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      Jackie Collins’s Former Beverly Hills Home Can Be Yours for $66 Million

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      Almost 10 years after Jackie Collins succumbed to breast cancer at age 77, a Beverly Hills trophy estate best known as the longtime home of the bestselling British romance novelist and younger sister of actress Dame Joan Collins has popped up for sale with a substantial $66 million price tag. The listing is held by Richard Maslan and Susan Smith of Carolwood Estates.

      Custom-built for the “Hollywood Wives” writer and her second husband, nightclub owner and theater and film producer Oscar Lerman, in collaboration with noted architect Ardie Tavangarian, the residence was inspired by the clean lines and pop-art color blocking of David Hockney’s pool painting titled “A Bigger Splash.” It was completed in the early 1990s, shortly before Lerman died from prostate cancer.

      An employee gazes upon David Hockney’s painting “A Bigger Splash” on display at the Tate Britain in London.

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      Upon the death of Collins in 2015, her three daughters inherited the estate. The property sold the following year for $21 million to real estate investor Ben Nehmadi and his wife Bita, who spent five years and around $25 million gut-renovating the premises, according to The Wall Street Journal. The couple also paid an additional $9 million in an off-market deal for a neighboring house also owned by Collins’s estate. It had long been leased by actor Al Pacino and is now on the market separately for $16 million.

      Tucked away behind walls and gates in 90210’s desirable Flats neighborhood, the property includes a modern mansion and a spacious guesthouse spread across just under an acre of land facing the Hollywood Hills. There is a total of seven bedrooms and 14 baths in roughly 21,000 square feet of Gavin Brodin-designed living space punctuated with Italian marble and bespoke woodwork.

      The home’s main living area boasts a marble fireplace, seated wet bar and access to the outdoors.

      Marc Angeles

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      A towering marble and bronze door pivots open into the two-story residence, which is introduced via a double-height foyer displaying a built-in aquarium and a curving staircase resting beneath a massive chandelier. From there, an expansive fireside living and entertaining area comes with a seated wet bar and pocketing doors spilling out to a terrace, while the formal dining room features a glassy wine display.

      A bookshelf-clad family room flows to the gourmet kitchen, which is outfitted with a pair of islands, top-tier Miele and Sub-Zero appliances, and a breakfast nook with access to an alfresco dining space, while an upstairs primary suite spanning around 2,500 square feet sports a balcony, a cozy lounge area warmed by a fireplace, an adjoining office, and dual walk-in closets and baths.

      The sprawling primary suite has a pool-view balcony and its own fireside seating area.

      Marc Angeles

      RELATED: This Striking $24.5 Million L.A. Mansion Has Sweeping Views of the Pacific

      Connected to the main house via a lengthy art gallery is the two-level guesthouse, which includes offices and a manager’s suite, plus a gym, sauna, and screening room. Topping it all off are the newly landscaped grounds, which are showcased by a pool and spa nestled alongside an open-air cabana equipped with a kitchen and bar setup, along with a spacious motor court flanked by two garages that can accommodate up to six vehicles.

      Per WSJ, the founder and managing principal of Republic Investment Company and his spouse are selling because they travel often and don’t spend enough time in the Beverly Hills home.

      Click here for more photos of the 90210 estate.

      Marc Angeles

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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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      The Strokes’ Albert Hammond Jr. Lists His Revamped L.A. Home for $2.9 Million

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      Albert Hammond Jr. doled out just over $1.8 million for a dated little number perched high in the Hollywood Hills back in 2019. Since then, the house has undergone a dramatic remodel and is essentially brand new from top to bottom. Now the Los Angeles-born guitarist for The Strokes and his longtime wife Justyna are walkin’ out that door and hoisting the revamped modern spread on the market with an asking price of nearly $2.9 million.

      Perched on a promontory high above the Sunset Strip, amid a parcel spanning almost half an acre and accessible via a gated driveway that flows to an attached two-car garage, the all-white stucco structure was built in 1977 and updated by the local design firm Fine Craftsmanship. Inside, four bedrooms and four baths are draped across 2,605 square feet of multi-level living space accented with hardwood floors, 20-foot ceilings, interior windows, and vast expanses of glass offering picturesque views that encompass Universal Studios, the Hollywood Sign, and beyond.

      Main-level highlights include a brick-clad foyer that steps up to a dining area and a sleek kitchen furnished with top-tier Wolf and Sub-Zero appliances, plus a separate windowed prep area. A bedroom with its own bath is tucked away behind the kitchen, while steps lead up to a fireside living room sporting a custom bookshelf wall with a rolling library ladder, a drop-down projector screen for watching movies, and sliding glass doors opening to a patio.

      The pitched ceiling soars to over 20 feet high over the dining area and kitchen.

      Carter Tanton

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      Two additional en suite bedrooms on the top floor of the house include a primary suite featuring a private balcony, a walk-in closet, and a sky-lit bath equipped with dual vanities, a spa tub, and a steam shower, and elsewhere is an office/den loft that could be used as a fourth bedroom.

      Rounding out the listing held by Robert Kallick and Sara Kaye Sexton of Compass are the secluded grounds, where you’ll find terraced and landscaped gardens paired with multiple patios hosting a pool and spa, as well as a barrel-style sauna, a cold plunge, and an outdoor shower.

      In addition to their Hollywood Hills home, the Hammonds also own a two-bedroom condo in the Century City neighborhood of L.A. that they picked up in spring 2020 for $1.6 million.

      Click here for more photos of the Hollywood Hills home.

      Carter Tanton

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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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      Gwyneth Paltrow’s Los Angeles Home Just Sold for $22 Million

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      Around seven months after it first hit the market for nearly $30 million and subsequently underwent a price chop, Gwyneth Paltrow’s longtime Los Angeles home in the Lower Mandeville Canyon area of Brentwood has sold to an unidentified buyer for $22 million. And though that’s considerably less than she originally wanted, it’s still a whopping $12 million more than the Goop CEO and her now ex-husband, Chris Martin of Coldplay fame, paid for the 1950s spread almost 13 years ago, back in spring 2012.

      Since then, the Oscar-winning actress and lifestyle guru has extensively renovated and expanded the premises with a one-bedroom guesthouse sporting a climate-controlled wine cellar, plus an office, a gym, a game room, and a movie theater. An apartment also rests atop the detached two-car garage.

      Resting amid a parcel spanning roughly two-thirds of an acre and described in marketing materials as “Southern Transitional,” the Windsor Smith-designed abode offers eight bedrooms and 11 baths in almost 13,000 square feet of single-level living space boasting reclaimed wood floors and patterned stonework throughout.

      The separate one-bedroom guesthouse includes a wine cellar, an office, a gym, a game room, and a movie theater.

      Anthony Barcelo

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      Among the highlights is a spacious living room with French doors spilling out to a backyard holding a plunge pool, as well as a bookshelf-lined family room. The gourmet kitchen is outfitted with an eat-in island, a breakfast nook, double cooktops and ranges, and a wood-burning oven, while a secluded primary wing has dual bedrooms and baths.

      Paltrow has shared the digs with her husband, writer-producer Brad Falchuk, since they were wed in 2018. The couple, who have four grown children between them, also own dwellings in the seaside California enclave of Montecito and in Amagansett, N.Y.

      The residence, which sits right next door to a modern farmhouse-style spread that was purchased by rapper and songwriter Kendrick Lamar for more than $40 million, was listed by Lea Porter of The Beverly Hills Estates. Richard Ehrlich of Carolwood Estates repped the buyer.

      Click here for more photos of the Brentwood home.

      Anthony Barcelo

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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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      Sidney Poitier’s Former Fifth Avenue Duplex Just Listed for $11.5 Million

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      More than 20 years after Academy Award-winning actor Sidney Poitier scooped up an apartment on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, the park-view duplex residence has popped back up for sale.

      On the market for $11.5 million with Corcoran’s Chris Kann, Poitier and his wife, Joanna, paid just $2.5 million for the Fifth Avenue pad back in 1994. According to New York Magazine, Poitier bought the apartment so they could be closer to their daughters, who were attending NYU at the time. After graduation, the family decided to relocate to Los Angeles, and Poitier sold the home in 2001 for $5 million to an art-collecting couple who already lived in the building. Now that the owners have passed, the unit is being offered by their estate.

      The apartment sits just above the treeline with open views over Central Park.

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      Poitier’s former pre-war co-op is positioned right across from Central Park and the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir. Altogether, the spacious abode features five bedrooms and seven bathrooms spread across its two floors. Interestingly, it’s the only home in the building with six rooms, not to mention three bathrooms, that face the park.

      The home itself is accessed via a semi-private elevator that opens to a small foyer and an ample stair gallery. Just inside, a massive double living room that is roughly 25 feet square with a charming wood-burning fireplace, a wet bar, and sweeping skyline views thanks to three oversized single-pane picture windows. The nearby formal dining room leads to a windowed eat-in chef’s kitchen configured around a large central island. Additionally, this level holds two bedroom suites and a sculptural staircase that curls up to the second floor.

      The primary suite includes two walk-in closets and a dressing room.

      Sonia Paulino Love/MW Studio

      Upstairs, the spacious primary bedroom is complete with two huge walk-in closets, a dressing room with additional closet space, a fireplace, and a roomy bath. Two more en suite bedrooms are joined by a wood-paneled library that doubles as a media room and a service wing with a large laundry room, a home office, a bathroom, and a tiny staff bedroom easily converted to a gym or meditation space.

      The landmarked building at 1158 Fifth Avenue was originally designed by architects Howard Krane and Kenneth Franzheim in 1924. The French Renaissance-style structure in Manhattan’s Carnegie Hill sports a beautiful lobby staffed by full-time doormen and concierges, a fitness center, and bicycle storage.

      Click here to see more photos of the Fifth Avenue cooperative. 

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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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      ‘The Bachelor’ Alum Colton Underwood Lists His L.A. Home for $4.2 Million

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      Colton Underwood and Jordan C. Brown plunked down nearly $3.2 million for a traditional Los Angeles residence in the San Fernando Valley community of Sherman Oaks back in late 2021. Now, a little over three years and a substantial renovation later, the former NFL hopeful-turned-reality TV personality—probably best known for starring in the 2019 season […] More

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      Former NBA Star Dwight Howard’s $11.3 Million Georgia Mansion Includes a Custom Snake Room

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      After a little more than seven years of ownership, Dwight Howard is officially bouncing out of his Georgia estate. The eight-time NBA All-Star and former Los Angeles Lakers center—he’s currently pushing for a return stint with the West Coast team—has just hoisted his European-style residence tucked away in the suburban community of Suwanee, some 35 miles northeast of Atlanta, on the market for a dash under $11.3 million. Kelly Anderson of Engel & Volkers Atlanta holds the listing.

      Built over five years for a reported $40 million and completed in 2010, the property was initially listed in early 2014 for $15 million. The place subsequently underwent several price chops before eventually selling in 2016 to the then-Atlanta Hawks player at a discounted $8.8 million, according to Atlanta Business Chronicle, which first reported the listing.

      Howard’s skylight-topped snake room was custom-built by a team from Animal Planet’s “Tanked” show.

      Danielle Atkinson/Dimensional Productions

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      Secluded behind two gated entrances amid a 14-acre parcel, the stately red brick structure is fronted by an oval cobblestone driveway that wraps around a fountain-laced lawn. Inside, 10 bedrooms and a whopping 21 baths are sprawled across a little more than 32,400 square feet of living space. Glitzy amenities include an elevator that travels to all three levels, an entire room dedicated to housing exotic snakes, multiple kitchens, a game room, a movie theater, a bath with a steam shower and barber area, a gym, a bevy of guest apartments, and a garage complex that can accommodate up to 10 vehicles.

      Introducing the home is a foyer displaying a sweeping central staircase topped by a designer chandelier, with rich hardwood floors flowing to formal living and dining rooms. Other highlights include a main kitchen outfitted with a large scullery, a walk-in pantry flaunting an automated shelving system, Sub-Zero and Viking appliances, and a separate breakfast room. Another full kitchen nearby opens onto a covered porch that sports an outdoor kitchen.

      The purple-hued primary bedroom has an elaborate fireplace and a covered balcony.

      Danielle Atkinson/Dimensional Productions

      The swanky main-floor primary suite comes with its own fireplace, covered balcony, and dual walk-in closets and baths, while the upper level holds additional ensuite bedrooms, entertainment spaces, and yet another kitchen. There’s also an attic space lined with custom cabinetry.

      As for the resort-like grounds, expect a heated saltwater pool flanked by a brick-clad seating area hosting a massive stone fireplace and a kitchen-equipped pool house that’s currently being used as a gym, plus a half-court basketball setup, extensive gardens, and a private lake for fishing and paddle boating.

      The large saltwater pool sits next to a pool house that’s been converted into a gym.

      Danielle Atkinson/Dimensional Productions

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      Currently a free agent, Howard was originally drafted first overall in 2004 by the Orlando Magic, where he led the team to the 2009 NBA finals. The 39-year-old Atlanta native went on to play for the Los Angeles Lakers in 2012, spending three separate one-year stints with the team and winning the NBA Finals in 2020. He’s also been with the Houston Rockets, Atlanta Hawks, Charlotte Hornets, Washington Wizards, Philadelphia 76ers, and most recently, the Taoyuan Leopards in Taiwan.

      Click here for more photos of the suburban Atlanta mansion.

      Danielle Atkinson/Dimensional Productions

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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 Hollywood Composer’s Coastal California Compound Hits the Market for $16.8 Million

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      Back in the late 1980s, Grammy-winning film composer Alan Silvestri and his wife Sandra fell in love with a particularly dreamy estate tucked away in Central California’s affluent Carmel Highlands enclave and knew they had to make the picturesque spread their own.

      The couple wound up purchasing the century-old property for $1.9 million and spent the next decade restoring and renovating every inch of the place, all while working and living on the site, raising three children, and even launching Silvestri Vineyards nearby. Now, almost 16 years later, they are putting the fully transformed compound on the market for $16.8 million. Shelly Mitchell Lynch of Carmel Realty Company holds the listing.

      Silvestri used a Steinway piano in the living room to compose soundtracks for several memorable films.

      Carmel Realty Company

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      “We were struck by how beautiful it was, and the air and the ocean and wildness and everything,” Sandra related in a recent issue of Carmel Realty’s in-house magazine. Added Alan, who was hoping to relocate from Los Angeles while continuing his successful career scoring soundtracks for movies like Romancing the Stone, Back to the Future, and Who Framed Roger Rabbit: “We took a leap. There was no doubt about that. We didn’t know how my business was going to react to it.

      “The first confirmation we had was [while I was composing] my first film in the house, The Abyss,” he said. “When we saw [director] James Cameron driving down the driveway, we knew, ‘Okay, he was willing to come here and maybe this will work out.’ ”

      The main stone and wood-trimmed home features an expansive rear deck that steps down to a pool.

      Carmel Realty Company

      Perched atop a gated knoll resting between two secluded roads on the eastern side of Highway 1, near beaches and the charming downtown village of Carmel-by-the-Sea, the 14-acre compound features a main home inspired by the historic Ahwahnee hotel in Yosemite and a trio of guesthouses—for a total of nine bedrooms and 12 baths filtered across roughly 12,000 square feet overlooking sweeping views of Point Lobos and the Pacific Ocean beyond.

      Within the 5,697-square-foot primary dwelling are five bedrooms and six baths, as well as dual offices, a fireside family room that flows to a dining area and a breakfast nook-equipped kitchen, and a spacious living room that currently houses a Steinway piano on which Silvestri has written music for Back to the Future, Forrest Gump, The Polar Express and The Avengers, among others. The basement is used for storing wine, while the woodsy grounds host a pool and spa, a tennis/pickleball court, and three separate garages with room for up to seven vehicles.

      A small log cabin on the property once served as a schoolhouse for local children.

      Carmel Realty Company

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      Guest accommodations include The Cottage, a 774-square-foot log cabin that once served as a schoolhouse for local children, and the castle-like Turret House, a 641-square-foot studio space that comes with a stainless spiral staircase leading down to a subterranean garage. Clocking in at a little more than 5,000 square feet on three levels, The Studio House features a media lounge up top and a two-bedroom, two-bath apartment with its own kitchen and laundry on the main level, plus multiple offices and a recording studio down below.

      Click here for more photos of the Carmel Highlands estate.

      Carmel Realty Company

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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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