Usually children follow in the footsteps of their parents, but in the case of the Hiltons one parent is following in those of her children: Kathy Hilton has her own fragrance. Called "My Secret" it comes in a very pretty jewel-like bottle (a pink heart though? Come on) and has top notes of mandarin, freesia, and peony, middle notes of rose, jasmine, and apricot leaf, and bottom notes of sandalwood, vanilla musk, and sandalwood. Available at Macy's for $52-$68 (FYI this version of the bottle featuring Kathy's signature is a limited edition).

BONUS: Register at KathyHiltonFragrance.com to win one of 20 vintage roller-ball heart 1.0 fl oz bottles of the Eau de Parfum or the Grand Prize of a Mother's Day brunch for you and your daughter with Kathy Hilton and her two daughters.

The site of what was planned to be Nicky Hilton's hotel debut is ready to hit the auction block. Paris Hilton's sister and sometimes fashion designer Nicky announced her plans for the Nicky O hotels last year to great fanfare. TMZ reports that after a failed conversion to condos, a federal judge has ordered the oceanfront Breakwater and Edison properties in South Beach, Florida to be sold to the highest bidder. There is an outstanding mortgage and penalty debt of $60 million. Hotel Chatter covered the bankruptcy of Nicky's developer earlier this year and one of their commenters pointed out an interesting fact, when you type www.nickyosouthbeach.com into a browser you are redirected to the Royal Palm Resort in South Beach. Does Nicky's dream of hotel domination live on?

From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:
--Mel Gibson has put his estate in Greenwich, Connecticut on the market for $39.5 million for the 28-room Tudor-style mansion on more than 75 acres. Gibson bought the home in 1994 for a reported $9.25 million. It has 15 bedrooms, 12 full bathrooms, a great room with a 40-foot ceiling and a massive fireplace and landscaped grounds that include a maze. The listing is here.
--Christie Brinkley is set to relist her Tower Hill estate in Bridgehampton. It was last on the market for asking price of $26.5 million.
--Fashion designer Tory Burch has just rented a s home in the Hamptons for the next four weeks for around $360,000.

From the NY Observer's Manhattan Transfers:
--Seagram liquor heir and Warner Music Chairman and C.E.O. Edgar Bronfman Jr. has sold his 31-foot-wide townhouse at 15 East 64th Street. It will become the second townhouse in New York City history to break the $50 million mark. He downsized into 1040 Fifth Avenue which was listed at $19.5 million.
--John Cleese, who recently put his gorgeous California ranch on the market for $28 million, has bought a New York apartment for under $1.5 million.
--A two-bedroom loft at 380 West 12th Street was sold by American socialist leaders Jack Barnes and Mary-Alice Waters for $1,872,500.
--Gregg Hughes of the Opie and Anthony radio show has bought a 40th-floor apartment in the Trump Place complex for $3.35 million.

From the Real Estalker:
--Jamie Kennedy has picked up a modern house in Los Feliz owned by fashion designer Philippe Naouri which was listed at $2.275 million.
-- Salvator Xuereb and his wife writer Nikki Toscano have purchased a home in the Franklin Hills/Los Feliz area for $915,000.
--Michael Madsen's Malibu home has headed for foreclosure is now listed at $7.8 million, a deep discount since it was on the market for $9.95 million just a few months ago. The listing is here.
--Once again a messy divorce equals a house on the market. Anne Heche is splitting from her cameraman hubby Coley Lafoon and their charming Paul Williams English-style Los Angeles home is on the market for $3.795 million. The listing is here.
--Britney Spears has put her Beverly Hills home back on the market, this time for $7.495 million (up a couple million from the last time she listed).
--Rumor has it that Paris Hilton is set to put her house on the market.

From Big Time Listings:
--The official price that Josh Duhamel and Fergie paid for their new house in Brentwood is $4.875 million.
--The official price for Denis Leary's Manhattan apartment is $3.9 million.
--Nicky Hilton's new Hollywood Hills home cost her $2.8 million.
--Richard Gere's Manhattan townhouse sold for $12.8 million.


A tip from a reader, Darlene:
--If Clarence Clemmons ever wants to give up the music business, the legendary sax player could do a fine business in real estate voiceover. Check out his smooth jazz and vocal stylings to sell his home at One City Plaza in West Palm Beach, Florida.

From the LA Times Hot Property:
--Damon Dash has sold his Benedict Canyon home of five years for $3.6 million.
--Frank Leboeuf, a member of the French national soccer team when it won the World Cup in 1998, has just closed escrow on a Craftsman-style home in L.A.'s Miracle Mile area for $979,000.
--Radio man Todd Leitz has sold his Sherman Oaks home which was listed at $829,000 and bought a larger residence in Studio City for about $1.5 million.
--Gavin MacLeod, captain of "The Love Boat," lived in this '60s-style home from 1976 to 2001, and now it's on the market in Palm Springs at $899,000. The listing is here.

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.

Oh no, it looks like Paris Hilton isn't content to let her little sister Nicky have all the hotel glory. It has been reported that the elder Hilton is joining her sis and creating her own hotel chain. And although there is already a Paris hotel in Las Vegas, Paris wants to her new hotel to be there too. She says her new hotel will be like the Sanderson in London. Paris also says she wants the first hotel to be in Vegas since she's been playing poker and blackjack since she was 12 and she always wins. Gee, Paris, that's not what we heard.

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We already knew that Nicky Hilton was planning to launch her own hotel chain, but now the hotel heiress officially has an opening scheduled for the first in a chain of boutique hotels. Nicky O (her middle name is Olivia) will open its doors this November in South Beach, Florida. Hilton is a self-described fashionista and her intent is to have her hotels focus on design and designers. In keeping with this, she has had several famous designers decorate the suites. Roberto Cavalli will be doing the 5,000-sq. foot penthouse in the SoBe hotel in a gold theme that mimics his retail stores.

A second location is tentatively scheduled to open in Chicago in December, with 3 or 4 more locations to follow.

[via WWD]

Not content with making handbags and clothes for her Chick by Nicky Hilton line, Paris's sister Nicky is thinking of getting into the hotel game. Nicky is planning her own boutique hotel line. The NY Daily News reported that the hotel heiress has been in talks with promoter and former Madonna gal pal Ingrid Casares and interior decorator Faye Resnick. Hilton's manager, Paul Fisher has said that she is checking out locations in Miami, Chicago and San Francisco. Given that Nicky's fashion designs are generally glittery T-shirts, hoodies and sweatpants it will be interesting to see what her visions for a hotel are.

The Hilton sisters know how to tie one on on New Year's Eve, Contact Music reports that at PURE nightclub in Caesar's Palace, Nicky Hilton and current swain, actor Kevin Connolly popped the cork off a Nebuchadnezzar of Cristal champagne. The large bottle holds 20 normal-sized bottles and is one of only five in the U.S. The bottle is worth around $100,000. The party also featured a white anniversary cake for PURE that was decorated with sparklers and $30,000 worth of Swarovski crystals. Robin Leach's journal breaks down the weekend antics of both the Hilton girls in typically breathy fashion.