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Today’s home is a bit of old Hollywood tradition in Pacific Palisades, California. The home is now on Amalfi Drive but was built in 1924 with an address on Haldeman Road. At that time, the Uplifters Club owned Rustic Canyon where several members built homes. It is said that the home was designed by architect William Dodd, an Uplifters Club member who designed what is now the Rustic Canyon Recreation Center. The home was later bought by Hal Roach Studios, and became a Hollywood hangout for some of Hollywood’s early huge stars such as Harold Lloyd, Jean Harlow and Will Rogers. It was reputedly occupied by Stan Laurel of Laurel and Hardy during his divorces. The home is, as the listing admits, in need of a lot of work but it has, as they state, lovely bones. The property website states “restoration or wrecking ball?” Restoration, please! This home is listed at $5 million.

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The Everlands destination club is a relatively new club for those with a passion for the outdoor life. Members have unlimited access to 45 of the most iconic places of natural beauty on Earth, and Everlands promises to conserve these destinations for future generations. The Club has also established a Conservation Foundation that will award The Everlands Conservation Prize annually to individuals who demonstrate innovation, creativity and daring in conserving nature. The award is funded by a portion of Membership fees and annual dues.

The first destination to become part of Everlands is the Point on Saranac Lake in New York’s Adirondacks region. This former Rockefeller estate is ranked as one of the top boutique lodges in the world. Other properties that are part of the first acquisition phase include Lone Mountain Ranch in Montana; Lake Rotoroa Lodge in New Zealand; The Inn at Blueberry Hill on Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts; Mangrove Cay Club in the Bahamas; Bristol Bay Lodge in Alaska; and Castle Hot Springs in Arizona. Future acquisitions will include a country estate in Devon, England; a wild partridge habitat in central Spain; an Atlantic salmon property in Iceland; an estancia in Patagonia; and a game reserve in Kenya.

Membership to Everlands is by invitation only. Each Member pays a one-time Membership fee, as well as annual Club dues. Everlands is owned entirely by its Members, who own a pro rata equity interest in the Club Membership Corporation. Everlands Members co-own the land, buildings, and all real property. The Membership fee is $1 million, with early-in opportunities for Founding Membership starting at $475,000 and there are annual dues of $40,000. A 15 percent deposit is required by each Member when they sign up and will be returned with interest if initial Membership goals are not achieved. The balance is due when the Club secures 100 Members, at which time the properties will be available to Members only. Until then, Everlands properties will continue to operate as usual and are open to all guests.

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Today’s home is a bit of old Hollywood tradition in Pacific Palisades, California. The home is now on Amalfi Drive but was built in 1924 with an address on Haldeman Road. At that time, the Uplifters Club owned Rustic Canyon where several members built homes. It is stated that the home was designed by architect William Dodd, an Uplifters Club member who designed what is now the Rustic Canyon Recreation Center. The home was later purchased by Hal Roach Studios, and became a Hollywood hangout for some of Hollywood’s early huge stars such as Harold Lloyd, Jean Harlow and Will Rogers. It was reputedly occupied by Stan Laurel of Laurel and Hardy during his divorces. The home is, as the listing admits, in need of a lot of work but it has, as they say, lovely bones. The property website says “restoration or wrecking ball?” Restoration, please! This home is listed at $5 million.

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It is fitting on Oscar Sunday to look at a building actually owned by an Oscar nominee, director Julian Schnabel. Schnabel directed the heartbreakingly beautiful motion picture “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.” This was Schnabel’s third movie (he also directed Basquiat and Before Night Falls).

I’m a bit biased about the case of Julian Schnabel. I’ve had a large crush on him since first seeing his broken plate art in the 1980s. Since then as his ample frame has grown, so too has my affection. The prospect of seeing what he’ll wear to the Oscars makes me giddy after all he’s been known to show up at awards in a pajama top or in a tablecloth-like sarong. While lately his yellow-lensed glasses aren’t winning my heart, I love a man willing to flaunt a huge hairy chest.

The Schnabel is a genius and no one knows that superior than he does. His ego has also gained a fair bit of attention. Which brings us to Palazzo Chupi, the greatest monument to that ego. The building which is colored “Pompeii Red” but often photographs as pink has caused no end of controversy and speculation in New York’s West Village. Richard Gere and his model wife have purchased in here as has a finance person from Credit Suisse. Rumor has it that both Bono and Madonna had considered but have decided against life at Chupi.

The NY Times has the listing for the $27 million duplex and Curbed has the floorplan for the penthouse triplex. There are details to love here. The homes have a very European feel and the Schnabel is a man with an accomplished eye so you get cast bronze door handles, lovely stone fireplaces and cast stone railings. The sense of space here’s lovely, I’m not sure of the ceiling height but there is just a real expansiveness here. The chandeliers alone talk of a certain type of eccentricity.

There are also things not to love. The kitchen with it’s green tiles is just a wee bit too reminiscent of the types of older kitchens you usually have to destroy to build your dream kitchen. I know New York is a dine out city but still for that much money you want to be able to cook and or entertain in your kitchen. The basement pool, at least as shown in the recent issue of Vanity Fair, scares me, it says more horror motion picture than a place to do your morning laps. You aren’t getting that much space for your cash here either. The $27 million duplex offers 3,850 square feet and the $32 million triplex is 3,845 square feet. Not small but a whole lot of money for the size. What I want to know is how much Schnabel access the price buys you. Do you get to hang out with him and his ethereally beautiful wife and his glamorous children? Does he invite you to dinner parties and let you look at his paintings in progress? Because honestly, that’s the only way these apartments are actually worth the price.

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The Everlands destination club is a relatively new club for those with a passion for the outdoor life. Members have unlimited access to 45 of the most iconic places of natural beauty on Earth, and Everlands promises to conserve these destinations for future generations. The Club has also established a Conservation Foundation that’ll award The Everlands Conservation Prize annually to individuals who demonstrate innovation, creativity and daring in conserving nature. The award is funded by a portion of Membership fees and annual dues.

The first destination to become part of Everlands is the Point on Saranac Lake in New York’s Adirondacks region. This former Rockefeller estate is ranked as one of the top boutique lodges in the world. Other properties that are part of the first acquisition phase include Lone Mountain Ranch in Montana; Lake Rotoroa Lodge in New Zealand; The Inn at Blueberry Hill on Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts; Mangrove Cay Club in the Bahamas; Bristol Bay Lodge in Alaska; and Castle Hot Springs in Arizona. Future acquisitions will include a country estate in Devon, England; a wild partridge habitat in central Spain; an Atlantic salmon property in Iceland; an estancia in Patagonia; and a game reserve in Kenya.

Membership to Everlands is by invitation only. Each Member pays a one-time Membership fee, as well as annual Club dues. Everlands is owned entirely by its Members, who own a pro rata equity interest in the Club Membership Corporation. Everlands Members co-own the land, buildings, and all real property. The Membership fee is $1 million, with early-in opportunities for Founding Membership starting at $475,000 and there are annual dues of $40,000. A 15 percent deposit is required by each Member when they sign up and will be returned with interest if initial Membership goals are not reached. The balance is due when the Club secures 100 Members, at which time the properties will be available to Members only. Until then, Everlands properties will continue to operate as usual and are open to all guests.

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From the Wall Street Journal’s Private Properties:
–In Palm Beach, motion picture producer Sidney Kimmel, the founder and chairman of Jones Apparel, has put his oceanfront mansion up for sale for $81.5 million.
–After almost two years and $3 million in price cuts, Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne have given up trying to sell their Malibu beach house, shown above, (which is currently listed at $10.995 million) and are now renting it for long-term lease at $37,500 a month or for short-term lease in the summer at $85,000 monthly.

From the NY Post’s Gimme Shelter:
–The Milbank Mansion, the lavish townhome otherwise known as the Bob Guccione townhouse has officially gone to contract and Braden Keil’s sources say that the sale number might be under $50 million which is actually not bad for a 27-room, 22,000-square-foot, double-wide vintage home. Of course this makes us wonder what the final price will be for the Sloane townhouse which is currently listed at $64 million.
–News anchor Kaity Tong and her husband, Patrick Callahan, are finally moving back to their duplex penthouse in Chelsea which they left last summer when their home was discovered to have toxic mold. The developer of a condo project next door, Elad, though unsure if it caused the leak, offered to put the couple up at the Gramercy Park Hotel until the problem could be fixed.
–A vacant plot in desirable land in East Hampton is set to hit the market. The approximately 18-acre plot of vacant land bordering Lily Pond Lane and Apaquogue Road across the street from Steven Spielberg’s estate have applied for permits to subdivide the land. One broker says it could be worth $8 million an acre or more.
–The Bridgehampton estate of Lyor Cohen, the chairman and CEO of Warner Music Group, is about to be listed for sale, it’s about to be listed at around $9.5 million.

From the NY Observer’s Manhattan Transfers:
–Private equity boss Frederick Iseman and his ex-wife are dealing with the terms of their break-up, which promised that the ex-Mrs. Iseman would have lifetime use of the co-op. But Iseman has purchased out the missus for $5 million then transferred ownership to trusts run by his family. He’ll also be paying her five yearly sums, adding up to about $10.5 million. The couple is also divvying up the furnishings and fine art including sharing join custody of the den lamp.
–More about the Sloane townhouse, the mansion was previously divided into 11 apartment units and it seems that luring out the tenants before the listing was no easy task.
–Dr. William A. Haseltine, the former chairman and CEO of the Human Genome Science pharmaceutical corporation,has paid $9.7 million for an 86th-floor apartment at the Trump World Tower.
–Dancer George Faison, who left Alvin Ailey’s company in 1969 to start his own troupe and is now the artistic director of the Faison Firehouse Theater in Harlem, has sold his West End townhouse for $5.95 million.

From Berg Properties Large Time Listings:
–Oprah Winfrey has sold a 4,806-square-foot, 39th-floor penthouse in Atlanta’s Buckhead area for $1.8 million.
–Saxophonist Kenny G has paid $2.85 million for a four-bedroom house in Los Angeles’ Studio City area.
–Designer-developer Xorin Balbes has sold a six-bedroom “significantly rehabbed house” in the Bird Streets area of Los Angeles’ Hollywood Hills for $5.725 million.
–A four-bedroom house in Ojai that was recently owned by actor and director Harold Ramis, and that was designed by architect Wallace Neff, is on the market for $6.95 million. The listing indicates it has already gone to contract.
– A 2,867-square-foot home in Bel-Air that once was owned by Farrah Fawcett has sold for $3.608 million.
–’Gilmore Girls’ actress Melissa McCarthy has sold her 1,284-square-foot house in West Hollywood for $1.325 million.
–Dan Aykroyd has put another Los Angeles home on the market. This one is listed at $2.595 million. The listing is here.

From the NY Times Huge Deal:
–Brokers find interesting things sometimes when they show an apartment. Sharon E. Baum of the Corcoran Group walked in on a string quartet rehearsal when showing an apartment at 27 West 67th Street, owned by the estate of Albert Fuller, a harpsichordist. The duplex apartment had been used for decades as a musical salon and performance space, and while it was on the market, it was still being used for rehearsals. The sale of Fuller’s apartment will benefit the Helicon Foundation, which was founded by Mr. Fuller in the 1980s to support the early instrument movement. The apartment is listed at $2.975 million, the listing is here.

From the Real Estalker:
–Mariah Carey has picked up a four-bedroom home on Windermere Island in the Bahamas that was listed at $4.9 million.
–The Real Estalker Mama checks out the Wanamaker-Munn mansion which we mentioned back in December. The $33 million very grand and lovely home is full of beautiful spaces that evoke the spirit of old New York. The listing is here.
–The Real Estalker Mama reveals some floor plans from the monstrously pricey One Hyde Park development in London.
–Louwana, the Palm Beach, Florida home belonging to the late Aimee de Heeren is available for lease at $90,000 per month. It sits on an ocean front parcel that sits next to the estate Donald Trump has on the market for $125 million.
–Artist/director Julian Schnabel has listed two apartments at his Palazzo Chupi building, a $27 million duplex and a $32 million triplex. It is our estate of the day later this day.
–San Diego Padres pitcher Randy Wolf, who recently bought a home belonging to guitarist Slash has listed his Calabasas home for $4.25 million. Rumor has it that he might have already sold the home to another musician Richie Sambora of Bon Jovi.

From the LA Times Hot Property:
–Actress Teri Polo has listed her Manhattan Beach home for $2.559 million. The listing for the contemporary home is here.
–Frank Sinatra Jr. just bought a home in the Beverly Hills Post Office area for $4.1 million.
–A home that once belonged to Deanna Durbin, who in 1939 won “a special Oscar” along with Mickey Rooney “for their significant contributions . . . as juvenile players,” is now on the market at $10.5 million. The home was built in 1938 and has eight bedrooms. The listing is here.
–A West Hollywood home owned by Loretta Young and producer Tom Lewis for nearly 30 years has come on the market for $2.985 million. The listing is here.

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It is fitting on Oscar Sunday to look at a building actually owned by an Oscar nominee, director Julian Schnabel. Schnabel directed the heartbreakingly beautiful movie “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.” This was Schnabel’s third movie (he also directed Basquiat and Before Night Falls).

I’m a bit biased about the case of Julian Schnabel. I’ve had a large crush on him since first seeing his broken plate art in the 1980s. Since then as his ample frame has grown, so too has my affection. The prospect of seeing what he’ll wear to the Oscars makes me giddy after all he’s been known to show up at awards in a pajama top or in a tablecloth-like sarong. While lately his yellow-lensed glasses aren’t winning my heart, I love a man willing to flaunt a huge hairy chest.

The Schnabel is a genius and no one knows that better than he does. His ego has also gained a fair bit of attention. Which brings us to Palazzo Chupi, the greatest monument to that ego. The building which is colored “Pompeii Red” but often photographs as pink has caused no end of controversy and speculation in New York’s West Village. Richard Gere and his model wife have bought in here as has a finance person from Credit Suisse. Rumor has it that both Bono and Madonna had considered but have decided against life at Chupi.

The NY Times has the listing for the $27 million duplex and Curbed has the floorplan for the penthouse triplex. There are details to love here. The homes have a very European feel and the Schnabel is a man with an accomplished eye so you get cast bronze door handles, lovely stone fireplaces and cast stone railings. The sense of space here’s lovely, I’m not sure of the ceiling height but there is just a real expansiveness here. The chandeliers alone speak of a certain type of eccentricity.

There are also things not to love. The kitchen with it’s green tiles is just a wee bit too reminiscent of the types of older kitchens you usually have to destroy to build your dream kitchen. I know New York is a dine out city but still for that much money you want to be able to cook and or entertain in your kitchen. The basement pool, at least as shown in the current issue of Vanity Fair, scares me, it says more horror motion picture than a place to do your morning laps. You aren’t getting that much space for your cash here either. The $27 million duplex offers 3,850 square feet and the $32 million triplex is 3,845 square feet. Not small but a whole lot of money for the size. What I want to know is how much Schnabel access the price purchases you. Do you get to hang out with him and his ethereally beautiful wife and his glamorous children? Does he invite you to dinner parties and let you look at his paintings in progress? Because honestly, that’s the only way these apartments are actually worth the price.

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My mom, who moved to Florida last year from Massachusetts, states that in Florida everyone’s home looks like a furniture store. That’s definitely true of today’s estate, an extravagant 12,000 square-foot home located on 7.8 acres in Ocala, Florida. The home has six bedrooms total including a large master suite. The home includes a chef’s kitchen that leads to a family room with a beverage center, wine cellar, computer station and walk-in pantry. Outdoor areas include a pool, a lanai with a double-sided fireplace, tennis court and an outdoor kitchen. The upstairs left wing is an entire floor dedicated to amusing with a game room, card room, billiards/family room, media room, exercise room, 1.5 baths and beverage center built from an air balloon basket. The upstairs right wing has three bedrooms and can serve as guest quarters or the children’s wing. The manor office has 30 foot ceilings, double-sided fireplace, a built-in library with special ceiling treatment and opens to covered lanai. The main guest suite is secluded and private on the first floor. No pictures of the bedrooms or baths on this one but I suspect they are just more of the beige same. This home is listed at $5 million.

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From the Wall Street Journal’s Private Properties:
–In Palm Beach, motion picture producer Sidney Kimmel, the founder and chairman of Jones Apparel, has put his oceanfront mansion up for sale for $81.5 million.
–After nearly two years and $3 million in price cuts, Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne have given up trying to sell their Malibu beach house, shown above, (which is currently listed at $10.995 million) and are now renting it for long-term lease at $37,500 a month or for short-term lease in the summer at $85,000 monthly.

From the NY Post’s Gimme Shelter:
–The Milbank Mansion, the lavish townhome otherwise known as the Bob Guccione townhouse has officially gone to contract and Braden Keil’s sources say that the sale number may be under $50 million which is actually not bad for a 27-room, 22,000-square-foot, double-wide vintage home. Of course this makes us wonder what the final price will be for the Sloane townhouse which is currently listed at $64 million.
–News anchor Kaity Tong and her husband, Patrick Callahan, are finally moving back to their duplex penthouse in Chelsea which they left last summer when their home was discovered to have toxic mold. The developer of a condo project next door, Elad, though unsure if it caused the leak, offered to put the couple up at the Gramercy Park Hotel until the problem could be fixed.
–A vacant plot in desirable land in East Hampton is set to hit the market. The approximately 18-acre plot of vacant land bordering Lily Pond Lane and Apaquogue Road across the street from Steven Spielberg’s estate have applied for permits to subdivide the land. One broker says it could be worth $8 million an acre or more.
–The Bridgehampton estate of Lyor Cohen, the chairman and CEO of Warner Music Group, is about to be listed for sale, it’s about to be listed at around $9.5 million.

From the NY Observer’s Manhattan Transfers:
–Private equity boss Frederick Iseman and his ex-wife are dealing with the terms of their break-up, which promised that the ex-Mrs. Iseman would have lifetime use of the co-op. But Iseman has purchased out the missus for $5 million then transferred ownership to trusts run by his family. He’ll also be paying her five yearly sums, adding up to about $10.5 million. The couple is also divvying up the furnishings and fine art including sharing join custody of the den lamp.
–More about the Sloane townhouse, the mansion was previously divided into 11 apartment units and it seems that luring out the tenants before the listing was no easy task.
–Dr. William A. Haseltine, the former chairman and CEO of the Human Genome Science pharmaceutical corporation,has paid $9.7 million for an 86th-floor apartment at the Trump World Tower.
–Dancer George Faison, who left Alvin Ailey’s company in 1969 to start his own troupe and is now the artistic director of the Faison Firehouse Theater in Harlem, has sold his West End townhouse for $5.95 million.

From Berg Properties Massive Time Listings:
–Oprah Winfrey has sold a 4,806-square-foot, 39th-floor penthouse in Atlanta’s Buckhead area for $1.8 million.
–Saxophonist Kenny G has paid $2.85 million for a four-bedroom home in Los Angeles’ Studio City area.
–Designer-developer Xorin Balbes has sold a six-bedroom “significantly rehabbed house” in the Bird Streets area of Los Angeles’ Hollywood Hills for $5.725 million.
–A four-bedroom house in Ojai that was recently owned by actor and director Harold Ramis, and that was designed by architect Wallace Neff, is on the market for $6.95 million. The listing indicates it has already gone to contract.
– A 2,867-square-foot house in Bel-Air that once was owned by Farrah Fawcett has sold for $3.608 million.
–’Gilmore Girls’ actress Melissa McCarthy has sold her 1,284-square-foot house in West Hollywood for $1.325 million.
–Dan Aykroyd has put another Los Angeles home on the market. This one is listed at $2.595 million. The listing is here.

From the NY Times Massive Deal:
–Brokers find interesting things sometimes when they show an apartment. Sharon E. Baum of the Corcoran Group walked in on a string quartet rehearsal when showing an apartment at 27 West 67th Street, owned by the estate of Albert Fuller, a harpsichordist. The duplex apartment had been used for decades as a musical salon and performance space, and while it was on the market, it was still being used for rehearsals. The sale of Fuller’s apartment will benefit the Helicon Foundation, which was founded by Mr. Fuller in the 1980s to support the early instrument movement. The apartment is listed at $2.975 million, the listing is here.

From the Real Estalker:
–Mariah Carey has picked up a four-bedroom home on Windermere Island in the Bahamas that was listed at $4.9 million.
–The Real Estalker Mama checks out the Wanamaker-Munn mansion which we mentioned back in December. The $33 million very grand and lovely home is full of beautiful spaces that evoke the spirit of old New York. The listing is here.
–The Real Estalker Mama reveals some floor plans from the monstrously costly One Hyde Park development in London.
–Louwana, the Palm Beach, Florida home belonging to the late Aimee de Heeren is available for lease at $90,000 per month. It sits on an ocean front parcel that sits next to the estate Donald Trump has on the market for $125 million.
–Artist/director Julian Schnabel has listed two apartments at his Palazzo Chupi building, a $27 million duplex and a $32 million triplex. It is our estate of the day later today.
–San Diego Padres pitcher Randy Wolf, who recently bought a house belonging to guitarist Slash has listed his Calabasas home for $4.25 million. Rumor has it that he may have already sold the home to another musician Richie Sambora of Bon Jovi.

From the LA Times Hot Property:
–Actress Teri Polo has listed her Manhattan Beach home for $2.559 million. The listing for the contemporary home is here.
–Frank Sinatra Jr. just bought a home in the Beverly Hills Post Office area for $4.1 million.
–A home that once belonged to Deanna Durbin, who in 1939 won “a special Oscar” along with Mickey Rooney “for their significant contributions . . . as juvenile players,” is now on the market at $10.5 million. The home was built in 1938 and has eight bedrooms. The listing is here.
–A West Hollywood home owned by Loretta Young and producer Tom Lewis for almost 30 years has come on the market for $2.985 million. The listing is here.

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Out on the flats of the prairie in Johnston, Iowa, sits this surprising home, a French-styled chateau plunked down into the heart of the midwest. This ten-year-old home presents an elegant exterior with it’s tree-lined driveway but inside it’s a bit quirky. You’ve got a sort of country kitchen, a dark wood study packed to the brim with fish and game trophies and antiques everywhere. The first floor public rooms have columns and some charming plaster details but then you’ve got my personal pet peeve, those round lights inset into the ceilings in the bedrooms which rather destroy the classic effect. The home is 8264 square feet and there are five bedrooms. The exterior includes a private pond and a swimming pool on 4.66 acres. It’s a lot of home for not that much money, it’s listed at $1.495 million.

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