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      Cristiano Ronaldo Reportedly Scores a Multimillion-Dollar Mansion in Dubai

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      Cristiano Ronaldo is no stranger to luxury homes, and from the looks of his most recent real estate investment, the Portuguese soccer star is putting down roots in the United Arab Emirates following his first season with Saudi Arabian professional football club Al Nassr.  

      The fleet-footed forward, who inked a roughly $200 million-per-year deal with the Riyadh-based team, just purchased a mansion in Dubai, The Daily Mail reported. The 38-year-old striker’s alleged new, not yet built home is located on Jumeirah Bay Island, an exclusive man-made oasis known to locals as Billionaires Island, and is expected to be completed later this year, in 2024, people familiar with the neighborhood told Bloomberg. Currently, it’s unclear exactly how much Ronaldo paid for the swanky estate. However, word on the street is that he splashed out an estimated “tens of millions of euros” for the palatial property.  

      The seahorse-shaped gated community has become a playground for high-net-worth individuals in recent years, overshadowing other wealthy emirate enclaves, including Dubai Hills, Palm Jumeirah, and Emirates Hills, brokers told Bloomberg. Currently, the über-affluent neighborhood features a private yacht club, a beach resort, and several fine-dining restaurants, while developer Wissam Damaa of Palace Luxury Living and former SoftBank executive Akshay Naheta are in the midst of launching a collection of 10 luxury mega-mansions on the island, which are expected to sell for over $545 million collectively. 

      Cristiano Ronaldo dropped millions on a new home in Dubai’s gated Jumeirah Bay Island neighborhood.

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      Aside from Ronaldo, the secluded, sought-after community is already home to some incredibly deep-pocketed residents, including Saudi billionaire Mohammed Abdul Latif Jameel and Israeli businessman and real estate mogul Teddy Sagi. Also in the neighborhood is Isabel dos Santos, the daughter of the late former Angolan president José Eduardo dos Santos and once Africa’s richest woman.  

      Ronaldo, who topped Forbes’s list of the highest-paid professional athletes in 2023, has racked up quite the real estate portfolio with his impressive earnings. In addition to his new digs in the Middle East, the former Manchester United player and his longtime girlfriend Georgina Rodriguez own a lavish four-story home in Madrid’s prestigious La Finca neighborhood, where his initials are carved into the metal detailing on the entry gate (he’s put it on the rental market recently), and he’s building a $22 million mega-mansion in Portugal, where he plans to live once he retires. The expansive home is slated for completion this year and is expected to become the most expensive private residence in Portugal once finished. 

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      Rod Stewart Relists His Three-Acre Los Angeles Estate for $80 Million

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      Some guys have all the luck. Some guys have a mega-mansion in Los Angeles.

      British singer and songwriter Rod Stewart put his custom-built abode in the guard up for sale back in June with a hefty $70 million price tag. Six months later, the 78-year-old rocker has hoisted the English country-style estate back on the market to the tune of $80 million, as The New York Times first reported.

      Nestled in the renowned guard-gated Beverly Park community, Stewart originally coughed up a cool $12 million for the three-acre lot back in 1991. He then tapped celeb-loved architect Richard Landry to design the over-the-top abode. Sporting a mellow yellow exterior, the digs span a whopping 28,000 square feet and comprise a whopping nine bedrooms and 12 bathrooms—ideal for the musician’s eight children. The compound also includes a 4,500-square-foot guest dwelling and a full-size soccer field. “That would be a main house anywhere else. But in Beverly Park, that’s a guesthouse,” listing agent Tomer Fridman told the newspaper. “It’s an immense property.”

      Rod Stewart’s longtime home in Beverly Park is newly relisted for $80 million.

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      In keeping with the UK manor aesthetic, the stately mansion and its grounds exude a palatial Baroque style, and the highly decorated interiors are as posh as Buckingham Palace. Across its three stories, you’ll find a quarry’s worth of French marble, ornately detailed ceilings, gilded accents, and hand-forged wrought iron work. There’s also a slew of antique oil paintings, crystal chandeliers, and Regency-period furnishings that look straight out of Bridgerton. Rod the Mod told the Times that he wouldn’t be opposed to selling the home fully furnished. However, he’s hanging on to all the artwork.

      The residence was designed for Stewart in the 1990s by architect Richard Landry.

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      Highlights include a massive formal dining room that can accommodate over 20 guests, a speakeasy, a movie theater, two gyms, and a wood-paneled library. Elsewhere, Stewart’s pad continues to impress with a wine room, an eat-in chef’s kitchen, and a dedicated tearoom. (Very British!) Outside, the grounds sport a five-car garage, dual motor courts, a swimming pool, and an outdoor kitchen.

      “The whole family lived there for 30 years,” Fridman added. “The children grew up there, and he’s got grandchildren already. He’s touring, and he lives in Europe a lot of the time. He built a whole life there, and it’s just time.”

      With his 13-year residency at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas scheduled to close in August of next year, Stewart is now preparing to launch a North American tour that kicks off in February 2024. The Rock & Roll Hall of Famer also has properties in the UK and Palm Beach, Florida, where he told the newspaper he spends most of his time.

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      ‘Dallas’ in Oregon? Patrick Duffy’s Riverfront Ranch Is Headed to Auction

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      Last year, Patrick Duffy’s longtime Oregon ranch hit the open market for $14 million. Even though the price was later reduced to $11 million, the picturesque property never found a buyer, so the Dallas star is now auctioning off the compound to the highest bidder.

      Spanning about 330 acres, the so-called Duffy Ranch is located outside of Medford in the city of Eagle Point and will go under the hammer from December 7th until the 14th in a no-reserve auction. According to Sotheby’s Concierge Auctions, who will be handling the sale, starting bids are expected to be in the $3 million to $5 million range.

      An Oregon ranch owned for more than 30 years by actor Patrick Duffy is headed to auction.

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      The TV legend, who starred alongside pop culture icon Suzanne Somers in the family sitcom Step by Step, has owned the Staley Road residence for over 30 years. Duffy and his late wife, Carlyn Rosse, bought the home in 1990 for $1.5 million. “It was pristine,” he told Mansion Global. “There was no paved road. There were some trails through the woods and about a mile—a little less than a mile—of river frontage.”

      The property has multiple homes, cabins, and outbuildings across its 329 acres.

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      Together, they spent $3 million and the better part of two decades buying up surrounding properties to expand their compound and began living there full time in the early 2000s. Today, the ranch is made up of nine separate parcels, which include two homes, two guest cabins, a recreation pond, and two miles of Rogue River frontage. “The river is the only reason that we considered buying this property,” Duffy said in a video posted to the Sotheby’s Concierge Auctions website, which you can check out below.

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      The main house dates back to the 1950s and resembles a traditional lodge—there’s a screened porch and everything. The home sits on a whopping 79 acres of land with four bedrooms, four bathrooms, and roughly 3,000 square feet of living space. Plus, you’ll find a wood-burning fireplace, hardwood floors, and wood beam ceilings inside. What’s surprising is that it also includes an art gallery, in addition to a wine cave and a spa cabin. Elsewhere, the couple also converted one of the outbuildings into an indoor lap pool.

      In 2022, Duffy told Mansion Global that he’d like to relocate to California or Colorado. Currently, his sourdough starter business, Duffy’s Dough, is based in the Centennial State.

      Click here to see all the photos of Patrick Duff’s ranch.  

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      An Heir to the Anheuser-Busch Dynasty Has Put a $4.5 Million Price Tag on His Oceanview Malibu Home

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      On the celebratory heels of welcoming twins, outdoorsy Anheuser-Busch heir Billy Busch Jr., who oversees the hunting and outdoor gear concern Geist, and his professional surfer wife, Kirra (Seale) Busch, have hoisted their fashionably updated 1960s home in Malibu on the market at $4.45 million. 

      Technically, the property was acquired in August of 2020 for not quite $2.7 million by a family trust controlled by Busch Jr.’s father, William K. Busch, aka Billy Busch Sr. Both Junior and Senior Busches starred in the 2020 MTV reality series The Busch Family Brewed. 

      Discreetly set below the street on a downward sloping, quarter-acre parcel with a sweeping, over-the-treetops view of the Pacific Ocean, the flat-roofed residence was built in 1962 in the foothills above County Line Beach at the border between Los Angeles and Ventura counties. The single-story home has recently undergone a sleek transformation to include high-end finishes, wide-plank honey-toned oak floors, and dark-framed windows.

      Dark-framed glass sliders in the dining area frame sweeping views of the ocean.

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      Beyond the gated courtyard entrance and the smooth stucco exterior, the front door opens directly into the 1,909-square-foot home’s open-plan great room. At one end of the angled space, huge glass sliders connect the living room to the terraced backyard and swimming pool. At the opposite end, a dining area with a built-in dining banquette has glass sliders to an ocean view deck.

      In between the living and dining areas is a huge kitchen centered around a long work island with an integrated snack bar and a marble countertop that waterfalls off the ends. A full-height bank of black-lacquered cabinets holds an induction range, double ovens, and the fridge, while a row of windows alongside the sink opens accordion style to an alfresco serving bar for outdoor dining and entertaining.

      Among the three bedrooms and two baths is the primary suite, where two walls of glass sliders open the sunny bedroom to a wraparound deck and the swimming pool. There’s also a fitted walk-in closet and a spacious bathroom.

      Lush plantings envelope and privatize the terraced backyard.

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      Outside, dark decking bordered by plumes of flowering shrubbery meanders along the backside of the house, while a small container pool includes a window for checking out the view of the ocean while swimming underwater. A long stairway leads down the terraced slope from the house to a courtyard patio with a fire pit.

      Being at the far western end of Malibu, the house is about 30 miles and, on a good day, a solid 45-minute drive to the Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica. However, it’s a much shorter distance to Nobu Malibu and an even lesser distance to the Trancas Country Mart. Perhaps best yet, it’s just up the hill from some of Malibu’s best surfing spots as well as Neptune’s Net, the 1950s gas station turned legendary seafood restaurant that’s been featured in countless films and TV shows, including the 1983 Tom Cruise film Losin’ It and Vanderpump Rules (it’s where Jax Taylor proposed to Brittany Cartwright during season seven of the wildly popular reality series).

      The listing is held by Sean Matthews at Compass.

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      Just Sold for $8.4 Million, Paula Deen’s Former Savannah Estate Has Set a Local Sales Record for a Second Time

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      Hey y’all! When down-home celebrity chef Paula Deen sold Riverbend, her sprawling Savannah, Georgia, estate, in 2020 for a teaspoonful more than $6.8 million, it pegged a record for the highest amount ever paid for a home in the Hostess City of the South.

      Now, the very same 4.62-acre riverfront compound, about 10 miles southeast of Savannah’s historic district and owned by a family from northern California who renamed it Vila Sacadura, has just been sold for $8.4 million, once again making it the most expensive home ever sold in Savannah.

      Listing agent Ridley Stallings of Corcoran Austin Hill Realty commented, “Vila Sacadura is a truly exceptional property, and the sale record is just a reflection of how special this property is, an iconic piece of coastal Savannah.”

      Altogether, the manicured spread has 14 bedrooms and 13 bathrooms across 28,000 square feet of casually luxurious living space divvied up between the main house, two guest cottages, a dock house, and a customized barn/guest house.

      At the end of a long, gated driveway that passes through verdant gardens is the French Caribbean-style main residence.

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      At more than 14,000 square feet, the French Caribbean-style main residence, which has six bedrooms and six bathrooms, plus a couple of powder rooms, is nothing short of commodious, with a soaring, wood-clad ceiling in the colossal combination living and dining room that helps with the heat and humidity that blanket Savannah during the late summer months. 

      The centerpiece of the home, unsurprisingly, is the vast kitchen that’s outfitted with professional appliances, back-to-back copper sinks in the double-wide island, and a massive pantry for food, tableware, and culinary equipment storage. Elsewhere are a family room and informal dining area that open to outdoor living and entertaining spaces, a cozy wood-paneled den with a saltwater aquarium, and a spacious, river-view primary suite with two fireplaces, one in the sitting area of the bedroom and the other in the lavish bathroom.

      The huge, open-plan kitchen is at the heart of the 14,000-square-foot home.

      Stephen Snyder of Snyder Film Productions

      A deep loggia spans the back of the house, with an outdoor kitchen and plenty of room to eat and relax out of the sun. The loggia looks over the swimming pool, beyond which a tree-shaded lawn rolls down to the estate’s 300 feet of river frontage. At the end of the private dock is a charming dock house complete with a kitchen and a bathrooms

      The gated, cobblestone driveway passes under a vine-draped pergola that connects a twinned pair of one-bedroom, one-bathroom guest cottages before it arrives at the front of the main house, which sits amid lush, sculpted plantings.

      Arched windows in the primary bedroom frame views of the river.

      Near the front of the property is a fully customized, 10,000-square-foot barn that, in addition to garage space and a huge entertainment lounge with a wet bar, has five bedrooms and two bathrooms. There are magnificent live oak trees that drip with Spanish moss across the estate, which also includes groomed gardens and a half-acre stocked pond.

      The buyer was represented by Taavo Roos at Seabolt Realty. Vila Sacadura was listed with Ridley Stallings and Melissa Hall Rowan of Corcoran Austin Hill Realty, the same dynamic duo who represented the buyer in another recent, record-breaking transaction, the $6.167 million sale of a downtown mansion that marked the highest sum ever paid for a private home in Savannah’s historic district.

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      The Manhattan Apartment of Late Fashion Editor Grace Mirabella Sells for Close to Its $2.2 Million Asking Price

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      The Manhattan apartment of late and influential fashion editor Grace Mirabella, on the eighth floor of one of Park Avenue’s most dapper white glove cooperative apartment houses, has been sold for close to its $2.195 million asking price after about six months on the market. 

      Mirabella served as editor-in-chief of Vogue magazine from 1971 to 1988—after Diana Vreeland and before Anna Wintour—where she showcased designs from Halston and Saint Laurent and championed photographers like Helmut Newton and Richard Avedon. As the story goes, she found out from news reports that she was axed from Vogue in 1988. She soon launched her own fashion magazine, Mirabella, which was backed financially by Rupert Murdoch and targeted women in their 30s and 40s. Mirabella left the magazine in 1996, and the publication folded in 2000.

      The low-key editrix purchased the roughly 2,200-square-foot, eighth-floor co-operative unit in 2003, about two years after the death of her husband, Dr. William Cahan, a surgeon and staunch anti-smoking advocate, and the same year that she sold a townhouse on East 62nd Street for $3.5 million. Mirabella lived in the Park Avenue apartment until she died in December of 2021, when she was 92 years old. 

      The 2,200-square-foot, two-bedroom apartment includes a small library with bespoke built-ins.

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      Mirabella championed no-nonsense, affordable fashion, but for her two-bedroom Park Avenue pad, she accessorized with a bit more elegance and glamour. The entrance gallery is dressed up with a quartet of fluted columns, a wood floor painted with an elaborate pattern, and a delicate ceiling mural that depicts birds in flight against a cloudy sky. The almost 28-foot-long living room features herringbone parquet and a carved marble fireplace reminiscent of a Parisian chateau, while the original dining room has been divided to accommodate both a dining space and a petite library wrapped in burled wood built-ins.

      There are two ample bedrooms, each with a walk-in closet and ensuite bathroom, while a pint-sized den, less than seven feet wide, has a third ensuite bath. The kitchen has been updated but is a bit out of fashion style-wise.

      Mirabella’s apartment, with maintenance charges of just over $3,800 per month, was co-listed with Martha Kramer of Brown Harris Stevens and Josh Wesoky of Compass. Coldwell Banker Warburg agent Jane Katz represented the buyer.

      480 Park Avenue stands 21 stories tall at the corner of East 58th Street, just two blocks from Central Park. Designed by vaunted architect Emery Roth in 1929, it boasts one of the grandest lobbies in all of Manhattan, according to City Realty. Apartments boast 10-foot ceilings, fireplaces, service entries, and semi-private elevator landings. The distinguished building originally offered residents maid and butler service, as well as a private restaurant, and though those amenities are long gone, residents today are treated to doorman services, a gym, and a landscaped roof terrace.

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      Goodnight and Goodbye. Joe Jonas Just Put His $6 Million Manhattan Apartment Back on the Market

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      Months after Joe Jonas and Sophie Turner sold their Miami mansion and announced their split, the pop star singer has hoisted his New York City home onto the market. And the walls are definitely crying.  

      Per the New York Post, Jonas has relisted his Nolita condo for just shy of $6 million. The Camp Rock star, who filed for divorce from the Game of Thrones actress in October, originally bought the pad back in March 2018 for $5.6 million. A year later, the former couple secretly eloped at A Little White Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas. 

      Joe Jonas is selling the Manhattan condo he originally bought in 2018.

      According to the tabloid newspaper, Jonas had no takers when he first listed his residence for $6.5 million in 2020. Since then, the apartment has been taken on and off the market, but hey, maybe the price chop will help it sell. In any case, the abode is nestled within an eight-story boutique condo built in 2015 and comprised of only 11 units. It features a 24-hour doorman and a shared rooftop.  

      The apartment features a chef’s kitchen that’s equipped with Miele appliances and marble counters.

      The approximately 2,900-square-foot home is accessed by a keyed elevator that opens to a private foyer. The open-plan abode is kitted out with custom oak floors, and in the kitchen, you’ll find SieMatic cabinetry, marble counters, and top-of-the-line Miele appliances. Altogether, the loft-like home comprises three bedrooms and three bathrooms, along with a 1,450-square-foot landscaped terrace off the primary suite.

      The primary suite has its own private outdoor terrace.

      The Jonas Brothers band member and his soon-to-be ex-wife owned a number of homes together before their highly publicized separation. In 2019, the pair splashed out $14.1 million on an Encino mansion they sold in 2021 for a hefty $15.2 million. That same year, they dropped $11 million on a Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired property in Miami, which they profitably offloaded earlier this year for $15 million.  

      It was also reported by The London Evening Standard that the now estranged duo was preparing to purchase a country house in the U.K. prior to their abrupt divorce. According to court filings, Jonas and Turner entered into a contract to buy an estate near the Thames River in rural Oxfordshire, England. The deal was supposed to be finalized in December; however, it’s currently unclear if either party will be moving across the pond.  

      Carl Gambino of The Gambino Group at Compass and Adam Modlin of Modlin Group hold the listing. 

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      Marilyn Monroe Once Stayed in This Windmill in the Hamptons. Now You Can Buy It for $12 Million.

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      Like a lot of artists, literary figures and actors in the 1950s, including Edward Albee, Jackson Pollock and Truman Capote, newlyweds Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller headed to the Hamptons in the summer of 1957.

      The couple reportedly shacked up in a humble cottage at the historic Stony Hill Farm in Amagansett, part of which is nowadays owned by Alec and Hilaria Baldwin. However, so the story goes, to thwart the press, the frequently paparazzi-tracked pair would also stay at another place on nearby Quail Hill, in an old windmill that was invisible from the road and that had been converted into a unique and simply appointed residence. It was only five years later that Monroe died in her home in the Brentwood area of Los Angeles that was recently purchased by a neighbor who initially wanted to tear the house down.

      Monroe and Miller’s funky, romantic hideaway in the Hamptons, not quite two miles inland from popular Atlantic Avenue Beach and appropriately known as The Windmill House, has recently popped up for sale for $12 million. The almost 5.5-acre, mostly wooded property offers total privacy thanks to it being bordered on two sides by protected land owned by the Peconic Land Trust.

      The 19th-century windmill was expanded and converted into a rustic residence in the 1950s.

      The windmill sits on the high point of Quail Hill and was built in the mid-1800s. It pumped water for the farm on which it sat for about 100 years, but sometime around 1950, Samuel Rubin, the founder of Fabergé Perfumes, converted the three-story windmill into a rustic guest house. It was around this time that a structure was added to the back of the windmill to house a kitchen, along with a bedroom and a bathroom. 

      The property was acquired in 1967 by Deborah Ann Light, a philanthropic heiress to the Upjohn pharmaceutical fortune (and a Wiccan priestess!), who donated the adjacent 20 acres to the Peconic Land Trust, a Southampton-based land preservation nonprofit organization for which she was a founding member. Tax records indicate the seller has owned the property for at least a dozen years.

      The kitchen has all that is necessary for whipping up simple summer meals.

      Today, the approximately 1,300-square-foot home remains an unpretentious getaway in one of the most exclusive and expensive resort enclaves in the United States. It has a cozy sitting room, a pint-sized kitchen with a tiny built-in table for two, a couple of bedrooms, one of them an octagonal space on the second floor, and a single bathroom. The unfinished third floor, a one-of-a-kind walk-in closet or storage space, still has the windmill’s mechanical equipment; a metal brake holds the blades of the windmill in place.

      Just outside the windmill’s front door is a large brick patio for enjoying sea breezes, and elsewhere there’s a detached two-car garage and a small accessory building that has previously been used as an art studio.

      The original mechanical equipment remains in place; a metal brake keeps the windmill from turning.

      Besides Monroe and Miller, The Windmill House has been a temporary refuge for several decorators and designers over the years, along with English actor Terence Stamp (The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert) and satirical novelist Kurt Vonnegut (Slaughterhouse-Five).

      Listing agent Bobby Rosenbaum of Douglas Elliman has also stayed at The Windmill House over the years and told Robb Report, “You can really sense the awesome power of Mother Nature in the beauty that surrounds this special home, from the aroma of fresh, clean, salty air blowing gently over Quail Hill, to the musical sounds of the gusts of wind that kiss the trees and rustle their branches.”

      Still, this is the Hamptons, the summertime playground of the world’s richest and most famous. And so, the value of this property may not be so much in its literary and show business provenance but rather its potential to build, according to marketing material, a residence of up to 20,000 square feet with distant views of the Atlantic Ocean and the Montauk/Napeague Bay. 

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