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From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--Le Belvedere, a Los Angeles mansion that originally listed for $85 million has sold for $50 million.

--The Malibu, California home of the late philanthropist Nancy M. Daly, the ex-wife of former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan, has sold for more than $40 million.


From the NY Observer:
--Robert Burns, the found of the Regent International hotel group and his wife Janice have bought 2 East 70th Street for $13.5 million
--Yerim Sow, a Senagalese telecom mogul has sold his three-bedroom apartment for $19 million.
--Bernard Ruiz-Picasso has purchased an Astor Place penthouse at 439 Lafayette Street for $7.2 million.
--Neil and Nancy Fire Breslau have sold their penthouse at 111 Central Park North. The couple had bought the apartment for $4.975 million with the intent of flipping it but ended up selling it for $4.525 million.
--Cary Coltun, a senior vice president at megabuilders Bovis Lend Lease, has just bought a 2,000-square-foot condo duplex with his wife Michelle for $3.1 million.
--The $12 million purchaser of Bob and Courtney Novogratz's revamped Nolita townhouse at 5 Centre Market Place is Gregory Soros, son of of one of the world's richest men, George Soros.
--Maura Mandt, who has produced the Espy Awards shows for ESPN just bought a co-op at 50 East 10th Street for $1.15 million.
--Actor Mark Linn-Baker, who was on the show "Perfect Strangers" recently sold his three-bedroom apartment at 17 West 71st Street for $2.85 million.


From the NY Post:
--Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones bought a brick, center-hall Colonial mansion in Bedford, New York for $5.25 million.
-- "Real Housewives of New York" star Jill Zarin and her husband Bobby toured a $3.9 million four-bedroom condo at the Rushmore development on Riverside Boulevard. The Zarins are currently living at 401 E. 60th St. in a three-bedroom, 1,956-square-foot apartment which was on the market last year but didn't sell.

--Retail broker Robert Futterman of RKF just closed on a $6.6 million penthouse at the Hudson Lofts condo building at 345 W. 13th St.
--Katy Perry and Lady Gaga might be New York City neighbors in TriBeCa. Perry and fiancé Russell Brand recently bought a $2.7 million penthouse duplex on North Moore Street in TriBeCa, and Lady Gaga, who's been on an extensive downtown apartment search, just visited a $14.95 million TriBeCa penthouse at 33 Vestry St.

Writer Ryan Murphy created two shows which take a slant look at the focus on appearance, the plastic surgery drama "Nip/Tuck" and the underrated high school dark comedy "Popular" as well as writing the screenplay and directing the 2006 movie "Running With Scissors." This talented man has some lovely taste in real estate. The Real Estalker Mama reports that he bought the home in the hills above West Hollywood in 2001 which has been restored into a modern beauty. The home is tucked in a woodsy lot with plenty of privacy. The home, which was designed by modernist architect Carl Maston has big glass walls, concrete floors, and gleaming wood.

At 3,210 square feet the home might be a little small by Los Angeles mansion standards and some of the smaller rooms seem a little dark but overall it's a rather perfectly decorated with furniture that fits the era of the home. Like the Real Estalker Mama, I don't love the use of a urinal in a home bathroom and the kitchen seems like a tough place to cook dinner with more than one person. Small quibbles on a truly charming residence. It is listed at $4.195 million.

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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