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From the NY Post:
--The Wainscott estate that was the home of Stuyvesant Wainwright II, a former Republican congressman who died this year, is now on the market for $18.5 million. The listing is here.
--"Law & Order: SVU" star Mariska Hargitay and actor husband Peter Hermann have picked up an 11-bedroom home in East Hampton. The home was on the market for $8.9 million, but a source says the deal just closed for $7.34 million.
--Baz Luhrmann checked out a three-bedroom, $21,000 penthouse rental at 304 Spring St. in the Hudson Square area. Actress Meg Ryan and comedian Lewis Black have also seen the penthouse duplex. The listing is here.
--Fashion designer John Varvatos is renting a 12th-floor, two-bedroom apartment at 923 Fifth Ave. for $10,500 per month.
--A two-story shingled Water Mill farmhouse built in 1826 just hit the market for $40 million. The home is owned by John Sargent, who was once the president and CEO of the Doubleday publishing company, and his wife, Elizabeth. The listing is here.

From the LA Times Hot Properties:
--Actress Estella Warren has put her Beverly Hills Post Office-area home back on the market at $1.795 million. We checked this home out as an estate of the day last year when it was listed at $1.95 million.

--The family home of Jack Haley, who played the Tin Man in "The Wizard of Oz," has come on the market at $3.599 million. After Haley retired from show business, he and comedian Jackie Gleason formed the Kramden Investment Company which bought and sold commercial and residential real estate. The listing is here.
--The Pacific Palisades home of actress Mary McDonnell and her husband, actor Randle Mell, has sold for $2 million. The couple bought the property in 1999 for $1.4 million.
From Move Trends:
--Tennis star Jennifer Capriati's Wesley Chapel, Florida home is still on the market, and listed for $2.1 million.

From the Real Estalker:
--Scarlett Johansson may have sold her home which was recently listed at $4,995,000.
-- Elin Nordegren, the soon-to-be ex-wife of Tiger Woods has been spotted house shopping in Boca Raton, Florida.


From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
The estate of Nancy M. Daly, the late ex-wife of former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan, has reduced the price her Malibu home to $47 million. The listing is here.
Debbi Fields and her husband, Michael Rose, the former chief executive of Holiday Inn, are still searching for a buyer for their 501-acre ranch near Aspen, Colorado. It's now listed at $28.5 million.
Ruby Tuesday's founder Sandy Beall and his wife, Kreis, are asking $3.75 million for a waterfront home they recently renovated in Beaufort, South Carolina. The home, known as the Castle was our estate of the day back in February when it was listed at $3.95 million.

From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:
--Kenneth Cole and his wife Maria Cuomo Cole, have just paid $14.5 million for a five-bedroom, five-bath prewar co-op apartment at One Sutton Place South.
--Real-estate investor/enthusiast Michael Hirtenstein has added even more space to his TriBeCa bachelor pad at One York taking it from a huge 6,600 square feet to a gargantuan 11,000 square feet of interior space plus 6,000 square feet of exterior space.
--So far Andie McDowell, Christie Brinkley and Rosie O'Donnell have all checked out the nine remaining residences at 10 West End Ave.

From the NY Observer's Manhattan Transfers:
--The former Guccione townhouse sold for just $49 million to hedge fund titan Philip Falcone. Amazing considering it was once listed, albeit briefly and foolishly for $99 million.
--TV home renovator Bob Vila spent $4 million on a townhouse in 2004. He has now renovated and is asking $11.5 million. The renovation was filmed for season 15 of the TV show Bob Vila's Home Again. The house is now two duplexes plus a full floor apartment as well as rear half-floor apartments on the first and fourth floors, which Mr. Vila couldn't touch because there are still rent-stabilized tenants there. The penthouse is being rented for the year at around $15,000 per month, and the duplex downstairs is rented at around $10,000. The listing is here.
--Estée Lauder CEO and president (and grandson) William P. Lauder has gotten in at snooty 778 Park Avenue, despite a scandal with a love child. Lauder paid $27,5 million for his apartment.
--A trader named Ping Jiang, managing director at billionaire Steven Cohen's hedge fund SAC Capital, paid $16.5 million for a 4,000-square-foot co-op at the Dakota and was accepted by the coop board even though a former trader at SAC filed a lawsuit alleging that Mr. Jiang had forced him to take black-market female hormones.
--The most expensive co-op listing ever on Central Park West listed at $36 million by music mogul Steve Gottlieb, is no longer listed. Sold or is Gottilieb looking for a little less publicity since his label TVT Records has filed for bankruptcy protection.

From Berg Properties Big Time Listings:
--Actor Malcolm Gets has sold his three-bedroom house in Los Feliz for $1,069,500.
-- via the NY Observer, "Harry Potter" actor Daniel Radcliffe has paid $4.9 million for a three-bedroom condo unit in Manhattan's Morton Square development.
--One of my all time favorite estates of the day, the Ursus Major home in Bel-Air, shown above, that belonged to Wilt Chamberlain sold for $6.555 million. It was listed for a whopping $11.5 million when we made it an estate of the day in December 2006.
--The Malibu beach house that Paris Hilton rented last summer can be yours this summer for $80,000 a month for a minimum of two months. The listing is here.

From the Real Estalker:
--The Real Estalker Mama checks out Sidney Kimmel's $81.5 million pleasure palace in Palm Beach.
--Author and radio host Garrison Keillor has put his seven-bedroom Minnesota home on the market for $1.65 million. He bought in 1998 for $710,000. The listing is here.
--Actor Chris O'Donnell has put his Pacific Palisades home on the market for $5.395 million.
--Fleur de Lys, the $125 million Saperstein home in Holmby Hills just may have found a buyer.
--Greek shipping heir Paris Latsis has put his Beverly Hills Post Office area home on the market for $15 million. It is our estate of the day later today.
--Kanye West has sold the Beverly Hills teardown house he purchased a year ago for $7,150,000 and then listed for $8,699,000. The purchase price isn't known.
--via the NY Post's Page Six, Nicole Richie and Joel Madden have purchased a million dollar apartment on The Bowery in New York City.
--Cher has put her Malibu mansion on to the market as a "pocket listing" and is looking for a rumored $40 million for the place.

From the LA Times Hot Properties:
--Mary Lynn Rajskub, an actress seen on the TV show "24" has placed her Venice, CA bungalow on the market for $1,299,000. The listing is here, it's as cute as she is.
--Mixmaster Mike, a 37-year-old DJ with the Beastie Boys, has purchased a home in the Sunset Strip area for $990,000.
--Stacey Bendet, the designer-owner of the women's clothing boutique Alice & Olivia, has bought a John Woolf home in the Sunset Strip area for close to $3 million. She plans to used the home as a style salon and party pad and Moby will be using the guest house as a recording studio.
Alicia Piazza, wife of baseball catcher Mike Piazza, has listed a loft she owns in downtown Long Beach at $689,000. She and Piazza recently bought a home in the Miami Beach area for $10 million.

From AOL Real Estate:
--Home deals under $250,000.