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From Newsday's Real LI:
--A Bridgehampton estate that once belonged to John Weitz, a fashion designer and novelist, is on the market for $8.995 million. Weitz's sons are Chris Weitz, director of "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" film, and his brother, Paul. Together, the sons directed and produced the "American Pie" comedies. The listing is here.
--A 12,000-square-foot Water Mill home owned and designed by famed artist and architect Setsuo Ito is up for auction. It is listed for $10.995 million but Ito could choose a buyer through sealed bids between now and Aug. 15 based not only on the amount offered but the conditions of the offer, such as closing time and financing. The listing is here.

From the NY Post:
--A new luxury building near the High Line will be home to Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban. They have just closed on a $10 million penthouse at 200 11th Ave. Kidman and Urban's new neighbors include Domenico Dolce of Dolce & Gabbana, who bought two penthouses for $29 million. Their three-bedroom penthouse was listed for $12.5 million. Interior designer Jamie Drake has also just closed on a $5 million unit in the building.
--Screenwriter Allan Loeb who wrote "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps," is buying a two-bedroom at 141 Fifth Ave. for close to $3.9 million. The penthouse duplex at 31 W. 21st St., which served as the home of Shia LaBeouf's character in the movie is on the market for $15 million.
--Lady Gaga is still checking out apartment rentals in the $20,000 to $25,000 range. Most recently she was spotted at 408 Greenwich St. in TriBeCa looking at a large one-bedroom $24,000-a-month rental.
--Edmund Carpenter, the retired CEO of the Barnes Group, a car and plane parts manufacturer, and his wife, Mary, just bought a co-op at 840 Park Ave. for $9.25 million.

From the Real Estalker:
--Graham Nash has listed his Encino, California home for $1.6 million.
-- Kevin Nealon has picked up a new home in the Pacific Palisades for $3.45 million.
--Leeza Gibbons has picked up a home in Beverly Hills for $6.6 million.

From US Weekly:
--Scarlett Johansson and Ryan Reynolds have recently purchased a two-bedroom, three-bath house in the L.A. area. The home was recently listed around $2.8 million.

From the LA Times Hot Properties:
--Rapper and actress Eve has dropped the price on her Hollywood Hills home to $2.050 million or it can be leased for $15,000 a month. It was listed at $2.295 million back in February. She bought the home in 2005 for $1.775 million. The listing is here.

--"Hawthorne" producer Preston Fischer and his wife, Marsha Lewis, have listed their Marina Del Rey penthouse at $899,000. The listing is here.
--Scarlett Johansson has sold her walled and gated Spanish villa in the Hollywood Hills for $4 million. She bought her home in the Outpost Estates area of Los Angeles for an even $7 million in 2007, she seems willing to take a deep loss on the home. The home was listed at $4.995 million.

--Singer Donna Summer has purchased a unit in the Carlyle Residences that was listed at $3.8 million.

From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--Diane Keaton has relisted her Beverly Hills home for $10.95 million. The seven-bedroom was listed at $12.95 million last year but it was taken off the market. The listing is here.
--Twitter co-founder Evan Williams has sold his penthouse loft in San Francisco for $1.25 million. It was listed at $1.498 million when we checked it out last year. The couple bought a four-bedroom home plus guest house in San Francisco's Noe Valley last year for $2.4 million.

-Philanthropist Carroll Petrie has listed her Palm Beach estate for $10.6 million. The listing for the estate known as Elephant Walk is here.

From the NY Post:
--Flavio Briatore is selling his One Beacon Court penthouse for $18 million. It was listed at $25 million when it was our estate of the day.

--Actress Jennifer Esposito,has sold her one of her two Greenwich Village apartments for $700,000. She had listed both units for $1.435 million but is holding on to one of them.



From the LA Times Hot Properties:
--A Bel-Air estate built in 1932 and designed by architect Gerard Colcord has sold for $10.5 million. The home, which was once owned by actor Bob Newhart and soap star Deidre Hall was previously listed at $12.95 million.
--Actor Dylan McDermott is moving his production company into a 2,200-square-foot loft at Dogtown Station in Venice.
--Former Los Angeles Police Department Chief William Bratton and his wife, Rikki Klieman, have sold their home in the Los Feliz area of Los Angeles for $1.4 million.
Director-producer Marcos Siega and his wife, Lisa, have listed their Sunset Strip-area home for $1.985 million. The listing is here.
--Actor Robert Conrad and his wife, LaVelda, have sold their equestrian property in Thousand Oaks for $1.955 million.


From the NY Observer:
--Comedy Central president Michele Ganeless has picked up a four-bedroom condo at the Harrison for $4,448,979.
--Weight Watchers International chairman Raymond Debbane paid $5.95 million for a six-room apartment at 515 Park Avenue.

From Newsday's Real LI:
--The Hamptons oceanfront mansion of ad man and restaurateur Jerry Della Femina and his wife, fashion columnist Judy Licht, is on the market for $40 million. The listing for the home is with Susan Breitenbach of The Corcoran Group.
--Real estate developer Andrew Farkas' Southampton compound, Hitwood, is on the market for $9.995 million. The listing is here.

From the Real Estalker:
--The beautiful Paris home of American financier John Gutfreund and his couture-loving wife Susan is on the market. The listing is here.
--Miley Cyrus has bought a home in Toluca Lake, California for $3.4 million.

From the NY Times Big Deal:
--A triplex at the top of 898 Park Avenue is listed for $15 million. The owners are James and Manuela Goren who are looking to sell the four-bedroom apartment and buy a smaller pied-à-terre.
--A modernist home on Shelter Island that belongs to designer and film producer Stuart Parr is listed for $8.95 million.
--Jeanne Moutossamy-Ashe, a photographer and the widow of the tennis player Arthur Ashe, recently sold a three-bedroom duplex on the Upper East Side for $2.125 million.

Talk-show host Leeza Gibbons has had her home on and off the market for the last couple of years. As the LA Times Hot Property column reveals, Gibbons has put her longtime Hollywood Hills compound back on the market at $6.85 million down from a high of $8.75 million several years ago. The 11,137-square-foot Mediterranean is behind gates and up a long, curving private driveway and the landscaped grounds include a pond, pool and separate hot tub. The home was built in 1926 and was owned in the 1940s by actress Joan Crawford.

The main house has seven bedrooms and eight bathrooms over three stories and includes themed bedrooms for the children. Other amenities include a library, office, sauna, gym and a wine cellar. Gibbons remodeled the home and added a large separate guest house which has an art studio. It seems like you could run a whole empire out of this home and hardly ever need to leave.

From the LA Times Hot Properties:
Four-time Olympic gold medal winning swimmer Lenny Krayzelburg has put his bright white modern Sunset Strip-area home, shown above, on the market for $5.675 million. The virtual tour is here.
--Talk-show host Leeza Gibbons and her estranged husband, actor and architect Stephen Meadows, have listed their house in the Hollywood Hills at $7,395,000. We first saw this home back in 2006 when it was listed for just under $8 million. The eight-bedroom Mediterranean was built in 1926 and was once owned by Joan Crawford. The listing is here.
--Director Wolfgang Petersen has listed his Santa Monica home for sale for $3.95 million. It is our estate of the day later today.
--Milwaukee Brewers catcher Jason Kendall has listed a house he owns in Manhattan Beach at $7.3 million. The listing is here.
-- Rachel Ashwell, who created the Shabby Chic style, has listed her Brentwood home for sale at $4,395,000. Check out the Shabby Chic style at the listing here.

From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:
--The unnamed buyer of PH2001 is suing the Plaza residential limited partnership, developer El-Ad, the marketing arm of Stribling & Associates and others for breach of contract. That means that two of the six penthouses originally offered at the Plaza are in litigation. Right now about 25 Plaza residences are for sale.
--Freddie Mac CFO Anthony Piszel has put his Easton, Maryland home on the market for $4.975 million. It was our estate of the day on Friday.
--Nightclub boss JE Englebert says he and other residents in the new Gramercy Starck building on East 23rd Street aren't thrilled that the tenant in the retail space of the pricey building is McDonald's. He plans to sue.
--NASCAR Chairman Brian France has flipped his 15 Central Park West condo for an $8 million profit. He bought unit 34A a year ago for $10.793 million and has sold for $18.8 million.

From the Real Estalker:
--The Real Estalker Mama has heard a rumor that Google co-founder Sergey Brin and his wife Ann spent $8.5 million for a duplex in Manhattan's West Village.
--Lingerie model and Surreal Life star Caprice Bourret has put her home in London's Notting Hill neighborhood on the market. It was our estate of the day on Saturday.
--The Goldwyn mansion has just been listed. For $24 million you get nearly 11,000 square feet of Hollywood history. The Georgian style mansion on Laurel Lane was built in 1934 and entertained many of Hollywood's greats. The listing is here.
--Former Lehman's boss Joseph Gregory has put his Hamptons hideaway on the market for $32.5 million. I'll be checking it out as an estate of the day on Monday.
--"Girls Gone Wild" founder Joe Francis has been seen checking out La Villa Serena as a potential new playground for himself and his bevy of babes.
--Tina Sinatra has listed her home in the Beverly Hills post office area for $2.45 million. The listing is here.

From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--Actress Marsh Mason has put her New Mexico herb farm back on the market for $7.95 million which is about 30% below the original listing from last year. The listing is here.
--The Plaza Hotel's "Astor" suite has been listed for $55 million.
--Richard Holbrooke, who served as ambassador to the United Nations sold his Connecticut house for $1.125 million which is 25% less than the original listing.

From Newsday's Real LI:
--Jets coach Eric Mangini has sold his Garden City home for $2.225 million, taking a $75,000 loss on the property, he purchased the home for $2.3 million in 2006. Mangini and wife, Julie, purchased a six-bedroom Colonial in Morris County for $4 million.

From the NY Observer's Manhattan Transfers:
--Warner Music Group chairman-CEO Edgar Bronfman Jr. and his wife Clarissa have paid $28.5 million for the "Muppet mansion" an East 69th Street mansion was bought by Jim Henson in 1977 and turned into Muppets headquarters. It was on the market for $32 million, only three years after the current owners bought it from Jim Henson's estate for $12.4 million.
--Hedge fund manager Ray Iwanowski, just bought a 4,184-square-foot apartment at 823 Park Avenue for $13,567,500.
-- Some of the biggest multimillion-dollar real estate purchases in New York were made by executives at Lehman Brothers: In January 2007, the firm's chief executive, Dick Fuld, and his wife paid $21 million for a Park Avenue co-op, and a bunch of Lehman people bought in at 15 Central Park West: the co-head of Lehman Brothers Real Estate Partners, Raymond Mikulich, paid $17.9 million; Lehman CFO Erin Callan paid $6.48 million; the head of Lehman's European fixed-income sales, David Bizer, paid $5.3 million; and managing director Arthur Estey bought one of the building's biggest non-penthouse units for $16.9 million. Lehman's global head of investment management, George Herbert Walker IV, one of the president's cousins, paid $13.95 million for a townhouse at 6 East 10th Street in Greenwich Village.
-- Houston Rockets owner Leslie Alexander is picking up a place at Superior Ink, Robert A. M. Stern's new brick-and-stone, townhouse-and-apartment development on West 12th Street for around $25 million.
--Philadelphia Flyers and 76ers owner Ed Snider just sold his 36th-floor apartment at 15 Central Park West for $12.4 million, three weeks after he bought it for only $7.34 million.
--Zinc magnate Bill Flaherty and his wife, Tina Santi Flaherty, put the 10-room apartment on the market for $43 million. The listing is here(no good pics yet).

From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--Talk-show host Leeza Gibbons and her husband, Stephen Meadows, are asking just under $8 million for their eight-bedroom Los Angeles home.
--The Connecticut home of the late Geraldine Stutz, the former president of New York's Henri Bendel department store, has sold for around$2.6 million. The 1740s Colonial-style house was originally on the market with an asking price of $5.5 million.
--Tobias Meyer, the head of the contemporary-art department for the auction house Sotheby's, and his partner, Mark Fletcher, have bought a 54-acre Connecticut property for $1.3 million.

From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:
-- A new apartment is going on the market for $42 million. Donald Trump has received additional permits to expand a duplex penthouse condo, which had previously been listed at $30 million, at the Trump Park Avenue building.
--Manhattan couple Harlan Peltz and his wife Debra have purchased an eight-room apartment at 33 E. 70th St. that had a last asking price of $4.87 million.
--New York magazine co-creator Milton Glaser has a new $2.875 million apartment in Chelsea.

From the NY Observer's Manhattan Transfers:
--Real estate journalist Michael Gross has sold his Greenwich Village apartment to hip-hop D.J. Mark Ronson for $1.8 million.
--Spamalot producer Arielle Tepper has sold her 11th-floor apartment at 563 Park Avenue for $3.45 million.
--Damon Giglio who founded the immense real-estate Web site For Sale By Owner has purchased a $2 million apartment in the Trump World Tower. He also has a bayside plot in Southampton which he will build on as soon as he sells his old house, which is on sale at For Sale By Owner and is also our estate of the day.