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 There's trouble in paradise if one's idea of paradise is the freakishly expensive strip of sand known as Broad Beach in Malibu, CA. Broad Beach has for decades been lined with beach bungalows and ocean front mansions, many owned by rich and famous folks, showbiz executives, and a slew of west coast-based Wall Street types.One of Broad Beach's newest mansions, now just about finished, was built

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SELLER: Marina AbramovićLOCATION: New York City, NYPRICE: $3,495,000SIZE: (approximately) 3,000 square feet, 1 bedroom, 1.5 bathroomsYOUR MAMAS NOTES: 'Tis the end of the year (and a travel day to boot) so much to the chagrin of some, we're sure, Your Mama's gonna to take the low road today and dredge up a wee piece of New York City art world celebrity real estate that we didn't stop to (dis or)

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SELLER: Ariel FoxmanLOCATION: New York City, NYPRICE: $949,000SIZE: 1 bedroom, 1 bathroomYOUR MAMAS NOTES: As anyone who knows Your Mama will probably ruefully and woefully attest, we love us a reality television program. We can't help it. So many of them cater to the trailer trash that runs in trace amounts in our decidedly not-blue blood and with this genetic sickness we will test drive just

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SELLER: Randy BarbatoLOCATION: Los Angeles, CAPRICE: $1,649,000SIZE: 2,512 square feet, 3 bedrooms, 2.5 bathrooms (plus guest house)YOUR MAMAS NOTES: It was only a few weeks ago alterna-super-producer Fenton Bailey put a $1,649,000 price tag on his historic and nicely provenanced Arts and Crafts bungalow in the Hollywood Heights area of Los Angeles, CA, built in the early 1920s by Hollywood's

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SELLER: Tonny SorensenLOCATION: Los Angeles, CAPRICE: $6,900,000SIZE: 4 bedrooms, 5 bathroomsYOUR MAMAS NOTES: Once upon a time, in the not so distant fashion past, every celebrity-oriented blog and gossip glossy regularly featured photographs of Von Dutch trucker hat wearing celebs who included Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake, Gwen Stefani, Nic Cage, Sheryl Crow, Beyoncé, and Ashton Kutcher

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photo: Your MamaHappy Holidays (Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Las Posadas, Festivus, Whatever) from Your Mama, the Dr. Cooter, our long-bodied bitches Linda and Beverly, and our mean ol' pussy Sugar.Your Mama thought some of the children might need or want a brief escape their familial holiday psychodramas so below are a few links to keep y'all busy and distracted.photo: Villa WorldThe Wall

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BUYER: Rose McGowanLOCATION: Los Angeles, CAPRICE: $1,390,000SIZE: 2,927 square feet, 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms YOUR MAMAS NOTES: In mid-August sex-pottish small and silver screen actress Rose McGowan (Red Sonja, Conan the Barbarian, Charmed) charmingly regaled chat show ho-stess Chelsea Handler with her recent and high-larious (if costly) tales of real estate woe.In early 2011 Miss McGowan put her

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SELLERS: Robin Standefer and Stephen AleschLOCATION: New York City, NYPRICE: $3,500,000SIZE: Unknown square footage, 1-2 bedrooms, 1 bathroomYOUR MAMAS NOTES: Listen chickens, not only are we feeling icky with a seriously sour vodka belly we've got various gifts to wrap, holiday bags to pack, an insurance company to argue with, and a couple of pooches to wrangle, not to mention our mean ol' pussy

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SELLER: Mark and Alison PincusLOCATION: San Francisco, CAPRICE: $8,900,000SIZE: unknown square footage, 6 bedrooms, 6.5 bathroomsYOUR MAMAS NOTES: Sometime in 2009, the quickly getting wildly and filthy stinking rich Mark Pincus and his online retailing wife Ali(son) were in the real estate mood for something more substantial and much more expensive than the (as of today just about sold) starter

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SELLERS: Mark and Alison PincusLOCATION: San Francisco, CAPRICE: $1,970,000SIZE: 2,875 square feet, 3 bedrooms, 3 bathroomsYOUR MAMAS NOTES: Just in case any of the children somehow missed the many discussions in all the other property gossip blogs and websites that previously discussed the following matters...It was already a week ago now that the ever-industrious kids at Curbed in San Francisco

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 Your Mama suggests the children sit down and swaller a nerve pill because several reports from (reputable) New York City real estate gossip columns claim that very controversial former Citigroup CEO Sanford "Sandy" Weill sold–for the full asking price–the opulent New York City penthouse he slung on the open market with much hullabaloo just over a month ago with a glass shattering $88,000,000

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SELLERS: Barbi Benton and  George GradowLOCATION: Los Angeles, CAPRICE: $11,950,00,000SIZE: 11,608 square feet, YOUR MAMAS NOTES: While hanging around Your Mama's momma Goose's crib over the weekend we honed in on a sizable estate high in the mountains above Los Angeles' Bel Air 'hood that's been on and off the market for quite some time and is currently listed with an asking price of $11,950,000

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It will not likely come as a surprise many if any celebrity real estate watchers that Courtney Love's New York City landlord is spitting mad at the always eccentric and sometimes volatile rock star.Miz Love's Chicago-based landlady Donna Lyon, who leased the picture perfect West Village townhouse to Miz Love earlier in the year at a rate of $27,000 per month, claims the Hole front woman violated

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Private investor and professional soccer team owner Gabriel Brener, the scion of a Mexican industrialist, has reportedly floated his leviathan limestone mansion in the hoitiest of the toitiest section of Holmby Hills in Los Angeles, CA on the market with an elephantine asking price of "more than $80,000,000."The Wall Street Journal reported late last week that the mega-mansion has 6 bedrooms that

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Now that seasoned movie star Demi Moore has booted her philandering, much younger husband from their once-happy family home in Beverly Hills, the soon to be single Ashton Kutcher needs a sexy new nest to bed down and bed babes.According to multiple reports the well-compensated sitcom star, producer and Twittering tycoon recently peeped a supah-sleek, 9,385 square foot modern mansion elegantly

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It's official.Late last week the peeps at People revealed property mad chat show hostess Ellen Degeneres and her wife Portia di Rossi paid a hefty $12,000,000 and signed all the necessary deeds and documents to acquire a glassy, bluff-top Malibu (CA) residence owned by a-list actors and global do-gooders Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. Told you so. And told you so again.Mister Pitt picked up the

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OWNERS: Warren Beatty and Annette BeningLOCATION: Beverly Hills (Post Office), CAPRICE: $25,000/monthSIZE: 10,594 square feet, 6 bedrooms, 8 bathroomsYOUR MAMAS NOTES: A month or so ago Your Mama revealed that Oscar-winning Tinseltown high priest Warren Beatty and his dee-voon, 4-time Oscar-nominated wife Annette Bening put their long-time mock-Mediterranean mansion in the 90210 on the rental

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SELLER: John LeguizamoLOCATION: (near) Kingston, NYPRICE: $835,000SIZE: 2,612 square feet, 4 bedrooms, 3 bathroomsYOUR MAMAS NOTES: Since March 2003 Mister and Missus Leguizamo have escaped the relatively intense urban core of downtown Manhattan for a wooded lake front retreat in Upstate New York's Ulster Country between historic, working-class Kingston and charming (and increasingly hipsterish)

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SELLER: John LeguizamoLOCATION: Venice, CAPRICE: $949,000SIZE: 2 bedrooms (plus loft), 2 bathroomsYOUR MAMAS NOTES: It may (or may not) surprise the children to learn that energetic, sometimes hammy, usually self-absorbed, and preternaturally talented actor/comedian John Leguizamo–who may or may not be quite as Puerto Rican as he's always claimed to be–maintains a hefty handful of residential

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SELLER: Howie MandelLOCATION: Malibu, CAPRICE: $7,250,000SIZE: 5,936 square feet, 5 bedrooms, 5.5 bedroomsYOUR MAMAS NOTES: Continuing with our ongoing game of Celebrity Real Estate Pick Up Sticks comes news that Canadian-born germ-phobic comedian/actor turned game show host Howie Mandel (St. Elsewhere, Deal or No Deal) and his long-time wife Terry have put their recently-built Malibu

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SELLER: R. KellyLOCATION: Olympia Fields, ILPRICE: $1,595,000SIZE: 22,000 square feet, 6 bedrooms, 8 full and 6 half bathroomsYOUR MAMAS NOTES: Word slipped down the Chicago celebrity real estate gossip grapevine this week that native Chicagoan singer/songwriter R. Kelly–née Robert Sylvester Kelly–has officially placed his mega-mansion in suburban Olympia Fields, IL on the market as a short sale

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BUYER: Brad and Cassandra GreySELLER: Peter M. SchoenfeldLOCATION: New York City, NYPRICE $15,500,000SIZE: (nearly) 3,000 square feet, 2-4 bedrooms, 4.5 bathroomsYOUR MAMAS NOTES: Recently we've found ourselves mostly stuck in Bev Hills and it's environs, the 'burbs, beach communities and other celebrity locales in and around Tinseltown. This past week or more of vast expanses of luxuriously

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SELLER: Renée ZellwegerLOCATION: Pomfret, CTPRICE: $1,500,000SIZE: 3,400 square feet (approximately, 3 bedrooms, 2.5 bathroomsYOUR MAMAS NOTES: While snacking on some dry toast backed up with a stiff, mid-day gin & tonic pick-me-up Your Mama received an unexpected press release that announces Oscar-winning actress Renée Zellweger has listed her rural retreat in puny and purdy Pomfret, CT on the

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As reported by those quick-witted kids over at Curbed, Brad Pitt's clifftop contemporary crib in Malibu, CA–listed at $13,750,000–was taken off the market last week. This could mean any number of things, natch.It was only last week, the children may recall, Your Mama passed along the shouldn't-be-shocking celebrity real estate scuttlebutt that Mister Pitt was about to sell his sleek, single-story

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SELLER: estate of Sue MengersBUYER: Allen and Deborah GrubmanLOCATION: Beverly Hills, CAPRICE: currently unknownYOUR MAMAS NOTES: It was only a few short weeks ago that Your Mama and just about every other celebrity real estate and/or property gossip went bat shit crazy about the legendary John Elgin-Woolf-designed Beverly Hills, CA residence of recently deceased Hollywood über-agent Sue Mengers.

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SELLERS: Vincent Herbert and Tamar BraxtonLOCATION: Encino, CAPRICE: $3,000,000SIZE: 7,817 square feet, 6 bedrooms, 6.5 bathroomsYOUR MAMAS NOTES: It seems we've been stuck out in sub- and exurban Los Angeles, CA most of the week yimmer-yammering about celebrity real estate blah blah blah. Although we're certain some of the children wish we would, rather than shift the geographic gears we're

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SELLER: Angelo MoziloLOCATION: Thousand Oaks, CAPRICE: $3,400,000SIZE: 6,238 square feet, 5 bedrooms, 5.5 bathroomsYOUR MAMAS NOTES: Yesterday, while mindin' the necessary ps and qs for our discussion about the Thousand Oaks, CA mansion recently leased by phoenix-like pop phenom Britney Spears, we rather randomly ran across another, smaller mansion located behind the guarded gates of the

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...has ants in her real estate pants and plans to pack up the children and, once again, move mansions, this time to an exclusive, guard-gated golf community in the upscale and exurban outpost of Thousand Oaks, CA, about 35 miles northwest of Hollywood.We first caught wind of the famously peripatetic pop star's' upcoming move to suburbia to exurbia about two weeks ago when we received an

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SELLERS: Shelly Hwang and Young LeeLOCATION: Malibu, CAPRICE: $3,495,000SIZE: 4,799 square feet, 4 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, YOUR MAMAS NOTES: In the mid-Naughts Korean American entrepreneur Shelly Hwang and her boyfriend/architect Young Lee set out to open a tiny tea parlor in a centrally located residential section of West Hollywood, CA. Alas, the city put the ix-nay on the tea parlor after

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photo: Parrot Cay, Como Hotels & Resorts The weather's turned chilly in Los Angeles the last few days, or at least what passes for cold in El Lay, and even though Your Mama and the Dr. Cooter have just returned from a perfectly lovely week-plus of semi-vacation in sunny and warm Palm Springs, the vaguely winter-ish cold snap has us pining for a few more bathing-suited days in someplace a little

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toad-kisser

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SELLER: Arnold KleinLOCATION: Laguna Beach, CAPRICE: $12,000,000SIZE: 3,572 square feet, 3 bedrooms, 3 bathroomsYOUR MAMAS NOTES: We apologize for not conversing with the kiddies on Friday but Your Mama was stymied by a series of obstinate technical troubles that left us nearly hysterical with frustration and all but dead in the blogging water. Our harrowing computer issues were finally solved by

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BUYER: Eric Christian OlsenLOCATION: Pacific Palisades, CAPRICE: $1,350,000SIZE: 1,593 square feet, 3 bedrooms, 2 bathroomsYOUR MAMAS NOTES: A couple of weeks ago we received a missive from The Bizzy Boys at Celebrity Address Aerial who snitched to Your Mama that a shaggy-haired surfer-style blond named Eric Christian Olsen paid $1,350,000 to procure a modest if not exactly cheap ranch-style

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...newly svelte Oscar- and Grammy-winning former American Idol Jennifer Hudson has signed the necessary papers to purchase a titanic 12,000 square foot mansion in Burr Ridge, IL, an affluent suburb about a half hour drive southwest of Chicago's Loop.The very trad mansion (shown above) was originally listed in 2006 at $4,200,000 and the listing agent told real estate gossip Dennis Rodkin at

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...New York-based financier Sandy Weill has already "reached an agreement with an unnamed buyer" to purchase his posh and exceedingly pricey penthouse at 15 Central Park West in New York City.The children will recall that Mister and Missus Weill heaved and hoed their Robert A.M. Stern-designed and Mica Ertegun-decorated 6,744 square foot penthouse with its 2,000 square foot-plus wrap around

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SELLER: Emeril LagasseLOCATION: New York City, NYPRICE: $15,000,000SIZE: 6,900 square feet, 6 full and 2 half bathroomsYOUR MAMAS NOTES: Today we've opted for reasons well not explain to ride the coat tails of New York Post who appear to be the first to report that celebrity chef and culinary mini-tycoon Emeril Lagasse has flipped his nicely dressed limestone-clad New York City townhouse on the

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Yesterday Your Mama started our lengthy two-part odyssey on the many recent real estate activities of professional basketball player Amar'e Stoudemire that included a spin 'round the decidedly meretricious single-story mansion in Southwest Ranches, FL he recently scooped up for a hefty $3,700,000. Today we continue our delve into the depths of Mister Stoudemire's real estate matters with a more

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BUYER: Amar'e StoudemireLOCATION: Southwest Ranches, FLPRICE: $3,700,000SIZE: 14,555 square feet, 6 bedrooms, 6.5 bathrooms (total)YOUR MAMAS NOTES: Before any of y'all get to sassin' do hear this: Your Mama well knows we are tardy to this here celebrity property party. None-the-less, we think can offer, in our shamelessly and shamefully wind-baggish two-part series, a more complete picture of

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OWNER: Pam AndersonLOCATION: Malibu, CAPRICE: $20,000/week or $75,000/monthSIZE: 3 bedrooms, 2.5 bathrooms (plus a backyard wigwam)YOUR MAMAS NOTES: A little birdie out in the Bu came chirp-chirping along this morning to let Your Mama know that bodacious (h)actress Pam Anderson has put her recently completed "Romantic Malibu Beach House" up for lease on the Vacation Rental By Owner website (VRBO)

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SELLER: Bruce WillisLOCATION: Hailey, IDPRICE: $15,000,000SIZE: 8,403 square feet, 6 bedrooms, 6.5 bathroomsYOUR MAMAS NOTES: The turkey tryptophans have left Your Mama more than a little drowsy today but we none the less want to give the children who aren't shopping their little holiday hearts out a little celebrity real estate tidbit to chew on this Black Friday.As was reported earlier in the

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...From Your Mama, the Dr. Cooter, our long bodied bitches Linda and Beverly, our mean ol' pussy Sugar and a few classic mid-century modern houses in Palm Springs.   photos: Your Mama

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SELLER: estate of Sue MengersLOCATION: Beverly Hills, CAPRICE: $4,995,000SIZE: 4,434 square feet, 3 bedrooms, 3 bathroomsYOUR MAMAS NOTES: All the children know that brevity ain't Your Mama's strong point. However, because we're well beyond fashionably late to this particular real estate party and because we have a very complicated pumpkin cheesecake with gingersnap cookie crust to make–from

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BUYER: Chris BrownLOCATION: Los Angeles, CAPRICE: $1,550,000SIZE: 2,473 square feet, 3 bedrooms, 3 bathroomsYOUR MAMAS NOTES: Listen chickens, Your Mama wouldn't know a Chris Brown ditty if it walked up, kicked us hard in the soft of our shin and called us a jive-talkin' turkey. What little we know about the young R&B/pop musician comes exclusively from what we've read on the blogs and in the

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SELLER: Tina KnowlesLOCATION: New York City, NYPRICE: $5,600,000SIZE: 1,729 square feet, 2 bedrooms, 2.5 bathroomsYOUR MAMAS NOTES: It was just a couple too-short months ago that Your Mama dissed and discussed the 2.6 acre Houston, TX estate owned by Tina Knowles–that's Beyoncé's momma–and listed with an asking price of $3,499,000. If the children will put on their thinking caps they might recall

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Buckle up butter beans because Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Bill Dedman filed his latest installment on MSNBC.com regarding the saga of wickedly rich and recently deceased copper heiress, doll collector and hardcore recluse Huguette Clark. And, children, it is a doozy.Mister Dedman combs through, chronicles and details court documents filed in relation to the legal battle brewing over the

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SELLER: Beau BridgesLOCATION: Hidden Hills, CAPRICE: $2,850,000SIZE: 7,000 square feet, 6 bedrooms, 6 bathroomsYOUR MAMAS NOTES: Always working actor and Tinseltown scion Beau Bridges–his father is Emmy-nominated Lloyd and his younger brother is Oscar-winner Jeff–briefly had his house in the horsey Hidden Hills enclave in the far western suburbs of Los Angeles, CA on the market in the spring of

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OWNER: Oprah WinfreyLOCATION: Chicago, ILPRICE: $15,000/monthSIZE: 4,607 square feet, 2 bedrooms, 3.5 bathroomsYOUR MAMAS NOTES: This afternoon we happily ride on the coat tails of reporter (and venerable real estate gossip) Bob Goldsborough at the Chicago Tribune who discovered and revealed this week that billionaire chat show host turned magazine tycoon turned television network owning

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...through the Celebrity Real Estate Gossip Grapevine that property mad and famously peripatetic comedienne/chat show host Ellen Degeneres has set her real estate sights on ex-pat American actor Brad Pitt's bluff-clinging beach crib in Malibu, CA, currently listed at $13,750,000.We first heard this both surprising and not so surprising celebrity real estate rumor from the self-monikered Ms.

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SELLER: Zang ToiLOCATION: New York City, NYPRICE: $2,800,000SIZE: 1,300 square feet (give or take), 1 bedroom, 1.5 bathroomsYOUR MAMAS NOTES: It isn't all that often Your Mama runs across a one bedroom apartment with a multi-million dollar price tag so when we do our pits sweat up with a cold mixture of financial flabbergast and residential real estate awe. They are, these multi-million dollar

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WHO: Alexis and Jim BellinoWHAT: New house in Dana Point, CASIZE: 7,146 square feet, 5 bedrooms, 5.5 bathroomsPRICE: UnknownYOUR MAMAS NOTES: Listen here my little property-lovin' ponies. Iffin yer too high fallutin' for or simply uninterested in the (sometimes schadenfreude-ian) real estate doings of one or any of those boobtastic, blinged-out beehawtchas from The Real Housewives of Orange

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SELLER: k.d. langLOCATION: los angeles, caPRICE: $1,975,000SIZE: 2,968 square feet, 3 bedrooms, 2 bathroomsYOUR MAMAS NOTES: much to your mama's surprise, much lauded and deservedly applauded 4-time grammy-winning canadian-born crooner k.d. lang has long lived in a modest, rustic-modern, quasi-craftsman ranch-style residence above los angeles' laurel canyon. it seems, however, she's ready to move

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BUYER: Simon Helberg and Jocelyn TowneSELLER: Charlie Sheen and Brooke MuellerLOCATION: Los Angeles, CAPRICE: $2,900,000SIZE: 4,179 square feet, 4 bedrooms, 4.5 bathroomsYOUR MAMAS NOTES: Exactly one week ago today–on the dreaded All Hallows Eve, when children don elaborate costumes and roam around in droves to beg their neighbors for free sweet treats–Your Mama (somewhat) briefly discussed a Los

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SELLER: Sanford "Sandy" and Joan WeillLOCATION: New York City, NYPRICE: $88,000,000SIZE: 6,744 square feet, 3-4 bedrooms, 4 full and 2 half bathroomsYOUR MAMAS NOTES: Today we offer the children a mouth-watering snippet of New York City floor plan porn courtesy of Josh Barbanel who yesterday presented a juicy real estate report in The Wall Street Journal about the filthy rich former chairman and

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SELLER: David SchwimmerLOCATION: Los Angeles, CAPRICE: $10,700,000SIZE: 11,336 square feet, 9 bedrooms, 6.5 bathroomsYOUR MAMAS NOTES: There are three–make that four–main reasons why celebrities, high profile people and others with the ducats to indulge their multi-million dollar real estate whims: death, marriage, divorce and/or the birth of a child. Since former Friends actor David Schwimmer

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Turns out global pop music superstar Rihanna isn't the only famous person who's recently filed a toothy lawsuit against the seller of a high-priced mansion. New reports out of Austin, TX reveal the latest high-profile Showbizzer to sue the sellers of a recently renovated residence for which he spent many millions of dollars is actor Dennis Quaid (Great Balls of Fire, The Big Easy and the

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BUYER: Sally FieldLOCATION: New York City, NYPRICE: $2,550,000SIZE: 2 bedrooms, 2 bathroomsYOUR MAMAS NOTES: A snitchy little birdie told landed outside out window this morning and chirp-chirp-chirped that Oscar-, Emmy-, Golden Globe- and People's Choice-award winning actress Sally Field (may have) recently snatched up a New York City pied-a-terre. Okay, truth is Your Mama actually read it in a

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SELLER: Jenna Lyons and Vincent MazeauLOCATION: Brooklyn, NYPRICE: $3,750,000SIZE: 4,400 square feet, 5-7 bedrooms and 3.5 bathrooms (total)YOUR MAMAS NOTES: Today we're going to piggy on the back of the cool kids over at Curbed NY who were–we think–the first to reveal the New York City real estate news that superstar J. Crew president and executive creative director Jenna Lyons and her

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SELLER: Courtney Sale RossLOCATION: New York City, NYPRICE: $60,000,000SIZE: TitanicYOUR MAMAS NOTES: Buckle your real estate safety belts butter beans because Time Warner widow and philanthropist Courtney Sale Ross has just re-listed her monumental duplex apartment in New York City's s 740 Park Avenue with an asking price of $60,000,000.Y'all are in luck this time around because Miz Ross not

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SELLER: Becki Newton and Chris DiamantopoulosLOCATION: Los Angeles, CAPRICE: $535,000SIZE: 1,222 square feet, 1 bedroom, 2 bathroomsYOUR MAMAS NOTES: Celebrities come in all types, stripes and degrees of fame and notoriety.There are international superstars like Angelina Jolie who can't set on a damn public terlit without the paps pounding on the door and there are others like the oppressively

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Earlier today Your Mama discussed a water-damaged modern mansion in the mountains above Beverly Hills owned by multi-Grammy Award-winning Barbadian–or, as some prefer, Bajan–superstar singer Rihanna. Shortly after our discussion of the ugly celebrity real estate matter an official listing popped up on the interweb that confirms Riri's $6,900,000 purchase price and current $4,500,000 asking price.

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photo: GoogleOWNER: Warren Beatty and Annette BeningLOCATION: Beverly Hills, CAPRICE: $27,500 per monthSIZE: 10,594 square feet, 6 bedrooms, 8 bathroomsYOUR MAMAS NOTE: It appears that long-married Hollywood honchos Warren Beatty and Annette Bening may have, at long last, moved back to the Beverly Hills (Post Office), CA estate they moved from after the 1994 Northridge earthquake rendered their

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Thanks to Our Fairy Godmother in Beverly Hills Your Mama recently learned that Grammy-winning pop music sensation Rihanna (née Robyn Fenty) has somewhat quietly floated her water-logged Beverly Hills, CA mansion on the market with an asking price of $4,500,000.The children may recall that the Barbados-born international superstar snatched up the very contemporary crib high in the hills above

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UPDATE: Since this was discussed below Miz Aniston has come out publicly and admitted she did look at the apartment in question but goes on to say she did not proceed towards a purchase. Make of that what you will.Rumor has it sitcom star and romcom queen Jennifer Aniston caught a costly case of the Celebrity Real Estate Fickle.Since she landed a co-starring role (and earned many tens of millions

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Did Johnny Depp slap down some dough for a getaway on the Isle of Wight? Could be. Real estate rumors have begun to circulate in the local press that the Oscar-nominated ex-pat American actor may have set his real estate sights on the historic and scenic Isle of Wight, located just off the southern coast of England.The wee island has been popular amongst literary types and royalty since at least

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photo: GoogleBay Area real estate watchers are all well-acquainted with the years-long but now-settled legal wrangle and tangle between Oracle bajillionaire Larry Ellison and his down slope San Francisco, CA neighbors the von Bothmers. In summary, the tops of a quartet of old-growth trees on the von Bothmers property grew to obstruct the otherwise panoramic view from the back of Mister Ellison's

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OWNER: Frankie MunizLOCATION: Scottsdale, AZPRICE: $7,250 / monthSIZE: 6,195 square feet, 5 bedrooms, 7 bathroomsYOUR MAMAS NOTES: There are handfuls of high profile people and all sorts of assorted celebrities who, for whatever reason(s), buy and sell real estate at a rate so rapid it boggles some, bewilders many and makes any of number of others about 99 kinds of pissed off. What drives thethe

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SELLER: estate of Ron WilsonLOCATION: Beverly Hills, CAPRICE: $7,295,000SIZE: 7,580 square feet, 6 bedrooms, 7 bathroomsYOUR MAMAS NOTES: The celebrity real estate well continues to run a bit dry so today, rather than discuss the home of an actual famous person, we point our attentions on a mansion owned by noted and recently deceased interior designer Ron Wilson who did up digs for a number of

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Your Mama somehow missed all the many mid-October (2011) reports–we blame the lapse on gin and nerve pills–that revealed the opulent monster mansion in the U.K. known as Updown Court was sold–Sold!–for £35,000,000 to an as yet unidentified "foreign businessman."Thirty five million pounds–$56,202,300 at today's rates according to our currency conversion contraption–is by any and all standards a

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Word recently slipped down the West Coast celebrity real estate gossip grapevine that sitcom star Courtney Cox (Friends, Cougartown) has added to her impressive real estate portfolio with a condo in the storied and star-stocked Sierra Towers building (above) on the border of West Hollywood and Beverly Hills, CA.Property records show Miz Cox, separated from but still working with husband David

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SELLER: Simon HelbergLOCATION: Los Angeles, CAPRICE: $849,000SIZE: 2,569 square feet, 5 bedrooms, 4 bathroomsYOUR MAMAS NOTES: Today's second morsel comes by way of Zillow who last week beat us to the punch on their report about The Big Bang Theory's Simon Helberg pushing his (relatively) modest and charming if not exactly inexpensive Los Angeles, CA crib on the market for $849,000.Mister Helberg

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BUYER: David LaChapelleLOCATION: New York City, NYPRICE: $1,739,500SIZE: 1 bedroom, 1 bathroomYOUR MAMAS NOTES: Today's first tidbit comes courtesy of the fine folks at Curbed who recently revealed saucy, surrealistic and some might say soo-blime photographer and artist David LaChapelle recently coughed up $1,739,500 for a spectacularly re-done if somewhat sedate new apartment in New York City

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After much anticipation amongst real estate-o-philes in Los Angeles and no doubt around the world author and journalist Michael Gross' latest exposé Unreal Estate finally hits the bookstores and online retailers tomorrow.We are a fan. And not, mind y'all, just because a substantial quote by yours truly appears on the book jacket and not either because we are also referenced and quoted repeatedly

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SELLER: Christian AudigierLOCATION: Topanga, CAPRICE: $3,299,000SIZE: 3.15 acres, 3 bedrooms, 2 bathroomsYOUR MAMAS NOTES: Your Mama apologizes for today's delay. It's been a trying week to begin with and this morning we were down and out with a still not entirely cleared up technical issue in the form or a misbehaving lap top computer. Almost as soon as we managed to get the lap top bandaged and

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BUYER: Matt LucasLOCATION: West Hollywood, CAPRICE: $2,900,000SIZE: 5 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms (total)YOUR MAMAS NOTES: The British are coming! The British are coming! Well, British sketch comedy king Matt Lucas is coming to West Hollywood anyways. Mister Lucas, a pudgy, pasty-faced, bald-pated and utterly fearless comedian has toiled in Britain's Big Business of Show since the mid-1990s. He

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SELLER: Jesse AlexanderLOCATION: Sherman Oaks, CAPRICE: $2,100,000SIZE: 4,399 square feet, 5 bedrooms, 5 bathroomsYOUR MAMAS NOTES: Sorry Charlies, but pickins are a bit slim in the celebrity real estate world today so rather than a household name, big time billionaire or tawdry tabloid princess let's discuss a decidedly but pleasantly peculiar Sherman Oaks, CA residence owned by television

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SELLER: Nancy Hughes, widow of John HughesLOCATION: Lake Forest, ILPRICE: $5,890,000SIZE: 11,233 square feet, 6 bedrooms, 6 full and 4 half bathroomsYOUR MAMAS NOTES: Few movie watching folks betwixt and between the ages of 15 and 65 have not in some way been affected or even transformed by the couple of dozen angst-ridden and ennui-laden teen comedies written, directed and/or produced by the

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SELLER: Larry EllisonLOCATION: Woodside, CAPRICE: $19,000,000SIZE: 5,850 square feet, 4 bedrooms, 3.5 bathroomsYOUR MAMAS NOTES: Listen kittens, Your Mama may not be the sharpest knife in the drawer but we are neither a dumb bell with our fat head stuck in the sand. Like all of the rest of y'all, Your Mama is well aware of the heavy, wet blanket of weltschmerz that's settled over many and angrily

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SELLER: Donald Trump and Melania KnaussLOCATION: Rancho Palos Verdes, CAPRICE: $7,150,000SIZE: 11,000 square feet (approximately), 5 bedrooms, 9 bathroomsYOUR MAMAS NOTES: We may be a little late to grab the celebrity real estate brass ring on this one but how can Your Mama resist the opportunity to briefly discussion the opulent (but arguably banal) Rancho Palos Verdes, CA (mc)mansion that

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 Despite earlier reports he had, new media reports claim Indian gajillionaire Mukesh Ambani–estimated net worth $27 billion–has not, in fact, moved into the colossal and controversial, 27-story cantilevered tower he built in the vast city of Mumbai as his family's private residence. Most reports say Antilla–or Antilia depending on where one looks–cost the polyester, petrochemical, and petroleum

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SELLER: Jake WeberLOCATION: Los Angeles, CAPRICE: $2,575,000SIZE: 3,500 square feet, 4 bedrooms, 3 bathroomsYOUR MAMAS NOTES: Call Your Mama a tired ol' real estate cliché if you want–we've certainly been called worse–but Your Mama just cain't resist us a privately-situated mid-century modern residence in a (semi-) secluded canyon setting in southern California. With that peg in our architectural

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SELLER: Dennis QuaidLOCATION: Emigrant, MTPRICE: $14,000,000SIZE: (approximately 418 acres) 5,300 square feet, 3 bedrooms, 3.5 bathrooms (main house)YOUR MAMAS NOTES: Children, please forgive Your Mama our tardiness to this particular party. We are, regrettably, still nursing and moving molasses-like through one of those perfectly pesky 72 hour hangovers brought on in epic fashion by the rather

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...That a sadly disheveled and endangered of being destroyed Richard Neutra-designed pile in Beverly Hills, CA known as the Kronish House was saved from the wrecking ball by a last minute purchase by an as yet unnamed buyer who coughed up $12,800,000 for the property.Actually we didn't hear about the sale of the much neglected mid-century modern, we read about it in the Wall Street Journal and on

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SELLER: Andie MacDowellLOCATION: Asheville, NCPRICE: $4,500,000SIZE: 10,872 square feet, 6 bedrooms, 7.5 bathroomsYOUR MAMAS NOTES: Your Mama is finally back home but plum tuckered out and on our last nerve from nearly a week dragging around San Francisco after our busy as a beaver and punishingly boozy b.f.f. Fiona Trambeau during a week of weather uncharacteristically reminiscent of Hot and

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SELLER: Robert TowneLOCATION: Pacific Palisades, CAPRICE: $14,000,000SIZE: 10,000 square feet, 8 bedrooms, 9 bathroomsYOUR MAMAS NOTES: Although few outside the film and television industry may recognize his name, screenwriter Robert Towne is a living legend in Tinseltown who recently put his Pacific Palisades, CA compound on the market with an asking price of $14,000,000.While his (somewhat more

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SELLER: Matthew PerryLOCATION: Los Angeles, CAPRICE: $5,695,000SIZE: 4,100 square feet, 3 bedrooms, 3.5 bathroomsYOUR MAMAS NOTES: After he listed his condo crib at the celebrity stacked Sierra Tower's complex in West Hollywood, dropped a hefty $8,650,000 on a supah-sleek and newly rehabbed residence high above the Sunset Strip, and then listed his very contemporary crib in Malibu with a

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SELLER: Heather MillsLOCATION: Robertsbridge, East Suffolk, UKSIZE: 10,550 square feet, 8 bedrooms, 6.5 bathrooms (plus additional guest/staff quarters)PRICE: £3,900,000YOUR MAMAS NOTES: While whittling away a punishing hangover during the weekend, Your Mama received a covert communique from a lovely British gal we'll call Wanda Flowers who clued us in to the listing for a stately country estate

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Way back in early 2009 the celebrity real estate rumor mill began to churn out the scuttlebutt about ex-pat Tinseltowner Brad Pitt wanting to unload his high-concept and very contemporary bluff-top beach house in Malibu, CA. At that time Your Mama heard through the grapevine the architecture and design loving actor wanted eighteen mil for the 1.26 acre spread that property records show he scooped

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Listen chickadoodles, today is a travel day so we're a little tight on time. We decided a little last minute to fly up to San Francisco to cavort and frolic for a few drunken days with our boozy b.f.f. Fiona Trambeau as well as much-adored pals Miss Anne, Patty Cake, and Falsetta Knockers and her husband Herr Wordsmith.While there, iffin anyone cares, we plan to visit the Kabuki Springs and Spa

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...from Our Fairy Godmother in Beverly Hills (and various other real estate insiders) that interior design world darling and dilettante Kelly Wearstler and her property developing hotelier husband Brad Korzen have quietly hoisted their historic and spectacularly re-done Beverly Hills, CA mansion on the market with an asking price of $39,900,000.This is not the first time Miz Weastler and Mister

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Most of the time wildly philanthropic Microsoft multi-billionaire Bill Gates and his wife Melinda live in a colossal and carefully choreographed, custom designed and meticulously constructed compound on the shore of Lake Washington in Medina, WA.The approximately 66,000 square foot lodge-like residential complex, comprised of many structures both separate and connected, burrows into and tumbles

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SELLERS: Ashley Jensen and Terence BeesleyLOCATION: Los Angeles, CAPRICE: $1,589,000SIZE: 2,512 square feet, 3 bedrooms, 2.5 bathroomsYOUR MAMAS NOTES: During the 2008-2009 renovation of a hillside house in the upscale Oaks section of Los Angeles' Los Feliz neighborhood, house flipper turned reality tee-vee star cum interior decorator Jeff Lewis installed a new deck that crossed the property

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It seems that nothing stirs the real estate shit or polarizes The Children more than a pictorially-blessed tale of a multi-billionaire baller with a property portfolio that bulges and balloons with numerous high-priced properties. Some of The Children will surely aspire to acquire or, perhaps, ache with envy for the profound pile of cheddar required to own and maintain multiple high-maintenance

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The New York Post reported yesterday that sensationally successful 40-something year old pop-rock musician Jon Bon Jovi is quietly shopping his newly renovated New York City duplex penthouse with a mind-melding asking price of around $45,000,000.Mister Bon Jovi recently completed a multimillion dollar renovation of the building topper but at the time he paid $24,000,000 for the clean-lined

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SELLERS: Terry and Jane SemelLOCATION: Beverly Hills, CAPRICE: $12,275,000SIZE: 8,804 square feet, 4 bedrooms, 6.5 bathroomsYOUR MAMAS NOTES: Since the early 1980s entertainment and media industry pooh-bah Terry Semel and his wife Jane have hunkered down in a big house on a prime street in the East Gate section of Bel Air where some of their nearest neighbors include residuals rich Will & Grace

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Last September, on the heels of a $25,000,000 purchase of a modern Malibu beach house, Your Mama discussed at length the many private residences owned and maintained by quirky Microsoft co-founder and multi-billionaire Paul Allen.Two days ago, world slipped and slid down the New York City real estate gossip grapevine that Mister Allen recently added a $25,000,0000 penthouse to his already

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SELLER: Ethan SupleeLOCATION: Studio City, CAPRICE: $2,295,000SIZE: 3,787 square feet, 7 bedrooms, 3 bathroomsYOUR MAMAS NOTES: Due to a slew of circumstances that include an unexpectedly inordinate amount of time spent riding around to various places in Sister Woman's mini-van, we are, once again this morning, behind the celebrity real estate 8-ball this week. It seems that today's topic, a

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SELLER: Matthew PerryLOCATION: Malibu, CAPRICE: $13,500,000SIZE: 3,677 square feet, 4 bedrooms, 5.5 bathroomsYOUR MAMAS NOTES: It seems that recently re-rehabbed sitcom star Matthew Perry (Friends, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Mr. Sunshine) has a big ol' bee in his real estate bonnet that's put him in the mood to shake up his property portfolio.Back in late August Your Mama dissed and discussed

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SELLER: William J. ChadwickLOCATION: Malibu, CAPRICE: $35,000,000SIZE: 10,480 square feet, 6 bedrooms, 9.5 bathroomsYOUR MAMAS NOTES: Brace yourselves west coast real estate freaks because it's baaaaack! In the summer of 2008, right about the time that the bottom fell completely out of the real estate markets in southern California and around the country, low profile real estate financier William

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Late last week Your Mama discussed the 26-acre equestrian extravaganza in Thousand Oaks, CA that chat show host Ellen Degeneres and her actress wife Portia de Rossi have on the market with an asking price of $16,500,000.Celebrity real estate gossips and watchers know the horsey spread in Thousand Oaks isn't the only posh property in the Los Angeles area the Missus Degeneres and de Rossi own but

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BUYER: Frances Bean CobainLOCATION: Los Angeles, CAPRICE: $1,825,000SIZE: 3,350 square feet, 4 bedrooms, 3.5 bathroomsYOUR MAMAS NOTES: Last week Your Mama received an enlightening missive from The Bizzy Boys at Celebrity Address Aerial who alerted us to a well-maintained Los Angeles, CA residence they believe was acquired–through a trust–by tatted-up teen-aged rock-and-roll heiress Frances Bean

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