Sunday Real Estate Round-Up 1/2/11
Filed under: Estates, Celebrity Shopping

From the LA Times:
--Producer Gary Mehlman has listed his French country style house in the Beverly Hills Post Office area, shown above, at $2,249,000.
--Katey Sagal and her husband, writer-producer Kurt Sutter, have sold their Hollywood Hills compound for $3.77 million.
--James Fielding, the president of Disney Stores Worldwide, has sold his home in Pasadena for $2.325 million.
--The Sunset Strip-area home of the late screenwriter Thomas Mankiewicz has sold for $2.2 million.
From the NY Observer:
--CocaCola's chief spinmeister Charles Holleran and wife, Kathryn Holleran, a managing director at AIG, bought a $1.125 million co-op at 1010 Third Avenue on 61st Street from Jonathan Popper, of Morgan Stanley, and his wife, Karla Popper, a venture capitalist.
--Another Plaza unit has gone for 40 percent off. Unit 1513 just sold for $5.4 million, after it was initially listed for $8.85 million by Stribling in 2009. It was relisted by Corcoran for $5.8 million and the eventual buyer is an LLC.
-- Andrew Pipa, of Morgan Stanley, and wife, Terrie Pipa, an abstract artist, have sold their $6 million penthouse at 22 Mercer Street. The buyer is Sacha Levy, who launched the travelzine Iagora in the late `90s at the age of 25.
--Stylist Vanessa Chow has bought a $3.9 million townhouse in Chelsea.
-- Calyon Securities VP Philip Utsch has bought a $4.3 million condo in the Beekman at 400 East 51st Street.
--Blondie keyboardist James "Jimmy" Destri has sold his Victorian mansion in Bay Ridge, New York for $1.3 million.
--Ari Ben Menashe the author of Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network, which chronicled his supposed involvement in the Iran-Contra scandal, has bought at 515 Park Avenue. He picked up a three-bedroom unit for $7 million.
--Mario Sbarro, of the Long Island-based pizza empire, has just bought a $4.2 million two-bedroom co-op at 930 Fifth Avenue.
--A six-bedroom co-op at 875 Park Avenue was listed for $17 million last January and has sold for $14.05 million to Tami Schneider, the wife of recently deceased Highbridge Capital managing director Richard Schneider.
From the Real Estalker:
Steven Seagal has picked up a four-bedroom home in Scottsdale, Arizona for $3.5 million.
From the Wall Street Journal:
--Val Kilmer has dropped the price of his Pecos River Ranch to $18.5 million. It was listed at $33 million in 2009 but returned to the market at $23 million earlier this year. The listing is here.
--Designer Jonathan Adler and Simon Doonan, creative director of Barneys New York, have reduced the price on their Shelter Island, N.Y., home to $1.15 million. It was listed at $1.8 million earlier this year. The listing is here.
--Harry Hagey, the former CEO of investment-management company Dodge & Cox Funds, has purchased two adjacent ranches in Sun Valley, Idaho. The properties were listed for $27.5 million.
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