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From the Los Angeles Times:
Actor Tom Bresnahan and his wife, Elizabeth French, have listed a Paul Williams-designed home in the Silver Lake area of Los Angeles for $2.287 million. The listing is here.
--Scott Baio has sold his Encino home for $2.5 million. It first hit the market for $2.895 million back in March.

--Marc Holland, chief executive of Sky Radio, has listed a four-unit beachfront property in Marina del Rey at $3.999 million.
--Rock drummer Keith "Lucky" Lehrer has bought a remodeled Hollywood Hills home for $3.2 million.

From the Real Estalker:
--Football player Kyle Boller (and new bride former Miss California Carrie Prejean) have listed a home in Del Mar, California for $3.499 million. The listing is here.

From Housing Watch:
--Realtor Chad Rogers, one of the stars of Bravo's "Million Dollar Listing," has just purchased his first home, a two-bedroom condo in Beverly Hills for $850,000.

From the NY Post:
--Cher's former Miami home which we covered back in 2008 when it was listed at $14.9 million is now down to $11.5 million. The listing is here.

--The former Miami home of Jennifer Lopez is back on the market for $29 million. Current owner Mark Gainor bought it from Lopez for $13.9 million in 2005 and spent three renovating the seven-bedroom home. The listing is here.
--CBS president and CEO Les Moonves and his wife, Julie Chen, from the "Early Show" and "Big Brother," were spotted checking out a townhouse at the Robert A.M. Stern-designed Superior Ink development. home to Marc Jacobs and Hilary Swank. Chen and Moonves looked at a five-bedroom home listed at $11.5 million.
--A condo that Matt Damon once toured at Extell Development's 535 West End Ave. is back on the market with a lower, $18.9 million price tag.

From the NY Observer:
--Nicholas Coslov, the CEO of Storage Deluxe just bought an apartment at The Olcott for $3.4 million.
--Roger Holstein, a manager at private equity house Vestar, bought a duplex at the Trump Heritage, the northernmost building at Donald Trump's Riverside South complex for $6 million.
--Russell Brand and Katy Perry bought a Tribeca condo at 65 North Moore Street. The couple paid $2.68 million for the top-floor duplex.
--After nearly three years on the market, 252 West 12th Street was sold by the family of Palmer Williams, a former CBS producer who worked with Edward R. Murrow and died in 1996. The buyer, ARDK Holdings, paid $6.8 million.
--Credit Suisse director Jordan Drachman bought a Gothic Revival Style brownstone at 160 West 88th Street for $3.775 million.
--Andrew Lloyd Webber has finally sold his Trump Tower duplex for $16.5 million.
- Leslie Keno, one of the stars of Antiques Roadshow and a specialist in American Furniture and Decorative Arts at Sotheby's, has sold his four-bedroom, four-bathroom condo at Manhattan's one-and-only castle, 455 Central Park West for $5.65 million.
--Brazilian coffee exporter Tristão has sold a three-bedroom condo to Tufi Duek, a women's fashion designer. The Viscaya condo at 110 East 71st Street sold for $2.5 million.
--As previously reported in The Real Deal, Lawrence Gluck flipped 5 West 91st Street to distressed property investor Gaia Real Estate for $16.75 million, $2.75 million more than Gluck's Town House West LLC paid in 2006.
--Matteo Sardi, the public relations head for Ferrari North America just bought a two-bedroom, one-bath condo at 25 Fifth Avenue for $1.575 million.
--Stephen Stephanou, a principal at the Madison Retail Group, has sold his glassy two-bedroom apartment in the Handel-designed 505 Greenwich Street for $1.55 million.
--Six-Feet Under hearthrob Stark Sands has bought a penthouse in Alphabet City for $1.49 million. --Stephanie Phair, the director of Outnet.com, has sold her Greenwich Village home for $985,000.
--A 40th-floor apartment at 151 East 58th Street has swapped for just over $3 million between two business partners. Turkish magnate Burak Oymen and Serzhan Zhumashov, from Kazakhstan, co-own Capital Partners, which has been snatching up luxury hotels around the globe.
--Pfizer exec Davinder Gill has grabbed the fifth-floor spot at 177 Ninth Avenue featuring a 46-bottle wine cooler for $2.75 million.
--Six-Feet Under hearthrob Stark Sands has bought a penthouse in Alphabet City for $1.49 million. --Stephanie Phair, the director of Outnet.com, has sold her Greenwich Village home for $985,000.
--A 40th-floor apartment at 151 East 58th Street has swapped for just over $3 million between two business partners. Turkish magnate Burak Oymen and Serzhan Zhumashov, from Kazakhstan, co-own Capital Partners, which has been snatching up luxury hotels around the globe.
--Pfizer exec Davinder Gill has grabbed the fifth-floor spot at 177 Ninth Avenue featuring a 46-bottle wine cooler for $2.75 million.

Fashion historian Caroline Rennolds Milbank examines the history of warm weather wear in a beautifully illustrated new book called Resort Fashion from Rizzoli. From the first "beach pajamas" designed by Coco Chanel and Lilly Pulitzer and Pucci prints, to sailor stripes and the Kennedys' laid back yachtsman style, to Michael Kors and Tory Burch's beach-inspired designs and of course the evolution of the swimsuit, Milbank crosses continents and generations. The seven chapters break the looks down by category: At Sea, Stripes, Prints, White, Playclothes, Summer Dress and Bathing Suits, with photos from destinations like Palm Beach, Montego Bay and St. Tropez by legends like Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Norman Parkinson, Helmut Newton, and Scavullo.

Summer is the natural season for bright and colorful Lily Pulitzer designs. To celebrate the brand's 50th anniversary, Lilly has created the "A Colorful Cause" Spring/Summer 20009 collection, a special line designed with nine celebrity women--Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Gwyneth Paltrow, Angie Harmon, Marcia Cross, Catherine Bell, Debra Messing, Brooke Shields, Bridget Moynahan and Garcelle Beauvais-Nilon. The line of swimsuits, shifts, pants, skirts and caftans benefits the Epidermolysis Bullosa Medical Research Foundation with 15 percent of the price going to the foundation. Epidermolysis Bullosa is a rare and painful skin disease that results in blisters and wounds on the body. The Grace shift shown at right was designed by Debra Messing and sells for $428.

[via Make Luxury Count]

Only two more months until this Lilly Pulitzer'ed Steinway can find its home in your parlor. Nothing can better express the fact you travel the Nantucket-Palm Beach axis with the greatest of ease. The venerable design house rolled out this Steinway, among other 50th anniversary treats like a Lillified Jeep Wrangler, at a special preview at The Breakers hotel in Palm Beach back in June. In November, the pieces will finally hit market.