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Sunday Real Estate Round-Up, 05/16/10

Filed under: Estates, Celebrity Shopping

From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--Former American Skandia chief executive Wade Dokken has listed his ranch in Montana for $29.95 million. Bullis Creek Ranch was once planned to be an eco-luxury residential development with a cooking school run by chef Alice Waters. The 6,795-acre property is about 45 minutes from an entrance to Yellowstone Park and has a five-bedroom Engelmann spruce log home and two guest houses. The listing is here.
--Talent manager Sandy Gallin has put his Bridgehampton, New York estate back on the market for $26.9 million. It was listed at $32 million last year when we checked it out as an estate of the day.

Gallery: Sandy Gallin In Bridgehampton

From Luxury Real Estate:
--The boyhood home of singer Leonard Cohen is for sale in Montreal for $1.495 million Canadian. The listing is here.
From Curbed LA:
--Actress Angelica Huston has listed her home in Venice, California for $18 million. The home is two different buildings and was built by her late husband, sculptor Robert Graham, and his son.

From the LA Times Hot Properties:
--Actor Bruce Davison and his wife, Michele, have put their remodeled Sherman Oaks home up for sale at $1.8 million. The listing is here.
--Actress Patricia Barry has listed her two-story home in Beverly Hills for $5.23 million. The home was built on a lot purchased in 1927 by Charlie Chaplin and his soon-to-be-ex-wife Lita Grey Chaplin. Lita Chaplin had architect Roy Seldon Price build the residence and set designer Harold Grieve did the interiors. The listing is here.
--Filmmaker and commercial director Joe Pytka has sold the Frank-Lloyd Wright-designed Taggart House in Los Feliz for $2.335 million. The listing is here.

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Castillo Del Lago, Estate of the Day

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Filed under: Estates, Celebrity Shopping

Today's home, Castillo del Lago is one of the legendary homes tucked up into the Hollywood Hills. It was originally built for oil explorer Patrick Longdon but more famously was later the home to mobster Bugsy Siegel who may have turned the castle into a speakeasy. The story gets interesting again when Madonna picks up the home in 1993 for around $5 million and her brother sets to work decorating it for another $3 million. Those rather interesting stripes on the outside? Blame Madonna's brother who says in his memoir that he got the idea from a little church in Portofino. The home has nine bedrooms and the property roams approximately three acres on a hilltop with views of the Hollywood reservoir.

The interior has tall beamed ceilings, cool tile floors, and has a huge spiral staircase for ascending the home's many levels (there is also an elevator). The bright white kitchen includes a vintage O'Keefe and Merrit stove and twin SubZero refrigerator/freezers. For those who prefer a little less light there are also a few rooms that look cool and dark including a long library, paneled billiard room and some sort of cozy space draped in multicolored fabrics. As you might imagine, the tower provides full views as far as the eye can see (or the smog will allow).

Outside there is a courtyard,, a long lap pool, fountains, rose gardens and a small mazelike formal garden. Madonna sold the home to commercial director Joe Pytka for $5.3 million and he has now listed the home for $14.95 million.

UPDATE: As of November 2009, this home has been relisted at $9.95 million.

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Gallery: Castillo del Lago