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Desperate Housewives stunner Eva Longoria was spotted in Miami over Super Bowl weekend enjoying a romantic rendez-vous aboard the 150 ft. Utopia III superyacht (above). Barely a week after her divorce from Tony Parker was finalized, she was seen making waves with 25-year-old Spanish singer Eduardo Cruz, actress Penelope Cruz's younger brother, the London Daily Mail reports. There were on the yacht as guests of cosmetics mogul Loren Ridinger, who hosted a Super Bowl viewing party.

Built by Trinity Yachts in 1999, the Utopia III has accommodations for 10 guests in addition to nine crew – not that we're implying Eva and Eduardo shared a bunk, though they did spend the night on board. The yacht has been in the news before thanks to Kim Kardashian strutting around the decks in a bikini. Longoria first sparked rumors of a romance when she was spotted with Eduardo at her Los Angeles restaurant Beso in October; Eduardo was then seen leaving Eva's house on Christmas Eve.

From the NY Observer:
--Martha Stewart's former apartment at 173 Perry Street recently had a $2 million price cut to $13.9 million. The listing is here.
--Voice over artist and CBS announcer Wendell Craig and his wife Nancy Good have just bought a two-bedroom co-op in Morningside Heights for $1.695 million.
--Tina Fey, has sold her 500 West End Avenue apartment for $2.15 million to lawyer Jack E. Pace III and wife, Colleen Ann Tully. Fey and her husband Jeff Richmond, purchased the two-bedroom in 2004 for $1.9 million. In 2009 they purchased a $3.4 million four-bedroom apartment in the same Upper West Side neighborhood. She also recently sold a studio apartment which she used as office space for $550,000.
--Socialite and Bernie Madoff victim Dorris Carr Bonfigli has sold her Fifth Avenue penthouse. She listed it just before Christmas 2008 for $11.3 million. The home at 930 Fifth Avenue recently sold for $7.5 million. The buyers are Dutch artists Wouter and Ann Kourijn.
--The late author Louis Auchincloss' Park Avenue apartment has sold to a financier for $3.905 million.
--The new plans to revise the penthouse at Robert De Niro's Greenwich Hotel in Tribeca have gotten the Landmarks Preservation Commission's seal of approval.
--Hockey player Henrik Lundqvist has sold his 20th-floor duplex in The Bromley at 225 West 83rd Street for $1.68 million. He bought the property in 2006 for $1.75 million.
--David S. Winter and his wife Elizabeth paid $26 million for a fifth-floor co-op at 778 Park Avenue.
--The Tribeca home of convicted Ponzi schemer Hassan Nemazee has sold for $3.15 million.
--German singer Ute Lemper and her husband Todd Turkisher, have bought the penthouse at 125 West 76th Street for $1.64 million.
--Jennifer and Peter Bernstein have bought the second floor of a two-floor duplex that was previously listed for nearly $15 million for $2.2 million.
--Gossip Girl producer Joshua Safran has sold his apartment at 77 White Street for $1.76 million.
--Martin Broughton, the CEO of British Airways, purchased a $2.9 million apartment in the Schwab House on Riverside Drive from John and Tania Secor.
--Harper's publisher John R. "Rick" MacArthur recently dropped $5.05 million on a three-bedroom apartment in The Kenilworth at 151 Central Park West was originally put on the market for $5.495 million.
-Jimmy Fallon and his wife, producer Nancy Juvonen, listed two seventh-floor apartments at the oldest New York City co-op building, 34 Gramercy Park East, for $3.75 million but the listing soon came off the market and public records show no sale of the yet-to-be-combined units. Now the couple purchased a $1.35 million eighth-floor apartment in the same building.


From the NY Post:
--The apartment where actor Heath Ledger lived in New York City is unofficially back on the market for $5 million. The 4,400-square-foot unit at 421 Broome St.has been gut-renovated but still needs a lot of work.
--"Saturday Night Live" star Bill Hader recently checked out an $8,400-per-month, two-bedroom, two-bathroom unit at the Philip Johnson-designed Urban Glass House at 330 Spring St.
--Fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi is in contract to buy a two-bedroom, two-bathroom condo in the prewar Emery Roth-designed building (where Cameron Diaz has a place). The apartment's most recent asking price was $2.25 million and Mizrahi bought a one-bedroom, one-bathroom unit on the same floor earlier this year for $1.1 million. The seller of both apartments is Jack Kliger, CEO of TV Guide and former CEO of Hachette Filipacchi Media.
--Courtney Love was hopping to buy Milla Jovovich's $7.5 million townhouse at 100 Greenwich Ave. but a mystery last-minute higher bidder claimed the price.
--Justin Timberlake paid around $6.4 million for his new three-bedroom apartment at the Soho Mews. His apartment at the Pearline Soap Factory is still on the market for $5.25 million.


From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
The Portabello estate in Corona Del Mar, California was listed for $75 million in 2006 but has sold for $34.1 million, according to records. The WSJ says that the buyer also gave the seller a property valued at around $7 million.

Allman Brothers Band drummer Butch Trucks has been trying to sell his home in Palm Beach, Florida for a while now. it was once listed at $4.8 million but Trucks and his wife are now asking $3 million for the six-bedroom home which is less than a five-minute walk from the beach. The listing is here.



From the NY Times:
Georgina Bloomberg, the younger daughter of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg bought a co-op at 101 Central Park West for "very close" to the $4.15 million asking price.

From the NY Observer:
--The new owner of Steve Wynn's Fifth Avenue condo is the ex Mrs. Wynn. Elaine Wynn took over control of the home, which was listed for $25 million in 2009, for $17.155 million. This summer the Wall Street Journal reported that Wynn is buying a four-bedroom duplex condominium at the Plaza for around $23 million.
--Robert Kaliner, a developer, and his wife Jodi have bought an apartment at The Grand Madison at 225 Fifth Avenue.
--Richard Khawam, a director at Wachovia, and his wife Angela have cashed in their Soho apartment at 15 Mercer Street for $3.7 million.
--Charlie Palmer, the acclaimed chef, has sold his five-story townhouse at 34 East 61st Street for $10 million.
--Sangyeup Lee, the designer who brought the Camaro back to life, and his wife, Soonhyun Kwon bought a river-facing unit at Extell's Rushmore at 80 Riverside Boulevard for $2.59 million.
--Philip J. Purcell IV, known as "Boo" and son of the former Dean Witter and Morgan Stanley boss whose name he shares, has just bought an apartment with his wife, Stephanie, at the colorful, SOM-designed 101 Warren in southern Tribeca for $2.93 million according to city records.
--Advertising exec and television host Donny Deutsch sold his two Tyson Lane lots off East Hampton's Further Lane for around $29 million total.


From the NY Post:
--Dixie Chicks lead singer and her husband, former "Heroes" actor Adrian Pasdar, are buying a four-bedroom home at 525 W. 22nd St. for just more than $4.3 million.
--Prudential Douglas Elliman broker Michael Lorber is set to star in Bravo's "Million Dollar Listing." Warburg Realty will be the newest addition to HGTV's "Selling New York" when new episodes premiere in January.
--Glenn Beck has settled into one of the city's fanciest East Side buildings, where multiple condos are on the market for upwards of $3,000 per square foot and two-bedroom rentals can run more than $10,000.
--Mimi Dalva has decided to put her 12-room maisonette at 320 E. 72nd St. on the market for $7.95 million. The listing for the six-bedroom co-op is here.


From the Real Estalker:
Jeff Lewis of "Flipping Out" has, after a few price cuts, finally sold his personal residence in the Los Feliz area of Los Angeles for $2.325 million.
--Basketball superstar Tony Parker, the husband of Desperate Housewives star Eva Longoria Parker, has bought a condo in the Du Parc Kempinski Private Residences in Switzerland. Check out more details about this property in a review we did earlier this year.
--Tiger Wood's ex-wife Elin recently toured a penthouse apartment at the 16-unit Claridge condo tower in Tequesta, Florida.

From Chicago Breaking Sports:
--Former Chicago Cubs pitcher Ted Lilly has just listed his six-bedroom, nearly 5,500-square-foot mansion just west of Wrigley Field for $2.4 million.

From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--Derivatives pioneer Howard Sosin, who founded AIG's financial products unit in 1987, has bought a home in Palm Beach, Florida for $5.05 million. He plans to use the six-bedroom house as a winter home for himself and his family.
--Former Bear Stearns CEO Alan D. Schwartz in February sold his six-bedroom home in Purchase, N.Y., for $3.28 million.
--William P. Foley II, founder and chairman of title insurer Fidelity National Financial Inc., and his wife, Carol, have sold their roughly eight-acre, oceanfront estate in Santa Barbara, Calif., for $18.44 million. In Feburary the Foleys were asking $28.5 million and the most recent asking price was $23.5 million. Foley says he plans to spend time in Northern California, where he owns several wineries.

From Curbed LA:
--Dennis Hopper's Venice, California compound has had a price cut down to $4.799 million. It started at $6.245 million back in July when the listing went live.

Eva Longoria Parker and Tony Parker have been working on a huge San Antonio mansion for a while. It must be close to completion because according to the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties, the pair have listed Parker's previous San Antonio home for sale. The five-bedroom stucco house is a comparatively modest home on .65 acres that include a pool and a half basketball court featuring the logo of Parker's team, the Spurs. The home is in a gated community and it has tile floors, a large kitchen and a master suite that has a double sided fireplace that opens to a whirlpool tub in the master bath. Other spaces include a wood-paneled study and a media room that leads to an outdoor terrace. Parker bought this home for $782,040 at the age of 19 in 2001 and added the pool and basketball court. This home is listed at $895,777.

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It's a good thing San Antonio Spurs point guard Tony Parker has two wrists. Not only did he just pick up a custom Piaget watch as a gift from his new bride Eva Longoria but he is also in the new ad campaign for Swiss watch brand IWC Schaffhausen. Hopefully, Parker won't run afoul of the same type of watch endorsement trouble that befell Charlize Theron when she was sued by the Raymond Weil watch company for wearing a rival's watch at a red-carpet event. It would be a shame if he didn't get to wear his new Piaget too.

So Eva Longoria and Tony Parker finally made it official this past weekend when they got married in France. What better way to promise their eternal love to each other than with these beautiful and unique Piaget Possession wedding bands -- made of two bands that are "inseparably linked, turning together for eternity." Eva's features double rows of brilliant cut diamonds divided by a row of 27 square cut diamonds down the center (for a total of 107 jewels), and Tony's is elegance in its simplest form. Both rings are 18k white gold and, per the couple's request, have a personalized French engraving on the inside.

In addition to choosing Piaget for their wedding bands, Eva also ordered a one-of-a-kind timepiece made as a wedding gift for her new husband. A customized version of the Piaget Polo watch, the Piaget 'Number 9' features a 43mm white gold case, a slate grey 18K gold and titanium bezel and matching slate grey dial, and 50 diamonds in the shape of his MVP number 9 -- so it's truly just for him.

Most brides just have to worry about who they're going to have take their wedding pictures, but Eva Longoria and fiancé Tony Parker also had to decide who would get the rights to publish them. The biggest bidders for exclusive rights to wedding coverage were People magazine and OK!, with OK! coming out on top by offering $2 million dollars.

The wedding is planned for this weekend, July 7th, in a castle just outside of Paris. I wonder how much Eva and Tony are paying for their own personal wedding photos? Think $2 million will cover it?