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Netflix’s Ted Sarandos pays Ellen DeGeneres $34 million in Montecito
More than six months after disastrous fires and mudslides killed 21 people and wreaked havoc on Montecito‘s economy, rebuilding efforts continue. And the roughly 9,000 residents of the elite seaside...
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The old Cher/Eddie Murphy estate returns to the market… asking $68 million
Last year, amid a torrid rash of publicity, the onetime Beverly Hills (Post Office) estate of both Cher and Eddie Murphy exploded onto the market with a fat $85 million asking price. Although that buzz...
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Producer Doug Jordan drops $6.5 million cash in Encino
Perhaps the city of LA’s biggest neighborhood luxury come-up in recent years has been the San Fernando Valley enclave of Encino, where the advent of celebrity buyers and numerous spec-builders has...
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Tom Barrack spoons out $13 million on a Brentwood contemporary
We know this sounds corny, but the posh Westside neighborhoods of Los Angeles are steamin’ hot right now, and we aren’t just referencing the weather. That real estate market — particularly the market...
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Bill Gross dumps another $32 million in Laguna Beach
Divorce is hardly ever anything but a headache, but y’all might be forgiven for assuming that very wealthy folks have it easier than most. After all, they can afford the best attorneys and usually are...
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Ted Schwartz antes up $17 million in prime Brentwood
According to a recent report, the real estate market out here in LA has cooled off considerably this summer. That jives with what Yolanda has seen just from our own idle surfing through recent high-end...
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Ari Emanuel quietly acquires his next door neighbor’s house
Yolanda profusely apologizes for our sporadic postings as of late — summer blues and all that. More precisely, we are traveling out of the country for the next week or so, but we promise to return to...
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Linda Tawil spends $9 million cash in the Calabasas Oaks
If there’s one thing we’ve learned from our years of observing transactions in the high-end sector of the real estate market, it is that wealth – even great wealth – can be fleeting. There’s an ancient...
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Fashion Nova CEO Richard Saghian doles out $17.5 million for Avicii’s house
Yolanda was on a flight back home to LA earlier this week. And recently our pocketbook has become a bit pinched, so unfortunately we were herded like cattle on a hideous commercial flight, and not our...
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Mike & Brooke Mahan lay out $22 million in Brentwood Park
One of our all-time favorite films is the 1975 flick Return of The Pink Panther, particularly the scenes in which Inspector Clouseau (in disguise) attempts to impress Lady Litton with his smooth talk...
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Sam Worthington ponies up nearly $8 million in the Bird Streets
Some time ago, we received an email from a reader. Let’s call this reader Amy because, well, that’s her name. Anyway, Amy wanted to know more information about a rather fetching house set in the...
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Richard & Liane Weintraub gear up to spend $23 million in Malibu
As summer 2018 slips away like so much sand through the proverbial hourglass, we wanted to catch the last wisps of freedom before they fleet off into the night, stolen by autumn — with winter close...
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Todd Blue drops millions on Malibu’s fanciest garage
Sometimes you never know what’s lurking behind a gate. A boon of being well-to-do is that one can afford to indulge one’s passions in ways mere financial mortals cannot. That’s part of why we enjoy...
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James Packer spends $60 million (or so) on the old Danny DeVito estate
Thanks to a reader tip, we have learned that a very expensive real estate transaction went down last month (August 2018) in the city of Beverly Hills. Quietly, of course. The buyer is Australian...
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Beverly Park’s Villa Firenze officially lists at $165 million
We know everyone always loves reading about Beverly Park, so we just couldn’t resist straying from our usual tack and heading back up that hill once again. See those pearly gates in the distance, just...
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Michelle Pfeiffer drops $7.7 million on the Palisades house next door
She may be best-known for her roles in iconic films like Grease 2, Scarface, and Batman Returns, but Michelle Pfeiffer is also a high-end real estate connoisseur with a taste for expansive (and...
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Holly Madison forks out $8.7 million for some Windsor Square history
It’s been awhile since we’ve written about a house in the historic Hancock Park/Windsor Square neighborhood of Los Angeles. That’s poor taste on our part because the mansions there are some of the most...
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NFL star Brandin Cooks coughs up $5.5 million in Hidden Hills
A kind-hearted little birdie swooped by the other day and pointed Yolanda to a fully-renovated ranch house in Hidden Hills, way out in the San Fernando Valley. For those of y’all who may not know,...
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Fajer Fahad spends $8.7 million in Holmby Hills
Full disclosure: this transaction actually went down several months ago. We planned to write about it back then but for whatever reason kept putting it off, so here the ol’ gurl is today playing...
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Ellen DeGeneres’s new house atop Trousdale Estates
Yolanda is down for the count today with severe food poisoning. We warned her that $7.99 lunch buffet was too good to be true. Anyway, you have her friend and confidante U.N. Owen at the reins of this...
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