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From the LA Times Hot Properties:
--Pickfair, , shown above, the home of Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford, is one of the most famous estates in Los Angeles. The original home was designed by California architect Wallace Neff in 1919 and visitors to the home ranged from George Bernard Shaw, Albert Einstein, H.G. Wells, Amelia Earhart, F. Scott Fitzgerald to Joan Crawford and Noel Coward. Pickford lived in the mansion until her death in 1979. It was later bought by Los Angeles Lakers owner Jerry Buss and then owned by actress Pia Zadora and her husband, Meshulam Riklis who built a new, larger mansion. They sold in 2005 (it was for sale for $27.5 million in 2004) and now the 17-bedroom home is up for sale for $60 million. The listing is here.
--Actress Jane SIbbett and her husband Karl Fink have sold their Topanga horse property, Trust Ranch, for $4.25 million. It was originally listed at $7 million about a year ago and was at $5.2 million when it was our estate of the day back in May.
--George Hamilton recently bought along the Wilshire Corridor wrote into the purchase offer that the seller, who runs a popular bakery, had to keep him in cookies for a year.
--Kevin Spacey has bought a new loft in the e Biscuit Co. Lofts for $1.2 million. The loft is for Trigger Street Productions, his production company, to create low-budget feature films and independent products.
--Doctor/Author Vladimir Lange's and his wife, Marilyn, have listed their five-bedroom, four-bathroom home in the Sunset Strip area for $6.2 million.The property website is here.
--Sports marketing guru Sonny Vaccaro has listed his 6,200-square-foot home in a gated Calabasas community for $2.399 million. The listing is here.
--Cinematographer Newton T. "Tom" Sigel has put his Malibu home on the market for $7.995 million. It's our estate of the day later today.

From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:
--Jimmy Choo co-founder Tamara Mellon has just paid $20 million for Edgar Bronfman Jr.'s condo in the Carhart mansion on East 95th Street.
--Kiefer Sutherland has picked up a circa-1830s Greek Revival townhouse in the West Village for $8.2 million.
--More and more Plaza condos are showing up back on the market including a two-bedroom unit on the sixth floor, a 15th floor two-bedroom for $12.5 million and a one-bedroom on the 16th floor for $3.35 million.
--The listing for Tommy Hilfiger's $50 million apartment at the Plaza is up. The listing is here.

From the Real Estalker:
--Film producer Robert Chartoff and his wife Vanessa have put their Cliff May-designed home in Malibu on the market for $8.75 million. The listing is here.
--Richie Sambora has picked up a three-bedroom apartment at Two Liberty Place in Philadelphia.
--Film producer Andrew Lazar has put his five-bedroom Tuscan-style home in Los Angeles on the market for $6.95 million. The listing is here.
--Brothers and former child actors Rider and Shiloh Strong have put their home on Wonderland Ave in Los Angeles on the market for $1.26 million. The listing is here.


From the NY Observer's Manhattan Transfers:
--Zinc magnate Bill Flaherty and his wife Tina are in the midst of a messy divorce which may lead to the sale of their penthouse at 1040 Fifth Avenue which could get over $30 million.
--A new record could be set in Tribeca with the sale of the penthouse at 145 Hudson Street which has has gone to contract. It was listed at $34.5 million, the current record stands at $33.15 million.
--Director Joel Schumacher has picked up a $1.36 million apartment at 25 Fifth Avenue.
--The Observer checked out 11 Spring Street, a 19th century building being renovated by Caroline Cummings, the 27-year-old who bought 11 Spring from Rupert Murdoch's elder son, Lachlan, exactly two years ago for $12 million. The 4,600-square-foot penthouse has been on the market at $17.95 million for over a year, just like the $15.15 million triplex downstairs and a $6.7 million flat in between.
--Russian financier Andrei Vavilov is suing the Plaza's developers to get back a $10.7 million deposit plus interest and damages back on a two-unit penthouse that he was set to purchase for $53.5 million. He says he was a victim of bait and switch.

From Berg Properties Celebrity Big Time Listings:
--Brad Pitt aid $1,287,500 in April to purchase a 1,534-square-foot house in Los Feliz that's adjacent to his existing compound.
--Public records show that tennis star Pete Sampras got $16.98 million for the Beverly Hills mansion he had early this year for $25 million.
--Mary Steenburgen and her 25-year-old son Charlie McDowell (Malcolm McDowell is his father) have paid $550,000 for an 886-square-foot condominium unit in West Hollywood.

From Newsday's Real LI:
--Ross Klein, who was recently president of the luxury brands group of Starwood Hotels and is now global head of luxury and lifestyle brands for Hilton Hotels is selling his two-bedroom home in Bellport, NY. The home is a 1954 Weyerhaeuser kit house, which Klein restored and decorated with mid-century modern pieces and is listed at $799,000. The listing is here.
The estate of Masterpiece Theatre's Alistair Cooke has put his home in Cutchogue, New York on the market for $5.2 million. The listing for the home is here.


From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--The Wall Street Journal takes a look at Willem Dafoe's rubber house in upstate New York. It is still listed for $850,000 and was our estate of the day back in June.
--The 3,000-acre Santa Fe estate of the late Richard L. Fisher, a New York real-estate developer and philanthropist, has sold for slightly more than its $15.5 million asking price. We looked at this one way back in 2005 when it was listed at $14.5 million.
--Turns out the owner of Cher's former Key Biscayne property is entrepreneur and film producer Sean Wolfington and his wife, Ana, for $8.8 million in May 2006. They listed the six-bedroom, 7,300-square-foot house a month later but dropped the price to $11.9 million in October 2006 and it is now at $12.9 million which is the price it was at when we covered it as an estate of the day last month.

From The New Zealand Herald:
--RIchmond Hall,shown above, a Georgian-style manor in New Zealand that was used in the Peter Jackson movie, "The Frighteners" is for sale. The listing is here.

From The Sun:
Billionaire Lakshmi Mittal may be set to purchase a mansion in Kensington Palace Gardens, West London for £117 million He has denied being the buyer but has been looking to buy a home for his son and already lives in the area, having paid £67million for a 12-bedroom home four years ago.


From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:
--Ashley and Mary-Kate Olsen are now living in a brownstone in the West Village. They've rented a 10-room triplex apartment in the building with five bedrooms, three bathrooms and a terrace for $12,000 a month rent. They have dropped the price on their penthouse at Morton Square from $11.9 million to $10.495 million. The listing is here.
--Chef Bobby Flay bought a $1.4 million apartment 220 Riverside Drive for his father.
--Interior designer Nate Berkus has been seen looking at the three-bedroom, two-bathroom corner loft at 43 Clarkson in the West Village. The apartment is listed at $4.89 million. The listing is here. The listing agent Darren Sukenik has also reportedly shown a one-bedroom, three-floor townhouse to singer/songwriter Ryan Adams . That property listed at $2.495 million.
One half of Dolce & Gabbana, Domenico Dolce has bought a duplex apartment at 200 11th Ave. for more than its $17.5 million asking price.

From the NY Observer's Manhattan Transfers:
--Joy Behar paid $2,555,000 for a co-op in the building she already lives in and hasn't sold her old apartment.
--Once the home of Danceteria, 30 West 21st Street will now be luxury condos. Beck Street Capital is turning the building into 11 floor-through apartments, about 4,000 square feet apiece, that will go on the market next month for $5,895,000 to $7,950,000. There will also be a duplex penthouse (with six terraces and a rooftop pool) that costs $7,795,000, and a bigger townhouse apartment downstairs priced at $9.25 million.
--Russian fashion designer Valentin Yudashkin bought the duplex penthouse at the Curzon House on East 62nd Street for $5.7 million.
--Model Lily Donaldson picked up a home in the East Village for $2.2 million on Tompkins Square Park around East Eighth Street.
--Last summer, Rosie O'Donnell signed a $1.97 million contract for a two-bedroom pied-a-terre at the new steel-and-tinted glass condo called Platinum, on West 46th Street and now she has also bought the condominium's model apartment.

From Berg Properties Big Time Listings:
--A home in the Hollywood Hills once owned by jazz violinist Jean-Luc Ponty which was listed for $2 million, has sold.
--Actress Jaime Pressly has sold her house in Tarzana area for $1.27 million after it had been on the market for over a year.
--via the Observer, Howard Stern's newswoman Robin Quivers has paid $2.425 million for a condominium in 200 West End Avenue in New York City.

From the LA Times Hot Property:
--Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen have sold their oceanfront house in Malibu which had been listed at $16.75 million.
--Former KTLA Morning News co-anchor Giselle Fernandez-Farrand and her husband, John Farrand, have listed their 1924 Hancock Park house for $6.3 million. The listing is here.
--Tattoo artist Kat VonD as just leased a guesthouse above the Sunset Strip for $2,000 a month.
----A Palm Springs house that was once Cary Grant's getaway is on the market for $4,995,000. The listing is here.

From the Real Estalker:
--"Nip/Tuck" creator Ryan Murphy has put his gorgeous three-bedroom Midcentury Modern home in the Hollywood Hills on the market. It's our estate of the day later today.
--via the NYT's Big Deal, the swanky Wanamaker Munn House, a brick and limestone mansion at 17 East 90th Street near Fifth Avenue that was the home of Aimee de Heeren, an international socialite, has been bought by the Spence School, a private school for young women. The home was originally listed at $33 million but it sold in the high $20 millions.
--Jeff Lewis and Ryan Brown of Bravo's Flipping Out program are set to flip another one. They bought this home in Los Feliz for $1.710 million in 2007 and have now listed the three bedroom home for $2.995 million. The listing is here.
--Los Angeles restaurateur Greg Finefrock has put his Malibu property on the market for $8.999 million. The virtual tour of this three-bedroom home on a bluff in the Point Dume area is here.
--Actress Julie Kay Araskog has listed her Beverly Hills Post Office area house for $5.15 million. The property website is here.

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From the Real Estalker:
--Actors David Elliot and Nanci Chambers have put their Brentwood home on the market for $3.25 million. Have a browse at the virtual tour here.
--Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen have put their five-bedroom house in Malibu on the market for $18.5 million (shown above). Peep the restrained splendor at the listing here.
-- The Real Estalker Mama takes on the case of Kevin Federline and finds him renting in Tarzana. He was previously in five-bedroom home that rented for $7,000 a month. He has moved on to a seven-bedroom home that is on the market for $3.2 million.
--And then she moves on to the task of chronicling the whereabouts of Michael Jackson. Apparently he has been in Las Vegas in a 16,000 square foot home he was leasing, then he was rumored to be looking for a vacation home in Maryland, and then the Las Vegas Herald said that he moved into a Las Vegas property that belongs to Prince Jefri Bolkiah of Brunei and may be worth $60 million.
--Nicky Hilton has bought a Hollywood Hills home that was listed for $2.995 million.

From Berg Properties Celebrity Big Time Listings:
--Chicago Cubs pitcher Kerry Wood has his house in Chicago for $1.525 million; Chicago Bears general manager Jerry Angelo has sold a Chicago condo for $762,500; Chicago Blackhawks right wing Martin Havlat has paid $835,000 for a condo in downtown Chicago and Chicago Blackhawks defenseman Duncan Keith has paid $655,000 for a condo on the north side of Chicago.
--Actress Cassandra Peterson, best known as horror movie host "Elvira," has paid $1.698 million to purchase a four-bedroom house in Silverlake. The virtual tour for this bright and beautiful home is here.
--Young actor Drake Bell has bought a 1929 Mediterranean home in Los Feliz which had been listed for $2,149,000. The listing is here. Lucky kid.
--Goran Visnjic has listed his Sherman Oaks home for $1.7 million. The listing is here.
--Actor/writer/director John Stockwell has sold his five-bedroom house in Los Angeles' Hancock Park for $3.55 million.
--Soap opera actress Michelle Stafford has paid $2.525 million for a home in Los Feliz.


From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--Fashion photographer Mario Testino has signed a contract on a New York City condominium for close to $6.3 million (we first heard wind of this deal last September). His apartment is in 40 Bond, a downtown-Manhattan project being developed by Ian Schrager that will also be home to Ricky Martin.
--Billionaire fund manager Charles Johnson has bought a home on a small island just off Palm Beach for about $15 million.
--The Palm Beach home of the late sportscaster Curt Gowdy has sold for $19.5 million. We covered it a couple of years ago when it was listed at $25 million.
--Martha Stewart has sold her Westport, Connecticut estate for $6.7 million which is 26% below the asking price.
--Hockey star Eric Lindros has put his penthouse in New York City's West Village on the market for $6 million. The listing is here.

From the NY Times Big Deal:
--The first buyer to officially close on an apartment at the Plaza is Giuseppe De'Longhi, the chairman of De'Longhi, the Italian manufacturer of fancy appliances. He paid $11.2 million in early June for a three-bedroom apartment on the 15th floor with sweeping park views.
--Moby has put his four-story tower apartment atop the El Dorado on the market for $7.5 million. It's our estate of the day later today.
--James Q. Whitman, the Ford Foundation professor of comparative and foreign law at Yale Law School has picked up the four-bedroom home owned by the actor Treat Williams for $5.7 million, 20 percent above the asking price.
--The highest sale in recent weeks was $29 million, paid by Daniel L. Nir, a hedge fund manager at Gracie Capital, and his wife, Jill E. Braufman for a 7,000-square-foot apartment, in one of the legendary Fifth Avenue prewar co-ops, at 4 East 66th Street.
--Guilliame Cuvelier, the creator of the Swedish vodka brand Svedka paid $13.4 million for a seventh- floor apartment at 30 East 71st Street, near Madison Avenue.

From the LA Times Hot Property:
--John Cleese has put Stalloreggi (the King's Stables),his Montecito home on the market for at $28 million. Check out the listing for the 16-acre property here.
--Jamie Kennedy has sold his Sunset Strip house for close to its $1.01-million asking price.
--A Beverly Hills home built in 2004 with five bedrooms and 8 1/2 bathrooms in 13,000 square feet has been sold by one philanthropist and purchased by another for $13.5 million.