RIcki Lake Lists Long Time L.A. Residence

SELLER: Ricki LakeLOCATION: Los Angeles, CAPRICE: $8,750,000SIZE: (roughly) 5,226 square feet, 5-6 bedrooms, 5.5 bathroomsYOUR MAMAS NOTES: Looks like somewhat newly (re-)married actress, Emmy winning daytime chat show hostess, and Dancing with the Stars alum Ricki Lake is on the move and has listed her long time home in L.A.'s tony Brentwood area with an asking price of $8,750,000.Property records show Miz Lake purchased the Plantation-style residence...

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In Case You Didn't Hear: Lady Gaga

According to the celebrity gossips at Life & Style via the hard-charging kids at Curbed, international pop music entertainer Lady Gaga has inked a deal to rent a deluxe duplex penthouse on New York City's high-fallutin' Central Park South. The aerie, atop a decidedly luxurious but unassuming 1940s gray brick apartment block, was last listed at $22,000 per month and has unobstructed views that sweep over the entirety of Central Park.Listing...

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Adam Levine Quietly Unloads in the Hollywood Hills

SELLER: Adam LevineLOCATION: Los Angeles, CAPRICE: $3,550,000SIZE: 2,045 square feet, 2 bedrooms, 2 bathroomsYOUR MAMAS NOTES: Your Mama has twice now heard—first from an anonymous tipster and then from The Bizzy Boys at Celebrity Address Aerial—that tatted up Maroon 5 front man Adam Levine—who moonlights as a coach on The Voice—quietly unloaded his Mark Haddawy decorated bachelor pad above L.A.'s Bronson Canyon to a couple of non-celebs for $3,550,000.Property...

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Owlwood (semi-)Officially Listed

Last July Your Mama repeated the white hot and quietly wide spread Platinum Triangle real estate rumor that the famous Owlwood compound in Los Angeles's supremely hoity toity Holmby Hills area was surreptitiously being shopped to qualified buyers with—according to our well-connected informant Lenny Lemmetellya, at least—a knee-knocking asking price of around $150,000,000.Well, children, thanks to a eagle eyed snitch we'll call Ben d'Yourear,...

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Model Niki Taylor Lists Bucolic Spread in Brentwood, TN

SELLER: Niki Taylor (and Burney Lamar)LOCATION: Brentwood, TNPRICE: $1,450,000SIZE: 4,719 square feet, 4 bedrooms, 3.5 bathroomsYOUR MAMAS NOTES: Model and spokesperson Niki Taylor may have grown up in Florida and traveled the world many times over during her salad years as a model and spokesperson but for more than a decade she's called a couple of the more affluent and star-studded semi-rural suburbs south of Nashville, TN home.A wholesome, all-American...

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UPDATE: Bill Gates

SELLER: Bill and Melinda GatesLOCATION: Hobe Sound, FLPRICE: $6,600,000SIZE: 9,458 square feet, 4 bedrooms, 7 full and 2 half bathroomsYOUR MAMAS NOTES: It was South Florida-based celebrity and society gossip Jose Lambiet who first let the real estate cat out of the bag about zillionaire software super-mogul Bill Gates and his wife Melinda shelling out $8.7 million for an equestrian estate in a gated enclave in the horsey community of Wellington,...

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In Case You Missed It: Bill Koch

Multi-billionaire Bill Koch—the less politically active and least rich brother of zillionaire conservative activists Charles and David Koch—may not have nearly as many billions in the bank as the much more progressive bajillionaire Bill Gates, who recently dropped $8.7 million for an equestrian estate in Wellington, FL, but he's none-the-less a bona fide real estate baller who maintains the sort of residential property portfolio only affordable to...

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In Case You Missed It: Bill Gates

It was South Florida-based celebrity and society scuttlebutter Jose Lambiet of Gossip Extra who let Your Mama know that Microsoft bajillionaire Bill Gates and his equally cerebral wife Melinda recently shelled out $8,700,000 for an equestrian oriented estate in the affluent and equine oriented community of Wellington, FL.According to Mister Lambiet, Mister and Missus Gates leased a house in Wellington for the last two seasons at a rental...

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In Case You Missed It: Megan Ellison

Twenty something year old high tech heiress turned budding powerhouse film producer and budding real estate baller Megan Ellison—that would be Larry's daughter—has snatched herself up a multi-million dollar pied a terre in New York City's Police Building. According to the peeps at The Real Deal, L.A.-based Miss Ellison viewed the downtown apartment just once, submitted an offer an hour later by telephone and plans to use the apartment as a pied-a-terre.The...

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Steve Carell Sells And Moves Around the Corner

SELLER: Steve and Nancy CarellLOCATION: Toluca Lake, CAPRICE $5,100,000SIZE: 6,637 square feet, 5 bedrooms, 6 bathroomsYOUR MAMAS NOTES: In June 2010 Emmy nominated and Golden Globe winning actor Steve Carell and his occasional actress wife Nancy dropped $6,000,000 to acquire the Toluca Lake (CA) estate of recently deceased actor Jonathan Winters. They proceeded to raze the existing 5,200+ square foot residence—and every stick and...

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Martin Lawrence Downsizes in Encino

BUYER: Martin LawrenceLOCATION: Encino, CAPRICE: $6,630,000SIZE: 10,211 square feet, 7 bedrooms, 7.5 bathroomsYOUR MAMAS NOTES: We first heard rumbles of it weeks ago from a gal we'll call Suburban Sally and last night we heard it from the eerily well-informed Yolanda Yakketyyak that comedian Martin Lawrence scooped up a newly constructed mock-Med MacMansion perched atop a high knoll in the foothills above L.A.'s prototypically suburban community...

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In Case Your Haven't Heard: Tamar Braxton

Celebrity gossip juggernaut TMZ reported today that sassy-licious reality television diva Tamar Braxton and her record producer husband Vincent sold their Hidden Hills (CA) mansion in mid April (2013) for $6,900,000.What TMZ does not reveal, and what we first heard a several days ago from the always dishy informant Yolanda Yakketyyak, is that the buyers are the very same people—John and Gloria Gebbia—who sold the approximately 12,000 square...

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Michael Jackson's (In)Famous Dermatologist Arnie Klein Lists L.A. Mansion

SELLER: Arnie KleinLOCATION: Los Angeles, CAPRICE: $4,250,000SIZE: 11,341 square feet, 8 bedrooms, 5 bathroomsYOUR MAMAS NOTES: Poor, poor Dr. Arnie Klein. Once upon a time he was the Beverly Hills-based dermatologist, the so-called "Father of Botox"whose image obsessed clientele included nipped, tucked and injected Showbiz luminaries like Elizabeth Taylor, Carrie Fisher, and Michael Jackson. Alas, in the chaotic and highly publicized wake of Michael...

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Michael Ovitz to Sell Broad Beach Lots

SELLER: Michael and Judy OvitzLOCATION: Malibu, CAPRICE: $29,500,000SIZE: 1.08 acresYOUR MAMAS NOTES: It seems that veteran Hollywood power player Michael Ovitz has decided not to build the 10,000+ square foot compound on Malibu's star-lined (and ever-eroding) Broad Beach that he had custom-designed by architect Steve Giannetti* because he and his missus, Judy, hoisted the three contiguous oceanfront parcels where their custom compound was to...

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In Case You Missed It: Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson

SELLER: Tom Hanks and Rita WilsonLOCATION: Pacific Palisades, CAPRICE: $5,225,000SIZE: 6,289 square feet, 4 bedrooms, 5.5 bathroomsYOUR MAMAS NOTES: Late last week it was revealed by the folks at Zillow that two-time Oscar winning actor Tom Hanks and wife Rita Wilson put one of their many homes in the prosperous Los Angeles community of Pacific Palisades, CA on the market with an asking price of $5,225,000.This isn't, so it would seem, Mister Hanks...

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In Case You Missed It: Robbie Williams

SELLER: Robbie WilliamsLOCATION: Compton Bassett, Wiltshire, U.K.PRICE: £5,500,000SIZE: 1,850 square meters, 9+ bedrooms, 13.5+ bathroomsYOUR MAMAS NOTES: First came word in late May that increasingly out of the limelight British pop star Robbie Williams sold—and took an approximately half million dollar loss—on a multi-residence compound on L.A.'s famed Mulholland Drive that's complete with full-sized lighted soccer pitch. Now comes word down...

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It's Official: Jodie Foster Lists Sunset Strip Digs

SELLER: Jodie FosterLOCATION: Los Angeles, CAPRICE: $6,399,000SIZE: 6,060 square feet, 5 bedrooms, 4 full and 2 half bathrooms bathroomsYOUR MAMAS NOTES: Back in early December (2012) Your Mama let the cat out of the celebrity real estate bag about how smart, successful and semi-reclusive Tinseltown royal Jodie Foster very quietly shelled out $11,750,000 for a house set on a high ridge above the Coldwater and Franklin canyons...

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