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    NBA Star Spencer Dinwiddie’s SoCal Home Just Listed for $7.7 Million

    A little over two years ago, Spencer Dinwiddie doled out $6.9 million for a modern Craftsman-style mansion in an exclusive gated enclave of 26 homes set amid a suburban area of Los Angeles between Malibu and Calabasas. Now that he’s returned to the Dallas Mavericks after a short stint with the Lakers, the veteran NBA player has decided to let the place go for $7.7 million, which was the original price it was listed for in 2022 before the L.A. native scooped it up at a substantial discount. The listing is held by Bjorn Farrugia and Alphonso Lascano of Carolwood Estates.

    Dinwiddie’s estate is hidden away down a lengthy gated driveway, atop an acre-plus promontory lot. Built in 2021 by “one of the most experienced and meticulous builders in Southern California,” per a previous listing, the dark beige and white-trimmed structure is fronted by a motorcourt flanked by an attached four-car garage.

    The living room is spotlighted by a floor-to ceiling stone fireplace and a wet bar with wine storage.

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    Inside, five bedrooms and seven baths are sprawled across a little more than 7,200 square feet of living space adorned throughout with high ceilings, red oak hardwood floors, natural stone details, and Italian light fixtures. Several balconies and porches provide seamless indoor/outdoor environs and frame sweeping views of the surrounding Santa Monica Mountains.

    Introducing the home is a wood front door topped by a stone-columned portico illuminated with gas lanterns. An entry foyer displaying a winding wrought-iron staircase flows to the living room, which rests beneath a wood-beam ceiling and features a floor-to-ceiling stone fireplace and a wet bar with wine storage.

    Other highlights include a formal dining room, plus a cozy fireside family room that connects via a casual dining area to a sleekly designed gourmet kitchen outfitted with an expansive eat-in island, a butcher block island, and top-tier Gaggeneau appliances. Pocketing glass doors open to an al fresco dining and entertaining terrace with a fireplace.

    Numerous balconies and porches offer picturesque views of the Santa Monica Mountains.

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    Elsewhere on the main level is an office space, while an upstairs primary suite spanning roughly 1,000 square feet comes complete with a fireplace, a seating area, a private balcony, a bespoke walk-in closet, and a luxe bath boasting dual vanities, a two-person shower, a soaking tub, and a separate makeup area. Three additional en-suite bedrooms and a den also can be found on this floor.

    As for the resort-like grounds, expect to find an infinity-edge pool and spa, an outdoor kitchen, and a firepit conversation area with steps ascending to a gazebo. There’s also a Crestron smart-home system thrown in for good measure.

    Click here for more photos of Spencer Dinwiddie’s L.A. house.

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    Nicole Scherzinger’s $7 Million Home Has Sweeping Views From Downtown L.A. to the Pacific

    Don’t Cha wish you had the keys to this chic Los Angeles home? You might be in luck, because Nicole Scherzinger is letting the “purr-fect” place go!

    A little over eight years after the former Pussycat Dolls lead singer doled out $3.7 for the multi-level residence specifically because of its beautiful views framing the entire Los Angeles Basin—even going so far as to knock down a huge wall and install vast expanses of glass to enhance the scenery from the main living area, per a 2019 Architectural Digest tour—she’s now decided to part ways with her Hollywood Hills spread high above the Sunset Strip, asking a speck under $7 million. Per the listing held by David Parnes and James Harris of Carolwood Estates, it’s also available for rent at a pricey $40,000 per month.

    Scherzinger opened up the living area so the gasp-worthy view can be seen upon entering the house.

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    Originally built in 1990 and extensively renovated during Scherzinger’s tenure, the property is cleaved to a steep hillside lot and features four bedrooms and five baths in a little more than 4,600 square feet of neutrally hued living space rife with rustic hardwood floors, high ceilings, and gallery walls that were used to accommodate her vast assemblage of commissioned artwork and career memorabilia. Copious walls of glass also offer up a look at those picturesque vistas from every conceivable vantage point.

    Especially standing out is an open-concept great room, which is accented with rich wood, hand-selected marble, seagrass textures, and doors spilling out onto a wraparound terrace. Within the space is a dining area that adjoins a gourmet kitchen spotlighted by an eat-in island equipped with seats that swivel around to capture the mesmerizing vistas.

    Other highlights include a cozy den sporting a fireplace flanked by built-in bookshelves, as well as a mirrored gym and a cave-like movie theater with tiered sofa seating for up to 10 guests. The spacious primary suite includes a snazzy linear fireplace and what Scherzinger refers to as a “big old fat, juicy, yummy balcony” hosting a firepit. A marble-clad bath has a steam shower, a full-on glam area, and a duo of soaking tubs—one inside and another on the balcony.

    The rooftop lounge area overlooking L.A. is spotlighted by a waterfall-fed plunge pool.

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    The undeniable star of the show is the rooftop lounge area, which contains a heated saltwater plunge pool that’s 6 feet deep, plus a sunbathing deck, a sauna, a wet bar, and last but not least, a whimsical swing where Scherzinger’s been known to literally swing all her cares away while overlooking the City of Angels. An attached two-car garage can also be found on the nearly quarter-acre grounds.

    Born and raised in Hawaii, the Grammy-nominated performer is best known as the former lead singer of the pop girl group the Pussycat Dolls, whose single Don’t Cha topped the charts in 15 countries and peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard charts. In addition to acting, which included a role in the animated Disney film Moana, she’s also served as a judge on the TV talent shows The Sing-Off, The X Factor, and The Masked Singer. Most recently, she was cast as Norma Desmond in the Broadway revival of Sunset Boulevard.

    Click here for more photos of Nicole Scherzinger’s L.A. home.

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    A 29-Year-Old Tech Tycoon Snaps Up a $4.2 Million Designer Abode in L.A.

    It’s been an almost unbelievably successful ride for Lucy Guo ever since she decided to forego her computer science and human-computer interaction studies at Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Mellon University in 2014 and accept a two-year, $100,000 Thiel Fellowship that offered her the chance to build a business. Fast-forward to today, and the 29-year-old entrepreneur and tech developer has transformed herself into a self-made multimillionaire with a trio of Silicon Valley startups under her belt.

    Her upward career trajectory seemingly began when the young entrepreneur sold Pokémon cards to friends and taught herself how to code in elementary school, but I digress. After working as a product designer for Snapchat and Quora, the California native co-founded the data-labeling company Scale AI in 2016 and then left a couple of years later to start the early-stage venture fund Backend Capital. Most recently, she launched a creator-focused monetization platform called Passes that not only counts Shaq among its users but also raised a substantial $40 million from investors earlier this year.

    An upstairs screening room with plush seating is ideal for entertaining.

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    In August, as part of her efforts to continue growing Passes, she leased a 25,000-square-foot office space in Los Angeles. Now she’s doled out $4.2 million—$600,000 off the original listing price—for a modern farmhouse-style home in the Melrose Arts District of West Hollywood, adding to a real estate portfolio that includes a $6.6 million residence at Miami’s sleek Zaha Hadid-designed One Thousand Museum tower overlooking the Biscayne Bay. Ricarda Olander and Jonathan Carr of The Agency repped both sides of the deal.

    Built in 2019 and designed by L.A.-based House of Shoor, the white board and batten and brick-accented structure features five bedrooms and six baths in a little more than 4,700 square feet boasting distressed French oak floors, handcrafted clay walls with decorative fluting, and steel-framed glass doors providing seamless indoor/outdoor environs.

    A sun-drenched courtyard off the main living area is enhanced with a dipping pool.

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    Tucked away on a hedge-lined parcel spanning less than a quarter of an acre, the house is fronted by concrete walls and a gated driveway that opens to an attached two-car garage. Two additional gates open to a low-maintenance yard flanked by a walkway that empties out at the glassy front doors. From there, the entry foyer flows to an office with a full bath and a dining area warmed by a fireplace, plus a gourmet kitchen outfitted with dark green cabinetry, Arabescato marble countertops, an eat-in island that seats four, and top-notch Thermador appliances. An adjacent family room has a fireplace and French doors that spill out to a secluded patio with a firepit.

    Upstairs is a window-lined seating area and a bar-equipped screening room, as well as a spacious primary suite sporting a fireplace, a private balcony, a bespoke walk-in closet, and a luxe bath with dual vanities, a soaking tub, and a glass-encased shower. Rounding it all out is a bamboo-laced courtyard hosting a dipping pool, an al fresco lounging space off the second floor, and a rooftop deck with a seated bar and views of the iconic Hollywood Sign and beyond.

    Click here for more photos of Lucy Guo’s new L.A. home.

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    Michael Jordan Finally Has a Buyer for His $14.9 Million Mega-Mansion Outside Chicago

    After a little more than a dozen years and a couple of substantial price chops, former Chicago Bulls superstar Michael Jordan has officially landed a contract for a sprawling mega-mansion he owns in the Highland Park suburb of Chicago, about 2 miles west of Lake Michigan. Originally listed for $29 million back in 2012, the home has languished on the market for the past few years at a speck under $14.9 million.

    What the ultimate sale price will be and other details “will depend on what happens in the next 20 to 30 days,” per Crain’s Chicago Business. The magazine added that the buyer is an end-user rather than a developer and the timing of the contract, which came less than two weeks after the long-unsold estate was featured in The Wall Street Journal, is a coincidence.

    Custom-built for Jordan and his then-wife Juanita Vanoy in the mid-1990s amid a 7.4-acre parcel the couple purchased a few years earlier for $2 million, the massive contemporary home is tucked away behind iron gates emblazoned with “23,” the jersey number he wore while playing for the Bulls. The two-level structure offers a total of nine bedrooms and 19 baths in a whopping 56,000 square feet of living space, which makes it slightly larger than the White House.

    Highlights of the extremely personalized home, which was last renovated in 2009 and has sat unoccupied for years, include five fireplaces, an office space, a dining area flanked by a massive aquarium, a library with a drop-down movie screen, a cigar room with poker tables, and a fully equipped gym. There’s also a regulation-sized basketball court with MJ’s famous Air Jordan logo in the center, plus a set of doors culled from the original Playboy mansion in Chicago.

    Equally impressive are the grounds, which hold a circular infinity pool with a grassy island, a putting green, and a tennis court, as well as a separate three-bedroom residence for guests or staff and an attached garage with room for up to 14 vehicles.

    Jordan spent 13 seasons with the Bulls from 1984 to 1998, minus a season when he left to play minor league baseball, and led Chicago to six NBA titles. After announcing his retirement in 1998, he returned in 2001 to play two seasons with the Washington Wizards and then retired permanently in 2003. He went on to purchase a majority ownership stake in the Charlotte Bobcats, now the Hornets, before selling to a group led by Gabe Plotkin and Rick Schnall last summer for approximately $3 billion, and he currently co-owns the NASCAR team 23XI Racing with three-time Daytona 500 winner Denny Hamlin.

    The Hall of Famer, who has an estimated net worth of around $3 billion, has been married to his Cuban-American model wife Yvette Prieto for 11 years and they reportedly maintain residences in Jupiter, Florida, where they recently shelled out $16.5 million for a second mansion in the Bear’s Club enclave, as well as in Utah and on the shore of North Carolina’s Lake Norman. More

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    Late Photographer Melvin Sokolsky’s Beverly Hills Home Hits the Market for $7 Million

    What do Mia Farrow, Natalie Wood, Twiggy and Ricardo Montalbán’s iconic “Corinthian leather” ads for Chrysler in the 1970s have in common? Melvin Sokolsky, the late, great and wildly imaginative surrealist fashion photographer and acclaimed TV commercial director who not only made portraits of some of Hollywood’s biggest stars and created innovative fashion shoots for Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue and The New York Times, but hoovered up 25 Clio Awards for his many advertising gigs along the way.

    Sokolsky was prized for bringing a surrealist approach to his fashion photographs.

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    In the 1970s, the native New Yorker was based on the West Coast where he acquired a secluded English Country-style cottage in the foothills of Benedict Canyon in Beverly Hills. Now, two years after his death at the age of 88, his beloved private sanctuary is being sold by his son Bing Sokolsky for just under $7 million. The boomerang-shaped hillside home, originally built in 1939 and designed by artist and architect Frederic Barienbrock for a silent screen actress, according to marketing material, is listed with Susan Andrews and Martin Withrow of Compass.

    A quick one-mile hop from The Beverly Hills Hotel and tucked into the southern shadow of Michael Ovitz’s avant garde mansion, the self-taught snapper’s residence is hidden behind iron gates at the end of a sleepy cul-de-sac. Far less theatrical than some of his more memorable fashion shoots, such as those in which models appear suspended above Paris in translucent spheres, the home is imbued with a relaxed traditional style. 

    The wood-paneled study has a contemporary stone fireplace and access to a wraparound terrace.

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    There are, however, many elements throughout the five-bedroom and three-and-a-half-bath home’s 3,400 square feet that speak to Sokolsky’s expansive imagination. Among them are a ceiling painted like a lightly cloudy sky in the foyer and a mural-lined powder room inspired by Edgar Degas. 

    The living room has a baronial stone fireplace and built-in bookshelves; the dining room has a stunning view of the Century City skyline poking above the treetops; and the kitchen sports rustic wood counters and commercial-grade appliances. Like the living room, a cozy, wood-paneled study with a fireplace opens to a covered terrace that runs along the back of the house with sunrise to sunset vistas.

    Mullioned windows frame panoramic skyline views from almost every room in the 1930s residence.

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    Bedrooms are tucked down onto the lower level. There are two small bedrooms and a shared bath accessible by their own staircase just off the kitchen, while another staircase leads from the foyer down to an ample pair of en suite bedrooms that flank a library that’s convertible to another bedroom. The larger bedroom suite, the primary, includes a spacious modern bath and a huge walk-in closet, plus a separate dressing room. 

    The two larger bedrooms spill onto a large brick terrace, and the 18,000-square-foot hillside parcel also includes a sunny lower terrace with an elegant, though not currently filled, oval swimming pool.

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    Floyd Mayweather Just Put His Knockout Beverly Hills Mansion on the Market for $48 Million

    After seven years of ownership, Floyd Mayweather Jr. has decided to return his lavish mansion tucked into the heart of Beverly Hills back to the market. The ask is an impressive $48 million, which is a whopping $22.5 million more than the former pro boxer and current exhibition fighter originally paid for the French Modern-style spread.

    Records show Mayweather doled out $25.5 million in cash for the property back in 2017, shortly before he retired. Sited behind high hedges and iron gates on a half-acre parcel that’s next door to the Beverly Hills Hotel, the all-white structure was built on spec by Los Angeles-based real estate developer Nile Niami, who picked up the 1990s home that previously stood on the property in 2014 for $16.5 million from Marianne Metropoulos, wife of billionaire businessman C. Dean Metropoulos. 

    A cocktail bar and glass-encased wine display are just some of the home’s numerous amenities.

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    A snazzy marble-clad foyer boasting a dangling chandelier hanging from a coffered ceiling introduces the residence, which contains a total of six bedrooms and 10 baths spread across more than 15,000 square feet. Glitzy amenities include a handsome wood-paneled library and a cocktail bar flanked by a glass-encased wine display, plus a separate guesthouse that comes with a movie theater, a Miele-equipped concession stand, a gym, staff quarters, and a four-car garage.

    Among the other standout features is a living room sporting a decorative fireplace surrounded by a mirrored accent wall and 10 sets of French doors spilling outside, as well as a formal dining room and a sleekly designed kitchen outfitted with an eat-in island and an accompanying breakfast nook. A plush primary suite flaunts a private terrace and dual walk-in closets and baths, while the resort-like grounds are spotlighted by a pool and spa sitting amid a black-and-white striped sundeck.

    A fireside living room has dark herringbone-patterned wood floors and 10 sets of French doors.

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    In addition to his Beverly Hills home, which is listed by Josh Altman and Matt Altman of Douglas Elliman, the 47-year-old Michigan native—who is estimated to have brought in more than $1 billion in total earnings during his boxing career—still owns a $10 million mansion in Las Vegas and a Miami Beach compound he acquired in 2021 for $18 million.

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    Kenny Rogers’s Chateau-Style Mansion in Georgia Is Up for Grabs at $2.5 Million

    A little over four years after his death from natural causes at age 81, Kenny Rogers’s final homestead is newly available. As first reported by The Wall Street Journal, the Grammy-winning country singer moved into the property in the Atlanta suburb of Sandy Springs shortly before he passed away in March 2020 to be closer to his medical team. Now the opulent French Country-style residence is up for sale, asking a dash under $2.5 million. The listing is held by Thom McCorkle of Ansley Real Estate Christie’s International.

    The stucco and stone-accented home clocks in at nearly 6,000 square feet.

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    Records show Rogers’s widow Wanda Rogers-Webb purchased the property in October 2019 for $1.7 million and subsequently renovated the premises, which included adding a custom-built elevator to help the ailing musician better navigate the multi-story house. The six-bedroom, six-bath home rests amid a cul-de-sac parcel spanning over half an acre and is fronted by a tiered fountain surrounded by manicured boxwood hedges. Steps lead up to double front doors, which open into almost 6,000 square feet of living space.

    A grand double-height entry foyer displaying marble floors and a curving staircase flows to a turreted office space where Rogers conducted business and kept many of his music awards. Other highlights include formal living and dining rooms, as well as a gourmet kitchen boasting an eat-in island, high-end stainless appliances, a butler’s pantry with a wine fridge, and a window-lined breakfast nook.

    The singer kept many of his music awards in a turreted office space next to the foyer.

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    Elsewhere is a fireside family room, plus a lavish primary suite that comes complete with a private balcony and a luxe bath sporting a wet bar, dual vanities, and a lavish built-in soaking tub. A lower-level entertainment area has a movie theater, a climate-controlled wine cellar, and a game room with a kitchenette and a seated bar, while the private backyard hosts a covered loggia overlooking a waterfall-fed pool and spa. There’s also a three-car garage.

    Per WSJ, Rogers’s widow is selling because she has remarried and is relocating. “This home, sadly, was our last home with Kenny,” said Rogers-Webb, who was married to the singer for more than 20 years. “To make the decision to move was a little bittersweet for me and the boys.”

    During his decades-long career, the Texas native sold more than 100 records. His numerous country hits ranged from the breakthrough single Lucille, which was released when he was 38 years old, to The Gambler, which has been called “one of the most popular singalong songs in the world.” Also topping the pop charts were Lady, written and produced by Lionel Richie, and Islands in the Stream, composed by the Bee Gees and performed by Dolly Parton.

    In addition to three Grammy awards, recognition for lifetime achievement by the Country Music Association, and induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2013, the musician also dabbled in acting and photography. He even co-founded the chicken restaurant chain Kenny Rogers Roasters, which now operates overseas.

    Click here for more photos of Kenny Rogers’s Sandy Springs home.

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