ricky martin

We've been hearing about today's estate in Golden Beach, Florida for a while, since 2007, back before its owner Ricky Martin was the father of twin boys or had come out as a self-acknowledged "fortunate homosexual man." Martin bought the home in April 2007 for $16.5 million and by December of that year it was on the market for $22.5 million. The home didn't sell and eventually appears to have come off the market. Earlier this year I learned that the home was back up for sale with a new lower price.

The main draw of this two-story Mediterranean home is its location in a private oceanfront community. The five-bedroom home has a a beautiful pool and spa that is just a short walk away from a secluded beach. The home's interior is Florida Spanish luxe with a double-height living room that has marble floors, monumental fireplaces and large French doors that open to the outside. The new gourmet kitchen has a brick barrel vaulted celing and tile. The master suite has walk-in closets, terrace and open views. It is now listed at $18.9 million, which still makes it the highest listed Golden Beach house currently.

From the WSJ's Private Properties:
--Fashion's Gucci family is offering a midtown-Manhattan apartment to rent for $60,000 a month. The seven-bedroom penthouse, on the 50th and 51st floors of the Olympic Tower, has floor-to-ceiling views of New York Harbor and the Empire State Building. The listing is here.
--Actress Yunjin Kim, who plays Sun on the ABC series "Lost," has sold her Honolulu condominium for $621,000. It had been listed at $575,000.
--Scott Resnick of New York's SR Capital has listed his beachfront home in the Hamptons village of Sagaponack, N.Y., for $26.75 million, $8.75 million more than he paid for it three years ago. The listing for the five-bedroom house is here.

From the LA Times Hot Properties:
--The Beverly Hills home of the late "MASH" writer Larry Gelbart sold for more than its $7.999 million asking price.
-- A Malibu beach home once owned by Robert Redford has sold for $11.75 million.

From the NY Post:
--Kelsey Grammer has taken a three-bedroom rental at 15 Central Park West for slightly less than its $29,000-a-month asking price.
--Singers Michael Feinstein and Liza Minnelli were spotted dining at Bond 45 with Core broker Tom Postilio to discuss the possible sale of Feinstein's Upper East Side townhouse on East 63rd St. The 9,000-square-foot home would have an asking price of $20 million or more.
--Elie and Rory Tahari still have their SoHo triplex quietly on the market but even though they may be getting divorced they have been searching for apartments together and recently visited buildings including the Harrison and the Apthorp.
--Way back in 1977, Hannah and Herbert Halberg bought a four-bedroom apartment for $90,000. They loved it and raised their three sons there and after Herbert's recent passing it has hit the market with a $4.5 million asking price. The listing is here.

From the Real Estalker:
--Despite rumors to the contrary Candy Spelling isn't backing out of her deal to move into a $47 million duplex penthouse at The Century. Her $150 million manor remains on the market.
--Backstreet Boy Howie Dorough has listed his Los Angeles home for $2.475 million. The listing is here.
--David Boreanaz and Jaime Bergman have bought a home in Hidden Hills, California for $3.35 million.

From Berg Properties Big Time Listings:
--via In Touch Weekly, 'Dancing with the Stars' co-host Samantha Harris and her husband, Michael Hess have paid $1,600,000 to buy a in Los Angeles west of the Century City area.
--Slash has finally sold his five-bedroom "lawsuit house" in the Hollywood Hills, possibly to San Diego Padres relief pitcher Randy Wolf.
--An update of the real estate moves of Hilary Swank, she paid $5.8 million earlier this year for a place in Pacific Palisades and told W Magazine that she left New York because of the high real estate prices (Swank and ex-hubby Chad Lowe sold their Manhattan townhouse for $7,050,000 million in January) but likely her romance with her former agent John Campisi, who is L.A.-based also had something to do with it. Nevertheless, New York magazine has spotted Swank browsing for a loft and reported that she was looking at a a two-bedroom unit in the Superior Ink development in Manhattan.
--'One Tree Hill' actors Chad Michael Murray and Sophia Bush have sold their house in Wilmington, N.C. for $730,000.
--Justin Long, who is perhaps most famous for the "I'm a Mac" ads, has paid about $1,400,000 for amid-century modern home in the Hollywood Hills.
--Nicole Richie has sold her condominium unit in the Empire West building in West Hollywood for $2,250,000.

From the Real Estalker:
--via Newsday, Patricia Kennedy Lawford's estate has sold her Southampton home for $9.8 million.
--via Luxury Real Estate, Eddie Murphy's ex-wife Nicole Murphy has sold their Sacramento area home for the highest price the Sacramento area has ever seen, $6.1 million.Most of the furnishings, including at least 20 TVs and a sleek, black, $200,000 Schimmel Pegasus grand piano were included in the deal.
--The Real Estalker Mama has nabbed some interior shots of the Golden Beach, Florida house that Ricky Martin has put on the market for $22.5 million.
--The Mama takes a look at Peter Guber's Kauai Tara Plantation. This home has sat on the market for $46.5 million for nearly 3 years, we covered it way back in February 2005.
--Amanda Peet and her screenwriter husband David Benioff have sold their Angelo View Drive house high above Holmby Hills and have purchased the former James Cagney estate above Sunset Boulevard on N. Wetherly Drive.
--50 Cent has reduced the price of his Connecticut home to $12 million from $18.5 million.

From the LA Times Hot Property:
--Nicolas Cage has pulled his Bel-Air mansion, which was listed at $35 million, off the market.
-- St. Louis Rams owner Georgia Frontiere sold her Bel-Air home for close to $30 million.
--Madonna's former home in Beverly Hills, which was redone by Diane Keaton, just closed at almost $17 million.
--Comedy writer Bill Richmond has purchased a town house overlooking the lake in Calabasas Park for close to its asking price of $1.3 million.
--Gregory Joujon-Roche, a celebrity personal trainer, has listed his Malibu condo for $2.695 million. The listing is here, the home is freshly redecorated and gorgeous.
--Peter Shin, supervising director of the TV show "Family Guy," has bought a contemporary-style house for $1.3-plus million in the Hollywood Hills.

From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--Fashion designer Kenzo has put his Paris home on the market for 12 million euros. it is our estate of the day later today.


From the NY Times Big Deal:
--The buyer of Ricky Martin's former apartment in the Time Warner Center have signed a contract to flip it for around $17.9 million. Martin bought it in 2004 for $6.8 million and sold it in September 2006 for $9.75 million.
--Fewer than a third of the 201 coveted apartments in Robert A. M. Stern's complex 15 Central Park West near the foot of Central Park, at West 61st Street, have now closed. But of those, five apartments were put back on the market almost instantly and more listings are likely.

From the NY Times Big Deal:
--The Wanamaker Munn house, a grand limestone and brick townhouse on East 90th Street that had been in the same high society family since the 1920s has been listed at $33 million. The home, shown at right, maintains much of its original details including 10 period fireplaces, a curved grand staircase and elaborate molding and woodwork. The listing is here.

From the NY Times Big Deal:
--Dan Aykroyd and his wife Donna Dixon have listed their New York apartment for $7 million. The couple seems to be in move mode. As we learned earlier this year, their Hollywood Hills home is also on the market for $4.2 million. It turns out that their NY apartment is one I covered a few weeks ago as an estate of the day. Check it out here.

From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:
--Steven Spielberg is snapping up properties near his East Hampton estate. He is negotiating to buy two properties that would add an additional six acres to his compound.
--Former "Saturday Night Live" cast member Chris Parnell has sold his one-bedroom condo loft in SoHo for $1.8 million and is headed to Hollywood.
-- New York University selling a luxury apartment at The Pierre hotel for $7.6 million. The buyer is Ali Fayed, the brother of Harrod's owner Mohamed Fayed. The 19th-floor two-bedroom co-op was being used as faculty housing for a lucky professor and his family. Fayed also bought an adjoining one-bedroom unit for $2.6 million.
--The penthouse apartment of Hollywood casting director Vic Ramos, who died last October at age 77, is on the market for $3.3 million. The apartment is a three-bedroom duplex with a glass-enclosed den, two fireplaces, a greenhouse and a fully landscaped garden with an outdoor fireplace. The listing is here.

From the NY Observer's Manhattan Transfers:
--A three-bedroom apartment that belong to Washington Post publisher Kay Graham has finally been sold, six and a half years after her death, for $2.3 million.
--Mexican radio and music publishing mogul named Rogerio Azcárraga Madero has picked up a couple of new apartments in New York, a $5.3 million penthouse duplex at 715 Park Avenue and a $8.26 million Plaza apartment. He owns many apartments throughout the city which he rents out.
--A 17-room, seven-bedroom duplex penthouse at 1060 Fifth Avenue, on the corner of 87th Street, will sell for around $46 million which is the most money ever paid for a New York City co-op.

From Big Time Listings:
--Action star Jason Statham is the latest celebrity buyer in the Broadway Hollywood Building in Los Angeles picking up an eighth floor unit in the building.
--Marlon Wayans has sold a condo unit in Los Angeles' Sherman Oaks area for $650,000 and has also bought into the Broadway Hollywood building, purchasing a ninth-floor unit in the building.
--Looks like actor Chris Parnell has moved into my neighborhood, he paid $620,000 for a two-bedroom, tri-level town house in Silver Lake.
--Kanye West's six-bedroom Beverly Hills teardown may be sold. The home is now listed as "looking for backup."
--Debbie Harry has paid $580,000 for a co-op apartment in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood.
--It's looking more likely that Jason Lee is in fact the buyer of Robert Cray Los Feliz home.

From the Real Estalker:
--The listing for Greg Norman's $65 million Florida estate is up. We'll discuss this later as our estate of the day.
--An update on Michael Jackson. He has had to pay a $3.8 million settlement to his manager Dieter Wiesner that was payable on November 15 and remains in default on the $23,000,000 loan secured by Neverland Ranch. Rumor has it that people are looking to buy the place including Simon Yates, a British discount clothing store owner and of course, the subject of nearly every real estate rumor of late, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie.
--via Newsday, Tommy Hilfiger may have finally sold his East Hampton home. It has been listed for a while at $24.5 million and Mariah Carey rented it this summer for $350,000. Newsday reports that the buyer paid $2 million more than list price in order to keep the furnishings. It was our estate of the day back in October 2006.
--via new blog Real Sedated. Actress Anna Farris and Ben Indra have put their home on the market for $1.995 million (the same price the couple bought at in November 2005). The virtual tour is here.
-Ricky Martin has put his house in Golden Beach, Florida on the market for $22.5 million. He bought the home in April 2007 for $16.25 million and seems to be looking for a quick flip. The listing is here.
--Ashley Olsen has picked up a four-bedroom home in the Hancock Park area of Los Angeles for $1.575 million.
--from the NY Post, Madonna has filed suit against her Central Park West building's co-op board. She says that the board wrongfully blocked her from buying a neighbor's apartment.

From the LA Times Hot Property:
--Los Angeles Laker Luke Walton has moved up in Manhattan Beach paying $2,750,000 for a new house and selling his town house for $1,235,000.
--A home known as the Bette Davis estate in Palm Springs has been sold for $5 million, about the asking price when the property was listed in June.
--A home lived in by Alice Backes, a character actress from the 1950s to the late '90s, is now on the market for $1.39 million. The listing is here.

From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:
--Martha Stewart's daughter Alexis is moving into the Richard Meier-designed condos that her mother owns. As the Real Estalker noted last month, Alexis has put her TriBeCa aparmtent on the market for $12.4 million.
--The Esquire magazine-sponsored triplex apartment at 111 Central Park North in Harlem has gone to contract for approximately $8.5 million.
-The listing of the Bridgehampton home owned by Kelsey Grammer is "exploratory in nature," Kelsey and his wife Camille are just testing the real estate waters.
--Real-estate heiress/Democratic fundraiser Connie Milstein has sold her 15-room duplex at 770 Park Ave.

From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--As the Real Estalker first reported last May, "Lost" star Terry O'Quinn has placed his Oahu house, shown above, on the market for $2.94 million. The listing is here.
--The Manhattan condo in the Time Warner Center that Ricky Martin sold last year for $9.75 million is back on the market for $18.9 million.
--Colorado's Last Dollar Ranch, a site of ads for Marlboro, Budweiser and others has been sold for $6.27 million at auction.

From the Real Estalker:
--The Real Estalker Mama takes us on a mini tour of upstate NY including the neoprene-clad getaway home of Willem Dafoe.
--Are both Bono and Richard Gere moving into artist/director Julian Schnabel's Palazzo Chupi?
--Kate Moss has put her London home on the market for $6.6 million.
--Michael Vick has listed his Duluth, Georgia home for $4.5 million. The listing is here.
--Russ Weiner, founder of Rockstar energy drinks has put his Hollywood Hills home on the market for $22 million. The listing is here.


From Berg Properties Celebrity Big Time Listings:
--Ben Moody, who co-founded the band Evanescence, has paid $2.3 million for a home in Los Feliz.
--Actor Morris Chestnut has paid $3,300,000 for a 5,522-square-foot house in Hidden Hills and has sold his 4,633-square-foot house in Calabasas for $2,100,000 to Tracy Jernagin, a music production company owner who is the mother of late rapper Eazy-E's child.
--Musician Donovan Leitch Jr. has paid $1,435,000 for a 2,068-square-foot house in Studio City area and has listed his Spanish-style compound in the Hollywood Hills for $1,099,000. It is our estate of the day later today.
--Actor Noah Wyle has paid $1,800,000 for a four-bedroom house in Solvang, California.

From the NY Observer's Manhattan Transfers:
--Simon Fuller, the creator of American Idol just paid $19,360,752 for two ninth-floor condos, each over $9.9 million, at the Plaza.
--Indie actress Parker Posey has listed her three-room apartment in an 1845 brownstone in the East Village for 1.175 million.
--Russian billionaire and enemy of Vladimir Putin, Boris Belotserkovsky is already ensconced at the Plaza. Now he has a likeminded soul in the same building. Steven Theede, the ex-CEO of Yukos Oil closed this month on a 10th-floor Plaza spread.
--Texas-born philanthropist Courtney Sale Ross who already has a huge duplex at 740 Park has paid $7.25 million for a penthouse at 160 Wooster, a glass-and-white-metal downtown condo. The new condo is likely for a lucky member of her family.

From the LA Times Hot Property:
--As the Real Estalker also recently reported, Britney Spears is leasing, with an option to buy, in Malibu.
--The Pacific Palisades home that belongs to writer Angela Wilder (ex-wife of basketball player James Worthy) has been sold for close to $2 million.
--Want to live next door to the Mayor? Actor-director Al Morgenstern, who owns the only home immediately adjacent to Getty House, the official residence of Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, has listed the home at $2,995,000. The listing is here.
--As the Real Estalker previously reported, Brad Garrett has dropped the price on his Hidden Hills home from $9,495,000 to $8,790,000.
--As, Celebrity Big Time Listings previously reported, Gene Wilder has sold his Bel-Air home for slightly less than $2.73 million.

From the Boston Globe:
--Tom Brady is selling two condos in the Beacon Street brownstone that he bought for $6.2 million last year. There is a three-bedroom unit listed at $4.59 million which has an outdoor deck and another unit with three bedrooms for $3.99 million. Brady is keeping the top two floor for himself so this is your chance to live under Tom Brady.

From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:
--Mariah Carey already owns a triplex in TriBeCa but now she has been renting a place at 15 Broad St., the Philippe Starck designed Wall Street condominium complex for around $8,000 per month.
--Fashion designer Arnold Scaasi has put his fabulously glamourous One Beekman Place co-op on the market for $9.85 million. The listing for the 12-room duplex is here.
--Lorraine Bracco has cut the price on her Snedens Landing property down to $2.9 million. The home first hit the market for $4.4 million in 2004 and was $3.2 million when we checked it out as an estate of the day earlier this year.
--It turns out that Ricky Martin paid $6.3 million rather than the $7 million originally reported for his apartment at 40 Bond Street.

From the NY Observer's Manhattan Transfers:
-- NASCAR driver named Brian Vickers has paid $4,636,800 for a penthouse at 92 Greene Street.
--Walter Yetnikoff, the 80's-era CBS Records CEO famous for working with Michael Jackson, Billy Joel and Barbra Streisand, has paid $2.475 million for a 24th-floor condo at Philip Johnson's Metropolitan on East 90th Street.
--Allen Grubman,the lawyer father of PR gal Lizzie Grubman has paid $3.07 million for a condo and two storage rooms at 200 Chambers Street, a new development in Tribeca.
--The parents of Harvard's chick-lit plagiarist, Kaavya Viswanathan, have paid $3.21 million for a Fifth Avenue apartment.

From Berg Properties Celebrity Big Time Listings:
--Robert De Niro's wife Grace Hightower officially sold her Trump Palace condo $2.45 million. It had been listed for $2.495 million.
--a Beverly Hills, Calif. house that actresses Rita Hayworth and Jean Harlow once lived in has sold for $3,960,000.
--Brad Pitt reportedly offered $8 million for the 5,883-square-foot former Will and Ariel Durant estate in Los Feliz. The owners didn't accept the offer and so he is upgrading his current Los Feliz home.
--Gwyneth Paltrow fetched $13.65 million recently for her condo in TriBeCa which had been listed for $14 million.
--A reveal on the price that Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne paid for a house in the Hollywood Hills for their daughter Aimee. The home sold for $2.35 million, a full $350,000 above asking price.
--The official sale price for Josh Duhamel's former Brentwood area home is $2.389 million.
--Joe Trohman, the lead guitarist for Fall Out Boy, has paid $516,000 for a newly converted condominium unit in Los Angeles.
--Official numbers for the recent real estate activity of former New Kid on the Block Joey McIntyre. He paid $4.45 million for his new house in Hancock Park and sold his house in Los Angeles' Venice area for $2.85 million.
--NCIS actress Lauren Holly has sold her house in North Barrington, IL, which had been listed for $1.1999 million.
--Chicago Bears safety Danieal Manning has paid $535,000 for a house in Libertyville, IL.
--Official numbers for Johnny Depp's purchase of a penthouse in a turquoise Art Deco building in Los Angeles. Depp paid $2.1 million for his penthouse in the conversion of the Eastern Columbia building.
--Rev. Tim Storey,and his wife Roxanne have sold their Beverly Hills home which had been on the market for $4,700,000.
--Mr. Big Time reveal the deets on Paris Hilton's mortgage. She has borrowed $4,720,000 for her new house in Mulholland Estates.

From the Real Estalker:
--Janice Dickinson is renting a home on Skyline Drive in Los Angeles for $5,250 a month.
--Britney Spears has sold her Malibu home to r, director/writer/producer Stephen Sommers for $10 million and may have purchased a new home in Malibu that has been listed at $9,350,000.
--Benjamin Bratt has listed his four-unit investment property in San Francisco for $1.858 million.
--Matthew McConnaughey is renting a Malibu mobile home.
--Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne have purchased a home in Hidden Hills for $10 million.
--Actress Lori Loughlin is selling her Los Angeles home to move into her new Bel Air abode. The home is listed at $2.35 million.

From the LA Times Hot Property:
--Wayne Gretzky has sold his Lake Sherwood home for around $18.5 million. The buyer is retired baseball player Lenny Dykstra.
--As the Real Estalker mentioned back in August, Tommy Lee has bought in Calabasas. His new home was bought for close to $6 million.
--Brian Cook of the L.A. Lakers has bought a townhouse in Hermosa Beach for about $1.6 million.
-- Kenyon Martin of the Denver Nuggets has bought a home in Woodland Hills for slightly more than $1.8 million.

From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:
--Christie Brinkley has found a new home in the Hamptons, picking up a waterfront estate in North Haven which had a $10.995 million price tag. Her ex-husband, Peter Cook has also bought a place in North Haven for close to $1.2 million.
--Broadway producer Jeffrey Finn has purchased a one-bedroom pied-a-terre at the Platinum condo complex for just over $1.4 million.
--Rachel Hunter is looking for a fixer upper in the Hamptons. Good luck with that.
--Hotel developer Robert Burns wins the dubious distinction of spending the most money on a Hamptons rental. He is renting an oceanfront Southampton home for a record $1.2 million for the year. He is currently working on building a new mansion in the area.

Bonus from the NY Post:
--Is Alex Rodriguez of the NY Yankees looking to buy the Lake Carrington Estate? The home in Greenwich, Connecticut is billed a "couture-ready" mansion, a nine-acre lakefront property dominated by a Georgian-style stone mansion spanning 35,000 square feet. The listing is here.

From The Real Estalker:
--Scarlett Johansson has picked up a home in the Hollywood Hills for around $8 million.
--Ricky Martin has listed his Miami mansion, shown above, for $16.9 million. No interior pics but the listing is here (that's one deep blue pool).
--Keyshawn Johnson's condo at The Californian in Los Angeles is for sale for $3.595 million.
--Rumor has it that Britney Spears may have sold her Malibu mansion.
--It was nearly two years ago that we first learned Kathleen Turner was set to put her Amagansett home on the market for $7.95 million, now we finally have the listing which is for $6.995 million. Check out the charming beach home here.
--Real estate goddess Ellen Degeneres is at it again putting another tempting home on the market. This Hollywood home is listed for $1.995 million. Ellen and her team do some mighty fine renovating. Check out the calm white splendor at the property website.
--Numerous websites are reporting that Britney Spears may be buying Ray Liotta's old nest in the Pacific Palisades. We'll be checking out this home later as out estate of the day.

From Celebrity Babylon:
--Rumor has it Tom Cruise has picked up a plot in Montecito from Rob Lowe and his wife and may be building a getaway house.

From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--Trusts and partnerships linked to billionaire hedge-fund manager Bruce Kovner paid about $70 million earlier this year for a bunch of oceanfront properties in California's Santa Barbara County. The Kovner-related entities paid $35 million for a three-acre lot with a large Tuscan-style home, $20 million for a four-bedroom house on three acres and then $15 million for six acres.
--New York attorney and real-estate investor Alan Schnurman has just gotten approval to sell eight lots in a Hamptons subdivision, 41 acres in all, for $64.5 million. He bought the land in 2005 for around $25 million. Schnurman's got some success behind him, he recently sold six lots in Bridgehampton for $37.5 million that he bought in 2005 for $12 million. That buyer in turn has put the lots on the market for almost $50 million. The listing is here.
--As we already knew, Anne Heche's home is on the market for $3.795 million.
--As the Real Estalker predicted weeks ago, Paris Hilton has put her home on the market. The price is $4.25 million. She bought in 2004 for around $2.9 million. The listing is here and warns that there is "a pre-screening process" for getting your look at the place. Also, The Gilded Moose has a great commentary on the interior.
--Basketball player Rasheed Wallace has listed his nearly 10,000-square-foot residence in Portland, Oregon for $5.2 million, making it one of the most expensive listings in the area. Rather bland for a sports star's house, you can check it out here.

From TMZ:
--Johnny Depp has picked up a penthouse in the Eastern Columbia building in downtown Los Angeles for about $2 million. The striking turquoise Art Deco building is an LA landmark but the neighborhood is still in transition.

From Berg Properties Celebrity Big Time Listings:
--Jazz singer Lalah Hathaway has sold her Los Angeles home for $848,000 to yoga instructor and model Rainbeau Harmony Mars.
--Michael Jordan's ex-wife has paid $4,720,500 for a mansion in Chicago's River North neighborhood.
--The hunt is on, which house is the house Orlando Bloom bought in the Hollywood Hills for $2.8 million.

From the NY Observer's Manhattan Transfers:
--Howard and Yvonne Tsao, who graduated from the NYU Stern School of Business barely a year ago, just paid $11.75 million in cash for a 58th-floor spread at the Park Imperial on West 56th Street.
--More news from the infamous 30 Crosby Street, home to Lenny Kravitz and formerly infamously, Courtney Love. Trader Richard Barabino, who sold his second-floor loft there for $6.5 million, will really miss the show-off factor of the apartment and also the help which he refers to has being "like little puppies wagging their tails eager to do something to help you out."
--Steven Kessner, a real estate magnate named by The Village Voice in June 2006 as one of "NYC's 10 Worst Landlords," has bought his son Robert a $1.395 million apartment at 300 East 85th Street, a tower called the America.
--Jeweler-craftsman John Landrum Bryant and his heiress wife, Patricia Bauman, have paid $7.1 million for a four-bedroom apartment in the Beekman that includes a garden, wine cellar, two wet bars and a master bedroom with a kitchenette and fireplace. They plan to put in a jade stone fireplace.

From the LA Times Hot Property:
--Mel Gibson has sold his Malibu beachfront home for nearly $30 million. He bought the home in the fall of 2005 for $24 million. Also, in May, he bought a 400-plus-acre agricultural and cattle ranch in Costa Rica for $25.8 million, according to La Nación, a Costa Rican publication.
--Former Dodger and Angel center fielder Steve Finley and his wife, Amy, have listed their Rancho Santa Fe estate at $20.5 million. The home has 12,000 square feet and is on seven acres. You can find the listing on the Barry Estates website.
--The Malibu home of the late Daniel Jacoby, an Internet banking pioneer, has been sold for about $12 million.