tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91870844549364970762024-03-13T22:52:51.543-07:00limruoeeAdminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12098591499227545188noreply@blogger.comBlogger997125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9187084454936497076.post-88618904878129641462013-09-11T16:53:00.000-07:002013-09-23T06:53:43.567-07:00Did Julia Roberts List Her Secluded Hawaiian Hideaway and Buy Another?SELLER: Julia Roberts and Danny ModerLOCATION: Hanalei, Kauai, HIPRICE: $17,000,000SIZE: 1,807 square feet, 4bedrooms, 3 bathrooms (total)YOUR MAMAS NOTES: It recently came to Your Mama's attention by way of The Bizzy Boys at Celebrity Address Aerial that semi-reclusive Oscar-winning actress Julia Roberts and her budding cinematographer husband, Danny Moder, own not just one but two multi-millionAdminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12098591499227545188noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9187084454936497076.post-71006878486412865352013-09-10T10:57:00.000-07:002013-09-23T06:53:43.530-07:00Cotton T-Shirt King James Perse Snags AnotherSELLER: Stefan LessardBUYER: James PerseLOCATION: Malibu, CAPRICE: $6,690,000SIZE: 7,000 square feet, 6 bedrooms, 5.5 bathroomsYOUR 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 we erroneously reported that money-minting musician Dave Matthews of his eponymous Dave Matthews Band had Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12098591499227545188noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9187084454936497076.post-86710724145307223552013-09-09T14:13:00.000-07:002013-09-23T06:53:43.555-07:00Triple Whammy: Robin Quivers Shakes Up Property PortfolioYOUR MAMAS NOTES: In May 2012 radio shock-jock Howard Stern's long-time lady side kick Robin Quivers—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 reported $10 million per year, quickly returned to her post Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12098591499227545188noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9187084454936497076.post-38377832959250108962013-09-07T09:22:00.000-07:002013-09-23T06:53:43.486-07:00Nate Berkus's Pedigreed West Coast Rental Goes Up for SaleSELLER: Sean MacPhersonMOST RECENT RENTERS: Nate Berkus and Jeremiah BrentLOCATION: Los Angeles, CAPRICE: $2,950,000SIZE: 2,148 square feet, 2 bedrooms, 2 bathroomsYOUR MAMAS NOTES: Media savvy designer/decorator Nate Berkus and his man-friend/fiancée, much younger and far less successful fellow designer/decorator Jeremiah Brent, loved their architecturally pedigreed rental residence in the Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12098591499227545188noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9187084454936497076.post-13452936007194074942013-09-06T13:52:00.000-07:002013-09-23T06:53:43.447-07:00Matthew Perry Quietly Buys Beach Front Digs...Two Years AgoBUYER: Matthew PerryLOCATION: Malibu, CAPRICE: $12,000,000SIZE: 5,500 square feet, 4 bedrooms, 3.5 bathroomsYOUR 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 Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12098591499227545188noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9187084454936497076.post-43888968182796416202013-09-05T09:18:00.000-07:002013-09-23T06:53:43.493-07:00Anne Hathaway Flips Out in BrooklynSELLER: Anne HathawayLOCATION: Brooklyn, NYPRICE: $4,500,000SIZE: 2,592 3 bedrooms, 3.5 bathroomsYOUR MAMAS NOTES: In March, 2012, Oscar-winning actress Anne Hathaway (Les Misérables, Rachel Getting Married) and her then-fiancée, occasional actor and jewelry designer Adam Shulman, reportedly rented a six thousand dollar-plus apartment in the much ballyhooed Clocktower building in Brooklyn's DumboAdminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12098591499227545188noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9187084454936497076.post-87377524433051771292013-09-04T14:53:00.000-07:002013-09-23T06:53:43.559-07:00Midweek Mish-Mash: Comedians, suicides, fashion designers, and a couple of Bradys...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 three bedroom and 3.5 bathroom condo in Pacific Palisades (above).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 Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12098591499227545188noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9187084454936497076.post-44737714386007108132013-09-03T18:36:00.000-07:002013-09-23T06:53:43.495-07:00Did Daniel Craig Do It in Spilsby?In March (2013) there were a handful of unverified reports in local media outlets 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 Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12098591499227545188noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9187084454936497076.post-59552654863004565212013-09-03T11:08:00.000-07:002013-09-23T06:53:43.511-07:00Your Mama Hears......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 Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12098591499227545188noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9187084454936497076.post-9775540164419001832013-08-30T11:33:00.000-07:002013-09-23T06:53:43.574-07:00Anthony Kiedis Buys Petite Sunset Strip VillaBUYER: Anthony KiedisSELLER: Waldo FernandezLOCATION: Los Angeles, CAPRICE: $3,650,000SIZE: 2,679 square feet, 3 bedrooms, 4 bathroomsYOUR 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 Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12098591499227545188noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9187084454936497076.post-25477651640124756402013-08-29T13:50:00.000-07:002013-09-23T06:53:43.464-07:00José Reyes Keeps a Real Estate Toe in New YorkBUYER: José ReyesLOCATION: Old Brookville, NYPRICE: $4,578,000 (list)SIZE: 7,669 square feet, 6 bedrooms, 6 full and 2 half bathroomsYOUR 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.In 2007 Mister Reyes and Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12098591499227545188noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9187084454936497076.post-13619854710573647092013-08-28T11:30:00.000-07:002013-09-23T06:53:43.449-07:00Those Crazy Quaids Do It Again in Pacific PalisadesBUYERS: Dennis and/or Kimberly Buffington-QuaidLOCATION: Pacific Palisades, CAPRICE: $5,100,000SIZE: 6,114 square feet, 5-7 bedrooms, 9 bathroomsYOUR 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—Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12098591499227545188noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9187084454936497076.post-21434228283449244442013-08-27T16:52:00.000-07:002013-09-23T06:53:43.461-07:00Did Y'all Hear......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 Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12098591499227545188noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9187084454936497076.post-80000097767518259692013-08-27T15:10:00.000-07:002013-09-23T06:53:43.544-07:00Your Mama Hears......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.*The Tinseltown power players, who are forever insisting they are not splitting up orAdminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12098591499227545188noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9187084454936497076.post-87831799079877759152013-08-27T08:23:00.000-07:002013-09-23T06:53:43.564-07:00Poor O.J. Simspon......As The Juice whittles away his days in a Nevada penitentiary doing 9 to 33* 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.The disgraced former Heisman Trophy winner purchased the property in 2000 for $575,000 and court papers parsed by South Florida Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12098591499227545188noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9187084454936497076.post-72034793399404314292013-08-27T07:50:00.000-07:002013-09-23T06:53:43.533-07:00Rumor Has It......an historic San Francisco mansion at that quietly traded hands in April (2013) for $35,000,000—the highest price ever paid for a single family residence in The City—may not have been bought by Trevor and Alexis Traina as was originally reported by all the Bay Area high society and property gossips but rather by young and generously-compensated Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer and her venture Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12098591499227545188noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9187084454936497076.post-29121052756355146442013-08-26T09:17:00.000-07:002013-09-23T06:53:43.475-07:00Michael C. Hall Catches Case of Real Estate FickleSELLER: Michael C. HallLOCATION: Los Angeles, CAPRICE: $2,350,000SIZE: 4,572 square feet, 5 bedrooms, 5.5 bathrooms (total)YOUR MAMAS NOTES: Six-time Emmy-nominated and Golden Globe winning thespian/boob-toob actor Michael C. Hall (Dexter, Six Feet Under) has been on a bit of a real estate roll. Last June he and his second ex-wife and Dexter co-star, Jennifer Carpenter, sold a contemporary Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12098591499227545188noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9187084454936497076.post-28417371339576777212013-08-23T15:48:00.000-07:002013-09-23T06:53:43.470-07:00In Case You Haven't Heard: Celine DionSELLERS: Céline Dion and René AngélilLOCATION: Jupiter Island, FLPRICE: $72,000,000SIZE: GiganticYOUR MAMAS NOTES: In case any of the celebrity real estate obsessed children haven't yet heard, Canadian songstress Céline Dion and her significantly older husband/manager René Angélil have hoisted their epic, village-like ocean front compound in Jupiter Island, FL on the open market with a Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12098591499227545188noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9187084454936497076.post-74836737687627883522013-08-23T10:34:00.000-07:002013-09-23T06:53:43.539-07:00Wilmer Valderrama Lists Suburban Party PadSELLER: Wilmer ValderramaLOCATION: Tarzana, CAPRICE: $3,495,000SIZE: 5,039 square feet, 6 bedrooms, 5.5 bathroomsYOUR MAMAS NOTES: Sitcom star Wilmer Valderrama is on the move. After selling off the entirety of his (small) property portfolio over the last couple years, he's now listed his multi-acre gated party pad compound in suburban L.A.'s hot and Hades community of Tarzana with an asking Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12098591499227545188noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9187084454936497076.post-75695773620966902202013-08-22T15:20:00.000-07:002013-09-23T06:53:43.542-07:00Late Thursday Afternoon This And ThatsDidja hear Jennifer Lopez needs to get some new damn bodyguards at her spread in the Hamptons? Yes, she does. (New York Post, Vanity Fair)::::::::Hollywood veteran Hank Azaria continues to lighten his real estate load: In September, 2011, he sold a 7 bedroom mansion in Bel Air for $11,065,000 and in early May (2013) he dumped a giant loft in New York City for $8,000,000. Then, in late May (2013) Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12098591499227545188noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9187084454936497076.post-4619317955527473222013-08-22T12:49:00.000-07:002013-09-23T06:53:43.498-07:00Thursday This and Thats: Kevin JamesIn May (2013), after just 36 days on the open market, well-compensated and residuals rich sitcom star Kevin James (King of Queens) sold his nearly 12,000 square foot modern-minded mock-Med mansion in Encino, CA, for exactly $5,550,000, $55,000 more than the $5,495,0000 asking price.What hasn't been revealed, at least as far as Your Mama knows, is that the buyer—according to the always Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12098591499227545188noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9187084454936497076.post-9582944121480946142013-08-22T08:33:00.000-07:002013-09-23T06:53:43.572-07:00Thursday This and Thats: Dr. H.As we first learned from the long-legged blond gal at Trulia Luxe Living, Robert Huizenga, M.D., the media savvy obesity specialist best known by reality t.v. watchers as Dr. H. from the weight loss extravaganza The Biggest Loser, dropped $5.5 million on a 10.2 acre mountain top compound (above) with five super-contemporary structures in the Santa Monica Mountains above Malibu.Dr. H. Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12098591499227545188noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9187084454936497076.post-87461605488141923622013-08-21T16:32:00.000-07:002013-09-23T06:53:43.562-07:00UPDATE: The ReserveThere's little Your Mama loves more than a convoluted real estate ditty. And this one's a doozy so we suggest you grab a candy snack, mix up a cocktail of your choice—we're already up to our neck in gin & tonics, and settle in for a bumpy ride.A couple days ago those ever-so-clever kids at Curbed revealed that The Reserve, a ritzy recently renovated estate in the outlandishly posh Holmby Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12098591499227545188noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9187084454936497076.post-18302187578720415662013-08-20T13:23:00.000-07:002013-09-23T06:53:43.457-07:00UPDATE: Dr. Dre and Nicole ThreattLast November all us celebrity property gossips busted a gut when rapper, record producer and high-end headphone mogul Dr. Dre and his long-time lady-wife Nicole Threatt dropped $15.4 million on a nearly 10,000 square foot contemporary residence prominently sited on a gated promontory near the tippy-top of the so-called Bird Street's nabe high above L.A.'s perennially chic Sunset Strip.*As Your Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12098591499227545188noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9187084454936497076.post-49845110073788930652013-08-20T08:40:00.000-07:002013-09-23T06:53:43.503-07:00Kobe and Vanessa Bryant List Mock-Med MacMansionSELLERS: Kobe and Vanessa BryantLOCATION: Newport Coast, CAPRICE: $8,599,000SIZE: 8,471 square feet, 4 bedrooms 4 full and 3 half bathroomsYOUR MAMAS NOTES: L.A. Lakers superstar Kobe Bryant's longtime wife, Vanessa, stood by her man in 2003 when he was accused of sexually assaulting a 19-year old gal in Colorado—the matter was eventually settled out of court—but in December 2011 Missus Bryant Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12098591499227545188noreply@blogger.com