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Ellen DeGeneres gets $35 million from Sue Gross
No celebrity is more property-obsessed than talk show host Ellen DeGeneres. She and her actress wife Portia de Rossi hop from house to house so frequently that it’s amazing these ladies even remember...
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Top chef Curtis Stone dishes out $8 million for a Mandeville Canyon Traditional
Yolanda is still recovering from that nasty bit of food poisoning last week, so don’t even mention lunch to us or we might smack you. Obviously, writing about a chef and his culinary creations is the...
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Nile Niami’s latest mega-creation asks $65 million
Teddy Roosevelt once said “He with the big stick wins, except when attacked by he with the bigger stick. So always carry the biggest stick.” (We paraphrase.) Nile Niami seems to have taken that...
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Video gamer Jeff Strain plops out $12 million on some Old Hollywood glamour
We’ve recently been getting a small trickle of hate-mail from a couple of whiners. (You know who you are.) Seems they don’t care for most of the homes Yolanda has posted about recently — too “trashy”...
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Deborah Shainfeld goes classic for $14 million cash in the Beverly Hills Flats
We decided to keep the Old Hollywood theme going today with this lovely 1935 Mediterranean Revival-style villa in the Flats of Beverly Hills, surely one of the wealthiest and most expensive...
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Fear of God CEO Jerry Lorenzo drops $8.5 million in Los Feliz
The Eastside LA neighborhood of Los Feliz is chock-full of beautiful old homes, many of them Spanish Revival-style jewels. Some of those houses — most originally built in the 1920s and 1930s — have...
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Michelle Phan lays down $4.7 million cash on a Brentwood starter house
The advent of YouTube as a cultural phenomenon — especially among Generation Z — means the kiddos of today use the site as a go-to for just about everything important to them: dating advice, beauty...
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Viagogo CEO Eric Baker throws down $23.5 million cash in the Beverly Hills Flats
If you have many millions of dollars and you’re looking to invest in residential Los Angeles real estate, we highly recommend considering the Beverly Hills Flats neighborhood. Prices out there have...
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Richelieu Dennis spends $15.7 million cash high above the Sunset Strip
Probably our favorite thing about high-end real estate transactions is seeing the widely divergent paths these folks take on their journeys to vast wealth. While a hefty number of buyers are indeed...
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Marina Acton sells the old Kimye house at a multi-million-dollar loss
Late last year, celebrity supernova Kim Kardashian and her hot-headed hubby Kanye West sold their “starter” LA mansion for a shocking $17,800,000 in cash to a Ukrainian woman named Marina Acton. The...
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Former Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain’s Brentwood hacienda
We wanted to cap off the week with a healthy dose of interesting architecture, so we rummaged through the vault and finally located a suitable subject in the form of this groovy Spanish hacienda. And...
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Lead Edge Capital’s Mitchell Green drops $16 million in Montecito
Don’t call us jet setters — the truth is far, far from that — but we’ve done a small patch of traveling in our time. Despite the allure of more exotic locales, one of our favorite earthly destinations...
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Ellen DeGeneres buys and sells in Montecito and Carpinteria (again)
We don’t know anyone who moves more frequently than Ellen DeGeneres. The TV talk show hostess’s property portfolio is so constantly in flux that her business manager and realtors alike must have...
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Joe Rogan dumps a record-shattering $5 million in Bell Canyon
Although it’s one of Southern California’s wealthiest communities, Bell Canyon is oft-overlooked by the press. Part of the blame lies with its rather remote location — though technically within the...
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Nick Jonas spends $6.5 million on a slick Beverly Hills (Post Office) sanctuary
This transaction actually went down a full six months ago, but Yolanda is only blabbing about it now because, well, it took us that long to figure out who bought the damn thing. It’s still worth...
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Billionaire Torstein Hagen shells out $11 million in Malibu’s Sea Level enclave
Malibu’s ironically-named Broad Beach is swarmed with celeb residents and tourists alike, but there’s still a couple spots where one can avoid pesky paparazzos and other hoi polloi. Just off the main...
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Travis Scott & Kylie Jenner cop a $13.5 million Beverly Hills (Post Office)...
Someone in South Carolina won a $1.5 billion lottery jackpot last night. We imagine that (as yet unnamed) individual is probably — between fainting spells and euphoric jig-dancin’ — wondering how to...
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Ousted MGM CEO Gary Barber lays down $14 million on a vacant Beverly Hills...
Way back in early 2013, when the real estate market was still in recovery mode from our most recent economic recession, Mexican investor Mauricio Oberfeld coughed up $6,250,000 for a classic...
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Calvin Harris coughs up nearly $14 million for a vacant Bel Air lot and...
Much of Lower Bel Air — one of America’s priciest neighborhoods — looks more like a warzone these days than the genteel old money mansionville of yore. Blame it on the skyrocketing sale prices of...
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Check out Nile Niami’s $500 million The One in all her glory
…Virtual glory, that is. Big Bertha isn’t quite ready to go the full monty yet — she’s playing coy for another few months. But one of our longtime readers kindly forwarded Yolanda an expensively-made...
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