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From the LA Times Hot Property:
--A walled and gated Encino estate that has been home to actors Al Jolson, Kirstie Alley, Katey Sagal and Charlie Sheen at various times has come back on the market at $6.95 million. It was listed at $8.995 million earlier this year. The listing is here.
--Designer Waldo Fernandez has sold a house he remodeled in Beverly Hills for $8.3 million.
Celebrity photographer Mark Liddell has listed a gorgeous compound in the Hollywood Hills area at $3.25 million. The woodsy retreat includes a main house, guest house, saltwater pool and a meditation garden. The listing is here.
A gated Corona del Mar home with eight fireplaces and a 60-foot waterfall has come on the market for $19 million. The listing is here.
Retired pro basketball player Kiki Vandeweghe has bought an estate in Encino for $2.25 million.


From the NY Observer:
-- Architect Jill Brunstad, who's designed retail spaces for Dolce & Gabbana and Eileen Fisher, has sold her penthouse at 145 East 84th Street for $2.1 million.
--Senior MTV exec Joey Molko has sold his Upper East Side apartment for $1.385 million to Jean Vitau, a French jewelry designer.
--Edwin Muelensteen, a Dutch art dealer who recently purchased one of the city's most exclusive art galleries, has also grabbed a home at 122 Chambers Street, in the Seaman Company Building, for $1.8 million.
--Another apartment at Chelsea Enclave, on the grounds of the theological seminary, has sold for a $5.3 million,a nearly 12 percent cut.
--Aby Rosen's 11,700-square-foot, single-family townhouse at 3 East 94th Street is off the market because it has been rented. Estimates have it renting for between $50,000 to $100,000 a month. It was listed at $29.5 million when it was our estate of the day.

--Jane Holzer has sold a five-story townhouse at 109 East 69th Street for $13.15 million. The former Warhol muse purchased the brownstone in March of 2008 for $10.5 million and later listed it for $17 million. The home is currently listed for rent for $48,000 per month.
--Senior MTV exec Joey Molko has sold his Upper East Side apartment for $1.385 million to Jean Vitau, a French jewelry designer.
--Edwin Muelensteen, a Dutch art dealer who recently purchased one of the city's most exclusive art galleries, has also grabbed a home at 122 Chambers Street, in the Seaman Company Building, for $1.8 million.
--Hip-hop clothing mogul Joseph Betesh, the man behind Dr. Jay clothing, has sold his home at 15 Central Park West for $11.39 million. He bought the 28th-floor condo in 2008 for $5.6 million.
The home of the late William F. Buckley Jr. has had another price cut. It was listed at $24.9 million when we first checked it out in 2008. It is now listed with Brown Harris Stevens for $10 million.

--Judge Judy (Judith Sheindlin) and her husband Jerry, have sold their penthouse at 60 Sutton Place for $2.25 million.
--Actress Francie Swift has bought an apartment at 2 East End Avenue for $1.6 million.
--Mexico's former finance secretary, Pedro Aspe, has snatched up a spot in Lenox Hill for $1.475 million.
--L'Oreal CEO Laurent Attal has purchased a Carnegie Hill home for $1.3 million.
--1024 Lexington Avenue the building, which was once the offices of Dr. Ruth Westheimer, sex counselor to the nation, has sold for $24.5 million.

From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--A waterfront home in Corona del Mar, California owned by a trust linked to actress Diane Keaton and her sister, and an adjacent lot for which Ms. Keaton's sister is a trustee under a different trust have sold for a total of $6.5 million, that price is 28 percent less than the original $9.5 million asking price.
--Fashion designer Leon Max of Max Studio is the new owner of Castillo del Lago, the Los Angeles home once owned by Madonna. He bought the home for $7 million. It was listed at $15 million when we checked it out as an estate of the day in April 2009.

--A property in Miami Beach, Florida, has listed for $29 million. The seller is Mark Gainor, a health-care entrepreneur who purchased the home for $13.9 million in 2005 from the singer/actress Jennifer Lopez.