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Bird Street Architectural, Estate of the Day


Our friends at Curbed LA picked a while back and it's too deliciously Los Angeles not to mention. Located in the coveted "bird streets" area in the Hollywood Hills, the listing says that is is an "entertainer's trophy home" but I don't know who the owner is. The contemporary home has three bedroom suites plus a separate two-bedroom guest suite with a private entrance. The home is angled for sparkling night views and has a large terrace and a wedge-shaped pool area carved into the hillside. The style is so contemporary and trendy as to be admirable but perhaps not quite livable (those polished concrete floors above look like an accident waiting to happen). The home includes an open kitchen, media room and a gym. It is listed at $12.85 million and more pictures are available at the property website (worth seeing especially for the trio of stylized mounted deer heads).

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Jenna Jameson Slept Here, Estate of the Day


Just when I was despairing of finding a fun celebrity home to dish about this Sunday, the Real Estalker Mama delivered with the news that infamous porn goddess Jenna Jameson has put her Los Angeles home on the market. Jameson's three-bedroom home is a sweet little piece of Los Angeles history, a Spanish style charmer that was a former Valentino family home.

The multi-story Mediterranean is a quirky mix of California casual with some of the more bold choices you might expect from a woman with a reputation to uphold such as a bordello-red bathroom and a media room with black striped walls, a zebra striped ottoman and sliding glass doors leading out to the courtyard spa. There's much to love here including the tiled staircases, gleaming hardwood floors and beamed ceilings. It also must be noted that she has one impressive shoe collection in her large dressing room. But the house does seem to be one of those hillside homes that gives you stairs at ever turn, stairs to the entrance and the home has a piecey multilevel vibe. Not great as a family home.

Jameson must be in a hurry to move (there is that pregnancy rumor after all) because she's put the home on the market for the same price she paid in 2006, $2.7 million.

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Molly Sims in the Hollywood Hills, Estate of the Day


We here at Luxist owe a debt to Molly Sims. The picture of her in a diamond bikini remains a perennial top hit for our site. The lovely Sports Illustrated model and television star has put her charming three bedroom home in the Hollywood Hills on the market. This 1930s Spanish style home with views of the Los Angeles skyline has some fantastic details such as the bright white kitchen with Carrera marble countertops and the massive wine refrigerator. As the Real Estalker mentioned, the ebonized Saltillo tile floors are particularly gleaming and charming. The 3,043-square-foot home also has plenty of French doors opening out onto the patio and looks like it stays cool even when it's hot outside.

There are some off notes here. The puce shag and retro wallpaper in the den seem in need of a redo and the pool is a wee bit close to the house for maximum comfort and lounging potential. Plus, and this is probably just a personal quirk, I'm not a fan of the trough-like stone sink in the guest bath. Molly Sims paid $1.425 million for the home back in 2004 and is asking $2.999 million now.

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Kingston in the Hills, Estate of the Day


I've always thought British actress Alex Kingston was a class act and her home proves it, Celebrity Big TIme Listings found her Los Angeles home for sale. This 4,257-square-foot house in the Hollywood Hills was built in 1964 and remodeled by Paul Hinckley. The six-bedroom home just hit the market and probably won't remain on sale long, it's a beautiful home that gently treads the line between boring and zen. The living room has Douglas Fir ceilings, a two-sided fireplace and concrete floors. It has a beautiful Bulthaup kitchen and a meditation/spa room with an indoor/outdoor bath area.The master suite is located up a mahogany staircase and has a private balcony. The outdoors includes a large lawn, pool and spa and views of the Lake Hollywood reservoir. This home is listed at $4.75 million.

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Donovan Leitch Jr.'s Boho Hideaway, Estate of the Day


The model and the musician, it's one of Hollywood's most abiding cliches. The girl with the pose, pose, pose and the long and lean man on stage making with the loud and lascivious music is not always a match for the ages but it sure makes for some interesting stories (and in some cases these pairups do go the distance). Today's estate belongs to just such a coupling, Donovan Leitch Jr., son of 60s musician Donovan (Leitch Jr. is himself a product of a rocker/model union) and one of the peripatetic members of Camp Freddy, a band that includes Jason Nesmith (son of Mike Nesmith of the Monkees) and Dave Navarro. The band also hosts a radio show on a local L.A. radio station. As Bob from Celebrity Big Time Listings reports Donovan Letich Jr. has bought a home for $1.435 million in Studio City and is selling his Hollywood Hills home. The home includes a two-bedroom main house, a guest apartment and a separate studio. No pool but there is a nice patio. The home is of the type that you often find in Los Angeles, a Spanish-style home dating from the 1920s. It's charming but tiny. No decorator has been here but there have definitely been some decorating ideas, albeit of the wacky bohemian sort. Beaded chandeliers, velvet couches, ironic art and tiled tiny bathrooms all add to a relaxed home that just looks like it smells of incense. The tiled kitchen is darling but definitely not for those who crave stainless steel and granite. It is listed at $1.099 million.

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Paris Sells Fast

Wow, that was fast. Even in this worrisome real estate market Paris Hilton has managed to sell her Los Angeles home in just 10 days for the full asking price of $4.25 million. Consider us impressed. After all, Hilton bought in 2004 for $2.9 million and although the pool area is quite elegant, there may be some de-Parising needed in order to remodel the home. The Spanish-style 1920s mansion is full of pictures of Paris and one bedroom was turned into a closet. No word yet on who the mystery buyer is but Paris did say in an interview that she has to buy all new furniture because the buyer bought all her belongings as well. So maybe a remodel isn't in the cards after all.

Ellen and Portia in the Hollywood Hills, Estate of the Day


They are at it again, our favorite real estate power couple Ellen Degeneres and Portia Di Rossi have listed another beautiful home. This home on Zorada Drive is a bit more modest than their Montecito mansion, it's just 2,755 square feet with three bedrooms. Ellen and Portia seem to have a love of the classics, this post and beam home was built in 1956. The home is constructed in a U-shape around the pool. For an older home it has a very modern look with concrete floors and large glass walls. Not too many pictures of this one but it is so gorgeous I had to show it to you. Ellen and Portia seems to always strike a balance with lots of white and sparing use of high-end modern furnishings. This home isn't their residence, just another of their Southern California real estate machinations. It is listed at $2.3 million, and as the Real Estalker Mama predicted on her blog, this beauty will likely go fast.

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Did Robbie Williams buy Joe Pesci a Bentley?

I'm not sure I quite believe this rumor but apparently celebrity neighbors British singer Robbie Williams and Joe Pesci got into a bit of a dust up over parking in the Hollywood Hills. Williams and his friends blocked Pesci's driveway and Pesci, a man not known for his mildness, threatened to bash in the windshield of a car with a golf club. Apparently Williams made it up to Pesci by parking a brand new Bentley in Pesci's driveway and when Pesci came out, all steamed up, Williams revealed that it was a gift. Rumor has it Pesci was thrilled and sent Williams a bunch of movie props as a thank you.

Rock Hudson's House, Estate of the Day

Today's estate comes from the LA TImes Hot Property section. The two-bedroom house above Sunset Strip does not have a pool and it's positively tiny by Los Angeles standards but it does have a Hollywood pedigree and a charming cottage style. The home, which was built in 1949 was bought by movie star Rock Hudson as a newlywed in 1954. The home has a den, an eat-in kitchen, hardwood floors, French doors and city views. After the jump, cute, compact and cozy.

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Paris Hilton's New Home

Paris Hilton just purchased a Tuscan-style home in the Hollywood Hills for roughly $3.1 million. The house, in a gated community not too far from Cameron Diaz's pad, is loaded with posh extras, including a $43,000 Baccarat crystal chandelier in the lounge, a very classy $20,000 mirrored, four-poster bed and a 400-sq foot closet for her vast wardrobe.

The most unusual part of the home is actually the pets' living area. There is a special gated section inside the house where Paris's dogs will sit on pink pillows and drink from pink bowls. Each dog has its own personal crown, as well. Not one to exclude any of her pets, Paris has also commissioned a custom cage for her monkey, though the last time we heard about the monkey, it was supposedly being confiscated by Los Angeles officials.

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