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'American Idol's' Simon Cowell and Simon Fuller Moving on to Formula 1?

Filed under: Sports

Between the two of them, Simon Cowell and Simon Fuller have no shortage of successes to claim their own. Many of those accomplishments revolve around reality television programs like "American Idol," "X Factor," "So You Think You Can Dance?" and "America's Got Talent." Bernie Ecclestone apparently thinks quite highly of their show business acumen, and is now reportedly recruiting their talents to bring an added dose of showmanship to Formula One racing.

One idea Cowell and Fuller have reportedly put forward to the billionaire F1 chief is to cut the three-day grand prix weekend to two, and to replace the customary Friday practice sessions with a second preview race.

Cowell is a known racing fan and automotive enthusiast, while Fuller has been actively involved in the sport previously. The producer/promoter headed up the Honda F1 Team's branding initiative several years ago, and recently signed former world champion Lewis Hamilton to his talent agency alongside the likes of David Beckham, Sir Michael Caine and Jennifer Lopez.

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Sunday Real Estate Round-Up

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Estates

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.

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