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RSVIP: 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards Party Report

Filed under: Events

With a weekend of starry fetes second only to those of Oscar week in Los Angeles, the parties of the 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards lost little ground this season against news of a still flagging U.S. economy.

For Luxist, ice began clinking in the cocktail glasses of Emmy-bound celebs at 6:30 p.m. on Friday, August 27, at the Judith Leiber store on North Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills. Maria Bello and Patricia Arquette were co-hosting a "Don't Forget Haiti" benefit. Yes, Hollywood has a heart. And scores of Emmy hopefuls zipped by on their way to full-fledged Emmy events.

Bello wore a top by Michael Kors and a Leiber "Don't Forget Haiti" pendant as she greeted guests at the door. How did Arquette and Bello team up for the Emmy weekend benefit? "I saw her a couple of weeks after the earthquake in Haiti," Bello told Luxist.

Arquette then mentioned that she is currently "working on a project to help refurbish shipping containers as homes in Haiti." She was wearing a vintage Chanel suit. "Anything past last year is vintage," she quipped. "So I'm vintage."

Guests included Rosario Dawson, Malin Akerman, Katharine McPhee, and Autumn Reeser, of "Entourage," who told Luxist that she would be hosting a baby shower during the Emmy Awards. "I didn't realize it was Emmy weekend," she admitted.

Reeser's "Entourage" co-star Emmanuelle Chriqui mentioned that, over the weekend, she would be supporting her real-life manager Emily Gerson Saines (also present), "nominated because she produced the HBO film 'Temple Grandin.'" Saines and her project would win big on Sunday.

Entertainment Weekly also hosted a pre-Emmy party for "Women in Film" on Friday at the Sunset Marquis Hotel in West Hollywood. The pool area of the hotel was converted into an impromptu red carpet. Fueled by mini burgers and new flavors of Vitaminwater, lemonade, and pomegranate, the party raged on in a trellised back courtyard of the restaurant until 1:00 a.m. Elisabeth Moss from "Mad Men," above, innocently butchered the name of the late French designer she was wearing, Herve Leger (pronounced Er-vay Lay-jay) as if he had been an all American: "Harvey Legger."

"This is my third Emmy Awards," admitted the young actress. "But it's always scary."

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Sunday Real Estate Round-Up, 09/13/09

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Estates

The listing for Bernie Madoff's Palm Beach, Florida home is up. It is listed for $8.49 million with Corcoran.

From the LA Times Hot Properties:
--Former Baltimore Ravens cornerback Chris McAlister has listed his Beverly Hills Post Office area home at $7.9 million. The listing for the five-bedroom home is here.
--Actor Jerry Douglas, who has played "The Young and the Restless" patriarch John Abbott since 1985, and his wife, Kymberly Bankier,have re-listed their Encino home for sale at $2.695 million.The listing is here.

From CNBC:
--Obama's next-door neighbor in Illinois is selling. Check out a slideshow of the home here.

From Shelterpop:
--Inside all three of Madoff's properties--Montauk, NYC, and Palm Beach, oh my!
--Fashion Designer Anna Sui's East Village Fantasia
--Debbie Gibson Sells her Home Just in Time to Avoid Foreclosure--is it worth $900,000?

From AOL Real Estate:
Scandal in Malibu, a bank executive moved into the foreclosed $12 million home she was supposed to be taking care of over the summer. The property website for the home is here.
Is it smarter to rent or buy in your city, find out here.

From Move Trends:
Frank Sinatra's former 7 bedroom, 13 bath, Mountain Center, California home listed, Villa Maggio which was listed for $4.995 million last year is now listed for $4.9 million.

From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:
--Former New York Jets star Curtis Martin is reconsidering a penthouse triplex at One Brooklyn Bridge Park, which he first looked at two years ago. He is hosting NFL's opening weekend this Sunday in the building's screening room.
--Bernie Madoff's Montauk beach house has at least four offers.
--Composer Adam Guettel, who won a Tony for "The Light in the Piazza," has bought a four-bedroom apartment at The Osborne building from clothing-store mogul Marcy Syms. We checked it out as an estate of the day earlier this year.

Gallery: Another Historic Osborne Apartment

--Apollo Global's Joseph Azrack has purchased a 6,250-square-foot townhouse at 24 W. 11th St. with a listing price of $14.9 million.

From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--Former Fannie Mae chief executive Daniel Mudd has sold his 1927 colonial home in Washington to a company that caters to relocating executives. Mudd was asking $9.5 million for his six-bedroom home.

Gallery: Daniel Mudd In Washington DC

From Berg Properties Big Time Listings:
--Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman has sold his one-bedroom co-op unit on Manhattan's Upper West Side for $565,000.
--A Malibu home that actor Steven Weber owned until selling it in 2007 has come back on the market, this time for $4.295 million. The listing is here.
--Actress Julie Bowen has sold her home in Los Angeles' Studio City area for $2.1 million. We checked it out as an estate of the day when it was listed at $2.695 million.

Gallery: Julie Bowen in Studio City

From the Real Estalker:
--Tennis player Kim Clijsters and her husband basketball player Brian Lynch paid $772,000 for a three-bedroom home in Wall Township, New Jersey.
--Actor John Krasinski has listed his starter home in West Hollywood for $1.245 million. He paid $1.050 for the home in 2006. The listing is here.
-- Tionne Watkins, a.k.a. T-Boz from TLC has listed her Duluth, Georgia home for $1.25 million. She bought the home in 2001 for $1,122,700. The listing is here.

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