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Sunday Real Estate Round-Up

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From the NY TImes Bg Deal:
-- Earl Simmons, the rap performer and actor known as DMX, paid $750,000 in cash to buy a vacant 18-foot-wide brownstone in Harlem in 2001 and he is now putting it on the market for $1.9 million. The rapper went through a series of struggles with the house including being sued by an electrician. The IRS also put liens on his properties and so DMX is definitely a motivated seller.
--Soprano Anna Moffo's apartment has sold for $4.45 million.

From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:
--Harry Belafonte's 17-room apartment was sold to philanthropist/entertainment heiress Abigail Disney and her husband, Pierre Hauser.
--Tory Kiam,son of the late Victor Kiam, the one-time owner of the New England Patriots haspaid $24 million for a five-bedroom place on Fifth Ave., Eve Weinstein, the ex-wife of Harvey Weinstein also recently bought into the same building for $10.4 million.
-- Twiggy is picking up a one bedroom in the Westmore for around $739,000.
--Looks like Ralph Lauren won't be buying East Hampton Point after all.
--Edgar Bronfman Jr. has found buyers for two of his three Amagansett properties, selling a five-bedroom home for $4.74 million and an adjacent vacant 1.2-acre for just over $3 million.

From the NY Observer's Manhattan Transfers:
--Blogging venture capitalist Fred Wilson is selling his 55-foot-wide townhouse which had an asking price of $37.5 million.
--Another story on Abigail Disney. She has sold her newly renovated townhouse on Central Park West at 85th Street to Coach C.O.O. and co-president Keith Monda for $15.5 million.
--John Sutter, publisher of downtown community newspapers The Villager, Gay City News and Downtown Express has sold his Tribeca loft for $7,355,000.

From Forbes Movers and Shakers:
--Westwood One founder Norman Pattiz has sold his Beverly Hills estate for just under $20 million.

From the LA Times Hot Property (all Hawaii issue):
--"Lost" actor Daniel Dae Kim has paid about $1.5 million for a home on Oahu.
--Cameron Diaz and singer Justin Timberlake have also bought a beachfront estate on Oahu for close to its $16.9-million asking price.
--David Geffen had two oceanfront lots for sale on Kahala Avenue in Honolulu one which was offered at $40 million and a smaller lot which was listed at $13.5 million. A computer company just purchased the larger site for $35 million.
--A home built on part of the former estate of Henry Kaiser, the steel magnate, is on the market at $20.5 million.
--Michelle Pfeiffer and David E. Kelley's Hawaii beachfront home is still on the market.
--Earlier this year,John Travolta and Kelly Preston sold their oceanfront Oahu home to model Kathy Ireland for about $3 million.
--A Oahu compound belonging to Maurice J. Sullivan, founder of the Foodland grocery stores is listed at $29 million. The listing is here.
--Rumor has it that Bill Gates is building on Oahu and already has purchased the site.

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