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Sunday Real Estate Round-Up

Filed under: Estates, Celebrity Shopping


From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:
--Designer Vera Wang and her family are moving from their Park Avenue apartment into another Park Avenue co-op, her late parents' duplex at 740 Park Ave. Her father Cheng Ching Wang bought a smaller three-bedroom after his wife's death which was listed at $5.95 million (listing here) and has recently gone to contract. Wang's apartment is not on the market yet but is expected to be listed for around $35 million.
--Billionaire Wilbur Ross and his socialite wife, Hilary Geary, are in contract to buy the penthouse that was once home to Earl Blackwell. It was last listed at $18.9 million, the listing is here. Ross is selling his apartment in the Sherry-Netherland hotel to Todd Meister, perhaps best known for his quickie marriage to Nicky Hilton.
--An update on dog-food king Leonard Stern's beach house. It has over 18,000 square feet with nine bedrooms.
-- Robert Goldstein, the president of the Venetian resort in Las Vegas, has paid $17.4 million for a restored vintage estate known as "Gardenside."

From the NY Observer's Manhattan Transfers:
--Brian Leetch, who retired from the New York Rangers, has sold his apartment at the Bromley on West 83rd Street for $3.718 million.
--Filmmaker Jake Paltrow (Gwyneth's brother) and photographer Taryn Simon have bought a six-room, 125-year-old co-op at The Portsmouth on West Ninth Street for $2.125 million
--Eugenia Kaye, who recently battled with Donald Trump Jr., ejecting him from the condo board at Trump Place's 220 Riverside Boulevard tower, has bought a place several miles away on West 18th Street for $2.171 million.
--Texas billionaire, Sam Wyly and his wife have spent $3.05 million on an apartment in the Novaaare, which was formerly home to a Methodist church.

From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--Ethel Kennedy has cut the price on Hickory Hill yet again. It is not listed at $12.5 million, a full 50% off the original $25 million asking price.
--Naomi Watts and Liev Schreiber are in talks for each to buy adjoining apartments in the same Manhattan condominium building, One Madison Park.
--Shell Oil Co.'s president, John Hofmeister has listed his Pennsylvania farm for $4 million. The listing is here.

From Berg Properties Celebrity Big Time Listings:
--Chicago Bears quarterback Rex Grossman has sold his condominium unit in Evanston, Illinois for $825,000.
--A condo on East Lake Shore Drive that was once owned by Oprah has sold for $4.5 million.
--TV executive producer Carter Bays, who created CBS' "How I Met Your Mother," has paid $1.285 million for a 1,768-square-foot California bungalow in Los Angeles' Spaulding Square neighborhood. The listing for the house is here.
--Renee Zellweger has paid $2.2 million for a commercial condominium unit on Manhattan's Upper East Side.
--Actor Ed O'Neill has sold his three-bedroom house in Beverly Hills for $1.9 million. The listing is here.
--Loni Anderson has sold her house in the Mulholland Estates area above Beverly Hills, Calif. for $5.7 million.
--A home that formerly belonged to Lorenzo Lamas is on the market for $4.5 million. The listing is here.
--Actress Jennifer Finnigan, who starred on the recently canceled CBS drama "Close to Home," has sold her 3,345-square-foot house in Los Angeles' Hollywood Hills for $1.399 million and presumably moved in with new hubby actor Jonathan Silverman.
--Patricia Heaton and her husband, director David Hunt, have paid $1.145 million to purchase a loft-style unit in a development in West Hollywood, CA. They are using the building as an office for their production company.
--Professional skateboarder Erik Ellington has paid $1.845 million to purchase a four-bedroom house in the Hollywood Hills.
--Actress Paula Cale has sold a 1,396-square-foot house in the Hollywood Hills for $1.1 million and bought a 2,210-square-foot house in the Bronson Canyon area of the Hollywood Hills for $1,327,500.

From Perez Hilton:
--Hulk Hogan has listed his Miami home at $18.9 million. More on this one as our estate of the day later.

From the Real Estalker:
--Courtney Vance and Angela Bassett have listed their five-bedroom Hancock Park home, shown above, for $5.99 million. The listing for their luxurious estate is here.
--The Real Estalker Mama unearths the listing for a house in Tarzana, California owned by Jaime Pressly of "My Name Is Earl." She has listed the home for $1.499 million.
--The Real Estalker Mama serves up some tempting pictures of Fleur de Lys, the $125 million Saperstein mansion in Beverly Hills.
--Danny Bonaduce and his long-suffering soon-to-be ex-wife Gretchen have put their Spanish style mansion on the market for $4.5 million. This one will also be part of our estate of the day later on.
--Child actor Taran Noah Smith's Sherman Oaks home was foreclosed on. TMZ has video of the complete and utter mess that the house is in thanks to a messy divorce between the actor and his much older wife.
--Did you wonder about that fabulous house that Victoria Beckham was prancing around in during her TV special? Wonder no more, we'll check out the listing for her deluxe rental during out restate of the day feature later today.

From the LA Times Hot Property:
--As the Real Estalker reported several weeks ago, Nicky Hilton has bought a home in the Hollywood Hills for close to $3 million.
--Wrestler Stone Cold Steve Austin has put his four-bedroom Malibu home on the market for $3.895 million. You can take a look at the listing here.
--As the Real Estalker first mentioned back in April, the Bel-Air home of actress Jane Wyatt was sold to Hollywood producer and talent manager Sandy Gallin.
--Jolie Jenkins, who played Deirdre (Zach's birth mother) on "Desperate Housewives," and David Pagani, a director of TV commercials, have sold their Studio City home to Dwight D. Smith, a producer of "Project Runway" and "Last Comic Standing."

--Les Firestein and Gwyn Lurie, a Hollywood producer and screenwriter have listed their Brentwood home at $4.595 millionn. The Real Estalker Mama recounts that the couple got in a bit of a dust-up with the neighbors over their deluxe treehouse.

Sunday Real Estate Round-Up

Filed under: Estates

From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:
-- Icelandic businessman Jon Asgeir Johannesson will be combining the $16 million penthouse he bought for $10 million at Ian Schrager's 50 Gramercy Park North with a $10.175 million unit he bought in December on the floor directly below. His new triplex will be nearly 8,000 square feet.
--Ethel Kennedy has lowered the price of her Hickory Hill home in the Washington D.C. suburbs to $12.5 million, It first hit the market for $25 million. Check out the home here.
-David Bouley has bought new-construction loft above his restaurant for $3.15 million.
--House & Garden has pulled out of having a Hamptons decorator show house, leaving only the Hamptons Cottages & Gardens Idea House, located in Amagansett which will be open to the public July 13.
--The Southampton summer home of the late Patricia Kennedy Lawford is on the market for $12 million. The listing for the 10-bedroom mansion is here.
--Esquire magazine will create the next version of the "Ultimate Bachelor Pad" in Harlem. A full-floor penthouse apartment at the nearly completed 111 Central Park North will be get the full decorator treatment.

From Berg Properties Big Time Listings:
--Actor Harry Anderson is selling his properties in New Orleans. He has sold the New Orleans building where he and his wife had lived. Anderson sold his house at 828 Chartres Street for $895,000. The building that he converted into a nightclub knows as Oswald's Speakeasy is listed at $1.795 million. The listing is here. Anderson and his wife have bought a new house for $570,000 in Asheville, N.C.
--Alexis Carson, the widow of talk-show legend Johnny Carson sold the couple's 4-acre oceanfront Malibu estate for between $38 million and $40 million, has sold a 17th-floor unit in Los Angeles' Westwood neighborhood for $3,995,000, and last summer paid $14.5 million for a 13,623-square-foot house above Beverly Hills.
--Dave Evans, U2's Edge has bought a loft penthouse in New York City's TriBeCa area a while back for $4,276,650.
--Nicolas Cage has paid $3,450,000 for a the LaLaurie Mansion in New Orleans' French Quarter.

From the Real Estalker:
--Michael Skloff and Marta Kauffman, the creators of Friends, have listed a pair of parcels on Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu for $20 million. There is a three-bedroom home and plans for a 7,565 square ft. main home and guest home on separate legal parcel. Check out pics at the listing here.
--Posh and Becks, a.k.a. Victoria and David Beckham have bought somewhere in Beverly Hills. The Real Estalker Mama knows the address but alas, she's not telling except to say that it is not far from David Geffen's estate and the Saperstein mansion.
--Designer Xorin Balbes has a gorgeous flip in the "Birds" streets. The six-bedroom modern is listed at $6.8 million. If you love modern design sit through the flash tour, it's definitely worth it.
--Producer Brian Grazer and author Gigi Levangie Grazer have listed their Pacific Palisades home for $27.5 million. The large nine-bedroom Cliff May Ranch has been renovated and redesigned. The listing for the big gorgeous home is here.
--Joseph and Justine Simmons other wise known as Rev. Run and his wife have listed their home in Saddle River, New Jersey for $5.5 million. It's not as ostentatious as his brother Russell's house but it's still lavish. You can check out the listing here.
--Lisa Gores, who was married to billionaire Alec Gores, is selling her Beverly Hills home for $3.895 million.
--Singer Natalie Imbruglia has listed her Los Angeles home for $4.5 million. The five-bedroom home is a charming and luxe Mediterranean villa with all sorts of glamorous details. Check out the listing here.


From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--Lee Marvin's widow Pamela Marvin is asking $6 million for a Tucson, Ariz., home she shared with her late husband, Academy Award-winning actor Lee Marvin. The five-bedroom home sits on 12 acres and was built in 1936. Check out the listing to see one giant marlin on the wall.
--Film producer and Gateway Inc. co-founder Norman Waitt Jr. has cut more than $2 million off the price of the Montecito mansion he built but never moved into. The home known as Belle Epoque is now listed at $22.5 million. What does $22.5 million get you in Montecito? We'll find out later, it's our estate of the day.

From the NY Observer's Manhattan Transfers:
--U2's longtime manager, Paul McGuinness, and his wife Kathy have bought a fifth-floor, six-room apartment at 40 East 62nd for $3.25 million.
--Keith Olbermann has bought a 40th-floor apartment in an Upper East Side Trump condominium for $4.2 million.
--Lawyer Howard Yaruss has paid $3.56 million for the dilapidated 16th-floor co-op at 80 Central Park West that belonged to the late Ralph Ginzburg.

From the LA Times Hot Property:
--Actor Brad Garrett has put his Hidden Hills home on the market at $9,495,000. The six-bedroom home is big but it's not very pretty. The listing is here.
--Gary Anthony Williams, who plays the transvestite legal secretary Clarence/Clarice Bell in the ABC series "Boston Legal," and his wife, Leslie, have bought in Sherman Oaks for about $1.5 million.


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