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Sunday Real Estate Round-Up: 10/10/10

Filed under: Estates, Celebrity Shopping

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.

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--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.

Gallery: A Real Housewife In New York City

--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.

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Vidal Sassoon's Son Launches Hair Care Line

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Filed under: Cosmetics and Fragrance

The son of hair legend Vidal Sassoon now has his own line of salon products. Elan Sassoon is the son of Vidal Sassoon and the owner of Mizu salons in New York and Boston. His new hair care line Sojourn offers a variety of products including shampoo, conditioner, detangler, volume gel, sculpting taffy, molding paste and a monoi oil hair treatment.

The salon-only product line launched in February of this year and products contain pH compatible, Keratin Cashmere Protein, 100% biodegradable, sulfate-, formaldehyde- and paraben-free ingredients. "My goal in creating Sojourn was to focus on the natural pH of hair, which is 4.5-5.5," stated Elan Sassoon. "This is the range that hair structure is at its strongest. When we raise the pH of hair, the cuticle will open, leaving it susceptible to color loss and damage. By formulating Sojourn products in the pH range of 4.5-5.5, people will be putting back the moisture in their hair, allowing it to be healthy and enjoy lasting color."

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Singleton Residence, Estate of the Day

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Filed under: Estates

A few weeks ago I mentioned the coverage the Real Estalker and Radar paid to this home, a Richard Neutra-designed estate in Bel Air currently owned by hair icon Vidal Sassoon. Sassoon bought the house in 2004 and gave the home a renovation that a house with this type of architectural provenance deserves.

This type of home with its spare and blocky lines may not be to all tastes. You've got to love the Modernist style to embrace Neutra. This home is one of just two Neutra homes in Bel Air (my neighborhood, Silver Lake is home to many more). This home was built in 1959 and has over five acres in Bel Air. Additions include a new master bedroom wing, an expanded kitchen and a gallery that blends the approach to the earlier Neutra addition into the overall floorplan. The home has four bedrooms, a screening room and there are two extra building pads on the site. Radar put the house at $19. million but the Sotheby's listing has it at $25 million. Amazing considering that Sassoon is said to have purchased for $6 million. After the jump, perfect minimalism and a bed with a tail.

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