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      Sylvester Stallone Snaps Up a $35 Million Palm Beach Estate

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      It’s definitely no foxhole in the Vietnamese jungle! The evergreen, ever-buff movie star that is Sylvester Stallone appears to have joined the growing bandwagon of ungodly rich celebs heading to high-nosed and insanely wealthy Palm Beach, Fla., seeking a sun-soaked, tax-friendly lifestyle. Like Palm Beachers before them Sly and his wife Jennifer Flavin opened the floodgates of their bank accounts with the hefty $35.4 million purchase of a waterfront estate, as was initially reported by the Palm Beach Daily News.
      The gated Bermuda-style compound was built in 2014 and sprawls across roughly 1.5 landscaped acres with an attractive cross-hatch patterned motor court lined with tropical plantings. Just walking the palm-tree-clustered grounds of the more-than 13,200-square-foot, seven-bedroom, 12-bathroom property is likely to be a good calorie burn for the gym obsessed septuagenarian action flick superstar. In addition to the main house, the estate includes two guest houses, one of them a stand-alone waterside pavilion, plus an open-air cabana that faces a keyhole-shaped pool surrounded by manicured lawns and swaying palms. A separate semi-circular spa is sited just a few feet away from the sandy water’s edge.
      One of the home’s spacious bathrooms.  Realtor.com

      A spacious living room sports vast expanses of floor-to-ceiling windows and lustrous wood cladding on the ceiling, while the seller’s Basquiat painting adds arty sophistication to the formal dining room that easily seats fourteen. With sleek, premium-quality designer appliances and striated wood cabinets polished to a light-reflecting sheen, the kitchen is plenty roomy enough to float a table in the center of the room for casual family meals.
      Upstairs, the spacious master bedroom takes in shimmering water views and incorporates a bedroom-sized walk-in closet and dressing room, and an en-suite master bath that showcases two walls of windows around a soaking tub and glass enclosed shower area. A nearby fitness room is a long way from the sweaty Philly boxing rings where Rocky cut his teeth.
      Wood-clad cathedral ceilings add grandeur to the detached guest pavilion that comprises an airy lounge with lacquered wet bar and fireplace. French doors dramatically open to estate’s 250 feet of private water frontage.
      The home’s in-ground pool.  Realtor.com

      According to the Palm Beach Daily News, Sly purchased the property from Ronald and Cindy McMackin — owners of Pan-Pacific Mechanical, an obviously very successful pipe design and manufacturing concern — who paid $26.65 million for the posh spread in September 2018. The 24-month mark-up of almost $10 million is indicative of the stratospheric price increases in South Florida’s luxury market. Broker Lawrence Moens of Lawrence A. Moens Associates represented the McMackins in the sale of the property, which was listed at $37.85 million. Interestingly enough, Moens was once the owner of the poperty, expanding its construction when he took it on from original developer in 2012 with the intent of completing it for his own use. Christian Angle of Christian Angle Real Estate represented Stallone and Flavin.
      Stallone, who has a long history with the south Florida area and sold a grand estate near Coconut Grove in 1999 for $16.2 million, has long made his primary home in the over-the-top gated community of Beverly Park in Beverly Hills, Calif., where his nearby neighbors include Paul Reiser and the longtime home of late media and entertainment tycoon Sumner Redstone. Until last summer, he and Flavin also maintained an almost 4,900-square-foot getaway in an elite and guard-gated golf club the upscale California desert community of La Quinta that was acquired a decade ago for $4.5 million and, after several failed attempts, finally sold for $3.15 million, a nearly $1.5 million loss. See more photos of the home below:
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      Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch, Once Priced at $100 Million, Finally Sells for $22 Million

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      After years of never landing a buyer, Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch has finally sold.
      The infamous estate, which is located roughly 40 miles from Santa Barbara, was snapped up by American billionaire Ron Burkle for the relatively modest sum of $22 million, according to the Wall Street Journal. The property has been on and off the market since it was first listed five years ago and has experienced several price cuts on the way to this sale.

      Jackson originally purchased the Los Olivos estate in 1987 and paid approximately $19.5 million. He then set about turning it into a whimsical wonderland, which went on to become nearly as famous as the King of Pop himself. Following the sexual abuse allegations against Jackson and his subsequent death in 2009, the property was renamed Sycamore Valley Ranch by its co-owners, Jackson’s estate and real estate investment trust Colony Capital, and listed for $100 million in 2015.

      An aerial view of Neverland Ranch.  Chris Carlson/AP

      The property failed to sell and was listed for the heavily discounted price of $31 million in February 2019. That same month HBO premiered the documentary Finding Neverland in which two men claim Jackson molested them at the Neverland Ranch when they were children. Now, Burkle, a former acquaintance of the singer and co-founder of the investment firm Yucaipa Companies, has nabbed the property at a significant discount, according to public records and people familiar with the deal.
      A spokesperson for Burkle told the WSJ that the purchase was an “opportunity” for the entrepreneur to add to his growing California property portfolio. The 68-year-old also helms Soho House and is reportedly on the hunt for new locations for exclusive clubhouses and retreats. It’s unclear whether the ranch was acquired for that purpose, though it certainly features all the requisite luxury amenities.
      Spanning roughly 2,700 acres, Sycamore Valley Ranch is crowned by an expensive 12,000-square-foot mansion and features about 22 accompanying structures, including several guesthouses. It also features a 50-seat movie theater, a 3,700 square-foot pool house and swimming pool, a basketball court, a tennis court, a “Disney-style” train station and even a zoo.
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      The kitchen in the main house.  Carolyn Kaster/AP

      The master bedroom in the main house that was once used by Michael Jackson.  Carolyn Kaster/AP

      The swimming pool behind the main house.  Carolyn Kaster/AP

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      Candice Bergen Just Listed Her Lush East Hampton Hideaway for $18 Million

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      Seller: Candice Bergen, Marshall RoseLocation: East Hampton, N.Y.Price: $18 millionSize: (approx.) 4,500 square feet, 5 bedrooms, 5.5 bathrooms plus 1-bed/1-bath guesthouseArchitect: Cooper Robertson PartnersInterior: Cullman & Kravis
      Hollywood mandarin Candice Bergen and Manhattan real estate magnate Marshall Rose have hung an $18 million price tag on their home in the Hamptons. Set on 1.8 carefully groomed acres along one of the most posh streets in über-swank East Hampton, the cedar-shingled cottage was designed by Jaque T. Robertson of Cooper Robertson Partners and built in the mid-1980s for Rose and his first wife, Jill, who passed away in 1996. Bergen, whose own first husband, celebrated French film director Louis Malle, passed away in 1995, became the lady of the house sometime around the time she and Rose were married in 2000.

      The couple embarked on a comprehensive renovation in 2004 that was also spearheaded by Robertson, with the interiors done up, according to a 2007 feature in Architectural Digest, by Elissa Cullman of Cullman & Kravis. The goal was to keep the original spirit of the house but to give it a more casual, easy-going livability that reflected the personalities of both of its occupants. Listings held by Ed Petrie and Charles Forsman of Compass show that much of the fastidiously kept and eminently comfortable folk-art filled spaces remain all but untouched over the last dozen or so years.
      Like most of homes in East Hampton, the Rose-Bergen estate hides behind a rigorously trimmed hedgerow and the dense canopies of mature specimen trees. There are a total of six bedrooms and six and a half bathrooms between the roughly 4,500-square-foot main house and detached guesthouse.
      The home’s light-filled kitchen.  Outeast.com

      Light fills the not-particularly-formal living room of the main residence thanks to floor-to-ceiling windows, while the dining room, which does double duty as a library with a wall of bookshelves, flows into a second window-wrapped sitting room that spills out to the backyard. A gigantic pot rack hangs over a long work island in the kitchen — mind your noggins! — where wooden countertops are paired with commercial-style stainless steel appliances. The adjacent breakfast room’s walls of windows look out over the gardens.
      A second-floor lounge is a quietly sociable hub between several comfortably appointed guest bedrooms and the homeowner’s retreat. The spacious main suite, which features over-scaled plaid carpeting beneath a raised ceiling, also includes a dressing room with built-in dressers and a cottage-style marble-appointed bathroom sheathed in humble beadboard.

      At the back, the Dutch Gambrel roof overhangs a deep porch that runs the full width of the house and overlooks a football-field-sized stretch of manicured lawn bordered by flowering gardens. Off to one side, a cupola tops the charming guesthouse that contains an airy open-plan living area. And, secreted behind the guesthouse amid dense gardens is a sun-dappled swimming pool.
      Nominated for an Oscar for the 1979 romcom “Starting Over” and the winner of five Emmys for her titular role in the late 1980s and ‘90s sitcom “Murphy Brown,” and its short-lived 2018 reboot, Bergen and Rose also maintain a home in one of the most prestigious co-operative apartment houses along Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue, the same white-glove building where Jackie Kennedy famously resided for 30 years before her 1994 death. Digital records suggest Rose has owned the generously terraced high-floor spread since at least the late 1970s and occupied it with his first wife before Bergen.
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      Robert Herjavec Lists $17 Million Modern Farmhouse Style New Build In Hidden Hills, California

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      LOCATION: 24400 Little Valley Road, Hidden Hills, California
      SQUARE FOOTAGE: 14,400
      BEDROOMS & BATHROOMS: 7 bedrooms & 9 bathrooms
      PRICE: $17,250,000
      This newly built modern farmhouse style home is located at 24400 Little Valley Road in Hidden Hills, California and is situated on 1.7 acres of land. It is owned by businessman Robert Herjavec

      It features approximately 14,400 square feet of living space with 7 bedrooms, 9 bathrooms, great room, formal dining room, gourmet kitchen with double islands, family room, office, home theater, gym, 10+ car subterranean garage and more. There is also a small detached guest house.
      Outdoor features include patios and a swimming pool with spa.
      It is listed at $17,250,000. More

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      Melissa & Joe Gorga Sell New Jersey Home For $2.5 Million (PHOTOS)

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      LOCATION: 8 Pond View, Montville, New Jersey
      SQUARE FOOTAGE: 9,000+
      BEDROOMS & BATHROOMS: 6 bedrooms & 8 bathrooms
      SELLING PRICE: $2,500,000 (last listed at $2,948,888)
      RHONJ stars Melissa & Joe Gorga have just sold their New Jersey home for $2.5 million after years of being on & off the market.

      Located at 8 Pond View in Montville, New Jersey, the luxurious home sits on over 2 acres of land. It was built in 2009 and features over 9,000 square feet of living space with 6 bedrooms, 7 full and 1 half bathrooms, 2-story foyer with double staircase, 2-story great room, formal dining room, gourmet kitchen, breakfast room, family room, library, billiards room, home theater, lounge with wet bar & wine cellar, recording studio, gym, 4-car garage and more.
      Outdoor features include a porte-cochere, patios, kitchen/BBQ and a swimming pool. More

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      The Weeknd’s Sprawling California Estate Just Got a $3 Million Price Chop

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      Size: 12,547 square feet, 9 bedrooms, 11 bathrooms
      Year: 2017

      The Grammys didn’t come calling this year, but Canadian singer-songwriter Abel Tesfaye, better known as The Weeknd, is still looking for a win in guard-gated Hidden Hills, Calif., where he owns a 12,500-square-foot mansion.
      Tesfaye has been trying to sell the place for six long months, initially with a too optimistic price of nearly $25 million. The ask has now been slashed to just a hair under $22 million, though that discounted number is still significantly above the $18.2 million he paid for the 2.9-acre estate in July 2017.
      Back then, the compound was newly built, and the “Can’t Feel My Face” crooner has since put his custom spin on things. The seven-bedroom main house has an attached five-car garage that’s been transformed into a Vegas-inspired auto gallery with turquoise LED light strips embedded in the epoxy floors.
      The home’s massive wine storage room.  Redfin

      Inside, the contemporary farmhouse offers light-flooded spaces with enormous windows and chalk-white walls, plus a stylish mix of wood and stone flooring. The formal living and dining rooms both offer white marble fireplaces, and the gourmet kitchen includes two giant islands as well as the requisite array of commercial-grade stainless appliances.
      Perhaps the home’s most dramatic room is the climate-controlled wine cellar, which is backlit disco-style with deep violet LED lighting. Also on the premises: a home theater, a gym and a family room with convenient wet bar. Out back, a heated al fresco dining terrace fronts a broad emerald green lawn, while the negative-edge swimming pool includes a Baja shelf and stone patio surround. The adjacent pool house has its own outdoor fireplace, plus a full outdoor kitchen with BBQ. Tucked up into the hillside at the far rear of the estate is a full-size basketball court and a barn.
      Angel Salvador at The Agency holds the listing. See more photos of the home below:
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      The Late Barron Hilton’s Los Angeles Home Lists For $75 Million

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      LOCATION: 1060 Brooklawn Drive, Los Angeles, California
      SQUARE FOOTAGE: 15,011
      BEDROOMS & BATHROOMS: 13 bedrooms & 17 bathrooms
      PRICE: $75,000,000
      The home of the late William Barron Hilton has hit the market for $75 million. Hilton was the second son and successor of hotelier Conrad Hilton and he was the chairman, president and chief executive officer of Hilton Hotels Corporation.

      Located at 1060 Brooklawn Drive in Los Angeles, California and situated on 2.5 acres of land, the historic home was built in 1936 and boasts approximately 15,011 square feet of living space with 13 bedrooms, 17 bathrooms, foyer with staircase, elevator, formal living & dining rooms, gourmet kitchen, breakfast room, den, billiards room, garage and more.
      Outdoor features include a gated entrance, 2 motor courts, balconies/patios, swimming pool, pool house, tennis court reflecting pools and fountains. More

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      Ryan Seacrest Lists Beverly Hills Estate For $85 Million (PHOTOS)

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      LOCATION: Cabrillo Drive, Beverly Hills, California
      SQUARE FOOTAGE: 9,000 (main house)
      BEDROOMS & BATHROOMS: 7 bedrooms & 10 bathrooms (all buildings)
      PRICE: $85,000,000
      American radio personality, television host and producer Ryan Seacrest has just listed his Beverly Hills estate for $85 million. Seacrest purchased the property from fellow TV personality Ellen DeGeneres for $36.5 million and Ellen purchased it in 2012 from Will & Grace creator Max Mutchnick for $39 million.

      The nearly 3 acre property boasts a main house, 2 guest houses, pool house, detached gym and a subterranean garage.
      The main house boasts approximately 9,000 square feet of living space with 4 bedrooms, 6 bathrooms, great room, formal dining room, office, media room and more.
      Outdoor features include a gated entrance, motor court, patios, swimming pool, gardens and a reflecting pond. More