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Sunday Real Estate Round-Up: 01/30/11

Filed under: Estates

From the NY Observer:
--Upper East Side restaurant icon Elaine Kaufman's penthouse has hit the market for $2.995 million. The listing for the two-bedroom co-op, shown above, is with her friend Kathy Sloane of Brown Harris Stevens.

From the NY Post:
--Alex Rodriguez is still real estate shopping. He was recently spotted checking out a $37,000-per-month townhouse rental at 9 E. 62nd St. The three-bedroom, 3,846-square-foot limestone mansion has 18-foot ceilings, an elevator, a solarium and a cedar-lined cigar room. The listing with Frances Katzen of Prudential Douglas Elliman is here.
--Belgian entrepreneur Rob Heyvaert is the buyer of the 54 Bond St., penthouse that was last listed for $14.45 million, down from its $16.5 million price in 2009. --Designer Steven Stolman is back in New York as design director of Jack Rogers, the iconic shoe company that was a favorite of Jackie Kennedy. He is renting a 800-square-foot studio at 215 E. 68th St.
--Author/journalist Carl Bernstein was spotted checking out two penthouse rentals at 55 Thompson in SoHo. --Courtney Love is back on the prowl for a townhouse rental and was seen at 24 Thompson St., the apartment owned by Miami Heat center Zydrunas Ilgauskas and his wife, Jennifer. The $37,050-per-month townhouse is listed by Spire Group.
--Mystery writer Harlan Coben is in contract to buy a 1,600-square-foot, two-bedroom, two-bathroom co-op, listed for $2.69 million, at the Dakota building.

From the Real Deal:
--The price on writer Truman Capote's Brooklyn Heights has been dropped from $18 million to $15.9 million.

Gallery: Truman Capote's Brooklyn Heights Home

--A man once nicknamed the "Psychic Hotline King" has put his Time Warner penthouse back on the market. The 25 Columbus Circle penthouse belonging to Steven Feder, onetime head of the now-defunct pay-per-call service Psychic Readers Network (made famous by Jamaican-accented fortune teller "Miss Cleo"), hit the market for $38.5 million. The listing is here.

Move Trends rounds up the homes of the Academy Award nominees in a celebrity real estate bonanza

Tags: celebrity real estate, jeff lewis, john mayer, mischa barton, shannan click, winona ryder

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Filed under: Estates, Celebrity Shopping

From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--Arthur Blank, co-founder of Home Depot and owner of the NFL's Atlanta Falcons, has cut the price on his Atlanta home to $6.9 million. It was listed at $8.9 million when we checked it out as an estate of the day last year.

Gallery: Arthur Blank In Atlanta

--Christopher Nassetta, president and chief executive of Hilton Worldwide, has sold his Los Angeles home for $18 million, which is about 35% less than his $27.5 million purchase price in 2007.
--The Manhattan apartment of Sheila Lukins, a best-selling author of the "Silver Palate" cookbooks who died last August, has gone into contract for an undisclosed price. The co-op in the Beresford was most recently listed at $3.15 million.

From the NY Post:
--Fashion designer Elie Tahari and his wife are looking to unload more than $70 million worth of property. Properties include a penthouse at 860 Fifth Ave. worth around $10 million, the 51st floor of 1 Central Park West, which is estimated to be worth at least $18 million, a house in Amagansett for $6.8 million, a loft on Prince Street for around $22 million and an oceanfront home in Sagaponack.
--Screenwriter Paul Schrader has closed on a $1.9 million condo at 350 W. 23rd St.
--Brown Harris Stevens' brokers Wendy Maitland and Reid Price have sold their $19.5 million listing at 26 W. 76th St.
--Billionaire and new daddy Henry Silverman has spent $900,000 on a Hamptons summer rental and also bought 381 Hedges Lane in Sagaponack for $14 million and is looking to buy in New York City for something in the $28 million range.

From Forbes:
What does it take take to sell a $50 million house? Forbes reports on the selling of the Duke-Semans mansion and the Frick Manor.

From the LA Times Hot Properties:
--Actor French Stewart and his wife, actress and interior designer Katherine LaNasa, have sold their Hollywood Hills-area home for $3.637 million. The home was originally listed for $4.195 million.
--Producer David Lipman has sold his Hollywood Hills home for $1.9 million, according to the Multiple Listing Service, it was first listed at $2.195 million.
--Former Los Angeles Clippers basketball player Lamond Murray has sold his Manhattan Beach house for $2.525 million.
--Deborah Pratt, who wrote and appeared in the television show "Quantum Leap" has sold her Holmby Hills-area home for $2.9 million.
-- Ashley Olsen has sold her Hancock Park home for $1.399 million, the price it was listed at just last month.

Gallery: Ashley Olsen in Hancock Park

From Berg Properties Big Time Listings:
--Screenwriter, director and actor Mike Binder has listed his five-bedroom mansion in Pacific Palisades for $7.595 million.

From the Real Estalker:
--Jeana Keough of the Real Housewives of Orange County has saved her home from foreclosure.
--Mischa Barton has listed her Beverly Hills post office home for $8.395 million.

Tags: arthur blank, ashley olsen, celebrity real estate, elie tahari, french stewart, lamond murray, mischa barton, paul schraider, sheila lukins

Mischa Barton Designs Pricey Headbands

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Filed under: Apparel, Celebrity Design

Would you pay between $50 and $200 for a headband? Mischa Barton is betting (hoping?) you will! The actress has teamed up with handbag and jewelry designer Stacey Lapidus to launch a collection of 10 headbands in varying styles. Now, here at Luxist we love the expensive, exquisite accessory. But I feel compelled to question whether a headband -- at least those in this collection -- could possibly be worth this high of an asking price. You decide. See the gallery for a few styles.

Gallery: Mischa Barton Designs Pricey Headbands

Tags: accessories, celebrity designers, CelebrityDesigners, hair, headbands, Mischa Barton, MischaBarton

SpoonFed Art

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Filed under: Jewelry

SpoonFed Art is a business founded by designer Karin Collins. Her technique is lovely, but what is really interesting is the material she uses to make her pendants: spoons. Each pendant begins as a spoon before being handmade into a unique piece of jewelry. The colors are rich and bold, ranging from vibrant pop-art scenes to more subdued and elegant designs. New pieces are added to the collection all the time, but because each piece is original, it is best not to wait when you see one you like. The pendants are available online, at the Los Angeles CAFA Museum Shop and will be featured in Mischa Barton's upcoming ad campaign for Keds, as well as in a new Vera Wang campaign. Price: $85.

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Tags: art, flatware, handmade, jewelry, Mischa Barton, necklace, pendant, spoon, spoonfed art, unique

Mischa Barton for BeBe

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Filed under: Apparel

Julia Roberts and Lindsay Lohan may be having some difficulty in getting picked up by designers for fashion campaigns, other actresses aren't facing the same dilema. She will be the face of BeBe in their new ads. Though Barton's image isn't squeky clean from her work on the OC, the ads are still on the edgy side, showing the young actress dominating some rather scantily clad men - while wearing BeBe designs, of course.

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Tags: actress, bebe, designer, fashion, lindsay lohan, mischa barton, model, the oc