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Sunday Real Estate Round-Up, 11/14/10

Filed under: Estates, Celebrity Shopping

From Move Trends:
--The price keeps changing on Charlie Sheen's former home. It was listed at $3.697 million when we first checked it out in 2009. Back in September of this year it was up to $4.1 million. Now it's at $3.75 million. Property Shark's records show that Sheen's soon-to-be-ex-wife Brooke Mueller picked up the home (through an LLC) for $2.575 million in late 2007.

From the NY Post:
--Hockey player Ilya Kovalchuk has paid $4.5 million for 2 empty acres on Frick Drive in Alpine, New Jersey and plans to build a 20,000-square-foot home.
--Rory Tahari has moved into a townhouse on a tree-lined Upper West Side street.
--Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen have been spotted apartment hunting at the Fairchild building at 55 Vestry St. in tony TriBeCa. That's where our spies spotted each of the tiny twins traipsing around on separate visits.
--Wall Street broker Dorone Ilan Farber just bought a $4.2 million co-op on East 71st Street. The three-bedroom unit had been on the market with a $4.4 million price tag. --Nicholas D'Aurizio, Nicolena handbag designer and "Project Runway" alum, recently checked out a one-bedroom, $2,575-per-month duplex at the new 75 Grand rental development.
--Celebrity dermatologist Doris Day, no relation to the actress, has bought a ground-floor office at the 10 E. 70th St. co-op building for $800,000.

From the LA Times:
--Former professional wrestler turned actor Tommy "Tiny" Lister has bought a home in Calabasas for $2.5 million.
--A Brentwood home designed by Roland Coate for director William A. Wellman has sold for $7.5 million. It hit the market back in February for $10 million.

From the Real Estalker:
--Fashion journalist Nina Garcia and her husband David Conrod have listed their New York City apartment for $8.5 million. The listing is here.

Gallery: Nina Garcia in New York City

--The Real Estalker Mama checks out the home that Demi Lovato bought for her family in Sherman Oaks, California. The four-bedroom home cost $2.25 million and has a guest cottage which Lovato reportedly lived in.
--Academy Award winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black has bought a four bedroom home in Los Angeles for $1.455 million.

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RSVIP: Target Turns Standard Hotel into a Starry Close Encounter

by Jeffrey Slonim (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Apparel, Events

If you were turned away at the Standard Hotel on Wednesday, August 18, blame Target.

The hip and successful, if downscale, fashion purveyor rented all the rooms on the south face of the architecturally spectacular hotel that straddles the High Line, a set of defunct railway tracks turned into an above-ground park in Manhattan's Meatpacking District. For one night only, Target transformed the rooms of the hotel into a Spielberg-worthy light, fashion, and dance spectacular.

"It's a really fun twist on a traditional fashion show," explained Trish Adams, Sr., Vice President of Merchandising, Apparel and Accessories for Target. "Yes, we rented the hotel, we booked the rooms, and it is a fashion show and light show choreographed to music with 66 dancers working in the windows of the hotel rooms with a runway show at street level."

For celebrities such as Mary-Louise Parker of "Weeds" fame, "Gossip Girl" hunk Penn Badgley and 30 Rock's Katrina Bowdin, grandstands cushioned with yellow pillows were built across the street from the edgy-stylish Standard Hotel Biergarten. And a tower modeled after the hotel was added as a runway for models wearing Target fall fashion.

But, do the glitterati even shop at Target? Apparently, yes. "I shop there for the entire family," admitted Nina Garcia, a judge on "Project Runway," now pregnant with her second child. And as for Garcia herself, "I love Liz Lange," she said, referring to the queen of maternity wardrobe, who designs that entire Target department.

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