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From the LA Times Hot Property:
--Al Jean, an executive producer of "The Simpsons" has listed his home in Beverly Hills for $2.95 million. The four-bedroom house was built in 1933 and once belonged to actress Carroll Baker. It's even listed by a celebrity turned real estate agent, actress Leah Lail of the Brill Group. The listing is here.
--The Beverly Hills site of a home designed by John Woolf for Lauritz Melchior, a renowned Wagnerian tenor, has been sold for $9 million. The Woolf house was also home to actress Jane Wyman and Ronald Reagan, and novelist Judith Krantz. A newer home was built on the site in 1988.
--A hilltop site once owned by Merv Griffin may be snapped up by a group of developers who will pay more than $100 million for the property and then resell it in smaller parcels.

From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:
--A fashion change-up, Pierre Berge, the longtime partner of Yves Saint-Laurent, has sold his Fifth Avenue apartment to Valentino's lifetime partner, Giancarlo Giametti, for a $7.5 million. it was our estate of the day in December last year, check out pictures here.
--Heather Mills rented Nora Ephron and Nick Pileggi's six-bedroom home in Georgica Pond area of East Hampton in August for $200,000.
--Greg Norman's estranged wife, Laura, has closed on a recently built two-story home on Moses Lane in Southampton with a $4.35 million asking price.
--Mark Messier, sold his Upper West Side apartment for just more than $3 million last year and has just sold a one-bedroom apartment at the venerable Osborne building at 205 W. 57th St. for $580,000.

Also from Braden Keil of the NY Post:
--Tony Randall's co-op home has found a buyer. The home, which was listed for $17.5 million was bought by the late Mr. Randall in the '80s for less than $900,000.

From Berg Properties Big Time Listings:
--Whitney Houston has sold her five-bedroom, 8,022-square-foot house in Alpharetta, Ga. for $1,190,000, just months after it was headed for foreclosure.
CNN's Miles O'Brien sold a 1,975-square-foot unit at 222 Riverside Drive in New York, for $3.7 million (which was $200,000 above the asking price). He bought the unit in 2005 for $3,200,000 from actor Chris Meloni.
--The official sale price for Jason Priestley's Hollywood Hills home was $1.902 million.
--Actor Gary Anthony Williams of "Boston Legal" has sold his house in North Hollywood for $578,000 and purchased a home in Sherman Oaks for $1.4 million.
--TV director James Burrows has sold his Georgian-style mansion in Los Angeles' Bel-Air area for $10,500,000.
--Actress Anne Heche's Tudor-style house in Hancock Park area appears to have gone to contract after having been listed for $3,795,000.
--Matt LeBlanc has sold his six-bedroom mansion in Hidden Hills. for an undisclosed price after it had been on the market for $10,295,000.
--Actress Linda Fiorentino has sold her one-bedroom apartment on Manhattan's Upper West side for her $1,225,000 asking price.


From the NY Observer's Manhattan Transfers:
--The father of the governor of New York, Bernard Spitzer donated 11 apartments to the American Museum of Natural History in 2004 and 2005, many of the apartments have been flipped and have yielded $6,255,000 for the natural historians.
--New York mayor Michael Bloomberg has paid around $40 million for 1014 Madison Avenue, next to a home he bought last year for $45 million for his foundation. The two buildings can be combines as long as the facades remain the same.
--CNN talking head Nancy Grace has bought a third apartment on a high floor of The Revere condo on East 54th Street for $925,000. She needs the room, she recently married and is expecting twins.
--Actress and Hyatt heiress Liesel Pritzker, who sued her father and other powerful family members over pillaged trust funds in 2002 and won a reported $500 million settlement has spent $6.2 million on a 4,146-square-foot apartment at 455 Central Park West.

From the Real Estalker:
--Is Faye Dunaway renting her two-bedroom Hollywood home on Craigslist?
--Rumors are flying that David Geffen has been quietly shopping his famous 9.4-acre Los Angeles estate for $100 million.
--Usher has listed his home in Alpharetta, Georgia for $1.95 million. We will be looking at this home later as our estate of the day.
--Newly married Tobey Maguire and Jennifer Meyer have bought a stately brick home in Hancock Park for $11 million.
--Billy Baldwin and Chynna Phillips are renting a home in Beverly Hills for $14 million.
--Another person related to "The Simpsons," Dan Castellanata, the voice of Homer Simpson is selling his Santa Monica house. It is listed at $3.295 million. Explore the gorgeousness at the property website here.


From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--It's official, Paris Hilton has bought a nearly 7,500-square-foot Beverly Hills mansion in Mulholland Estates for $5.9 million. According to her uncle and broker, Mauricio Umansky of Hilton & Hyland she plans to convert the fitness room into a shoe closet.
--Former Arizona Diamondback player Matt Williams and his wife are asking $12.7 million for a not-yet-completed eight-bedroom home in the Phoenix area. They decided that the over 15,000 square foot home would be too large. The listing is with Walt Danley and can be found here (it is listed at $12.6 million). The purchase price includes the cost of finishing the home.
--A trust of the family of Los Angeles developer Richard Meruelo paid $18 million for a 1.6-acre oceanfront parcel listed at $24.9 million in Golden Beach, Florida in what is believed to be the biggest sale in the Miami area this year. The property was first listed for $26.6 million just over a year ago.

From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:
--Jewelry designer David Yurman and his wife Sybil are doing the multiple apartments in one building thing, this time paying  $3.125 million for a second-floor apartment in their Greenwich Street building. The new unit has two bedrooms and they already own a triplex loft with four bedrooms and  a 4,000-square-foot roof terrace.
--One of Jackie Kennedy Onassis' childhood summer homes is on the market for $25 million. Lasata is on 6.4 acres on Further Lane in East Hampton. We like it so much it's our estate of the day later on today.
--Gerald Schwartz, the chairman and CEO of Toronto-based Onex Corp., has paid $18.25 million for an oceanfront home on Nantucket. Sandhill is a circa 1860s, eight-bedroom home. You can see a picture here.
--Robert Kraft, owner of the New England Patriots, has bought in at the Plaza.
--A new luxury co-tel will be going up on Fifth Avenue. A 56-story building will be going up at 400 Fifth Ave.
--The former Westchester home Dr. Herman Tarnower, the Scarsdale Diet doctor has been demolished so that a couple of $6 million spec homes can be put up there.
--Naomi Campbell is out cruising for apartments on the Upper East Side, she is looking for a place with separate maid's quarters (it's so much harder to assault them when they are in other rooms).
   
From the NY Observer's Manhattan Transfers:
--We mentioned earlier this week that Contact Music reported the price drop on Britney's New York loft but it was actually reported first here.
 --Hockey player Mark Messier has sold his his 3,300-square-foot apartment for $3.047 million.
--Another celebrity price drop, Bob Guccione's mansion, shown above, once listed at $99,999,999 is selling for a far more reasonable $45 million.
 --Over at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel  the onetime home of Mark Swartz, the former chief financial officer at Tyco, has been sold for $16.75 million and the duplex penthouse, owned by Oracle executive Roger Bamford, was recently sold for just shy of $20 million. The NY Observer reports that the 9,455-square-foot apartment on the 23rd floor is for sale but it looks like it has already been sold.

The LA Times reports that Tim Curry's former home in the Los Feliz hills is for sale for $4.3 million. The listing for the colorful Mediterranean style home is here.

From the LA Times Hot Property:
--Rick Dees and his wife actress Julie McWhirter have put their Toluca Lake home on the market for  just under $6 million. The four-bedroom home was built in the 1930s and was once owned by Bette Davis. The listing (no pics) is here.
--Rick Gomez who is on the TV show "What About Brian" sold his Silver Lake home for slightly more than its $939,000 asking price and bought a Los Feliz home for $1.5 million.
--Maurice Greene, the 2000 Olympic Games 100-meter-dash champion has put his Chatsworth home on the market for $3.1 million. The listing for the home known as the Stream house is here.
--David Permut, producer of "Face/Off" and "Dragnet," has put his condo on the market at close to $1.35 million. The listing for condo is here.