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The Department of Justice moves to seize $100 million worth of prime LA real...
The big news around town this week is the DoJ has, at long last and as anticipated, filed presumptive documents to seize assets purchased with stolen cash in the never-ending 1MDB saga. Fresh off their...
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Bill Gross plunks down $35 million to buy his neighbors’ houses
These transactions we are about to discuss all occurred about two years ago. But as far as Yolanda knows, nobody else on the interwebs has discussed them yet. These deals were kept hush-hush. And...
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Bird Street Week: Landry Strikes Again
Yolanda keeps a wee little list — a cheat sheet, if you will — of juicy upcoming stories we plan to write about. Just to make sure nothing falls through the cracks, you see. As we were looking at our...
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Bird Street Week: Rent Bob Zangrillo’s $20 million house
Here’s a great chance to live like a celeb without having to worry about long-term maintenance, property taxes, all that nonsense. Not only is this one of the largest homes in the Bird Streets on one...
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Bird Street Week: James Wan sells to Steve & Debi Wisch for $13 million
We know we’re a bit late to the party on this one, but we’ve still got a bit of fresh tea to spill nonetheless. Astute nosey Neds may recall that it was the Wall Street Journal lady who first hissed...
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Bird Street Week: The enigmatic Dr. Greg Bailey and his $16 million of...
Earlier this year, a striking modern on the “view side” of a street that’s long been considered one of the best in the Birds sold for an A-list-style $16,335,000. The new owner took title under a...
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Bird Street Week: PIMCO alum Tammie Arnold builds a double nest for $9 million
One of the longest celebrity resident stalwarts in the Birds was super-talented actress Jodie Foster, who first bought in the neighborhood way back in the mid-1990s and resided in the same...
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Bird Street Week: Here’s what’s replacing the old Megan Ellison compound
Before we close the book on Bird Street Week, we wanted to give y’all a quick and dainty treat. Thanks to our real estate insider Don Won, we’ve got a right delight for everyone. You see, Mr. Won dug...
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Princess Tatiana von Furstenberg drops $12 million in Palos Verdes
It’s not often that we get to discuss real, bonafide royalty on this blog (apart from all those random Saudi princes). And it’s even less often that we write about a house on the Palos Verdes...
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Chinese heiress “King” Zhang Jiale quietly buys 300+ acres of remote Malibu land
Yolanda would like to apologize for being AWOL for the past couple days. No, we weren’t held hostage at gunpoint or trapped in a never-ending Liza Minnelli / Larry King interview video loop. We were...
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Ali Larter sells to Cirkut in the Hollywood Hills
Now kids, you know a high-falutin’ gal like Yolanda Y. rarely deigns to discuss residential real estate transactions below the $10 million barrier. It’s just entirely foreign territory to your gurl. Us...
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No, Donald Trump is not selling this $30 million house in Beverly Hills...
EDIT (8/9/16): So maybe we were a bit too harsh on Trumpy boy in this post. The LA Times clued us in that he actually owns the house next door, something we probably knew about at one point but plum...
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Taraji P. Henson spends big on a top-secret Hollywood Hills lair
Though she’s rattled around Hollywood for more than 15 years, starring in hit movies such as Baby Boy, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, and Hustle & Flow, it was only last year (2015) that...
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Magazine heiress Liz Goldhirsh drops $10 million in Mandeville Canyon
Back in 2007, then-thriving but now soon-to-be-shuttered-and-or-sold gossip site Gawker published what Yolanda can only describe as an in-depth analysis of the recent nuptials of a young couple named...
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Owlwood in escrow for $90+ million with Woodbridge
Since way back in September 2000, the gold medal for priciest house ever sold in LA (or all of Southern CA, for that matter) has been held by a gigantic estate that sits practically right on top of the...
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Yife Tien flips Reba McEntire’s old Beverly Park pad
Yolanda’s on the run today so let’s be unusually concise here. Last month, our friends over at The Real Deal noted that a businessman in the education industry named Yife Tien had paid $23,460,000 (in...
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Natalie Morales forks it out on a Brentwood house
We heard whispers of this more than a week ago from a birdie we’ll call call Brentwood Beotch but rather stupidly sat on the story. Anywho, we’re here now and yes, as was first noted by our pals at the...
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“Hawaii Five-O” producer Peter Lenkov buys a slender slice of Malibu oceanfront
Malibu real estate seems a bit sluggish for this time of year, don’t it? Are folks just too busy to get out to the beach nowadays? We keep thinking it’s going to pick up, but here we are in August...
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Stein Mart Chairman Jay Stein spoons out $22 million in Trousdale Estates
Has your gurl Yolanda ever told all you wee little pumpernickels that Trousdale Estates real estate is hot as hell? We have. We know we have. Either way, you should know. Because it’s been hot for as...
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Walmart heir Josh Kroenke drops $15 million just below the Bird Streets
The world’s largest retailer AKA Walmart reported its quarterly earnings yesterday. Amid a time when most other retailers are faltering (a shaky economy and the upcoming doomsday of a Presidential...
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