million. The listing is here.
--Real estate agent Joe Babajian has put a home in Westwood on the market for $1.95 million. The listing is here.
---Ellen Degeneres and gal pal Portia Di Rossi have picked up a third property on Cabrillo Drive which will allow them to request permission from the city of Beverly Hills to gate the entire street. It is rumored that Ellen may have spent around $40 million total to create a new massive compound.
--Candy Spelling is selling a pair of condos in Century Woods, a small gated community in Century City. Both condos have five bedrooms but the one with over 8,000 square feet is listed at $7.895 million and the one that is a bit under 5,000 square feet is listed at $4.795 million.
--Musician Beck and Marissa Ribisi have put their Hancock Park home on the market for $9 million. The pair bought for $6.75 million a little over a year ago. The six-bedroom home also comes with a professional recording studio and rehearsal room in the guest house. The listing is here.

From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:
--Ralph Fiennes has paid $2 million for a one-bedroom condo loft on West 13th Street.
--Veronica Hearst sold her Upper East Side co-op (two apartments) at 4 E. 66th St. for $36.5 million.
--Diana Ross is planning to renovate her Sherry-Netherland hotel apartment and raise its price from $9 million to $11 million sometime after Labor Day.

From the NY Observer:
----Another huge listing in New York City. This time a Fifth Avenue duplex, shown above, belonging to Karen Fleiss, who founded the hedge fund KMF Partners, and her husband, David, a Fifth Avenue orthopedic surgeon has been put on the market for $47.5 million. The listing is here.
--Exiting Metropolitan Museum of Art director Philippe de Montebello and his wife, Edith, director of financial aid at the Trinity School, sold their two-bedroom co-op at 25 East 86th Street this month for $2.195 million. The buyer is graphic designer Holly Okner, whose father is the investor Peter A. Aron, the chairman of the South Street Seaport Museum from 1987 to 2000. De Montebello has moved to another apartment nearby.
--The founder of Rag & Bone David Neville and his wife, celebrity makeup artist Gucci Westman just bought a duplex penthouse loft at the Spears Building, a former warehouse on West 22nd Street for $4.426 million.
----Charmaine Ho, a 22-year-old handbag designer and freelance fashion write bought a 25-foot-wide Greek Revival townhouse on West Ninth Street earlier this year for $8.1 million. Her parents, who live in Hong Kong, are paying for the bulk of the mortgage and will pay around $200,000 to renovate the floor-through apartment that she will live in. A three-bedroom apartment downstairs and the one-bedroom place upstairs are being rented out.

This year you can give your mother the same gift that a celebrity is giving theirs. Fortunoff has launched Charms for Charity with celebrities such as Brooke Shields, Eva Longoria, Denise Richards, Hayden Panettiere, Keri Russell, Molly Sims and Petra Nemcova. Each selected their favorite gold charms from Fortunoff'charm collection. The bracelets will serve personalized gifts and Fortunoff will create replicas of each of the celebrity designed bracelets to be auctioned off on Portero.com from May 8th through May 17th. One hundred percent of funds raised will benefit the charity of the celebrity's choice. The choice of charms are interesting, for example, Eva Longoria's bracelet, which benefits her charity Eva's Heroes has an Eiffel Tower, a basketball, an umbrella cocktail, drama masks and a heart and cross combination, things which seem to be more about Eva and her upcoming wedding than her mom. Keri Russell's includes three seashells and gardening tools and Brooke Shields's is the blandest of the ones I have seen with a pair of baby shoes, a baby carriage, Empire state building and a present box. You can check out the rest of the designs at the website. Keri and Brooke's bracelets are after the jump.

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:
--Sting and Trudie Styler have picked up a penthouse at 15 Central Park West for $30 million.
--Giants tight end Jeremy Shockey has bought three townhouses for just under $3 million apiece at the new Henley on Hudson complex  on the shores of Weehawken, N.J. Shockey wanted all six but townhouses but was limited to three.
-- Old Trees, a Southampton estate has one on the market for  $48 million. The estate includes a 20,000-square-foot, 13-bedroom Georgian mansion,  barn with a gym, kitchen and three bedrooms, a cottage/pool house with three bedrooms, a clay tennis court and a pool with a blue-stone patio.
--Howard Stern and Leonard Stern are each working on the construction on their mansions on side-by-side properties in the Hamptons.
--Yet another reality TV set turns into a listing. This time it's the Gastineau Girls apartment. The Battery Park City apartment rented by Lisa and Brittny Gastineau is listed for $3.4 million. No pets are allowed in the building, which explains most of the first season of the show's subplot (I confess, I caught an episode or two). Check out the listing here.
 B-movie actress Lisa Marie has sold her two-bedroom condo for $2 million.
--Hmmm... the listing for the Kips Bay decorator showhouse owned by Jean Doumanian and Jacqui Safra has been pulled.
--Fox anchor and former mayoral spouse Kimberly Guilfoyle and her new husband, Eric Villency are buying at the Trump International Hotel & Tower for $3.9 million.

From the LA Times Hot Property:
-- Denise Richards has already put her Westlake Village home at $4.3 million. She's owned the house for only around a year, buying it just after her separation from Charlie Sheen. She bought it for just under $4 million so she's not going to be making a big profit but she really must want to get out of the neighborhood. No surprise since Heather Locklear, the soon-to-be ex-wife of Richards' current beau Richie Sambora, lives down the street. I can't resist, it's our estate of the day later on.
--Greek shipping heir and tabloid fodder Paris Latsis has settled on a three-story, Beverly Hills-area house for $9.2 million.
--Film producer Jonathan King has put his Venice home  on the market for close to $1.4 million. The listing is here but it looks sold they are just looking for backup now.
--The Kresge Seismological Laboratory,what was the former Richter Lab in Pasadena is listed at $4.2 million. The most recent owner planned to restore the Pasadena landmark but is now selling. The lab will remain on the property and has 18-inch poured-concrete walls and tunnels into the hillsides for measuring earthquakes. A comprehensive slide tour is here. It's in rough shape but it could be a great project for someone with money and vision.

From the NY Times Big Deal:
--Susan Weber Soros, the ex-wife of the billionaire financier George Soros has picked up a  five-bedroom apartment this month at the Majestic for more than $20 million. One of the former owners of the apartment was hotelier Ian Schrager who had the place tricked out by Philippe Starck. She's not sure if she is changing the decor yet.
--A company controlled by Harvey Weinstein has bought a five-story town house in the West Village which had an asking price of $12.5 million. Weinstein plans to redecorate the seven-bedroom home which also has a screening room
--Stephen Dorff  has picked up a $1.65 million, 1,100-square-foot apartment at 251 West 19th Street, in Chelsea,.
--Glenn Gissler, an interior designer, and Susan Harris, a freelance curator and writer, bought a 2,700-square-foot apartment this month at 40 Fifth Avenue that had been owned by the late Sir Edwin A. G. Manton, an art collector and benefactor of the Tate Gallery in London. They already live in the building in a smaller place which they are selling for $3.695 million. A photo is above and check out the lovely listing here.

From the NY Observer's Manhattan Transfers:
--The  former home of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis was sold to hedge-fund manager Glenn Dubin for $32 million.
--Ricky Martin has listed his Time Warner Center condo for  $9.95 million, according to a source with knowledge of the listing. He bought the place for  $6.8 million in 2004. The condo is 3,000 square feet, including four bedrooms and floor-to-ceiling windows with Central Park and city views.