Anthony Kiedis Buys Petite Sunset Strip Villa

BUYER: 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 other than Red Hot Chili Pepper lead singer/lyricist...

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José Reyes Keeps a Real Estate Toe in New York

BUYER: 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 his wife, Katherine, shelled out $3.25 million for...

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Those Crazy Quaids Do It Again in Pacific Palisades

BUYERS: 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—unexpectedly flipped the contemporary Pacific Palisades pad they'd...

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Did 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 on the market with a hair raising and hoopla-ensuring...

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Your 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 or having some sort of unconventional open relationship,...

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Poor 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 celebrity and property gossip Jose Lambiet at Gossip...

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Rumor 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 capitalist husband Zack Brogue.As far as as Your Mama knows...

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Michael C. Hall Catches Case of Real Estate Fickle

SELLER: 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 residence in L.A.'s celebrity-soaked Outpost Estates*...

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In Case You Haven't Heard: Celine Dion

SELLERS: 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 publicity ensuring $72,000,000 price tag.The fully...

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Wilmer Valderrama Lists Suburban Party Pad

SELLER: 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 price of $3,495,000. Mister Valderrama found fame (and...

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