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Ed Snider’s widow Lin Spivak shells out $7 million in Brentwood
Last April (2016) billionaire entertainment and pro sports magnate Ed Snider succumbed to cancer in his colossal Montecito estate (more on that place in a minute) at the ripe old age of 83. He left...
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Alo Yoga CEO Danny Harris stretches out $30 million in Holmby Hills
After a very long slog on the market, Bebe clothing founder Manny Mashouf finally managed to dump his sublimely-located Holmby Hills villa for $30,000,000 this month (February 2017). That’s a far cry...
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Wrigley’s chewing gum heir Jim Offield spends big in Venice
High-end real estate everywhere in LA is hotter than ever, but real estate in the once-gritty-but-now-gentrified-and-blazingly-expensive seaside community of Venice (CA) is particularly so. Yolanda has...
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Tinder co-founder Justin Mateen spends nearly $15 million in Holmby Hills
This one here is gonna be short but sweet, as Yolanda unfortunately does not possess any pictures to share with y’all. Everyone knows that LA’s tiny Holmby Hills neighborhood pocket — Holmby lies...
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Pablo “Pornstache” Schreiber goes off the grid in Topanga
Distanced as it may be from the central hub of LA — well, wherever that is — the mountainous and semi-remote community of Topanga Canyon nonetheless possesses a small but significant dose of celebrity...
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Horror film producer/director Jaume Collet-Serra drops $5 million on Sunset...
While the rest of the world — or at least the rest of the US — has had their attention laser-focused on President Trump’s controversial new healthcare plan, Yolanda’s nosy nose has been stuck in other...
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About those Beyoncé and Jay-Z rumors…
In the busy past week Yolanda has received queries from no fewer than four different peeps who were all just dyin’ of curiosity about the same damn thing: what’s really the real estate deal with...
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Laurene Powell Jobs pays $16 million for the little Malibu house next door
For any of you stock market followers (or whatever), put on your thinking caps and y’all may recall that exuberantly wealthy Silicon Valley widow Laurene Powell Jobs recently raised eyebrows when it...
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British DJ Mark Ronson un-leaves Los Feliz with a $4.3 million splash
Back in early 2015, acclaimed British music producer/DJ Mark Ronson — a Grammy winner for Amy Winehouse’s Back to Black and Uptown Funk (featuring Bruno Mars) — wrote a song entitled “Leaving Los...
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Megan Ellison quietly drops $7 million on the little house next door
When she’s not producing/distributing/marketing critically-acclaimed blockbusters or going on Twitter rants about Donald Trump, you can almost assuredly find 31-year-old billionaire software heiress...
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The rumor mill: a $75 million sale in Malibu?
Normally Yolanda doesn’t pay much attention to the noise and other assorted foolishness that trills its way into our ears. We generally prefer facts backed up by research and property records. Today,...
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Greenhouse guru Rich Reilly dumps $25 million on an A-list-style Beverly...
Anyone who has followed Yolanda’s silly little blog for even a short period of time should know that there’s really nothing we crave more than an excuse to briefly dissect the history of a major...
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Scottish billionaire Sir Tom Hunter gets a modern Craftsman in B.H.P.O. for...
For as jaded as Yolanda has become when it comes to those divorced-from-reality Platinum Triangle real estate sale prices, we gotta say that even we were shocked — nay, flabbergasted — when we caught...
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Hong Kong billionairess Karen Lo closes on Malibu’s most epic estate at $70...
Yolanda heard whispers about it before, of course, but — even so — we were still shocked that the whole thing went down so quickly and for such an awe-inspiring amount of money. Property records now...
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Mars Candy heir Stephen Badger plunks down $15 million on an ultra-private...
Yolanda can’t apologize effusively enough for being so AWOL these past few weeks. What can we say? We’re a busy beotch. But we’re back now and ready to catch up on the million+ stories we missed out on...
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Handbag designer Tyler Ellis doles out $12 million on Brentwood Park’s “The...
Despite its low-key and family-friendly atmosphere, kiddies, the leafy “Brentwood Park” enclave of Los Angeles requires a seriously obese wallet for anyone to even think about living there. It’s just...
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Riot Games president Marc Merrill expands his epic Santa Monica compound
Yolanda is certainly not a gamer — we leave that sinful silliness to you young’uns — but even an ignorant ol’ coot like us knows that LA-based Riot Games represents no passing fad. Since 2006, when it...
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Los Feliz double whammy part 1: Troian Bellisario and Patrick J. Adams buy a...
Yolanda took a look over our most recent stories and realized we’ve yet again fallen into that trap of too much Westside stuff. But don’t get it twisted! We love Santa Monica, Brentwood, Malibu, all...
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Los Feliz double whammy part 2: Jordan Peele and Chelsea Peretti buy, too
A few weeks ago, while Yolanda was out to dinner at one of our favorite Sunset Strip restaurants — perhaps not the classiest joint but filled with delicious eats, mind you — we received an urgent text...
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Brendan Iribe smashes the Venice record with his $14.6 million purchase
LA has seen a healthy spattering of ultra-high-end sales recently — banner sales like private equity heir Evan Metropoulos’s $65 million Trousdale Estates splurge, Hong Kong billionaire Karen Lo’s $70...
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