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Want to get your paws on some of Kimora Lee Simmons cast-offs? You've got one more day to visit the former home of Russell and Kimora Lee Simmons in Saddle River, New Jersey to buy their belongings. The pair has moved on with new partners and new homes but their prodigious collection of clothing, furniture and other household goods remains. Those with deep pockets can pick up art like a $100,000 painting by Faith Ringgold, "The Dinner Quilt" or a pair of $20,000 bronze lions. Furniture is also for sale including Versace's bed for $200,000 and a $5,000 chaise lounge. Those with little to spend can pick up a $3 mug. The sale has been going on since Thursday which might make Saturday the ideal day to pounce because there may be deals to be had. It's not clear what will happen to the unsold goods.

A-1 Liquidators is in charge of the sale which has drawn people from surrounding states to get a look at the house which was featured on MTV Cribs and was also our estate of the day. It's got a new low price, just $13.9 million down from an original asking of nearly $24 million. The 10-bedroom home famous for its cinema-worthy home theater, professional fitness center, wine cellar with bar seating and painted rotunda has made the rounds of various television shows and magazines. It has both indoor and outdoor pools, staff quarters, a pool house and a security system designed by the White House security company.

From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--La Villa Contenta, a Malibu estate that has appeared in several movies and television shows is for rent for $250,000 a month. Chris Cortazzo of Coldwell Banker Previews International has the listing.
--The Dana Ranch, a 60,000-acre working cattle ranch in Montana, is quietly being offered for sale for $45 million. The owners are selling because they are retiring David Johnson with Hall & Hall in Bozeman has the listing.

From NJ.com
--Eddie Murphy has dropped the price on his New Jersey estate, Bubble Hill, to $12.75 million. It was once listed at $30 million.

--Kimora Lee Simmons has cut the price again on her mansion in Saddle River, New Jersey. It was once listed for $23.8 million but can now be had for $13.9 million.


From the NY Post:
--Fashion designer Valentino and his longtime partner Giancarlo Giammetti were seen checking out the $12 million cupola penthouse at 141 Fifth Ave. The listing for the three-level condo is here.
--Monneyman Gizman Abbas, a partner at Apollo Global Management, was the first to close on a $3.6 million triplex "townhome" at the 21-unit Fairchild, at 55 Vestry St. More than $40 million in sales are expected to close between now and the end of June.
--After a $26 million renovation, the Panoramic View Resort & Residences is selling condos at the11-acre, 20-unit oceanfront property in Montauk. The one- to five-bedroom residences measure 1,200 to 4,500 square feet and are on the market for $2 million to $6 million.
--Marielle and Edmond Safra have bought the full fourth floor of 2 E. 67th St., for around $18 million for two units, which they will be combining into one. The two units were originally listed for a total of $34.5 million in 2008.

From the Real Estalker:
--Sheryl Crow has listed Cross Creek Farm, her home in College Grove, Tennessee for $7.5million. The listing is here.
--Pia Zadora has listed her Pacific Palisades, California home for $10 million. The listing is here. She also has a Lake Arrowhead, California home on the market for $4.45 million. The listing is here.
--Jamie Lynn Spears has listed her home in Liberty, Mississippi for $250,000. The listing is here.

From the NY Times Big Deal:
--Jessica Hecht, a television and stage actress who was just nominated for a Tony Award for her role in "A View From the Bridge," has just bought a three-bedroom apartment in the Alwyn Court. Hecht and her husband, Adam Bernstein, a television and music video director, paid $2.05 million for a three-bedroom three-bath co-op that was originally listed for $2.295 million last September.

From the LA Times Hot Properties:
--Arizona Cardinal Monty Beisel has listed his contemporary home in Encino, California for $2.395 million. The listing is here.
--Actor French Stewart and actress and interior designer Katherine LaNasa sold their renovated Hollywood Hills-area home in early March for $3.637 million and now their buyer has resold it for $4.08 million.
Oscar-winning rapper Juicy J has sold his Sherman Oaks house for $1.82 million.

From the Real Estalker:
--Jane Fonda is the latest celebrity to move into the Sierra Towers in West Hollywood picking up a modest one-bedroom rental.
--Cher's son Elijah Blue sold a two-bedroom home in West Hollywood, California for $1.1 million in January.
--Sonja Morgan who is on the Real Housewives of New York City had listed her five-bedroom home in New York City for $7.25 million before pulling it off the market last month.
--Stephen Dorff has listed his Malibu beach house for $50,000 a month. The listing is here.
--Rumor has it that real estate developer Mohamed Hadid has finally sold the ten-bedroom store he built in Los Angeles' Bel Air neighborhood. Last we checked the home was listed at $72 million but now it is listed as "Backup Offers Accepted" meaning that a deal may be in the works.

--A home owned by actress Penelope Cruz has hit the market for $3.695 million. The listing is here.

From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--Karl Rove is in contract to sell his five-bedroom Washington D.C. home, which had been listed for $1.59 million. Rove and his wife, Darby, bought the three-level brick home for $799,000 in 2001.

--A limited-liability company linked to James Jannard, founder of sunglasses and apparel maker Oakley, has bought property in Beverly Hills for $19.9 million.
--Well-known fund manager John Laporte and his wife, Andrea, have bought a home in Ketchum, Idaho, for $5.5 million, more than 20% lower than its original $6.95 million listing in the summer.

From Newsday's Real LI:
--Bollywood film producer Aron Govil has listed his 15-room Colonial in Old Brookville, New York for $6.9 million.
--Rapper 50 Cent is selling a one-acre property in Dix Hills for $499,999.
--Kimora Lee Simmons has sold her East Hampton house for $650,000. It had been listed at $800,000.


From the NY Post:
-- Alec Baldwin continues to apartment hunt in New York City. He was seen checking out a $14.95 million triplex penthouse at 54 Bond St., in NoHo's old Bouwerie Lane Theatre. He was also spotted at the New Museum Building at 158 Mercer St. in SoHo looking at two apartments in the $7 million range.
-- Dylan McDermott has been seen looking for apartments in the West Village.
--Agnes Nolan, a legend in the field of luxury real estate, wants to sell her own trophy apartment, a penthouse duplex at 271 Central Park West. The co-op, where she has lived since 1964, is on the market for $13.9 million.
--Yankees star Alex Rodriguez maybe close to signing a $12 million contract for a house on North Bay Road in Miami.

From the Real Estalker:
--Hollywood talent agent and power player Mike Ovitz has listed a Brentwood, California home for $8.5 million.

It just keeps getting better. We've been covering the various luxe Hello Kitty collections over the past few years with delight and wonder -- this year Hello Kitty is even sparklier and more fabulous than before.

Simmons Jewelry Company's Hello Kitty collection (available from Zales) now includes more than just jewelry -- how about a pink crystal studded Hello Kitty compact, or even a 2GB USB flash drive (right, $125.00)? We love the cute rubber watches and the glittering, multicolored sapphires, tourmalines and rubies in the current collection, as well as the "big rock" pendants and rings created by Kimora Lee Simmons for Hello Kitty's 35th Anniversary (available from Neiman Marcus).

To check out some of our favorite picks of the litter (haha), see below for photos and prices.

For even more Hello Kitty bling, check out these exceptional Hello Kitty iPhone covers. Wow!

A recent post on the Real Estalker inspired me to take a look at the real estate doings of Kimora Lee Simmons. Simmons and ex-husband Russell Simmons have a variety of properties. Kimora made our slow sellers list for a home in the Beverly Hills Post office area that she was trying to sell for over a year but after knocking the price down to the price she bought it for ($5.9 million) it has been pulled from the market. Meanwhile Simmons has put a modest three-bedroom ranch-style home in East Hampton, New York on the market for $800,000. The simple home has none of Kimora's ostentatious style and may have been used for guests.

For a real look at Kimora's style check out the Saddle River, New Jersey home that Kimora Lee and Russell have been trying to sell for a few years. We've been talking about this home for a few years but never given in full estate of the day treatment. It was once listed for $23.888 million dropped to $19.888 million and then pulled off the market. But as Homes of the Rich pointed out last month, the exes are giving it another trying, relisting the lavish mansion at $16.5 million. The 10-bedroom home famous for its cinema-worthy home theater, professional fitness center, wine cellar with bar seating and painted rotunda has made the rounds of various television shows and magazines. It has both indoor and outdoor pools, staff quarters, a pool house and a security system designed by the White House security company.

From Move Trends:
--Johnny Knoxville has dropped the price on his Beechwood Canyon home, shown above, from $2.295 million to $1.995 million. The listing for the four-bedroom home is here.
From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:
--Has Nicolas Cage found a buyer for his New York apartment. The three-bedroom residence in the Olympic Tower apartment is listed at $9.75 million.

--Queen Latifah is staying at theGreenwich Club Residences condo building while at work on her new film, "Just Wright."
--Oliver Stone's "Wall Street 2" starts shooting next month and location scouts are still busy checking out apartments. A version of the script has one character living at 15 Central Park West.



From the Real Estalker:
--Former "Girl Next Door" Holly Madison has put her Santa Monica condo up for sale. She bought the condo last year for $760,000 and has listed it for $700,000.

--Listing pics are up on Alec Baldwin's three-bedroom apartment at the El Dorado. It is listed at $7.5 million.

--Australian fashion designer Collette Dinnigan has put her five-bedroom home in Sydney, Australia on the market.

From Cityfile's Buyers and Sellers:
--Real Housewives of New York star Jill Zarin and her husband, Bobby have dropped the price on their three-bedroom condo at 401 East 60th Street from $3.2 million to $2.995 million.

--Former Treasury Secretary W. Michael Blumenthal and his wife, Barbara, have purchased an apartment at 1095 Park Avenue for $5.6 million.
-Fortress Investment Group co-founder Randal Nardone has dropped the price of his condo at 240 Riverside Boulevard it was listed at $11.75 million six months ago and is now at $10.95 million.
--Attorney Harvey Spear and his wife, Ruth, have put their apartment at 765 Park Avenue on the market. The 11-room residence is listed for $12.5 million.
--via the NY Observer, the 8,300-square-foot triplex at 260 West Broadway that is famous for its in-house mural by Keith Haring, is no longer up for sale. After failing to sell for $13.25 million it is now a $35,000-a-month rental.

--Gotham Makker, an investor and former portfolio manager at Ken Griffin's Citadel Investment Group, has sold an apartment at 15 Central Park West for $12.5 million. He and his wife, Vicky, bought the home in March 2008 for $13.3 million.
--Jonathan Zrihen, the president and CEO of the cosmetics company Clarins Group USA, and his wife Laetitia have paid $2.075 million for a three-bedroom condo at the Belaire at 524 East 72nd Street.
--Beny Alagem, the founder of Packard Bell Electronics and now the owner of the Beverly Hills Hilton, has sold his three-bedroom condo at 15 Central Park West. It was listed at $24 million.
--Soap opera star Roger Horvath has listed his Soho apartment for $2.99 million.
--Eli Zahavi, the owner of EZ Energy Ltd., and his wife Gabriela have closed on the sale of their 25th-floor apartment at 15 Central Park West. It sold for $7.35 million to an entity called Metropark Investments Limited Partnership.
--from the NY Post, Jacob "Kobi" Alexander, the former CEO of Comverse Technology and now a fugitive from justice, has found a tenant for his condo at the Park Imperial on West 56th Street. The full-floor apartment is being rented by an "Asian-based hedge fund head" for $100,000 a month.
--Hassan Nemazee, the banker and Democratic mega-fundraiser charged with forging financial documents to get Citibank to give him a $74 million loan is under house arrest in his $20 million, 14th floor co-op at 770 Park Avenue.
--Investment banker Tom Whalen and his wife Dana English have closed on the sale of their townhouse at 34 West 10th Street which sold for $15.4 million to an entity called Go Yard LLC.
--Arvind and Shilpa Sanger have paid $11.98 million for a penthouse at 170 East End Avenue.
--Philanthropists Amnon and Caren Heller Barness have cut the price of their penthouse at Trump Park Avenue for the third time since listing it for $15 million last year.It is now listed for $11.995 million.
--via the NY Observer, disgraced financier Ezra Merkin hasn't decided to put his duplex apartment at 740 Park up for sale yet, but he may be forced to do so soon.
--via the Real Deal, Actress Molly Shannon has sold her apartment at 66 Ninth Avenue for $2.61 million, it was most recently listed for $2.85 million.
--via the NY Post, developer Bruce Ratner has sold his 4,500-square-foot home in Montauk to art dealer David Zwirner for $10 million.

From Newsday's Real LI:
--Mets closer Francisco Rodriguez has paid $2.3 million for a six-bedroom mansion in Upper Brookville, NY.
--orporate security guru Richard "Bo" Dietl's home in the gated Stone Hill community of North Hills is on the market for $3.295 million. He bought the home for $2.3 million in 2004. The listing is here.

From The Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--Blackstone Group co-founder Steve Schwarzman and his wife Christine have put their East Hampton home on the market. The 2.1-acre property, which the couple purchased for $2.3 million in 1996, is listed for $7.2 million.
--Director Judd Apatow and his wife Leslie Mann have bought a five-bedroom home in the Brentwood Park area of Los Angeles. THe home wasn't officially listed but had been shopped quietly for $20 million.
--A winery and two vineyards that make up Palmer Vineyards on the north fork of New York's Long Island are on the market for $10.8 million.

From the Chicago Tribune's Elite Street:
--U.S. Secretary of Education and former Chicagoan Arne Duncan has sold his four-bedroom townhouse in his native Hyde Park for $525,000. Duncan and his wife, Karen, purchased the 2,460-square-foot town home in 1999 for $257,500, according to public records.
Radio sportscaster Steve Kashul has put his Naperville, Illinois home on the market for $524,900. It has a full-size bowling alley in the basement.

From the LA Times Hot Properties:
--Actress Natasha Henstridge has sold her Sherman Oaks, California home. It was listed at $1.75 million.
--Comedienne Ruth Buzzi sold her Hollywood Hills home to film producer Daniel Dubiecki for $1.021 million.
--NFL analyst and former player Robert Griffith has listed a Lake Arrowhead site for sale at $799,999.
--Baltimore Ravens player Trevor Pryce and his wife, Sonya, have sold their Calabasas home for $2.1 million.
The former West Hollywood three-bedroom condo of Oscar-winning actress Bette Davis is for sale at $2.45 million. The listing is here.

From Berg Properties Big Time Listings:
--Actress Milla Jovovich has sold a four-bedroom, 3,582-square-foot house in Beverly Hills for $2.75 million.


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Simmons Jewelry Co., run by the family of Russell Simmons and Kimora Lee Simmons, has a terrific line of jewelry for men that exudes style and strength without being too flashy.

Seen here on the new 90210's Adam Gregory are items from both their Wrist and Neck collections which retail for $155 to $7,000 here on the Simmons Jewelry Co. website. There is also a Finger collection (of rings) for $195 - $3,500.

Normally, for a very special occasion, the customary gift for a man is a pen or a watch. But what if he already has a pen and a watch? Some men I know have their father's or grandfather's watch, or the pen their parents gave them when they graduated from grad school. These gifts have a high sentimental value and are unlikely to be outshone by any price tag.

The Simmons Jewelry Co. Steel Collection is the perfect gift alternative for the man who already has a pen and a watch.

The collection combines diamonds with rubber and stainless steel in modern bracelets, chains, dog tags, and rings. We compiled a gallery of the most extravagant and attractive items below.

People just can't seem to get enough of Hello Kitty, and although she's a cutie I really don't understand what all the fuss is about. Even fine jewelers like Simmons is jumping on the bandwagon with Kimora Lee Simmons' Hello Kitty collections include Simple Kitty, Princess Kitty, Glam Kitty, and (my favorite) Zodiac Kitty. I'm not even into astrology at all but think it's interesting to see how she Hello Kitty fit into the signs of zodiac, like having a bull suit for the Taurus kitty and making Pisces a pair of little mermaids (mercats?). $700-$980

Beyonce Knowles is happily wearing a Rough Diamond and Malachite Green bracelet from Simmons Jewelry Company.

Simmons, as in the infamous Simmons Family which includes lines such as Kimora Lee Simmons for Hello Kitty, Simmons Men's Collection, Brown Sugar by Justine Simmons, and the iconic Green Malachite bracelet which gives back to the Diamond Empowerment Fund. The bracelet, above, comes in three sizes at $125 and has a little gold diamond charm containing a small rough diamond - very classy, chic, and perfect for your environmentally conscious friends and relatives.

The Diamond Empowerment Fund, to which 50% of all Rough Diamond and Malachite Green bracelet profits go, is an international non-profit organization which raises money for educational programs in Africa. Feeling green? Click here to learn more and find out how you can help.

From the Real Estalker:
--Celebrity hairstylist Serge Normant has put his New York penthouse on West 16th Street, shown above, on the market for $4.49 million. The listing is here.
--John McCain's former home in Phoenix, Arizona will now be sold at auction on October 25. It was our estate of the day back in July.
--Teen actress Vanessa Hudgens has picked up a home in Studio City for $2.75 million. The home has six bedrooms and over 5,000 square feet.
--Rumor has it that Kimora Lee Simmons has bought herself new house in Beverly Hills.
--Will and Grace co-creator Max Mutchnick and his partner Erik Hyman have sold their Manhattan apartment for $4.1 million.
--The Harvey Mudd estate in Beverly Hills is for sale. It is our estate of the day later today.

From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:
--Natali Portman has gone to contract to sell her apartment in Richard Meier's tower at 165 Charles St. The condo last had an asking price of $6.55 million.
--The price of Dunnellen Hall, Leona Helmsley's Greenwich, Connecticut home, has been lowered by $30 million to a still astounding $95 million. Check out the pictures from when it was our estate of the day back in June.
--The listing of the "Astor Suite" at the Plaza for $55 million was pulled after one day and other listings have disappeared without buyers but 26 apartments are still listed.
--The $70 million listing at the Pierre Hotel has been pulled from the Brown Harris Stevens website.

From the LA Times Hot Properties:
-- Screenwriter, crime novelist and political blogger Roger L. Simon has listed his home in the Hollywood Hills for sale at $2.625 million. The listing is here.
--A Beverly Hills home built in the 1920s for Errol Flynn and now owned by composer Lee Holdridge is listed at $3.2 million. The listing is here.

From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--Lehman Brothers Holdings' former chief financial officer, Erin Callan, is in contract to sell her two-bedroom condominium in New York's 15 Central Park West which had been listed at $12 million. Callan paid $6.48 million around three years ago.
--Ronald Tutor, chairman and chief executive of building contractor Perini Corp., paid $36.7 million for a massive, not-yet-completed house in the Beverly Park gated community which had been listed at $49 million.
--The widow of Steven T. Florio, the former CEO of Condé Nast Publications, has listed their waterfront Key Largo, Fla., vacation home on the market. We'll check this one out on Monday.

From Berg Properties Big Time Listings:
--via the Chicago Tribune, Ty Warner, founder of the Beanie Babie empire, reportedly has gone to contract to purchase the Chicago Spire's penthouse unit, which had been on the market for $40 million.
--Vivica A. Fox has her put her home in the Granada Hills area on the market for $1.45 million. Records show that the bought in 2002 for $825,500. The virtual tour is here.

From the NY Observer's Manhattan Transfers:
--Lehman's ousted president and chief operating officer Joseph M. Gregory has already his home on Park Avenue. He bought the two-bedroom apartment for $2.85 million back in 2004 and sold it earlier this month for $4.4 million. His Hamptons estate was previously our estate of the day and is on the market for $32.5 million.
--Mark Goldstein, a veteran Bear Stearns leveraged finance banker who became the co-head of its European investment banking last year has listed his apartment on Park Avenue for $12 million. He spent $5,275,000 in 2006 to buy two apartments which have now been combined. The listing is here.
--Hairstylist Guido Palau spent $1.9 million on a Chelsea brownstone duplex on West 22nd Street, according to city records
-- Democratic Party fund-raising stars Carl Spielvogel and Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel are in contract to sell their seventh-floor apartment at 720 Park Avenue for around $37 million, though they paid only $20 million just two years ago.
--Last week, while the Fed was agreeing to bailout A.I.G., recently retired AIG executive vice president Robert M. Sandler bought a $3.45 million apartment at the Hampshire House on Central Park South. He and his wife, Annette, paid in cash.

From Newsday's Real LI:
--Interior designer Lorraine Kirke has lowered the price of her East Hampton mansion to $11.5 million, the latest stop on a slide down from $14.5 million last year. The listing is here (no interior pics).

From the Daily Mail:
--The Candy brothers want to convert the US Embassy site in Grosvenor Square into luxury flats after the American Ambassador announced it was moving to south London. These could become some of the most expensive units in the world.

From the Dallas Morning News:
--An interesting piece on Terrell Owens real estate investments. T.O. owns six townhouses and condos in the city, valued at more than $2.5 million based on tax records.

Model, designer and professional diva, Kimora Lee Simmons has put her home in the Beverly Hills Post Office area on the market less than a year after buying it. Last June, the former wife of rap mogul Russell Simmons paid the $5.9 million asking price on the home. The "country English" style home has five bedrooms and a casually luxe feel even if the exterior is a bit blah (it was built in 1974). The overall style is tasteful if a bit heavy on the rattan furniture. I also appreciate Ms. Simmons's taste in paintings, she appears to have a couple of Basquiats tucked in there.

Ms. Simmons also has Jessica Simpson as a next-door neighbor. Will Kimora get her $7.75 million asking price? It's a cheeky move in this market but as the Real Estalker notes, properties in this area do move pretty quickly. She may have better luck with this one than the one in Saddle River, New Jersey that she and her ex-husband have been trying to move for a while now. it was listed at $23.888 million but now sits at $19.888 million.

UPDATE: This home remains on the market at $5.9 million but the New Jersey home is no longer on the market.

UPDATE 2: This home has been pulled off the market and the New Jersey home is on the market again for $16.5 million.

From the Real Estalker:
--Pete Sampras and his wife Bridgette cut the price on their Beverly Hills mansion from $25 million to $23 million. It seems to have worked. The home is now listed as "looking for backup."
----Actor Willem Dafoe has put his house in Accord, New York on the market for $850,000. It was our estate of the day on Saturday.
--Kimora Lee Simmons has put her Beverly Hills home on the market for $7.75 million. It is our estate of the day later today.
--Technology guru Halsey Minor, ho bought a Bel Air home for $20 million in 2006 now has put the home on the market for just $12.9 million. Why? Rumor has it that the much of the home as been stripped down and is empty and dirty. The listing is here.
--TV personality Debbie Matenopoulos and music executive Jay Faires have put their home, Wolf's Lair, shown at right, on the market. The Norman-style castle was built in the 1920s and includes a guest house with interiors by architect John Lautner, a heart-shaped pool and eight bedrooms total on the property. The couple reportedly bought in 2002 for $2.9 million and have now listed it at $7.5 million.

From the LA Times Hot Property:
-- Baseball pitcher Jaret Wright has sold his Dover Shores home in Newport Beach home for $1.67 million.
--Novelist Jackie Collins has eased out a Bel-Air area property she owns for $20,000 a month.
----Looks like Avril Lavigne has finally unloaded her home in the Mulhollland Estates area of Beverly Hills. the home which was first listed in March 2007 for $6.9 million has reportedly received a $5.2 million cash offer.
--Carla J. Christofferson, co-owner of the L.A. Sparks and a partner with the O'Melveny & Myers law firm, has listed her 5,300-square-foot Hollywood Hills home for $5.5 million. The restored 1928 California Spanish-style five-bedroom home includes a THX theater with a 96-inch projection screen. The virtual tour is here.

From Big Time Listings:
--Mr. Big Time takes a look at the real estate doings of Robert Downey Jr. and Hilary Duff.
--Actor and comedian Brad Sherwood has placed his four-bedroom house in Los Angeles' Encino area on the market for $4 million. The listing is here.
--Actor and movie director Michael Apted and his wife, writer Dana Stevens, have paid $1,784,000 for a three-bedroom house in Del Mar, Calif., in San Diego County.
--It's time to play "Which celebrity's house is this?" checking out a six-bedroom house in Brentwood which recently sold after having been on the market for $8,499,000.

From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:
--Katie Holmes, who is set to appear in a Broadway show in the fall, is on the hunt for a rental on the Upper East Side, she's been spotted cruising apartments with monthly rates over $60,000.
--Entertainment lawyer Paul Schindler has sold his four-story co-op apartment on the Upper East Side for $16.5 million. He and his wife closed on a $13.4 million apartment at the Plaza.
--Ted Koppel has dropped the price of his Potomac, Maryland home. He first listed it in 2005 for $4.1 million and is now asking $1.94 million for the six-bedroom home which as an indoor pool, a gym with a sauna, maid's quarters and a horse barn.
--The Park Avenue apartment of the late socialite and philanthropist Frances Todman has sold for $22 million.
--From Page Six, Philip Seymour Hoffman and his girlfriend Mimi O'Donnell are buying a three-bedroom co-op loft n Manhattan's West Village that had been listed for $4.4 million. Big Time Listings unearthed the listing here.

From the NY Observer's Manhattan Transfers:
--The New York State Court of Appeals has said that a shipping heir named Alistair Economakis and his wife, Catherine can proceed with their plans to take over 47 East Third Street, a a 15-unit, 60-room, 11,600-square-foot rent-stabilized tenement building and turn it into a luxury mansion without getting approval from the state's low-income housing agency. They bought the building and have taken over six apartments, which leaves nine units with tenants who've refused to get bought out.
--Nightlife king Simon Hammerstein has bought his first New York apartment, paying $1.27 million for a loft at 265 Water Street.
--Chinese pianist Lang Lang and his parents have picked up a duplex opposite Carnegie Hall, paying $1.895 million last month for a duplex at City Spire on West 56th Street.
--The brother of Nursultan A. Nazarbayev, the only president in Kazakhstan's 17-year post-U.S.S.R. history, Bolat Nazarbayev and his wife have paid around $20 million for a corner unit facing Central Park at the Plaza.
--Joy and Leonard Toboroff, the 74-year-old vice chairman of a Houston-based oil/gas-drilling outfit named Allis-Chalmers Energy are selling their duplex apartment that stretches across two Tribeca buildings, 39 and 41 North Moore Street with a list price of $17.9 million. The listing is here.

From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--Steffi Graf has listed her Miami home, shown above, for $3.5 million. Graf bought the Hibiscus Island home for $1.315 million in 2001, about eight months before she married Andre Agassi. The listing is here. Only in Miami would a home like this be listed as a potential teartown.
--Real-estate developer R. Donahue Peebles and his wife, Katrina, sold their house in Santa Fe last month for $2.813 million. They paid $2.35 million in 2005 for the close to 9,000-square-foot property.
--Actor Cliff Robertson's former beachfront estate in La Jolla was recently listed for $28 million but has been reduced $22.5 million. We'll take a look at this historic property as our estate of the day.

From TMZ:
--The sale of Paris Hilton's home has hit a snag. The home appraised for under the asking price ($4.25 million). Instead the buyer got an appraisal for $3.6 million. There's some discussion of just how much all that included Paris furniture is worth. The real estate agent, Paris' uncle Mauricio Umansky says the buyers, a married couple from Texas, will pay the agreed-upon purchase price (and mostly cash to boot, taking a loan for $1 million.

From the Real Estalker:
--Los Angeles Dodger Rafael Furcal has listed his Pasadena townhouse for $1,159,000.
--Kimora Lee Simmons has sold her home on N. Doheny Drive in Beverly Hills for $5,665,000.
--The Real Estalker Mama delivers pics of Steven Cojocaru's swanky new digs.
--The Real Estalker Mama also has more pics of David Spade's Malibu home for sale for $16 million. It's quite shabby chic and girly.
--And the Mama really hits it big with a whole boatload of pics of the $165 million Ross home for sale.

From the NY Post's Page Six:
--Yankee catcher Jorge Posada and his wife have paid $3.6 million for a three-bedroom apartment t next door to their four-bedroom condo on East 77th Street.

From the LA Times Hot Property:
--Dixie Chick Natalie Maines and her "Heroes" hubby Adrian Pasdar have bought a $5.6-million home in a Brentwood gated community. Mr. Big Time Listings unearths the listing. You can check the gorgeous home out here.
--Stand-up comic and writer Carol Leifer has sold a rental house in the Hollywood Hills for close to its asking price of $2 million.
--Rapper Erik Schrody, known as Everlast, has put his Woodland Hills home on the market at $789,000. The listing is here. Mr. Big Time Listings reports that Everlast has bought a $1.2 million home in Altadena.
--Christopher Knight and his wife, "America's Top Model" Adrianne Curry, have sold their Manhattan Beach town home for its asking price of $1,689,000. They have bought a larger home with ocean views in the area.

From Berg Properties Big Time Listings:
--The buyer of a five bedroom home in Toluca Lake that Damon Wayans had owned from 2001 to 2006 had listed the house for $4,495,000 months after buying the home from Wayans for $3.3 million. The successful flipper sold the home for $4.4 million.
--Mr. Big Time nails down the dollars on Kelsey Grammer's recent Los Angeles home moves. He sold his Bel-Air home for $13.5 million and paid $13.7 million for a home in Holmby Hills.
--Actor Paul Reiser has paid $755,000 to purchase a one-bedroom, 1,174-square-foot condominium unit in Beverly Hills.
--Actor Steven Weber sold his house in Malibu for $3,820,000 around $1 million more than he paid for it in early 2006.
--The asking price for the Hollywood Hills home that once belonged to Bobby Darin has been reduced from $3,689,000 to $2,995,000.

From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:
--Donald Trump's SoHo building on Spring Street is doing big business, they have 2,800 applications for 500 units. The biggest suites could cost as much as $18.9 million for one apartment.
--Ellenborough, the Easton, Maryland home which was see in the movie, "Wedding Crashers" has been sold. It was listed at $16.5 million but sold for around $11 million.
--Celebrity hairstylist Oribe, is spending about $2 million for a two-bedroom, two-bath apartment at the Grand Madison condo building at 225 Fifth Ave.

From the Real Estalker:
--Celebrity agent Kevin Huvane has listed his Beverly HIlls home for $15.95 million. Huvane never lived in the house and reportedly bought it in 2003 when it had a list price of $8,495,000. Pretty pricey for a place without a pool. The listing is here.
--As we mentioned earlier this week, Paris Hilton's home sold at list price. No word on the buyer yet but apparently they took it furniture and all.
--Kimora Lee Simmons has picked up a home in Beverly Hills that was listed at $5.9 million.
--Gene Wilder has listed his Bel Air home for $2.75 million. It's in need of major remodeling but is a bit of a steal at the price. Check out the listing here.
--Football player turned action film star turned real estate agent Brian Bosworth has listed a Malibu home for $11.9 million. The listing is here.

From Berg Properties Big Time Listings:
--Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne have purchased a 10,953-square-foot mansion in Hidden Hills, California and have sold their Beverly HIlls mansion shown above to singer Christina Aguilera and her husband Jordan Bratman for an undisclosed price (it was listed for $11,995,000).
--Check out the listing for the modern home that actor Jamie Kennedy is buying in the Los Feliz area of Los Angeles.
--Gwen Stefani has paid $2,395,000 for a 3,351-square-foot house in Los Angeles' Hancock Park area. She already has a posh home so this is assumed to be just another addition to her growing portfolio.
--Actress Joan Cusack has paid $5.3 million for a six-bedroom, 8,000-square-foot-plus vintage mansion on the Gold Coast.
--The official price on Posh and Becks Beverly Hills buy is $18.2 million not the $22 million previously reported.

From the NY Observer's Manhattan Transfers:
--Director Martin Scorsese has sold his five-bedroom town house on Manhattan's Upper East Side for $6,158,250. Check out the pics of the place from when it was our estate of the day.
--Jeffrey Hyland, Rick Hilton's partner at Beverly Hills real estate brokerage Hilton & Hyland, signed a contract last year for a sixth-floor place at Ian Schrager's brand-new 40 Bond condo without even visiting the building.

From the Wall Street Journals's Private Properties:
--Red Sox general manager Theo Epstein has agreed to sell his Boston condominium, it was listed for around $1.54 million.
--Developer George Santopietro is asking $50 million for a newly built Tuscan-style mansion in Beverly Hills, Calif.

From the LA Times Hot Property:
--Steve Carell has sold his Studio City house for $1.5 million. Carrell recently bought a $6.5-million home on the water in Toluca Lake.
--Scarlett Johansson purchased director/producer Harold Becker's house in the Outpost Estates area of Hollywood for slightly more than $7 million.
==Courteney Cox Arquette and David Arquette bought a family compound in Malibu for almost $17 million.
--Actress Vicki Lawrence has listed her home in Long Beach for $5 million. You can check out the listing here.
-- Snoop Dogg has sold his home in Claremont for $1.83 million.