Did Y'all See...

...that Ellen Degeneres and Portia de Rossi have re-listed their southern California horse ranch with a new, improved and much lower $10,995,000 asking price? Well they did.Your Mama previously discussed—at length, as per usual—the Sapphic couple's equestrian compound so, rather than go over it all again with a fine-toothed celebrity real estate gossip's comb, suffice to say...Missus Degeneres and de Rossi picked up their horsey haven in the...

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Kristin Cavallari Leases Big Winnetka Mansion

WHO: Jay Cutler and Kristin CavallariLOCATION: Winnetka, ILPRICE: $10,000 per monthSIZE: 6,718 square feet, 5 bedrooms, 6 full and 3 half bathroomsYOUR MAMAS NOTES: The long-legged blond at Trulia Luxe Living offers a quick peek at the $10,000 per month Winnetka, IL mansion in to which television personality (and shoe designer) Kristin Cavallari and her well-compensated professional pigskinner husband, Jay Cutler, recently moved.As a veteran...

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Your Mama Hears...

The last Your Mama knew, back in mid-January (2013), lavender-tressed rock-n-roll scion and Fashion Police panelist Kelly Osbourne was shacked up in a rental apartment at the Empire West complex in West Hollywood (CA) where her across the hall neighbor was—as per her own tweets—glam rocking American Idol season 8 runner up Adam Lambert.Although it was widely reported back in April (2013) that the 28 year...

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Bruce Makowsky Flipping Out in Beverly Hills

SELLER: Bruce Makowsky and Kathy Van ZeelandLOCATION: Beverly Hills, CAPRICE: $19,950,000SIZE: 12,500 square feet, 6 bedrooms, 7 bathroomsYOUR MAMAS NOTES: Listen, chickens, we're feeling a little bored with the usual celebrity real estate fare today so instead of going down that route we're going with a long ditty about a couple of L.A.-based real estate ballers. We'll be back to our regularly scheduled programming soon.Like in many places across...

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UPDATE: Mary Hart and Burt Sugarman

If the children will put on their thinking caps they might recall that early this year Your Mama passed along some Platinum Triangle real estate scuttlebutt about pioneer celebrity journalist Mary Hart and television and movie producer Burt Sugarman floating their Trousdale Estates mansion as an off-market pocket listing with an asking price in the $37-39 million dollar range.Two weeks ago, we heard from a couple of well-connected tattletales–...

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A Little Monday Mish Mash: John Fogerty

The long-legged blond at Trulia Luxe Living let the cat out of the bag about veteran musician and virtuoso guitarist John Fogerty quietly floating his big ol' mansion in Beverly Hills (CA) as an off-market listing with a big ol' asking price of $23.5 million.Digital marketing materials shows the "masterfully executed Tuscan estate" sits behind imposing gates on three landscaped acres in a small gated enclave near the famously steroidal guard-gated...

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A Little Monday Mish Mash: Kim and Kanye

Did y'all hear that new parents Kanye West and Kim Kardashian plan to install a Swarovski crystal encrusted refrigerator, four gold plated toilets—at a cost of more than $750,000, and more than a million dollars worth of custom-crafted mattresses in the 9,000 square foot mock-Med Bel Air macmansion they bought earlier this year for $9 million?Holy smokes! Gold plated crappers? Is there anything, children, more decoratively douchey than a gold plated...

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A Little Monday Mish Mash: Rosie O'Donnell

Comedienne Rosie O'Donnell hardly qualifies for food stamps. The lady is most assuredly rich by an any standard. However, the entrepreneurial entertainer and outspoken social commentator certainly brings home less bacon than she did in her Showbiz salad days of yore and this may (or may not) have something to do with her mad rush to shrink her once bulging real estate portfolio.In June (2013) she sold her water front estate on Miami Beach's illustrious...

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Google's Eric Schmidt's Manhattan Penthouse

BUYER: Eric SchmidtLOCATION: New York City, NYPRICE: $11,500,000SIZE: 6,009 square feet,YOUR MAMAS NOTES: Yesterday, the industrious peeps who pen the Page Six column at The New York Post printed and posted a juicy ditty about the apparently quite active romantic life of Eric Schmidt, the middle-aged and technically still married multi-billionaire executive chairman of Google.Mister Schmidt's long-time wife, Wendy, was interviewed...

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UPDATE: Steven Cohen

Investigation, shmestigation! Indictment? Bah!Notoriously secretive hedge fund fat cat Steve Cohen refuses to let a pesky little investigation by The Feds—or a $616 million settlement—drag him down or put the brakes on a monumental spending spree. Last year the multi-billionaire allegedly spent around $120 million on a quartet of bronze sculptures by Henri Matisse and in March (2013) the conspicuous consumer shelled out more than $150 million...

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Update: Dr. Terry and Heather Dubrow

BUYERS: Terry and Heather DubrowLOCATION: Newport Coast, CAPRICE: $4,180,000 (for the lot)SIZE: TBDYOUR MAMAS NOTES: In early February (2013) Your Mama let the cat out of the bag about how Real Housewives of Orange County (RHOOC) season 7 addition Heather Paige Kent Dubrow and top Orange County plastic surgeon Terry Dubrow quietly sold their Newport Coast, CA mansion in an off-market deal for $16,450,000. So the story goes, Dr. and...

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UPDATE: Le Palais

Several weeks ago Your Mama passed along some juicy Platinum Triangle real estate gossip about Lola Karimova-Tillaeva—the 30-something old daughter of Uzbekistan's dictatorial president, Islam Karimov—being the mysterious buyer of Le Palais, a massive mansion set behind high walls and higher hedges directly across the street from the perennially chic Beverly Hills Hotel. The existing residence was spec-built from the ground up by mega-mansion developer Mohamed Hadid who listed the ersatz palace on the open market last year with an asking...

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L.A. Reid Lists Hamptons Estate

SELLER: L.A. ReidLOCATION: Sagaponack, NYPRICE: $18,995,000SIZE: 7,000 square feet, 8 bedrooms, 9.5 bathroomsYOUR MAMAS NOTES: It may not have the publicity ensuring $65 million asking price of Richard Gere's postcard perfect 6.3 acre water front compound in the low-key Hamptons enclave of North Haven, near Sag Harbor, but veteran music industry mover and shaker L.A. Reid's landlocked 3.27 acre estate in sleepy but supuh-swank Sagaponack...

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John McEnroe and Patty Smyth Buy House Number Two in the Bu

BUYER: John McEnroe and Patty SmythLOCATION: Malibu, CAPRICE: $3,345,000SIZE: 2,800 square feet, 4 bedrooms, 3.5 bathroomsYOUR MAMAS NOTES: Thanks to tireless real estate yenta Yolanda Yakketyyak and a second-on-the-motion from our eerily well-informed confrère Lucy Spillerguts, Your Mama has learned that even though famously volatile tennis great John McEnroe and his part-time musician wife Patty Smyth (of the 1980s New Wave band Scandal)...

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Monday Mish Mash: Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell

Like David Spade, after a long slog on the real estate merry-go-round Hollywood royals Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn have finally unloaded their Balinese contemporary beach front house in Malibu (CA) for many millions less than they originally wanted.After years of putting the mini-compound up as a summer rental at $80-95,000 per month, the couple listed their house on rapidly disappearing Broad Beach in July 2011 on the open market with an asking...

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Monday Mish Mash: David Spade

After six long years on and off the market and millions in price drops actor/comedian David Spade has finally managed to unload his ocean front home on Malibu's La Costa beach to an executive at Netflix for $10,225,000.Mister Spade purchased the 4 bedroom and 3.5 bathroom beach house in May 2005 for $9.3 million and hoisted it back on the market in 2007 with a sensationally rose tinted $16 million price tag. At least once Mister Spade has put the...

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