Madonna recently bought some more space in her New York City co-op building and now it looks like she's set to divest herself of some real estate. The Sun reports that Madonna is looking to sell Ashcombe, her English country house in Wiltshire. She and Guy Ritchie bought the home in 2001 for £9 million and are now hoping to put it on the market for £12 million. The eight-bedroom home is listed as a Grade II structure by English Heritage. It was originally part of a larger building and was restored in the 1930s and 1940s by the photographer Cecil Beaton. Madonna and Guy are reportedly selling because they do not spend enough time at the estate especially since Madonna has been recording and touring again. We wish them luck, this is certainly not the best time to be selling England's housing slump is starting to rival the problem we have had in the States.

[Thanks, Lana]

If the nude supermodels in Christie's' upcoming auction are a little out of your price range, but you'd still like to try your hand at starting a photo collection, check out Swann Galleries' NYC sale on May 15. While short on supermodels in their birthday suits, the Swann sale does have some high-profile and provocative celebrity pix at considerably lower prices than the Christie's event.

Highlights include Francesco Scavullo's 1984 portrait of Sting, est. $1,800 - $2,200, pictured here; Roy Schatt's 1954 photo of James Dean, est. $1,500 - $2,500; several works by Herb Ritts including a 1986 Madonna portrait, est. $4,000 - $6,000, and a muscle-bound Fred With Tires, 1984, est. $8,000 - $12,000; a 1977 Christopher Makos photo of Andy Warhol, est. $4,000 - $6,000; and Helmut Newton's 1981 full-frontal Sylvia in My Studio, Paris, est. $4,000 - $6,000. Catch a preview below.

Chopard and Madonna worked together once before to create the pavé diamond "Hung Up" necklace she wore on tour for her last album, and now they're in cahoots again. Designed by Chopard co-president Caroline Gruosi-Scheufele, Madonna has two sparkly new pieces of jewelry for her latest album "Hard Candy." The album art features a wrestling theme and on it Madonna wears a gold and diamond knuckle ring that says "M-dolla" in 258 brilliant cut white diamonds with a Chopard floating diamond on the "M," and a Happy Diamonds cross necklace featuring 3 diamonds. The album comes out at the end of this month.

From Berg Properties Celebrity Big Time Listings:
--Madonna's former house in Beverly Hills is listed for $17.495 million. The eight-bedroom mansion, shown here, is a Wallace Neff showplace that Madonna bought in 2000 for a reported $6.5 million from Diane Keaton, who had bought in 1996. Madonna listed the house in 2003 for $10.9 million and then reduced it to $8.9 million. The current owners recently refurbished the home. The listing is here.
--Spice Girl Melanie Brown has paid $3 million for a home in the Hollywood Hills, and has sold her Los Feliz home for an undisclosed price (the home she sold was listed at $1,499,000.
--Joely Fisher has reduced the price on her Encino home, down to $3.999 million. It was our estate of the day back June when it was listed at $4.75 million.
--Charlie Sheen's fiancee Brooke Mueller has sold her four-bedroom house in the Hollywood Hills for $2.317 million.
--The official purchase price on Anne Heche's house sale to Matt Olmstead was $3.66 million.
--A Mediterranean-style mansion in Los Feliz area that was owned by actor Lorenzo Lamas from 1996 until 1999 has sold for $4,150,000.
--A three-bedroom house in Beverly Hills that once was owned by the Monkees' Mike Nesmith has been reduced from $5,450,000 to $4,995,000. The property website is here.
--Jack Black has sold a 1,959-square-foot home in the Hollywood Hills for $1,210,000
--Former baseball star Hideo Nomo has sold his condo on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles for $1,200,000.
--A Bel-Air home once owned by Farrah Fawcett is listed for $4,195,000. The listing is here.
--The price for Ursa Major, the architectural beauty once owned by Wilt Chamberlain has been reduced from $11.5 million to $8,950,000. It was our estate of the day last December.
--Model Rachel Hunter and her hockey-player boyfriend Jarret Stoll have paid $3,645,000 for a house in Hermosa Beach.

From the Real Estalker:
--The Shabby Chic home of interior decorator Rachel Ashwell is for rent for in Malibu for $20,000 a month. The listing is here.
--It looks like designer Vera Wang's $35 million Park Avenue apartment has already gone to contract.
--Nic Cage has listed his Bel-Air manor for $35 million.
--Alex Band, of the band The Calling, has put his home in the Outpost Estates are of Los Angeles on the market for $2.995 million. The property website for the very charming for bedroom is here.
-Brad Garrett has dropped the price on his Hidden Hills home to $8,790,000.
--Damien Wayans, actor, director and nephew of Damon Wayans, has put his Los Angeles home on the market for $2.050 million. The listing is here.
--Linda Evans has listed her Beverly Hills home for rent for $14,500. The listing is here.

From the LA Times Hot Property:
--As we previously learned, Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne sold their Beverly Hills home to Christina Aguilera and hubby and have moved to Hidden Hills.
--Actress Denise Richards is also in Hidden Hills in a new home which had been listed for about $4.6 million.
--More Hidden Hills news, Melissa Etheridge already lived in the community but recently bought a larger house for $5.1 million.
--And one more Hidden Hills story, Graeme Revell, the award-winning film-music composer, just sold his home there for about $8 million.

From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:
--Pink Floyd musician Roger Waters has bought a five-story townhouse in New York for $14.995 million from Coach leather goods president Reed Krakoff.
--News anchor Campbell Brown and her political strategist husband Dan Senor are close to closing on a three-bedroom home in lower North Haven.
--Grey's Anatomy actress Chandra Wilson is buying a three-bedroom residence in Fifth on the Park, the 30-story condo complex going up in Harlem.
--Ex NFL player Tiki Barber is spending about $6 million to connect four adjacent condos at the Miraval complex at 515 East 72nd St.

Also from the NY Post:
--Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban have listed their Nashville home for $2.5 million. It is our estate of the day later today.



From the NY Observer's Manhattan Transfers:
--New York Rangers hockey player Scott Gomez has paid $3.2 million for a duplex penthouse at the Chelsea Mercantile on Seventh Avenue.
--Architect Thom Mayne has paid $2.675 million for a two-bedroom loft at 85 Mercer Street.
--Nobel-prize-winning novelist Orhan Pamuk has paid $1.8 million for an apartment at 355 Riverside Drive.

From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--Atlanta Hawks rookies Al Horford and Acie Law have both bought homes listed at about $1 million in gated communities on opposite sides of Atlanta. Horford bought a four-story Georgian-style townhouse in norther Atlanta. Law picked up a European-style single-family house in the southern part of the city.
--Actress Arlene Dahl's husband has listed their Sparkill, New York home for $8.5 million. The home was our estate of the day back in January.
--Professional golfer Justin Leonard has a tentative deal to sell his Dallas suburban home for close to his $6.8 million asking price.

Madonna wants her new 13-month old adopted son, David Banda, to grow up with all the comforts his little heart could desire. To this end, she spent about $28,000 (£15,000) on decorations for his nursery and toys for him to play with. Her purchases include a child-sized electric car, a $9,300 (£5,000) rocking horse and a "designer wardrobe." For his room, she installed "giant murals of tigers and lions," a surround-sound stereo system for playing classical music and a set of cotton and cashmere sheets for his bed.

Apparently, some of the residents of David's village in Malawi were shocked to hear of the amount she spent and noted that such an amount "could have paid for 10,000 chickens and 500 goats, or 10 mud huts."

Vogue UK reports that Chopard has designed Madonna her very own necklace, a diamond necklace that says "Hung Up," the title of her single from her Confessions On A Dancefloor album. The necklace is done in white gold with 1.95 cts of white diamonds. Like many of Chopard's pieces the necklace features a mobile diamond. The necklace has a gold chain of eight brilliants. It looks like a bedazzled version of Carrie's infamous name necklace from Sex and the City.

Lindsay Lohan may not be the latest Louis Vuitton girl but could she be the next face of Versace? Fashion Week Daily reports that Lohan has said that she is in talks to be the face of Versace for the fall season. According to Versace, nothing has been made official yet. It would be a sharp turn for Versace, their recent ad campaigns have featured the older and fabulous including Madonna, Demi Moore and Halle Berry and Lohan's fans wouldn't seem to be the standard Versace demographic.

Ah, to be Madonna. Need more room for your many minions, just buy the house next door. According to The Sun, Madonna has paid around $1.6 million on a second London home to accommodate her large staff. She already owns other property next to her house as well as multiple homes in the U.S. She now has a significant slice of the posh Mayfair area giving her plenty of room to play lady of the manor.

If you are more interested in what is on the bottle than what is in the bottle then Celebrity Cellars is for you. They specialize in collectible “star tribute” bottles that feature unique artwork. They have done a whole series of Rolling Stones related artwork and recently announced their new Madonna wines that show pictures from her latest album. The bottles are sold in four varieties from an “UnWine” (non-alcoholic) for $25 to a Cabernet Sauvignon for $40. The Madonnalicious bottles will be shipped in January.

[via Perez Hilton]