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Celebrities have converged on Miami Beach this week for some warm weather and to do a little holiday art shopping. Art Basel Miami Beach takes place December 2 - 5, 2010. The art show, the little sister of Switzerland's Art Basel, combines an international selection of top galleries with special exhibitions and plenty of parties. The shows attract plenty of deep pockets and a far amount of celebrity art lovers as well. Ahead of the official launch Naomi Campbell, Danny Glover and others arrived to enjoy the flurry of events around the show. Some are also there to exhibit like Julian Lennon, the musician turned photographer who was showing "Timeless," a collection of 30 hand-signed portraiture and landscape photographs.

The event at the Miami Convention Center features 250 leading art galleries from North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia and Africa will exhibit 20th and 21st century artworks by over 2,000 artists. Special sections feature young galleries, performance art, public art projects and video art. A one-day ticket is available for $36. The ArtNexus guided tours are available daily during show hours and are guided by established art critics. A one-hour tour is $20.

From Berg Properties Big Time Listings:
--Tennis star Sebastien Grosjean has listed an eight-bedroom mansion he owns in Boca Raton, Florida, shown above, for $2.79 million. The listing is here.
--via the NY Observer, Nobel-prize-winning economist Paul Krugman has bought a three-bedroom apartment on Riverside Drive for $1.7 million.
--Actress Melissa McCarthy and her actor husband Ben Falcone sold their Los Feliz home for $2.495 million to director Jake Kasdan and his singer-songwriter wife, Inara George. This makes the second time in three years that McCarthy has sold a house to this couple.
--A Las Vegas home that once belong to hp-hop record producer Suge Knight has been listed at $1.495 million.
Singer John Ondrasik has sold his 4,078-square-foot house in Los Angeles' Encino area for $1.095 million.
--A five-bedroom, 4,822-square-foot house in Tarzana, California that actor Wilmer Valderrama had owned until selling it in early 2008 for $1,750,000 is back on the market for $1.895 million. The listing is here.

From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:
--Alec Baldwin wants to sell his co-op in the Eldorado on Central Park West, it has been listed at $8.9 million (the listing, without photos, is here). He is looking at an apartment in the Dakota and has his eye on this four-bedroom beauty listed at $12.5 million.
--Real estate fanatic Michael Hirtenstein, who walked away from a $7 million deposit and spent about $6.5 million in construction and design costs on more than $25 million worth of combined apartments at One York is now getting a better deal to buy one of the condos back. He was to spend more than $25 million for six units that totaled nearly 11,000 square feet but will now pay about $16.5 million for five units that total about 9,000 square feet and his original $7 million deposit will be applied to this purchase.
-- Antonio Versace, nephew of the late Gianni Versace has bought a new bachelor pad at 44 Mercer St. in SoHo which was listed at $2.7 million.
--Former General Electric CEO Jack Welch is buying a three-bedroom condo right next door to a unit he already owns on the 46th floor of One Beacon Court. Welch's new 2,669-foot unit had an asking price of $8.995 million. Welch bought his current apartment for $6.25 million back in 2005.
--Michael Holtz, who owns Smart Flyer, is in negotiations to buy a six-story townhouse at 400 West St which is listed at $25 million. This is the one which is owned and was designed by Cortney and Bob Novogratz and includes a basketball court.
--Claire Danes and her actor fiance, Hugh Dancy, have been spotted house-hunting in Columbia County, a few hours outside New York City.

From Cityfile's Buyers and Sellers:
--Investor Enrique Foster Gittes is cutting another $2 million off the price of his 13,000-square-foot townhouse at 12 East 63rd Street. It was first priced at $28.75 million back in April and now the home is currently listed for $21.5 million.
--Donald Trump Jr. and wife Vanessa have closed on an apartment at The Sovereign on East 58th Street. They paid $1.125 million for the 1,800-square-foot apartment.
--via the NY Times, Brooklyn's most expensive apartment is a beautiful $25 million unit inside a clocktower.
--Kimberly Guilfoyle, the Fox News anchor was once married to San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom, has split from her second husband Eric Villency and paid $1.3 million for a three-bedroom co-op at 229 East 79th Street.
--Bruce Lisman, the former co-head of global equities at Bear Stearns, has finally closed on the sale of his apartment at 923 Fifth Avenue. It sold for $12.8 million, which is $300,000 less than what Lisman paid for it in 2006.
--Michael Birkin, who recently stepped down as vice chairman of Omnicom Group, has picked up a full-floor loft in SoHo for $4.75 million.
--J.B. Perrette, president of digital distribution for NBC Universal, and his wife Amy paid $3.995 million for a penthouse at 140 West 22nd Street in Chelsea.
--via the NY Observer, Iris Cantor, the widow of Cantor Fitzgerald founder Bernie Cantor, has finally gone into contract to sell her penthouse at 110 Central Park South. She bought the four-bedroom home for $15 million in 2006 and it had been listed recently for $11.9 million.
--Pro golfer Cristie Kerr and her husband, Aviator Sports president Erik Stevens bought a condo at One Morton Square for $2.3 million.
--via the NY Observer, hedge funder Steve Eisman has sold his apartment at 1125 Park Avenue for $5.2 million, $1.795 million less than what he paid for it in March 2008.
--Fashion photographer Ruven Afanador has paid $2.15 million for a two-bedroom penthouse at 263 Ninth Avenue in Chelsea.
--via Curbed, the former Noho loft of jazz legend Charles Mingus at 5 Great Jones Street, which went on the market for $1.995 million in February, sold for $1.85 million last month.
----via the NY Post, more news on the Greenwich, Connecticut home that Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel are rumored to have bought. It could be a 25.5-acre estate on Conyers Farm Drive, which closed last month for $18.7 million.
--Director Stephen Daldry paid $3.8 million for a five-floor townhouse in Chelsea. . The 4,600-square-foot property is currently configured as a three-unit house and is in need of renovation.
--Actress Kristen Johnston has found a buyer for her duplex at 296 West 10th Street one month after she first put it on the market. It was listed for $1.795 million when it went into contract late last month.
--Dr. Gary Roubin, Lenox Hill's chief of interventional cardiology, has upped the price of his Upper East Side home. It was first listed for $22 million in May 2008 then lowered to $16.5 million now it's back up to $18 million.
--via the NY Post, the East 51st Street townhouse once occupied by fashion illustrator and art collector J. Hyde Crawford has been sold for $7 million to the Organization of the Islamic Conference, a group affiliated with the United Nations.



From the Real Estalker:
--George Hamilton has listed a two-bedroom condo in West Palm Beach, Florida for $1.2 million. The listing is here.

From the Real Estalker:
--Leonardo DeCaprio is selling one of the three homes he owns in Malibu. He bought this home for $6.35 million last year and has listed it for $8.999 million. The property website is here.
--Christina Aguilera has cut the price on her West Hollywood home. It's our estate of the day later today.
--Actress CCH Pounder has put her Los Angeles home on the market. It was our estate of the day on Saturday.
--Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony have put their Bel-Air home on the market for $8.5 million. The listing is here.
--Rumor has it that Matt Damon and his family have been checking out $20 million apartments in New York City.
--Former fashion photographer Dewey Nicks and his wife Stephanie have put their Beverly Hills home on the market for $5.625 million. The property website is here.
--Director Paul Haggis has picked up a three-bedroom home in Santa Monica for $2.365 million.

From the LA Times Hot Property:
--A home that belonged to fashion designer Bob Mackie is from 1997 to 2005 is now back on the market at $2.5 million. The listing is here.
--Kinka Usher who makes commercials through his House of Usher production company (and also directed the movie "Mystery Men") is moving to the Pacific Palisades, where he just bought a newly constructed home for $3,.525 million.
--Monica Keena who Kristen, Eric's girlfriend on HBO's "Entourage" has bought a house in the Hollywood Hills for $1.05 million.
--Actress Cynthia Watros-Gilliland who played Libby, a psychologist, on "Lost," has sold her 1923 Hancock Park home for $5.2 million.
--Director Jonathan Turteltaub has sold his West Hollywood home for $3.2 million.


From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:
--The Plaza's Astor Suite has gone back on the market with a new broker and a $17 million price cut. The 5,000-square-foot, fifth-floor unit, owned by European Esprit founder Juergen Friedrich is now for sale for $38 million. He bought last year for $27 million and briefly listed it for $55 million earlier this fall.
--Justin Timberlake picked up his loft condo at the Pearline Soap Factory in TriBeCa for $4.774 million.
--A gorgeous three-bedroom co-op on the seventh floor of the Dakota is listed at $14.5 million. The owners are securities trader Roy Welland - also the proprietor of restaurant Cru - and his wife, Christal Henner-Welland, the sister of actress Marilu Henner.
--Writer and director James Toback has listed his 15th-floor two-bedroom apartment in the Majestic for $3.75 million. The listing is here.
---Italian wine maker Marcello Zaccagnini, the e owner of Zaccagnini Winery, has purchased a condo at the Platinum building on West 46th Street and has has created an exclusive Platinum label for one of his best reserves, montepulciano d'Abruzzo. He's distributing 500 bottles to residents of Platinum as housewarming gifts. He bought a two-bedroom residence for more than $2.8 million on one of the new high-rise development's top floors.

From Berg Properties BIg Time Listings:
--Johnny Knoxville has sold his three-bedroom home in the Hollywood Hills for $1.816 million.
Zachary Quinto, who stars on TV's "Heroes" and in the upcoming Star Trek movie has paid $865,000 for a 1,505-square-foot house in Los Angeles' Los Feliz area.
--A BBC executive has sold a home in the Hollywood Hills which comedian Carol Leifer once owned for $2.05 million and the buyer may be a celebrity.
Public records show that comedian Norm Macdonald paid $1.75 million for his two-bedroom condominium unit in Santa Monica. --Basketball star Elton Brand has sold his Hollywood Hills home for $4.55 million and has paid $3.35 million to purchase a home Gladwyne, Pennsylvania.
-- Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman sold a two-bedroom condominium unit in Los Angeles' Encino area for $725,000.
--Public records show that country stars Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood paid the $4.95 million asking price for their home in Malibu purchased earlier this year.
--A look at the real estate dealings of "House M.D." actress Olivia Wilde and her filmmaker husband who own a loft in Venice, California.
--Real estate developer Robert Bisno has listed his home in the Beverly Park area of Beverly Hills for $29.5 million. The listing is here.
--Actor George Hamilton has paid $525,000 to purchase a condominium unit in West Palm Beach, Fla.
--Public records reveal that Teri Garr's home in Los Angeles' Brentwood area sold for $3,944,500.

From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--Former quarterback Michael Vick has cut the price of his luxury Atlanta home to $4.1 million, from $4.5 million. We'll check this out as our estate of the day on Monday.
--Nicolas Cage listed an apartment in midtown Manhattan for $9.75 million for about one week and then pulled it off the market.
--A Florida cattle and quail-hunting ranch, half-owned by a onetime top pick in the National Football League draft, has gone on the market for $50 million. We'll be looking at this one out on Tuesday.

From Newsday's Real LI:
----The Skidmore house, which is dated circa 1761 and is the oldest house in Northport, NY is listed for $449,000.
--A Cove Neck estate owned by Grammy-winning record producer Ric Wake was reclaimed by the bank at auction earlier this week in Nassau County Supreme Court. The "upset price" for the home had been set at $4.4 million. Wake had the home on the market for the past year, listed at $6.5 million.
--A townhome once owned by ESPN analyst and former New York Jet wide receiver Keyshawn Johnson is on the market for $1.199 million.

From Cityfile's Buyers and Sellers:
--David Smilow, the co-founder of TeleBank, which was sold in 2000 to E*Trade for more than $1 billion, has put his duplex penthouse at 140 Perry Street on the market for $19.5 million. The listing is here.
--via Curbed, Lenny Kravitz is still trying to sell his penthouse at 30 Crosby in Soho. It was most recently listed for $18.75 million but is now on the market for just $14.995 million. The listing is here.
Sundance Film Festival co-director Geoffrey Gilmore and film producer Julie le Brocquy have paid $2.475 million for a three-bedroom condo at 25 Central Park West.
--via Page Six, two months after buying a townhouse in Brooklyn, real estate maven Barbara Corcoran has reportedly purchased two more multiple-residence brownstones in the borough.

From the NY Observer's Manhattan Transfers:
--A penthouse at the Time Warner Center is now listed for $65 million. It was our estate of the day on Friday.
----11 Spring Street, which was listed at $39.8 million total for three units is now listed at $36.5 million. The Candle Building is a former carriage house and stable that can be left as three units or combined into one massive home. The listing is here.
--Karen Fleiss, a hedge fund manager and her husband, David, an Upper East Side orthopedic surgeon put their eight-bedroom duplex at 1030 Fifth Avenue on the market for $47.5 million in June since then it's gone down to $39.9 million in August and then to $34.5 million in October. Now Corcoran's Sharon Baum and Brown Harris Stevens' Fritzi Kallop listed the bottom floor alone for $15 million.
----Last year, Fortress Investment Group cofounder and COO Randal Nardone signed a $22 million contract for a glass-walled duplex at the new Tribeca condo 101 Warren Street. He finally closed earlier this month but in that year his stock has plummeted and he is no longer on the Forbes billionaires list.