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Jamee Gregory's newly released book, New York Parties: Private Views (Rizzoli New York, 2010) takes the reader on a spectacular journey to affairs hosted by the entertaining expert's closest friends, which include some of New York's leading arbiters of style from the worlds of fashion, design, food, society and philanthropy. The 208-page book is filled with 300 spectacular color photographs taken by Eric Striffler and ably provides a wealth of information for anyone wanting to host their own glamorous affair.

"I've been very lucky in New York to have such terrific and interesting friends," the elegant and statuesque Gregory told Luxist at the book party thrown in her honor by Jay McLaughlin at his J. McLaughlin boutique on Madison Avenue in New York on December 8. "It seemed to me that they put so much of themselves into the entertaining, that every party was like a theatrical performance and they were the producer."

From the LA Times Hot Property:
--David W. Higgins, the president of production at Sobini Films, has listed a midcentury home in Sherman Oaks at $949,000. The listing for the colorful home is here.
--Internet pioneer David Bohnett has sold his Holmby Hills compound to art dealer Larry Gagosian for $15.5 million.

From the NY Observer:
--Real estate mogul Aby Rosen's townhouse at 22 East 71st Street may have finally sold or at least been pulled off the market. It was listed at $75 million in 2008 but later had a price cut to $59 million.

--Official records show that Damon Dash's foreclosed Tribeca condo at 25 North Moore Street went to Platinum Capital for $5.6 million.
--Society staple Countess Sharon Sondes sold her Trump International Hotel & Tower pied-a-terre for $1.45 million.
--Allen Ginsberg's apartment at 437 East 12th Street is now up for rent for $1,700 a month.
--Interior designer Jamie Drake purchased an apartment at 200 11th Avenue (the star-filled building where Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban recently bought) for $4.662 million and is already planning renovations.
--CB Richard Ellis vice chairman Darcy Stacom and her husband, Chris Kraus, a managing director at Jones Lang LaSalle bought a four-bedroom apartment at 447 East 57th Street for $4.775 million.
--Actor Liam Neeson recently sold his two-bedroom co-op at 91 Central Park West for $1.352 million. He and his late wife, actress Natasha Richardson, bought the apartment for $1.4 million in 1994.
--Ponzi schemer James Nicholson's three-bedroom at the Time Warner Center has finally been sold by the U.S. Marshal's office for $6.75 million. Nicholson bought the home for $8.5 million two years ago.
--New York Philharmonic flutist, composer and pianist Gary Schocker and Richard Norton purchased a brownstone at 215 West 137th Street in Central Harlem. They purchased the home from Vincent and Kim Van Doorn for the listing price of $2 million even.

From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
-- Winecup-Gamble Ranch in Nevada, one of the largest in the West, with access to nearly one million acres of land has hit the market for $50 million. The ranch is owned by a corporation headed by Paul Fireman, the former chairman and chief executive of Reebok and the chairman of Fireman Capital Partners. The listing is here.
--A Beverly Hills home owned by Max Palevsky, the late philanthropist, art collector and a founder of Intel is listed for $9.5 million. The property website is here. His Malibu home remains listed at $55 million.
--Bert Saberhagen's Calabasas, California home is back on the market. The former Major League Baseball pitcher listed his home for $3.25 million last year but it is now for sale for $2.699 million.


From the Real Estalker:
--Filmmaker Brett Morgen and actor/director/writer Debra Eisenstadt have listed their home in the Rockaways, Queens, New York for $4.495 million. The listing is here.
--Rumor has it that Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson are cozied up in a contemporary love nest in Bel Air.
--Courtney Love has leased actress/model Milla Jovovich's West Village townhouse.

--Andrew Dice Clay has sold his Hollywood home for the asking price of $1.399 million.

From Housing Watch:
--Christina Aguilera has dropped the price again on her Hollywood Hills home. It is now listed at $5.995 million, a full $2 million off the original asking price when she put it on the market in 2008. She bought the home in 2003 for $5 million.

From the LA Times Hot Properties:
--A Hollywood Hills home owned by TV dance show judge and producer Nigel Lythgoe has been listed for $2.649 million.

--Eyeworks television production company founder Reinout Oerlemans has sold his Beverly Hills contemporary for $12.5 million.

--Walton Goggins, who starred in the crime drama "The Shield" from 2002 to 2008, is putting his remodeled Hollywood Hills home on the market for $1.175 million.
-- A Beverly Hills house designed by architect Wallace Neff in 1956 for Groucho Marx has sold for $8.8 million. It was listed at $12.9 million when we covered it as an estate of the day.


From the NY Post:
4Kids Entertainment CEO Al Kahn has picked up Bernie Madoff's old penthouse and listed his apartment at the Time Warner Center for $33.6 million. The listing is here.

--Interior designer Jamie Drake is close to closing on the sale of his home in East Hampton. He is reportedly selling for $2.75 million.

--Alec Baldwin seems to have been spotted everywhere in New York looking for an apartment. He was most recently spotted in SoHo last week, where he checked out the $13.75 million penthouse duplex at 34 Greene St.
--Joseph Plumeri, the CEO of Willis Group Holdings, has reportedly gone into contract to buy a 15th- floor apartment at 995 Fifth Avenue which had been listed most recently for $23.5 million.

From the Real Estalker:
--Actress Kate Walsh listed her home in the Los Feliz area of Los Angeles with an asking price of $3,995,000.
--Deion Sanders has listed a three-bedroom penthouse at the Azure building in Dallas, Texas for $7.5 million. His mansion in Prosper, Texas is still on the market for $21 million.

From the LA Times Hot Properties:
--Jason Winer, an executive producer and director of the ABC comedy "Modern Family," has listed his three-level Hollywood-area town house shown above for $599,000. Winer is selling because he is moving to a larger house in another Los Angeles neighborhood. He bought the town house in 2006 for $560,000. The listing is here.
--Annette Cook, the founder and chief executive of Barefoot Dreams, and her husband, Stan,have sold an ocean-view contemporary in Malibu for $3 million.
--Actor Conrad Bain has listed his longtime Brentwood home for sale at $3.175 million. The listing is here.
--Music industry executive Mark Mazzetti has sold his Hollywood Hills-area home for $1,089,000
--Actress Sandra Will Carradine has listed her beach house in Carpinteria's gated Rincon Point community for $4.29 million. The property website is here.

From Cityfile's Buyers and Sellers:
--Washington power lobbyists Tony and Heather Podesta have picked up a New York pied-à-terre, paying $3.247 million for an apartment at the Sohmer Piano Building at 170 Fifth Avenue.
--via the NY Observer, The Sloane mansion, which was once listed at $64 million, is now listed with a new broker and a new lower price, $39 million. The listing is here.

--via the NY Observer, a one-bedroom (plus library) apartment in the Sherry Netherland building has gone on sale for $9.5 million. The listing is here.

--Actress Kristen Johnston has closed on the sale of her duplex at 296 West 10th Street. The two-bedroom apartment with a solarium and terrace was listed for $1.795 million and sold for $1.7 million to costume designers John Orberg and Janet Kuhl.

--via Curbed, Armon Bar-Tur, a managing director at SafeHarbor Capital Partners, and his wife Rebecca, have found a buyer for their townhouse at 92 Charles Street. The four-bedroom home, which the couple bought for $6 million in 2006 and listed for $14.95 million in October, has gone into contract after less than a month on the market.
--Hedge funder Steve Stuart, who left Fortress Investment Group in 2007 has found a buyer for his 35th floor apartment at the Park Laurel on West 63rd Street. The four-bedroom condo, which Stuart bought for $5.4 million in 2004 and put on the market for $10.8 million in October 2008, sold this week to an unidentified buyer for $7.4 million.
--via the NY Post, real estate investor Michael Hirtenstein is the mystery buyer who has agreed to purchase financier Armon Bar-Tur's townhouse at 92 Charles Street for "about $13.5 million."
--via Curbed, Gigi Mahon, an interior decorator, author, and the wife of former Citicorp vice chairman Thomas Theobold, has put her two units at the Plaza on the market for $22.5 million. Mahon bought the two units separately for $3.66 million and $10.02 million back in 2007. The listing is here.
--via the NY Post, Mets outfielder Gary Sheffield and his wife have gone into contract to sell their home in Alpine, NJ. It had been listed for $5 million.

From Newsday's Real LI:
--Jamie Drake, the interior designer who counts Mayor Bloomberg as one of his clients, has put his East Hampton, New York home on the market for $2.9 million. The listing is here.

A Matinecock, New York mansion will go up for auction on November 17 auction. The auction is being held by Grand Estates Auction and the home will be sold to the highest bidder, with no reserves and no minimums and buyers must present a $50,000 certified check in order to bid on the property. The 5.33-acre estate is appraised at $10 million.
--Lands End, the 13.35-acre Sands Point estate which may have been the inspiration for Daisy Buchanan's home in F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Great Gatsby," is back on the market with an approval for a five-lot subdivision and a price of $30 million. The property has a 25-room mansion was designed by Stanford White and built in 1902. The listing is here.
--Private eye Bo Dietl has gone into contract to sell his Manhasset home. The former cop and occasional TV commentator bought the home for $2.3 million in 2004, listed it for $3.295 million in August and is reportedly selling for "just over $3 million."


From ShelterPop:
--Ellen DeGeneras has purchased a horse ranch outside of Westlake Village, California.
--Lndsay Lohan and Sam Ronson both recently moved from their leased houses in the Beachwood Canyon area of Los Angeles and into leased condos at the very same West Hollywood high-rise building where Nicole Richie once owned multi-million dollar digs. Sam's previous place on Beachwood Canyon Drive iscurrently available for lease at $4,350 a month and Lindsay's former rental on El Contento Drive is also up for rent for $8,900 a month.

From AOL Real Estate:
--Check out a list of the most expensive homes on the market in the United States.

From the NY Post:
-- Liev Schreiber and Naomi Watts have been spotted checking out listings at 120 11th Ave.
--Louise Sunshine, is helping her son, broker Sam Sunshine, sell the One Beacon Court apartment owned by her husband, Martin Begun. The apartment is listed at $6.75 million.
--Singer Frankie Valli has been showing some interest in a $3.3 million, three-bedroom apartment at the Rushmore, a luxury condo development on the Upper West Side. The apartment is now listed as 'in contract.'

From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--Connie Chung and Maury Povich are in contract to buy a home listed for $8.98 million in the Embassy Row area of Washington. The couple, with their son, plan to move from New York in 2010 or 2011.
--Former Lehman Brothers president Joseph M. Gregory has gone into contract on his seven-acre Manchester, Vermont estate, which he listed for $2.48 million. He bought the seven-acre Vermont property for $675,000 in 1993. His 2.5-acre oceanfront estate in Bridgehampton, New York remains on the market with an asking price of $27.9 million.


From the Real Estalker:
--Hollywood talent manager Jeff Kwatinetz has listed his four-bedroom Malibu home for $7.299 million. The listing is here.
--Sophia Loren's son Edoardo Ponti and his wife Sasha Alexander have listed their four-bedroom Los Angeles home for $2.135 million. The listing is here.
--Designer Max Azria has listed his home in Beverly Hills for $6.899 million. The listing is here.
--Celebrity hair stylist and reality television star Jonathan Antin has listed his four-bedroom home in Toluca Lake for $1.999 million. The listing is here.

From Zillow Blog:
--Curt Schilling has reduced the price of his Medfield, Massachusetts home again. It is now listed at $4.5 million down from an original $8 million.

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