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From the NY Observer's Manhattan Transfers:
--The $50 million Kress Family penthouse duplex at 1020 Fifth Avenue is off the market. It hasn't been sold, the family is just tying up some loose ends.
--Ahmass Fakahany, a top-ranking executive at Merrill Lynch, and wife Alsun Keogh have sold off one of their apartments at the Police Building, thelaw enforcement HQ turned co-op at 240 Centre Street for $2.93 million.
--Actor Tim Blake Nelson and his wife Lisa just sold their 7.5-room prewar co-op at 37 Riverside Drive for $5.25 million. Their buyer is Jonathan Morris, co-founder of the retail fashion Web site Bluefly.
--Ashley and Mary-Kate Olsen have put their 12-room condo at One Morton Square, shown at right, on the market for $11.995 million which is $4,695,000 more than they paid for it three years ago, The apartment has been rented out for much of the time. The listing is here.
--Zach Braff has paid $3,200,000 for a 2,500-square-foot apartment in the building at 840 Broadway.


From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:
--Sting and Trudie Styler have pulled their Central Park West duplex off the market. The couple have also purchased a $30 million condo at 15 Central Park West.
--A minor fracas has developed over the listing of Christie Brinkley's $30 million Bridgehampton estate. Stribling agent Jessica Mansell Ambrose has it listed as an exclusive on her site but Corcoran Group broker, Susan Breitenbach is supposed to have the listing.
--Billy Joel and his wife Katie Lee have closed on their latest Sagaponack property for $11.625 million. It was on the market for $12.99 million. Apparently restrictive building codes prohibited the couple from adding to the home they bought from Roy Scheider last spring for $16.75 million. The new property, just west of Scheider's old place, has a three-bedroom home that Joel may use as a studio.
--Seagram heir Edgar Bronfman Jr. has picked up a 10-room apartment for $18.75 million in the Carhart mansion. Bronfman and his wife Clarissa already have a posh co-op on Fifth Avenue so it is not clear what they will do with their latest acquisition.

From the NY Times Big Deal:
The $45 million triplex at One Madison Park, the tower going up at 23 East 22nd Street, will include a one-bedroom unit on a lower floor for use by a private butler, who will be provided by the condominium indefinitely and paid by it as well. The proposal is still in the planning stages.

From Berg Properties Big Time Listings:
--Actress Rashida Jones, daughter of Quincy Jones, has paid $1,240,000 for a two-bedroom Cape Cod-style house in West Hollywood.
--Todd Stashwick, who stars on "The Riches" on the FX network, has paid $1,255,000 for a three-story home in the Hollywood Hills.
--Actress Denise Richards has sold one of the two houses that she owns in Hidden Hills, Calif. for $3,800,000.
--It looks like Avril Lavigne has finally sold her home in the Mulholland Estates neighborhood in Beverly Hills. The house, which was listed at $6,200,000 now shows that it is "looking for backup" in the LA MLS.
--British celebrity Anouska De Georgiou has paid $1,180,000 for a four-unit apartment building in the Los Angeles' Grove area and a few months ago she paid $1,167,000 for a three-bedroom, Spanish-style house in Los Angeles' Fairfax/WeHo area.
--Victoria's Secret model Emma Heming is the latest celeb to pick up in an apartment in the Broadway Hollywood building in Hollywood, paying an undisclosed amount with her then-fiance, party promoter/DJ/nightclub guru Brent Bolthouse for a unit in the building that she no longer occupies. The couple split up and she moved back to New York City picking up a condo in Chelsea.
--Actor Wilmer Valderrama has also picked up a unit in the same building as above.

From the Real Estalker:
--Rumor has it that Jason Lee may be moving to the Los Feliz home currently owned by musician Robert Cray and on the market for $3,250,000.
--The house in Palm Springs that Cher flipped and put on the market at $2,495,000 has been reduced to 1,999,000. It was our estate of the day back in January.
--House flipper turned reality star Jeff Lewis has listed another home, this one in the Los Feliz area for $1.795 million.
--Actor Eddie Cibrian and his wife Brandi have put their Encino home of the market for $4.395 million. The Real Estalker mama wasn't a fan of the property but someone was, is already listed as "looking for backup." Check out the virtual tour and make your own judgement, Valley palace or slapdash decorating at its highest iteration?
--Britney Spears' former NY penthouse is back on the market for $6,995,000. Considering how much trouble Spears had selling this it is pretty amazing that Beverly Hills 90210 producer and writer Jessica Stein and her husband Isaac Levenbrown have put the home on the market for $2,995,000 more than they paid for it in August 2006. Spears also appears to have taken her Beverly Hills house off the market yet again. This after various gossip blogs have reporting that Spears has a fantasy room in the home and that Spears is not exactly the tidiest of housekeepers.
--Actress Angie Harmon and football player Jason Sehorn have put their three-bedroom Beverly Hills home on the market for $1.895 million. The listing is here. The Real Estalker Mama reports that the couple actually live in Hidden Hills in a much larger four-bedroom home that is right next to the one that Melissa Etheridge and Tammy Lynn Michaels recently purchased.

From the LA Times Hot Property:
--Looks like I got it wrong on which Rising Glen house belongs to Rachel Zoe a few weeks back. Check out the listing for her home listed for $2.995 million here.
--Jerry Rice and his wife, Jackie have put their Atherton, California estate on the market for $22 million. You can see pictures here.
--As we mentioned above, Jeff Lewis of the Bravo reality show "Flipping Out," has listed a home in Los Feliz. Ruth Ryon puts it at slightly more than $1.8 million whereas the Real Estalker Mama had it at $1.795 million. He also recently sold a Spanish-style home in Los Feliz for about its $4.5-million asking price.
--For the first time in 50 years, the Shavelson estate in Studio City has come on the market. The home belonged to directpr and producer Melville Shavelson, who worked on films starring Lucille Ball, James Cagney and Frank Sinatra. The home is a four-bedroom 1930s traditional listed at $4.795 million. The listing is here.

From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--Film and theater producer Scott Rudin has sold his 18th-century home in Washington, Connecticut for about $4.25 million which was nearly 20% less than his asking price.
--Hedge-fund executive William von Mueffling paid $25 million last week for a 10th-floor co-op apartment at 810 Fifth Ave. in New York.
--Catherine Crier, whose Court TV legal news show was canceled earlier this year, has placed her 622-acre Wyoming ranch on the market last month for $3.99 million. Plenty of acreage and a simple 1,440-square-foot log cabin where Crier wrote several books. The listing can be found through Charlie Ross.

From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter and Page Six:
--The CEO of Estee Lauder has picked up an expansive apartment in the same building as Vera Wang's six bedroom spread, 778 Park Avenue. His application was approved by the co-op board less than a week before it was revealed that he had a baby with a woman who was not his wife.
--Celeb couples Christy Turlington Burns and Ed Burns and Naomi Watts and Liev Schreiber have been spotted house hunting in the Hamptons.
--Lisa Bonder Kerkorian, ex-wife of billionaire Kirk Kerkorian, has put her Bridgehampton property on the market again. This time for $16.3 million, it was on the market for $13.9 million earlier this year. The home is assembled from a 200-year-old barn. Enjoy the spare splendor at the listing here.
--Loews Hotels CEO and New York Giants co-owner Jonathan Tisch has been checking out a duplex apartment at 740 Park Ave. He has also signed a lease to take a $75,000-a-month apartment at Trump Park Avenue, presumably where his fiance Lizzie Rudnick will live before the knot is tied.
--Rachel Ray and her husband have purchased a compound in Southampton for just under $3 million. It has a three-bedroom main house and a two-bedroom pool house with sauna, separate guest cottage, pond and heated pool.

From The Real Estalker:
--Following up on a Berg Properties story from March, actor Rick Schroeder has bought a Malibu home, shown above, that belonged to real estate agent John Cortazzo and was featured on Bravo's Million Dollar Listings TV show. The two-bedroom beach house went for $5.85 million. Check out the home's website here.
--Actor Isaiah Washington has put his Hancock Park co-op on the market for $1.695 million.
--Has Nic Cage purchased Midford Castion, a Gothic castle three miles South of Bath that was built in 1775 in the shape of the ace of spades?
--Adrienne Vittadini is selling a five-bedroom home in Water Mill, New York. She bought in May of 1997 for just $1,470,000 and is now listing at $7.6 million. You can check out the listing here.
-- Frank and Jamie McCourt, who own Los Angeles Dodgers may be purchasing the home that belongs to Courtney Cox-Arquette and David Arquette which is listed at $33.5 million.
--Jeff Lewis, who is the house flipper on Bravo TV's new reality show Flipping Out is behind this flip in Los Feliz. He bought for $975,000 in June 2006 and has now listed at $1.525 million. It's nice but everso bland, check it out here.
--Terence Howard was renting in Los Feliz for $12,500 a month.

From the NY Observer's Manhattan Transfers:
--Fashioin maven Ellin Saltzman who has lived at the Carlyle House for seven decades, has sold the apartment for $4.7 million to Peter and Jill Melhado.
--Is Zach Braff buying stage director Tom O'Horgan's Greenwich Village loft?
--Schuyler Tilney, the ex-head of Merrill Lynch's energy group and his wife, Elizabeth, an ex-senior vice president at Enron have paid $2.3 million for an apartment at the new Place 57 condo on East 57th Street.
--Architect Peter Eisenman has sold his 21st-floor apartment at 101 West 12th Street to nightclub owner Noah Tepperberg for $3.2 million.

From Berg Properties Celebrity Big Time Listings:
--Detective author Robert Crais and his psychotherapist wife Pat have paid $2.975 million for a house in Los Angeles' Hollywood Hills that is next door to a house that has long has been owned by actress Jennifer Aniston.
--The Providence Journal reports that Nicolas purchased theGray Craig mansion for $16 million. We first wrote about it back in 2005 when it was listed at $19 million.
--Professional poker player Annie Duke has sold her house in Los Angeles' Hollywood Hills for $2,840,000.
--Stevie Nicks has listed her Arizona home for $3.8 million. It's our estate of the day later today.


From the LA Times Hot Property:
--Joely Fisher has purchased a newly built house in Sherman Oaks for $3.5 million.
--Dayna Devon of the show "Extra" and her husband, Brent Moelleken, a plastic surgeon have bought a getway house in Lake Arrowhead for $4.5 million.
--Actress Sofia Vegara has purchased a condo on the Wilshire Corridor for close to $2 million.
--Producer David Kahne has sold his home in the Beverly Hills post office area for $1.62 million and is moving to Manhattan.