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Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas Hosts Star-Studded Grand Opening

The place to be to ring in 2011? For many of Hollywood's elite, it was The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, the city's newest and most glamorous resort, which kicked off a grand opening celebration with concert performances from JAY-Z and Coldplay, plus guest surprises by Kanye West, Beyonce and John Mayer.

Coldplay kicked off the evening with a 12 song set, which included Yellow, In My Place and Clocks. To ring in the New Year, JAY-Z joined Coldplay on stage for a rendition of Lost, followed by a countdown to midnight. JAY-Z took the stage for the first hours of 2011 and was joined by Kanye West for an impromptu freestyle performance of Run This Town, Can't Tell Me Nothing and Runaway. As Kanye left the stage, John Mayer joined pal JAY-Z with his guitar for several songs, including Public Service Announcement and 99 Problems. The ultimate collaboration of the evening came when Beyonce joined her husband on stage for Young Forever. She continued to wow the crowd, bringing Coldplay frontman Chris Martin back out for an acoustic duet of her hit, Halo.

Gallery: Cosmopolitan Las Vegas Grand Opening

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Sunday Real Estate Round-Up, 01/24/10

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

From the LA Times Hot Properties:
--Professional skateboarder Erik Elllington has listed his Hollywood Hills contemporary, shown above, for $1,595,000. The property website is here.
--Kurt Rappaport, co-founder of Beverly Hills-based Westside Estate Agency sold a Beverly Hills home for around $24 million. Rappaport took a combination of cash and a house in the flats of Beverly Hills in trade in the transaction.
--Actors Jeremy Renner and Kristoffer Winters have sold a gated and restored 1924 Greek Revival in the Hollywood Hills area for $4,004,852.
--Screenwriter Tedi Sarafian has listed his renovated Normandy-style 1920s home in the Hollywood Hills for $1,749,000. The listing is here.

From the NY Post:
--Damages star Glenn Close has listed her two-bedroom apartment in the Beresford building at 211 Central Park West for $11.8 million. The apartment has two terrace's and a maid's room. The listing is here.

Gallery: Glenn Close On Central Park West

--Jay-Z and Ralph Lauren have both been spotted checking out the triplex penthouse in the ClockTower Building in Brooklyn. The apartment has gorgeous views through four giant clock faces and a glass elevator. It is listed at $25 million.

Gallery: Clock Tower Building

--Blackstone Group CEO Steven Schwarzman has sold his East Hampton home for $6.25 million. He bought the 3,200-square-foot home for $2.3 million in 1996 and later stayed there while the Water Mill estate he bought for $34 million in 2005 was being renovated.

From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--Financially embattled Texas Rangers owner Tom Hicsk has sold his three-acre, Aspen-area estate to Howard M. Jenkins, the former head of the Southeastern Publix Super Markets chain, for $18.5 million.
--Restaurateur and celebrity chef Charlie Palmer is asking $11.5 million for the five-story Manhattan townhouse that housed his first restaurant, Aureole, and former apartment. The listing is here.
--Australian golfer Adam Scott has put his beachfront vacation home on Australia's Gold Coast on the market for 4.95 million Australian dollars. The listing is here.

From Move Trends:
--A San Fernando Valley home that once belonged to Charlie Sheen and then-wife, Denise Richards, as well as actresses, Kirstie Alley and Katey Sagal is listed at $8.995 million, down $400,000 from when it was first listed in October. The listing is here.

Gallery: Louise Avenue