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Nicole Kidman Rents Out New York City Apartment

Filed under: Estates, Celebrity Shopping

The Real Deal broke the news this week that Nicole Kidman has put her apartment in the ultra-minimalist, Richard Meier-designed 176 Perry Street building in New York City up for rent. Get out your wallets, Kidman is asking $45,000 per month. The actress bought the 12th floor apartment back in 2003 for around $8 million. She and husband Keith Urban bought a new designer penthouse complete with "sky garage" at 200 11th Avenue earlier this year.

The 176 Perry Street unit is listed with Halstead Property's Richard Orenstein. The full-floor unit has three bedrooms. The light-filled condo is 3,785 square feet and has a dramatic glassy living room that stretches the full width of the apartment.

As the Real Estalker mentioned, whoever bunks at 176 Perry Street will get some posh neighbors including Martha Stewart's daughter Alexis who has a triplex unit, Calvin Klein, who owns a penthouse duplex, hotelier Ian Schrager, celebrity chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten, and Hugh Jackman who picked up Sun Microsystems co-founder Bill Joy's triplex for $21 million in 2008.

Gallery: Nicole Kidman's Perry Street Apartment For Rent

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RSVIP: Hugh Jackman and Wife Launch 1.4 Billion Reasons DVD

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Filed under: Auctions, Events, Charity, Big Givers

Decorating an event meant to combat world poverty presents issues that only a seasoned expert such as Yale educated party planner Bronson Van Wyck, who volunteered his time, would be prepared to tackle. Fabulous hors d'oeuvres and expensive lighting wouldn't have been the right message for Wednesday's event at the Museum of Modern Art in New York to benefit the Global Poverty Project, Aussie Hugh Evans' fast-track plan to end extreme poverty.

"I met Hugh Evans at the Australia 2020 Summit, which was a conference about ideas that the Prime Minister held," Hugh Jackman, far right, who hosted the fete with his wife, Deborra-Lee Furness, told RSVIP.

"He was so young I thought he was one of the waiters," continued Jackman, who said he had waved Evans over, hoping to get a drink. "Two hours later, he was still telling me all of these ideas. This young guy was so switched on. . . ."

"The look tonight," explained Van Wyck, while scruffy actor Gerard Butler wandered in wearing frayed jeans and a biker jacket, "is pared-down chic."

"It's really about the message," says Van Wyck, who hails from Arkansas. "It's about the cause. Everything went toward getting the people here. I'm donating my time and even the red carpet. I believe in what they're doing."

Several of Jackman's famous friends pitched in unique auction items, including a lunch with Rupert Murdoch, which was already going for $7,000 on http://www.charitybuzz.com/gpp. And it wasn't just a friendly lunch; the winner of this lot is invited to pitch the billionaire media mogul business ideas at the table. Murdoch's wife, Wendi, explained that not even she has full access to her husband's hectic lunch agenda.

"He's always busy," she said. In fact, the couple rarely meet for lunch, "as I also have no time," she indicated with a laugh.

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Changing the World Through Art: Christie's Time In Benefit

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Filed under: Auctions, Art, Charity

Liya Alfred by Brian Alfred

Christie's own New York gallery outpost Haunch of Venison is hosting a special benefit Monday night for The Time In Children's Arts Initiative, a HiArt! outreach program that is dedicated to bringing arts-inspired curriculum to at-risk schoolkids.

Galleries all over the city and individual artists have donated special works and experience packages to the auction to raise much needed funds, as schools across the city continue to cut their art budgets. Time In has spent the last year immersing Harlem kindergarteners and first graders in art, including gifting them with art supplies to sketch in HiArt! studios or in museums and galleries across the city. It's an inspiring new program that is set to grow exponentially with a little help from New York art patrons.

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Hugh Jackman's New Home

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Of course you already known that Hugh Jackman is one lucky man. The genetically-blessed Aussie has a thriving career and a lovely life. But my envy certainly spiked an octave when I learned that Jackman had picked up one of my favorite New York City estate of the days. This expansive triplex in the Perry Street building designed by Richard Meier has beautiful Hudson River views and over 11,000 square feet of space. Sun Microsystems co-founder Bill Joy bought the raw space in 2002 for $17.57 million and put the home up for sale last November for $40 million. The home on the eighth, ninth and 10th floors has a huge double-height living room, gourmet kitchen, large dining room, a huge recreation room and a small wine cellar. There are five bedrooms total including a master bedroom with an exercise area, bath, sauna and dressing areas. Each floor has a terrace and the most amazing feature of the home is the dramatic swirled staircase.

Jackman got himself a deal too. The New York Observer's sources say that the final sales price was between $20 and $23 million which is even lower than the $25 million or so it was originally rumored that he was paying. The NY Post says the triplex went for $21 million. Either way, Bill Joy likely didn't make a lot of money off this deal.

Gallery: Perry St. Triplex