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When Scarlett Johansson was named as the face of Moet & Chandon in 2009 she posed in a golden gown. Images from the 2011 campaign have been released which show the effervescent blonde in posed on a ladder in a robin's egg blue evening gown surrounded by champagne flutes. The images shot by photographer Tim Walker were taken at Trianon, an impressive residence built by Jean-Rémy's Moët between 1805-1817 on the Moët & Chandon Estate in Epernay, France. The campaign consists of three photographs which will be used in print, outdoor and online advertising.

From Newsday's Real LI:
--A Bridgehampton estate that once belonged to John Weitz, a fashion designer and novelist, is on the market for $8.995 million. Weitz's sons are Chris Weitz, director of "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" film, and his brother, Paul. Together, the sons directed and produced the "American Pie" comedies. The listing is here.
--A 12,000-square-foot Water Mill home owned and designed by famed artist and architect Setsuo Ito is up for auction. It is listed for $10.995 million but Ito could choose a buyer through sealed bids between now and Aug. 15 based not only on the amount offered but the conditions of the offer, such as closing time and financing. The listing is here.

From the NY Post:
--A new luxury building near the High Line will be home to Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban. They have just closed on a $10 million penthouse at 200 11th Ave. Kidman and Urban's new neighbors include Domenico Dolce of Dolce & Gabbana, who bought two penthouses for $29 million. Their three-bedroom penthouse was listed for $12.5 million. Interior designer Jamie Drake has also just closed on a $5 million unit in the building.
--Screenwriter Allan Loeb who wrote "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps," is buying a two-bedroom at 141 Fifth Ave. for close to $3.9 million. The penthouse duplex at 31 W. 21st St., which served as the home of Shia LaBeouf's character in the movie is on the market for $15 million.
--Lady Gaga is still checking out apartment rentals in the $20,000 to $25,000 range. Most recently she was spotted at 408 Greenwich St. in TriBeCa looking at a large one-bedroom $24,000-a-month rental.
--Edmund Carpenter, the retired CEO of the Barnes Group, a car and plane parts manufacturer, and his wife, Mary, just bought a co-op at 840 Park Ave. for $9.25 million.

From the Real Estalker:
--Graham Nash has listed his Encino, California home for $1.6 million.
-- Kevin Nealon has picked up a new home in the Pacific Palisades for $3.45 million.
--Leeza Gibbons has picked up a home in Beverly Hills for $6.6 million.

From US Weekly:
--Scarlett Johansson and Ryan Reynolds have recently purchased a two-bedroom, three-bath house in the L.A. area. The home was recently listed around $2.8 million.

From the LA Times Hot Properties:
--Rapper and actress Eve has dropped the price on her Hollywood Hills home to $2.050 million or it can be leased for $15,000 a month. It was listed at $2.295 million back in February. She bought the home in 2005 for $1.775 million. The listing is here.

--"Hawthorne" producer Preston Fischer and his wife, Marsha Lewis, have listed their Marina Del Rey penthouse at $899,000. The listing is here.
--Scarlett Johansson has sold her walled and gated Spanish villa in the Hollywood Hills for $4 million. She bought her home in the Outpost Estates area of Los Angeles for an even $7 million in 2007, she seems willing to take a deep loss on the home. The home was listed at $4.995 million.

--Singer Donna Summer has purchased a unit in the Carlyle Residences that was listed at $3.8 million.

The Tony Awards doesn't get as much red carpet attention as events like the Oscars and the Emmys but the stars were out in beautiful force on Sunday night. Catherine Zeta Jones was widely lauded as a fashion winner for her shimmering blue gown and diamond chandelier earrings and cuff bracelet and picked up a Tony for her performance in A Little Late Night Music. More head-turning looks after the jump.

If you're looking for a crafty excuse to visit London in the next few months, I've got a good one for you: Quilts 1700 - 2010, a new exhibit opening at the V&A Museum.

The exhibit, which opens March 20th and runs through July 4th, focuses on quilts both historic and contemporary. The quilt pictured above, "At the End of the Day", is a 2007 creation of artist Natasha Kerr; historic quilts include those commemorating the lives of Admiral Lord Nelson, Charles II and the Duke of Wellington, among others.

(Bonus for fans of Tracy Chevalier, who wrote the novel Girl with the Pearl Earring, which became a movie starring Scarlett Johansson -- she's written a story based on the George 111 quilt, which is in the museum's magazine. There's a great video of her research process here.)

Scarlett Johansson is the new face of Mango and has helped design an exclusive handbag to go on sale in more than 1,390 Mango stores worldwide in March. All profits from the Haiti Handbag will be donated to Oxfam's Haiti Earthquake Response Fund.

The tote is emblazoned with an ancient map of the Caribbean country, with the message "Supporting the People of Haiti" written and signed by Johansson.

"I'm thrilled to be collaborating with Mango to benefit Oxfam. By purchasing this bag, you're helping to provide life-saving assistance, like clean water, to the people of Haiti," Johansson said. Recently Johansson auctioned an evening of her company to four fans to help benefit the relief effort as well.

The Haiti Handbag will retail for £16.90 (about $26.50 USD).

It might be tempting to think that Scarlett Johansson has it all. She's gorgeous, has a big career, a funny and handsome Hollywood husband in Ryan Reynolds and the world is at her feet. One thing our heroine won't have it seems is a profit on her Los Angeles home. The Real Estalker reveals that while Miss Scarlett bought her home in the Outpost Estates area of Los Angeles for an even $7 million in 2007 she seems willing to take a deep loss on the home. The home is now listed at just $4.995 million with Brett Lawyer of Sotheby's.

The home is a Spanish style estate built in 1931. The gated home has been restored and updated with upgrades that include solar electric. The first floor has rooms that open to a giant center atrium with a glass ceiling and tiled floor. The home's charms include a chef's kitchen with a colorful "period-style" kitchen featuring retro-styled appliances. The home also includes a media room, gym or maids room with full bath, extensive basement areas. It's a gorgeous colorful home with Southern California details like arched windows, beamed ceilings and wood floors. It also has the requisite lap pool and spa with a tranquil hillside view. Hard to say why she's moving on and willing to take such a big price hit but someone should be willing to snap up the home in this celeb-friendly neighborhood, which has been home to Charlize Theron, Felicity Huffman and William H. Macy, Orlando Bloom, Ben Stiller and director David Lynch.

Last week I mentioned that Scarlett Johansson is the new face of Moet & Chandon. Now the Daily Mail has a look at the sexy photos to be used in the ad campaign. In the pictures, a blonde Johanasson pops a cork, cozies up to an ice bucket, and in my favorite shot, holds a champagne glass between her toes. Check out the rest of the ad images here.

Moet & Chandon has a new face for its champagne, the first movie star to front for the brand. They introduced celebrity spokesperson, Scarlett Johansson at the "Tribute to Cinema" gala at London's Big Sky studio. Also on the guest list were Thandie Newton, Joseph Fiennes and Melanie Laurent and celebrities were invited to autograph a Moet & Chandon Nebuchadnezzar, to be auctioned off in support of Scarlett's charity of choice, Oxfam. Moet will launch an advertising campaign starring Scarlett Johansson which was shot by renowned photographers Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott.

Celebrity auctions hit a new low this week as actress Scarlett Johansson sells her used tissue on eBay. She appeared on NBC's "Tonight" show on Wednesday to promote her new movie, "The Spirit." While chatting with Jay Leno she revealed she had caught a cold from co-star Samuel L. Jackson. When Leno handed her a tissue she said she would sell it on eBay to raise money for the hunger relief charity USA Harvest. A lot of people want to catch her cold, last time I checked the auction had over 70 bids and the tissue was up to nearly $3,500. The auction ends on Monday.

[via AP]

From the LA Times Hot Property:
--Grammy Award-winning music producer Danny Bramson and wife Julee are selling a 40-acre horse ranch in Topanga for $4,195,000. The listing is here.
--Robert Olodort, who invented the Stowaway -- a full-size QWERTY keyboard tthat fits in a shirt pocket is selling his Brentwood house for $3,195,000. The three-bedroom home was recently redone. The listing is here.
Producer Danny Dimbort is selling his two-story English Tudor in Hancock Park for $6 million.
-Music producer Jimmy Jam (Harris) and his wife, Lisa, are selling the 20-acre property they own in Thousand Oaks for $7,995,000. It is a gated ranch adjacent to the Sherwood Country Club. They tore down the existing house and plans have been approved for a 17,000-square-foot estate with a 2,500-square-foot guesthouse. There are existing barns and horse facilities. The listing is here.
--Actor Chris Masterson has put his traditional 1939 Los Feliz home, shown above, on the market. The virtual tour is here.
--Former NFL football player Phil McConkey sold his contemporary home above La Jolla Cove in San Diego County for $2.85 million. McConkey and his wife, Erin, are in escrow on another home in the Beach Club Terrace neighborhood of La Jolla Shores. The Spanish-style house was listed at $4.5 million and has five bedrooms and five bathrooms.

From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:
--They are already flipping at the 15 Central Park West condo complex. A four-bedroom unit is now on the market for $90 million after being sold to a venture capitalist for $30 million last month. I know the building is hot but could it really be that hot?
--One of the Hamptons' largest waterfront estates, Tyndal Point, a 55-acre property in North Haven is now being offered at $75 million, down from its original $80 million listing price in January 2007.
--Manhattan House on the Upper East Side has hit their sales go which means that the project is now official.
--Fashion stylist Phillip Bloch has put his Chelsea penthouse on the market for $1.5 million. He says he was to busy to renovate but it has roof rights for the construction of an additional 1,000 square feet above to create a duplex. The listing is here.

From the NY Observer's Manhattan Transfers:
--Scarlett Johansson has paid $2.1 million for a penthouse on East 53rd Street near Sutton Place.
--Designer Betsey Johnson paid $1,854,000 for an apartment at 30 East 85th Street. Her pink apartment in the Village remains on the market and is now listed at $2.495 million. It was listed at $3.6 million when it was our estate of the day last December.
--A 15-room, six-bathroom, four-fireplace co-op at 1030 Fifth Avenue, put on the market for $34 million has found a buyer in less than a week. It belongs to psychoanalyst Christine Wasserstein, who kept the apartment after her divorce from New York magazine publisher Bruce Wasserstein, the billionaire CEO of Lazard.

From Berg Properties Big Time Listings:
--"Malcolm in the Middle" actor Justin Berfield has paid $1.45 million or a new three-bedroom house in Venice, California.
--A three-bedroom home in the Beverly Hills post office area that was owned from 1996 until 2007 by actor Brendan Fraser is back on the market for $3.995 million. The virtual tour is here.

From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--An investor group led by fashion trade-show producer Elyse Kroll has sold a townhouse in New York's venerable Sutton Place neighborhood for $30 million, which is roughly $8 million more than the group paid almost a year ago.
--The Montana ranch of the late fashion designer Liz Claiborne has sold for close to its recent $7.5 million asking price. It was our estate of the day in October of last year.
--Kenny Rogers has listed his six-bedroom home in Atlanta, Georgia. It's our estate of the day later today.
--CNN anchor Soledad O'Brien has put her downtown Manhattan loft up for sale for $4.6 million. The listing for the elegant full-floor apartment is here.
--The widow of best-selling author Sidney Sheldon, Alexandra, has sold one of the Palm Springs, Calif., properties she listed earlier this year and cut the price of the others by 30%. A four-bedroom home known as the "playhouse" and used for entertaining sold for $1.425 million, slightly less than its asking price. She is asking $2 million for the adjacent main house and $2.3 million for a guest house. A second guest house, across the street, now sells for $3 million, down 25% from its original asking price of $4 million. The listings can be found here.
--Philanthropist Lois Pope, widow of National Enquirer founder Generoso Pope Jr., is asking $36.5 million for her ranch in Colorado.

From the Real Estalker:
--Rumor has it that Beyonce and Jay-Z have picked up a house in Scarsdale, New York which is also where they picked up their marriage license.
--Chris Noth and his girlfriend Tara Wilson recently bought a mid-century modern style home in Sherman Oaks, California for $1.445 million.
--Matthew Perry has put his condo in the celeb-friendly Sierra Tower in West Hollywood up for sale for $4.5 million.
--NIcole Kidman has put her Sydney, Australia home on the market for $20 million.
--Stylist Philipp Bloch, mentioned above, has also put a two-bedroom apartment in Los Angeles on the market for $629,0000.

From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:
--Last year developer Harry Macklowe spent approximately $60 million for several apartments to combine into one huge residence at the Plaza. Now he's reportedly quietly looking for someone who might want to pick up the 10,000-square-foot expanse. A similar-sized pad in the building has reportedly been floating a $100 million price tag to brokers.
--Diana Ross is re-listing her Greenwich estate, known as Quarry Farm, for the same $39.5 million price.
--Investor Chris Knight has finally sold Shorewood, the former Shelter Island estate of ex-Gov. Hugh Carey. He originally asked for $33 million after buying for $10 million but it now looks like the selling price is in the mid $12 million range.

From the NY Observer's Manhattan Transfers:
--As the Real Estalker predicted last week, Veronica Hearst is selling off her co-op at 4 East 66th Street for around $30 million.
-- Bear Stearns senior managing director Bill Bamber and his wife closed in February on their new apartment at Third Avenue around 92nd Street, paying $1,995,000 million for a new two-unit, four-bedroom condo with views of the George Washington Bridge, the Triborough, and the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir five weeks before the firm collapsed.
--According to city records, 23-year-old Scarlett Johansson just sold her duplex loft at 66 Leonard Street for $1,898,000, even though she paid $1,950,000 back in January 2006.

From Berg Properties Big Time Listings:
--Tony Danza has sold his five-bedroom home in Sherman Oaks area for an undisclosed price after it had been on the market for $6,150,000. It was our estate of the day last November.
--Eddie and Alex Van Halen sold their late mother's home in the Summit neighborhood in the Beverly Hills, CA postal area for $1.5 million; it was listed at $2.2 million.
--Actor Kyle Bornheimer has paid $1.25 million for a three-bedroom house in Los Feliz and has sold a home in Silver Lake for its $739,000 asking price.

From the Real Estalker:
--The charming contemporary Hollywood Hills house owned by Naomi Foner and Stephen Gyllenhaal, the parents of Jake and Maggie Gyllenhaal, has been reduced from a listing price of $4.2 million to $3.795 million. The listing is here.
--Sharon Stone has been trying to flip this Beverly Hills post office listing for a few years but now it's up for rent for $58,000 a month, the listing is here.
--Care to spend even more on a rental? The Beverly Hills home that has been rented by both Tom Cruise and Russell Crowe is now available for $100,000 a month. The listing is here.
--Rumor has it that P. Diddy is looking for a new house in Los Angeles.
--via the Globe and Mail, Rush lead guitarist Alex Lifeson has put his Toronto home on the market for $5.699 million Canadian. The listing is here.
-- via the Atlanta Journal Constitution, Atlanta Falcons owner, Home Depot co-founder and billionaire Arthur Blank has put his home on Tuxedo Road in Atlanta, shown above, on the market for $10.9 million. The listing is here.
----Ricky Martin has picked an island off the coast of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil for around $8 million. No word on which one but I'm hoping it's this former estate of the day.
--Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt and family are in the south of France, reportedly holed up in Villa Maryland, Paul Allen's home in St. Jean Cap Ferrat.
--The Beverly Hills post office home of music mogul Ron Fair, has hit the market for $4.795 million. The property website is here.
--Actors John Ales and Wendy Gazelle have put their two-bedroom home in the Nichols Canyon area of the Hollywood Hills on the market for $1.247 million. The listing is here.

From WWD:
--Cornelia Guest is putting her historic family home Templeton in Old Westbury, N.Y., on the market for $20 million. The home is listed with Daniel Gale Sotheby's realty.

From UPI:
--Robert De Niro is planning to open a Japanese-themed condo and hotel complex in New York, Nobu Hotel. The building will ready in two to four years.

From the LA Times Hot Property:
--Actress Mel Harris has listed her home in Pacific Palisades. It's our estate of the day later today.
--Tom Arnold has listed his home in Tarzana for $2.275 million (he paid $1.95 million a couple of years ago). The property website is here.

Peyton Manning wasn't the only one who had a good Super Bowl weekend. The lovely and talented Scarlett Johansson was the big winner this weekend at the Sprint Style Villa on Ocean Drive Village. She scored a free one-year lease on a $2.2 million Bayfront condo at Flamingo South Beach. Johansson drew the lucky key that unlocked a cabinet that encased a Lucite replica of the Flamingo building. A bunch of other celebs such as Robert Downey, Jr., Ashanti, Matt Leinart and Stacy Keibler also competed for the prize. Johansson's new South Beach getaway home is a three-bedroom lanai unit at Flamingo South Beach.The condo has had a complete renovation.

Who else would you pick to advertise a project named red but woman named Scarlett. Scarlett Johansson has been announced as the face of RED, the new multi-brand project that will donate a portion of profits to the Global Fund which fights TB, Aids and malaria in Africa. The project involves brands including American Express, Gap, Converse and Armani. RED will officially launch on Wednesday in Britain.

The shoes, gowns, tuxedos and other accessories from the Golden Globes awards are up for bid at the Clothes Off Our Back auction. While most of the actress gowns are a size 4, the shoes are in a wider variety of sizes. Scarlett Johansson's red Jimmy Choo shoes are a size 8.5 and proceeds benefit Cure Autism Now, Half the Sky and UNICEF's work in Darfur. The current bid last time I checked was $870.