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Sunday Real Estate Round-Up, 06/27/10

Filed under: Estates, Celebrity Shopping

From the LA Times Hot Properties:
"The X-Files" composer Mark Snow has listed his Venice, California home at $1.899 million. Snow bought in 2007 for $2.2 million. The Cape Cod-inspired house, shown above, is listed with Tina Stern of Ewing & Associates, Sotheby's International Realty.
--Actor David Boreanaz has sold his Hollywood Hills compound for $2.6 million. It was listed at $3.249 million when it was our estate of the day last year.

Gallery: David Boreanaz in Los Angeles

--The Santa Monica estate that the late film star and singer Kathryn Grayson called home for 65 years is listed for $8.995 million with Hilton & Hyland.
--Actress Alex Kingston and her husband, German writer Florian Haertel, have listed their Hollywood Hills home for $3.995 million. We first checked out this house in 2008 when it was listed for $4.75 million.The property website is here.

Gallery: Kingston in the Hills

--The longtime family home of "The Dick Van Dyke Show" actor Morey Amsterdam has come on the market at $6.495 million. The listing for the Beverly Hills Midcentury modern is with Jade Mills of Coldwell Banker Beverly Hills South and Gloria Benveniste of Coldwell Banker's Marina del Rey office.
--Celebrity photographer Firooz Zahedi has sold his Hollywood Hills home for $1.53 million.
--A longtime home of film comic Groucho Marx is listed in Beverly Hills. The Spanish-style estate is on the market for $6.995 million.
--"Gossip Girl" writer and executive producer Josh Safran and his husband, producer Ted Alexandre, have purchased a Hancock Park area property for $2.75 million.

From Move Trends:
--Actress Charlize Theron is renting out her 2,095-square-foot Malibu beach house for $50,000 a month. The listing is here.
--An A. Quincy Jones designed home originally made for actor Gary Cooper and his wife is on the market for $18.9 million.

From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--The former chairman and chief executive of Sony Music Entertainment, Tommy Mottola has listed his 324-acre ranch near Aspen, Colorado for $27.5 million.
--Singer-songwriter Carole King has relisted her 128-acre ranch in Stanley, Idaho $16 million. The listing is here.
--TV producer and executive Douglas S. Cramer, whose credits include "Dynasty" and "The Love Boat," has bought a Miami Beach house for $7.4 million.

From the Real Estalker:
--Patrick Dempsey has picked up a three-bedroom Malibu home for $7 million.
--Blythe Danner has listed her Santa Monica condo for $1.86 million. The listing is here.

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Television Producer Auctions Off A Lifetime of Collecting

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Decor, Auctions, Art

Last year we covered the listing of the house of television producer Douglas S. Cramer, whose credits include TV series such as "Dynasty" and "The Love Boat." Cramer and his partner, artist and writer Hugh Bush had relocated from California to Roxbury, Connecticut to Dogwood Farm, a charming 11,000 sq. ft. collection of converted barns on a 130-acre estate. Now that house has been sold off and much of the furniture and and artwork is being sold through Stair Galleries on June 26.

The 500-piece sale will include all of the contents of the farmhouse with proceeds of some sales benefiting select charities including: The Miami City Ballet, The New York City Center for Dance, Save the Children, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and a trio of Miami Art Museums. Mr. Cramer and Mr. Bush have moved to Florida where they are at work on their latest home (number 19!).

The auction features a collection of furniture selected for the couple by celebrated style icons: David Anthony Easton, Michael Taylor, Mica Ertegun & Chessy Rayner of MAC II and Nicky Haslam, all of whom designed residences for Mr. Cramer in California, Connecticut, Martha's Vineyard and the Caribbean and have been featured in a number of publications including Architectural Digest, Vogue, Vanity Fair, W Magazine, Elle Décor and House & Garden. The sale is a collector's dream with offerings including Staffordshire China; King Charles Spaniels in porcelain, paint or bronze; Mercury glass; Georgian and Victorian English Furniture; American, French, Italian, and Chinese furniture; Oriental rugs; Tribal artifacts and antique garden appointments including Regency benches, limestone finials, and a pair of life-size 18th Century carved limestone lions.

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