type='html'>Thanks to a covert communique from Our Fairy Godmother in Beverly Hills Your Mama has learned that the deal is done done done for Ohana, the Beverly Hills, CA mansion sit-com star and rom-com queen Jennifer Aniston heaved on the market in March 2011 with a hefty asking price of $42,000,000. That's right, kids, Miz Aniston sold her luxury real estate puppy in just over three months time.
According to a document provided by Our Fairy Godmother in Beverly Hills, the transfer was recorded on the 24th of June for an as-yet undisclosed amount of money. The spendy buyer's identity, not surprisingly, is shielded by a corporate trust. More on that later.
Despite Miz Aniston's optimistic-seeming asking price, qualified buyers flocked to the property and–we heard through the Platinum Triangle real estate gossip grapevine–at least two offers in excess of $30,000,000 quickly surfaced. Intel we received from friends and sources led us to speculate that the buyer might be Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich or maybe even Russian banking and fertilizer multi-billionaire Andrey Melnichenko.
We also heard whispers from the real estate peanut gallery that the buyer was not a Russian at all but rather a New York-based financier. At one point we heard something so odd and outlandish that we never mentioned it in any of our many previous discussions on the topic; We heard from a woman we'll call Stacy Outinleftfield who told us the buyer was a money man from Orange County (CA).
Well, dontcha know that according to the aforementioned document provided to Your Mama by Our Fair Godmother in Beverly Hills, Miz Aniston's estate was purchased by an entity that calls itself the Banana Trust that links back to the offices of a Goldman Sachs subsidiary in–tah-duh!–Irvine, CA.
We quickly put out a few feelers with some of our most well-informed informants. Within minutes of sending an email we heard back from a plugged-in real estate insider we know–let's call her Chatty Cathy–who floated the name of–are y'all ready for this?–a billionaire mutual fund manager from Orange County named Bill Gross.
After a scoot and scout around the interweb and a some drilling down into scads of public property records we found at least one other property in Orange County owned by Mister Gross and his wife–a gal named Sue–that links back to the same Irvine office as the Banana Trust. Coinky-dink? No. We consulted our all but omniscient informant Lucy Spillerguts who was able to confirm with absolute certainty that the buyers are Mister and Missus Gross.
Mister Gross, co-founder of Pacific Investment Management Company (PIMCO), manages the Pimco Total Return Fund that maintains assets of nearly a quarter trillion dollars. No, babies, that is not a slip of our nubby fingers; Mister Gross's monster mutual fund actually holds assets of more than $240 billion. In 2008 Mister Gross's Pimco Total Return Fund profited an astonishing $1.7 billion dollars from the near-collapse of home loan juggernauts Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac. Forbes recently estimated that Mister Gross has a personal net worth just above two billion bucks.
A spin through Orange County property records reveals Mister and Missus Gross own several very posh pads in the OC that include (but are not limited to): An ocean front house in a gated enclave in Laguna Beach they've owned since at least 1989; Another, nearby house in Laguna Beach bought in December 2008 for $4,500,000; A cliff side house in Corona del Mar with panoramic ocean vistas he and the Missus snatched up for $8,100,000 in August 2006; A Newport Beach records show was purchased for an undisclosed sum in June 2007; And a perfectly ordinary tract house in an inland gated development in San Clemente they picked up in late 2006 for $1,040,000.
Records show Mister and Missus Gross also own an 11,316 square foot mansion that backs up to the golf course of the Vintage Club in Indian Wells, CA, a condo in Park City, UT and a condo in Cupertino, CA. They also, as per prop records, lay claim to a spectacular 7,091 square foot house on 17 Mile Drive in Pebble Beach, CA that backs up to one of the famous fairways of what is arguably the most famous golf course in all of the world.
Although their property portfolio bulges with extraordinary properties, Mister and Missus Gross's real estate story didn't get really interesting until July 2009 when they spent a reported $23,000,000 to acquire an 11,000-plus square foot mansion on the gated Harbor Island enclave in Newport Beach, CA. The couple proceeded to demolish the 9 bedroom and 12 bathroom house but seem to have had a real estate change of heart and just this month flipped the now bare parcel back on the market with an asking price of $26,500,000.
Did Mister and Missus Gross catch a classic case of The Real Estate Fickle with the Newport Beach property? Did they decide they didn't want to deal with the hassle and time involved with building a mansion from the ground up? Or did they decide on entirely different digs, say, a newly renovated move-in ready celebrity-owned mansion in Beverly Hills?
Your Mama contacted Mister Gross's office for comment, confirmation or denial in regards to the purchase of Miz Aniston's Ohana, but have not yet received a response.
As for Miz Aniston, well, beehwatcha made out like a bandit. She paid $13,500,000 for the 9,000-plus square foot gated residence in Bev Hills, originally designed by architect Hal Leavitt, on November of 2006. Rumor and report has it she sold for somewhere around $37,000,000 although at one point we we're leaked the number $35,500,000. Of course her profit decreases dramatically when the massive renovation costs and fat real estate fees are considered, but Your Mama would not be the least bit surprised if Miz Aniston walked with ten million big ones.
Last month Miz Aniston purchased a pair of small apartments in New York City that she plans to combine into a small-ish but stylish duplex penthouse. The upper level–formerly the wee penthouse pad of hair honcho Sally Hershberger–spills out to a wrap terrace with seven million dollar views west to the glittering Hudson River and north to the twinkling Midtown skyline that includes the Empire State Building and–even better–the Chrysler Building. We hear she has a third unit, adjacent to the lower of the two she just bought, in contract as well but we don't have any proof of that, hunties.
Your Mama does, however, have it on quite good authority–two good authorities, actually–that Miz Aniston plans to maintain real estate roots in Los Angeles and has peeped a number of properties in the Sunset Plaza and Beverly Hills areas. Miz Aniston plans, it seems, to live a bicoastal life, the ultimate geographic real estate dream of almost everyone Your Mama knows.
Lucky lady.
Friday Mish-Mash: Sean Combs Lists Jersey Mansion
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Music and entertainment mogul Sean Combs–or P. Fiddle or Daddy Diddle or Puffy Poppa or whatever damn name he calls himself nowdays–heaved his big ol' mansion in supah-swank Alpine, NJ on the market with an asking price of $13,500,000.
Mister Daddy Puff purchased the 3.25 acre estate in the celebrity friendly 'hood in July 2004 for, according to prop records, $6,000,000. Listing information for the approximately 17,000 square foot red brick center hall Colonial shows it contains 26 rooms total with 7 bedrooms and 9.5 bathrooms.
Celebrity-style amenities include a swimming pool with waterfall, spa, tennis court, fitness room, movie theater, garaging for at least 6 cars, and an indoor squash court.
New Jersey gets a bad rap–can you say Real Housewives of New Jersey and Jersey Shore?–but the tiny enclave of Alpine consistently ranks among the top most expensive zip codes in the country. Some of the other past and present residents of Alpine include The Jonas Brothers, comedians Eddie Murphy and Chris Rock, and lady rapper/plastic surgery aficionado 'Lil Kim.
aerial photo: Bing
Music and entertainment mogul Sean Combs–or P. Fiddle or Daddy Diddle or Puffy Poppa or whatever damn name he calls himself nowdays–heaved his big ol' mansion in supah-swank Alpine, NJ on the market with an asking price of $13,500,000.Mister Daddy Puff purchased the 3.25 acre estate in the celebrity friendly 'hood in July 2004 for, according to prop records, $6,000,000. Listing information for the approximately 17,000 square foot red brick center hall Colonial shows it contains 26 rooms total with 7 bedrooms and 9.5 bathrooms.
Celebrity-style amenities include a swimming pool with waterfall, spa, tennis court, fitness room, movie theater, garaging for at least 6 cars, and an indoor squash court.
New Jersey gets a bad rap–can you say Real Housewives of New Jersey and Jersey Shore?–but the tiny enclave of Alpine consistently ranks among the top most expensive zip codes in the country. Some of the other past and present residents of Alpine include The Jonas Brothers, comedians Eddie Murphy and Chris Rock, and lady rapper/plastic surgery aficionado 'Lil Kim.
aerial photo: Bing
Friday Mish-Mash: Are the Seinfelds Moving on Over to the East Side?
type='html'>Few modern day celebs are more identified with New York City's Upper West Side than comedian Jerry Seinfeld. On his long-running, financially fruitful and eponymous 1990s sit-com Seinfeld, his "character" Jerry Seinfeld lived in a fairly ordinary one-bedroom apartment on the Upper West Side.
In real life, Mister Seinfeld also lives in on the Upper West Side, albeit in a far larger apartment in one of the neighborhood's most desirable and delicious apartment buildings. Mister Seinfeld, his wife Jessica and their three youngins currently occupy a high-floor duplex apartment at the hulking, tri-towered Beresford building on the corner of Central Park West and West 81st Street. The Seinfeld's pad formerly belonged to virtuoso violinist Isaac Stern. He also owns a townhouse-type property around the corner from his apartment where he houses (part of) his fleet of Porsches.
Other high-profile residents residents of the mighty Beresford include editrix extraordinaire Helen Gurley Brown who lives in a fab 4-floor penthouse in one of the towers, the dee-voon Diana Ross, mustachioed investigative journalist John Stossel and volatile tennis champ John McEnroe who also lives in a 4-floor tower penthouse. Sublime actress Glenn Close sold her two-terrace pad at the Beresford in August 2010 for $10,200,000.
The Seinfelds–despite their Upper West Side quintessence–appear to have come down with the Itchy Real Estate Foot Syndrome that has created a need for them to peep large and lavish townhomes on the–scandal!–Upper East Side. That's right, kids, it looks like the Seinfelds just might want to jump ship move on over to the Upper East Side.
The comedian and the cook book writer reportedly had a look see at music industry titan Lyor Cohen's spectacular townhouse on East 94th Street, listed last year for $28,000,000 and now priced at $26,000,000.
Listing information states the 25-foot wide house (floor plan above) has a fully restored Cass Gilbert-designed limestone façade, private single-car garage with direct entry, 6 fireplaces and an elevator that services all six floors plus the basement.
There are, by our count, 5 bedroom suites each with private facilities plus a sixth suite–labeled as 'gym' on the floor plan–with private bath and sauna. Three additional powder poopers are conveniently located throughout the lower levels; one off the circular gallery on the ground floor, another off the stair landing on the parlor level and a final one hidden in a bank of closets in the third floor family room.
We'd like to take special note of the ground level eat-in kitchen that opens to a rear garden and includes a walk-in pantry. A dumb waiter opposite the pantry lifts din-din to a butler's pantry one floor above that adjoins the oval formal dining room. That, children, is how it's done right proper by a smart architect.
The sixth floor, given over entirely to the master suite, is generously scaled but features a layout that will surely offend some folks' fine sensibilities and sense of decorum. A semi-public hall–the stair and elevator landing–links the various areas. At one end a door opens into a hall flanked by a pair of large walk-in closets leads to a large bedroom with fireplace. At the other end a small study with built-in cabinetry opens to a private terrace perfect for a pre-coital doobie or a post-coital cigarette. In between the two rooms the bathroom is split into two parts: On one side of the hall a pooper and sink and other the other a long counter with two sinks and a party-sized walk-in shower space. That means, puppies, a pre-shower pee requires a naked dart across the hall to the terlit and another naked dart back to the shower. Not everyone who can afford a 20-plus million dollar townhouse will care to dart around their bedroom like that.
The New York property gossips also snitched this week that the couple toured a six-floor townhouse with elegant limestone façade on East 73rd Street currently listed with a $23,000,000 price tag. The fully renovated five bedroom and 5 full and 2 half bathroom house (floor plan above) has 5 fireplaces, elevator, a full-height basement level outfitted with laundry room and gym, a small garden off the ground floor kitchen for barbecues, a terrace off a fifth floor bedroom and a planted roof terrace. The house is equipped with state-of-the art everything including a water purification system and central stereo system.
We know which one we'd choose. What about the children? Which one make a better house for Mister Seinfeld's family of five?
When not in New York City, the Seinfelds own a 12-acre ocean front estate on fancy-pants Further Lane in East Hampton, NY that he bought from Billy Joel in 2000 for about $32,000,000. The Seinfeld estate includes a sprawling shingled mansion with broad ocean-side terraces, a lap-length swimming pool with adjacent cabana, a private path the water's edge, a football field-sized front lawn and, instead of a de rigueur tennis court, the Seinfelds famously installed a baseball diamond at the front of the property near the entrance gates. A detached residence near the baseball diamond–presumably for staff and/or guests–has it's own swimming pool.
floor plans: Sotheby's International Realty
In real life, Mister Seinfeld also lives in on the Upper West Side, albeit in a far larger apartment in one of the neighborhood's most desirable and delicious apartment buildings. Mister Seinfeld, his wife Jessica and their three youngins currently occupy a high-floor duplex apartment at the hulking, tri-towered Beresford building on the corner of Central Park West and West 81st Street. The Seinfeld's pad formerly belonged to virtuoso violinist Isaac Stern. He also owns a townhouse-type property around the corner from his apartment where he houses (part of) his fleet of Porsches.
Other high-profile residents residents of the mighty Beresford include editrix extraordinaire Helen Gurley Brown who lives in a fab 4-floor penthouse in one of the towers, the dee-voon Diana Ross, mustachioed investigative journalist John Stossel and volatile tennis champ John McEnroe who also lives in a 4-floor tower penthouse. Sublime actress Glenn Close sold her two-terrace pad at the Beresford in August 2010 for $10,200,000.
The Seinfelds–despite their Upper West Side quintessence–appear to have come down with the Itchy Real Estate Foot Syndrome that has created a need for them to peep large and lavish townhomes on the–scandal!–Upper East Side. That's right, kids, it looks like the Seinfelds just might want to jump ship move on over to the Upper East Side.
The comedian and the cook book writer reportedly had a look see at music industry titan Lyor Cohen's spectacular townhouse on East 94th Street, listed last year for $28,000,000 and now priced at $26,000,000.Listing information states the 25-foot wide house (floor plan above) has a fully restored Cass Gilbert-designed limestone façade, private single-car garage with direct entry, 6 fireplaces and an elevator that services all six floors plus the basement.
There are, by our count, 5 bedroom suites each with private facilities plus a sixth suite–labeled as 'gym' on the floor plan–with private bath and sauna. Three additional powder poopers are conveniently located throughout the lower levels; one off the circular gallery on the ground floor, another off the stair landing on the parlor level and a final one hidden in a bank of closets in the third floor family room.
We'd like to take special note of the ground level eat-in kitchen that opens to a rear garden and includes a walk-in pantry. A dumb waiter opposite the pantry lifts din-din to a butler's pantry one floor above that adjoins the oval formal dining room. That, children, is how it's done right proper by a smart architect.
The sixth floor, given over entirely to the master suite, is generously scaled but features a layout that will surely offend some folks' fine sensibilities and sense of decorum. A semi-public hall–the stair and elevator landing–links the various areas. At one end a door opens into a hall flanked by a pair of large walk-in closets leads to a large bedroom with fireplace. At the other end a small study with built-in cabinetry opens to a private terrace perfect for a pre-coital doobie or a post-coital cigarette. In between the two rooms the bathroom is split into two parts: On one side of the hall a pooper and sink and other the other a long counter with two sinks and a party-sized walk-in shower space. That means, puppies, a pre-shower pee requires a naked dart across the hall to the terlit and another naked dart back to the shower. Not everyone who can afford a 20-plus million dollar townhouse will care to dart around their bedroom like that.
The New York property gossips also snitched this week that the couple toured a six-floor townhouse with elegant limestone façade on East 73rd Street currently listed with a $23,000,000 price tag. The fully renovated five bedroom and 5 full and 2 half bathroom house (floor plan above) has 5 fireplaces, elevator, a full-height basement level outfitted with laundry room and gym, a small garden off the ground floor kitchen for barbecues, a terrace off a fifth floor bedroom and a planted roof terrace. The house is equipped with state-of-the art everything including a water purification system and central stereo system.We know which one we'd choose. What about the children? Which one make a better house for Mister Seinfeld's family of five?
When not in New York City, the Seinfelds own a 12-acre ocean front estate on fancy-pants Further Lane in East Hampton, NY that he bought from Billy Joel in 2000 for about $32,000,000. The Seinfeld estate includes a sprawling shingled mansion with broad ocean-side terraces, a lap-length swimming pool with adjacent cabana, a private path the water's edge, a football field-sized front lawn and, instead of a de rigueur tennis court, the Seinfelds famously installed a baseball diamond at the front of the property near the entrance gates. A detached residence near the baseball diamond–presumably for staff and/or guests–has it's own swimming pool.
floor plans: Sotheby's International Realty
Happy Fireworks Day!
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Your Mama, at the beach in the bosom of family and friends, plans to drink gin and tonics from noon until midnight, eat a pile of strawberries and too much cake, and fit our long-bodied bitches Linda and Beverly with ear plugs so the booming fireworks don't cause them to have a damn heart attack.
That means we will not discuss celebrity real estate today. Sorry puppies.
Be sure to sign up for Real Estalker updates on the Twitter (@YourMamaTweets) and/or Facebook.
image: Christmas Stock Images
Your Mama, at the beach in the bosom of family and friends, plans to drink gin and tonics from noon until midnight, eat a pile of strawberries and too much cake, and fit our long-bodied bitches Linda and Beverly with ear plugs so the booming fireworks don't cause them to have a damn heart attack.That means we will not discuss celebrity real estate today. Sorry puppies.
Be sure to sign up for Real Estalker updates on the Twitter (@YourMamaTweets) and/or Facebook.
image: Christmas Stock Images
An NYC Photographer and a Fashion Executive List Upstate Hideway
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SELLERS: Diego and April Uchitel
LOCATION: Hurley, NY
PRICE: $2,995,000
SIZE: 4 bedrooms, 3.5 bathrooms
YOUR MAMAS NOTES: Listen, chitlins, the sun is shining, our belly is full of cheap champagne and ebelskivers and we want–nay, need–another lazy afternoon at the beach. Howevuh, have no fear, rather than leave y'all high and dry, we offer up a little real estate pretty quickie in the form of a fully rehabbed 18th-century stone-built house in rural Upstate New York that oozes with historic charm and urbane sophistication.
The house in question, located in the barely there community of Hurley near the tiny town of Stone Ridge (NY), was originally built by one of the Dutch farmers who settled the area in pre-revolutionary America. In the 1920s through the 1950s scenic valley became known as the Borscht Belt because of the high number of summer vacation camps that catered (mostly) to New York City Jews. About two hours north of New York City, Stone Ridge nowadays might better known amongst urbanites and non-Jews for its stunning, sturdy and well-preserved 18th-century stone-built houses and the crush of showbiz types–many of whom have won or been nominated for an Academy Award or two–who own pretty properties in the vicinity.
Some past and present property owners in and around Stone Ridge who have recognizable names include Oscar-nominated Willem Dafoe (High Falls), Oscar-nominated actress Uma Thurman (Stone Ridge), John Leguizamo (Rosendale), David Bowie and Iman (Shokan), Oscar-nominated Vera Farmiga (Mettachonts), Oscar-winner Melissa Leo (Stone Ridge), and Oscar-winner Frances McDormand and her Oscar-winning director husband Joel Cohen (Esopus). Pint-sized moguls Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen rented a house in Accord last year and we hear through the Stone Ridge real estate gossip grapevine that since dumping her Oscar-nominated filmmaker husband Darren Aronofsky in late 2010, Oscar-winner Rachel Weisz has been spending a considerable amount of time at her Marbletown country house with her hunky new hunny-hubby Daniel Craig.
Anyhoo, last week we heard from an informant we'll call Ima B. Anupstatemary, who pointed Your Mama's real estate snoot in the direction of the Captain Newkirk Estate, a 73.5 acre spread on a country lane with a recently redone stone-built residence that dates to the around 1720. The owners, Argentinian-born fashion and celebrity photographer Diego Uchitel and his fashion executive wife April, recently listed the property with an asking price of $2,995,000.
Mister Uchitel takes photographs for a living and frequently snaps images of famous f0lks, including Julianne Moore, Charlize Theron, Bette Midler, David Bowie, and Ahn Duong. Stylish ginger-haired April Uchitel toils as the Executive Vice President of Global Strategy for Diane von Furstenberg.
Property records show Mister and Missus Uchitel purchased the property in August 2007 for $1,650,000. Listing information reveals that the arty-farty and aesthetically-oriented couple spent three years on an extensive renovation and restoration of the property that they subsequently had photographed for the May 2010 issue of Elle Decor.
Listing information shows the almost 300-year old colonial crib measures a very contemporary 4,598 square feet and includes 4 bedrooms, 3.5 bathrooms and 6 fireplaces.
An opening in a split-rail fence marks the entrance to the long driveway that runs besides a babbling brook that cuts through a broad meadow. The driveway swings left at a pair of postcard-perfect antique barns and climbs gently to a parking pad set well away from the house. From there a blue stone pathway meanders across the flat front lawn the runs right up to the home's foundation. The notable lack of landscaping around the house might look bare to some, but we rather love it as it perfectly and dramatically sets the orderly but organic exterior of the house in stark relief against the cleanly-clipped grass and the rugged shade trees that ring the house.
Mister and Missus Uchitel–no relation to Tiger Woods number one extra-marital squeeze Rachel as far as we know–respected the home's original character as evidenced by the wide-plank French white oak wood floors, 12 over 12 sash windows, rough-hewn wood beam ceilings and the chair rails and moldings in the entry and stair hall painted an inspired and rich shade of steel grey. Added modern comforts and luxuries–the kinds of things considered necessities by those with deep pockets–include all-new systems and services including central air, a 4-zone heating system and radiant heated floors in the bathrooms. Having spent a couple winters in Upstate New York–including the turn of the millennium in a tee-pee in the mountains above the Ashokan Reservoir–Your Mama knows well how perfectly wonderful radiant heated floors must be in Upstate New York come the deep freeze of February.
Inside living areas include a front parlor with a pair of well-worn roll-armed club chairs, a generous double-wide living room/family room, dining room with chunky antique trestle table, and swank but cozy center-island kitchen dressed in marble counter tops and white cabinetry with glass fronted uppers. A pair of swoon-worthy industrial-looking antique copper pendant lights hang over the over-scaled work island/snack bar. Your Mama notes with glee that Mister and Missus Uchitel smartly refrained from hanging a Kia-sized pot rack over the island, a decorative temptation that too many are unable to control.
The covered front porch and the screened porch with vaulted ceiling both link the house to the multi-level blue stone entertainment and dining terrace. The lush but austere landscaping that surrounds the house gives way to thick woods criss-crossed by hiking trails that wind around to a natural waterfall that tumbles down to the brook–a kill in local parlance–that meanders through the woods and across the meadow at the front of the estate.
Although the local swimming holes are sweet and nearby Lake Minnewaska is utterly spectacular, the property needs, for our taste and three million clams, a swimming pool for those swampy summer days when you don't feel like jumping in the Jeep and taking a winding drive just to take a dip in some cool water. Nothing fancy, just a rectangle sunk into a wide swathe of grass with a simple blue stone coping would do the trick here.
listing photos: Westwood Metes & Bounds
SELLERS: Diego and April UchitelLOCATION: Hurley, NY
PRICE: $2,995,000
SIZE: 4 bedrooms, 3.5 bathrooms
YOUR MAMAS NOTES: Listen, chitlins, the sun is shining, our belly is full of cheap champagne and ebelskivers and we want–nay, need–another lazy afternoon at the beach. Howevuh, have no fear, rather than leave y'all high and dry, we offer up a little real estate pretty quickie in the form of a fully rehabbed 18th-century stone-built house in rural Upstate New York that oozes with historic charm and urbane sophistication.
The house in question, located in the barely there community of Hurley near the tiny town of Stone Ridge (NY), was originally built by one of the Dutch farmers who settled the area in pre-revolutionary America. In the 1920s through the 1950s scenic valley became known as the Borscht Belt because of the high number of summer vacation camps that catered (mostly) to New York City Jews. About two hours north of New York City, Stone Ridge nowadays might better known amongst urbanites and non-Jews for its stunning, sturdy and well-preserved 18th-century stone-built houses and the crush of showbiz types–many of whom have won or been nominated for an Academy Award or two–who own pretty properties in the vicinity.
Some past and present property owners in and around Stone Ridge who have recognizable names include Oscar-nominated Willem Dafoe (High Falls), Oscar-nominated actress Uma Thurman (Stone Ridge), John Leguizamo (Rosendale), David Bowie and Iman (Shokan), Oscar-nominated Vera Farmiga (Mettachonts), Oscar-winner Melissa Leo (Stone Ridge), and Oscar-winner Frances McDormand and her Oscar-winning director husband Joel Cohen (Esopus). Pint-sized moguls Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen rented a house in Accord last year and we hear through the Stone Ridge real estate gossip grapevine that since dumping her Oscar-nominated filmmaker husband Darren Aronofsky in late 2010, Oscar-winner Rachel Weisz has been spending a considerable amount of time at her Marbletown country house with her hunky new hunny-hubby Daniel Craig.
Anyhoo, last week we heard from an informant we'll call Ima B. Anupstatemary, who pointed Your Mama's real estate snoot in the direction of the Captain Newkirk Estate, a 73.5 acre spread on a country lane with a recently redone stone-built residence that dates to the around 1720. The owners, Argentinian-born fashion and celebrity photographer Diego Uchitel and his fashion executive wife April, recently listed the property with an asking price of $2,995,000.
Mister Uchitel takes photographs for a living and frequently snaps images of famous f0lks, including Julianne Moore, Charlize Theron, Bette Midler, David Bowie, and Ahn Duong. Stylish ginger-haired April Uchitel toils as the Executive Vice President of Global Strategy for Diane von Furstenberg.
Property records show Mister and Missus Uchitel purchased the property in August 2007 for $1,650,000. Listing information reveals that the arty-farty and aesthetically-oriented couple spent three years on an extensive renovation and restoration of the property that they subsequently had photographed for the May 2010 issue of Elle Decor.
Listing information shows the almost 300-year old colonial crib measures a very contemporary 4,598 square feet and includes 4 bedrooms, 3.5 bathrooms and 6 fireplaces.
An opening in a split-rail fence marks the entrance to the long driveway that runs besides a babbling brook that cuts through a broad meadow. The driveway swings left at a pair of postcard-perfect antique barns and climbs gently to a parking pad set well away from the house. From there a blue stone pathway meanders across the flat front lawn the runs right up to the home's foundation. The notable lack of landscaping around the house might look bare to some, but we rather love it as it perfectly and dramatically sets the orderly but organic exterior of the house in stark relief against the cleanly-clipped grass and the rugged shade trees that ring the house.
Mister and Missus Uchitel–no relation to Tiger Woods number one extra-marital squeeze Rachel as far as we know–respected the home's original character as evidenced by the wide-plank French white oak wood floors, 12 over 12 sash windows, rough-hewn wood beam ceilings and the chair rails and moldings in the entry and stair hall painted an inspired and rich shade of steel grey. Added modern comforts and luxuries–the kinds of things considered necessities by those with deep pockets–include all-new systems and services including central air, a 4-zone heating system and radiant heated floors in the bathrooms. Having spent a couple winters in Upstate New York–including the turn of the millennium in a tee-pee in the mountains above the Ashokan Reservoir–Your Mama knows well how perfectly wonderful radiant heated floors must be in Upstate New York come the deep freeze of February.
Inside living areas include a front parlor with a pair of well-worn roll-armed club chairs, a generous double-wide living room/family room, dining room with chunky antique trestle table, and swank but cozy center-island kitchen dressed in marble counter tops and white cabinetry with glass fronted uppers. A pair of swoon-worthy industrial-looking antique copper pendant lights hang over the over-scaled work island/snack bar. Your Mama notes with glee that Mister and Missus Uchitel smartly refrained from hanging a Kia-sized pot rack over the island, a decorative temptation that too many are unable to control.
The covered front porch and the screened porch with vaulted ceiling both link the house to the multi-level blue stone entertainment and dining terrace. The lush but austere landscaping that surrounds the house gives way to thick woods criss-crossed by hiking trails that wind around to a natural waterfall that tumbles down to the brook–a kill in local parlance–that meanders through the woods and across the meadow at the front of the estate.
Although the local swimming holes are sweet and nearby Lake Minnewaska is utterly spectacular, the property needs, for our taste and three million clams, a swimming pool for those swampy summer days when you don't feel like jumping in the Jeep and taking a winding drive just to take a dip in some cool water. Nothing fancy, just a rectangle sunk into a wide swathe of grass with a simple blue stone coping would do the trick here.
listing photos: Westwood Metes & Bounds
Fertilizer Billionaire Alexander Rovt's Townhouse Shuffle
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SELLER: Alexander Rovt
LOCATION: New York City, NY
PRICE: $27,000,000
SIZE: 11,400 square feet
YOUR MAMAS NOTES: The extreme upper end of the real estate market in Los Angeles has unquestionably kicked into high gear the last few months: Financial services widow Iris Cantor's sold her behemoth pile La Belle Vie in Bel Air in April for $40,000,000–in cash–to Goldman Sachs bigwig Gene Sykes; Rom-com queen Jennifer Aniston unloaded her recently rehabbed Bev Hills mansion for around $37,000,000 to Orange County mutual fund manager Bill Gross; And showbiz widda Candy Spelling's monster mansion in the Holmby Hills has widely been reported to be in the process of being sold for around $80,000,000. Most reports say The Manor is being acquired by London-based heiress Petra Ecclestone but a couple of Your Mama's sources have suggested the buyer may actually be Indian multi-billionaire Mukesh Ambani. We shall see...
Anyhoo, the demand for sprawling apartments and titanic townhouses in New York City with astonishingly high prices seems to be equally if not more electric than out on Tinseltown. Last summer Mexican telecom bazillionaire Carlos Slim Helú–said to be worth more than seventy billion bucks–acquired the gloriously gaudy Beaux Arts-style Duke Semans Mansion on Fifth Avenue for $44,000,000 and just last month the big spender spent another $15,500,000–in cash–for a Midtown Manhattan townhouse where Elizabeth Taylor reportedly once lived with third hubby Mike Todd and has more recently housed Felissimo Design House. In early in 2011 Columbus, OH-based retail magnate Leslie Wexner sold his 16-room Thierry Despont-designed digs at the inhumanly swank 834 Fifth Avenue to real estate tycoon Larry Heyman for $36,000,000;
As shocking as a $36,000,000 co-operative apartment sounds to our frugal ear, Russian composer Igor Krutoy and Band-Aid heiress Libet Johnson both make Moneybags Heyman look like a real estate cheapskate: He shelled out $48,000,000 for a condo at the Plaza Hotel Residences in March (2011) and she is said to be in the process of forking over $48,000,000 for a 33-foot wide townhouse on East 69th Street owned by Beauty.com founder Roger Barnett and his telecommunications heiress wife Sloan Lindemann Barnett.
The latest bone-chilling deal in New York City went down a couple weeks ago when a Ukrainian-born former jewelry salesman turned fertilizer magnate named Alexander Rovt coughed up $33,000,000 for a hulking fixer-upper on East 68th Street known as the Sloane Mansion. The fetching 36-foot wide Beaux Arts-style mansion, designed by high-society architect C.P.H. Gilbert, was built in 1905 for Henry T. Sloane, heir to a high-end furniture and upholstery fortune. The seven floor residence has an ornate carved limestone façade, encompasses more than 18,267 square feet of interior space and–as per at least one previous report–includes 15 bedrooms, 17 bathrooms, 7 fireplaces, a grand marble staircase (plus a modern-day elevator), a stained glass sky light, and a paneled ballroom with herringbone pattern wood floor and original oil paintings. At some point in its history, the humongous house was divvied up into 11 small apartments with dazzling original architectural details.
Property records are somewhat confusing but as best as we can tell the property came to be owned by prolific theater director Peter Glenville and his long-time man-companion Hardy Smith. Mister Glenville went to meet the Great Director in the Sky in the mid-1990s and in 2003, the Sloane Mansion was sold for $7,600,000 to a group of investors named in the New York Observer as Dominion Management.
In May 2007 the property was sold again, this time for around $20,000,000, to another group of investors who included bankers Joseh Ingrassia and John Rice III, and real estate executive Stephen Zoukis. The investors famously bought out the rental residents–who included haute society columnist Aileen Mehle (a.k.a. Suzy Knickerbocker)–and flipped the house back on the market in early 2008 as a single family home with an optimistic asking price of $64,000,000. Almost a year later, with no serious buyers on the horizon, the price tag plummeted to $54,000,000. In November 2009 the gloriously decadent white elephant was re-listed with a fancy new broker with a substantially reduced asking price of $39,000,000, a number that later dropped to $37,900,000.
The investors appear to have run into some financial difficulties because by the time Mister Rovt appeared on the real estate scene in early 2011, the property was in default and slipping into foreclosure. Clever Mister Rovt figured out an unorthodox and ass-backwards method of buying the mansion, the details of which are well explained in a recent article in Forbes. He reportedly plans to convert the structure back to a single family house for use as his private residence.
As it turns out, Mister Rovt is no New York City townhouse virgin. In September 2005 the mustachioed billionaire paid $4,700,000 for a 25-foot wide red-brick Georgian townhouse on East 63rd Street that he bought from Benihana restaurant chain founder Rocky Aoki. He spent the next five years on an extensive and expensive renovation of the townhouse that now drips in peacocky architectural frippery. The house was put on the market in mid-May 2011 with an asking price of of $27,000,000. It is also for lease at $65,000 per month.
Listing information for the flamboyant townhouse–dwarfed by banal white-brick post-war apartment towers and located too far east to be considered chic–shows it measures 11,400 square feet and includes 5 bedrooms and 8 full and 5 half bathrooms. Your Mama, however, counts 4 family bedrooms with 8 full and 2 half bathrooms plus two additional smaller bedrooms–probably for live-in domestic staff–each with private pooper.
By far the most desirable feature of Mister Rovt's East 63rd Street townhouse is the attached single car garage with direct entry, perfect for someone who wants to squirrel people and/or things into their home that they prefer the nosy neighbors not see. The street-level foyer opens into a showy central stair hall with checked black and white marble floor, gilt-edged pilasters, numerous coat closets, all-marble powder pooper, and a curving staircase with florid gold-gilded wrought iron banister.
At the rear of the ground floor a glitzy mahogany-paneled library/lounge has herringbone patterned cherry wood floors, built in display cases, gilt-edged architectural details, and French doors to a planted garden outfitted with surround sound–bet the neighbors love that–and a built-in gas grill. Floor plans for the house indicate that a staircase in the library/lounge descends to the cellar level that contains the service and mechanical areas, significant storage space, and a spa facility complete with sauna, bathroom, fitness room, and theatrically-tiled indoor swimming pool and whirlpool area with built-in snack counter/wet bar.
The parlor level has a wide stair landing, living room with fireplace, and Clive Christian designed eat-in kitchen with center island, gilt-trimmed cabinetry, granite floor and counter tops, top-grade commercial-style appliances and what appears to be 24-carat gold fixtures, which may in fact be brass for all we know. The areas of the walls not covered in cabinets were treated with a hand-painted floral mural by Mister (Clive) Christian. What the parlor level does not have is an actual formal dining room. Listing photos show an astonishingly long Neoclassical dining table–sans chairs–sitting on the stair landing, a poor substitute for a formal dining room in a $27,000,000 townhouse.
There are two large bedrooms on the next floor, both with private bathrooms and one with two large walk-in closets and semi-circular balcony. Either suite can be used as the master or, as suggested in the marketing materials, they can be combined into one giant suite with sitting room, bedroom, two bathrooms and six closets. The hitch to that plan, according to our rudimentary reading of the floor plan, is that moving from one part of the suite to another–say from the bedroom to the sitting room–would require traversing a public hall. I don't know about the children, but for $27,000,000 we are definitely not interested in one of the household staff accidentally catching us streaking from the bedroom to the bathroom in the squeak of the early morning.
Two more large bedrooms on the fourth floor each have private facilities and generous closet space, one has French doors to a second semi-circular balcony. A smaller room with private bath in between the bedrooms is probably best suited for staff, a nursery, play room, library (as its marked on the floor plan), or the bedroom of a less favored child.
A staff room with private bath on the fifth floor is book-ended by a media room with stepped seating and a cigar lounge with gas fireplace. Both the theater and the cigar lounge have private baths and plenty of closet space so could be easily converted to additional bedrooms.
The elevator does not rise to the roof top level–so it's up the stairs we go–that's blessed with some city views and equipped with outdoor fireplace, surround sound, and a stainless steel cooking/barbecue station.
A quick comb through online property records reveals that in addition to the two townhouses on the Upper East Side, Mister Rovt also owns a modest 1,423 square foot Midtown pied a terre a the Galleria building on East 57th Street that was purchased in June 2004 for $1,050,000. Records also indicate that since at least the mid-1990s Mister Rovt has owned a large but architecturally suspect house in Brooklyn's Mill Basin neighborhood out near The Rockaways. In May 2003, Mister Rovt dropped a very modest for a stinking rich person $370,000 for a condo in Bal Harbour, Fl.
listing photos and floor plan: Leslie J. Garfield & Co.
SELLER: Alexander RovtLOCATION: New York City, NY
PRICE: $27,000,000
SIZE: 11,400 square feet
YOUR MAMAS NOTES: The extreme upper end of the real estate market in Los Angeles has unquestionably kicked into high gear the last few months: Financial services widow Iris Cantor's sold her behemoth pile La Belle Vie in Bel Air in April for $40,000,000–in cash–to Goldman Sachs bigwig Gene Sykes; Rom-com queen Jennifer Aniston unloaded her recently rehabbed Bev Hills mansion for around $37,000,000 to Orange County mutual fund manager Bill Gross; And showbiz widda Candy Spelling's monster mansion in the Holmby Hills has widely been reported to be in the process of being sold for around $80,000,000. Most reports say The Manor is being acquired by London-based heiress Petra Ecclestone but a couple of Your Mama's sources have suggested the buyer may actually be Indian multi-billionaire Mukesh Ambani. We shall see...
Anyhoo, the demand for sprawling apartments and titanic townhouses in New York City with astonishingly high prices seems to be equally if not more electric than out on Tinseltown. Last summer Mexican telecom bazillionaire Carlos Slim Helú–said to be worth more than seventy billion bucks–acquired the gloriously gaudy Beaux Arts-style Duke Semans Mansion on Fifth Avenue for $44,000,000 and just last month the big spender spent another $15,500,000–in cash–for a Midtown Manhattan townhouse where Elizabeth Taylor reportedly once lived with third hubby Mike Todd and has more recently housed Felissimo Design House. In early in 2011 Columbus, OH-based retail magnate Leslie Wexner sold his 16-room Thierry Despont-designed digs at the inhumanly swank 834 Fifth Avenue to real estate tycoon Larry Heyman for $36,000,000;
As shocking as a $36,000,000 co-operative apartment sounds to our frugal ear, Russian composer Igor Krutoy and Band-Aid heiress Libet Johnson both make Moneybags Heyman look like a real estate cheapskate: He shelled out $48,000,000 for a condo at the Plaza Hotel Residences in March (2011) and she is said to be in the process of forking over $48,000,000 for a 33-foot wide townhouse on East 69th Street owned by Beauty.com founder Roger Barnett and his telecommunications heiress wife Sloan Lindemann Barnett.
The latest bone-chilling deal in New York City went down a couple weeks ago when a Ukrainian-born former jewelry salesman turned fertilizer magnate named Alexander Rovt coughed up $33,000,000 for a hulking fixer-upper on East 68th Street known as the Sloane Mansion. The fetching 36-foot wide Beaux Arts-style mansion, designed by high-society architect C.P.H. Gilbert, was built in 1905 for Henry T. Sloane, heir to a high-end furniture and upholstery fortune. The seven floor residence has an ornate carved limestone façade, encompasses more than 18,267 square feet of interior space and–as per at least one previous report–includes 15 bedrooms, 17 bathrooms, 7 fireplaces, a grand marble staircase (plus a modern-day elevator), a stained glass sky light, and a paneled ballroom with herringbone pattern wood floor and original oil paintings. At some point in its history, the humongous house was divvied up into 11 small apartments with dazzling original architectural details.
Property records are somewhat confusing but as best as we can tell the property came to be owned by prolific theater director Peter Glenville and his long-time man-companion Hardy Smith. Mister Glenville went to meet the Great Director in the Sky in the mid-1990s and in 2003, the Sloane Mansion was sold for $7,600,000 to a group of investors named in the New York Observer as Dominion Management.
In May 2007 the property was sold again, this time for around $20,000,000, to another group of investors who included bankers Joseh Ingrassia and John Rice III, and real estate executive Stephen Zoukis. The investors famously bought out the rental residents–who included haute society columnist Aileen Mehle (a.k.a. Suzy Knickerbocker)–and flipped the house back on the market in early 2008 as a single family home with an optimistic asking price of $64,000,000. Almost a year later, with no serious buyers on the horizon, the price tag plummeted to $54,000,000. In November 2009 the gloriously decadent white elephant was re-listed with a fancy new broker with a substantially reduced asking price of $39,000,000, a number that later dropped to $37,900,000.
The investors appear to have run into some financial difficulties because by the time Mister Rovt appeared on the real estate scene in early 2011, the property was in default and slipping into foreclosure. Clever Mister Rovt figured out an unorthodox and ass-backwards method of buying the mansion, the details of which are well explained in a recent article in Forbes. He reportedly plans to convert the structure back to a single family house for use as his private residence.
As it turns out, Mister Rovt is no New York City townhouse virgin. In September 2005 the mustachioed billionaire paid $4,700,000 for a 25-foot wide red-brick Georgian townhouse on East 63rd Street that he bought from Benihana restaurant chain founder Rocky Aoki. He spent the next five years on an extensive and expensive renovation of the townhouse that now drips in peacocky architectural frippery. The house was put on the market in mid-May 2011 with an asking price of of $27,000,000. It is also for lease at $65,000 per month.
Listing information for the flamboyant townhouse–dwarfed by banal white-brick post-war apartment towers and located too far east to be considered chic–shows it measures 11,400 square feet and includes 5 bedrooms and 8 full and 5 half bathrooms. Your Mama, however, counts 4 family bedrooms with 8 full and 2 half bathrooms plus two additional smaller bedrooms–probably for live-in domestic staff–each with private pooper.
By far the most desirable feature of Mister Rovt's East 63rd Street townhouse is the attached single car garage with direct entry, perfect for someone who wants to squirrel people and/or things into their home that they prefer the nosy neighbors not see. The street-level foyer opens into a showy central stair hall with checked black and white marble floor, gilt-edged pilasters, numerous coat closets, all-marble powder pooper, and a curving staircase with florid gold-gilded wrought iron banister.
At the rear of the ground floor a glitzy mahogany-paneled library/lounge has herringbone patterned cherry wood floors, built in display cases, gilt-edged architectural details, and French doors to a planted garden outfitted with surround sound–bet the neighbors love that–and a built-in gas grill. Floor plans for the house indicate that a staircase in the library/lounge descends to the cellar level that contains the service and mechanical areas, significant storage space, and a spa facility complete with sauna, bathroom, fitness room, and theatrically-tiled indoor swimming pool and whirlpool area with built-in snack counter/wet bar.
The parlor level has a wide stair landing, living room with fireplace, and Clive Christian designed eat-in kitchen with center island, gilt-trimmed cabinetry, granite floor and counter tops, top-grade commercial-style appliances and what appears to be 24-carat gold fixtures, which may in fact be brass for all we know. The areas of the walls not covered in cabinets were treated with a hand-painted floral mural by Mister (Clive) Christian. What the parlor level does not have is an actual formal dining room. Listing photos show an astonishingly long Neoclassical dining table–sans chairs–sitting on the stair landing, a poor substitute for a formal dining room in a $27,000,000 townhouse.
There are two large bedrooms on the next floor, both with private bathrooms and one with two large walk-in closets and semi-circular balcony. Either suite can be used as the master or, as suggested in the marketing materials, they can be combined into one giant suite with sitting room, bedroom, two bathrooms and six closets. The hitch to that plan, according to our rudimentary reading of the floor plan, is that moving from one part of the suite to another–say from the bedroom to the sitting room–would require traversing a public hall. I don't know about the children, but for $27,000,000 we are definitely not interested in one of the household staff accidentally catching us streaking from the bedroom to the bathroom in the squeak of the early morning.
Two more large bedrooms on the fourth floor each have private facilities and generous closet space, one has French doors to a second semi-circular balcony. A smaller room with private bath in between the bedrooms is probably best suited for staff, a nursery, play room, library (as its marked on the floor plan), or the bedroom of a less favored child.
A staff room with private bath on the fifth floor is book-ended by a media room with stepped seating and a cigar lounge with gas fireplace. Both the theater and the cigar lounge have private baths and plenty of closet space so could be easily converted to additional bedrooms.
The elevator does not rise to the roof top level–so it's up the stairs we go–that's blessed with some city views and equipped with outdoor fireplace, surround sound, and a stainless steel cooking/barbecue station.
A quick comb through online property records reveals that in addition to the two townhouses on the Upper East Side, Mister Rovt also owns a modest 1,423 square foot Midtown pied a terre a the Galleria building on East 57th Street that was purchased in June 2004 for $1,050,000. Records also indicate that since at least the mid-1990s Mister Rovt has owned a large but architecturally suspect house in Brooklyn's Mill Basin neighborhood out near The Rockaways. In May 2003, Mister Rovt dropped a very modest for a stinking rich person $370,000 for a condo in Bal Harbour, Fl.
listing photos and floor plan: Leslie J. Garfield & Co.
Friday Quickies: Klum and Seal Sell
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SELLERS: Heidi Klum and Seal
BUYER: Frank Guistra
LOCATION: Beverly Hills, CA
PRICE: $7,000,000
SIZE: 6,794 square feet, 6 bedrooms, 9.5 bathrooms
YOUR MAMAS NOTES: It didn't take lucky lucky lucky Heidi Klum and Seal very long to unload their Beverly Hills, CA mansion, though they did sell it at a significant loss.
Property records show the supermodel/entertainment mogul and the soulful singer bought the privately situated 6,794 square foot house on 2.49 acres in late 2005 for $7,600,000. They listed the 6 bedroom and 10 bathroom mansion–described in listing information as a Loire Valley Chateau–in mid-May 2011 with an asking price of $6,900,000. Within two weeks, the house was in escrow and three weeks after that the deal was done for $7,000,000. Yes, puppies, that's a hundred grand more than the asking price but it's also a substantial $600,000 less they they paid for the posh property not counting carrying costs, renovations and/or the fat real estate fees.
The buyer, according to the property records Your Mama peeped, is Canadian investment banker, mining magnate, entertainment executive and left-leaning philanthropist Frank Giustra. Although he's sold much of his stake in the company, Mister Giustra is perhaps best known to Tinseltown types as the founder of the independent film production and distribution company Lions Gate Entertainment. He's also a well-known crony of former U.S. president Bill Clinton. They are, in fact, thick as thieves: Mister Giustra has on several occasions lent his private plane and accompanied President Clinton on various international trips, some of which proved extraordinarily lucrative to the Canadian.
Mister Giustra's home base is in West Vancouver (British Columbia, Canada) where he owns a deluxe waterfront estate on the Burrard Inlet.
As for Miz Klum and Mister Seal, they've decamped for an 8.5(ish) acre estate with a 12,300 square foot Mediterranean mansion in the Brentwood Country Estates, the same small and swank gated enclave tucked into the hills above Brentwood where some of the other home owners include supermodel Gisele Bündchen and pro pigskinner Tom Brady, philandering former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Band-Aid heiress Libet Johnson (who we hear through the real estate grapevine leases out her house), and Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber bin Muhammad Al Thani, the current prime minister of Qatar. Property records show they paid $14,200,000 for their new digs back in December 2010.
listing photos: Coldwell Banker Previews International / Beverly Hills South
SELLERS: Heidi Klum and SealBUYER: Frank Guistra
LOCATION: Beverly Hills, CA
PRICE: $7,000,000
SIZE: 6,794 square feet, 6 bedrooms, 9.5 bathrooms
YOUR MAMAS NOTES: It didn't take lucky lucky lucky Heidi Klum and Seal very long to unload their Beverly Hills, CA mansion, though they did sell it at a significant loss.
Property records show the supermodel/entertainment mogul and the soulful singer bought the privately situated 6,794 square foot house on 2.49 acres in late 2005 for $7,600,000. They listed the 6 bedroom and 10 bathroom mansion–described in listing information as a Loire Valley Chateau–in mid-May 2011 with an asking price of $6,900,000. Within two weeks, the house was in escrow and three weeks after that the deal was done for $7,000,000. Yes, puppies, that's a hundred grand more than the asking price but it's also a substantial $600,000 less they they paid for the posh property not counting carrying costs, renovations and/or the fat real estate fees.
The buyer, according to the property records Your Mama peeped, is Canadian investment banker, mining magnate, entertainment executive and left-leaning philanthropist Frank Giustra. Although he's sold much of his stake in the company, Mister Giustra is perhaps best known to Tinseltown types as the founder of the independent film production and distribution company Lions Gate Entertainment. He's also a well-known crony of former U.S. president Bill Clinton. They are, in fact, thick as thieves: Mister Giustra has on several occasions lent his private plane and accompanied President Clinton on various international trips, some of which proved extraordinarily lucrative to the Canadian.
Mister Giustra's home base is in West Vancouver (British Columbia, Canada) where he owns a deluxe waterfront estate on the Burrard Inlet.
As for Miz Klum and Mister Seal, they've decamped for an 8.5(ish) acre estate with a 12,300 square foot Mediterranean mansion in the Brentwood Country Estates, the same small and swank gated enclave tucked into the hills above Brentwood where some of the other home owners include supermodel Gisele Bündchen and pro pigskinner Tom Brady, philandering former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Band-Aid heiress Libet Johnson (who we hear through the real estate grapevine leases out her house), and Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber bin Muhammad Al Thani, the current prime minister of Qatar. Property records show they paid $14,200,000 for their new digs back in December 2010.
listing photos: Coldwell Banker Previews International / Beverly Hills South
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