khandi alexander

We've been watching actress Khandi Alexander attempt to sell her house in the Hollywood Hills for quite a while now but we never did get a good look at the place and the LA Times Hot Property column brought it back to our attention. It hit the market back in February for $4,495,000. And was marked down, and further down, and down once again. Now there is a fancy new property tour online and we all know I can't resist one of those so here comes the flood of pictures. Alexander, who played Miami chief medical examiner Dr. Alexx Woods on "CSI: Miami" and has been on a bunch of other TV shows including one of my favorites "NewsRadio," may have gotten a stager in on this. Her four-bedroom home looks a bit spiffier than it did when the Real Estalker uncovered the original listing in February. But I can see though why it may not have sold. It's one of those multi-level hills homes with a slightly wacky floor plan and no real place for the kiddies. It's also practically in the backyard of the Chateau Marmont. And then there's the pool, or rather the poolette, it's barely a lap pool. Still, that sweeping staircase is lovely and the views are beautiful. It's a classy (or should we say khlassy) abode. At its current price, Ms. Alexander won't be making a lot of cash, she bought for $2.85 million back in 2006. The home has two living rooms, five fireplaces, a separate guest apartment, a formal dining room and a three-car garage. It remains at $2.295 million.

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From the LA Times Hot Property:
--Rosemarie Stack, the widow of Robert Stack has put her Wilshire corridor condo up for sale for $6.5 million, shown above. It is listed here.
--"CSI: Miami" actress Khandi Alexander's Hollywood Hills home is still on the market. We'll be checking it out later as our estate of the day.
--Meg Ryan's Bel-Air home is now officially listed at $19.5 million. The listing is here.
--Roy Schlobohm, whose father founded the Shirley's of Hollywood bra and lingerie manufacturing company in 1948, has listed his Malibu beach home at $13.3 million. It's too pretty to pass up, we'll be checking this one out later this week.
--World champion ice skater Tai Babilonia listed her Sherman Oaks home at $1,085,000 and it was in escrow in less than a week.

From the Real Estalker:
--Venture capitalist Tom Perkins has put his home in the Bay Area back on the market for $20.5 million. It was that same price back in 2006 when we checked it out as an estate of the day.
--Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott have picked up a home in Encino for $2.495 million. Their Westwood home was our estate of the day recently.
--Toby Keith has put his Nashville home on the market. It was our estate of the day on Saturday.
--Jade Jagger has put her London house on the market. We'll be checking out this one on Monday.

From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:
--Alex Rodriguez has lowered the price of his Park Avenue apartment and is also offering it for rent. He is now asking $12.5 million for the four-bedroom unit Trump Park Avenue or will rent the place unfurnished for $50,000 a month. Braden Keil took a tour and found it "surprisingly elegant" looking "more like the home of a buttoned-down business executive than an athlete." We covered this and A-Rod's other home for sale as our estate of the day last week.
--Model Elizabeth Jagger has moved out of her Greenwich Village apartment after the owner of the five-unit townhouse decided to put it on the market. The listing for the five-story 1853 Anglo-Italianate townhouse, available for $7.95 million, is here.

From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--Baseball player Steve Finley and his wife, interior designer Amy Finley have put a beachfront home in Del Mar, California on the market for $21.5 million. We'll be taking a closer look at this one on Tuesday.
--Dennis Kozlowski, the former CEO of Tyco, is still in jail but is still trying to sell his Nantucket home. He bought the home for $5 million for the house in 1997. The current asking price of $16.45 million is less than the home's assessed value of $16.92 million. The listing is here.
--In Manhattan, a 10-room apartment at The Dakota is now listed for $19.5 million, down 19% from its original $24 million set in June. The owner is a Wall Street executive and the listing is here.
-- Diandra De Morrell Douglas, the ex-wife of actor Michael Douglas, is in contract to sell her townhouse which was most recently listed at $9.25 million.

From the NY Observer's Manhattan Transfers:
--Corcoran broker Deborah Kern, has two $12 million NYC listings, her own eight-room Majestic co-op which she and her husband, James Kern, a former senior managing director at Bear Stearns, paid j$5.2 million for in 2005 and the Park Avenue home of Mark Goldstein, who became the co-head of Bear Stearns' European investment banking last year who bought his home for $5.275 million in 2006.
--Sheridan Mitchell Lorenz, whose father, the Texas natural-gas mogul George P. Mitchell, is currently ranked by Forbes as No. 349 on the list of the world's billionaires, just bought a condo at 50 Orchard Street for $1.4 million.
--Alice R. Gottesman, whose father is the investor David Gottesman (No. 428 on the Forbes list ), spent $6,957,917 on two neighboring co-op units at 118 West 79th Street.
--Roy Judelson, whose father, David Judelson, co-founded Gulf & Western in 1956 and the biotechnology company Biopure decades later, has a bigger apartment. He and his wife paid $10.5 million this month for an 11-room, four-bedroom, 3,950-square-foot co-op at 33 East 70th Street.
--The Park Avenue home of the late fashion designer turned real estate executive turned Showgirls producer Charles Evans has had another price cut. It was originally listed at $29.5 million and is now at listed at $20 million. The listing for the triplex penthouse is here.

From Newsday's Real LI :
--Kenjocketey, a Lloyd Neck, NY estate that we first covered back in 2005 when it was for sale for $16.25 million is still on the market, now for an even $13 million. The listing is here.
--Fashion designer Adrienne Vittadini has lowered the price of her Water Mill, New York home to $6.495 million. It will be an estate of the day later this week.

From Berg Properties Big Time Listings:
--A four-bedroom house in Los Angeles' Los Feliz neighborhood that the late actor Paul Winfield had owned until he died in 2004 has sold for $3.65 million.

From TMZ:
--Orlando Magic star, Dwight Howard has picked up a new home in Longwood, Florida for around $8 million and it's a former estate of the day which was once listed at $9.7 million.
--Nicolas Cage who recently has listed several of his properties has put one of his New Orleans homes for sale for $3.7 million (Big Time Listings reports he bought the home for $3.45 million in 2005). The listing is here.

From the IHT's Raising the Roof blog:
--Villa Fontana, a 16th Century villa outside the Tuscan town of Cortona is on the market for the first time in 500 years. The 16-bedroom villa is listed at 8 million euros.

From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:
--A look at the planned Nobu Hotel and Residences in the Financial District. The project, in which Robert De Niro is an investor, is a 62-story glass tower at 45 Broad Street that will include 77 "super-luxury" condos, a 128-room hotel, retail space and a Nobu restaurant on the third floor.
--Hillary Clinton's communications director Howard Wolfson and his wife, Terri McCullough, who's chief of staff for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, have sold their condo at 455 Central Park West for $1.91 million. Not much of a profit, they bought the condo in 2005 for just under $1.8 million.
--Former Mets and Yankees pitcher David Cone is looking for an in-town apartment. He was recently spotted in the Miraval Living condominium sales office on the Upper East Side.

From the NY Observer's Manhattan Transfers:
--Baron Eric de Rothschild just bought his painter wife, Maria-Beatrice Caracciolo Di Forino, a Village penthouse where she can do some work whenever they're staying in New York. According to deeds, they paid $1.15 million for the one-bedroom, 1,050-square-foot co-op at 40 West 12th Street.
--Hotelier Jeff Klein has sold his house at 153 West 18th Street for $5.95 million.
--The listing for the late Brooke Astor's duplex at 778 Park Avenue is finally online, we covered it as our estate of the day on Friday.

From Berg Properties Big Time Listings:
--Melissa Etheridge has sold a six-bedroom house in Hidden Hills for an undisclosed price after it had been listed for $4,995,000. The home was purchased by a two trusts (the Olivers Estate Trust and the Veronica Matsui Trust) which may indicate the home was purchased by a celebrity (the Real Estalker says Michael Bolton and Nicolette Sheridan are
--Actress and former MTV VJ Kari Wuhrer has sold a Craftsman-style house in Los Angeles' Windsor Square area for $1.7 million.
--Comedian Carlos Mencia and his wife, Amy, purchased an Encino, CA home in November from actor Eddie Cibrian for an official purchase price of $4.3 million.
--via the Observer, Elisabeth Hasselbeck and her NFL husband Tim have paid $3,25 million. for a condo on Manhattan's Upper West Side.

From the Real Estalker:
--The Real Estalker Mama drops a tasty blind item that a mystery billionaire will be bidding on the Kaufmann house auction that will be part of the Christie's auction on May 13.
--Action actor Jason Statham has been spotted checking out the Devlin Drive home, shown above, recently put on the market by Christina Aguilera for $7.995 million. The virtual tour of this amazing home is here.
--Former CSI: Miami actress Khandi Alexander has cut the price again on her Hollywood Hills home. It was ginally listed at $4,495,000 but is now down to $2,995,000 which is not much more than the $2,850,000 she paid back in January of 2006. The listing says "huge $1 million price reduction" in bold block letters with an army of exclamation points.
--Angela Bassett and Courtney Vance have dropped the price on their Hancock Park home from $5.999 million to $4.6 million. The listing is here.
--Britney Spears has been spotted touring a 7,350 square foot house on Tara Drive in the Clark Gable community of Encino.
--Dishonored Lord Conrad Black and Barbara Amiel are quietly putting their Palm Beach, Florida home on the market. No listing price yet but in 2007, the Palm Beach assessor valued the estate at $27,980,115 so we are likely looking at a fairly big number here.
--Football player Pacman Jones has listed Tennessee home, it's our estate of the day later today.
--Once again, Michael Jackson has forestalled foreclosure on Neverland.
--Louwana, a grand old Palm Beach, Florida estate has been listed for sale for $30 million. The listing is here.
--Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn have put their Malibu home for summer rent again for $95,000.

From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--More background on Roman Abramovich's purchase of Wildcat Ridge. Abramovich also bought another home in the area for $11.8 million in February.
--Baseball great Henry "Hank" Aaron has listed his West Palm Beach, Fla., home that borders a golf course for $900,000.
--A home in Corona del Mar, California has sold for about $28 million, a record for an Orange County off-water property, local brokers say.

From the LA Times Hot Property:
--Former NHL player Ken Belanger has put his three-bedroom Manhattan Beach townhouse on the market for $1.125 million. It is listed with Ed Kaminsky.

From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:
--Brooke Shields and Chris Henchy are buying a Greek Revival townhouse on West 10th Street.. The townhouse currently has four apartments with 18 rooms total and had a $5.6 million asking price. The listing is here.
--Director Ang Lee has been spotted checking out a a building in Chelsea with a $5.195 million asking price. The listing is here.
--Joy Behar has bought one apartment at Astor Court on the Upper West Side for approximately $3.5 million and is selling another unit in the building.
--Donald Trump has already dropped the rent on the $200,000 a month penthouse apartment rental/sales listing on Park Avenue. Trump has lowered the price to $175,000 a month but the for sale price is still $45 million.
--Neil Simon's wife, Elaine Joyce, has just bought an apartment at the new Platinum condo complex at Eighth Avenue at 46th Street. She is said to be paying approximately $1.8 million for a mid-floor two-bedroom apartment.


From The Wall Street Journal Online's Private Properties:
--It's looking more and more like movie producer Sidney Kimmel has sold his Palm Beach, Florida house for a number close to the astronomical $81.5 million asking price.
--Meanwhile in Palm Beach, Donald Trump has finally dropped the asking price for his Palm Beach spec house to $100 million.
--British music producer Nellee Hooper has relisted his former London house for £2.6 million (about $5.2 million). The listing for the 1,400-square-foot, 19th century carriage house is here.
--In Santa Barbara County, an 80-acre ranch has sold for $21 million, more than 10 times what the sellers paid in 1993.

From the NY Observer's Manhattan Transfers:
--Tennis player Andy Roddick has just bought his first Manhattan apartment, a condo, at East 22nd Street near Gramercy Park, which was listed for $1.195 million.
--Princeton alum Naomi Waletzky (class of '98), who sings as Muffy Nixon and is Laurence Rockefeller's granddaughter has bought an apartment at 40 Bond which cost $9.25 million. There is no record of a mortgage so she may have paid cash.
--Art collector Adam Lindemann and his wife, Amalia Dayan have bought a slim townhouse at 64 East 77th Street for $5.2 million.
The 12.5-foot-wide brick-front house was bought for Ms. Dayan's private art dealership.
--Brazilian Minister of Culture Gilberto Gil have bought a new two-bedroom condo at the A Building on East 13th Street for $1.34 million.
--Laura Blankfein, the wife of Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein has paid $701,000 for Suite 807 (a staff apartment) at 15 Central Park West. The Blankfeins closed on a 16th-floor duplex condo in the building back in January.

From Berg Properties Big Time Listings:
--Dr. Phil McGraw has paid $2,560,000 for a two-bedroom contemporary-style house in the Hollywood Hills. it may be a house for a member of his family.
--the Los Feliz area home that was Gwen Stefani's house until last year is back on the market for $4.885 million. The listing is here.
--A Hollywood Hills that former NFL quarterback Cade McNown had owned until last year has come back on the market for $3.595 million. The property website is here.
--A Los Feliz home the was owned by the late actor Paul Winfield until his death in 2004 has been listed for $4.295 million. The property website is here.
--Richard Dreyfuss has paid $1,500,000 to purchase a home in Encinitas, Califorina and has listed his Carlsbad home for $1.1 million. The listing is here.
--Shannen Doherty has listed a five-bedroom house in Malibu for $4.4 million. The listing is here.

From the Real Estalker:
--Olivia Newton John has dropped the price on her Malibu home from $14 million to $12.95 million. The listing is here.
--The price on the large home in Holmby Hills that Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner were spotted checking out has been reduced to $19.5 million. The property website is here.
--Orchestra conductor Jonathan Sheffer has put his shingled Hamptons compound on the market for $18.5 million. The listing is here.
--Reese Witherspoon has bought a Wallace-Neff-designed country retreat in Ojai. The home which belonged to designer Kathyrn Ireland was listed at $6.95 million.
--Actress Khandi Alexander has reduced the price on her Hollywood Hills home to $3.495 million. The listing is here.
--Chris Tucker has put a Tarzana home on the market, it's our estate of the day later today.
--via the Nashville Post, Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban paid $3,470,000 for a 10,925 square foot house in a gated community in Nashville, Tennessee.
--Rumor has it that Dr. Phil McGraw may be putting his huge Beverly Hills mansion on the market for around $15 million.
--The old Cecil B. DeMille estate in Laughlin Park has hit the market for an astounding $26.25 million. The listing is here.
--Sean Hayes has already dropped the asking price of his Hancock Park home from $8.95 million to $7.45 million. It was our estate of the day back in March.
--via the Daily Mail, Heather Mills has been looking at apartments in New York City and is reportedly checking out One Jackson Square.

From the London Times:
--Designer Patrick Cox is selling his selling his London home for £2.25 million.

From the Sun:
--English soccer player, Peter Neville has put his Versace-decorated 18th century Grade II listed home in Lancashire on the market for £4million.

From the LA Times Hot Property:
--Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban have bought a $7-million, contemporary-style home in Brentwood. Turns out this one wasn't true, Kidman is still house hunting.
--Coco Crisp, center fielder for the Boston Red Sox, has purchased a $3-million getaway in a gated Rancho Mirage community.
--The former Los Feliz home of Universal Studios staff composer the late Herman Stein and his wife, Anita, has come on the market at $1,049,000. The listing is here.
--A 10,000-square-foot French Regency-style compound on a 1.5-acre ocean bluff in Malibu has been sold for $14 million.