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From the NY Post’s Gimme Shelter:
–Former speak show host Dick Cavett is selling 77 acres of oceanfront property in Montauk for $30 million. Cavett has owned the property for about 30 years.
–A full-floor co-op residence at 2 E. 67th St. has it the market for $34.9 million. The eight-bedroom unit in the Rosario Candela-designed building belongs to Greek shipping billionaire Michael Lemos. The listing is here.
–The former Bluhdorn estate in Bedford, NY first hit the market for $42 million a couple years ago. Now the property which has been trimmed to 25 acres and includes a 10-bedroom mansion is listed at $20 million. Check out the listing here.
–Movie producer Bob Weinstein, the older brother and partner of Harvey Weinstein has paid $1.05 million for a street-level co-op on West 67th Street between Central Park West and Broadway which he purchased as a personal investment.

From Berg Properties Huge Time Listings:
–via the NY Post, you can be a Clinton neighbor in Chappaqua for $1.7 million. Be warned though, the home’s history has put off some buyers The home was recently rented by Carlos Perez-Olivo who rented the home with his wife, Peggy. He’s now accused of having murdered Peggy in order to be with his mistress. The listing is here.
—-A five-bedroom house in Beverly Hills, Calif. where Dean Martin lived during the 1980s has been listed for $5.495 million. The listing is here.
–Actress Teri Garr has listed her home in Brentwood for $3.995 million. The listing for the cottage-style home is here.
–Actress Dedee Pfeiffer has sold her ranch-style home in Brentwood for $1.15 million.
–via the Miami Herald, a waterfront residence on La Gorce Island in Miami Beach that was once home to Cher and rented to Janet Jackson and Julio Iglesias is back on the market. It’s our estate of the day later this day.
–Jerry Seinfeld’s former Los Angeles home has hit the market for $7.9 million. The listing is here.
–Sharon Stone has dropped the price again on a Beverly Hills home she’s been trying to sell off and on since 2006. The home which was once listed at $12.5 million is now listed at an even $10 million. The listing is here.

From the Real Estalker:
–Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman have listed a two-bedroom condo unit in Encino for $750,000. The listing is here.
–Frankie Muniz has relisted his Hollywood Hills home for $3.695 million. It was our estate of the day back in December.
–The price on Kathleen Turner’s Amagansett, N.Y. home has been reduced to $5.9 million, down from $6.995 million. The listing is here.

From the LA Times Hot Property:
–Turns out that the home that I profiled as the most high-priced in zip code 90210 belongs to producer Mike Medavoy.
—-Aaron Kamin of the band The Calling has put a three-bedroom home in Studio City on the market for $1,199,999. The listing is here.
–Terence Michael, the executive producer of Showtime’s “I Can’t Believe I’m Still Single” show, is selling his bungalow in Playa del Rey for $981,000. The listing is here.
–Erik Nelson, a producer of more than 75 TV specials and series, is selling his Los Feliz home and relocating to Vancouver, Canada, where most of his TV production is. His home on Observatory Drive, shown above, once belonged to Cecil B. DeMille. Check out the virtual tour here.
About a year ago I profiled Belle Epoque, the Montecito mansion of Norm Waitt Jr., co-founder of Gateway PCs, as an estate of the day. He’s been trying to sell the home for a while now, dropping the price all the way to $19.7 million with no results. Now he’s auctioning it off through Sheldon Good & Co. via sealed bid. All sealed bids must be submitted by 3 p.m. on June 25 and Waitt has the right to accept, reject or negotiate with any and all bidders.

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Filed under: Estates, Garden, Books

The lush oases pictured in Luxury Private Gardens, the newest title in teNeues’ brilliant Luxury Books series, veer between the pleasantly inspirational and oppressively beautiful. In other words, while looking at it made us want to rush outside and begin planting things, it also made us despair of ever creating anything one tenth as attractive as the private paradises portrayed between its covers. Much superior, we feel, to simply sit back, mix a drink, read the damned book and let someone else do the digging, pruning, weeding and whatnot. But we digress.

Even the most lavish gardens in these pages displaying “the highest standards of horticultural excellence” are founded on simplicity, the book assures us: “Stripped down to their bare essentials, they are like a well-cut couturier’s gown - nothing but an utterly simple response to the unadorned landscape or the naked human body they are designed to fit.” The astounding Villa d’Este in Lake Como, Italy (where part of Casino Royale was filmed) pictured on the cover, with its elegant, elaborate parterres doesn’t exactly scream simplicity to us, but we could stare at it all day. See the gallery for a luxe garden tour.

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My husband is turning 62 this fall. (Bill Clinton turns 62 in August, by the way.)

And it looks like the flood of Baby Boomers signing up for Social Security has begun, with 10,000 a day turning 62 this year. And the Social Security Administration is understaffed, so be prepared to stand in line or go online.

My husband and I’ve been speaking about whether he should sign up for Social Security now, or wait. The earnings limit is what’s stopping us. If he makes more than $36,000, his Social Security gets cut.

Many of us have tried to figure out whether the lower amount you get at 62 is better than waiting until “full retirement age” for the “full” benefit.

Any thoughts on this? Has anyone out there done the calculation?

And who is betting that Bill Clinton will be standing in line to collect his Social Security check?

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