steven cojocaru

The Real Estalker alerted us to the fact that fashion critic Steven Cojocaru has listed his Hollywood Hills home. Cojocaru, a former fashion editor for People Magazine and currently a fashion correspondent for a variety of outlets was famously fired from the Today Show weeks after he underwent kidney surgery in 2005. He ended up having two kidney transplants and later wrote a book, " Glamour, Interrupted" about the experience.

He bought today's home in 2007 paying $3.8 million according to records on Property Shark. The butterfly-roofed home is a mid-century modern built in 1955. It is 3,850 square feet and has three bedrooms. The California cool home includes a screening room and wet bar and an office. Pitched roof ceilings and sliding glass doors contribute to an expansive sense of space. The home is calmly and tastefully decorated with neutral simple furniture that suits the era of the house. One cute note is Steve McQueen's mug shot hanging in the bathroom. One bedroom has a sliding glass door and an orb fireplace, another also opens directly to the patio. The bathrooms are modernized with features like an egg-shaped bath tub and long raised sinks. The small lot includes an infinity pool and modest yard. This home is listed with Judy Feder of Nourmand & Associates, Beverly Hills for $3.95 million or can be rented for $20,000 a month. The property website by Val Riolo is here.

From the LA Times Hot Properties:
--Actor Christopher Lloyd has put his smaller house in Montecito, shown above, for sale for $3.6 million. The elegant home has two bedrooms, bamboo floors and a raised bamboo pergola overlooking the pool and spa. His other home in the area which was listed in 2007 for $11.27 million and was an estate of the day, has been taken off the market.
--Mark Wahlberg has listed his house in Beverly Hills at $15.9 million. The listing is here.
--Basketball player Elton Brand has sold his Hollywood Hills home for $4.55 million.
--Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator Joss Whedon has listed his home in Brentwood. it's our estate of the day later today.
Another "Buffy" and "Angel" veteran, writer David Greenwalt, recently sold his house in the Pacific Palisades for $2.958 million.

From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:
--The asking price for the triplex penthouse at artist Julian Schnabel's, pink Palazzo Chupi building in the West Village has been cut by $5.5 million to $24 million. It was our estate of the day earlier in the year.
--Quarterback Tom Brady has cut the price on his Time Warner Center apartment from $18.29 million to $17.75 million. We'll be checking this one tomorrow.
--Cosmetics mogul Adrien Arpel and her husband, Ronald Newman, have paid $5.9 million for a seven-room co-op at 900 Fifth Ave.
--One of the Hamptons' premier properties, Fordune, will be listed for rent next year. This may be the first time since Henry Ford II owned the 42-acre oceanfront Southampton property. it will rent for $600,000 to use it from August through Labor Day next year and has 12 bedrooms, 12 bathrooms, a game room, a library, a large formal dining room, staff rooms and a commercial kitchen.

From Berg Properties Big Time Listings:
--Cher has paid $1,400,000 to purchase a two-bedroom, 1,455-square-foot house in West Hollywood,California. It may be a house for her daughter, Chastity.
--Regis Philbin has put his Greenwich, Connecticut home on the market for $5.4 million. It was our estate of the day on Friday.
--Brad Garrett finally has sold his 10,223-square-foot mansion in Hidden Hills, California. The most recent listing price was $8.35 million.
--Little more than a year after he sold it for $2.9 million, the former house of fashion critic Steven Cojocaru in the Hollywood Hills is back on the market, for $3.695 million. The property website is here.

From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--The home used to film ABC's "Bachelor" shows is for sale and the price has been dropped to $8.75 million, down from just under $13 million. You can see listing pics from when the home was listed at $11.5 million here.
--Last month, philanthropist Carroll Petrie sold a Palm Beach, Fla., house for $3 million, $500,000 less than she paid less than a year earlier, to investor John D. Firestone, of the tire-manufacturing family. In May, she paid $7.45 million for a 6,700-square-foot, five-bedroom home about a mile farther south.

From Newsday's Real LI:
-- A 4.08-acre property on Meadow Lane in Southampton will be listed soon for $38 million. According to public records, the oceanfront mansion was owned by Virginia Salomon, who died last month. She was married to Citigroup's honorary chairman William R. Salomon (and former managing partner at Salomon Brothers, Inc.) for more than 70 years. The 6,000 square foot house, built in 1992, has six bedrooms and eight baths, with a gunite pool and is located just west of designer Calvin Klein's home.
--Hairspray actress Nikki Blonsky may or may not be leaving Great Neck. Her family's home was recently seen on the Multiple Listing Service of Long Island for $649,000.
--Hilary Duff's longtime boyfriend, New York Islanders center Mike Comrie has purchased a condo in Garden City.


From the Real Estalker:
--Former Green Bay Packer quarterback Brett Favre has listed his Wisconsin home for $475,000. It was our estate of the day on Saturday.
--Technology guru Halsey Minor is not only trying to sell his home in Bel Air, he is said to be spending $15 million to renovate Le Petit Trianon in San Francisco, which he bought in 2007. The home was on the market for a while (I first got wind of it in 2005) and is said to be in some disrepair.
--The listing for the $24 million Goldwyn mansion has been temporary pulled from the market so that it can be renovated.
--Baseball player Tom Glavine and his wife Christine have put their home in Alpharetta, Georgia on the market for $3.75 million. We'll be looking at this one as an estate of the day on Monday.
--Cameron Diaz is said to be house shopping in Beverly Hills.
--More Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner real estate rumors, this time it is said that they have put their home in Brentwood on the market for around $8 million.
--Tae-Bo king Billy Blanks is getting a divorce and has put his Hidden Hills home on the market for $11.5 million. The listing is here.

From The Sun:
--Robbie Williams has picked up a seven-bedroom mansion in the Beverly Park community in Los Angeles for over $20 million.

From ONTD:
--Lauren Conrad of The Hills has been spotted house shopping in her home town of Laguna Beach.

From the NY Observer's Manhattan Transfers:
-- Kurt A. Locher, formerly a Lehman Brothers managing director recently bought a $5.25 million apartment at 500 West End Avenue. His old place on Park Avenue is still on the market for $2.495 million. We discussed this one earlier this week.
--According to numbers prepared for The Observer by research site StreetEasy, the days of easy luxury apartment sales are over. As of Monday, Manhattan had 168 super-luxury listings asking at least $15 million each which is nearly twice the number from autumn 2006.
--Former investment banker Jack Grubman has put his New York City townhouse on the market for $32 million. It was our estate of the day on Thursday.
--Sarah Allentuch, a former assistant to Woody Allen, and her husband, Greg Mottola, who directed Superbad recently bought a $2.6 million apartment at the new One York condo.
----An East River mansion, 7 Sutton Square, has sold for $32.5 million, well above its $25 million asking price. The seller is William F. Reilly, a retired magazine mogul and the buyer is listed anonymously, though a billing address is given care of Wildenstein & Co., which suggests that the house now belongs to the art collector Guy Wildenstein.

From the Daily Mail:
--James Bond star Daniel Craig has picked up a £4million apartment near Regent's Park in London.

From US Weekly:
---Paris Hilton has bought a five-bedroom, Mediterranean-style mansion for $6.25 million. There's some discussion over whether she has or has not bought the home, a rather bland yet lavish home in the Mulholland Gates community. Check out the listing here, it's clear the home was a family dwelling and will need a big remodel to fit Paris's single girl lifestyle. The home may also have more bookshelves than Miss Paris may require.
--The 7,000-square-foot Beverly Hills home Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes have been renting is back on the market for $100,000 a month.

From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:
--Three Ponds in Bridgehampton , shown abvoe, which was on the market for $75 million is now listed at $68 million. The listing is here.
--Alan Alda has listed a three-bedroom Sag Harbor home that he used as a home for the help for $799,000.
--Patricia Clarkson has bought a loft in the Village for $1.55 million.

From the Miami Herald:
--Hulk Hogan, has sold his Miami Beach mansion to action movie director Michael Bay for close to the listing price of $18.9 million. You can see pictures of the home here.

From the NY Observer's Manhattan Transfers:
--FIIC chairman and C.E.O. Abdul Huda Farouki, a friend of the disgraced former deputy Iraqi prime minister Ahmed Chalabi, is moving into the same building that Jon Bon Jovi recently paid $24 million for a penthouse in, the New Museum building in SoHo. Farouki's apartment is more modest, he paid $5.95 million for a second-floor condo.
--Anne Hathaway's parents have bought a $1.6 million apartment at the St. James Tower, a purplish far East Side condo.
--The daughter of socialite Denise Rich, Daniella Klistock, and her husband Richard have paid $3.9 million for a two-bedroom co-op at 785 Fifth Avenue where Ms. Rich lives in a lavish 28-room penthouse.
--The tales of Russian billionaire Len Blavatnik's search for a home in New York have been legion. Looks like Blavatnik, who has purchased a couple of blockbuster properties in New York is also the buyer of the Bronfman home making him just the second person history to pay over $50 million for a New York townhouse.


From the Real Estalker:
--Film producer Andrew Vajna has listed his Beverly Hills home for $6.495 million. The listing is here and it looks like it has already been sold.
--Tommy Lee has picked up a home in Calabasas that was listed at $6.75 million.

From Berg Properties Celebrity Big Time Listings:
--"Dancing with the Stars'' dance Louis van Amstel has paid $1.1 million for a two-bedroom condo unit in West Hollywood.
--French singer Johnny Hallyday and his wife, Laetitia, have paid $3.9 million for a Mediterranean-style house in the Los Angeles' Hollywood Hills/Bel-Air area.
--Motley Crue lead guitarist Mick Mars has paid $1.46 million 3,603-square-foot home in Malibu.
The National Enquirer has reported that Lionel Richie bought actor Dennis Franz's 2,274-square-foot town home in Century City area as a surprise for his daughter Nicole Richie and her fiancé Joel Madden. The rather bland condo was listed at $1.395 million.
--Marie Osmond has listed her six-bedroom home in Orem, Utah for $1.2 million. The listing is here.
--Actress Anna Paquin and two relatives have paid $1,575,000 for a home in the Hollywood Hills.

From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--NBA all-star Allen Iverson has listed his five-bedroom home in Villanova, Pennsylvania for $6.3 million. The listing for the 14,000 square foot chateau-like home on Chateau Lane is here.
--Grammy award-winning producer James Harris III, better known as Jimmy Jam, sold his lakefront home in Minnesota in June for $7 million.

From Reuters:
--Hedge fund manager and Red Sox owner John W. Henry has paid $16 million for a Boston estate.

From the LA Times Hot Property:
--Actress Catherine Bell and her husband Adam Beeson, have put their Calabasas home on the market for $3.25 million. The listing is here.
--Robert Wagner and his wife Jill St. John are selling a home in Brentwood's Mandeville Canyon, designed by Cliff May, for close to $15 million.
--A five-bedroom modern home which belonged to the late sci-fi film writer Bernard Gordon has been sold for close to its $2.3-million asking price.
--Fashion critic Steven Cojocaru has bought a contemporary house with city views and a pool for close to $4 million. As the Real Estalker reported in May, Cojo had listed his five-bedroom Hollywood Blvd. home for $2.995 million.
--Chris Salvaterra, an executive with Nickelodeon Movies and producer of "Fast Food Nation," and his writer wife, Marjorie, have sold their Venice home to "Flightplan" director Robert Schwentke and his wife, Jen Howard. The selling price was $1.6 million. The Salvaterras bought a home in Hancock Park.

From People:
--Actor John O'Hurley is selling his Beverly Hills villa. It is listed at $6.2 million, it's our estate of the day later today.