tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1701851833045058772024-03-05T06:48:37.771-08:00buy and sell homeAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12961238637764341890noreply@blogger.comBlogger207125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-170185183304505877.post-11323540909640747602013-09-22T15:57:00.000-07:002013-09-22T21:46:07.044-07:00Weekend This and Thats...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4QJmxcrD3hKE_TzCz4u4USRhuYXY-0Jg01WBo5zUWbhG5hSvtbxpj7AWEMmAWLKsaDObZ8vo81EGa2eXmAMkQd_q5e1EqtAV2xX9RwqQtDe_mEF5zfn56ZYLRSVCwbnkThPgd5gqM-ao/s1600/JShears_Ext3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4QJmxcrD3hKE_TzCz4u4USRhuYXY-0Jg01WBo5zUWbhG5hSvtbxpj7AWEMmAWLKsaDObZ8vo81EGa2eXmAMkQd_q5e1EqtAV2xX9RwqQtDe_mEF5zfn56ZYLRSVCwbnkThPgd5gqM-ao/s400/JShears_Ext3.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>As far as we know, the property gossip lady at the <i><a href="http://www.latimes.com/classified/realestate/hot-property/la-fi-hotprop-jake-shears-20130917,0,988577.story" target="_blank">L.A. Times</a></i> was the first to reveal that sassy and sexy Scissor Sisters lead singer Jake Shears and his long-time man-friend, film maker Chris Moukarbel (<i><a href="http://www.hbo.com/documentaries/me-the-zoo/" target="_blank">Me @ The Zoo</a></i>), dropped $1,920,000 for the <i>Ulm House</i>, a Streamline Moderne-style residence—<a href="http://culturenow.org/entry&permalink=16198&seo=Ulm-House_Unknown" target="_blank">sometimes attributed</a> to architect Milton Black and other time to designer/builder William Kesling and built in 1937 in the Los Feliz area of Los Angeles (CA). Listing details indicate the 2,309 square foot has a total of four bedrooms and four bathrooms on three levels of hillside living space with a curving glass-block wall, an illuminated magnasite stairway, and "dazzling city views."<br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">listing photo: <a href="http://www.sothebyshomes.com/" target="_blank">Sotheby's International Realty</a></span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">::::::::</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQwy8myjlGSIpisLGbY5rX-Bq7ZSbSlorpgiUdqXBtP7XXB-WIH41MFCYA9FusQm-HZFnu3YDGDGmBPGH5mfq8No_x3pmg0zVzouajo02oDAhhkJeT9nwlreKMpsN8HXV6chIo5Z54n4E/s1600/LBass_NYC_PICS.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="318" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQwy8myjlGSIpisLGbY5rX-Bq7ZSbSlorpgiUdqXBtP7XXB-WIH41MFCYA9FusQm-HZFnu3YDGDGmBPGH5mfq8No_x3pmg0zVzouajo02oDAhhkJeT9nwlreKMpsN8HXV6chIo5Z54n4E/s400/LBass_NYC_PICS.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>After unsuccessfully attempting to rent it out at $8,500 per month boy bander (turned satellite radio dj) Lance Bass listed his one bedroom and two bathroom condo-crib in New York City's Chelsea nabe with an asking price of $2.2. million. Mister Bass, who recently became engaged to his L.A.-based boyfriend <a href="http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2013/09/18/lance_bass_to_say_bye_bye_bye_to_chelsea_condo_for_225m.php" target="_blank">according to the kids at <i>Curbed</i></a>, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/09/realestate/09deal3.html?ref=realestate&_r=0" target="_blank">picked up</a> the 1,300 square foot pad in the spring of 2010 for $1,495,000. Some of the notable amenities and creature comforts of the 10th floor apartment include almost a dozen closets plus loads of additional built-in storage, a windowless office with built-in Murphy bed for over-night guests, at least two flat-screen television flush-mounted into custom cabinetry.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjizv6rBsrh2ob3U-3HCVaJhGgRQY_5LW6uspfJQqIWD-mBgMtMbqGAglAo1NEtzLZfuDlnVcS2kgJTmNAk7AGlvyJUML7ipW6N68qRO_9LZ14mBkWg_uC2aIDGSc-8gclJ6Lh26SvEIiM/s1600/LBass_NYC_FP.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="156" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjizv6rBsrh2ob3U-3HCVaJhGgRQY_5LW6uspfJQqIWD-mBgMtMbqGAglAo1NEtzLZfuDlnVcS2kgJTmNAk7AGlvyJUML7ipW6N68qRO_9LZ14mBkWg_uC2aIDGSc-8gclJ6Lh26SvEIiM/s320/LBass_NYC_FP.gif" width="320" /></a></div>The building, which couldn't be more convenient to the very same Whole Foods where Your Mama and The Dr. Cooter shopped when we lived in the Big Apple, is home to a number of other high-profile peeps who include Kyle MacLachlan and Tom Cruise's third ex-wife, Katie Holmes, and their fashionista toddler, Suri.<br /><br />Our brief and entirely unscientific research shows Mister Bass has previously owned homes in Orlando (FL), Nashville (TN), and Los Angeles (CA), and currently maintains a home in his home state of Mississippi.<br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">listing photos and floor plan: <a href="http://corcoran.com/" target="_blank">Corcoran</a></span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">::::::::</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9WyjMXjGG7c6qtONXAnRGxgMnEwEYA31WjxCSuDLdUvQNiJnMcXqAwhF2Pst0ckjxrfp0TCDR17t3aSVO-_N6pV_uUQm1JNCP4ElKFh9htvjvTROUv9fyCty_JWsgKshcAXSCPFMlHIk/s1600/CountessLuann_BH_PICS.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9WyjMXjGG7c6qtONXAnRGxgMnEwEYA31WjxCSuDLdUvQNiJnMcXqAwhF2Pst0ckjxrfp0TCDR17t3aSVO-_N6pV_uUQm1JNCP4ElKFh9htvjvTROUv9fyCty_JWsgKshcAXSCPFMlHIk/s400/CountessLuann_BH_PICS.jpg" width="395" /></a></div>Countess Luann de Lesseps of <i>The Real Housewives of New York City</i> recently <a href="http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/luann-de-lesseps-splits-from-boyfriend-jacques-azoulay-2013209" target="_blank">busted up</a> with Jacques Azoulay, her French man-friend of three years, and, <a href="http://hamptons.curbed.com/archives/2013/09/17/rhony_star_countess_luann_offers_bridgehampton_house_at_9999m.php" target="_blank">according to the kids at <i>Curbed</i></a>, has once again jumped on the real estate merry-go-round and (re-)listed her 2.2 acre spread in Bridgehampton, NY with an asking price of $9,999,000. (The manners-obsessed reality star and royal-by-marriage attempted to sell the estate in 2009 for $9.5 million.).<br /><br />Current listing details show the 6,500 square foot cedar-shingled farmhouse has living and dining rooms—check the Warholian portrait of the Countess in the dining room, a well-equipped country kitchen, separate den, six bedrooms—including a main floor master suite with dual baths, sauna, and direct access through French doors to the backyard, 7.5 bathrooms, and at least three fireplaces. Outdoor entertainments include spacious terraces, vast lawns, a swimming pool with adjacent, self-contained pool/guest house, a three-car detached garage, and, in the front yard, a sunken tennis court.<br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">listing photos: <a href="http://bhshamptons.com/" target="_blank">Brown Harris Stevens</a></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12961238637764341890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-170185183304505877.post-7784658802135478932013-09-20T23:08:00.000-07:002013-09-22T21:46:07.051-07:00End of Week Pick Up Sticks: Brad Grey<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6iUJpM0BbIghZ4fvYDmMJHjpIi6YoWhvKZB3W82w4fVvKAUZq9vPBoVNj4u7ZSW9xnW8bHcE8boBUpYq0IOKEy_B7eyncrSYHkEg-R-Ii61L97r7I_-36g1YHPQJrGxMDK3lZD1iBd50/s1600/BGrey_BA_PICS1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6iUJpM0BbIghZ4fvYDmMJHjpIi6YoWhvKZB3W82w4fVvKAUZq9vPBoVNj4u7ZSW9xnW8bHcE8boBUpYq0IOKEy_B7eyncrSYHkEg-R-Ii61L97r7I_-36g1YHPQJrGxMDK3lZD1iBd50/s400/BGrey_BA_PICS1.jpg" width="352" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPKoeScYHc0bnn-G4OWMKs9Jx3kfZDpqRdRfJ0V7ZWOf3UdYCOsVntgn-ESpO0ClqUPNkA9u1s4RENYSdFS2v84FAv6ujj6QUMRQEilPC3w9tihUZt5_xD25hPs2ouIgPVhnzY4w7DmpI/s1600/BGrey_BA_PICS2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="381" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPKoeScYHc0bnn-G4OWMKs9Jx3kfZDpqRdRfJ0V7ZWOf3UdYCOsVntgn-ESpO0ClqUPNkA9u1s4RENYSdFS2v84FAv6ujj6QUMRQEilPC3w9tihUZt5_xD25hPs2ouIgPVhnzY4w7DmpI/s400/BGrey_BA_PICS2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYJpJ8Ia2S69MVjb_1z4HP8n_2CRWYV5HQnC85OBefl8bPZou2cGMkvBR3YHLxVh0RXkN8nq-ygq_o-B96QulvCjdUGimF7YiXnUM5Zw2DUjw9HEA0zXpXcUbJTkyykIuVEzhJyQ-vy90/s1600/BGrey_BA_PICS3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="380" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYJpJ8Ia2S69MVjb_1z4HP8n_2CRWYV5HQnC85OBefl8bPZou2cGMkvBR3YHLxVh0RXkN8nq-ygq_o-B96QulvCjdUGimF7YiXnUM5Zw2DUjw9HEA0zXpXcUbJTkyykIuVEzhJyQ-vy90/s400/BGrey_BA_PICS3.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEqp9AiAIykteiBAlQWHTAr-qGbrPXPlIB6RcgRUTovxAaUVZ8FjsySUoQB4xNFUh04DEQM39mLVbV6nRcwwhuop4fsSyUjy3cg7aFCwZaTOSaRyzom-9E2k8N7j6Y32YsrNv63JmMk40/s1600/BGrey_BA_PICS4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEqp9AiAIykteiBAlQWHTAr-qGbrPXPlIB6RcgRUTovxAaUVZ8FjsySUoQB4xNFUh04DEQM39mLVbV6nRcwwhuop4fsSyUjy3cg7aFCwZaTOSaRyzom-9E2k8N7j6Y32YsrNv63JmMk40/s400/BGrey_BA_PICS4.jpg" width="396" /></a></div>SELLER: Brad and Cassandra Grey<br />LOCATION: Los Angeles (Bel Air), CA<br />PRICE: $27,500,000<br />SIZE: 10,616 square feet, 5 bedrooms, 7 bathrooms<br /><br />YOUR MAMAS NOTES: Paramount chieftain and all-around Showbiz power player <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0340522/" target="_blank">Brad Grey</a> and his second wife, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/08/fashion/dont-call-cassandra-huysentruyt-grey-a-trophy-wife.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0" target="_blank">Cassandra</a>, have listed their stately white-brick Georgian-Colonial mansion in L.A.'s tony Bel Air area on the open market for $27,500,000.<br /><br />Mister Grey acquired the house in the wake of his split and subsequent divorce from his first wife, Bonnie, in an <a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/developments/2013/09/16/paramount-ceo-brad-grey-lists-home-in-los-angeles/" target="_blank">off-market deal</a> a bit more than four years ago for $22,000,000. The Hollywood honcho's top producing real estate broker told the property gossip gals at the <i><a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703882304575466103226593596.html" target="_blank">Wall Street Journal</a></i> that his client made several modifications and upgrades to the house including landscape refreshment, dining room renovation, sitting room addition on the second floor, and professional projection equipment installation in the formal living room so the glammed-up salon can do double duty as a de riguer screening room.<br /><br />Current listing details show the 10,600+ square foot mansion was originally designed by L.A.-based mansion specialist <a href="http://www.richardmanion.com/" target="_blank">Richard Manion</a> and built in 2006 on 1.1 gated acres enclosed by electronic drive gates, high stucco walls, and and and even taller row of trees and privacy hedges.<br /><br />Main floor living and entertaining spaces include: a double height foyer guaranteed to impress guests and pizza delivery people, roomy; sophisticated, cocktail and dinner party accommodating formal living and dining rooms; a cozy paneled office/library; a family room dominated by a gigantic, U-shaped sectional sofa; and, finally, an all-white kitchen with stainless steel appliances and an industrial-sized pot rack that looms over the super-sized center work island.<br /><br />In addition to the master suite that's complete, according to digital marketing materials, with dual closets and bathrooms, there are three bedroom suites on the second floor clustered around a sitting room, perhaps the above mentioned one he added. One bedroom and one bathroom staff quarters, probably wedged tightly behind the kitchen near the laundry facilities and garage, bring the bedroom total to five.<br /><br />Other features of note include three fireplaces, a fitness room plus a separate Pilates studio with private bathroom, a three car attached garage with off-street parking for a dozen or so more cars, and a state-of-the-art security system equipped with closed-circuit surveillance cameras.<br /><br />Being in the prime East Gate section of Bel Air Mister Grey's estate is surrounded by a whole lotta L.A.-based money and power. Next door on one side is the Gothic Tudor mansion once owned by Nic Cage and on the other side is the almost four acre fully landscaped estate Beny Alagem who started Packard Bell and currently owns the Beverly Hilton Hotel. Across the street, funnily enough, are Rick and Kathy Hilton—that would be Paris's parents and the heirs to the Hilton Hotel fortune. Next door to the Hilton's is the home of music industry executive Jerry Moss and few doors down (and across the street) is <i>Mi Patria</i>, the nearly 9,000 square foot hacienda-style mansion another music industry executive, <a href="http://realestalker.blogspot.com/2013/04/h-ross-perot-double-whammy-mi-patria.html" target="_blank">Freddy de Mann, sold to H. Ross Perot Jr.</a> earlier this year for $18,000,000. Just around the bend one way is Michael Eisner's long-time estate while just around the corner in another direction is the newly re-worked estate of Terry Semel whose across the street neighbor is (charity-oriented lady-who-lunches) Alexandra Dwek who bought her big house in 2011 from <a href="http://realestalker.blogspot.com/2010/06/lori-loughlin-lists-lavish-bel-air.html" target="_blank">Giannulli Mossimo and Laurie Laughlin</a> for $16,600,000.<br /><br />So the reportage goes, Mister Grey and his younger, fashion-oriented second missus have decided to custom build a brand spanking new contemporary residence designed by Napa Valley-based architect <a href="http://www.bgarch.com/" target="_blank">Howard Backen</a> on a mostly flat and superbly located 2.3 acre parcel in the heart of the Holmby Hills 'hood that Mister Grey purchased in late 2010 for $18.5 million and where the couple hosted their glitzy, star-studded nuptials in the spring of 2011. The property, directly across the street from the former Walt Disney estate that private investor and Houston Dynamo co-owner Gabriel Brener has made available as an <a href="http://www.theagencyre.com/for-sale/the-carolwood-estate/" target="_blank">off-market listing</a> with a <a href="http://la.curbed.com/archives/2013/06/inside_the_old_disney_estate_in_holmby_hills_asking_90_million.php" target="_blank">hair-straightening $90 million</a> price tag, once had a elegant and beautifully proportioned if somewhat shabbily maintained hacienda-style Monterey Colonial on the property that once owned by Frank Sinatra. Alas, after failing to flip the fixer-upper in 2011, when he put it up for sale for $23,500,000, Mister Gray opted to <a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/paramount-brad-grey-razes-frank-sinatra-holmby-hills-house-369707" target="_blank">raze the 8,613 square foot red brick residence</a>* and then—once again in vain—tried to sell the newly vacant parcel for $20,000,000.<br /><br />Mister and Missus Grey also own a 3,000 square foot, full-floor spread in the tower section of the perfectly swellegant (if a mite stuffy) <i>Carlyle</i> hotel and residences in New York City that they bought almost three years ago for $15,500,000.**<br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">*For better or worse, depending on your point of view, the house was not protected under any historical statute or designation.</span><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">**The provided floor plan for Mister and Missus Grey's New York City pied-a-terre was retrieved from still available digital listings as it was organized at the time of their 2011 acquisition. For all Your Mama knows, they've radically rearranged the layout. </span><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">listing photos: <a href="http://efgidley3.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Everett Fenton Gidley</a> for <a href="http://www.weahomes.com/" target="_blank">Westside Estate Agency</a></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12961238637764341890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-170185183304505877.post-34497886698763684862013-09-20T13:08:00.000-07:002013-09-22T21:46:07.058-07:00End of Week Pick Up Sticks: Mitzi Gaynor<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfG_8eGuTnjAQ0aNIMBNuEOKONBGubvUej8MNmd143veLAUWJrXEax7MUiW5NkDJSYvN86Zpvio9ByUO6dRBdvXYOsmOuK6w-Pzri-F5SO2UxaBunXN9Sv6UXuzgfXJ_p40qvgifr4YKY/s1600/MGaynor_BH_PICS1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="365" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfG_8eGuTnjAQ0aNIMBNuEOKONBGubvUej8MNmd143veLAUWJrXEax7MUiW5NkDJSYvN86Zpvio9ByUO6dRBdvXYOsmOuK6w-Pzri-F5SO2UxaBunXN9Sv6UXuzgfXJ_p40qvgifr4YKY/s400/MGaynor_BH_PICS1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>SELLER: Mitzi Gaynor<br />LOCATION: Beverly Hills, CA<br />PRICE: $5,495,000<br />SIZE: 4,167 square feet, 5 bedrooms, 5.75 bathrooms<br /><br />YOUR MAMAS NOTES: Your Mama knows that some of the children, especially the young ones, are hissing and spitting, "Mitzi, who? Gay, what?" But, hunties, iffin you don't know who Mitzi is, well, we suggest you crack open your encyclopedia of Hollywood history and look her up because anyone who knows anything at all about the history of Hollywood knows that <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iURQyTVz2PQ" target="_blank">Mitzi Gaynor is a goddamn Tinseltown legend</a> who, we first learned from the <a href="http://www.tmz.com/2013/09/17/mitzi-gaynor-house-for-sale-photos/" target="_blank">gossip juggernaut <i>TMZ</i></a>, has put her long-time residence on a tree-lined street in the Flats of Beverly Hills (CA) up for sale with a $5,495,000 million asking price.<br /><br />Miz Gaynor, an honest-to-goodness triple threat performer with a definite and smoldering yet demure and approachable carnality, starred in a slew of silver screen musicals in the 1950s and early '60s. She hoofed in with Bing Crosby in <i><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hq0_OgAANgM" target="_blank">Anything Goes</a></i>, she held her own against Marilyn Monroe in <i>There's No Business Like Show Business, </i>and she stuck it in <i><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zzu8ZxBHMWk" target="_blank">South Pacific</a></i> opposite the suave Italian actor Rossano Brazzi. Starting in the late sixties and throughout most of the 1970s Miz Gayner starred in highly rated <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwNYEFKMmlc" target="_blank">annual musical specials</a> (see below video) and she was a frequent and popular performer on Hollywood <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nu6-oxdV1Bg" target="_blank">awards shows</a>. And, ladies and gentlemen, this lady killed it in Las Vegas spectaculars long before anyone in the lower 48 had even heard of Céline D-whatshername from Canada. Miz Gaynor was, in her day, the shit and she deserves the respect due a Hollywood veteran of her stature. Okay?<br /><br /><iframe width="400" height="300" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/xXo2Fgrnj6c?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />We're not quite sure when Miz Gaynor, now in her 80s, and her late husband/manager Jack Bean bought the house but we know it ages ago. They probably paid pennies for it compared to its current price tag and good for them. Listing details show the two-story Spanish style casa was built in 1929 and has five bedrooms and 5.75 bathrooms* in 4,167 square feet of dated but carefully maintained interior space that, as per listing description, "captures the glamour of Hollywood's Golden Age."<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPQ3AzygXC4sE3LS3nivZ_RNbzkyOZrymSF_OeERdSSINQJqiA1ONQQOxthV0sjd-xDVly5GdPdcShcq5wmc4WuYYJEZ0C-WPF19uxETYxndZ9RO11ybP6eGgkbfkE5e2jwrxCp_Gj7UA/s1600/MGaynor_BH_PICS2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="397" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPQ3AzygXC4sE3LS3nivZ_RNbzkyOZrymSF_OeERdSSINQJqiA1ONQQOxthV0sjd-xDVly5GdPdcShcq5wmc4WuYYJEZ0C-WPF19uxETYxndZ9RO11ybP6eGgkbfkE5e2jwrxCp_Gj7UA/s400/MGaynor_BH_PICS2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Many of the homes original details survive, such as the groin-vaulted entry loggia, Spanish tile and Parquet de Versailles style wood flooring, beamed ceiling in the living room (that's regrettably been painted white), leaded glass sky lights, and casement windows and French doors.<br /><br />Public and entertaining spaces include a center hall entry with wrought iron railed staircase, generously proportioned formal living and dining rooms—the former with a black marble fireplace, and a sun room in which a row of over-sized arched windows lead out to a red-brick dining terrace that's shaded by a blue and white striped awning and over looks the backyard and swimming pool.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJC3tq-p4bdFSvZDKFjYcpFSm6LZ43TVpYuj9J95vfvZ2aCvGi61_PaIBxvOB0WcM00t8HDUEecca8FJ4b4o5XmbrSKIWWFLtq_PJRp8rt3xpDsb5No2uxmQ7TsUCJGJtOpr_Z0UXQ08k/s1600/MGaynor_BH_PICS5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="397" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJC3tq-p4bdFSvZDKFjYcpFSm6LZ43TVpYuj9J95vfvZ2aCvGi61_PaIBxvOB0WcM00t8HDUEecca8FJ4b4o5XmbrSKIWWFLtq_PJRp8rt3xpDsb5No2uxmQ7TsUCJGJtOpr_Z0UXQ08k/s400/MGaynor_BH_PICS5.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Although dated and fairly utilitarian with bull-nosed granite counter tops and ho-hum raised panel cabinetry, the kitchen is reasonably sized with a small center work island, a high-end commercial-style six-burner range, and an adjacent butler's pantry lined with glass-fronted upper cabinets. The nearby breakfast room is an exquisite—if Old School—jewel box with honey-toned Venetian plaster walls, original casement windows, a built-in buffet with leaded glass details, and a decadent antique crystal chandelier.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDWK35Xn_D_rq25tmu10WWGgpLT0Ivsbz7XFb6-tM8Z2orvchZJ-nTGlgj25h7t8_xbG-_d8ka84hK4dq7ZwgO5I8QVNNtstf8MDcXFi_TgY4cu9zgtE_vttplkO0r-zn01HB3mPrNFMU/s1600/MGaynor_BH_PICS4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="398" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDWK35Xn_D_rq25tmu10WWGgpLT0Ivsbz7XFb6-tM8Z2orvchZJ-nTGlgj25h7t8_xbG-_d8ka84hK4dq7ZwgO5I8QVNNtstf8MDcXFi_TgY4cu9zgtE_vttplkO0r-zn01HB3mPrNFMU/s400/MGaynor_BH_PICS4.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Listing details indicate there are two guest/family bedrooms up stairs plus the super-sized master suite that encompasses a bedroom chamber and adjoining sitting room, a Juliet balcony that overlooks the backyard, and a closet-lined dressing room as well as a roomy walk-in closet chock-full of Miz Gaynor's (probably Bob Mackie-designed) cocktail gowns. The master bathroom was left un-described and un-photographed in all of the digital listings Your Mama perused. Make of that what you will.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiosMbrxQFL3thyhVJ4V1MkcTMezfmsMrn2uhmL8cKVuY-16Zb8hClDG0zB1XqbCSRj7WWWY-sOI0XV5qNMvHu2Fb6Smu0_-nC4kVYHFicsmBObXAznZmkXa3lU1W-qftnAIG-7LqiGq10/s1600/MGaynor_BH_PICS3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="252" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiosMbrxQFL3thyhVJ4V1MkcTMezfmsMrn2uhmL8cKVuY-16Zb8hClDG0zB1XqbCSRj7WWWY-sOI0XV5qNMvHu2Fb6Smu0_-nC4kVYHFicsmBObXAznZmkXa3lU1W-qftnAIG-7LqiGq10/s400/MGaynor_BH_PICS3.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>A fourth potential bedroom/library with private bathroom is located on the main floor. Your Mama recklessly assumes that's the room in which the same graphic striped fabric was applied to the walls, the roll-armed divan, the (uncomfortable looking patio-like) chair cushions <i>and</i> the curtains. It was also stuck to at least three of the four walls in the attached bathroom. This sort of day-core just isn't done anymore so, as far as Your Mama is concerned, it's a marvelous little decorative time capsule. Like many of these older homes that lined the painstakingly manicured streets in the Flats of Beverly Hills, there's a staff bedroom and bathroom tucked back into the service area behind the kitchen.<br /><br />We have not one single piece of intel as to her future real estate plans but if Your Mama were the wagering type—and we're not—we'd put a few pennies on Miz Gayner downsizes to a two or three bedroom condo in one of the full-service luxury towers that line the Wilshire Corridor near Westwood and Century City.<br /><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;">listing photos: <a href="http://www.tinastern.com/" target="_blank">Wish Sotheby's International Realty</a></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12961238637764341890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-170185183304505877.post-7388403532124276002013-09-20T10:21:00.000-07:002013-09-22T21:46:07.064-07:00End of Week Pick Up Sticks: Judge Judy<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioFICkhD9Vi7lmU83Kdy-pR2PzyatEhyG5Thyphenhyphen36B-_BwOgsTR6WS1D9rYyLAHxD9Gm7PoK1krdrLx4Asi3KTsWOY0XnOO7v9UuucBwx0OX8k97rcMU_z32_Bt0zJSSpSjFX8jbxKtjswc/s1600/JSheindlin_SP_PICS.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioFICkhD9Vi7lmU83Kdy-pR2PzyatEhyG5Thyphenhyphen36B-_BwOgsTR6WS1D9rYyLAHxD9Gm7PoK1krdrLx4Asi3KTsWOY0XnOO7v9UuucBwx0OX8k97rcMU_z32_Bt0zJSSpSjFX8jbxKtjswc/s400/JSheindlin_SP_PICS.jpg" width="368" /></a></div>Famously forceful, cantankerous, and occasionally hostile television judge Judy Sheindlin continues to shake up her impressive residential real estate portfolio. In May (2013) she and her husband, Jerry—a former television judge himsef, sold their <a href="http://realestalker.blogspot.com/2013/01/judge-judy-lists-pricey-pied-terre.html" target="_blank">five-room pied-a-terre</a> at the super-snooty <i>Sherry Netherland</i> on New York City's Fifth Avenue for $8.5 million to a high-cultured Philadelphia-based couple, <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/ridiculous-ideas-that-made-people-ridiculously-rich-2010-2?op=1" target="_blank">dollar store pioneer</a> <a href="http://www.philamuseum.org/giving/580-279-582-473.html" target="_blank">Bernard Spain</a> and his sophisticated, social, and always meticulously maquillaged wife, <a href="http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/hautehouse_row/Third-annual-XIX-Most-Fashionable-Women-in-Philadelphia.html" target="_blank">Joan</a>.<br /><br />At almost the exact same time in May (2013) that the Judges Sheindlin dumped their digs at the <i>Sherry</i> in New York City, the $45 million dollar a year earner laid out $10.7 million for a <a href="http://realestalker.blogspot.com/2013/05/judy-judy-buys-in-beverly-hills.html" target="_blank">five bedroom condo-crib</a> the size of suburban macmansion in the heart of Beverly Hills at the swish <i>Montage Beverly Hills</i>, the same luxury hotel and condo complex where Oprah Winfrey <a href="http://realestalker.blogspot.com/2012/12/your-mama-hears_31.html" target="_blank">(allegedly) owns</a> a $14 million part-time residence.<br /><br />Now comes word via the property obsessed peeps at <a href="http://therealdeal.com/blog/2013/09/19/judge-judy-buys-sutton-place-co-op-for-8-5m/" style="font-style: italic;" target="_blank">The Real Deal</a> that the 14-time Daytime Emmy nominee—always a Showbiz bridesmaid never a bride—and her hubby shelled out $8,500,000 for a spacious duplex penthouse atop a full-service co-operative building designed by the inestimable architect Rosario Candela and built in 1929 in Midtown Manhattan's sleepy and still pretty damn swanky if not terribly fashionable Sutton Place nabe.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRpI6KSYIAjswgWW9YTmAPClp8HppJUJ4xumHgdnBwUTNDTKG1xzONR5SekOPBBHGNms_oNyVvR2AV5AX35LA38XjZBydpNODCyrs-2eTK1QKyNfg1ZUNGxpAHarMmeFuY0X9rfEdphmE/s1600/JSheindlin_SP_FP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="243" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRpI6KSYIAjswgWW9YTmAPClp8HppJUJ4xumHgdnBwUTNDTKG1xzONR5SekOPBBHGNms_oNyVvR2AV5AX35LA38XjZBydpNODCyrs-2eTK1QKyNfg1ZUNGxpAHarMmeFuY0X9rfEdphmE/s400/JSheindlin_SP_FP.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Digital listing details, which include a delectable floor plan, show the two-floor aerie has four bedrooms, 4.5 bathrooms, two wood-burning fireplaces, a roomy living room with three exposures, a wood-paneled library, a formal dining room, and a colossal center island kitchen with a temperature controlled walk-in wine cellar that can accommodate 900 bottles of booze. A private terrace wraps entirely around the upper level living spaces. Monthly maintenance charges ring up to $7,363 but the proudly churlish yet wildly popular lady judge (reportedly) earns $123,000 per day so, you know, she could probably dig up seven grand every month in the seats of her private jet.<br /><br />This is not, as it turns out, the first time Judge Judy and Mister Judge Judy have owned an apartment in the Sutton Place area. Three years ago, according to property records we peeped, <a href="http://www.elliman.com/new-york-city/60-sutton-place-south-manhattan-smwccts" target="_blank">they quietly sold</a> a three bedroom and 4.5 bathroom duplex penthouse with two terraces in a luxury post-war tower on Sutton Place South. Miz Sheindlin and her husband, Jerry, also own a swanky condo in Naples, FL, and a baronial estate they had custom built in high-nosed Greenwich, CT. We've read they keep a place in Wyoming but, honestly butter beans, we don't know a thing about that.<br /><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;">listing photos and floor plan: <a href="http://www.stribling.com/" target="_blank">Stribling</a></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12961238637764341890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-170185183304505877.post-51321737414929735582013-09-19T13:04:00.000-07:002013-09-22T21:46:07.071-07:00Aussie Actor Paul Hogan Sells Malibu Spread Aussie Actor Chris Hemsworth<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBXsu7j8ZwqDkrc0vVsxdVaEg6kE08cAWegnWsQ4Ibbao9zdHhtoX7Kbwedwgt-mKHCqSOM9aOyBxTkF7y_D7E-gm81pUlCEOokDtnkA-qqQX0Bv8ubK0qnCHyf5J9bTa6tJze0-EpCzk/s1600/CHemsworth_Mal_PICS1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="351" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBXsu7j8ZwqDkrc0vVsxdVaEg6kE08cAWegnWsQ4Ibbao9zdHhtoX7Kbwedwgt-mKHCqSOM9aOyBxTkF7y_D7E-gm81pUlCEOokDtnkA-qqQX0Bv8ubK0qnCHyf5J9bTa6tJze0-EpCzk/s400/CHemsworth_Mal_PICS1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeeFQK6WaOvLo738jEtlLess-vXEdj8unRdN7qRj6L8a6JFpVw_URMhkh3kFp6rVG9ZheqCNLZG2UrNgtmANILDVbgrniajTWRR3zoCFnlFSKk0xA5qgsrI0vLS-2NmWUFHn0yaPPMjOI/s1600/CHemsworth_Mal_PICS2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="351" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeeFQK6WaOvLo738jEtlLess-vXEdj8unRdN7qRj6L8a6JFpVw_URMhkh3kFp6rVG9ZheqCNLZG2UrNgtmANILDVbgrniajTWRR3zoCFnlFSKk0xA5qgsrI0vLS-2NmWUFHn0yaPPMjOI/s400/CHemsworth_Mal_PICS2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKbzL85hFntNk0WKxg91ArK3tiU8f0RDZ1eS-fnvoZ2nfBLG2DvJBqS4GKnOIEgfT2giZ12yJoNTj4N3OyZX5BXsi8ZNzxGdNdY6_QCdfivSXK7tGy_YBnUqBzQzWBtt8PpxCCRnF5bfg/s1600/CHemsworth_Mal_PICS3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="252" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKbzL85hFntNk0WKxg91ArK3tiU8f0RDZ1eS-fnvoZ2nfBLG2DvJBqS4GKnOIEgfT2giZ12yJoNTj4N3OyZX5BXsi8ZNzxGdNdY6_QCdfivSXK7tGy_YBnUqBzQzWBtt8PpxCCRnF5bfg/s400/CHemsworth_Mal_PICS3.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>SELLER: Paul Hogan and Linda Kozlowski<br />BUYER: Chris Hemsworth and Elsa Pataky<br />LOCATION: Malibu, CA<br />PRICE: $4,800,000<br />SIZE: 6,382 square feet, 5 bedrooms, 6 bathrooms<br /><br />YOUR MAMAS NOTES: While his younger brother, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2955013/" target="_blank">Liam</a>, grapples with tabloid readers' rabid obsession with his newly called off engagement to twerking and tongue-showing Showbiz rabble-rouser Miley Cyrus, beefcake-y action flick actor <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1165110/" target="_blank">Chris Hemsworth</a> and his model/actress wife <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0665235/" target="_blank">Elsa Pataky</a> have quietly acquired a mini-compound in the celebrity-filled Point Dume area of Malibu (CA) for $4,800,000.*<br /><br />Thirty-year old Mister Hemsworth—six-foot-four with a tussled, Fabio-like blond mane and the pumped body of a gym-going superhero—and multi-lingual Miz Pataky purchased the approximately one acre spread from <i>Crocodile Dundee</i> star Paul Hogan and his Julliard-trained former actress wife, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0468957/" target="_blank">Linda Kozlowski</a>. The Hogan-Kozlowskis purchased the property in July 2012 for $3.8 million, shortly after they <a href="http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/01/paul-hogan-finally-settles-tax-case-in-australia/?_r=0" target="_blank">settled confidentially</a> with the Australian tax authorities who claimed they and Mister Hogan's former manager owed more than $150 million in back taxes. Yikes! During their brief ownership the couple made a number of mostly cosmetic but no-doubt viciously costly alterations to the house—i.e. they painted a bunch and did over the master bathroom, which had already had its interiors completely redone in a modern manner by the people they bought it from. Seven months later they caught a case of The Celebrity Real Estate Fickle and flipped it back on the market with an sking price of $5,250,000.<br /><br />Listing information from the time of the transaction show the existing, three-story residence, all but hidden behind secured gates and a towering wall of hedges, was built in 1992 in a Victorian-style that hides and belies open, airy, and decidedly contemporary interiors.<br /><br />Normally Your Mama is all about a radical mix of old and new and high and low. We love a sleek, nearly minimal decor in a wedding cake-y Parisian hôtel particulier and we can really get behind a little bit of Louis or maybe a glammy <a href="http://www.bespokeglobal.com/products/paul-kelley/polished-stainless-steel-and-brass-dresser" target="_blank">Paul Kelly statement piece</a> in a slightly shabby tenement apartment on the Lower East Side. Your Mama loves us a <a href="http://www.1stdibs.com/furniture/tables/dining-room-tables/nakashima-style-free-edge-walnut-slab-dining-table/id-f_784402/" target="_blank">Nakashima table</a> in an all-stainless steel kitchen and we j'adore disgustingly expensive French bed linens on an air mattress. (Well, we don't really care for all stainless steel kitchens, but y'all get the idea.) Howevuh, hunties, this house doesn't successfully create a particularly taut or cohesive juxtaposition between the disparate architecture and interior motifs as much as it seems to suffer from a split personality disorder. Sure, the Victorian exterior—an questionable choice for a beach house in Malibu to begin with—was pared down and modernized with an all-white paint job and there are some Victorian-esque details inside such as half-paneled walls in some of the public rooms on the main floor but, somehow, this unexpected mix-and-match between the modern and the Victorian lacks any real harmony. It just feels jarring, in this case, to walk up to a Victorian and walk into a contemporary. Plus, the curvaceous white-brick wall at the entry seems a bit more Colonial than Victorian but who are we to criticize? Anyhoo...<br /><br />Spendy and downright stunning wide plank white oak floors run throughout the not exactly open concept but certainly interconnected main floor living spaces that include a "formal" living room with fireplace and a small adjoining vestibule tucked behind the staircase that connects to a trellis-shaded brick terrace that runs along the backside of the house. Pocket doors divide the living room from the formal dining room where Mister and Missus Hogan—and or their team of stager/decorators—covered the walls in an a steely and sophisticated greenish-gray that makes Your Mama wish we had a dining room painted a steely and sophisticated greenish-gray.<br /><br />Things veer towards the dramatic in the center island eat-in kitchen where the cabinetry and steeply peaked double-height vaulted ceiling appear to be painted with the same steely and sophisticated greenish-gray hue as was splashed on the walls in the dining room. Listing photos show an inlaid marble floor, thick slab butcher block counter tops, open shelving for convenient access and display of daily-use tableware, and a farmhouse-y white porcelain apron sink. The top-grade appliances include a double-wide range (and hood) imported from France that Your Mama can assure the children likely cost more than the car y'alls cleaning lady drives. In a compact breakfast area there's a tiny corner fireplace and transom-topped glass doors that slide open to a red brick dining terrace. A glass-railed staircase angles up to a glass-railed study loft with built-in desk and cabinetry that overlooks the kitchen. There's another garret-office one more floor above although, to be honest, we're not exactly show how one accesses it.<br /><br />Nearby the kitchen there's a sunny and spacious den/family room with two bay windows, one perfectly suited to accommodate a round table for casual meals or—heaven forfend—a poker table. One long wall is anchored by an unadorned, over-sized firebox that's flanked by floating shelves for displaying shells, rocks, and driftwood gathered up during misty morning beach walks. More sliding glass doors lead from the den/family room out to the aforementioned trellised red brick terrace that overlooks the down-sloping, terraced backyard.<br /><br />Much to Your Mama's surprise (and chagrin), the property does not have—or, at least, did not have at the time of Mister and Missus Hemsworths' purchase—a swimming pool. There are, in fact, two good-sized flat sections of lawn in the terraced backyard that appear well-suited to a swimming pool, spa, and lounge area, particularly the lower lawn area. Call Your Mama an uptight old fart—and we've been called way worse, buttercups—but for 4.8 million clams Your Mama doesn't really care to go through the protracted and attention requiring hassle—not to mention expense—of designing, obtaining proper approvals and permits, and enduring construction set backs to install a brand new swimming pool, spa and lounge area. But, of course, lads and lassies, our whining is beyond moot since neither are Your Mama and The Dr. Cooter in in the market for a $4.8 million dollar house in Malibu (or anywhere else) and the lack of a cement pond was not—uh, duh—a deal breaker for Mister Hemsworth and Miz Pataky.<br /><br />The second floor master suite is complete, according to digital marketing materials, with fireplace, separate sitting/dressing area, two fitted walk-in closets, and a private veranda with distant over-the-tree-tops view of the Pacific. The decent-sized but hardly gargantuan attached bathroom is freshly redone with double sinks set into a long floating cabinet, egg-shaped free-standing soaking tub, and a separate glassed-in shower enclosure. Listing details indicate there are additional three guest/family bedrooms with en suite facilities and a "bonus bedroom," whatever that is.<br /><br />A spindly staircase that starts in the center entry hall entry winds tightly up through an open, light-soaked volume all the way to the third floor where a wood-floored lounge area sits below a many-peaked vaulted ceiling.<br /><br />In addition to the handful of bedrooms and half dozen bathrooms in the main house, the compound-type—ahem—estate has a separate (but attached) and fully self-contained, two-story guest house outfitted in a similarly modern manner as the main house. Both the living room and the combo kitchen/dining room have wood floors and sliding glass doors that open to a private terrace and the bedroom is nestled, A-frame cabin-like into the steep pitch of the roof on the upper level.<br /><br />In addition to a gated motor court (and attached three car garage) at the front of the house just outside the kitchen and service areas of the main house, a long, gated drive runs from the street to the extreme rear of the triangular-shaped lot where there's a detached three-car garage with a pretty damn dumpy attached studio-style guest/staff room with sad and disturbing flesh-colored tile floors, a tiny higgledly-piggledy kitchenette, and a private bathroom of unknown quality or condition.**<br /><br />Your Mama has not even a whisper of a clue as to whether Mister Hemsworth and/or Miz Pataky own any additional property in Los Angeles, Spain, Australia, and/or the U.K. where they were <a href="http://www.celebritybabyscoop.com/2012/06/27/chris-hemsworth-elsa-pataky-house-hunting-with-india" target="_blank">spotted</a> earlier this year with their infant baby popping in to a real estate brokerage in London's natty Knotting Hill. That doesn't mean they don't. Maybe they're secret real estate ballers with property portfolio that would make most millionaires squirm with envy. (We doubt it, but it's possible, right?) . We also aren't completely sure what's become of the Hogan-Kozlowskis although good-ol' Yolanda did turn up some circumstantial and entirely unsubstantiated evidence they might have purchased a much more expensive home in the Mandeville Canyon area. Might we said. Did you hear that? Might.<br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">*Technically, the property was purchased, as per property records, in mid-June (2013) via a trust that obscures the identity of the owner but guns-always-blazing real estate yenta Yolanda Yakketyyak swears on her impeccably maintained 1984 Jaguar XJS that the buyer is Australian-born Chris Hemsworth and his Spanish wife, Elsa Pataky.</span><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">**Imagine for a minute, children, how that conversation went down with whatever previous homeowner was responsible for the most recent remodel of the house and whatever household help they put up in that separate and clearly not equal staff suite down by the garage. "Oh, middle-aged Guyanese au pair, we know you've spent 23 hours a day the last 12 years raising our children and teaching them French but we just do not currently have the resources to remodel the massive main house, overhaul the sizable guest house, <i>and</i> do over your little lean-to down by the garage. But, seriously, like, you know, we really do think of you as part of the family, right? So we'll try to get to that next year. Okay, hun? Great. Right. Okay...Well, I better get going or I'm going to be late to yoga. " </span><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">listing photos: <a href="http://www.levingroupestates.com/" target="_blank">The Levin Group</a></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12961238637764341890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-170185183304505877.post-5643530964989974642013-09-18T10:35:00.000-07:002013-09-22T21:46:07.077-07:00Your Mama Hears...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ2oB1po1HD3zbTW7DJu3yKV8gqbHWPWb1u-vMU075VVaB1GQt7u7HpldY8YtXmJqq-gbbHQCKkEdjGL6OeRHUPIxTNRYdJaLWGPrPFuAj9vrolyI2dT5MVyX727oZDsCaKnFUkAByQ3M/s1600/SCowell_TE_Pool.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ2oB1po1HD3zbTW7DJu3yKV8gqbHWPWb1u-vMU075VVaB1GQt7u7HpldY8YtXmJqq-gbbHQCKkEdjGL6OeRHUPIxTNRYdJaLWGPrPFuAj9vrolyI2dT5MVyX727oZDsCaKnFUkAByQ3M/s400/SCowell_TE_Pool.jpg" width="368" /></a></div>...from Platinum Triangle real estate mover and shaker Heidi Hearsay that 53-year old televised talent contest mega-mogul and soon-to-be first-time daddy Simon Cowell has furtively floated one of his several Beverly Hills (CA) residences as an off-market listing with a puffy but probably not unrealistic $20,000,000 price tag.*<br /><br />Sassy, sharp-tongued, super-rich and famously moobish Mister Cowell—Ouch! Did we say that out loud?—acquired the Hal Leavitt-designed mid-century modern mini-mansion in October 2011 from AEG Live CEO Randy Phillips** for $15,500,000. A few quick clicks and clacks on Your Mama's beloved bejeweled abacus reveals Mister Cowell is angling for a hefty, multi-million dollar windfall—minus any improvement expenses and carrying costs, of course—should some deep pocketed buyer step up and cough up anywhere near the (alleged) asking price.<br /><br />Listing details and other reports from the time of Mister Cowell's much-discussed-by-property-gossips addition to his residential real estate portfolio show the U-shaped multi-level mansion was built in 1966 and sits on a mostly flat, .65 acre parcel with head-spinning views that sweep across a large swathe of the mostly flat L.A. basin. In addition to Misters Cowell and Phillips, the home's Hollywood-y pedigree includes long-time lovers and life partners <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0403022/" target="_blank">Ross Hunter</a> and <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0544574/" target="_blank">Jacques Mapes</a>, the former an Oscar-nominated movie producer (<i>Airport, Pillow Talk</i>) and the latter an accomplished set director turned producer.<br /><br />We're not sure what, if any, improvements and/or alterations Mister Cowell made to the double-gated property but listing details from the time of his purchase show the 7,265 square foot residential edifice had two bedroom suites plus two additional bedrooms and a total of six bathrooms. Other features noted in online marketing materials from the time of the sale include a digital screening room, indoor and outdoor fireplaces, a built-in outdoor barbecue, and a plunge-sized swimming pool set beneath a muscular concrete superstructure and a delicate satellite-style chandelier.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEtrDEuLNu4zhyphenhyphenbmnPDsm0hMlYTg3Y2OHrigV7I06q_oHvCRPREGgaLRPDfHbjv3bC84zavJ95wx1TS98UUoDNTZAsmWW-XCWt5dkHCO4I0gx0idvdT5Jse2aaGiQ3CLc6OtwGa-TttGI/s1600/SCowell_BH_UK.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="147" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEtrDEuLNu4zhyphenhyphenbmnPDsm0hMlYTg3Y2OHrigV7I06q_oHvCRPREGgaLRPDfHbjv3bC84zavJ95wx1TS98UUoDNTZAsmWW-XCWt5dkHCO4I0gx0idvdT5Jse2aaGiQ3CLc6OtwGa-TttGI/s400/SCowell_BH_UK.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>As far as Your Mama can tell from our thorough perusal of property records Mister Cowell owns at least two other houses in Beverly Hills. In March 2006 the globe-trotting Showbizzer paid Candy Spelling's (alleged) former man-pal Mark Nathanson $5.7 million for a 5,500+ square foot residence at the tail end of a short cul-de-sac in the the so-called Bird Streets area above the Sunset Strip. Two years earlier, in September 2004, Mister Cowell dropped $8,000,000 for a roomy, approximately 10,000 square foot mansion (above, left) in the so-called "Flats" of Beverly Hills that he spent years and God only knows how many millions to expand and transform in to a crisp and contemporary residence wrapped in a stripped down Colonial architectural skin. Mister Cowell also owns a substantial residence in London's hoity-toity Holland Park area (above, right).<br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">*If Mister Cowell's (alleged) asking price seems a mite high to any of the upper end real estate cynics out there, remember, puppies, that in December 2009, Oakley sunglasses tycoon <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704471204575210533897266698.html" target="_blank">Jim Jannard shelled out</a> $19,900,000 for an iconic, crab-shaped mid-century modern located just a few doors down from Mister Cowell's plance that he razed to make way for a bigger and more newly fangled abode. And let's not forget that just a few months ago Burt Sugarman and Mary Hart sold their dated but well-maintained 11,000 square foot spread—also just a couple doors down from Mister Cowell's house—for <a href="http://realestalker.blogspot.com/2013/07/update-mary-hart-and-burt-sugarman.html" target="_blank">$27,000,000</a> to a well-connected and (obviously) sick-rich Saudi sheikh. A twenty million clam hang tag for a whisper listing in a much-coveted and proven pricey locale doesn't sound so high now, does it, children?</span><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">**Property records show Randy Phillips purchased the property in February 2004 for $4.63 million. A quick bit of rudimentary arithmetic reveals the sometimes temperamental and real estate gods favored the music industry mogul who—the lucky duck—well more than tripled his money in seven years.</span><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">listing photos (Beverly Hills, Trousdale Estates): <a href="http://www.benbacal.com/%E2%80%8E" target="_blank">Sotheby's International Realty</a></span><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;">street photo (Beverly Hills, Flats): <a href="http://wikimapia.org/" target="_blank">Wikimapia</a></span><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;">street photo (London, Holland Park): <a href="https://maps.google.com/" target="_blank">Google</a></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12961238637764341890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-170185183304505877.post-60499271883403131882013-09-17T10:20:00.000-07:002013-09-22T21:46:07.083-07:00Tuesday Tidbits<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUCRrjktAPwy2ioc4JzK7NU4kve6rZSQvyAacpXulKSg5fZB9bDRs9R98ayXMnoUeqAT5OnakPpdGIiVAlApOgXtPmf14HDee4Miyd5Gm4z92RQsfW21rRs1JfCdEkZ_Jwd3Ls-89ShCk/s1600/MZuck_SF.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="376" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUCRrjktAPwy2ioc4JzK7NU4kve6rZSQvyAacpXulKSg5fZB9bDRs9R98ayXMnoUeqAT5OnakPpdGIiVAlApOgXtPmf14HDee4Miyd5Gm4z92RQsfW21rRs1JfCdEkZ_Jwd3Ls-89ShCk/s400/MZuck_SF.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Facebook founder and multi-billionaire Mark Zuckerberg has embarked on a multi-million dollar renovation of <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/matier-ross/article/Mark-Zuckerberg-manse-undergoes-extreme-makeover-4815217.php#photo-5183919" target="_blank">the San Francisco house</a> he and his missus, Priscilla, purchased last year for about $10 million. City records show they plan to add a $60,000 greenhouse, a $65,000 kitchen and a $720,000 addition of of first floor office, media room, mud room, laundry room, wine room, wet bar, and half bathroom. <span style="font-size: xx-small;">(SF Gate)</span><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">photo: <a href="https://maps.google.com/" target="_blank">Google</a></span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">::::::::</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGnU1ouFeuq0yknJx0shhTdxw014FtU8CFev04_B_-FDE_3FjsoxADJBO_Qfus6Ewdh7u8qawID78VvLtihDazvKsgdeis4cBPcw4gSR5GYbMZf8ee0JU8E2JN48Z4BTVVHycCsAgUlz8/s1600/WNewton_LV.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="147" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGnU1ouFeuq0yknJx0shhTdxw014FtU8CFev04_B_-FDE_3FjsoxADJBO_Qfus6Ewdh7u8qawID78VvLtihDazvKsgdeis4cBPcw4gSR5GYbMZf8ee0JU8E2JN48Z4BTVVHycCsAgUlz8/s400/WNewton_LV.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>The conglomerate who bought Wayne Newton's 36-acre Las Vegas ranch <i>Casa de Shenandoah</i>—20% of which is actually owned by by Mister Newton himself—and valiantly attempted to turn it into a Graceland-type theme park/shrine has gone belly up, thrown in the towel and <a href="http://blog.redfin.com/blog/2013/09/wayne-newtons-las-vegas-ranch-hits-market-for-70-million.html#.UjhkTWT7133" target="_blank">listed the proudly garish estate</a> for <a href="http://curbed.com/archives/2013/09/10/wayne-newtowns-hideously-overpriced-ranch-asks-70m.php" target="_blank">$70 million</a>. In addition to a main mansion, the property has seven other residences, stabling for dozens horses, garaging for 16 cars plus a car museum, a gaming room, an F28 jet and terminal, a petting zoo. <span style="font-size: xx-small;">(Redfin, Curbed)</span><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">listing photos: <a href="http://www.queensridgeproperties.com/" target="_blank">Synergy Sotheby's International Realty</a></span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">::::::::</div><br /><iframe width="400" height="225" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/T4ldz1L6_io?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><br />After spending $26.5 million on a <a href="http://realestalker.blogspot.com/2013/05/hump-day-hodgepodge-ellen-degeneres-and.html" target="_blank">13-acre hilltop estate</a> with a stunning John Saladino-designed villa in Montecito (CA), perpetual property shufflers Ellen Degeneres and wife Portia de Rossi have <a href="http://www.latimes.com/classified/realestate/hot-property/la-fi-hotprop-ellen-degeneres-20130912,0,6556740.story" target="_blank">finally sold their picturesque equestrian-oriented compound</a> in Thousand Oaks for $10,850,000. <span style="font-size: xx-small;">(L.A. Times)</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">::::::::</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJZNsxgqoE1GD0WyJDCqsSBNSGJGKpTt5YKhtHGUE8e4SnA6oqjIxM3W9FR64se0MIvGiSJ4UEBig_rcbxyWkDgR1SpsXY8_xXH0AExTwXmTc0lKd2S_0Vegv28d6Rhta7m2E0yIZnzZs/s1600/DCody_LC_PICS.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="141" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJZNsxgqoE1GD0WyJDCqsSBNSGJGKpTt5YKhtHGUE8e4SnA6oqjIxM3W9FR64se0MIvGiSJ4UEBig_rcbxyWkDgR1SpsXY8_xXH0AExTwXmTc0lKd2S_0Vegv28d6Rhta7m2E0yIZnzZs/s400/DCody_LC_PICS.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Oscar-winning film and television screenwriter <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1959505/" target="_blank">Diablo Cody</a> (Juno, United States of Tara) has a gated mid-century raised-ranch in the at the top of L.A.'s Laurel Canyon <a href="http://luxe.truliablog.com/2013/09/16/diablo-cody-selling-home/" target="_blank">that she'd like to sell for $1,299,000</a>. Oh, and she's got a 19-foot Airstream (with tiger-striped curtains, above right) parked in the front drive that can be had for the right price, too. <span style="font-size: xx-small;">(Trulia Luxe Living)</span><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">listing photos: <a href="http://www.telesproperties.com/" target="_blank">Teles Properties</a></span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">::::::::</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCJayQiOcf1eBaAGXMgqu3oIHc4fWxzYBt5N3iptw6M7_r-__TfQtEi4H3chC83C9wS8h8bO3kXeJjY55okDw4Q1AH_Y79jk0xDidJzAsG4yIWyDEHNLqM90JApp8o5blVuK523nO_9nk/s1600/CasaCasuarina_Ext.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCJayQiOcf1eBaAGXMgqu3oIHc4fWxzYBt5N3iptw6M7_r-__TfQtEi4H3chC83C9wS8h8bO3kXeJjY55okDw4Q1AH_Y79jk0xDidJzAsG4yIWyDEHNLqM90JApp8o5blVuK523nO_9nk/s400/CasaCasuarina_Ext.jpg" width="351" /></a></div>After first being listed with a grotesquely optimistic $125,000,000 price tag, the late fashion designer Gianni Versace's <i>Casa Casuarina</i>—a screaming statement in unapologetically garish quasi-residential opulence in the heart of Miami Beach's busy and loud South Beach district—has at long last been sold at auction for $41,500,000. The new owners of the Ocean Drive mansion are the Nakash family who own the Jordache designer jeans brand.<br /><br />Fun fact: According to the kids at <i>Curbed Miami</i>, Eric Trump was present to bid on the property for his father, Donald. (For lots more juicy photos of the property <a href="http://www.miaminewtimes.com/slideshow/inside-the-versace-mansion-40051918/#1" target="_blank">go here</a>.) <span style="font-size: xx-small;">(Curbed Miami)</span><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">photo (top): <a href="http://miami.curbed.com/" target="_blank">Curbed Miami</a></span><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;">listing photos (bottom, left and right): via <a href="http://www.forbes.com/pictures/mhj45ihgk/casa-casuarina-miami-beach-fl/" target="_blank">Forbes</a></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12961238637764341890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-170185183304505877.post-4194506927157598542013-09-16T21:45:00.000-07:002013-09-22T21:46:07.089-07:00Courtney Cox Lists A. Quincy Jones House<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIs3R0kApFwBVUIhU9QCtoJ1NjAlKIJ5BfKH11hlUqtArhhNmpmSGQBZD5c7hxp_tkDUQwRRPOY4V8tdkG0OHrcYMRfVDK5G8BpBiE5BcJ-vXY-45lD24IQ9K9EADPXG9UX-Lvd2iUOP4/s1600/CCox_Trousdale_PICS1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIs3R0kApFwBVUIhU9QCtoJ1NjAlKIJ5BfKH11hlUqtArhhNmpmSGQBZD5c7hxp_tkDUQwRRPOY4V8tdkG0OHrcYMRfVDK5G8BpBiE5BcJ-vXY-45lD24IQ9K9EADPXG9UX-Lvd2iUOP4/s400/CCox_Trousdale_PICS1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBglLOWFTWXlD5EoGQFHGZr7cjwdO1_Z1skw9kZBaq1S506H1rv8zYFrLF22DvgIJUgVj3KrXkAEZvz3N4KWNtcDeh68_Ykz_BhyFG1cuE089E4d73Bl2gWMDbU1z2E5gXMahZHQOEbZ4/s1600/CCox_Trousdale_PICS2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBglLOWFTWXlD5EoGQFHGZr7cjwdO1_Z1skw9kZBaq1S506H1rv8zYFrLF22DvgIJUgVj3KrXkAEZvz3N4KWNtcDeh68_Ykz_BhyFG1cuE089E4d73Bl2gWMDbU1z2E5gXMahZHQOEbZ4/s400/CCox_Trousdale_PICS2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>SELLER: Courtney Cox and David Arquette<br />LOCATION: Bevelry Hills, CA<br />PRICE: $19,500,000<br />SIZE: 5,500 square feet (approx.), 5 bedrooms, 5.5 bathrooms<br /><br />YOUR MAMAS NOTES: Thanks to an eagle eyed informant we'll henceforth call Diane Todish it's come to Your Mama's attention that sitcom star and producer <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001073/" target="_blank">Courtney Cox</a> (<i>Friends, Cougar Town</i>) and her quirky actor ex-husband <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000274/?ref_=nm_ov_bio_lk1" target="_blank">David Arquette</a> have, <a href="http://realestalker.blogspot.com/2011/09/your-mama-hears_10.html" target="_blank">as anticipated</a> by real estate gossips around the globe, finally listed their former family residence in the terrifically trendy and spectacularly spendy <i><a href="http://www.trousdale-overthetop.com/" target="_blank">Trousdale Estates</a></i> area of Beverly Hills (CA) on the open market with a $19,500,000 price tag.*<br /><br />Property records (and other online resources) show the long ago split but <a href="http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/courteney-cox-david-arquette-finalize-divorce-2013295" target="_blank">only recently divorced</a> Cox-Arquettes purchased the trophy property in happier marital days, in June 2004, for $5,450,000. They had the A. Quincy Jones-designed single-story sprawler worked over in 2006—with a reconfiguration of the bedroom wing and other alterations—by <a href="http://www.corybuckner.com/" target="_blank">Cory Buckner</a>, a talented, L.A.-based lady architect who quite literally wrote <a href="http://www.phaidon.com/store/architecture/a-quincy-jones-9780714848433/" target="_blank">the to-date definitive book</a> on A. Quincy Jones.<br /><br />Current listing information (and other online resources) shows the approximately 5,500 square foot house has four bedrooms plus a staff bedroom, a total of 5.5 bathrooms, a bi-level ling room with a free-standing fireplace, vast expanses of floor-to-ceiling sliding glass doors throughout, and a detached office area. Listing details go on to indicate the property spans .83 almost-all-level acres with panoramic city views, gated off-street parking for up to six cars, and an honest-to-goodness pee-in-your-God-damn-pants perfect circular swimming pool.<br /><br />We're not sure how their real estate assets got divvied up in their divorce but at the time they split Mister Arquette and Miz Cox also owned a walled, gated and heavily fortified two-ish acre ocean front compound on the bluffs in Malibu that they bought in early 2007 for $17,150,000, had overhauled by architect <a href="http://www.kovacarchitects.com/" target="_blank">Michael Kovac</a> and interior designer <a href="http://www.triphaenisch.com/" target="_blank">Trip Haenisch</a>, and photographed for the July/August, 2011, issue of <i><a href="http://www.elledecor.com/celebrity-style/homes/courteney-coxs-private-retreat-a-69731" target="_blank">Elle Decor</a></i>. In September 2011, Miz Cox, through the same trust that owns the Bev Hills and Malibu properties, <a href="http://realestalker.blogspot.com/2011/11/tuesday-tidbit-courtney-cox.html" target="_blank">paid $2,050,000</a> for a two bedroom and three bathroom condo crib on a high <span style="font-size: xx-small;">floor at the celeb-saturated <i>Sierra Towers</i> building in West Hollywood.</span><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">*Several of Your Mama's well-connected and better informed informants deep inside the celebrity real estate milieu have previously snitched that the house was being shopped for quite some time without success as a pocket listing.</span><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">listing photos: <a href="http://www.jonahwilson.com/" target="_blank">Hilton & Hyland</a></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12961238637764341890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-170185183304505877.post-14175981453856058332013-09-16T13:23:00.000-07:002013-09-22T21:46:07.095-07:00Your Mama Hears...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9RAHUcJUfs2jWqNksWNlelqDcLLGb27Rvq-NF0XErRwbgcHZEElGjxZ5EklIpb7WatqTexsLowGqym2ZsbwuFroJB6wHnQO0sKrWMJB-bT30RF1kPzq3klU4ZcTsb1Vpc6c0s2WVWBAo/s1600/RPattinson_LF_Ext.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="255" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9RAHUcJUfs2jWqNksWNlelqDcLLGb27Rvq-NF0XErRwbgcHZEElGjxZ5EklIpb7WatqTexsLowGqym2ZsbwuFroJB6wHnQO0sKrWMJB-bT30RF1kPzq3klU4ZcTsb1Vpc6c0s2WVWBAo/s400/RPattinson_LF_Ext.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>...from the chit-chatty and always reliable celebrity real estate mover and shaker Patty Propertyseller that semi-reclusive <i>Twilight </i>superstar Robert Pattinson has quietly but officially floated his pedigreed residence in Los Angeles's Los Feliz area as an off-market listing with a $6,750,000 asking price.*<br /><br />The children will recall that Mister Pattinson, now <a href="http://www.eonline.com/news/458796/robert-pattinson-reveals-what-he-wants-in-a-girlfriend-post-kristen-stewart" target="_blank">four months or so past</a> his painfully protracted and tabloid-documented break up with his fame-hating co-star Kristen Stewart, acquired the property just over two years ago, in late August 2011, for $6,275,000 according to property records.<br /><br />The Spanish Colonial-style house, all but hidden from the street behind high walls and dense foliage, has three bedrooms and 3.5 bathrooms, according to Patty Propertyseller, in just over 4,000 square feet. The 1.45 acre estate has a bifurcated flag stone motor court at the front and an extensive outdoor living space at the back that gives way to a steeply up-sloping and ludicrously high-maintenance terraced gardens at the back that include several shaded terraces, a tangle of winding stairways, a free-form swimming pool, and, for impromptu concerts (or whatever), an amphitheatre.<br /><br />The Stiles O. Clements-designed house** was built in the early 1920s for an insurance executive and has a long history of Hollywood-y owners. British actor <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000347/" target="_blank">Tim Curry</a> bought the property in 1993 for $650,000, gave it a thorough fix-up and had it photographed for the November 1998 issue of <i>Architectural Digest</i>. Mister Curry, who told Los Angeles magazine in 2000 that the gardens required a full-time gardener plus a garden consultant on retainer, sold the house in July 2000 for exactly $3,000,000 to a non-celebrity who quickly flipped it at a significant loss for $2.6 million to actor <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001864/" target="_blank">Noah Wylie</a> of <i>E.R.</i> fame and fortune. A few short years later Mister Wylie sold the house for $3.325 million to three-time Oscar-winning cinematographer <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0724744/" target="_blank">Robert Richardson</a> (<i>Hugo, The Aviator, JFK</i>) who flipped it less than two years later to a Australian-born movie director <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0525659/" target="_blank">Robert Luketic</a> (<i>Legally Blonde, Monster-in-Law, 21</i>) who held on to it until the fall of 2011 when he was sold to Mister Pattinson. Would any of the children like to take bets on whether the property will be acquired by yet another Tinseltown mover and shaker?<br /><br />Some of the other homes in the immediate vicinity are owned by Emmy-winning writer/producer <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0463176/" target="_blank">Jenji Kohan</a> (<i>Weeds, Orange Is the New Black</i>), sit-com star and outspoken Scientologist <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000263/" target="_blank">Kirstie Alley</a> (<i>Cheers, Fat Actress</i>) and the rock star Flea, a.k.a. Michael Balzary of the Red Hot Chili Peppers.<br /><br />The children may recall that, according to numerous sources with whom Your Mama is acquired and who tend to know these sorts of things, Mister Pattinson decamped some time ago to much less sublime <a href="http://realestalker.blogspot.com/2013/08/rob-pattinson-decamps-to-bev-hills.html" target="_blank">rented macmansion</a> in a guard-gated and celebrity-friendly community off Mulholland Drive in the mountains between Beverly Hills and Studio City.<br /><br />Word to the wise: Any of you Twihards who think it might be cute to roll by Mister Pattinson's pad in your Hondas and Hyundais should know that even though object of your obsessive fascination moved out some time ago you can be assured the property remains secured by a Fort Knox-like security system and (probably) a team of vigilant armed guards who would rather remove your liver with their bare hands than allow you to stand in the street to gawk like dopes and scream like tween-aged—or, worse, middle-aged—Mimis.<br /><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;">*This turn of celebrity real estate events didn't come as much of a surprise to this particular property gossip who heard word last week from another informant that one of L.A.'s' most prolific and successful property stagers was brought in to gussy the place up.</span><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">**Stiles O. Clements designed both the <a href="http://www.clubmayan.com/" target="_blank">Mayan</a> and <a href="http://elcapitan.go.com/" target="_blank">El Capitan</a> theaters in Los Angeles as well as the swim-gym at Beverly Hills High School and, coincidentally, a <a href="http://la.curbed.com/archives/2011/09/twilight_prom_house_designed_by_el_capitan_architect.php" target="_blank">1915 English Tudor mansion</a> on 2.5 acres in Pasadena (CA) that was used as the location for a prom in the first <i>Twilight</i> movie and traded hands last December (2012) for $5.8 million.</span><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">exterior and aerial images: <a href="https://maps.google.com/" target="_blank">Google</a></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12961238637764341890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-170185183304505877.post-63071988367318786412013-09-16T08:21:00.000-07:002013-09-22T21:46:07.101-07:00Keira Knightley Lists East London Love Nest<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4mszDdwErNXzk0VKiUlpdWHVmGpOuDIldmOEAg64SkkvAjIaWfpB5LMY6_WUI6ow-OTQr9fgT-pyGv4_8G-qBqTjJR-6xu0T2M1fcDxf6R26MFrkpmpWaVqajwqKrl_RFSPXGeXyr9mA/s1600/KKnightley_EL_PICS1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="363" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4mszDdwErNXzk0VKiUlpdWHVmGpOuDIldmOEAg64SkkvAjIaWfpB5LMY6_WUI6ow-OTQr9fgT-pyGv4_8G-qBqTjJR-6xu0T2M1fcDxf6R26MFrkpmpWaVqajwqKrl_RFSPXGeXyr9mA/s400/KKnightley_EL_PICS1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3q8Dxb3r9mywLy_od8bOQ5hHeTcOLoxHswHxjJ0VYW7mFHG2g1IUCNU4MYoNPQyy3zoTacMPErYPlG_n_PBGN_RJK-r51V_8T-Hr9utqgegHbu7gAtzZLZC_2z941xmLzP7DPO1h-xNc/s1600/KKnightley_EL_PICS2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="227" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3q8Dxb3r9mywLy_od8bOQ5hHeTcOLoxHswHxjJ0VYW7mFHG2g1IUCNU4MYoNPQyy3zoTacMPErYPlG_n_PBGN_RJK-r51V_8T-Hr9utqgegHbu7gAtzZLZC_2z941xmLzP7DPO1h-xNc/s400/KKnightley_EL_PICS2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv-IPRH2XkVaULWA4SEo8IJEBr9yuw49rknXo9DwAYvsT4kv4rhoMW3ioWeQgw0EiGjNd7uAclCj8HYhrkO0dvwGk7WUCw3ht3LsAGwdJjaGajfhd6mz3b3jjcqPBMHjbF5U1Ii9bFaCA/s1600/KKnightley_EL_PICS3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="363" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv-IPRH2XkVaULWA4SEo8IJEBr9yuw49rknXo9DwAYvsT4kv4rhoMW3ioWeQgw0EiGjNd7uAclCj8HYhrkO0dvwGk7WUCw3ht3LsAGwdJjaGajfhd6mz3b3jjcqPBMHjbF5U1Ii9bFaCA/s400/KKnightley_EL_PICS3.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>SELLER: Keira Knightley (and James Righton)<br />LOCATION: London, U.K.<br />PRICE: £3,000,000<br />SIZE: 3,223 square feet, 3-4 bedrooms, 3.5 bathrooms<br /><br />YOUR MAMAS NOTES: Even though <a href="http://www.digitalspy.com/celebrity/news/a404543/the-best-of-keira-knightleys-famous-pout-in-pictures.html" target="_blank">(in)famously pouty-faced</a> Oscar-nominated English actress Keira Knightley and her music making new husband James Righton of the indie rock Nu-Rave band Klaxon only settled in to a compact, Georgian-style townhouse in an historic, celebrity-jammed enclave in East London's rapidly gentrifying yet still rough and tumble Spitalfields* area a bit more than a year ago they're already selling up, we first learned from London-based celebrity property snitch Harry Hound, and listed their East London love nest with an asking price of £3,000,000. (That's U.S. $4,759,680 at today's rates according to our trusty currency conversion contraption.)<br /><br />We're not quite sure when exactly the young, rich, and arty-farty couple purchased the property or how much moolah they they coughed up for it but there are <a href="http://marquee.blogs.cnn.com/2012/05/29/keira-knightley-buys-samantha-morton-home/" target="_blank">scads of reports</a> from May 2012 that suggest she—or maybe they—shelled out around £2,400,000 for the 18th-century Huguenot-built house that has a rusticated base painted the color of burgundy wine. (That's 3,807,740 U.S. clams at today's rates according to our trusty currency conversion contraption.) The seller, according to Harry Hound and numerous reports from the spring of 2012, was <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0608090/" target="_blank">Samantha Morton</a>, another (two-time) Oscar-nominated British actress (<i>In America, Sweet and Lowdown, John Carter</i>).<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8Cpi2f7pRqdEzifGRIDYMKmgqZaRDgkRFqY6Ul2tJpM-Y31shAi9xzNSf6nrrCal29OIABmRdb0zev2vjTsc7p86-yprLXqdTast0t7o4tFIxndH7xR2cG5EfPbvHCYVmj-JmWaoCwR0/s1600/KKnightley_EL_FP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8Cpi2f7pRqdEzifGRIDYMKmgqZaRDgkRFqY6Ul2tJpM-Y31shAi9xzNSf6nrrCal29OIABmRdb0zev2vjTsc7p86-yprLXqdTast0t7o4tFIxndH7xR2cG5EfPbvHCYVmj-JmWaoCwR0/s400/KKnightley_EL_FP.jpg" width="238" /></a></div>The floor plans included with current digital marketing materials show the 3,229 square foot art- an book-filled corner townhouse has four floors above ground and two more below. There are, by Your Mama's rudimentary interpretation of the floor plan, two street entrances and two entrance halls, at least four living rooms, 3.5 bathrooms, and three dedicated bedrooms plus a possible fourth bedroom that adjoins the master bedroom on the uppermost level.<br /><br />The main center hall entrance and stair hall on the ground level connects to petite but pleasantly snug front and rear living room spaces, both with possibly functional and possibly not functional fireplaces. The rear living room has a full wall of cacophonous, mis-matched windows and French doors that open to a narrow exterior corridor that zig-zags back to a small, unkempt-looking private patio. A pint-sized study with built-in bookcases and a possibly functional fireplaces, a second entrance hall, and a windowless half bathroom complete the ground floor.<br /><br />Upstairs, in the "formal" reception room just off the central stair hall, Miz Knightley and Mister Righton have installed a haphazard and homey sort of day-core that pairs traditional roll-armed English armchairs in mixy-matchy striped and floral upholstery with an au courant Moroccan area rug and a classic, mid-century modern coffee table by Isamu Noguchi. There's yet another fireplace (that may or may not be functional) and several over-sized six-over-six sash windows with an up close and personal view of the architecturally pastiched, early 18th-century Christ Church.<br /><br />A narrow but expensively equipped galley-style kitchen—the children will note the massive, commercial-style range—has cornflower blue wood cabinetry, butcher block counter tops, and yet another fireplace that may or may not be functional. The kitchen passes through to the dining room that's fitted with what appear on the floor plan to be built-in cupboards.<br /><br />The smaller of the two guest/family bedrooms on the third floor—the Brits call it the second floor—has direct access to a wee, windowless bathroom and the larger of the two bedrooms has large windows with more Christ Church views and makes use of a much bigger, windowed bathroom that opens off the stair landing and is fitted built-in linen cabinets and toiletry cupboards.<br /><br />There's a possibility for a third guest/family bedroom on the top floor but, given that access to the master bedroom appears to be <i>through</i> the room, Your Mama feels strongly it would make a much better fitness area, yoga studio or dressing room/closet than a bedroom. The master suite, we're afraid, combines the bedroom and bathroom in to one, 30-foot long loft-like space and one must pass inconveniently through the bathroom area to get to the the bedroom area. Your Mama spotted fireplaces—or at least mantels—in the bedroom space and in the lounge area of the bathroom that includes a single pedestal sink and a claw-footed soaking tub in full view of the bedroom area. Frankly we prefer a bit more privacy for abluting and flossing but mercifully the toilet is encompassed in its own quite tiny cubicle.<br /><br />Back downstairs, there's a spacious basement level lounge with built-in storage and book shelves that flank a fireplace-like arch into which are stacked a couple of Moroccan poufs. The floor plan also shows a wet bar—or maybe it's a slop sink, and a utility room where Your Mama and our house girl Svetlana both hope there's a washer and dryer. One floor down from there, in the old coal storage space, the floor plan shows a 30-foot long but only 9'4" wide screening room.<br /><br />Mister and Missus Knightly-Righton's East London residence sits smack in the center of a densely packed and fashionably chic enclave just around the corner from the artsy and fully gentrified Spitalfields Market and just off Brick Lane where there are more itty-bitty and reasonably priced curry restaurants than in all of Bangladesh. Artists and other bohemian types have flooded into the Spitalfields area over the last 10 or 15 years and the tiny knot of streets where the house in question is located has attracted a surprising number of rich and famous folks over the years. Novelist Jeanette Winterson lives in the vicinity as does über-artist/entrepreneur <a href="http://www.emininternational.com/" target="_blank">Tracey Emin</a> as well as the collaborative art world duo known simply as <a href="http://whitecube.com/artists/gilbert_george/" target="_blank">Gilbert & George</a>. The Pet Shop Boys' Chris Lowe recently unloaded his house a few doors down from the one Miz Knightley has up for grabs—it was last listed at £2,600,000—and film director Joe Wright** and his Grammy-nominated sitarist wife Anoushka Shankar, the daughter of the late Ravi Shankar and the half-sister of nine-time Grammy winning singer/songwriter Norah Jones, recently sold their <a href="http://realestalker.blogspot.com/2013/02/film-director-joe-wright-sells-up-in.html" target="_blank">Grade II listed Georgian style townhouse</a> to Welsh singer/actor <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000596/" target="_blank">Jonathan Pryce</a> for $4,100,000.<br /><br />We know little to nil about the semi-rural hilltop spread near Mazon in the Provence region on the South of France that Miz Knightley (and/or her family) <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/10037368/Keira-Knightley-marries-James-Righton-in-south-of-France.html" target="_blank">reportedly owns</a> and where, so the stories go, she and Mister Righton hosted their wedding party in May (2013) and were feted by high profile peeps like Sienna Miller and Karl Lagerfeld. The 20-acre estate is said to have an eight bedroom stone farmhouse, vineyards, and olive groves.<br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">*Spitalfields was where most if not all of the presumed victims of late 19th-century mass murderer Jack the Ripper resided, although most were murdered in the adjacent Whitechapel district.</span><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">**Mister Joe Wright's period piece films <i>Pride and Prejudice, Atonement, </i>and <i>Anna Karenina</i> all starred—you got it—Keira Knightley.</span><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">listing photos and floor plan: <a href="http://www.daveystone.com/" target="_blank">Davey Stone</a></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12961238637764341890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-170185183304505877.post-76427089524124242232013-09-11T16:53:00.000-07:002013-09-22T21:46:07.108-07:00Did Julia Roberts List Her Secluded Hawaiian Hideaway and Buy Another?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO1JRELid6oBhHynnSXn-7ABdkdaRmR9-tTr5R2330NgxpYjCyXEk6znZ2SRjLyVUieDvrFV_VPZJX0huFApeGwvQ8C1m4wiBy2XQ5BXU6uE9FBc0IfEiWduyF3linQM0RuvjP8T_0zA4/s1600/JRoberts_HI_PICS5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="345" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO1JRELid6oBhHynnSXn-7ABdkdaRmR9-tTr5R2330NgxpYjCyXEk6znZ2SRjLyVUieDvrFV_VPZJX0huFApeGwvQ8C1m4wiBy2XQ5BXU6uE9FBc0IfEiWduyF3linQM0RuvjP8T_0zA4/s400/JRoberts_HI_PICS5.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>SELLER: Julia Roberts and Danny Moder<br />LOCATION: Hanalei, Kauai, HI<br />PRICE: $17,000,000<br />SIZE: 1,807 square feet, 4bedrooms, 3 bathrooms (total)<br /><br />YOUR MAMAS NOTES: It recently came to Your Mama's attention by way of The Bizzy Boys at <i><a href="http://www.celebrityaddressaerial.com/" target="_blank">Celebrity Address Aerial</a></i> that semi-reclusive Oscar-winning actress Julia Roberts and her budding cinematographer husband, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0595227/" target="_blank">Danny Moder</a>, own not just one but two multi-million dollar ocean front hideaways superbly located near heavenly Hanalei Bay on the North Shore of the achingly scenic and relatively unspoiled Hawaiian island of Kauai.<br /><br />As it turns out, butter beans, one of the two ocean front estates that Your Mama understands to be owned by Miz Roberts and Mister Moder, happens on the market with an asking price of $17,000,000.*<br /><br />And, children, it's gorgeous. <span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;">In fact, it's pretty much exactly what Your Mama and The Dr. Cooter would buy iffin we had seventeen million extra dollars to spend on a relatively remote Hawaiian hideaway where, according to someone with whom Your Mama is acquainted who is intimately acquainted with the very strip of beach to which the Roberts-Moder property rubs up against, the swimming situation along the beach behind the house is far from idea due to the excessively rocky shoreline. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;">"Attempting a swim in front of Ms. Robert's beach shack on the North Shore of Kauai ain't for sissies," We were informed. "If you want to swim along that part of the coastline you make a left at Pierce Brosnan's place and don't stop until you get to Ben Stiller scowling on a chaise outside his breathtaking beach front contemporary." There you have if from a wealthy Hollywood haole who frequents this particular corner of paradise. Anyhoo...</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;">Property records for the estate are a mite convoluted but, as best as Your Mama can tell, in June 2009 Miz Roberts and Mister Moder coughed up somewhere in the neighborhood of <a href="http://www.honolulumagazine.com/Honolulu-Magazine/Real-Estate/October-2010/Hawaii-rsquos-Most-Expensive-Zip-Codes/" target="_blank">ten </a></span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"><a href="http://www.honolulumagazine.com/Honolulu-Magazine/Real-Estate/October-2010/Hawaii-rsquos-Most-Expensive-Zip-Codes/" target="_blank">million clams</a> for the undeniably luxurious but low-key spread that s</span>pans three contiguous parcels that total 8.92 secluded acres and claims more than 400 feet of ocean frontage with, according to current listing details, "Seasonal swimming, surfing, windsurfing, and snorkeling." The recently re-habbed main residence has three bedrooms and two bathrooms in, according to property records, just over 1,800 square feet. A separate cottage near the head of the long driveway has another bedroom and bathroom for guests or caretakers.<br /><br />At the heart of the low-slung Hawaiian-style ranch house is a roomy, open-concept great room with wide plank wood floors, a vaulted ceiling lined with heavy-duty wood beams, and clerestory windows. One the ocean side of the house a ribbon of windows provide a sweeping view of the beach and pounding surf. The children may or may not have noticed the well-conceived and executed wooden louvers below the windows that, Your Mama imagines, are used to increase or decrease the air flow as needed to keep the house cool on hot days.<br /><br />On the opposite wall from the ocean view windows are a long row of wood-framed glass doors that fold back and expose the great room to a spacious screened porch that overlooks vast and verdant lawns that give way to dense tropical thickets and inspiring views of Mt. Makana and the unspoiled Limahuli Valley. Listing photos show there's some sort of portable, half-trashy blow-up plunge pool situation out on the back lawn where there's also, rather charmingly, a swing hung from the branch of a mature shade tree. We know it's not fair and we'll probably get called all kinds of snobby for saying so but even though we'd most certainly roll our eyes and scoff with superiority and disdain at a blow up pool on the back lawn of a suburban tract house in Peoria somehow it's charming and pleasantly humble when the same blow up pool sits on the back lawn of a stunningly redone residence in Kauai that only the financially elite can even afford to imagine owning.<br /><br />As those who do it know, families and other groups of people who vacation in private homes, either rented or owned, often spend a great deal of time preparing and eating food. Trust Your Mama when we tell you, that's just what happens. Three days in to the vacay and everyone is like, "Can we <i>pleeze</i> go to a damn restaurant? I'm so tired of cooking and washing dishes I could spit urine." So, addressing that issue the designer(s) who handled the recent overhaul of the home—that would be Greg Warner of <a href="http://www.walker-warner.com/%E2%80%8E" target="_blank">Walker-Warner Architects</a> in San Francisco according to marketing materials—smartly installed a commodious, expensively equipped, and centrally located country-style kitchen with white porcelain apron sink, open shelves for daily dishes, a thick slab of butcher block on the super-sized work island that doubles as a snack bar, and top-quality appliances tucked discreetly behind the bead board cabinetry that someone had the chutzpah to paint a particularly fetching shade of tomato. Behind the kitchen, our own house girl Svetlana noticed with an angry kind of envy, there's a well-designed mud porch/laundry room with more tomato red cabinetry and a double-wide sliding louvered door that, when open, allows the laundress of the house to have a $17 million view of the ocean while folding up bathing suits and underthings.<br /><br />A small sitting room furnished with a generous sectional seating lounge provides a buffer zone between the hustle-bustle of the main living space and the serenity and coziness of the master suite. A central walk-in closet that can be passed on either side separates the compact but adequate bedroom from the bathroom where there's a custom wood vanity, a free-standing soaking tub set in front of over-sized windows with moist, green mountain and garden views, and, for reasons we can't fathom, a pair of pea green Moroccan poufs. Maybe that's where the $200/hour house-calling manicurist sits when she comes to do an in-tub mani-pedi for the lady of the house?<br /><br />Anyways, according to <a href="http://beckysupon.com/2011/12/will-smith-sells-kauai-estate-for-20000000/" target="_blank">celebrity real estate scuttlebutt</a> on the island and circumstantial evidence in various property record data bases and other online resources it appears that in November 2011 Miz Roberts and Mister Moder very well might have spent $13,375,000 to acquire a well-known and Hawaii historic, 3-ish acre beach front property on postcard perfect Hanalei Bay where the the shore is sandy rather than rocky and hence perfect for bare-footed shore strolling and surf frolicking.<br /><br />The vintage estate has a sizable main house with an open plan main living area that opens on the beach side to a covered porch, six bedrooms and three bathrooms plus and outdoor shower. A separate detached but fully self-contained cottage has another beach view covered porch, an open plan living area, one bedroom, and one bathroom. The property was—and, oddly enough, still appears to be—available as a un-fussy but hardly inexpensive rental, $1,500 per night for the main house and either $350 per night for the cottage.<br /><br />Kauai quietly attracts a slew of celebrities and other well-heeled Tinseltowners, often over and around the winter holidays. Most rent but a few of the high profile people who own luxury island getaways on the North Shore of Kauai include the aforementioned Ben Stiller and Pierce Brosnan as well as Honolulu-born Bette Midler, music industry mogul Irving Azoff, producer John Wells, and María del Roasario Mercedes Pilar Martínez Molina Baeza, a hip-poppin' and coochi-cooing ball of fire otherwise known as Charo.<br /><br />Your Mama's brief and entirely unscientific research on the internets reveals that in addition to their substantial residential real estate holdings in Hawaii Miz Roberts and Mister Moder maintain a number of other private residences. There's the custom-built bluff-top estate in Malibu, a ranch about 10 miles north of Taos, NM, and several apartments in a dignified boutique building in the Gramercy Park area of New York City plus a penthouse pad in a full-service post-war building in the heart of Greenwich Village that she picked up in mid-2010 for $3,895,000. In 2010, presumably for use by staff or family, Miz Roberts and Mister Moder paid $1,332,300 for a fully updated and upgraded 1920s Spanish bungalow with two bedrooms and two bathrooms just a couple short blocks from the center of downtown Pacific Palisades and, until August 2010 when she sold it for $3,000,000, the couple maintained a gated micro-compound just off Abbott Kinney in in the city's increasingly pricey yet proudly gritty hipster-swarmed beach community of Venice.<br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">*In the interest of full disclosure Your Mama would like the children (and etc.) to note that we have not been able to directly link Julia Roberts or Danny Moder to the property in question. What we have is a whole lotta circumstantial evidence. Several sources have told Your Mama that the Roberts-Moder family maintains not one but two residence on Kauai and one doesn't have to scour the internet for long before picking up snippets of gossip and rumor that say so. Also notable is that, technically, the property in question is owned by a vaguely named trust that links back to the same Beverly Hills office of an accountant long known by celebrity property gossips like Your Mama to be associated with Miz Roberts as the rest of her many residential properties. Make of the circumstantial evidence what you will. Let's be honest, though. Even if it's not Roberts' house, it's worth a gander anyways, don't you think?</span><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">listing photos: <a href="http://www.nealnorman.com/" target="_blank">Hawaii Life</a></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12961238637764341890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-170185183304505877.post-20345862155788849432013-09-10T10:57:00.000-07:002013-09-22T21:46:07.161-07:00Cotton T-Shirt King James Perse Snags Another<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVbX086K1jPYCVpc81bSJntvowMYrHU-roPrL6YE5cV5sITsIg6ts1VZIoL9Ej1x73r2YxM7MZ1mGkivbt0K3AzK6mw5xNYOTW_mPd90dnMj0jXaQvDR5eefxE-FN4_YKoeirLT0ox5eM/s1600/PerseLessard_Mal_PICS.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVbX086K1jPYCVpc81bSJntvowMYrHU-roPrL6YE5cV5sITsIg6ts1VZIoL9Ej1x73r2YxM7MZ1mGkivbt0K3AzK6mw5xNYOTW_mPd90dnMj0jXaQvDR5eefxE-FN4_YKoeirLT0ox5eM/s400/PerseLessard_Mal_PICS.jpg" width="267" /></a></div>SELLER: Stefan Lessard<br />BUYER: James Perse<br />LOCATION: Malibu, CA<br />PRICE: $6,690,000<br />SIZE: 7,000 square feet, 6 bedrooms, 5.5 bathrooms<br /><br />YOUR MAMAS NOTES: Your Mama, followed by a number of our property gossip compadres, had to eat celebrity real estate crow in mid-February (2013) when <a href="http://realestalker.blogspot.com/2013/02/dave-matthews-buys-in-bu.html" target="_blank">we erroneously reported</a> that money-minting musician Dave Matthews of his eponymous Dave Matthews Band had quietly dropped $6,575,000 for a recently re-did domicile in the celeb-saturated Point Dume area of Malibu, CA, that was described in listing information from the time of the purchase as a "European Country Home."<br /><br />Within days of our digital discussion we heard from a paid representative of Mister Matthews who was appreciatively friendly but absolutely emphatic that her client did not buy the house in question and does not, in fact, own any property in Malibu or even in California. We added a note that stated such and we moved on.<br /><br />Then, about a week or so ago, while—'tis true—Your Mama was shacked up in a tent the size of a downtown Manhattan studio apartment in Sister Woman's backyard, we received a covert communique from deliciously relentless real estate yenta Yolanda Yakketyyak who snitched that she's quite certain—totally positive, she said—that the 1.78 acre estate in question was acquired by Mister Matthews' long-time bass player Stefan Lessard and his second wife, Jaclyn Burton. The seller was Maura Kaplan, the designer daughter of late actor Leslie Nielsen.<br /><br />Mister Lessard, 39, has played bass in the wildly successful Dave Matthews Band since he was a wee lad of sixteen, which means he's plenty rich enough to buy a six and some million dollar house in Malibu. However, Mister and/or Missus was almost immediately stricken with buyer's remorse or caught a severe case of The Celebrity Real Estate Fickle or something because the couple quietly flipped the 7,000 square foot house in an off-market deal in early July (2013) for, according to property records, $6,690,000. The buyer, snitched Yolanda, is <a href="http://www.jamesperse.com/" target="_blank">luxury cotton t-shirt king James Perse</a> and his wife Brandi Briskman, a Beverly Hills -bred brunette who is sometimes described on the interweb as an interior decorator.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6N813RkSvOeSbWDoQzigwtnQ_iu1BEOPFysJfKwmmYp1-Q8zrzcGm4FLMT4qYQtP-v-Ld0-7esAgKRxhbVV260wGPqCfDfNiaiVk0wjP9p6H50ME6w1xoftLihkDkytP1zsRQdxJGwHI/s1600/Perse_Mal_PICS.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6N813RkSvOeSbWDoQzigwtnQ_iu1BEOPFysJfKwmmYp1-Q8zrzcGm4FLMT4qYQtP-v-Ld0-7esAgKRxhbVV260wGPqCfDfNiaiVk0wjP9p6H50ME6w1xoftLihkDkytP1zsRQdxJGwHI/s400/Perse_Mal_PICS.jpg" width="331" /></a></div>As it turns out, we also learned from Yolanda, the Lessard's unwanted white elephant isn't the only residential property in Malibu owned by Mister and Missus Perse. In fact, it's not even the most expensive house they own in the Point Dume area. In late 2010 the casually chic couple surreptitiously spent $16,000,000 to acquire an organically modern wood and glass pavilion on 1.28 plum acres with ocean views and direct, deeded access to a sensationally scenic private beach. Your Mama's research shows Mister and Missus Perse purchased the beach house from former <i>Surfing</i> magazine editor and <i>X-Files</i> creator Chris Carter and their nearest neighbor is none other that Miz Malibu Herself, Barbra Streisand, who presides over a sprawling, multi-acre, multi-residence <a href="http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/02/streisands-cozy-san-simeon/?_r=0" target="_blank">bluff-top compound</a> that includes an rustic water mill with a working wooden water wheel. Anyhoo...<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNVhQasSHGL3RbY1M7YiSYZV4eJCOMSAgkffqpOAU2oQEco-zTMEh5T7dKJuRwTJRGBS5ayTB_opnhgWlyQOYOgWzy3OUGx6wB3Ni0TM3V18eNjDVPAGCW_USYL5REMfJtgDg-7s7eNME/s1600/PerseIsrael_SS_PICS.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNVhQasSHGL3RbY1M7YiSYZV4eJCOMSAgkffqpOAU2oQEco-zTMEh5T7dKJuRwTJRGBS5ayTB_opnhgWlyQOYOgWzy3OUGx6wB3Ni0TM3V18eNjDVPAGCW_USYL5REMfJtgDg-7s7eNME/s400/PerseIsrael_SS_PICS.jpg" width="323" /></a></div>Until recently Mister Perse owned a sleek and low-slung one bedroom and 1.5 bathroom abode in a much desired location above the Sunset Street that he had designed by the talented folk at <a href="http://www.standard-la.com/" target="_blank">Standard</a> and first listed in 2009 with a sky-high $4,995,000 price tag. After a long slog at the real estate rodeo and a <a href="http://realestalker.blogspot.com/2009/03/james-perses-pad-in-birds.html" target="_blank">significant price drop to $3,750,000</a> in 2011, the property finally sold in April of this year (2013) in an off-market deal for $3,550,000. The buyer, as per property records and Yolanda Yakketyyak, was L.A.-based artist, writer and luxury eye wear entrepreneur Alex Israel who, incidentally, just sold his high-floor two bedroom and two bathroom condo-crib along the Wilshire Corridor for $875,000.<br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">listing photos (Malibu, top): <a href="http://prumalibu.com/" target="_blank">Prudential Malibu Realty</a></span><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;">listing photos (Malibu, middle): <a href="http://www.ellenfrancisco.com/" target="_blank">Coldwell Banker</a></span><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;">listing photos (Sunset Strip, bottom): <a href="http://www.jonahwilson.com/" target="_blank">Hilton & Hyland</a></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12961238637764341890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-170185183304505877.post-30771911981686179692013-09-09T14:13:00.000-07:002013-09-22T21:46:07.213-07:00Triple Whammy: Robin Quivers Shakes Up Property PortfolioYOUR MAMAS NOTES: In May 2012 radio shock-jock Howard Stern's long-time lady side kick <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mario-almonte/robin-quivers-the-incredi_b_3224265.html" target="_blank">Robin Quivers</a>—the relative calm to his famously crude storm—announced that she was about to go under the knife to have a grapefruit-sized tumor removed from her bladder. The well-compensated co-host, a former nurse and Air Force captain who rakes in a <a href="http://www.examiner.com/article/howard-stern-show-cast-net-worth-revealed-friends-and-enemies-too-photos-poll" target="_blank">reported $10 million per year</a>, quickly returned to her post behind the microphone but, instead of being in the studio with Mister Stern and his ragtag band of lewd cohorts, for the last year or so has provided her generally more level headed two cents from home with a high-speed internet connection.<br /><br />Earlier today <a href="http://www.tmz.com/2013/09/09/robin-quivers-howard-stern-cancer/" target="_blank">Miz Quivers revealed</a> on air that she's battled cancer over the last year or so and, after chemotherapy—and whatever other tactics they employed to beat back the cancer, her doctors recently declared her cancer free. Mavel tov, Miz Quivers, may you remain in remission in perpetuity.<br /><br />With her new, cancer-free lease on life, the 61-year old Miz Quivers seems in the mood to turn her small property portfolio completely upside-down. Thanks to an informant we'll call Glenda Goodwitch it's come to Your Mama's attention that the coffee enema proponent not only put her her New York City apartment up for sale she also listed her canal-front house in the seaside Loveladies community on Long Beach Island on the (New) Jersey shore—for significantly less than she paid for it, mind you—<i>and</i> she already snatched up a bigger and more expensive bay-front residence less than two miles to the south.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS9nWDlPxSYWzwYb7ihyNEGQ20KzFs28uU1RcnV3-zaNVtSqGh3VfKA_wm-cR69AkGsal3m4ESW-yN77iZpHli2PrqU54kE-TDPRIFGiGD9YH013FxrBkna7QZyWChrHSNLGkeRJPYUEE/s1600/RQuivers_NYC_PICS.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="267" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS9nWDlPxSYWzwYb7ihyNEGQ20KzFs28uU1RcnV3-zaNVtSqGh3VfKA_wm-cR69AkGsal3m4ESW-yN77iZpHli2PrqU54kE-TDPRIFGiGD9YH013FxrBkna7QZyWChrHSNLGkeRJPYUEE/s400/RQuivers_NYC_PICS.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVwxV-doIn_Vd-wTbdnv3loYYHvXzGU3LT_3j0bXziYctNYbUKE3LvbS-ryb6Yz6bZQ8pHLHLRlU94wQaA96Rw0i5zL2W7t8kM7eyDJ7L17Pqb_vz6ah-nPjZibuGDTEKxsdHPVIws7Rw/s1600/RQuivers_NYC_FP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVwxV-doIn_Vd-wTbdnv3loYYHvXzGU3LT_3j0bXziYctNYbUKE3LvbS-ryb6Yz6bZQ8pHLHLRlU94wQaA96Rw0i5zL2W7t8kM7eyDJ7L17Pqb_vz6ah-nPjZibuGDTEKxsdHPVIws7Rw/s400/RQuivers_NYC_FP.jpg" width="266" /></a></div>LOCATION: New York City, NY<br />PRICE: $2,950,000<br />SIZE: 1,486 square feet, 2 bedrooms, 2.5 bathrooms<br /><br />Property records reveal Miz Quivers picked up her 2 bedroom and 2.5 bathrooms pied-a-terre in the lower section of New York City's Upper West Side near Lincoln Center in May 2008 for $2,469,256—or $2,425,000, depending where you look. Current digital marketing materials show she first hoisted the 1,486 square foot high-floor corner crib on the open market in July 2013 with a $3,150,000 price tag. The asking price was quickly reduced to $2,950,000 and within a few weeks an unknown buyer came along and put the apartment in contract for an unknown amount.<br /><br />Current listing details show a tiny, barely there foyer opens into a reasonably roomy, multi-purpose living/dining/kitchen space with medium brown hardwood floors and full walls of windows, some of which stretch from floor-to-ceiling and flood the room with natural light. The furnishings are mostly taupe and tan and, while probably of high quality and reasonably comfy-looking, fairly uninspired.<br /><br />The adjoining, windowed kitchen may be Manhattan-sized, meaning it's barely bigger than a decent-sized walk-in closet, bu it's none-the-less well equipped with top-quality appliances including an under-counter wine fridge and commercial-style range, simple Shaker-style oak cabinetry with frosted glass fronted uppers, high gloss black granite counter tops and white marble back splash, and a two-seat breakfast bar.<br /><br />The two bedrooms, situated at opposite ends of the apartment for maximum privacy, each has a private bathroom. The master bedroom isn't any bigger then the guest bedroom really but does have three (smallish) closets instead of one and a more spacious, windowed en suite bathroom with a two sink vanity, soaking tub, and separate, glassed-in stall shower.<br /><br />Other features include nine-foot ceilings, a stacked washer/dryer in a closet just off the foyer, and three exposures that allow for city, park, river, and bridge views. Common charges and taxes, as per listing details, come to $2,668 and the building's full-service amenities include 24-hour doormen, concierge, health club, bike storage room and on-site parking garage. (No doubt additional fees apply to the latter feature.)<br /><br />At this point Your Mama has no idea if Miz Quivers plans to replace her modestly sized if hardly inexpensive pied a terre with something another one of equal, less or greater scope and/or cost.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJt6voJcF2otu9FeX5bL4rgJ9NrzdAEbP6i-NqUtqWru_c3bzxaNf1NmvbwDcLaDl0Uae1b3qduvFcXZFH8twuSkOnUmCZmy75roiWAMR9jzK7OoyLayt43qsXABKxD5cZ0l-64SbwlRY/s1600/RQuivers_LL_PICS1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJt6voJcF2otu9FeX5bL4rgJ9NrzdAEbP6i-NqUtqWru_c3bzxaNf1NmvbwDcLaDl0Uae1b3qduvFcXZFH8twuSkOnUmCZmy75roiWAMR9jzK7OoyLayt43qsXABKxD5cZ0l-64SbwlRY/s400/RQuivers_LL_PICS1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEja4c_7bB3PCChd8y_p9bKZ5QshC7Irq4eO7hJDGwc8QkYtpGpm24QWx3OCffA6aX_hto5H5KjA7BoXaL5J5YcG6ZViNY3M8cH5SBw3102IajTD8HtSPVtfPYdurNs0H6HB-eehI6Xt_ho/s1600/RQuivers_LL_PICS2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEja4c_7bB3PCChd8y_p9bKZ5QshC7Irq4eO7hJDGwc8QkYtpGpm24QWx3OCffA6aX_hto5H5KjA7BoXaL5J5YcG6ZViNY3M8cH5SBw3102IajTD8HtSPVtfPYdurNs0H6HB-eehI6Xt_ho/s400/RQuivers_LL_PICS2.jpg" width="353" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvBsqFY8Ajr25ortfn8MvhqscwXjRhYrxo5vwBM113ozZtzYUeCvxRXuXcSmatAHmhxv7MdNUwXh3ygtdXCbx1OzZC8h4bSDa58On75WhXQmjHtgn_sWgu3gP_aJJOOArcjvHiS6YFk7I/s1600/RQuivers_LL_PICS3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvBsqFY8Ajr25ortfn8MvhqscwXjRhYrxo5vwBM113ozZtzYUeCvxRXuXcSmatAHmhxv7MdNUwXh3ygtdXCbx1OzZC8h4bSDa58On75WhXQmjHtgn_sWgu3gP_aJJOOArcjvHiS6YFk7I/s400/RQuivers_LL_PICS3.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>LOCATION: Loveladies, (Long Beach Island), NJ<br />PRICE: $2,450,000<br />SIZE: 3,500 square feet, 5 bedrooms, 4.5 bathrooms<br /><br />As mentioned above, not only has Miz Quivers opted to sell her Manhattan pied-a-terre she's also put a $2,450,000 price tag on her canal front house in Loveladies (NJ) that property records show she acquired in October 2005 for $2,775,000. A few quick clicks and clacks on Your Mama's bejeweled abacus shows that even if her real estate agent lady manages to pull down a full price buyer Miz Quivers faces an elephantine $325,000 loss on the sale of this house, not counting improvements, carrying costs, and real estate fees.<br /><br />Current listing information shows the approximately 3,500 square foot house, dubbed—ahem—<i>Amethyst Sea</i>, had five bedrooms and 4.5 bathrooms. It was designed, so says the listing description, by local designer/builder <a href="http://www.musgnug.com/" target="_blank">Robert Musgnug</a> and built in 2002 near the tail end of a long cul-de-sac with 135-feet of open, south facing canal frontage. The canal leads out to Manahawkin Bay, according to digital maps we consulted.<br /><br />The main living areas doesn't look all that commodious in listing photographs but are open concept with beige tile flooring, a fireplace, and a curved wall of windows in the living room area. There's another curved wall of windows in the dining area that's open to the kitchen over a raised breakfast bar. The wrap-around kitchen is outfitted with high-grade stainless steel appliances, granite counter tops the color of wet sand, and perfectly ordinary raised panel cabinetry that doesn't quite reach the ceiling. Some of the eagle-eyed children may have already noted that Miz Quivers broke Rule Number 14 in <i>Your Mama's Big Book of Decoratin' Dos and Don'ts</i> by shoving copious amounts of faux-foliage and other knick-knacks and paddywacks in the narrow space between the top of the cabinets and the ceiling where they do little besides collect dust.<br /><br />At lease a couple of the guest/family bedrooms have water views and the master has a sitting area with an amethyst inlaid fireplace, a private water-side balcony, and an en suite bathroom where, according to digital marketing materials, there's more amethyst inlaid in the otherwise ho-hum beige tile work.<br /><br />The main living area opens to an elevated veranda that, unfortunately for privacy seekers like Your Mama, a direct and essentially unimpeded view into the backyards of the across-the-canal neighbors. Wide steps descend a decent-sized backyard area with simple plantings, a boomerang-shaped swimming pool and generous if not exactly private sunbathing spaces. A large deck cantilevers over the bulk headed canal and a separate floating dock provides plenty or room for Miz Quivers throw her kayaks into the canal and/or park her funny little runabout boat.<br /><br />Other rooms of note include a small, canal-view fitness room, a second level family room/den with yet another curved wall of windows, and an upper level wood-floored office with built-in bookcases that flank a large oculus-type window. Another upper level room, perhaps it was originally planned as a bedroom, is where, according to listing photos, Miz Quivers sits and does her thing on the radio.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXuPB6Wa0_c8T-k9W9V4PF7Jz-WPgHEz4UsecmJAdhBUz_IusUKP3qu0H4mW_YgIrIQLJWXiMiagbZCrFR46qophtuxYpfn1uJVbgSyp8jLyYsAQn8b93wAsllZxpcBg3XnIgwyXExJ74/s1600/RQuivers_BUY_PICS1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="302" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXuPB6Wa0_c8T-k9W9V4PF7Jz-WPgHEz4UsecmJAdhBUz_IusUKP3qu0H4mW_YgIrIQLJWXiMiagbZCrFR46qophtuxYpfn1uJVbgSyp8jLyYsAQn8b93wAsllZxpcBg3XnIgwyXExJ74/s400/RQuivers_BUY_PICS1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgd8OHaxvAgqSWnITTrLbgu2WlcaoLl91dan-YwDyqeu9fz55tOsrU1XOrzKMrYzFmKBm0uMRGB0CAs2AaXeUqC0pz2KfARnFvRql7KHpWWAyYXQn7iMMgUPOE6ipoqmKDbknbV0wBwrcM/s1600/RQuivers_BUY_PICS2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="302" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgd8OHaxvAgqSWnITTrLbgu2WlcaoLl91dan-YwDyqeu9fz55tOsrU1XOrzKMrYzFmKBm0uMRGB0CAs2AaXeUqC0pz2KfARnFvRql7KHpWWAyYXQn7iMMgUPOE6ipoqmKDbknbV0wBwrcM/s400/RQuivers_BUY_PICS2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv2t2qCR1nRX-564JhHx8M5B4GGBztYqxwIANV-9PaGfz-AOOg6K8tq0AYeskLPwfE0gCer2F-S9rLovy737QyI7QjCe6Mpc86UV3lMowX2jtBwnExqTLpv_-wdonNmuGxr8m64beVUX0/s1600/RQuivers_BUY_PICS3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv2t2qCR1nRX-564JhHx8M5B4GGBztYqxwIANV-9PaGfz-AOOg6K8tq0AYeskLPwfE0gCer2F-S9rLovy737QyI7QjCe6Mpc86UV3lMowX2jtBwnExqTLpv_-wdonNmuGxr8m64beVUX0/s400/RQuivers_BUY_PICS3.jpg" width="350" /></a></div>LOCATION: Long Beach Island, NJ<br />PRICE: $3,388,800<br />SIZE: 7,627, 7 bedrooms, 7 bathrooms<br /><br />Listing details first forwarded to Your Mama by Glenda Goodwitch indicate Miz Quivers was in the mood to up size her residential circumstances along the famous—and infamous—Jersey shore. At 7,627 square feet with 7 bedrooms and 7 bathrooms, her 8-level mini-mansion, located on a heavily trafficked main thoroughfare but tucked behind that thicket of pine trees, is more than twice the size of her house in Loveladies.<br /><br />We have no idea if Miz Quivers dabbled in the dark arts of numerology to come up with the odd $3,388,800 purchase price but we do know that the 1+ acre spread was last lised with an asking price of $3,649,000.<br /><br />The multi-winged, clapboard-sided residence wraps around a large deck with a circular raised space that spills in to a compact kidney-shaped swimming pool. A long, boardwalk constructed of mahogany or maybe red cedar links the pool area to the water side amenities: a private white sand beach and a private deep water dock. Perhaps the most unique feature of the quirky and not especially attractive house is a widow's walk that allows for 360 degree views of the bay and beach.<br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">listing photos and floor plan (New York City): <a href="http://www.corcoran.com/" target="_blank">Corcoran</a></span><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;">listing photos (Loveladies): <a href="http://www.joyislbi.com/" target="_blank">Joy Luedtke Real Estate</a></span><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;">listing photos (Beach Haven): <a href="http://www.joyislbi.com/" target="_blank">Joy Luedtke Real Estate</a></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12961238637764341890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-170185183304505877.post-56026261092683759022013-09-07T09:22:00.000-07:002013-09-22T21:46:07.267-07:00Nate Berkus's Pedigreed West Coast Rental Goes Up for Sale<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik_-PiYGBKRlRzWF157khnzwsd_tOBuD-6Yb4PBC7-NyqHhwa11HHLxkWMlw__5tQ6BHL13St9jSn3YXEFxfYK-GCxceQI83HuyupKuuMNfOzMIa2zAmzWq6TAInlEQG1kazEiH7gt5aE/s1600/BerkusMacPherson_HH_PICS1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik_-PiYGBKRlRzWF157khnzwsd_tOBuD-6Yb4PBC7-NyqHhwa11HHLxkWMlw__5tQ6BHL13St9jSn3YXEFxfYK-GCxceQI83HuyupKuuMNfOzMIa2zAmzWq6TAInlEQG1kazEiH7gt5aE/s400/BerkusMacPherson_HH_PICS1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgczxXeu5aaJ3p-swRgNGOkhdUtG7t0QLhhu62HLEO_LCnwu-s5mODWL504EUcwGL-e9zlEUdfZ1ymrDh6DcRWX9NjYBbHvy0IvsnnEp2ZgrLdtLq7pa4ghR1zNNJ-zNogwXmLvZw5E55Y/s1600/BerkusMacPherson_HH_PICS2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="395" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgczxXeu5aaJ3p-swRgNGOkhdUtG7t0QLhhu62HLEO_LCnwu-s5mODWL504EUcwGL-e9zlEUdfZ1ymrDh6DcRWX9NjYBbHvy0IvsnnEp2ZgrLdtLq7pa4ghR1zNNJ-zNogwXmLvZw5E55Y/s400/BerkusMacPherson_HH_PICS2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsi235qFH1el9Ee8uzcmc2CA_BuxSY2_hRSK96vVRhmjQcHWES56BDN5vgjNnDTvz2duKfslookQFGbpyDm33Wvpf9-sr-tJG6TM8Xoo3JjvnHU-M6SnLiGZZZFX136ukYXYyFM9Nem7U/s1600/BerkusMacPherson_HH_PICS3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="261" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsi235qFH1el9Ee8uzcmc2CA_BuxSY2_hRSK96vVRhmjQcHWES56BDN5vgjNnDTvz2duKfslookQFGbpyDm33Wvpf9-sr-tJG6TM8Xoo3JjvnHU-M6SnLiGZZZFX136ukYXYyFM9Nem7U/s400/BerkusMacPherson_HH_PICS3.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhET7YquGnR0oksPXL61NIyQLnxvFV_mnmc60nb6d38ZENfSNIiMjlHPLPZIqC0c3Ga7YPZtOCP-diFvASMsXKpDFcCJ9tTCxb1_tPkVad1MjqBRC8PwET2GKo6y09umYXOyaTGfqPmCgk/s1600/BerkusMacPherson_HH_PICS4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="145" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhET7YquGnR0oksPXL61NIyQLnxvFV_mnmc60nb6d38ZENfSNIiMjlHPLPZIqC0c3Ga7YPZtOCP-diFvASMsXKpDFcCJ9tTCxb1_tPkVad1MjqBRC8PwET2GKo6y09umYXOyaTGfqPmCgk/s400/BerkusMacPherson_HH_PICS4.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>SELLER: Sean MacPherson<br />MOST RECENT RENTERS: Nate Berkus and Jeremiah Brent<br />LOCATION: Los Angeles, CA<br />PRICE: $2,950,000<br />SIZE: 2,148 square feet, 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms<br /><br />YOUR MAMAS NOTES: Media savvy designer/decorator Nate Berkus and his man-friend/fiancée, much younger and far less successful fellow designer/decorator <a href="http://www.jeremiahbrent.com/" target="_blank">Jeremiah Brent</a>, loved their architecturally <a href="http://realestalker.blogspot.com/2013/07/mid-week-mash-up-nate-berkus-and.html" target="_blank">pedigreed rental residence</a> in the Hollywood Hills so much—you'll recall that Mister Brent confessed in the August 2013 issue of <i>Harper's Bazaar</i> that he "burst into tears" the first time he toured the house—that they opted not to buy the John Elgin Woolf-designed house and it's back up for sale with an asking price of $2,950,000.<br /><br />The jewel box of a house is currently owned by Malibu-bred and New York-based boutique hotelier du jour Sean MacPherson—and his mother, Janet—who purchased the pedigreed pad, as per property records, in late 1995 for $415,000.<br /><br />Current listing details show the 2,148 square foot single story mini-villa was built in 1939, sits on a generous, half acre-plus at the sylvan end of a short cul-de-sac, and has two bedrooms and two bathrooms including an oval-shaped master bathroom. The green and black kitchen has a wacky but wonderful mint-green vintage 1950s range and the bi-winged living room has marble inlaid parquet floors and a curved glass window divided by a marble mantled fireplace. Outdoor living spaces include trellis-shaded red brick terraces next to the pool, a sunbathing deck set just above the pool, and an open air pavilion with built-in bench seating and canyon views.<br /><br />Some of the nearby neighbors include artist David Hockney, <i>Tonight Show</i> bandleader Ricky Minor (who lives in Katey Sagal's old house), and oil and gas scion Andrew Getty.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfGPX281DyZORwqlrwO3FEWzEvPOO7ZlrH5r08TjJqwIi2F1nW1XsIFz_h4lq3jZSfQYTm9FzvaS6zbsLwVmlMmzVDpd5Lm3gvqLUnJ-Xf4kzqCytgJ-lR3zbUO8PFJEaFVw31dXQP9P0/s1600/Berkus_FifthPH_PICS1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfGPX281DyZORwqlrwO3FEWzEvPOO7ZlrH5r08TjJqwIi2F1nW1XsIFz_h4lq3jZSfQYTm9FzvaS6zbsLwVmlMmzVDpd5Lm3gvqLUnJ-Xf4kzqCytgJ-lR3zbUO8PFJEaFVw31dXQP9P0/s400/Berkus_FifthPH_PICS1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>We claim no inside knowledge into the Misters Berkus and Brents' future real estate plans on the Left Coast but we do know—as was <a href="http://observer.com/2013/08/on-the-block-online-art-auctioneer-alexander-gilkes-picks-up-nate-berkuss-4-9-m-village-pad/" target="_blank">previously reported</a> by a whole bunch of other <a href="http://observer.com/2013/08/nate-berkus-moves-650-feet-buys-5-m-village-penthouse/" target="_blank">property gossips</a>—that in July (2013) Mister Berkus sold a terraced duplex penthouse in a walk-up co-operative building just off lower Fifth Avenue in New York City's Greenwich Village for $4,950,000* and a couple weeks later spent an even-steven five million dollars for another terraced duplex penthouse coop just a few blocks away in a elevator-equipped doorman building (above) that was designed by the venerated Emory Roth and built in 1922 by pre-war property developers Bing & Bing right on lower Fifth Avenue.**<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUF-y97TKAUee0jR0pWQwIN6cXzBjqYnZOVJUoSph_0A-RyQvj4jpM3o8QK-_lpsY6RLTSz2aWU-_fS0Vg6RqTDDDqb4ofq5BFqLU_VkM_pvSuxXBPutBiggs2M6EGYfcqJ9XAGlu86E4/s1600/Berkus_FifthPH_PICS2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUF-y97TKAUee0jR0pWQwIN6cXzBjqYnZOVJUoSph_0A-RyQvj4jpM3o8QK-_lpsY6RLTSz2aWU-_fS0Vg6RqTDDDqb4ofq5BFqLU_VkM_pvSuxXBPutBiggs2M6EGYfcqJ9XAGlu86E4/s400/Berkus_FifthPH_PICS2.jpg" width="395" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsNv6svlJ39GnAKsVc6t2Lz7xtcmPLHAcZ_oQMqdwIE4VSr80jVOfUuuCiNjMVoq4V3mqMllDWngWPhPnDxUmBykSyuAupTTJWKVsXY2rgegFHJ0H9Xhzec_A6sEHEgZ-lZbUctZeghmY/s1600/Berkus_FifthPH_PICS3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsNv6svlJ39GnAKsVc6t2Lz7xtcmPLHAcZ_oQMqdwIE4VSr80jVOfUuuCiNjMVoq4V3mqMllDWngWPhPnDxUmBykSyuAupTTJWKVsXY2rgegFHJ0H9Xhzec_A6sEHEgZ-lZbUctZeghmY/s400/Berkus_FifthPH_PICS3.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Listing details show the six room duplex has two proper bedrooms and a third, awkwardly L-shaped room that would be downright indecent to actually call or utilize as a bedroom. There are 2.5 bathrooms, two fireplaces, and two fairly narrow terraces, one of which wraps around two sides of the upper level living, dining and kitchen areas.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfItr_e-2HOV5ZwidiDeph6xAU1rpiaCg_I3o2FuIOZGAzh2ZokYWkjJm-ZsVOJNAWhG_XzmxQyT7Uc1qJhdkmhR_srwapZ3mgFGbC1c6W3bum12aWe1ktZcaG4nv_rCqiTTLNTTI2xQ4/s1600/Berkus_FifthPH_FP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="275" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfItr_e-2HOV5ZwidiDeph6xAU1rpiaCg_I3o2FuIOZGAzh2ZokYWkjJm-ZsVOJNAWhG_XzmxQyT7Uc1qJhdkmhR_srwapZ3mgFGbC1c6W3bum12aWe1ktZcaG4nv_rCqiTTLNTTI2xQ4/s400/Berkus_FifthPH_FP.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Interior finishes at the time of Mister Berkus's purchase include original chevron pattern wood floors, lots of multi-pane sash windows and doors, miles and miles heavy duty moldings, a mural-walled formal dining room, and a law-library-ish center-island kitchen worked over with dark brown cabinets and chocolate brown granite counter tops. Presumably Misters Berkus and Brent will sprinkle their decorative fairy dust over ever square foot of the apartment and have it photographed for glossy posterity (and shameless self promotion) for one of the better fashion or shelter publications.<br /><br />UPDATE (9/9/13): Thanks to one of the children, it's come to Your Mama's attention that in addition to the duplex penthouse on lower Fifth Avenue for which he coughed up five million big ones, Mister Berkus spent another $975,000 in an off-market deal to acquire the one bedroom apartment directly below. It's probably pretty safe to assume Mister Berkus plans to triplex the two apartments, right?<br /><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;">*Mister Berkus paid $3,350,000 for the spacious, 3,000 square foot spread in 2011, so even though he probably spend a pretty penny doing the place up, we'd guess he walked away with a substantial amount of moolah. The buyers were internet art auction entrepreneur Andrew Gilkes and fashion designer Misha Nonoo.</span><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">**For what it's worth and just in case anyone might care, Mister Brent's name does not appear on the public deeds and documents Your Mama perused.</span><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">photos (Los Angeles): <a href="http://douglasfriedman.net/" target="_blank">Douglas Friedman</a> for <a href="http://www.harpersbazaar.com/" target="_blank">Harper's Bazaar</a></span><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;">last two exterior listing photos (Los Angeles): <a href="http://www.theagencyre.com/" target="_blank">The Agency</a></span><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;">listing photos and floor plan (New York): <a href="http://corenyc.com/" target="_blank">Core</a></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12961238637764341890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-170185183304505877.post-13856298004756557622013-09-06T13:52:00.000-07:002013-09-22T21:46:07.321-07:00Matthew Perry Quietly Buys Beach Front Digs...Two Years Ago<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSkDs4h5-hkbTO1y9JhmWiRvlWobKaE-e0nkHus73pR4402fVcncCvvPVhVF9F95BkiNdQY2IZ8d0nEy4-EaKVDCe3l-94eckQIIFD7falSSsxStgc68VHblE66sNZklaWht59qnmnG74/s1600/MPerry_MR_PICS1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="315" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSkDs4h5-hkbTO1y9JhmWiRvlWobKaE-e0nkHus73pR4402fVcncCvvPVhVF9F95BkiNdQY2IZ8d0nEy4-EaKVDCe3l-94eckQIIFD7falSSsxStgc68VHblE66sNZklaWht59qnmnG74/s400/MPerry_MR_PICS1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGPxvsKfdGS-MLpx6SGozVrE6v2Woym9PBHXcEE0gq4sb6KDewbsR3Ea_YKNjbMyAL0bgfCMkGwNU2RToPYPMrf7ZN64JuJhgYJr1NeaspldxP7ocZqIEyTkQ43jxohelO-Oi34uEpw3M/s1600/MPerry_MR_PICS2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="348" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGPxvsKfdGS-MLpx6SGozVrE6v2Woym9PBHXcEE0gq4sb6KDewbsR3Ea_YKNjbMyAL0bgfCMkGwNU2RToPYPMrf7ZN64JuJhgYJr1NeaspldxP7ocZqIEyTkQ43jxohelO-Oi34uEpw3M/s400/MPerry_MR_PICS2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1uc1LJXYGJtVa7y76ObSsj4zDJ4Rgm9M0o156pLBTeF6rQ4tTersyttjF2uOIW9MRFgcMMlEVUs2jRhepb7zPq0gYTi7Yj7X84aURISoWUnv43RUsRtVSCta4N4W2qwWcNl0FpIIyj4M/s1600/MPerry_MR_PICS3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="348" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1uc1LJXYGJtVa7y76ObSsj4zDJ4Rgm9M0o156pLBTeF6rQ4tTersyttjF2uOIW9MRFgcMMlEVUs2jRhepb7zPq0gYTi7Yj7X84aURISoWUnv43RUsRtVSCta4N4W2qwWcNl0FpIIyj4M/s400/MPerry_MR_PICS3.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>BUYER: Matthew Perry<br />LOCATION: Malibu, CA<br />PRICE: $12,000,000<br />SIZE: 5,500 square feet, 4 bedrooms, 3.5 bathrooms<br /><br />YOUR MAMAS NOTES: Veteran sit-com star Matthew Perry is well known amongst property gossips like Your Mama for his relatively fickle relationship with high-priced properties in Los Angeles and Malibu. The real estate activities of the four-time Emmy-nominated t.v.s star are usually discovered and discussed in short order in all the celebrity-related property gossip columns. However, children, it turns out Mister Perry has made at least one big ticket addition to his property portfolio in recent years that, until it was sorted out by the tireless real estate yenta Yolanda Yakketyyak and backed up by the mysterious but always reliable Lucy Spillerguts, has gone entirely under radar.<br /><br />Back in October of 2011, Mister Perry, by way of an acronymic trust, surreptitiously shelled out $12,000,000 for a newly and fully rehabilitated beach front house on much-coveted stretch of sand in Malibu, CA. Iffin he was so inclined, lucky Mister Perry and his lucky beach going house guests could scramble across the often treacherously trafficked Pacific Coast Highway and quickly amble over to the no frills but deservedly popular <a href="http://www.malibuseafood.com/" target="_blank">Malibu Seafood</a> market and cafe for a tuna burger and fries (or whatever).<br /><br />Just in case any of y'all think it at all strange that Mister Perry can afford a twelve million dollar house at the beach not to mention the no-doubt exorbitant annual maintenance costs associated with owning a twelve million dollar house at the beach...It's not. Mister Perry and his <i>Friends</i> co-stars earned $1 million per episode for the last two, 22-episode seasons of the wildly popular program. That's $44 million in just two years, not counting an additional endorsements or appearance fees he may have earned. And that's not counting the $30+ million he took in the previous two seasons when he and his cast mates pulled down three-quarters of a million per episode. The five <i>Friends</i> stars also received syndication royalties for the last five of the show's ten seasons and even a person who doesn't know a damn thing about the ins and outs of Tinseltown knows that there's hardcore amounts of money to be made in the syndication of a unusually successful sit-com like <i>Friends</i>.<br /><br />Sure, you might well say, his reasonably busy post-<i>Friends</i> career has lacked traction: The drama <i>Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip</i> was canceled after just one season; The comedy <i>Mister Sunshine</i> lasted a measly two; And his most recent sit-com, <i>Go On</i>, was <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/13/matthew-perry-go-on-canceled-reporter-congratulates_n_3268242.html" target="_blank">axed</a> in May (2013) after a single, 22-episode season. However Your Mama thinks we can all be assured—or at least we assume without any proof whatsoever—that Mister Perry's post-<i>Friends</i> compensation packages, while only short-term, were reasonably substantial. Maybe not <i>Friends</i> substantial but still enough that when added to his still growing pile of <i>Friends</i> money allows him to buy and sell multi-million dollar residences—por ejemplo, a twelve million dollar house on the beach in Malibu—with an almost alarming alacrity.<br /><br />Property records show Mister Perry's beach house was purchased in the latter days of 2009 for exactly six million clams by Malibu-based polymath entrepreneur Scott Gillen.* Cigar smoking Mister Gillen, who bills himself on his <a href="http://www.scottgillen.com/" target="_blank">polished website</a> as a "director, builder, thinker, creator," took the existing, rag-tag residence down to the studs and re-built the thing with his carefully calibrated signature industrial meets organically modern manner.<br /><br />Listing details from the time of the most recent transaction show the two-story house, which presents to the casual passerby on the street-side as little more than a fairly nondescript row of garage bays and an un-fussy entry gate, has four bedrooms and 3.5 bathrooms in about 5,500 square feet of space. Because, at higher tides, the surf sometimes washes up under the cantilevered structure, listing photographs were able to be shot in such a way that the house appears to almost float dreamily on the ocean like a well-appointed boat.<br /><br />An extra-wide sandblasted glass and metal front door opens from a small entry courtyard into an airy, sun-bathed foyer with a steel-framed and wood-treaded staircase. The foyer melts into the loft-like main living/dining/cooking space where there are generous expanses of art-friendly gallery white walls, chatoyant golden brown wood floors under foot, and a muscular—if low seeming—exposed wood beam ceiling over head. A somewhat inconveniently located fireplace stands between the living/lounge area and the dining area that do, however, share an approximately 40-foot long wall of floor-to-ceiling glass panels that disappear in to the walls. When pushed open the entire living area merges seamlessly with the slender, glass-railed balcony and is quickly bathed in the relentless sound of the pounding surf and infused with the damp, salt-misted sea air.<br /><br />The center island kitchen has solid, custom-crafted wood cabinetry that looks to Your Mama like teak or maybe walnut or some other wood that can stand up to the humidity of its sea side location. There are fresh white solid surface counter tops, a simple white subway tile back splash, and top-quality stainless steel appliances that include a glass-fronted—not to mention atrociously pricey—commercial-style fridge/freezer that makes Your Mama go all jelly-kneed with ice box desire and envy.<br /><br />We're not sure how the three guest/family bedrooms are arranged or what amenities they might be fitted with but we do know that the master suite occupies prime position on the second floor where it takes full advantage of its situation with another forty-ish foot long bank of glass panels that smoothly slide back into the walls. When open the roomy full-width master suite, comprised of separate but adjoining sitting room and bedroom, is converted to a luxurious veranda/sleeping porch with a dreamy or, for some, potentially sea sickness producing prow-like view over the Pacific. The spacious attached master bathroom has a floating vanity, a glassed in shower stalled lined with (what appears to be) white subway-style tiles, and a separate egg-shaped soaking tub.<br /><br />Of course, we don't know a shoe horn from spoon so Your Mama has no idea what, if any, alterations Mister Perry may have made to the house. For all we know—and we know nothing—this place has been radically re-realized since Mister Perry acquired it almost two years ago.<br /><br />Such are the real estate customs of countless rich and famous Hollywooders, since he became a rich and famous sitcom star Mister Perry has bought and sold a slew of high-priced homes in Los Angeles and Malibu. Many of his purchases and sales overlap and it gets a little confusing so put on your thinking caps, butter beans, pour yourself a mind-clearing gin & tonic and see if you can follow along. If you think it might help, make a a ven diagram of overlapping transactions on some scratch paper.<br /><br />In 1995, in the dewy dawn of his <i>Friends</i> fame, Mister Perry paid $590,000 for a not-quite-2,000 square foot house on a quiet cul-de-sac near the tippy-top of the celeb-saturated <i>Outpost Estates</i> 'hood in the Hollywood Hills. He unloaded the two bedroom and three bathroom house in 2001, according to property records, to an L.A.-based attorney for $820,000 but not before, in June 1999, at that apex of his <i>Friends</i> fame, he forked over $2,925,000 for a glassy, 8,000 square foot mid-1970s modern nestled discreetly into the tail end of another quiet culd-de-sac in the now terrifically trendy and ludicrously costly <i>Trousdale Estates</i> area of Beverly Hills. He hung on to the <i>Trousdale Estates</i> pad for more then five years when he sold it the fall of 2005 for $6,100,000. The sleek, city-view house has had several owners since then, the current owner being Fuze Beverage co-founder Lance Collins who, accoriding to property records, snatched the house up in October 2010 for $10,280,000.<br /><br />A few months before Mister Perry sold his <i>Trousdale Estates</i> mansion in 2005 he made two, not quite simultaneous purchases that combined came to nearly ten millon dollars. In April (2005) he shelled out $3.2 million for a 1,600+ square foot high-floor condo crib at the star-studded <i>Sierra Towers</i> complex on the border of West Hollywood and Beverly Hills. He first attempted to rid himself of the glass and terrace wrapped 2 bedroom and 3 bathroom apartment <a href="http://realestalker.blogspot.com/2008/05/sierra-towers-sell-off.html" target="_blank">in 2008 for $4.5 million</a> but didn't actually manage to unload the place until September 2011 when property records show it was sold to a not-famous person for $2,850,000.<br /><br />At just about the same time he bought the city-view in West Hollywood he forked over another $6,550,000 for a concrete and glass contemporary perched on a steeply sloped 2.5-ish acre hillside lot with a sweeping coastal view in Malibu's guard-gated <i>Serra Retreat</i> where some of the rustically swanky enclave's other famous former residents include Mel Gibson, Britney Spears, and Kelsey Grammer. In October 2011, Mister Perry pushed the four bedroom and 5.5 bathroom residence in the <i>Serra Retreat</i> <a href="http://realestalker.blogspot.com/2011/10/matthew-perry-lists-malibu-modern.html" target="_blank">on the open market with a rose-tinted $13.5 million price tag</a>. In March of the following year (2012) the house was taken off the market and, much to Your Mama's surprise, is currently operated as <i><a href="http://perryhousesoberliving.com/" target="_blank">Perry House</a></i>, a seven-bed sober living facility for men with the dough to afford such luxurious recovery circumstances. In May (2013) Mister Perry, who long suffered from his own addiction issues and has been to rehab twice (that we know of), was awarded the Champion of Recovery award on the White House lawn for his efforts at bringing awareness to addiction. So bravo for that. Seriously. Anyways...<br /><br />A few months before property mad Mister Perry paid $883,000 for a perfectly ordinary corner property just off Laurel Canyon Boulevard in Studio City (CA) in July 2008, he coughed up $4,475,000 for a boxy, two-story contemporary set on a ridge high above the Sunset Strip. He off-loaded this house just this last February (2013) for $4,685,000 to, as per the property records Your Mama peeped, long-haired e-commerce mogul <a href="http://fashionista.com/2011/01/farfetch-coms-michael-mente-reveals-his-labels-to-watch/" target="_blank">Michel Mente</a>.<br /><br />In August 2011, about a year and half before he sold his house above the Sunset Strip to the e-commerce guy, Mister Perry laid out $8,650,000 for <a href="http://realestalker.blogspot.com/2011/08/sitcom-star-matthew-perry-buys-and.html" target="_blank">a sleek, sexy, and recently re-built residence</a> on a short cul-de-sac near the top of the so-called <i>Bird Streets</i> neighborhood above the Sunset Strip where all the streets are named—you got it smarty pants—after birds. The approximately 4,000 square foot residence, crisp and rigorously clean-lined yet fearlessly libertine and even a little bit louche, was described in marketing materials as inspired by the ground-breaking Pierre Koenig's iconic and still terrifically <i>modern</i> Case Study House #22 (a.k.a. the <i><a href="http://takesunset.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Case-Study-House-No-22-Stahl-Residence.jpg" target="_blank">Stahl House</a></i>). One feature that the iconic <i>Stahl House</i> doesn't have that sort of sums up Mister Perry's quintessentially Tinseltown bachelor pad in <i>The Birds</i> is the state-of-the-art nine seat cinema in the basement fitted with a two-inch thick Perspex window that peers into the underwater depths of the zero-edge swimming pool where a person can paddle privately—and preferably in the buff—with a mesmerizing carpet of twinkling lights laid out below.<br /><br />Presently then, in quick summation, Mister Perry's $25 million-plus property portfolio currently contains the Case Study-inspired Sunset Strip house, the sober living facility in Malibu's exclusive <i>Serra Retreat</i>, and the twelve million dollar beach front house. What Your Mama thinks matters none but we still think Mister Perry's small but impressive collection of homes might benefit from a wee pied-a-terre in the New York City like, say, this <a href="http://www.corcoran.com/nyc/Listings/Display/2774387" target="_blank">sassy, 17th floor number</a> in a full-service post-war building in the West Village.<br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">*Mister Gillen has directed more than 100 commercials for the likes of Mercedes, Mini Cooper and the Viagra Racing Team. He executive producted and directed two seasons of a reality program called Build or Bust as well as a single, six episode season of Set Up. He's customized a handful of vintage cars and motor cycles and spec-built at least half a dozen luxury properties in Malibu and Pacific Palisades.</span><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">listing photos: <a href="http://www.levingroupestates.com/" target="_blank">The Levin Group</a></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12961238637764341890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-170185183304505877.post-8222668552960851002013-09-05T09:18:00.000-07:002013-09-22T21:46:07.375-07:00Anne Hathaway Flips Out in Brooklyn<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWJmbsCnvYs55ABKLmIL_EacTQByzpH0kQOZgS1u3Q7DeIR-0mGuqKUnszpCLcPQxbGpYlnoKIH8q0OU-csYfTwgD346pbp3kKNZngkt3OmOA6m2mEZpCm0-nlBy-9Y7HWcGTUvyRJEMM/s1600/AHathaway_Dumbo_PICS.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="260" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWJmbsCnvYs55ABKLmIL_EacTQByzpH0kQOZgS1u3Q7DeIR-0mGuqKUnszpCLcPQxbGpYlnoKIH8q0OU-csYfTwgD346pbp3kKNZngkt3OmOA6m2mEZpCm0-nlBy-9Y7HWcGTUvyRJEMM/s400/AHathaway_Dumbo_PICS.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6QVKgQ32X7BytLlnV-mt_UXCGUZLIO224ZyPoM6UNzVvoJPZikK4FACdcMslb5WoJNiOI1obSgJG63UysV5jTGcBGxBAaARwL1CVdpdraqyHE1MOuGVB6a9cSQA3m_miJIG_9X6CrcPg/s1600/AHathaway_Dumbo_FP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6QVKgQ32X7BytLlnV-mt_UXCGUZLIO224ZyPoM6UNzVvoJPZikK4FACdcMslb5WoJNiOI1obSgJG63UysV5jTGcBGxBAaARwL1CVdpdraqyHE1MOuGVB6a9cSQA3m_miJIG_9X6CrcPg/s400/AHathaway_Dumbo_FP.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>SELLER: Anne Hathaway<br />LOCATION: Brooklyn, NY<br />PRICE: $4,500,000<br />SIZE: 2,592 3 bedrooms, 3.5 bathrooms<br /><br />YOUR MAMAS NOTES: In March, 2012, Oscar-winning actress Anne Hathaway (Les Misérables, Rachel Getting Married) and her then-fiancée, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0795719/" target="_blank">occasional actor</a> and <a href="http://jamesbanksdesign.com/" target="_blank">jewelry designer</a> Adam Shulman, <a href="http://nypost.com/2012/03/15/damon-in-distress/" target="_blank">reportedly</a> <a href="http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2012/03/15/exile_on_1_main_street_anne_hathaway_moves_to_dumbo.php#reader_comments" target="_blank">rented</a> a six thousand dollar-plus apartment in the much ballyhooed <i>Clocktower</i> building in Brooklyn's Dumbo 'hood.*<br /><br />Nine months later, in January, 2013, the newly-wedded couple shelled out $4.1 million for a much larger apartment a few floors higher but now, just eight months later, they've caught a quintessential case of The Celebrity Real Estate Fickle and, as first revealed by the property gossips at the <a href="http://pagesix.com/2013/09/04/anne-hathaway-to-flip-brooklyn-pad-for-4-5m-loss/" target="_blank"><i>New York Post</i></a>, have flipped the beotch back on the market with an asking price of $4.5 million.<br /><br />An unidentified "insider" told the <i>Post</i> peeps that the Hathaway-Shulmans never actually moved in to the apartment because she felt it was "too big" and only used the nearly 2,600 square foot spread as a "crash pad" her clothes. Such are the weird, wacky, and sometimes inexplicable real estate shenanigans of the rich and famous.<br /><br />Current listing details show the condo-loft had three en-suite bedrooms and 3.5 marble bathrooms in 2,598 square feet and carries common charges and taxes that total $2,701 per month with a tax abatement program scheduled to end sometime in 2013, which will likely increase the amount of property taxes paid by the next owner.<br /><br />It's a long zig-zag from the front entry hall, past all three of the bedrooms plus a powder pooper, laundry room, and a windowless home office), to the lofty, open-concept main living/dining/cooking space that's more than 18 feet wide and 27 feet long. Windows wrap around one end and at the other there's an open, galley-style kitchen fitted and kitted with gun metal gray cabinetry, glossy black counter tops—probably granite—and high quality stainless steel appliances. We're not sure why the cabinet above the fridge is black but it really ought to be painted gray to match the others.<br /><br />There are enviable 11-foot beamed concrete ceilings, a handful of exposed support columns, gleaming hardwood floors throughout, and sixteen warehouse-style windows filled with sweeping views from the Statue of Liberty, the Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges, and the Manhattan skyline all the way up to the Empire State Building.<br /><br />The pet-friendly <i>Clocktower</i> building offers its well-heeled residents a live-in superintendent, a 24-hour attended lobby, a residents' only roof top deck, a 24-hour fitness center (included with common charges), and a bike storage area.<br /><br />A slew of celebs including Jay-Z and Calvin Klein have trekked over to Brooklyn to take a gander at the epic penthouse apartment at the <i>Clocktower</i> building that Spike Lee used in the movie <i>Bamboozled</i> and <i>Esquire</i> magazine <a href="http://therealdeal.com/blog/2011/09/26/esquire-bachelor-pad-listed-at-humley-haft-kleier-comes-to-dumbo-clock-tower-first-time-in-brooklyn/" target="_blank">leased it in 2011</a> to use as an event space.** However, the building remains—as far as we know—somewhat slim on A-list celebrity residents. The only other (reasonably) high profile peeps Your Mama knows to own apartments at the <i>Clocktower</i> are Meryl Streep's singer/songwriter son Henry Gummer, writer/cultural commentator Cintra Wilson, and model Bridget Hall. A couple of months ago fashion designer <a href="http://www.rebeccaminkoff.com/" target="_blank">Rebecca Minkoff</a> and husband, actor/director <a href="http://www.gavinbellour.com/" target="_blank">Gavin Bellour</a> <a href="http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2013/07/15/fashion_designer_drops_182m_on_2br_clocktower_condo.php" target="_blank">dropped $1.82 million</a> for a 2,100 square foot spread on a low floor with two bedrooms, 2.5 bathrooms, and an bi-level open concept main living area.<br /><br />Our research indicates Miz Hathaway also owns a West Coast abode, a secluded 1960s contemporary not so far from the Mulholland Tennis Club that she quietly acquired in May 2009 for $2.2 million.<br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">*For non-New Yorkers Dumbo is an acronym for Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass. Until fairly recently it was a dense and gritty pocket of warehouse buildings on cobble stone streets. Public transportation into and out of the neighborhood sucked and it was an undesirable place for rich and famous people to live. Nowadays there are a number of high-cost, full service buildings and trendy boites and boutiques favored by the sorts of people who can afford to pay four or six grand a month for a one or two bedroom apartment. </span><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">**The triplex penthouse is currently for sale<a href="http://www.corcoran.com/nyc/Listings/Display/2546956" target="_blank">http://www.corcoran.com/nyc/Listings/Display/2546956</a> with an $18 million price tag, reduced from it's original (and highly optimistic) $25 million asking price.</span><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">listing photos and floor plan: <a href="http://www.warburgrealty.com/" target="_blank">Warburg Realty</a></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12961238637764341890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-170185183304505877.post-91400522808901266072013-09-04T14:53:00.000-07:002013-09-22T21:46:07.430-07:00Midweek Mish-Mash: Comedians, suicides, fashion designers, and a couple of Bradys...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZbt75DPjkEkr0ZHLqLmAnrQytQaCugd7yWXI6-sKyGuJgufHkG1IorRRmHM7Fc86skPGX7yuqPVYsJw6kvQCt5rnmhnXLip0zoIHbwRrD27weoo72z1nejjH7lM3C-wQnnD7gFjYo0Y8/s1600/WBrady_SM_PICS2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="110" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZbt75DPjkEkr0ZHLqLmAnrQytQaCugd7yWXI6-sKyGuJgufHkG1IorRRmHM7Fc86skPGX7yuqPVYsJw6kvQCt5rnmhnXLip0zoIHbwRrD27weoo72z1nejjH7lM3C-wQnnD7gFjYo0Y8/s400/WBrady_SM_PICS2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Emmy-winning and Grammy-nominated comedian turned talk show host turned game show host Wayne Brady shelled out $1.75 million for an recently refurbished <a href="http://www.latimes.com/classified/realestate/hot-property/la-fi-hotprop-wayne-brady-20130903,0,1494477.story" target="_blank">three bedroom and 3.5 bathroom condo in Pacific Palisades</a> (above).<br /><br />For what it's worth—and it ain't worth a damn thing—the chevron pattern reclaimed white oak wood floors and the ocean view from the sky-lit great room and the sun-flooded terrace are pretty dang magnificent. (L.A. Times)<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnBxTXdN8_W0cnX1nfB5NWYnE3-OyvzgI6CWJenj5Hbog6lyd2xeoLVFpKqngugyHmEMvp_7XUzN1UDIwkUu_v2tgR76Rvvy1hB8MGNDlUh72fxAf5QJ55nyIlPGE6sxd-euhePIikwJ0/s1600/WBrady_SO_PICS.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="255" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnBxTXdN8_W0cnX1nfB5NWYnE3-OyvzgI6CWJenj5Hbog6lyd2xeoLVFpKqngugyHmEMvp_7XUzN1UDIwkUu_v2tgR76Rvvy1hB8MGNDlUh72fxAf5QJ55nyIlPGE6sxd-euhePIikwJ0/s400/WBrady_SO_PICS.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>We learned from The Bizzy Boys at<i> <a href="http://www.celebrityaddressaerial.com/" target="_blank">Celebrity Address Aerial</a></i> that Mister Brady moved from Sherman Oaks (CA), where in late March (2013) he sold an architecturally mortifying mock-Med macmansion for $1.8 million. Unfortunately for Mister Brady, he paid $2.55 million for the five bedroom and five bathroom hillside pile back in December 2005.<br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">listing photo (Pacific Palisades): <a href="http://www.tracytutormaltas.com/" target="_blank">Partners Trust</a></span><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;">listing photo (Sherman Oaks): <a href="http://www.rodeore.com/" target="_blank">Rodeo Realty</a></span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq-F30o3_K7K65tmt7o9x0J4D2P7nLzxaGU6xWV-mQHtYD049WSGSRqYpRsSDAiSL_eaBgQV4NTsiAlrN8D98NTwVJ5JrC-rqcvry7osf_my2i-Y-2ZyMQjQK8k_Am-0lkr8cSsrtb5As/s1600/ONewtonJohn_Ext1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="263" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq-F30o3_K7K65tmt7o9x0J4D2P7nLzxaGU6xWV-mQHtYD049WSGSRqYpRsSDAiSL_eaBgQV4NTsiAlrN8D98NTwVJ5JrC-rqcvry7osf_my2i-Y-2ZyMQjQK8k_Am-0lkr8cSsrtb5As/s400/ONewtonJohn_Ext1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Poor Olivia Newton-John. In May (2013) she and her nutritional supplement selling husband, John Easterling, <a href="http://realestalker.blogspot.com/2013/05/on-move-olivia-newton-john.html" target="_blank">listed their Jupiter Inlet (FL) house for $6.2 million</a>. Along came frequent real estate buying and selling comedienne/actress/talk show host/magazine editor/etc. Rosie O'Donnell a who agreed to purchase the approximately 6,400 square foot water front residence (above) for around $5.5 million. A little birdie told Your Mama that Miz O'Donnell planned to raze the existing residence or, at the very least, give it a significant do over but we can't verify the veracity of that scuttlebutt. Anyways, before the deeds and documents were were signed, sealed and delivered a contractor hired to fix a few things shot himself on the property. Rosie got spooked and, despite an (alleged) spiritual cleansing organized by Miz Newton-John, <a href="http://gossipextra.com/2013/09/03/rosie-odonnell-refuses-buy-olivia-newton-john-house-exorcism-2924/" target="_blank">has officially backed out of the purchase</a>. It's back to square one one Miz Newton-John and Mister Easterling who put the house back on the market with a familiar $6.2 million price tag. (<a href="http://www.gossipextra.com/" target="_blank">Gossip Extra</a>)<br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">listing photo: <a href="http://www.seawindrealty.com/" target="_blank">Seawind Realty</a></span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPlrGArQDXusCKBuby4o9Qg4DGYqsriIojgBpnPSK_uljSzU2QF0qebEdBmVsWEm9HfCJpga8lsJsazHaHUTYrqXTYcR4iciG8TFyf0YjysUxXRGKCJWRCmBB4Q0bPTlU6OAGWyy9KBLg/s1600/CKlein_EH_NYT.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPlrGArQDXusCKBuby4o9Qg4DGYqsriIojgBpnPSK_uljSzU2QF0qebEdBmVsWEm9HfCJpga8lsJsazHaHUTYrqXTYcR4iciG8TFyf0YjysUxXRGKCJWRCmBB4Q0bPTlU6OAGWyy9KBLg/s400/CKlein_EH_NYT.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>After an estimated $75 million dollars spent, Calvin Klein's brand, spanking new ocean front compound in Southampton, NY (above), is <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/01/fashion/the-house-that-calvin-klein-built.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0" target="_blank">just about finished</a> and it sounds pretty damn spectacular...if beach side glass pavilions and ocean side swimming pools are your thing. (<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/" target="_blank">The New York Times</a>)<br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">photo: Doug Kuntz for The New York Times</span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUI9odanJcfzVN8XG88Kiq3c1jX4iloq4GWhMld2k8iqgRYBBXtjtD65BqP1IV90hK8AYOH2v_7fetzf9qMSjRZotK8ecTiUwbGeb_OdwHDB_183jAk-l_dsDtW1wcff3CAn3LTXxsELs/s1600/PLim_GV_PICS.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="176" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUI9odanJcfzVN8XG88Kiq3c1jX4iloq4GWhMld2k8iqgRYBBXtjtD65BqP1IV90hK8AYOH2v_7fetzf9qMSjRZotK8ecTiUwbGeb_OdwHDB_183jAk-l_dsDtW1wcff3CAn3LTXxsELs/s400/PLim_GV_PICS.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBAw5WHeQ-8FRum8yv1KDN2I9_ogliw7aMk-nWqQCssf1fM8z59HGZF4WE0T2q7gEZozn11yK8FP2Mc-zocAMIy0Oz7VEAtPe534IID5UcupMX5c8u9gyBEdVyPtffQGksr7nCln4_cMw/s1600/PLim_GV_FP.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBAw5WHeQ-8FRum8yv1KDN2I9_ogliw7aMk-nWqQCssf1fM8z59HGZF4WE0T2q7gEZozn11yK8FP2Mc-zocAMIy0Oz7VEAtPe534IID5UcupMX5c8u9gyBEdVyPtffQGksr7nCln4_cMw/s320/PLim_GV_FP.jpg" width="251" /></a></div>Speaking of fashion designers, Phillip Lim <a href="http://therealdeal.com/blog/2013/09/03/designer-phillip-lim-rent-12-5k-a-month-west-village-condo/" target="_blank">took a short term lease</a> at $11,000 per month for a beautifully appointed two bedroom and two bathroom apartment (above) in a boutique building in the West Village while he awaits renovations on the combination of two apartments in a boutique building in SoHo. Check the sublime leather wrapped door knobs. Yummy.<br /><br />Property records show Mister Lim paid $2.285 million for one of his SoHo apartments in October 2007 and $1.85 million for the other one in December 2011. (<a href="http://therealdeal.com/" target="_blank">The Real Deal</a>)<br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">listing photos and floor plan: <a href="http://www.townrealestate.com/" target="_blank">Town Real Estate</a></span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTY6mXyrgPuAJii05mIFp_pCwbUZe0EMebX9FMx3qP9FCX5gCdgcM2-I7_nuA9szOPSiwRXuezdiioY1y3ZFvYJXxh9Z0LJtIHAcZ3kRzgQjde5t7-dj-wZNgXdx2IJOigs4Icj3JfagQ/s1600/AMcQueen_Mayfair_Ext.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="126" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTY6mXyrgPuAJii05mIFp_pCwbUZe0EMebX9FMx3qP9FCX5gCdgcM2-I7_nuA9szOPSiwRXuezdiioY1y3ZFvYJXxh9Z0LJtIHAcZ3kRzgQjde5t7-dj-wZNgXdx2IJOigs4Icj3JfagQ/s400/AMcQueen_Mayfair_Ext.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>The 2,500 square foot London flat that famously flamboyant fashion designer Alexander McQueen owned and was in the process of renovating when he hanged himself in 2010 has <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2407817/Alexander-McQueens-bedroom-Mayfair-apartment-goes-sale-7-25million.html" target="_blank">come up for sale</a> with an asking price of £7.25 million.<br /><br />The Mayfair area apartment was purchased the year after Mister McQueen's suicide by a property development company who completed the renovations, although not, it would seem, to the specifications of Mister McQueen who had much more risqué taste than the obviously high quality but somewhat generically sleek, five-star hotel-like interiors seen in listing photos.<br /><br />The pedigreed property was reportedly once occupied by author P.G. Wodehouse as well as an un-named grandson of Queen Victoria. (<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/" target="_blank">The Daily Mail</a>)<br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">listing photo: <a href="http://www.knightfrank.co.uk/" target="_blank">Knight Frank</a> via The Daily Mail</span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJ82po6epThyDV1yMLMGOZBWVqiwO96hyESunMMnxl4XCZPT9pIX-Sh9LzegSlHftg_I32D8Pcjku-y4H1OpzQeKBZEh-SNbWvixrpPutVKu2xemJ-_0zjRNf8HkcwU5hrLoFjTSwo1gk/s1600/BPaisley_PP_Ext.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="147" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJ82po6epThyDV1yMLMGOZBWVqiwO96hyESunMMnxl4XCZPT9pIX-Sh9LzegSlHftg_I32D8Pcjku-y4H1OpzQeKBZEh-SNbWvixrpPutVKu2xemJ-_0zjRNf8HkcwU5hrLoFjTSwo1gk/s400/BPaisley_PP_Ext.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Country music star Brad Paisley and his actress wife, Kimberly Williams-Paisley, <a href="http://www.zillowblog.com/2013-09-03/brad-paisley-sells-pacific-palisades-home-for-2-5-million/" target="_blank">sold their three bedroom and three bathroom residence</a> in Pacific Palisades residence for $2.5 million.<br /><br />Mister and Missus Paisley also own several residences in the Nashville, TN area including a secluded mansion in the semi-rural Berrys Chapel area about half way between Nashville and Franklin. (<a href="http://ww.zillowblog.com/" target="_blank">Zillow</a>)<br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">listing photos: <a href="http://www.sothebyshomes.com/" target="_blank">Sotheby's International Realty</a></span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyQyKQiP7f4vCObzcECVhbyJBt0GynydpgSiWMoFF-tWKNz3UMGDTcBX3uGIG2u_aq99wh9sZfqoyRlvjrN47yq5QRzRlOcwaAhNVlg3wjZxxBGvad3jBQ7I1A9JSEmVVZDBL68Ro_UBo/s1600/BundchenBrady.jpg_AD_Ext.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyQyKQiP7f4vCObzcECVhbyJBt0GynydpgSiWMoFF-tWKNz3UMGDTcBX3uGIG2u_aq99wh9sZfqoyRlvjrN47yq5QRzRlOcwaAhNVlg3wjZxxBGvad3jBQ7I1A9JSEmVVZDBL68Ro_UBo/s400/BundchenBrady.jpg_AD_Ext.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Although a slew of juicy photographs of Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen's Richard Landry-designed 14,000 square foot faux chateau in an exclusive gated enclave in Los Angeles were <a href="http://homesoftherich.net/2013/08/interior-pictures-of-tom-brady-gisele-bundchens-brentwood-ca-mega-mansion/" target="_blank">accidentally leaked</a> by their A-list builder in early August (2013)—the photos have since been removed from the builder's website—<a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/celebrity-homes/2013/gisele-bundchen-tom-brady-los-angeles-eco-conscious-home-article?mbid=synd_curbed" target="_blank"><i>Architectural Digest</i></a> went ahead with a planned story about the deluxe, eco-minded mansion mansion. In the article the supermodel mother of two (and step-mother to another) states the jet-setting couple aimed for "simplicity and coziness." Simple? All due respect to Missus Brady but bitch, pleeze. Fer chrissakes, the driveway crosses over a small pond before it gets to motor court paved with reclaimed cobble stones and a koi-stocked moat that's crossed by a stone bridge. Simple. Right. (Architectural Digest via<a href="http://curbed.com/archives/2013/09/04/inside-tom-brady-and-gisele-bundchens-french-chateau-via-the-pacific-coast-highway.php" target="_blank"> Curbed</a>)<br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">photo: Roger Davies for <a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/" target="_blank">Architectural Digest</a></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12961238637764341890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-170185183304505877.post-37712178539481272522013-09-03T18:36:00.000-07:002013-09-22T21:46:07.484-07:00Did Daniel Craig Do It in Spilsby?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPhFhqN09x5YsHH5q9JGrvbxSHwV73jlnkv3C-jNp05Nnyqtek_300Vy8-SW4cBWH_hbkQJuP3DPnY2JTJLsgNGW7s1SlDNz_4h0FsqziWgS-gnO7vhFxD4oxcdl4oIXpVmmGBgUKD0e8/s1600/DalbyHall_PICS1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="283" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPhFhqN09x5YsHH5q9JGrvbxSHwV73jlnkv3C-jNp05Nnyqtek_300Vy8-SW4cBWH_hbkQJuP3DPnY2JTJLsgNGW7s1SlDNz_4h0FsqziWgS-gnO7vhFxD4oxcdl4oIXpVmmGBgUKD0e8/s400/DalbyHall_PICS1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>In March (2013) there were a handful of unverified reports in <a href="http://bestor%20boulevard%20llc/" target="_blank">local media outlets</a> that well-compensated British actor Daniel Craig—he's set to haul in an astonishing £31,000,000 for the next two installments of the never-ending franchise—had been spotted peeping pastoral properties near the market town of Beverley (Yorkshire), several hours by car north of London. Starting sometime in late July there was a shit-ton of <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/10260200/Lincolnshire-town-shaken-by-Daniel-Craig-rumour.html" target="_blank">speculation in the U.K.</a> that the suave, 45-year old superstar and his Oscar-winning wife, Rachel Weisz, might be the supposed buyers of<i> Dalby Hall Estate</i>, a baronial, 19th-century country estate near Spilsby (Lincolnshire), about 145 miles north of London's <i>Buckingham Palace</i> that was abruptly taken off the market right around the time of the July rumors began.<br /><br />The estate agent for <i>Dalby House</i> since <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/10260200/Lincolnshire-town-shaken-by-Daniel-Craig-rumour.html" target="_blank">clarified the situation</a>; Although the genteel property—more like a small village than what we Americans think of as an estate—was indeed withdrawn from the market it is not—or was not then, anyways—under offer. Mister Craig's people also put the kibosh the quickly ballooning real estate scuttlebutt saying their client hadn't even been in the U.K. at the time of this supposed house hunting.<br /><br />Whatever the case, we thought it might be a bit of a hoot to have a look at what all the hullabaloo was all about since our occasional (and much appreciated) U.K.-based aide-de-camp Flower Perfectbush recently directed us towards the still-accessible digital marketing materials that show the 1,050-ish acre <i>Dalby Hall</i> spread was last listed with a guide price—that's an asking price in British real estate speak—of £12,000,000.*<br /><br />The existing house, a grandly proportioned, Grade II listed edifice (and ancillary office and coach house) set privately amid mature park lands, was designed by vaunted Victorian-era ecclesiastical architect <a href="http://www.rodcollins.com/wordpress/james-fowler-church-restorer-mayor-of-louth" target="_blank">James Fowler </a>and built in 1856 after the earlier iteration of <i>Dalby Hall</i> was destroyed by fire in 1841. Later alterations and additions were executed by another church architect, Gothic Revival specialist <a href="http://www.templemooretrail.co.uk/" target="_blank">Temple Moore</a>.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX_bPyegP54HLrZA0hheDIBjHUKhFFQCzitpBcd7gsddD1cFM4fG4gZq_AjY-VqHY1DCQz4qvL3uVDcPD9lcqr9JYPnd8EJXowVSENWTDMXTtUAM4_1w8N1fiu0B9RlvARZ9EJsmoi_ME/s1600/DalbyHall_FP1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="351" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX_bPyegP54HLrZA0hheDIBjHUKhFFQCzitpBcd7gsddD1cFM4fG4gZq_AjY-VqHY1DCQz4qvL3uVDcPD9lcqr9JYPnd8EJXowVSENWTDMXTtUAM4_1w8N1fiu0B9RlvARZ9EJsmoi_ME/s400/DalbyHall_FP1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXo1oDCxh4RpGHQmCajfXqYylJLnISnOe8fLxVknnQvGHHh7MpjmKlRe3e9K7-RXR_TBsCL6wRvUs7iITA1_rlWUxmmJcCvzYoBeDeveMPzn7HXfVwXvFbj_-2ZyKM9Jgk4vSno4a1khI/s1600/DalbyHall_FP2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="205" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXo1oDCxh4RpGHQmCajfXqYylJLnISnOe8fLxVknnQvGHHh7MpjmKlRe3e9K7-RXR_TBsCL6wRvUs7iITA1_rlWUxmmJcCvzYoBeDeveMPzn7HXfVwXvFbj_-2ZyKM9Jgk4vSno4a1khI/s400/DalbyHall_FP2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Our boozy study of the floor plan included with above mentioned marketing materials indicates the almost 10,000 square foot mansion has four principal bedrooms on the second floor—each with private bathroom and four additional bedrooms in separate wing on the second and third floors that share two hall bathrooms. We counted a total of six full and four half bathrooms (or water closets), at least a dozen wood-burning fireplaces, and both front and rear staircases.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgj9F9iud4XuBOl3ln-tpSVeLWqnf-uo5LijD38xbfhB2KWo_tA9pUNMlpHizoTO_BGVfw4E0O9vJ1rcAmtTkX1ksL68qT8weAvsZN1jjJeeYtsNPh6CEo1bVewO1Xu-HYyTJe_X-IAJX4/s1600/DalbyHall_PICS2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="270" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgj9F9iud4XuBOl3ln-tpSVeLWqnf-uo5LijD38xbfhB2KWo_tA9pUNMlpHizoTO_BGVfw4E0O9vJ1rcAmtTkX1ksL68qT8weAvsZN1jjJeeYtsNPh6CEo1bVewO1Xu-HYyTJe_X-IAJX4/s400/DalbyHall_PICS2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>An elegantly scaled trio of reception rooms orbit around the central reception hall: A roomy library has paneled walls painted a particularly awful shade of salmon and bowed window bay with a direct view of the mansion's gravel fore court: The nearly 1,000 square foot drawing room—otherwise known by us folk across the Pond as a formal living room—has parquet floors and a second bowed window bay of epic proportions; A banquet hall-sized formal dining room has three over-sized sash windows that frame bucolic vistas out over the rolling lawns that stretch out behind the house.<br /><br />More intimate living spaces on the main floor include a cozy snug—to be honest, Your Mama ain't sure what a snug is—with three curved windows set into another over-sized bowed window bay. The adjoining study connects through to the exceedingly long, L-shaped corridor that links the various areas of the service wing.<br /><br />Speaking of the service wing, in addition to a small small but renovated kitchen and roomy adjoining breakfast room there's a laundry room bigger than most bedrooms, a walk-in larder, and a walk-in refrigerator. At the opposite end of the L-shaped service wing corridor there's a 20+ foot long boot room—Americanos would probably call it a mud room—with convenient half bathroom. The service wing wraps almost entirely around an interior courtyard off of which open a boiler room, gun room, water closet, and additional storage space.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCC2juxs7hIk_0Pu47nIgynpYD7q3iG_tkdjfXnffejwmbqzOtZhyphenhyphen0hZJjtz3zDOJBCX-fjIiEgfojwqFrnVAv-S4Fzn9doH4NdoXuuvnyriPTlUI4YUV9k-IaAmu-utFQqaed7Nj7o00/s1600/DalbyHall_PICS6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="245" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCC2juxs7hIk_0Pu47nIgynpYD7q3iG_tkdjfXnffejwmbqzOtZhyphenhyphen0hZJjtz3zDOJBCX-fjIiEgfojwqFrnVAv-S4Fzn9doH4NdoXuuvnyriPTlUI4YUV9k-IaAmu-utFQqaed7Nj7o00/s400/DalbyHall_PICS6.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>The courtyard opens to a parking lot-sized motor court bordered by a coach house (above right) with garage space for four cars, a walk-in freezer room, workshop, storage, and a second floor games room. At a right angle to the coach house is the former stable block (above left), now fitted with generator, water filtration, and storage rooms and, on the second floor a pair of offices with a wee kitchenette in between.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYF_kpFxL-BYvlq-Hsd_IStOjKpsC58eV3_Q6i2e15aU-AfLuwp0Eq6u2RclKsiYmNxAjkOTBB4QFvAm_b_zcjQnuqqdPUPyprZu4VogLnO-qonkDiGoPMatF5tF_raxmVrF15VMkcYiE/s1600/DalbyHall_PICS5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="245" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYF_kpFxL-BYvlq-Hsd_IStOjKpsC58eV3_Q6i2e15aU-AfLuwp0Eq6u2RclKsiYmNxAjkOTBB4QFvAm_b_zcjQnuqqdPUPyprZu4VogLnO-qonkDiGoPMatF5tF_raxmVrF15VMkcYiE/s400/DalbyHall_PICS5.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Additional residential structures include the <i>Fordington Farmhouse</i>—two stories, 13 rooms, four bedrooms, 2.5 bathrooms—and six additional two- and three-bedroom cottages and a three-bedroom Tudor Gothic gatehouse lodge (above) also designed in the mid-1800s by James Fowler. A seventh cottage sits, according to marketing materials, semi-derelict with a "commanding position on the edge of the parkland."<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_BgjAgMfOe0S8zYtspP6-MVLbxxw6yOzFmcTZ77fxnf60kaaOMiBjUvuKizl-U1oaNPpIMwOradUJwqGXHYKmlWBL_m-6720Jg4azv7AnNROLoX3bxQ5lKFCBH1D9fDX4oeGZO_WSek4/s1600/DalbyHall_PICS3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="283" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_BgjAgMfOe0S8zYtspP6-MVLbxxw6yOzFmcTZ77fxnf60kaaOMiBjUvuKizl-U1oaNPpIMwOradUJwqGXHYKmlWBL_m-6720Jg4azv7AnNROLoX3bxQ5lKFCBH1D9fDX4oeGZO_WSek4/s400/DalbyHall_PICS3.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>The estate, a functioning farm with certified organic crop lands, unspoiled woodlands, and vast undulating grasslands grazed by a herd of organic cattle and a flock of Hebredian sheep, has three separate farmyards with more farm-related structures than we care to count. The manicured grounds that surround the house include extensive gardens and orchards, broad sweeps of rolling lawns, a tennis court with nearby summer house with changing rooms. A bit farther afield there's a multi-acre trout-stocked pond, an established shoot, an aviary, a free-range chicken run, and a private airstrip.<br /><br />Whether they did or did not buy or even have or had the vaguest interest in <i>Dalby Hall Estate</i>, Mister Craig and Miz Weisz, combined, none-the-less possess an impressive property portfolio both in the U.S. and the U.K. Miz Weisz owns an 18th century farmhouse in upstate New York's Marbletown, near the historic village of Stone Ridge, that she previously shared with her ex-husband, Oscar-winning American filmmaker Darren Aronofsky, and <a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/realestate/residential/kelly_rentsimon_KhzC6HC47WKVcd8dPD79JN" target="_blank">recently renovated</a> with her current husband who had a work out space installed on the property.<br /><br />As far as we know—and we really know so very little—Mister Craig still owns a swank, two-floor apartment in the plummy, celebrity-saturated <a href="http://www.theavenuestory.com/blog/primrose-hill-reviewed-by-avenue-story/" target="_blank">Primrose Hill</a> area in North London that he scooped upin 2008 for about £3 million. And, as far as we know—and, again, we really know so very little—Mister Craig long ago decamped his Primrose Hill pad for the four floor townhouse, also in Primrose Hill, that Miz Weisz bought in 2008 for £3.25 million and previously shared with her ex-husband.<br /><br />In late May, 2010, Mister Craig and his then long-time but now former lady-make, Satsuki Mitchell, were <a href="http://realestalker.blogspot.com/2010/05/new-tribeca-digs-for-daniel-daniel.html" target="_blank">said to be in the process of acquiring</a> a sun-soaked duplex townhouse in New York City's TriBeCa 'hood that was last listed for $1.995 million. Deeds and documents we peeped show three terrace penthouse pad is owned solely by Miz Mitchell who paid $1,781.937 for the one bedroom and two bathroom apartment that has been for lease a couple times over the last few years, most recently for five days in early July (2013) at a rate of $10,000 per month.<br /><br />In early 2012 Miz Weisz's ex-husband bought out her interest in a petite, 13-foot wide townhouse in New York City's East Village they bought in 2005 for $3.4 million. At about the same time, the then newly wedded Craig-Weisz's shelled out a downright proper $10.8 million for a lofty 4,350 square foot triplex penthouse in SoHo that listing details from the time show had, 60-foot long living/dining/kitchen area plus a cozier den with fireplace, 2-4 bedrooms depending on usage, three full bathrooms, one big kitchen and a second kitchenette on the uppermost level, and three interconnected terraces that add about 2,000 additional square feet of living space.<br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">*A few quick clicks and clacks on Your Mama's handy-dandy currency conversion contraption shows that amounts to $18,658,800 (U.S.) and €14,129,400 for the Continentals.</span><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">listing photos and floor plan: <a href="http://www.brown-co.com/" target="_blank">Brown & Co.</a></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12961238637764341890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-170185183304505877.post-74444701811370660232013-09-03T11:08:00.000-07:002013-09-22T21:46:07.539-07:00Your Mama Hears...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwojF9BLmLXc0BFbZv2teL1TcolVGt2vNZimErb_Hz9chJ6zRQAoIUnZZf_EzKpEE2vsBmQzJEi6-NcuTwnxUhwKOTVHsSkSmBW-85m6xm00zU7fxJxo850dmVVdJFWhizLWa0e8s2z6E/s1600/Styles_KB_PICS1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="397" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwojF9BLmLXc0BFbZv2teL1TcolVGt2vNZimErb_Hz9chJ6zRQAoIUnZZf_EzKpEE2vsBmQzJEi6-NcuTwnxUhwKOTVHsSkSmBW-85m6xm00zU7fxJxo850dmVVdJFWhizLWa0e8s2z6E/s400/Styles_KB_PICS1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipCnCsd4okBcN9GeOkPGr5AN8zG9Ar5ikyYPrdgC_Wz9fgR8XvFdoTfn6B1A5gtWzqs0LT73SoExQ2qap7QbiMQ9YiOCmQ_ewsMzLrX59wLAkLcZi4pjwaWEtnvJBILL7ARsgDdo7HuLg/s1600/Styles_KB_PICS2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="327" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipCnCsd4okBcN9GeOkPGr5AN8zG9Ar5ikyYPrdgC_Wz9fgR8XvFdoTfn6B1A5gtWzqs0LT73SoExQ2qap7QbiMQ9YiOCmQ_ewsMzLrX59wLAkLcZi4pjwaWEtnvJBILL7ARsgDdo7HuLg/s400/Styles_KB_PICS2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7at0qg_ry2p7_IOaDEMW_ZLxjafYisVzHRMjgQBqbC9JRJ-J1RaG3p0yP0a7Qiuy1Oi8v1tGnjZ0VEBW7OLQlbG1HQFSv7RfvZZZq8SLR0pP_Pcsn12mJ1r12VzJG6gkEO9rCASAJ470/s1600/Styles_KB_PICS3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="260" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7at0qg_ry2p7_IOaDEMW_ZLxjafYisVzHRMjgQBqbC9JRJ-J1RaG3p0yP0a7Qiuy1Oi8v1tGnjZ0VEBW7OLQlbG1HQFSv7RfvZZZq8SLR0pP_Pcsn12mJ1r12VzJG6gkEO9rCASAJ470/s400/Styles_KB_PICS3.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXkkKddA9NoKlu7UZCKW12EdTFU_TFMbrASLlw8o0JB97CziBtmL-7OWz5KeY8Yxb_hIXRfBZhqideEKgejqzHeeTAzNiUeu7btQf8AGxlHdzW1eqNzFle4JtIMTL0fXDq8vhxclOnU9E/s1600/Styles_KB_PICS4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="235" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXkkKddA9NoKlu7UZCKW12EdTFU_TFMbrASLlw8o0JB97CziBtmL-7OWz5KeY8Yxb_hIXRfBZhqideEKgejqzHeeTAzNiUeu7btQf8AGxlHdzW1eqNzFle4JtIMTL0fXDq8vhxclOnU9E/s400/Styles_KB_PICS4.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>...that teen-aged British boy bander Harry Styles of One Direction might be in the market for a pricey new pad in the Miami area. We can't verify the veracity of the real estate rumor but and inside source we'll call Jimmy Jibberjabber swears the four-nippled heartthrob's people twice peeped a swish and sybaritic bay-front pad in a swanky gated enclave in Key Biscayne, FL, that's currently on the market with a $19,500,000 price tag.<br /><br />Digital listing details show the newly constructed and partially marble-clad contemporary has a total of six en suite bedrooms and 6.5 bathrooms in 6,544 square feet spread over four floors of indoor living space plus what looks to Your Mama like several thousand more square feet of luxuriously appointed outdoor living areas.<br /><br />In addition to a center hall entry with 30-foot ceiling and dark-stained white oak staircase, the mansion's interior spaces include an L-shaped great room with generous living and dining areas that spill out to a glass-railed terrace that spans the full-width of the house, a sleek, all-white SieMatic-brand eat-in kitchen, and a separate media room with a 64-in built-in flat screen television.<br /><br />The second floor master suite has panoramic water views, a custom-designed ceiling with LED lighting, dual walk-in closets with custom shelving, a private terrace with outdoor shower area, and a bespoke, rock-star style bathroom with, top-grade fixtures, glass counter tops, white quartz flooring, a white glass tile shower enclosure, and a 26-inch television in the mirror above the double sink vanity.<br /><br />Up on the third floor, a glass-railed roof top pavilion opens to a wrap-around roof-top terrace with imitation grass patch, expansive dining and lounging areas, an open air work-out area with a television flush mounted into the wall under the deep eaves, and a sexy-sexy negative-edge plunge pool surrounded by Ipe wood decking. That's right, puppies, there's a (small) swimming pool on the roof.<br /><br />Back on the ground there are more outdoor living spaces that include a vast, limestone-floored covered lounge area that gives way to a grassy area with custom outdoor seating. On the side of the house there's a second negative edge swimming pool with charcoal tiles and at the back there's a 40-foot dock for parking water craft<br /><br />Other features of note include numerous balconies with glass balustrades, an elevator, a state-of-the-art home automation system, custom exterior lighting, and a four-car garage.<br /><br />Key Biscayne, about 15 miles by car from the heart of South Beach and accessible only by way of the Rickenbacker Causeway causeway, doesn't carry the glitzy panache of South Beach or the hyper-exclusivity of, say, Indian Creek but the itty-bitty island community has certainly had a healthy handful of high profile home owners: two-time gold medal winning professional tennis player Mary Joe Fernández; Brazilian race car driver Emerson Fittipaldi—whose canal-front house is currently listed for $13.8 million; disgraced U.S. president <a href="http://miami.curbed.com/archives/2012/05/21/nixon-winter-white-house-compound-with-private-beach-helipad-adjacent.php" target="_blank">Richard Nixon</a>; Showbiz superstar <a href="http://www.alexshay.com/listings/propertylistings.asp?page_size=1&current_page=3&categoryID_list=31_33" target="_blank">Cher</a>; architecture and design savvy Tinseltowner Brad Pitt; billionaire art world honcho Martin Margulies, a man with a staggering, museum-quality collection of contemporary art worth nearly a billion dollars.<br /><br />Last year, when he was dating notoriously vindictive country-pop star Taylor Swift, all us international property gossips went hog wild when the shaggy-haired global phenom splashed out around £3,000,000 for a <a href="http://realestalker.blogspot.com/2012/10/boy-bander-harry-styles-buys-london.html" target="_blank">(walled and gated) bachelor pad</a> in North London's Hampstead Heath area.<br /><br /><div>Mister Jibberjabber snitched to Your Mama that other boys in the band have also recently picked up bachelor pads of their own: Zayn Malik scooped up a £3 million modern residence in the North London village of Arkley; Louie Tomlinson bought a Georgian-style house a few miles away in Hendon for about £2.5 million; Niall Horan, who is <a href="http://www.entertainmentwise.com/news/101932/Niall-Horan-Splashes-Outs-15m-On-LA-Pad-Next-To-New-Friends-The-Kardashians" target="_blank">rumored to own</a> a multi-million dollar manse in the horse-friendly and celebrity-packed community of Hidden Hills in suburban Los Angeles, paid about £2.2 million for the Brookmans Park (Hertfordshire) flat of boy bander Marvin Humes of JLS. Although Liam Payne was <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2170586/Inside-photos-luxury-flat-One-Directions-Liam-Payne-set-home.html" target="_blank">spotted touring</a> a penthouse property in North London's Primrose Hill last year, we confess we have no idea if he pulled the trigger or if he's still shacked up on his parent's farm.</div><div><br /></div><span style="font-size: xx-small;">listing photos: <a href="http://www.thejills.com/" target="_blank">Coldwell Banker</a></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12961238637764341890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-170185183304505877.post-32703322186381675072013-08-30T11:33:00.000-07:002013-09-22T21:46:07.595-07:00Anthony Kiedis Buys Petite Sunset Strip Villa<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTdKK9l14g9Kzk9JuAw4Rf-Nd1lmRO39PaC5yY_piyOadBV3JxIvzHlPzIQv_s81avrt5S-DEcbvCwTlvd-cIcYJn5tayOPjhsx0DbEARrGCtzlWQwcg-VGiOA96fAhmbdRr6W3Jm7fcY/s1600/AKiedis_SS_PICS1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="330" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTdKK9l14g9Kzk9JuAw4Rf-Nd1lmRO39PaC5yY_piyOadBV3JxIvzHlPzIQv_s81avrt5S-DEcbvCwTlvd-cIcYJn5tayOPjhsx0DbEARrGCtzlWQwcg-VGiOA96fAhmbdRr6W3Jm7fcY/s400/AKiedis_SS_PICS1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPzBcUeVkZ8Y_YtYU0Ncaepmbgd8qPFMry5BowYhr7WAy1ilJIQAFAZkLyHkADVFo4jy-U_XQxWG-6YoZjpjIRPL1rfEbXruO7XDcjg6og8vu8wkWnDx19HAGKAXJyZaSiF9gzI-RdS6A/s1600/AKiedis_SS_PICS2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPzBcUeVkZ8Y_YtYU0Ncaepmbgd8qPFMry5BowYhr7WAy1ilJIQAFAZkLyHkADVFo4jy-U_XQxWG-6YoZjpjIRPL1rfEbXruO7XDcjg6og8vu8wkWnDx19HAGKAXJyZaSiF9gzI-RdS6A/s400/AKiedis_SS_PICS2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnz3bLftbPFeimATA2_mO7uDlZCM8_R0-LLbybG7nlpznCOfEP7O6Di3dO9qDLNqQnqxkOQovB20WQLasFw95ZoYnrUAT25G1BHSDvES-SSwLZ2lQzoDYc4cDTXuHyVD9AJdRyuJx_kiM/s1600/AKiedis_SS_PICS3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="345" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnz3bLftbPFeimATA2_mO7uDlZCM8_R0-LLbybG7nlpznCOfEP7O6Di3dO9qDLNqQnqxkOQovB20WQLasFw95ZoYnrUAT25G1BHSDvES-SSwLZ2lQzoDYc4cDTXuHyVD9AJdRyuJx_kiM/s400/AKiedis_SS_PICS3.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCFDfNTyjnSBBvzOw_JzbV_gSC3kdcI6ik44fdvzasCETU68HwbhS83dPWms7Cbu3YViE9nEXlf-mneUY_2sBoP3yj4HovP3QL0-auk0857hWtu07HwnhpVZ_KYoLJqeGiVq7Nn0CFAtU/s1600/AKiedis_SS_PICS4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCFDfNTyjnSBBvzOw_JzbV_gSC3kdcI6ik44fdvzasCETU68HwbhS83dPWms7Cbu3YViE9nEXlf-mneUY_2sBoP3yj4HovP3QL0-auk0857hWtu07HwnhpVZ_KYoLJqeGiVq7Nn0CFAtU/s400/AKiedis_SS_PICS4.jpg" width="382" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigcteWNdDhT0qJKsmdhtMiw7oCPjQz2JlSyTbwUNW4mOMt_NPuCOdeiBFC5Tifc5HNPRbBnSmTft62VJgOw98DQ4_rpkC40yr14zCI3-wWHHEx7nOIC3kgA9qUjsmnaxqeOWcY46KUs4U/s1600/AKiedis_SS_PICS5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="293" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigcteWNdDhT0qJKsmdhtMiw7oCPjQz2JlSyTbwUNW4mOMt_NPuCOdeiBFC5Tifc5HNPRbBnSmTft62VJgOw98DQ4_rpkC40yr14zCI3-wWHHEx7nOIC3kgA9qUjsmnaxqeOWcY46KUs4U/s400/AKiedis_SS_PICS5.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>BUYER: Anthony Kiedis<br />SELLER: Waldo Fernandez<br />LOCATION: Los Angeles, CA<br />PRICE: $3,650,000<br />SIZE: 2,679 square feet, 3 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms<br /><br />YOUR MAMAS NOTES: A little birdie we know on the down low that's often in the know about celebrity real estate doings recently chirped in Your Mama's ear that the new owner of A-list decorator Waldo Fernandez's latest property flip above the Sunset Strip is none other than Red Hot Chili Pepper lead singer/lyricist Anthony Kiedis who just shelled out $3.65 million for the petite and pedigreed villa. The walled and gated residence, built in 1940 and nestled into a steep down slope on a curvaceous and narrow street just above the Sunset Strip, was originally designed by architect F. Pierpont Davis and re-worked by Hollywood Regency honcho John Elgin Woolf. The house has popped up in the glossy pages of <i>Architectural Digest</i> "at least thrice" according to the kids at <a href="http://la.curbed.com/archives/2011/07/sunset_strip_old_hollywood_glamourpuss_now_745k_off.php" target="_blank">Curbed</a>.<br /><br />In late June, 2012, after a couple of years on and off the market with a cornucopia of price tags as high as $3.695 million, the property was purchased for $2.4 million by the renown and regularly published <a href="http://www.waldosdesigns.com/" target="_blank">Waldo Fernandez</a>, a Cuban-born decorating dervish who's worked over rooms and homes for a panoply of celebrities like Brad Pitt, Darren Starr, and Tobey Maguire.<br /><br />Mister Kiedis—now fifty, fit, and still sexy in that dangerous, middle aged rock star sort of way—spent his early years in Grand Rapid, Mi with is mother and teen years in Los Angeles with his bit-part actor father, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0198899/" target="_blank">Blackie Dammett</a>. Poppa Kiedis, whose autobiography, <i>Lords of the Sunset Strip</i>, was recently released as an e-book, moonlighted as a drug dealer for rock stars (and others). He famously palled around with high profile peeps like Cher and Sonny Bono, the latter of whom, may he rest in peace, was named young Anthony's godfather. How's that for a whackadoodle Hollywood pedigree?<br /><br />As Mister Kiedis grew up fast and loose on the gritty streets of Los Angeles he eventually hooked up with his future Red Hot Chili Peppers band mates. In classic rock star fashion, Mister Kiedis dabbled in drugs—okay he more than dabbled he developed a raging addiction, and, along with his band mates, earned a special kind of notoriety in the early 1980s for performing in nothing but a jock strap and boots or, even more suggestively, wearing nothing but boots and a <a href="http://0.0.0.17/the-red-hot-chili-peppers-socks-cocks/" target="_blank">tube sock tied around his junk</a>. Naturally he bedded and dated and hooked up with a beautiful battalion of lithe and lusty young models, musicians, actresses, and other female hangers-on. There was Nina Hagan, Ione Skye, Sinéad O'Connor, supermodels Heidi Klum and Jessica Stam, actress Laura Prepon, and, most recently, a stunning and very young looking brunette usually identified in the tabs and gossip glossies as model <a href="http://chadwickmodels.com/models/helena-vestergaard/" target="_blank">Helena Vestergaard</a>. Along the way Mister Kiedis, sober for more than a dozen years, and his Chili Pepper pals won three AMAs, eight VMAs, one BMA and seven Grammys. Last year (2012) the band and all is members were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.<br /><br />The most recent digital listing details for the Sunset Strip property recently acquired by Mister Kiedis don't indicate the square footage. The L.A. County Tax Man puts it at 2,679 but that may or may not be accurate. Listing do, however, show the sophisticatedly staged, two-story Euro-style villa has three bedrooms, four bathrooms, three fireplaces, and garage parking for two cars.<br /><br />High walls, locked gates, and a closed circuit t.v.-equipped security system that will record your ass if you so much as slow down in front of the house enhance the privacy and security of the residence that sits below street level down a serpentine, wrought iron-railed brick stairway.<br /><br />A compact foyer leads into the main living room that isn't particularly large but is undeniably grand and voluminous with a 14-foot hard-carved ceiling imported from a cathedral in Europe, a 10-foot tall solid limestone fireplace that was probably snatched from some old building in Europe, too, and an arched window that extends to the floor and almost reaches the ceiling is flanked by normal-height glass doors that lead out to an awning-shaded and wrought iron-railed dining balcony with a perfectly lovely but hardly overwhelming over-the-tree-top city view.<br /><br />A archway—it looks to be the exact same height as the arched window in the living room—leads into the groin-vaulted dining room where Mister Fernandez replaced a ticky-tacky wall of mirrors with an aged-looking mural that depicts what appears to Your Mama to be—but is surely not—a Victorian-era Florentine street scene.<br /><br />The adjoining kitchen is oddly shaped and quite tight given the property's $3.65 million sale price, but it is well-equipped with high-quality stainless steel appliances, rough-edged stone counter tops, and cabinets that appear to be—but may not be—constructed of—or maybe faced with—some sort of rustic, reclaimed barn wood.<br /><br />At the bottom of a stair well that looks dark and narrow in listing photos, there's a library/den/possible bedroom outfitted with a quaint corner fireplace and a spine-tingling, sky-lit 16-foot ceiling. Elsewhere there's a small guest bedroom and a second, much larger bedroom with a private sitting area, an awning-shaded Juliet balcony, and a full wall of windows—floor-to-ceiling and wall-to-wall—that overlook the swimming pool. The third bedroom suite is smaller and cozier with a fireplace, private terrace accessible through two sets of French doors, and an en suite abutting facility.<br /><br />The lower level of the house opens at the tree- and shrubbery-ringed backyard where a series of wrought iron-railed red brick terraces step down the hillside. A corkscrew spiral stair links the dining balcony off the upper level living and dining rooms to the plunge-sized dark-bottomed swimming pool and spa.<br /><br />As one might expect, often mustachioed and sometimes soul-patched Mister Kiedis maintains a rock-star size property portfolio that in addition to his latest acquisition above the Sunset Strip also includes: a gated mini-estate with a blade-shaped swimming pool in the Point Dume area of Malibu purchased in October 2005 for $4,825,000; An ocean front house near Hanalei Bay on the North Shore of Kaua'i picked up in April 2005 for $2.6 million; A two bedroom and 2.5 bathroom townhouse type residence in a affluent guard-gated development in Las Vegas that he snatched up in December 2005 for $570,000; And a lake-front residence on the outskirts of Grand Rapids, MI bought way back in 1996 for $220,000.<br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">listing photos: <a href="http://efgidley3.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Everett Fenton Gidley</a> for <a href="http://www.weahomes.com/" target="_blank">Westside Estate Agency</a></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12961238637764341890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-170185183304505877.post-65480900027598841552013-08-29T13:50:00.000-07:002013-09-22T21:46:07.648-07:00José Reyes Keeps a Real Estate Toe in New York<div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglyoBwmzEsDlN072y9NXCXtQktOXz6aS46KTRrcvJu3JoLKVf6yaCudSb9FptyI_ECj8M1qL76zLY3mkagc52PNdltRBlDrMQkvCmIsOuT3vgmbNqqdqgatRK8iLYiMLpBxr_64_UXA7M/s1600/JReyes_OB_PICS3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglyoBwmzEsDlN072y9NXCXtQktOXz6aS46KTRrcvJu3JoLKVf6yaCudSb9FptyI_ECj8M1qL76zLY3mkagc52PNdltRBlDrMQkvCmIsOuT3vgmbNqqdqgatRK8iLYiMLpBxr_64_UXA7M/s400/JReyes_OB_PICS3.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2G6eY103jwGQMDLz9GjYhQT84g8u-lP3ntTPLdpDI7DDWfpO6r5MG9jkBk_OoVpbwNw-h0LDqb_3wNQnJI3vImvhVLh4DlUMGdb9jJlXHM5NhV9VxhzBb9buHB7xlTp-Lexacy_55MTg/s1600/JReyes_OB_PICS4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2G6eY103jwGQMDLz9GjYhQT84g8u-lP3ntTPLdpDI7DDWfpO6r5MG9jkBk_OoVpbwNw-h0LDqb_3wNQnJI3vImvhVLh4DlUMGdb9jJlXHM5NhV9VxhzBb9buHB7xlTp-Lexacy_55MTg/s400/JReyes_OB_PICS4.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNocdmmR9wwCDXXxkqG5FBIyfp5cbaG1nTBxGqV0ww-eO1LwipJ9J5odt2xE8aqNbp5AUVfFRCZQja0svNN7USTVFJ0GuSQZnoJCLya_ufIGixQvQCR5DkOpxj9Ry9KVI5f3DfWPTm8V8/s1600/JReyes_OB_PICS5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="398" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNocdmmR9wwCDXXxkqG5FBIyfp5cbaG1nTBxGqV0ww-eO1LwipJ9J5odt2xE8aqNbp5AUVfFRCZQja0svNN7USTVFJ0GuSQZnoJCLya_ufIGixQvQCR5DkOpxj9Ry9KVI5f3DfWPTm8V8/s400/JReyes_OB_PICS5.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>BUYER: José Reyes<br />LOCATION: Old Brookville, NY<br />PRICE: $4,578,000 (list)<br />SIZE: 7,669 square feet, 6 bedrooms, 6 full and 2 half bathrooms<br /><br />YOUR MAMAS NOTES: Just because Dominican Republic-born professional baseballer José Reyes now plays for the Toronto Blue Jays* doesn't mean the former New York Met doesn't plan to keep a significant real estate toe hold in the New York area.<br /><br />In 2007 Mister Reyes and his wife, Katherine, shelled out $3.25 million for an approximately 5,000 square foot house in a gated enclave in the affluent Long Island community of Manhasset and now, thanks to a real estate canary we'll call Harry Hasthedish, we've learned that the deadlocked four-time All Star shortstop is about to buy a bigger house in the wealthier (and more waspy) Long Island village of Old Brookville where the (2010) median household income <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/02/realestate/living-in-old-brookville-li-minimizing-impact.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0" target="_blank">surged above</a> $245,000 per year. As of this morning property records don't yet reflect a transfer of ownership so we can't say how much Mister Reyes agreed to pay for the place but our brief research shows the the estate-sized spread was originally listed in mid-2011 at $4,999,000 and last listed with an asking price of $4,578,000.<br /><br />Of course, Your Mama don't know a thing about professional baseball so we had to consult the internets and our boozy, ball crazy b.f.f. Fiona Trambeau for a little background on Mister Reyes who, turns out, really knows how to hit the damn ball and steal bases. He hit more triples than anyone else in the major leagues in 2005, 2006, 2008 and 2011 and he stole more bases than any of the other professional baseball jocks in 2005, 2006, and 2007. In late 2011, after eight seasons with the New York Mets, Mister Reyes signed on for a six year stint with the Miami Marlins in a package deal worth $106 million. Just a year later, in an effort to decrease their overall payroll, the Marlins traded Mister Reyes to the Toronto Blue Jays who <a href="http://baseballplayersalaries.com/players/484_Jose_Reyes" target="_blank">assumed the same pay package</a> as he had in Miami.<br /><br />Listing details for Mister Reyes' new residence in Old Brookville that Your Mama teased out of the interweb clearly show the red brick and cedar shingled quasi-colonial was built in 2006 on just over 3.5 acres but it does not indicate the square footage, which the Nassau County Tax Man puts it at 7,669 square feet. Listing details do show, however, that the two (or more) story house has six bedrooms and six full and two half bathrooms as well as 10-foot ceilings, extensive mill work, custom wood floors throughout, and a fully finished basement.<br /><br />Formal living and dining rooms open directly off the double-height foyer and adjoining stair hall, the former with a fireplace and French doors and the latter with flesh-toned walls above a waist-high chair rail and a glimmery, palace-worthy crystal chandelier. Also in the general vicinity of the front door are a den with fireplace surmounted by a flat screen t.v. and a dark paneled library with another fireplace surmounted by a flat screen television.<br /><br />The nearby kitchen is certainly large and well equipped with a Subaru-sized center island, granite counter tops, two-tone distressed raised panel cabinetry, and top-quality appliances but—frankly—it looks like the high-end kitchen of about 400 million other high-end kitchens in upscale suburban mansions and macmansions across the country. An adjoining breakfast room is wrapped on three sides by large windows and looks out over the flat (and featureless) football field-sized backyard.<br /><br />The master suite has a private sitting room with fireplace, roomy bedroom and a very beige bathroom with twin pedestal sinks, a glassed in steam shower and a free-standing soaking tub set below a strange and unnecessary raised fireplace. Think about that fireplace, children, who wants to flip that thing on and sit in the tub where you can't even see it? Pleeze.<br /><br />A finished basement, which probably adds a couple thousand more square feet to the total size of the house, includes a wine cellar, a small (carpeted) room the sellers used as a fitness suite, and a gigantic (barely furnished) game room with a carved wood bar that looks like an expensive (but boring) replica of a bar in an Old Timey saloon.<br /><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;">listing photos: <a href="http://www.shawnelliott.com/" target="_blank">Shawn Elliott Luxury Homes and Estates</a></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12961238637764341890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-170185183304505877.post-76579437226980479622013-08-28T11:30:00.000-07:002013-09-22T21:46:07.701-07:00Those Crazy Quaids Do It Again in Pacific Palisades<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihwhkuIib4O8xGkWAfkWyxpW_IMuBn0105ijSdgGNJU51BfeUu1pSUjv21osWBMZEkKw3Dud6tWG3PFWIW1eNnJqQA6auTJ0kEFl3HwIyviFRx3iWzkqYjccaabXGjzncs3lgWQayUKmA/s1600/DQuaid_PacPal2_PICS1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="235" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihwhkuIib4O8xGkWAfkWyxpW_IMuBn0105ijSdgGNJU51BfeUu1pSUjv21osWBMZEkKw3Dud6tWG3PFWIW1eNnJqQA6auTJ0kEFl3HwIyviFRx3iWzkqYjccaabXGjzncs3lgWQayUKmA/s400/DQuaid_PacPal2_PICS1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>BUYERS: Dennis and/or Kimberly Buffington-Quaid<br />LOCATION: Pacific Palisades, CA<br />PRICE: $5,100,000<br />SIZE: 6,114 square feet, 5-7 bedrooms, 9 bathrooms<br /><br />YOUR MAMAS NOTES: Thanks to both real estate yenta Yolanda Yakketyyak and our eerily well-informed informant Lucy Spillerguts, Your Mama has learned why the soon-to-be-divorced May-December duo Dennis and Kimberly Quaid—he's 59, she's 45—unexpectedly <a href="http://realestalker.blogspot.com/2013/08/dennis-quaid-flips-out-in-pacific.html" target="_blank">flipped the contemporary Pacific Palisades pad</a> they'd only purchased seven months earlier* back on the market two weeks ago with a fifty thousand dollar mark up: In early July (2103), through a vexatiously named trust, the estranged but co-parenting couple surreptitiously shelled out $5,100,000 to acquire a 1920s Spanish-style mini-mansion set privately and securely behind high hedges and an electronic drive gate on a sweeping curve of Sunset Boulevard in the ritzy <i>Riviera</i> area of Pacific Palisades.**<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ-kI-pyYNztFlRpLYGfR5LAb6Cii7pZQ3NeGs8OMKDbfbd0Hz8wg5XLXUhxZncK-AccvXzFdil10LXpbMA1GO4TSK1CmOTIsGk3O9ri8gzDl_n6OSG4MZ9a6WoPGxsOPCj7ZF3XhsJIU/s1600/DQuaid_PacPal2_PICS5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="277" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ-kI-pyYNztFlRpLYGfR5LAb6Cii7pZQ3NeGs8OMKDbfbd0Hz8wg5XLXUhxZncK-AccvXzFdil10LXpbMA1GO4TSK1CmOTIsGk3O9ri8gzDl_n6OSG4MZ9a6WoPGxsOPCj7ZF3XhsJIU/s400/DQuaid_PacPal2_PICS5.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Property records indicate the 6,114 square foot residence has three bedrooms and nine bathrooms but digital listing details Your Mama scrounged up show there are <i>six</i> bedrooms and nine bathrooms. Making matters more confusing, the listing description parsed the bedrooms count as such: four bedrooms suites on the upper floor including a master suite with dual closets and bathrooms (shown above) and a fifth bedroom suite on the main level plus two additional staff rooms. As all of the children who can perform basic arithmetic can easily figure, that makes for a total seven bedrooms. Anyways...<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFqxrkUzjTuOHbZuerw8FTbgEuxZR2dXtdFjz8my5RW7lHCmH1MM5Eq9-g3_Lu5zfEl5fF31ssp-AD9Egdf3z6zQqWAXaao3-IZetUd1DQrYHR_fScvhP489zjE0jQDqKMCy7jgj0ld_Y/s1600/DQuaid_PacPal2_PICS2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="333" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFqxrkUzjTuOHbZuerw8FTbgEuxZR2dXtdFjz8my5RW7lHCmH1MM5Eq9-g3_Lu5zfEl5fF31ssp-AD9Egdf3z6zQqWAXaao3-IZetUd1DQrYHR_fScvhP489zjE0jQDqKMCy7jgj0ld_Y/s400/DQuaid_PacPal2_PICS2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>The gated motor court at the front of the property has grass growing between the flagstone pavers and can accommodate up to ten cars, according to online marketing materials. A stout pair of mature palm trees frame the stained glass window flanked front door that opens into a circular foyer that steps down to a reception gallery. The hotel-lobby sized space sports an unfortunate and vaguely Medieval style with stone flooring, an ill-advised faux-stone wall treatment around the front door, numerous stone-framed doorways, and antique chandelier and half a dozen or more matching sconces, wrought iron stair railings, and what appear to Your Mama to be at least three—three!—stone and/or tile encrusted fountains.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN11rkH2oO6EPBFwaxy1aH65osECa0UjKXVl0HnkQgxg3TKsdJNfwmcEpBZ7tihvFCvIqvHztr8GBUFBQZDjFOzhyUuTCpCIK6-DqtNVSLL_goH8kZwqDwsFBIr8Gd4uAg6h5UT7xhWdE/s1600/DQuaid_PacPal2_PICS3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="380" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN11rkH2oO6EPBFwaxy1aH65osECa0UjKXVl0HnkQgxg3TKsdJNfwmcEpBZ7tihvFCvIqvHztr8GBUFBQZDjFOzhyUuTCpCIK6-DqtNVSLL_goH8kZwqDwsFBIr8Gd4uAg6h5UT7xhWdE/s400/DQuaid_PacPal2_PICS3.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>An ever so brief hall with arched niches connects the foyer to the grandly proportioned step-down living room with dark brown wood floors, large windows on three walls, a colossal carved stone fireplace and chimney breast, two antique chandeliers, and a vaulted, exposed wood ceiling. Multi-paned glass and steel doors join the living room to the formal dining room where an over-sized, essentially square-shaped stained glass window sits colorfully between two tall and narrow ten-pane leaded glass windows.<br /><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />The roomy, center island eat-in kitchen is fully updated with a vintage vibe and is dressed with marble counter tops and white subway tile back splashes the extend all the way to the ceiling and expensively equipped with two glass-fronted fridge/freezers, two dishwashers, a super-sized commercial-style range set into a subway tiled niche, a built-in coffee maker, a built-in vegetable steamer, and at least one under-counter wine fridge.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqYmL2cWjF1jyiEUEChRHuvjs32mMUWpklFbPDP3O_QPrXibsnuvfRDl5bQAUlrD0TRwcfSx30xJ3pO5zhdZRlc3Zu5bGayUgPfI3iTNljuK7MKfuaHV63_LA7VeDvOUhd3f8ceY5RPAo/s1600/DQuaid_PacPal2_PICS4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqYmL2cWjF1jyiEUEChRHuvjs32mMUWpklFbPDP3O_QPrXibsnuvfRDl5bQAUlrD0TRwcfSx30xJ3pO5zhdZRlc3Zu5bGayUgPfI3iTNljuK7MKfuaHV63_LA7VeDvOUhd3f8ceY5RPAo/s400/DQuaid_PacPal2_PICS4.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Double arched doors at the back of the reception gallery open to a small but state-of-the-art media room with terraced seating, a high-def projection system plus a large flat-screen t.v. set in to the wall, and a giant, pane-free window that overlooks the backyard.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXudxCFPD2WESCjSKMthXb3xdaPW_HcjJMT3M0OOt9D4BShz_aNsE89w1HNOqO5q9e83ba74VnP1zpp3hdMsNsIft8NACDDHMrElMFsYqrviGLn4KwkXvMPzyoLTzs-oyx8kcjxSFWyiE/s1600/DQuaid_PacPal2_PICS6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="371" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXudxCFPD2WESCjSKMthXb3xdaPW_HcjJMT3M0OOt9D4BShz_aNsE89w1HNOqO5q9e83ba74VnP1zpp3hdMsNsIft8NACDDHMrElMFsYqrviGLn4KwkXvMPzyoLTzs-oyx8kcjxSFWyiE/s400/DQuaid_PacPal2_PICS6.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Other notable features and creature comforts include a snazzy home automation system, a restored powder room with vintage tile work, a circular second floor sitting room, a ground level yoga/work out room (that was probably originally designed as a staff room). Listing details indicate there are two laundry rooms, a compact one just off the kitchen and another much larger one on the lower level that's kitted out with two washers, two dryers, two side-by-side slop sinks, and a stainless steel topped table in the center of the room.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1Z01Fgj9PX9f3KGSYrB-y-Ci_ESBflYWJWrNuquuSN3NBsLfzoQQBa69G7_wr9IFPZ0I9qZAqN120cH2SNR4cKO-itGLdDbQ_RsY6fRA9hwgITe6gTOXNDgz-1AKSlTzYr7bxfWom6Is/s1600/DQuaid_PacPal2_PICS7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1Z01Fgj9PX9f3KGSYrB-y-Ci_ESBflYWJWrNuquuSN3NBsLfzoQQBa69G7_wr9IFPZ0I9qZAqN120cH2SNR4cKO-itGLdDbQ_RsY6fRA9hwgITe6gTOXNDgz-1AKSlTzYr7bxfWom6Is/s400/DQuaid_PacPal2_PICS7.jpg" width="257" /></a></div>The house sits tightly on a .37 acre sloping parcel but, none-the-less, outdoor living spaces are many and include a sun-baked tiled terrace atop the attached two car garage, a central courtyard embraced on three sides by the towering rear façade and at least one more dining/lounging terrace plus a flat patch of lawn ringed by a thick wall of trees and shrubs and a large swimming pool and spa girdled by a basket weave pattern red brick terrace.<br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">*<a href="http://www.tmz.com/2013/03/02/dennis-quaid-kimberly-buffington-quaid-twins-house-pacific-palisades/" target="_blank">At least one report</a> from the time of the purchase indicates that although title was held in both their names Missus Quaid, a real estate agent in Texas, and the couple's five year old twins retained exclusive use of the property until the children turn 18.</span><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">**Your Mama has no idea if Mister and Third Missus Quaid plan to reconcile and cohabitate in the Sunset Boulevard mini-mansion or if, more likely, the acquisition is part of soon-to-be-third-ex-Missus Quaid's settlement.</span><br /><div><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: xx-small;">listing photos: <a href="http://www.bungalux.com/" target="_blank">Coldwell Banker</a> (via <a href="http://hotpads.com/" target="_blank">Hot Pads</a>)</span></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12961238637764341890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-170185183304505877.post-27419837899001845132013-08-27T16:52:00.000-07:002013-09-22T21:46:07.754-07:00Did Y'all Hear...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDXTHpkpoxJ5tvsBzj4IgOj5PYZpR6Za5IgLenGbGDWNukM7D4eQo96H6w1g1D_ODWOBjKBwhVf5UhyphenhyphenWydkQ23wndBERrRDm6pSF85HA-ucqs-C452FeYUzV7qZp-2Iie88llmKivplUo/s1600/PicassoHouse_Mougins_PICS5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="243" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDXTHpkpoxJ5tvsBzj4IgOj5PYZpR6Za5IgLenGbGDWNukM7D4eQo96H6w1g1D_ODWOBjKBwhVf5UhyphenhyphenWydkQ23wndBERrRDm6pSF85HA-ucqs-C452FeYUzV7qZp-2Iie88llmKivplUo/s400/PicassoHouse_Mougins_PICS5.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>...that in 2008 an as yet unidentified 40-something year old Belgian art dealer bought the last home of Spanish surrealist Pablo Picasso in the historic village of Mougins, about 20 minutes from the Promenade de la Croisette in Cannes, for between 10 and 12 million Euros—that's $13 to $16 million U.S. dollars—gave the well-situated Provençal pad a striking minimalist make-over and popped it back on the market with a hair raising and hoopla-ensuring $220,000,000 asking price?<br /><br />Current listing details and previous reports in the newspaper <a href="http://www.nicematin.com/article/cote-dazur/mougins-la-derniere-demeure-de-picasso-vendue-plus-de-10-me.56658.html">Nice Matin</a> (via the hardworking kids at <a href="http://curbed.com/archives/2013/08/27/pablo-picassos-final-home-and-studio-listed-for-220m-1.php">Curbed</a>) show the stone-walled 35-room hillside villa, once known as <i>Mas de Notre-Dame du Vie</i> and now dubbed <i>Domaine L'Antre du Minotaure</i>, stands three stories high, has 10 bedrooms and 8 bathrooms, a guest house and a guard house, two swimming pools, a tennis court, an extensive gardens.<br /><br />Now children, this property has an impeccable pedigree and it is certainly something to behold even if the austerely finished and sparely furnished day-core ain't your thang but 220 million George Washingtons? Well...Your Mama thinks it's probably best to let the gloriously opinionated children and any prospective buyers decide whether the 14-17 time mark up over the reported 2008 sale price makes a lick of real estate sense, even with the no-doubt time consuming and costly renovation and restoration.<br /><br />1,2,3...Go!<br /><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;">listing photos: <a href="http://www.corcoran.com/nyc/Listings/Display/2789647">Corcoran</a></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12961238637764341890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-170185183304505877.post-83892170495789693812013-08-27T15:10:00.000-07:002013-09-22T21:46:07.806-07:00Your Mama Hears...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTJyOiVCOHy1vzkS4s_UdsP0WVpkxv_0V0TYqe3dofds4609IdM7DefG9M-kbnMHIwQjKN_gGhDvH5C518rasB82Lot9aEIdj4k2tAuN6_pyOX5TbkOS_fbosb6_uCtYv2JrXUG0x1TXE/s1600/WillSmith_Cal_Aer1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTJyOiVCOHy1vzkS4s_UdsP0WVpkxv_0V0TYqe3dofds4609IdM7DefG9M-kbnMHIwQjKN_gGhDvH5C518rasB82Lot9aEIdj4k2tAuN6_pyOX5TbkOS_fbosb6_uCtYv2JrXUG0x1TXE/s400/WillSmith_Cal_Aer1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>...From a trusted canary deep inside the Platinum Triangle real estate world—let's call her Heidi Hearsay—that Will and Jada Pinkett Smith recently floated their epic compound in the Santa Monica Mountains near Calabasas (CA) as a whisper listing with a very loud $42 million asking price.*<br /><br />The Tinseltown power players, who are <a href="http://www.ontheredcarpet.com/Jada-Pinkett-Smith-clarifies-stance-on-Will-Smith-open-marriage-rumor/9069116" target="_blank">forever insisting</a> they are <i>not</i> splitting up or having some sort of unconventional open relationship, spent four years and heaven only knows how many millions to custom construct the 150-plus acre Calabasas area complex that includes an approximately 25,000 square foot adobe-style mega-mansion that bends around a plaza-sized central motor court before it branches off to accommodate garage bays for at least eight cars with additional living space above.<br /><br />Some of the children may recall that the Smith's humongous, hand-crafted domicile was <a href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/celebrity-homes/2011/will-and-jada-pinkett-smith-home-slideshow">featured on the cover and in the glossy page of the September 2011</a> issue of <i>Architectural Digest. </i>The multi-winged house was described in <i>A.D.</i> by the home's Santa Fe-based architect, <a href="http://www.planaarch.com/">Stephen Samuelson</a>, as "various interpretations of adobe in Persian, Moroccan, Spanish, as well as Southwest American cultures."<br /><br />The article elaborates on the "deeply personal" and sensually curvaceous interior spaces that include decorative this and thats such as hand-troweled plaster walls, miles of exposed ceiling timbers reclaimed from old barns and homesteads, hammered wrought iron accents and stair banisters, floors and ceiling with spiral and infinity knot patterns pressed into the stucco or fashioned from river stones, brilliantly colored stained glass windows, and antique hand-carved wood doors from around the globe.<br /><br />The Smiths first worked with esteemed nice-gay decorator Waldo Fernandez, according to the <i>A.D.</i> article, but at some point switched to L.A.-based lady decorator <a href="http://www.judithlance.com/">Judith Lance</a> who filled every nook and cranny with hand-crafted bits and bobs from around the globe as well as scads of bespoke pieces, including a bed canopy in the master bedroom painstakingly made entirely of tiny ball chains. It's a bit much for Your Mama's less show-stoppy personal taste in day-core and it's certainly something our house gal, Svetlana, would not even dream of dusting without a guarantee of a sizable bonus but it's certainly an impressive construction and conversation piece.<br /><br />The double-height main entry spills easily into a double height living room with massive carve stone fireplace, a dozen or more towering jute wrapped columns, and a retractable skylight. That's right, a retractable skylight. There are numerous other secret nooks and cozy crannies throughout the house that provide more intimate spaces for private chats and solitary moments.<br /><br />The dining room has rich vermilion walls and another kiva-ish fireplace plus an adjoining circular lounge with cushioned built-in seating that's perfect for taking in a palette cleansing aperitif or satiating digestif. The kitchen has cabinets crafted from 19th century oak panels, double fridge/freezers, a built-in pizza oven, and an adjoining breakfast room where an over-sized picture window frames a long view across a vast lawn toward a lakeside gazebo.<br /><br />There's a meditation lounge with circular skylight, a billiards room, a luxuriously appointed screening room, and a state-of-the-art recording studio where a then 9 or 10 year old Willow Smith recorded her brilliantly catchy if terrifically annoying Platinum certified single <i><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymKLymvwD2U">Whip My Hair</a></i>.<br /><br />The master suite has high ceilings with exposed timbers, a raised hearth fireplace, and towering arched glass doors that link to a private terrace with built-in lounge seating. There's also a custom-fitted closet/dressing room that Your Mama would bet our long-bodied bitches, Linda and Beverly, is bigger than all the bedrooms in our house put together plus a sculptural bathroom with an over-sized flesh-colored soaking tub and a shower cave lined with glimmering pebbles.<br /><br />Outdoor recreations and amusements include a man-made lake with a small island accessible via a narrow footbridge, a multi-pronged lagoon-like swimming pool complex with poolside cabana/changing room, a sunken trampoline, a sand volleyball court, and side-by-side basketball and tennis courts. The landscaped areas that surround the house give way to scrubby, undeveloped hillsides, rugged escarpments, and a distant view of Saddle Peak.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJkrPXTTyMrBvUrNaLSW3toZIyiQ4bZvKWnj0qJoDW3pryHVcij6z_1UX-u4hdpy-rYxSBaBZm1J0Cr6GrDLhUafY13q7b9ib-a_FZQBMmfWBeCa3NbH6Y-dQxgVgVbA_9vmRkfqJUoTA/s1600/WillSmith_HI_Ext1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJkrPXTTyMrBvUrNaLSW3toZIyiQ4bZvKWnj0qJoDW3pryHVcij6z_1UX-u4hdpy-rYxSBaBZm1J0Cr6GrDLhUafY13q7b9ib-a_FZQBMmfWBeCa3NbH6Y-dQxgVgVbA_9vmRkfqJUoTA/s400/WillSmith_HI_Ext1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>We're not sure if Mister and Missus Smith are looking to significantly lighten their real estate load or if they're simply looking to cash in the currently electrified upper end real estate market but it was <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/real-estate/billionaire-bought-20m-home-hide-cash-wife-lawyer-article-1.1429853" target="_blank">recently revealed</a> that the Smiths surreptitiously sold their 7-acre Hawaiian hideaway on the island of Kauai in an off-market deal for around $20 million to Russian real estate baller Dmitry Rybolovlev. Mister Rybolovlev is the very same fella, in case any of y'all somehow don't know, who paid brash real estate mogul Donald Trump a brain freezing $95 million for <i>Maison de L'Amitie—</i>a 33,000 square foot beast of a house on 6.26 acre ocean front acres in Palm Beach that <a href="http://gossipextra.com/2013/05/30/donald-trump-palm-beach-house-russian-rybolovlev-2629/">he would like to raze and subdivide</a>. He's also the same guy who shelled out $88 million dollars for financier Sandy Weill's terraced penthouse at 15 Central Park West in New York City and last year <a href="http://realestalker.blogspot.com/2013/04/didja-hear.html">dropped another $150+ million</a> for the Greek island of Skorpios and the neighboring island of Sparti.**<br /><br />Your Mama's research shows Mister and Missus Smith's still impressive property portfolio that includes several properties in Pennsylvania—he was raised up in and around Philly—including a 3.34 acre estate with an 8,000+ square foot mansion in Bryn Mawr, PA. In the Los Angeles area the couple own a 4,100+ square foot mock-Med mini-macmansion in Woodland Hills that they snatched up in August 2010 for $910,000 and way back in 2003 the pampered pair quietly shelled out $3.4 million for a 4.66 acre equine-friendly estate in the guard-gated, star-stocked and equestrian-friendly community of Hidden Hills. It's here, Your Mama thinks but can't confirm, that the Smith family lived while their Calabasas compound was under construction.<br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">*Use yer noggins, nuggets. Although our informant Heidi Hearsay is a hardcore mover and shaker in the real estate game and has provided us with eerily accurate top secret intel many times in the past, Your Mama can't currently vouch for the accuracy of this particular chewy morsel. So, for now, of course, this ain't nuthin' but mouth watering celebrity real estate rumor and gossip, at least until it pops up in of the more respectable property gossip columns.</span><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">**At least one of the three purchases listed here were acquired through trusts associated with Mister Rybolovlev's 20-something year old daughter, Ekaterina, but most property gossips assume Poppa Rybolovlev is the the real owner or at least the money behind the brutally pricey purchases.</span><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">aerial photo (Calabasas): <a href="http://www.bing.com/maps/?FORM=Z9LH2">Bing</a></span><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;">photo (Hawaii): <a href="http://houses.com/">Houses.com</a></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12961238637764341890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-170185183304505877.post-8975893562899365742013-08-27T08:23:00.000-07:002013-09-22T21:46:07.858-07:00Poor O.J. Simspon...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipQrSexb8xr9NI4C7HoWoE0cbpzpQFkfX6rCOy1NdnPYBlKe8desjJFaHqeykT_ABUiS0vYL5-aVN3Viknyb_fSAaW-Fgt8EQp3GqUZEHNZbVcnCmGHG0GtC32DLbfOM4qGBmnGfASu08/s1600/OJ_Kendal_AER1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="202" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipQrSexb8xr9NI4C7HoWoE0cbpzpQFkfX6rCOy1NdnPYBlKe8desjJFaHqeykT_ABUiS0vYL5-aVN3Viknyb_fSAaW-Fgt8EQp3GqUZEHNZbVcnCmGHG0GtC32DLbfOM4qGBmnGfASu08/s400/OJ_Kendal_AER1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>...As The Juice whittles away his days in a Nevada penitentiary <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/04/world/americas/04iht-simpson.1.16687098.html?_r=0" target="_blank">doing 9 to 33</a>* on a 2008 conviction for robbery and kidnapping the bank has seized his Spanish hacienda-style house in Kendall, FL after he failed to make mortgage payments for the last two or three years.<br /><br />The disgraced former Heisman Trophy winner purchased the property in 2000 for $575,000 and court papers parsed by South Florida celebrity and property gossip <a href="http://gossipextra.com/2013/08/23/oj-simpson-house-miami-foreclosure-auction-2897/" target="_blank">Jose Lambiet at </a><i><a href="http://gossipextra.com/2013/08/23/oj-simpson-house-miami-foreclosure-auction-2897/" target="_blank">Gossip Extra</a> </i>reveal he now "owes the bank a grand total of $892,283.11, including the $660,000-principal, fees, interests and court costs." The house, assessed by the Miami-Dade County appraiser at only $481,000, is scheduled to be auctioned on October 29 (2013).<br /><br />Property records and aerial imagery show the single story 4 bedroom and 4 bathroom residence sits on 1.65 landscaped acres with a circular motor court, a half-court basketball court and a swimming pool.<br /><br />What Your Mama wants to know is how come it took the bank three years to foreclose? They don't normally wait that long to foreclose on less (in)famous people, do they?<br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">*Mister Simpson was recently <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/31/oj-simpson-wins-small-par_n_3683298.html" target="_blank">granted parole</a> on a few of his many convictions but will remain in prison for at least four more years.</span><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">aerial photo: <a href="http://www.bing.com/maps/" target="_blank">Bing</a></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12961238637764341890noreply@blogger.com