...from a snitchy real estate canary in Beverly Hills—let's call her Mercedes Benz—that billionaire multi-media mogul Oprah Winfrey recently and very quietly shelled out somewhere in the neighborhood of $14,000,000 for a spacious Platinum Triangle pied-à-terre condo atop the swanky five star Montage Beverly Hills hotel and residences. Fourteen million may sound to some like a lot of dinero for a condo in downtown Beverly Hills—and it is—but the skeptics amongst us might keep in mind that philanthropic oil heiress Ariadne Getty also recently...
Monday, 31 December 2012
Saturday, 29 December 2012
SELLER: David and Martha HamamotoBUYER: Frank McCourtLOCATION: New York City, NYPRICE: $50,000,000SIZE: around 5,000 square feet, 4 bedrooms, 4.5 bathroomsYOUR MAMAS NOTES: After a very difficult couple of days with the inner workings our our internet service—those people at Time Warner make Your Mama want to hurt somebody with our delicate and pudgy bare hands—and yesterday's slow slog through the Los Angeles residence recently acquired by Faye...
Friday, 28 December 2012
BUYER: Faye Resnick and Everett Jack Jr.LOCATION: Los Angeles, CAPRICE: $1,605,000SIZE: 2,567 square feet, 3 bedrooms, 3.5 bathroomsYOUR MAMAS NOTES: We know some of the more high fallutin' children are gonna fuss and holler about how Your Mama ought to discuss some of the more high brow real estate activities of late such as how Tinseltown executive Michael Eisner just dropped $8,200,000 to snatch up the Tudor style mini-mansion on a shy acre...
Thursday, 27 December 2012
BUYER: Lisa LampanelliLOCATION: Fairfield, CTPRICE: $2,399,000SIZE: 3,897 square feet, 3 bedrooms, 3.5 bathroomsYOUR MAMAS NOTES: We are still inundated—swamped really—with merry-making holiday house guests but Your Mama is gonna try to hole up in a quiet corner of the garage and try to top out a quick little celebrity real estate ditty this morning... Thanks to The Bizzy Boys at Celebrity Address Aerial Your Mama learned this week that not only...
Wednesday, 26 December 2012
Listen children, Your Mama has a houseful of family—we got Mama and Sister Cooter, Your Mama's Momma, Sister Woman and her brood, Auntie and Cuzzin Will and more—so we're beyond swamped not to mentioned exhausted and sotted with gin.However, rather than leave y'all high and dry here are a few linds some stories for the celebrity gossip blogosphere:The seemingly sleepless kids at Curbed have a worthwhile run down of some of the best celebrity owned homes that appeared this year in the glossy pages of shelter magazines.The folks at Forbes put together...
Monday, 24 December 2012
...from two trusted and well connected sources deep inside the Platinum Triangle real estate game that there's a big deal—and we mean BIG—about to go down in Malibu.According to both Cinnamon Stick and Little Boy Blue, bespectacled billionaire money manager Howard Marks and his very social and philanthropic wife Nancy are thisclose to inking a record-breaking deal to sell their monumental ocean front compound for somewhere in the neighborhood of...
Friday, 21 December 2012
BUYER: RihannaLOCATION: Pacific Palisades, CAPRICE: $12,000,000SIZE: 11,000 square feet, 7 bedrooms, 9 bathroomsYOUR MAMAS NOTES: We know every other celebrity property gossip already discussed it days ago but in case any of y'all somehow missed it, Rihanna (allegedly) dropped $12,000,000 on a gated, privately situated and aggressively contemporary mansion in the Pacific Palisades area of Los Angeles.Property records do not yet reflect a transfer...
BUYER: Mistress of the DarkLOCATION: Los Angeles, CAPRICE: $925,000SIZE: (approx.) 2,005 square feet total with 2 bedrooms and 2 bathroomsFirst came word that Jessica Simpson (allegedly) made an offer to buy the not very scary Hidden Hills mansion of rock-n-roll's Prince of Darkness—that would be Ozzy Osbourne—and now comes word via the long legged blond at Trulia Luxe Living that the equally macabre monikered Mistress of the Dark—a.k.a. Elvira,...
SELLER: Jana KramerLOCATION: Nashville, TNPRICE: $367,000SIZE: 2,230 square feet, 3 bedrooms, 3 bathroomsYOUR MAMAS NOTES: Word on the celebrity real estate street down in Nashville is that after only six or so months of courting, country music up and comers Jana Kramer and Brantely Gilbert have taken the property plunge and purchased a house where they live together in unmarried bliss. Well, children, we don't know a damn thing about where the Kramer-Gilberts...
Thursday, 20 December 2012
BUYER: PSY (nee Park Jae-sang)LOCATION: Los Angeles, CAPRICE: $1,249,000SIZE: 2,776 square feet, 2 bedrooms, 2.5 bathroomsYOUR MAMAS NOTES: Celebrity gossip juggernaut TMZ reported today that budding music industry zeitgeist PSY—née Park Jae-sang (박재상, 朴載相)—paid $1.25 million in cold hard cash* for a two bedroom and 2.5 bathroom condo located on a very pedestrian lower floor of The Blair House, an exclusive, 29-story luxury high-rise building "near...
BUYER: Ricky MartinLOCATION: New York City, NYPRICE: $5,900,000SIZE:3,147 square feet, 4 bedrooms, 4.5 bathroomsYOUR MAMAS NOTES: Once upon a celebrity real estate time booty-shaking Puerto Rican pop star/entertainer Ricky Martin owned sleek, 65th floor pied-a-terre at the twin-towered Time Warner Center in Midtown Manhattan that he bought in 2004 for just about $6.8 million and sold at an enviable multi-million dollar profit in 2006 for $9,750,000.The...
Wednesday, 19 December 2012
...that bubble gum pop singer turned maybe-preggers again apparel mogul Jessica Simpson and her former professional pig skinner man-friend/baby daddy Eric Johnson have made a formal offer to purchase a spacious estate inside the guarded gates of the upscale equestrian community of Hidden Hills, CA that's currently owned by rock-n-roll royals Ozzie and Sharon Osbourne who had the entire place worked over by the forever swooning and swanning Martyn...
Your Mama's inbox has done drowned this morning with piles and miles of queries about whether whackadoodle Tinseltowner Tom Cruise did or did not buy a $13.5 million mansion in Upstate New York where his New York City-based daughter Suri—so the story goes—can keep her pet pony, $30,000 miniature race car and $24,000 play house.In all truth, we hadn't heard a damn thing about this alleged turn of celebrity real estate events and we're not sure exactly where the rumor originated. It may have been the I'm Not Obsessed blog that lit the fire yesterday...
OWNER: Kelsey GrammerLOCATION: Beverly Hills, CAPRICE: $30,000 per monthSIZE: 5,683 square feet, 5 bedrooms, 6 bathroomsYOUR MAMAS NOTES: Sometime in late April or early May 2012 four-time Emmy winning sitcom actor (Cheers, Frasier) and producer (Medium, Girlfriends) Kelsey Grammer dropped six and a half million big ones on a rather fetching 1926 Spanish Colonial Revival-style mini-mansion in the West Beverly Hills Flats. Remember that, children?Then,...
Tuesday, 18 December 2012
Earlier today Your Mama prattled aimlessly on about the compound-like Holmby Hills estate of actress/singer/skin care entrepreneur Connie Stevens that popped up on the open market last week to much fanfare, hoo-ha and ballyhoo with an almost eighteen million dollar asking price.As was noted and partially parsed in late November by the National Enquirer, Miz Stevens has long maintained a rather prodigious portfolio of properties for both personal...
SELLER: Connie StevensLOCATION: Los Angeles, CAPRICE: $17,999,000SIZE: 12,000 (or so) square feet (total), 7 bedrooms, 8 bathroomsYOUR MAMAS NOTES: Looks like the sharp downturn in the economy a few years ago put a pecuniary pinch on on the pocketbook of Tinseltown icon turned skin care tycoon Connie Stevenswho—as first reported last week by the ever industrious kids at Curbed—listed her grandly proportioned celebrity-style estate in the Holmby Hills...
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