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From the Wall Street Journal:
--Hedge-fund pioneer Paul Tudor Jones is asking $30 million for his 6,250-acre hunting retreat on Maryland's eastern shore. It is our estate of the day on Monday.
--A 44-acre Aspen, Colorado estate sold for $31.5 million, for what brokers say is a record price for the area this year. The seller of the property was Bob Zangrillo, founder of private-equity firm Z Capital.
--After nearly four years on the market at $33 million, a roughly 6,500-acre Carmel Valley, California ranch, shown above, has seen its asking price cut 35 percent to $21.5 million. The listing is here.

From the NY Times:
--Renee Zellweger has listed a pair of apartments on New York's Upper East side. 82nd Street, The apartments take up the entire second floor of a co-op on 82nd Street at Madison Avenue. She paid $8.2 million for all three units. One, a three-bedroom unit is $6.975 million. The listing is here.

From Newsday:
--A three-acre estate in Sagaponack that includes land once owned by businessman Ronald Lauder as well as a planned 11,600-square-foot, 10-room traditional home designed by architect Francis Fleetwood has has a price cut to $14.995 million down from $17.75 million. The listing is here.
--An Old Westbury estate that once belonged to the family of the late commercial shipping magnate Michael P. Grace had had a price cut. The five-bedroom Colonial was listed at $4.498 million but is now listed at $3.968 million. The listing is here.


From the LA Times:
--"CSI: Miami" star Rex Linn has bought a Sherman Oaks home for $1.415 million.
--Iron Chef Michael Symon has picked up a two-story loft in the Dogtown Station mixed-use development in Venice. The two-bedroom, two-bathroom unit was listed at $1.1 million.
--Judd Apatow and his wife, Leslie Mann, have sold their Pacific Palisades home for $5.26 million.

From Housing Watch:
--Actress Jessica Alba is trying to lease out her 3,035-square-foot Beverly Hills home for $8,950 a month. The listing is here.

From the LA Times Hot Properties:
A Los Feliz home once owned by Clifford E. Clinton, the founder of the L.A. landmark Clifton's Cafeteria, is on the market for $1.799 million.The listing is here.
--What do Betty Grable, Stephen Stills, Jacqueline Smith and John De Lorean have in common? At one point they each lived in a Bel-Air house built in 1937. The beautifully maintained home has hit the market for $10.995 million. The listing is here.
--Singer Rachel Sweet has sold Los Pavoreales, a 1926 home designed by Wallace Neff in the Los Feliz area of Los Angeles, for $4.895 million. This home hit the market for $9.95 million just last year.
Comedy writer Shelley Zellman recently sold her Sherman Oaks home for $779,000.

From the NY Post:
--Natalie Portman is staying at a Union Square rental building with her dog, Whiz.
--Patti Stanger of Bravo's "Millionaire Matchmaker" is said to have been calling Hamptons brokers looking for a summer beach mansion to live and shoot in.
--Investor Chris Knight has listed his Shelter Island bayfront beach cottage for $3.5 million. The listing is here.

From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
Jerry Herbst, chairman and president of Las Vegas-based Terrible Herbst, has listed his Newport Beach, California home for $31.75 million. He bought the six-bedroom home for $35 million in 2008 from Nicolas Cage. The listing is here.
--Designer Jonathan Adler and Simon Doonan, the creative director of Barneys New York have listed their Shelter Island beach home for $1.795 million. They bought the home for just $185,000 in 1998 but did major renovations. The listing is here.
--Mining executive Richard Adkerson and two partners have bought a roughly 18,000-acre ranch in Montana for less than $30 million. The property was originally offered for $55 million and about 97% of the deeded property has been placed under conservation easements.

From Housing Watch:
--Miami Heat guard Dwyane Wade has finally sold his Pinecrest, Florida house. He bought the home in 2005 for $3.98 million and it was first listed for $8.9 million in 2007. It sold last month for a mere $2.5 million.
--Larry King transferred all his prime real estate including his Beverly Hills mansion to his soon-to-be ex-wife Shawn Southwick two years ago but now wants his real estate back.
--After seven months on the market, the 14-bedroom home next to President Barack Obama's residence in Chicago's Kenwood neighborhood sold for $1.4 million.

From the Real Estalker:
--David Krumholtz of the TV show Numb3rs has listed his three-bedroom home for $1.499 million. He paid $1.715 million for the home in 2006. The listing is here.
--Former president and current Chairman of the Board of the Whitney Museum of American Art Robert Hurst and his wife Soledad have listed their Fifth Avenue duplex in New York City for $29 million. The listing is here.
--Jackson Browne has picked up a single story Spanish Colonial Revival residence in the Beverly Grove area of Los Angeles for $2.66 million.
--Interior decorator Kelly Wearstler and property developer Brad Korzen and the three other families have listed the Malibu home they all own for $21.9 million. The six-bedroom home appeared in the November 2009 issue of Metropolitan Home. The listing is here.
--Robert and Barbara Taylor Bradford have listed their four-bedroom New York City residence for $18.995 million.
--Judd Apatow and Leslie Mann have listed their five-bedroom home in the Pacific Palisades area for $6.495 million. They bought the home in 2003 for $4.474 million. The listing is here.

From Move Trends:
--Actor Jeremy Sisto has listed his 3-bedroomHollywood Hills house for $1.3 million. The listing is here.


Emeril Lagasse seems to have finally sold his New York city loft. It was listed for sale for $5.995 million when we checked it out as an estate of the day in August 2009. It was last listed at $4.85 million and the listing shows it is "contract signed."

From Berg Properties Big Time Listings:
--Singer Rachel Sweet has put her Los Feliz area on the market for $9,995,000. The home known as Los Pavoreales was designed in 1926 by architect Wallace Neff and has been owned by Madonna, Jenna Elfman and Katey Sagal. The listing is here.
--Celebrity artist Steve Kaufman who was once Andy Warhol's assistant, has placed his four-bedroom home in Los Feliz neighborhood on the market for $1.597 million. The listing is here.
--Retired basketball star Alonzo Mourning finally sold his Miami home for $6 million. It was once listed at $10 million and was at $9.5 million when it was our estate of the day in 2007.
--Alan Alda has sold a three-bedroom single-family house in Sag Harbor, N.Y. for $550,000.

From Cityfile's Buyers and Sellers:
--Marisa Noel Brown, the youngest daughter of disgraced hedge fund manager Walter Noel, and her husband Matt Brown, have found a buyer for their townhouse at 12 East 78th Street. The home, which was $12 million in May, went into contract late last week. The couple purchased the home for $13.5 million in January 2008.
--via the NY Times, the buyer who paid $37 million for Gerhard Andlinger's penthouse at the Time Warner Center was Andrei Vavilov, the Russian financier who agreed to buy two penthouses at the Plaza last year for $53.5 million, but ended up suing the developer.
--via the NY Times, Italian movie mogul Vittorio Cecchi Gori has gone into contract to sell his penthouse at the Trump International for $18 million but the new buyer won't be able to move into the apartment-which Cecchi Gori bought from Donald Trump for $10.4 million in 1997, for a while. The foreclosed apartment has been gutted.
--via the NY Observer, My pick for New York City's most romantic apartment, the St. Urban penthouse owned by architect Lee Harris Pomeroy has had another price drop. It was listed at $16.5 million bit is now listed for $7.75 million. It was our estate of the day last year.
--via NY Mag, how low will the Harlem mansion built by Barnum & Bailey co-founder James Bailey go? It started at $10 million but is now listed for $3.5 million. We checked out this unique structure back in April.
--Software titan Peter Norton has gone into contract to sell his 45th-floor apartment at Trump International for the second time.
--Warren Spector, the former co-president at Bear Stearns has sold his penthouse at 40 Fifth Avenue. The buyer, retired Goldman Sachs executive Scott Pinkus, paid $8 million for the two-bedroom apartment.
--via the NY Observer, billionaire hedge funder Steve Cohen and his wife Alexandra paid $2.7 million for a loft at 99 Warren Street for Steve's 20-something stepson.
--via Christoper Fountain, John McCloy, a Connecticut banker has put his home in Greenwich on the market for $6.495 million. The listing for the three-acre estate is here.
--via the NY Post, An unidentified Texas banker is reportedly in contract to pay $15 million for a 19th-century townhouse at 34 West 10th Street. The 8,000-square-foot home had been listed for $17.9 million.
--Mortgage company founder Steven Schnall and his wife Sherri have dropped the price of their massive townhouse at 2 North Moore Street less than three months after putting it back on the market for $33 million. It is now listed at $29 million.
--Richard Bressler, a managing director at the private equity shop Thomas H. Lee Partners and the former CFO of Viacom, has gone into contract to sell his duplex at 850 Park. It was most recently listed at $13.5 million.
--Dorris Carr Bonfigli one of Bernie Madoff's victims, has dropped the price of her penthouse apartment at 930 Fifth for the second time since listing it for $11.3 million last December. It is now listed at $9.8 million.
-- Tommy Hilfiger is moving into the Plaza duplex he tried to sell for $50 million last fall.
--via the NY Observer, Maddona paid $32 million for her NYC townhouse.
--Michael Targoff, the Loral Space & Communications CEO who paid $10.25 million for a penthouse at 778 Park Avenue last year, has finally sold off his townhouse at 211 East 61st Street for $6 million
--Miami real estate developer Tibor Hollo and his wife Sheila have paid $2.1 million for a 38th-floor apartment at the Trump Plaza on 61st Street.

From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:
--A couple who sold their classic prewar co-op at 333 Central Park West during the peak of the market have now listed their Central Park North penthouse condo. Neil Breslau and Nancy Fire Breslau bought the penthouse at the 111 Central Park North new development for $4.975 million in May 2007 and have listed it for $6.4 million. The listing is here.
--Real-estate investor Michael Hirtenstein is selling his listed-for-$20 million Gramercy Park townhouse to newlyweds Lauren Davis (a Vogue contributor) and Andres Santo Domingo (a billionaire Colombian heir). He is living in a four-bedroom triplex penthouse at 25 Bond St, a rental that had been listed at $60,000 a month and is unofficially on the market for around $30 million.
--Brokers haven't gotten a peek at Ruth Madoff's apartment. The brokers need to appraise the homes before the feds can sell them.

From the LA Times Hot Property:
--Emmy-winning producer and writer Gary David Goldberg has sold his Brentwood estate for $15.15 million. It was first listed back in January for $19.95 million.
--Actress Brynn Thayer and her husband manager-writer-producer David Steinberg, have sold their longtime Pacific Palisades home for $2.995 million.
Actor-turned-producer David Ladd and his wife, actress Dey Young are listing their Beverly Hills Post Office area home for $5.995 million. The listing is here.
--L.A. Police Chief William J. Bratton and his wife, lawyer Rikki Klieman, have listed their Los Feliz-area home at $1,875,000. The listing is here.
--Actor-composer-artist Michael Toland and his wife, Stephanie, have sold a 1921 Mediterranean in the Los Feliz area for $2.5 million.