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From the LA Times Hot Properties:
--Arizona Cardinal Monty Beisel has listed his contemporary home in Encino, California for $2.395 million. The listing is here.
--Actor French Stewart and actress and interior designer Katherine LaNasa sold their renovated Hollywood Hills-area home in early March for $3.637 million and now their buyer has resold it for $4.08 million.
Oscar-winning rapper Juicy J has sold his Sherman Oaks house for $1.82 million.

From the Real Estalker:
--Jane Fonda is the latest celebrity to move into the Sierra Towers in West Hollywood picking up a modest one-bedroom rental.
--Cher's son Elijah Blue sold a two-bedroom home in West Hollywood, California for $1.1 million in January.
--Sonja Morgan who is on the Real Housewives of New York City had listed her five-bedroom home in New York City for $7.25 million before pulling it off the market last month.
--Stephen Dorff has listed his Malibu beach house for $50,000 a month. The listing is here.
--Rumor has it that real estate developer Mohamed Hadid has finally sold the ten-bedroom store he built in Los Angeles' Bel Air neighborhood. Last we checked the home was listed at $72 million but now it is listed as "Backup Offers Accepted" meaning that a deal may be in the works.

--A home owned by actress Penelope Cruz has hit the market for $3.695 million. The listing is here.

From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--Karl Rove is in contract to sell his five-bedroom Washington D.C. home, which had been listed for $1.59 million. Rove and his wife, Darby, bought the three-level brick home for $799,000 in 2001.

--A limited-liability company linked to James Jannard, founder of sunglasses and apparel maker Oakley, has bought property in Beverly Hills for $19.9 million.
--Well-known fund manager John Laporte and his wife, Andrea, have bought a home in Ketchum, Idaho, for $5.5 million, more than 20% lower than its original $6.95 million listing in the summer.

From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--Arthur Blank, co-founder of Home Depot and owner of the NFL's Atlanta Falcons, has cut the price on his Atlanta home to $6.9 million. It was listed at $8.9 million when we checked it out as an estate of the day last year.

--Christopher Nassetta, president and chief executive of Hilton Worldwide, has sold his Los Angeles home for $18 million, which is about 35% less than his $27.5 million purchase price in 2007.
--The Manhattan apartment of Sheila Lukins, a best-selling author of the "Silver Palate" cookbooks who died last August, has gone into contract for an undisclosed price. The co-op in the Beresford was most recently listed at $3.15 million.


From the NY Post:
--Fashion designer Elie Tahari and his wife are looking to unload more than $70 million worth of property. Properties include a penthouse at 860 Fifth Ave. worth around $10 million, the 51st floor of 1 Central Park West, which is estimated to be worth at least $18 million, a house in Amagansett for $6.8 million, a loft on Prince Street for around $22 million and an oceanfront home in Sagaponack.
--Screenwriter Paul Schrader has closed on a $1.9 million condo at 350 W. 23rd St.
--Brown Harris Stevens' brokers Wendy Maitland and Reid Price have sold their $19.5 million listing at 26 W. 76th St.
--Billionaire and new daddy Henry Silverman has spent $900,000 on a Hamptons summer rental and also bought 381 Hedges Lane in Sagaponack for $14 million and is looking to buy in New York City for something in the $28 million range.


From Forbes:
What does it take take to sell a $50 million house? Forbes reports on the selling of the Duke-Semans mansion and the Frick Manor.

From the LA Times Hot Properties:
--Actor French Stewart and his wife, actress and interior designer Katherine LaNasa, have sold their Hollywood Hills-area home for $3.637 million. The home was originally listed for $4.195 million.
--Producer David Lipman has sold his Hollywood Hills home for $1.9 million, according to the Multiple Listing Service, it was first listed at $2.195 million.
--Former Los Angeles Clippers basketball player Lamond Murray has sold his Manhattan Beach house for $2.525 million.
--Deborah Pratt, who wrote and appeared in the television show "Quantum Leap" has sold her Holmby Hills-area home for $2.9 million.
-- Ashley Olsen has sold her Hancock Park home for $1.399 million, the price it was listed at just last month.


From Berg Properties Big Time Listings:
--Screenwriter, director and actor Mike Binder has listed his five-bedroom mansion in Pacific Palisades for $7.595 million.

From the Real Estalker:
--Jeana Keough of the Real Housewives of Orange County has saved her home from foreclosure.
--Mischa Barton has listed her Beverly Hills post office home for $8.395 million.

From the LA Times Hot Property:
--Inventor and master pitchman Ron Popeil has listed a gated Beverly Hills home, shown above, for sale. The English country-style house includes a tennis court, a large pool with a deck area and a two-story guesthouse. There are six bedrooms and it is listed at $5.995 million. The listing is here.
--The Beverly Hills home of Dr. Robert Rey, star of E! Entertainment Television's "Dr. 90210," has come back on the market at $4.395 million. It was previously listed at $5.295 million. The listing is here.
--Actor French Stewart and his wife, actress and interior designer Katherine LaNasa, have listed their renovated and expanded Hollywood Hills-area home for $4.195 million. The listing is here.
--Designer Brogan Lane has listed her 1924 Spanish-style boutique hotel and rental property, Villa Delle Stelle, in Hollywood at $1,098,100.
--Producer Marshall Herskovitz has sold his home in a Brentwood equestrian area for $4.6 million.

From Cityfile's Buyers and Sellers:
--Real estate developer Louis Cappelli has found a buyer for the 13-room duplex at 515 Park Avenue he owns with his second wife, actress Kylie Travis. The six-bedroom unit was listed for $29.5 million when it went into contract last week.
--Japanese filmmaker Keiko Ibi has gone into contract to sell her condo at 15 Central Park West. The one-bedroom unit was most recently listed for $3.485 million.
--Clifford Brokaw, a Goldman Sachs alum and a managing director at Corsair Capital, has paid $2.9 million for a third-floor apartment at 907 Fifth Avenue. It first went on the market for $4.4 million in May 2008.
--The lower half of George Gershwin's former duplex at 132 East 72nd Street has gone into contract after more than nine months on the market. The two-bedroom co-op had most recently been listed for $3.05 million. Socialite Debbie Bancroft's apartment, which is located one floor up and comprises the second half of Gershwin's former home, is still on the market for a reduced price of $1.5 million.
--African telecom mogul Yerim Sow has re-listed his three-bedroom pad at 15 Central Park West for $21 million. The listing is here.
--via the Real Deal, real estate mogul Elie Hirschfeld has put his East Hampton estate up for sale for $25 million. The listing is here.
--via the New York Post, Anna Wintour's daughter Bee Shaffer is searching for a place of her own and has been spotted touring two apartments in the "$2.3 million range" at 330 Spring Street and 505 Greenwich with her mom.
--via Curbed, real estate heiress Caroline Cumming has closed on the sale of her home at 11 Spring Street. The building had been listed for $26 million and sold for $19.5 million.
--Vice magazine co-founder Shane Smith has reportedly paid $2.2 million for a loft on Desbrosses Street in Tribeca.
--Hedge funder Glenn Dubin and his wife, Dr. Eva Andersson-Dubin have put their 12-room, 6,000-square-foot duplex at 1010 Fifth Avenue on the market for $18.5 million. The listing is here.
--via Curbed, New York's tiniest townhouse at 75 1/2 Bedford Street has gone into contract. It was most recently listed for $2.499 million.
--via the NY Observer, Kenneth Horowitz, the Florida-based entrepreneur who founded Cellular One and Weather Risk Solutions, has paid $5.2 million for a 46th-floor apartment at Trump Palace on East 69th Street.
--via the NY Observer, software mogul Marty Sprinzen has closed on the sale of his ninth-floor apartment at 838 Fifth Avenue. The apartment, which Sprinzen bought in 2007 for $15.8 million sold for $22.5 million.
--via the NY Observer, Russian chessmaster Garry Kasparov has paid $3.4 million for a penthouse apartment at 205 West 76th Street.
--Billionaire publishing heir Robert Ziff has gone into contract to sell his condo at the Trump International. It was listed for $11.5 million.
--Late fashion designer Abbijane Schifrin's former townhouse on East 19th St. has been chopped in price. It was listed at $8.75 million when we checked it out as an estate of the day but is now $7.995 million.


From the NY Post:
--Hockey legend Wayne Gretzky and his wife Janet have been spotted shopping for a New York City apartment in the $7 million to $15 million range.
--Late news anchor Walter Cronkite's three-bedroom, five-bathroom co-op at 870 United Nations Plaza has just hit the market for $2.995 million.
-- Belarus-born model Maryna Linchuk has purchased a one-bedroom condo in Nolita for $1.1 million

From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--Fashion designer Christian Lacroix has sold a Paris apartment for €1.2 million, or about $1.8 million. He had originally listed the apartment in January for €2 million.
--Singer John Legend has paid $1.9 million for an apartment in New York's East Village neighborhood and has gone into contract to sell his two-bedroom condo for around $1 million. It was recently listed at $1.195 million.

--Former money manager Stanley Chais, said to have channeled millions of dollars of investor funds to Bernard Madoff, has cut the price on his Los Angeles condo to $3.35 million. He paid $4.4 million for the unit in 2007 and had originally asked $4.7 million for the two-bedroom apartment in the Sierra Towers in West Hollywood. The listing is here.

From the Real Estalker:
--The West Village duplex that Jude Law is currently renting is up for sale for $6.9 million. The listing is here.
--Faith Hill and Tim McGraw may have listed their Nashville home and they have peeled $4 million off the price of their Beverly Hills home. It was listed at $14.8 million when we checked it out as an estate of the day in October of 2008 but is now down to just $10.8 million.