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Legendary Golfer Bobby Jones’s Former Atlanta Mansion Can Be Yours for $9.8 Million
Way back in the 1930s, soon after he had put up his shingle as a professional attorney, amateur golfer Robert Tyre “Bobby” Jones Jr. capped off a 14-year playing career by achieving a Grand Slam, a feat that consisted of winning the era’s four major championships in the same year. He went on to retire from competition at the height of his career and then settled down in a home that was gifted to him by the city of Atlanta as a reward for his success on the links.
Though Jones passed away in December 1971 at age 69—and was laid to rest at a local cemetery in a grave scattered with golf balls regularly left by his adoring fans—that historic residence still stands in the tony Tuxedo Park neighborhood of Buckhead. Fully renovated a few months ago for an appearance in Atlanta Homes & Lifestyles magazine’s Homes for the Holidays Showhouse, the classic Colonial-style abode just popped up on the market for a stroke under $9.8 million.
An entrance gallery introduces the home, which features 7,500 square feet of updated living space.
Courtesy Bonneau Ansley/Ansley Real Estate Christie’s Internationa
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“The new owners of 3488 Tuxedo are going to have an incredibly stylish, meticulously expanded and modernized home, and a legendary story to tell,” says listing agent Bonneau Ansley of Ansley Real Estate at Christie’s International Real Estate. “Imagine having cocktails in your speakeasy and study, where the legendary Bobby Jones dreamed up Augusta National and the Masters Tournament. An extraordinary piece of Atlanta history.”
Last sold in spring 2024 for $2.6 million to Brown Trout Development LLC, according to Atlanta Business Chronicle, and subsequently transformed by a team that included Firelight Homes, Tish Mills Interiors, and Kirk Designs, the white brick-clad structure is tucked away on a 1.6-acre parcel of land laced with mature trees. A gated driveway adorned with the original pavers leads to a motor court and a new three-car garage, and double front doors open into 7,500 square feet of two-level living space boasting five bedrooms and nine baths.
A teal lacquered speakeasy sits next to the home’s study, which is clad in red oak paneling.
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Among the main-level highlights is a black and white tiled entrance gallery, which leads to formal living and dining rooms. A fireside family room connects to an eat-in kitchen outfitted with the latest Wolf range and a prep pantry, while a study clad in century-old refurbished red oak paneling flows to a speakeasy finished in green lacquer, and a vaulted primary suite features a marble bath flaunting a sauna, a steam shower, and a cantilevered soaking tub.
Additional bedrooms and baths can be found upstairs, while the terrace level sports a billiards room, a wine cellar, a golf simulator, a gym, and access to grassy grounds hosting a sundeck-encased pool and spa flanked by an open-air cabana. In a special nod to Jones, there’s even a practice green replicating Augusta National’s No. 12 hole that’s part of the course’s iconic “Amen Corner.”
A putting green replicates Augusta National Golf Club’s No. 12 hole.
Courtesy Bonneau Ansley/Ansley Real Estate Christie’s Internationa
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Despite being a lifelong amateur, Jones won the Southern Open in 1930 and proceeded to complete a Grand Slam that year by also capturing the British Amateur, British Open, U.S. Open, and U.S. Amateur championships.
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Courtesy Bonneau Ansley/Ansley Real Estate Christie’s Internationa
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Wendy Bowman
Wendy Bowman is a real estate writer at Robb Report. Before that, she was a freelancer for Modern Luxury and several other media outlets, where she primarily covered luxury properties for…
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Fleetwood Mac Legend Christine McVie’s London Penthouse Hits the Market for $9 Million
“I don’t sing about politics or anything like that. I sing about love.”
While the sweet statement once made by late Fleetwood Mac keyboardist and singer Christine McVie speaks to her true nature musically, the artist’s affection for contemporary design was more specifically captured in her London penthouse that’s just come up for sale at $8.9 million with Beauchamp Estates. The sunlit sanctuary’s posh amenities include a rooftop garden enveloped in greenery with open views over the city.
Formerly part of a band named Chicken Shack, Christine joined British-American rock band Fleetwood Mac in 1970. That was two years after marrying John McVie, the group’s bassist. As part of its classic lineup, she famously cranked out tunes alongside drummer Mick Fleetwood, singer Stevie Nicks, and singer/guitarist Lindsey Buckingham. Hit tracks Christine penned for the band include Don’t Stop and Songbird, among others.
The parquet-floored dining room has one of the home’s eight fireplaces.
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In 1988, McVie left the band after nearly 30 years to live in semi-retirement in a Grade II listed manor house in Kent. Shortly after making an appearance on stage with the band at London’s O2 arena in 2013, she rejoined the band for a world tour. As a result, she began spending more time in London, where she picked up the penthouse on Belgravia’s Eaton Place in 2015, after selling her estate in Kent.
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Refreshed by designer Simon Buhl Davis, the penthouse features a double reception room with two seating areas alongside a trio of sash windows that overlook Eaton Place. A doorway embellished with bespoke library joinery leads to the dining room, which seats up to ten guests atop light oak herringbone pattern parquet flooring. The Shaker-style kitchen nearby features yellow ceramic wall tiles, Gaggenau appliances, and a breakfast bar.
A skylight floods the primary bath with natural light.
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Eight marble fireplaces span the residence, in addition to 9-foot-tall ceilings and tall doors that open to well-appointed rooms like the primary suite. Fixed on the upper level, the bedroom sits beneath a vaulted ceiling, while the marble and tile bathroom sits below a skylight, and the glamorous dressing area comes lined with built-in wardrobes. There are two other bedrooms in the home, which is crowned by a rooftop garden that’s enveloped in mature plantings and overlooks the central district.
Privacy and security were priorities for the rock legend, who used the penthouse as a retreat when not on tour until her death at age 79 in 2022.
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Demetrius Simms
Demetrius Simms is a digital staff writer at Robb Report. Following a brief stint in public relations, their work has now appeared in lifestyle and culture publications such as Men’s Health, Complex…
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L.A. Clippers Point Guard Ben Simmons Lists His N.Y.C. Condo for $17 Million
Now that Ben Simmons has taken his skills to Los Angeles as a point guard for the Clippers, he no longer needs the New York City digs he resided in while he was suiting up for the Brooklyn Nets. So, the three-time NBA All-Star has decided to hand over the keys to his condo in the historic Dumbo neighborhood for a smidge under $17 million. The listing is held by M. Monica Novo of Douglas Elliman.
Simmons purchased two under-construction units for around $14 million in summer 2023 and then combined and customized them to suit his personal needs, according to The Wall Street Journal. Sited on the 21st floor of the 33-story Olympia Dumbo building, which was created by Fortis Property Group in collaboration with Hill West Architects and the design firm Workstead, the posh pad has five bedrooms and seven baths spread across a little more than 5,200 square feet of Widell & Boschetti-designed living space armed with a Savant home-automation system.
A 320-square-foot terrace offers picturesque views of the Manhattan skyline and New York Harbor.
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Other highlights include an entry foyer that flows via a hallway to a voluminous glass-lined great room opening out to an expansive terrace offering sweeping views of the Manhattan skyline, New York Harbor, and Statue of Liberty. Holding court here is a living area, a dining space with a wet bar and wine cooler tucked around the corner, and a kitchen outfitted with sleek maple cabinetry, a stone-topped eat-in island, and top-tier Gaggenau appliances.
Elsewhere are two bedrooms currently being used as a gym and an office, along with a terrace-accessible primary suite flaunting dual walk-in closets—one for dressing and another dedicated solely to sneakers—as well as an inviting bath spotlighted by dual vanities, a freestanding soaking tub, and a rainfall shower. Topping it all off is a soundproof movie theater equipped with a 100-inch screen and plush daybeds, plus an entertainment lounge sporting an 85-inch TV, a pool table, and another full kitchen.
An entertainment room features a kitchen and acrylic shelves displaying Simmons’ Bearbrick collection.
Tyler Stuart/The Real Estate Production Network for Douglas Elliman
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The new owner will also have access to plenty of amenities courtesy of $7,460 in monthly maintenance charges, including a 24-hour doorman and concierge, a bowling alley, a fitness center, two pools, a tennis court, and, perhaps its most coveted perk, a private parking spot.
Now with the L.A. Clippers, Simmons was originally drafted No. 1 overall in 2016 by the Philadelphia 76ers, where he received the NBA’s Rookie of the Year award. The 28-year-old Australia native went on to play for the Brooklyn Nets in 2022, with the team buying out the remainder of his contract in February and Simmons subsequently signing with the Clippers.
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Tyler Stuart/The Real Estate Production Network for Douglas Elliman
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Wendy Bowman
Wendy Bowman is a real estate writer at Robb Report. Before that, she was a freelancer for Modern Luxury and several other media outlets, where she primarily covered luxury properties for…
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Frank Lloyd Wright’s Former Apartment at The Plaza Can Be Yours for $18.9 Million
Of course, the architect of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum needed a chic Manhattan retreat.
Perched atop New York City’s famous Plaza Hotel, with breathtaking views of Central Park, a legendary residence once home to famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright is now on the market for $18.9 million with The Charlie Attias Team. This 4,000-square-foot corner residence, formerly known as the Frank Lloyd Wright Suite, gives you the rare opportunity to live in a piece of architectural history.
In 1954, Wright relocated to New York to work on the Guggenheim, and for five years before his 1959 death, the sprawling suite at the Plaza became his home away from home while in town working on what would be his final major work and arguably his most influential. According to Wright and New York by Anthony Alofsin, the architect and his wife, Olgivanna, moved into their suite at the Plaza after it was vacated by another renowned tenant, Gone with the Wind producer David O. Selznick, The New York Post reported. During their stay, Wright furnished the spacious, park-view rooms with his signature black-lacquer furniture, and he entertained a slew of notable visitors, including Georgia O’Keeffe, Marilyn Monroe, and Arthur Miller.
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The vast, light-filled living and dining room has leafy views of Central Park.
The Charlie Attias Team
Fast forward to today; the residence has undergone a stunning transformation. The fourth-floor unit was acquired in 2009 for $13 million by Lisa and James Cohen, who soon embarked on a comprehensive four-year renovation led by architect Louis Lisboa of VL Architects and interior designer Susanna Maggard. The redone space was hoisted onto the market in 2015 for $39.5 million, and the price dropped to $26 million before it was taken off the market the following year, records show.
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The dining area overlooks Pulitzer Plaza and the corner of Fifth Avenue and East 59th Street.
The Charlie Attias Team
With soaring 13-foot ceilings, Venetian plaster walls, and polished wood and stone floors, every detail has been meticulously installed with meticulous craftsmanship. The open living and dining areas together stretch to 45 feet, ideal for hosting elegant gatherings, and include an integrated audio system. The dining area is spacious enough for a baby grand piano, enhancing the home’s atmosphere of sophisticated entertaining. The sleek galley kitchen is outfitted with top-of-the-line appliances, bespoke cabinetry, and elegant stone worktops.
The primary bedroom is a sumptuous sanctuary with commanding views of Central Park, as well as a custom dressing room and a compartmentalized bathroom. Secondary bedrooms, along with a couple of bathrooms, a wet bar, and a laundry closet, are clustered at the opposite end of the apartment for maximum privacy.
Residents of the Plaza enjoy myriad five-star hotel services, including concierge access, 24-hour in-room dining, and access to The Palm Court’s landscaped gardens. The hotel, which first opened in 1907, has long been a temporary home to an impressive roster of notable names, from F. Scott Fitzgerald to the Beatles.
Click here to see more photos of the elegant home overlooking Central Park and Fifth Avenue.
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Abby Montanez
Abigail Montanez is a staff writer at Robb Report. She has worked in both print and digital publishing for over half a decade, covering everything from real estate, entertainment, dining, travel to…
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Al Pacino’s Former Beverly Hills Rental Home Is Up for Grabs at $16 Million
Earlier this year, the longtime Beverly Hills home of the late Jackie Collins hit the market for a whopping $66 million. A neighboring property the British romance novelist also owned and famously leased to Al Pacino simultaneously became available with Bobby Syed of Coldwell Banker Realty for a much more affordable $16 million.
Both places are currently owned by real estate investor Ben Nehmadi and his wife Bita, who purchased Collins’ primary residence and the Pacino-occupied house next door about a year after Collins’s 2015 death for $21 million and $9 million, respectively. The Triple Crown of Acting winner occupied the latter place for nearly 20 years, from 2006 until late 2024, calling the Hollywood Wives writer “the greatest landlord anyone could have.”
A lounge area has been decked out with framed posters from “The Godfather.”
Jack Bremen
Built in the early 1920s and since remodeled, most notably in 1938 by esteemed architect Douglas Honnold, the traditional six-bedroom, six-bath abode is securely tucked away behind a pedestrian entrance and a gated circular driveway, on almost three-quarters of an acre in the sought-after Flats neighborhood. Inside, roughly 5,300 square feet of two-level living space is easily showcased by a sprawling wood-paneled great room containing a fireside family room and an adjacent entertaining area with a seated bar.
Other highlights include a formal living area anchored by a fireplace, as well as a chandelier-topped dining room flaunting a curving picture window and pale blue walls complemented by white wainscoting. The white color palette continues in the kitchen, which boasts stained-glass windows, ceramic tile countertops, Wolf appliances, a separate prep area, and a breakfast nook.
An expansive brick terrace off the rear of the home features a built-in barbecue and fireplace.
Jack Bremen
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Elsewhere is an office sporting a fireplace and built-in shelving, along with an upstairs primary suite holding a walk-in closet and a decidedly dated bath with a glass and brass-accented shower. Outdoors, the private and grassy grounds host an alfresco lounging and dining terrace enhanced with a built-in barbecue and fireplace, a pool and spa, and a full-size tennis court, plus a porte-cochère leading to a detached two-car garage.
As for Pacino, who appeared last year in the Johnny Depp-directed film Modì, Three Days on the Wing of Madness, he is far from homeless. The 84-year-old New York native’s primary home remains a waterfront estate in the Palisades enclave of New York that he’s owned since the 1970s.
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Jack Bremen
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Wendy Bowman
Wendy Bowman is a real estate writer at Robb Report. Before that, she was a freelancer for Modern Luxury and several other media outlets, where she primarily covered luxury properties for…
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A $65 Million Miami Mansion With an Aquarium So Big a Scuba Diver Has to Clean It
Mr. Helberg is going to Washington.
Jacob Helberg, President Trump’s pick for undersecretary of state for growth, energy, and the environment, is putting his bayfront Florida home on the market for a cool $65 million. However, don’t expect to find it listed on the MLS just yet—Helberg is aiming for an off-market deal as he makes his move to Washington, D.C.
Helberg and his husband, venture capitalist Keith Rabois, purchased the Venetian Islands property in 2020 for around $29 million. Since then, they’ve poured about $15 million on customizations, including a jaw-dropping 5,600-gallon aquarium imported from Japan that cost the couple about $1 million, according to agent Julian Johnston of the Corcoran Group. The tank is so massive that it requires a scuba diver for maintenance, who enters through a hatch discreetly tucked away inside the closet of the primary bedroom.
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The 5,600-gallon aquarium stands between two spacious lounge areas overlooking the pool.
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The design, originally built for Andre Radandt, former president of Bolthouse Farms, the waterfront home is a masterclass in modern elegance. Completed in 2019, the six-bedroom contemporary spread spans an impressive 15,000 square feet. One of the most striking elements is the entrance—a bridge over a reflecting pool leading to a two-story wall with intricate cutout designs by sculptor Erwin Hauer. Other notable features include an infinity-edge pool, an outdoor kitchen, a private dock with a 55,000-pound boat lift, and a rooftop deck with a hot tub for soaking in the dreamy water views.
The open-plan kitchen and living area is also a showstopper, complete with a large island, casual dining space, and twin glass-enclosed wine cellars. The couple also added custom wood floors and calfskin wall panels, elevating the home’s sophisticated feel.
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Floor-to-ceiling windows offer up panorampic views over Biscayne Bay.
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A senior adviser to Palantir Technologies CEO Alex Karp, Helberg has yet to be confirmed in his new role within the administration. Meanwhile, Rabois continues to make waves as a venture capitalist, with investments in companies like Stripe and DoorDash. The couple’s love story goes beyond real estate—they tied the knot in 2018 in a ceremony officiated by OpenAI’s Sam Altman on the island of St. Barthélemy.
Helberg and Rabois recently acquired a seven-bedroom, circa-1912 home in D.C.’s Kalorama neighborhood near the French Embassy for approximately $7 million, according to property records. Kalorama has long been home to power couples like Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, as well as Barack and Michelle Obama. Billionaires like Jeff Bezos and former Trump officials such as David Sacks, Howard Lutnick, and Scott Bessent also reside nearby.
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Abby Montanez
Abigail Montanez is a staff writer at Robb Report. She has worked in both print and digital publishing for over half a decade, covering everything from real estate, entertainment, dining, travel to…
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