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Published on July 11, 2024
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Back in 2019, actor and musician Josh Radnor plunked down nearly $3 million for a 1920s Spanish-style villa in Los Angeles. He then embarked upon an extensive remodel, complete with “global, well-traveled” interiors crafted by designer Kishani Perera. An added bonus: The place was even blessed by Buddhist monks once everything was completed.
Now, since he’s newly married to Brooklyn psychologist Jordana Jacobs, the How I Met Your Mother star has decided to offload his bachelor pad, asking $3.85 million. The “old, sturdy, and stylish” home, which was featured in Architectural Digest last spring, is listed by Fred Dapp of The Agency.
Tucked away behind walls and gates on less than a quarter-acre of land within the desirable Oaks neighborhood of Los Feliz, the ivy-covered structure features nearly 3,600 square feet over two levels adorned throughout with vintage elements like a hand-stenciled coffered ceiling gracing the double-height entry foyer, plus arched doorways, colorful mosaic tile, and stained-glass windows.
Especially standing out is a gourmet kitchen outfitted with teal-hued cabinetry, Caesarstone countertops, a hand-painted Mediterranean terracotta tile backsplash, and Wolf appliances. A step-down living room displays a stone fireplace and a wall of black-stained bookshelves, along with a custom brass Moroccan chandelier hanging from an etched wood-beam ceiling.
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Four bedrooms include an upstairs primary suite hosting a private balcony, a bespoke walk-in closet, and an updated bath equipped with a marble vanity and the original built-in soaking tub. Outdoors, there’s a central courtyard ideal for al fresco lounging and entertaining, a “hidden hammock retreat,” and a reading porch.
After a nine-season run as Ted Mosby on How I Met Your Mother, 49-year-old Radnor went on to play Dr. Jedediah Foster on the TV drama Mercy Street, Adam Epstein in the FX mini-series Fleishman Is in Trouble, and Lonny Flash on the mystery-crime show Hunters. He’s also done some theater work and released several studio albums.
Anthony Rapp Puts a Reduced Price on His Manhattan Apartment
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It hasn’t yet taken 525,600 minutes for Anthony Rapp to sell his New York City condo, but it’s evidently been long enough for the Rent star to consider a newly reduced price for his Manhattan digs. Nine months after the East Village loft hit the market for nearly $3.9 million, the Obie-winning actor’s residence has popped up for sale again, this time with a reduced $3.65 million asking price—around $200,000 less than he originally wanted last October. The listing is held by Kristi Ambrosetti of Sotheby’s International Realty-East Side Manhattan Brokerage.
Rapp and his longtime partner and now-husband Ken Ithiphol acquired the three-bedroom, three-bath corner unit in the luxury boutique building at 32 East 1st Street for around $3.5 million in October 2021. The couple, who welcomed their first child last December, are reportedly on the hunt for a bigger, more family-friendly home.
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Clocking in at about 1,500 square feet, the condo has white oak floors, high ceilings, modern millwork, triple-pane picture windows, and a Sonos sound system. A combined living/dining area is filled with light, while the galley-style kitchen boasts brushed oak Italian cabinetry, marble countertops, and high-end appliances. The primary suite offers a custom Molteni closet and a stone-clad bath, and another bedroom with a walnut Murphy bed/bookcase currently serves as an office.
There also are plenty of building amenities courtesy of a $2,343 monthly HOA fee, including a 24-hour-attended lobby, a communal terrace, bicycle storage, and a fitness center.
Cameron Diaz, Benji Madden List Beverly Hills Estate
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Back in fall 2020, Cameron Diaz and Benji Madden paid $14.6 million for a sprawling Beverly Hills compound. Now, almost four years later, the retired actress and Good Charlotte rocker have flipped the place back up for sale with a $3.1 million jump in price, asking for $17.8 million.
Designed by ANR Signature Collection, the property includes a main home and a guesthouse—for a total of seven bedrooms and nine baths in a little more than 9,600 square feet of living space. A secured driveway passes through a gatehouse on its way to a motorcourt and a three-car garage.
Once inside the primary gray stucco and metal-roof structure, highlights include formal living and dining rooms, a marble-laden kitchen sporting an eat-in island and top-tier appliances, a double-height family room warmed by a fireplace, and a primary suite with dual walk-in closets and baths.
The amenities continue with a screening room and a bookshelf-lined office, as well as garden-laced grounds hosting a fire pit, an outdoor kitchen, and a waterfall-fed pool and spa.
Diaz and Madden also own a $12.6 million mansion in Montecito, along with a Coldwater Canyon estate that previously belonged to actress Candice Bergen and a condo in New York City’s Chelsea neighborhood.
Jonah Hill Is Asking $16.7 Million for His Malibu Beach House
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After selling his contemporary home on the “land side” of Malibu Colony to cannabis investor Hartley Wasko for just over $11 million back in late 2022, the Oscar-nominated actor now wants to hand over the keys to his “beach side” residence in the same exclusive guard-gated enclave for $16.7 million.
Purchased by the Moneyball star for nearly $15.5 million in summer 2022—and resided in for decades before that by Canadian filmmaker Paul Almond and his photographer wife Joan Almond, both now deceased—the three-level home sits on a compact 0.16-acre parcel that hosts a two-car garage and a gated entry in the front and a brick patio and an adjoining wood deck with steps leading directly to the sand out back.
Built in the 1930s and updated through the years, the dark green, wood-shingled structure has four bedrooms and an equal number of baths in 3,100 square feet of living space featuring a fireside living room boasting a vaulted wood-beam ceiling and wide arched doorways flowing to a formal dining room and a family room.
Elsewhere is a kitchen outfitted with hand-selected tile and newer stainless appliances, a primary suite that has an ocean-view balcony, a cozy den with a Dutch door, an office space, and a movie theater.
As an aside, Hill’s former “land side” home is now back on the market for $14.2 million.
Bella Poarch’s Midcentury House Is Up for Grabs in L.A.
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A little over a year ago, Bella Poarch won a bidding war for a Pacific Palisades oasis, with the TikTok superstar paying $4.3 million, or $400,000 over the asking price, for the “one-of-a-kind” midcentury property. But that was then! The place has already returned to the market, this time asking a smidge under $5 million.
Known as Earthsong, the half-acre-plus spread is anchored by a main home that has three bedrooms and four baths in almost 3,200 square feet. The living room is showcased by a floor-to-ceiling fireplace; the kitchen’s equipped with an eat-in island and stainless appliances; and a teak and glass dining room offers up views of the backyard gardens and pool.
Other notable features include a glass-lined office and a primary suite that has a seating area and bath sporting a shower enhanced with a stained-glass window, plus a separate Japanese-style guesthouse with its own bedroom, bath, kitchen, and ocean-view deck. More
Always wanted to live like a Golden-Age celebrity—specifically, a legendary actress and sex symbol largely remembered for her bawdy one-liners? “When I’m good, I’m very good, but when I’m bad, I’m better,” just for starters. Well, now’s your chance because this Los Angeles beach house that the late Mae West once called home just popped up for sale in Santa Monica‘s Rustic Canyon neighborhood, asking a wink under $6 million.
With four bedrooms and an equal number of baths spread across more than 3,400 square feet of two-level living space, the white stucco and terracotta-roof digs offer plenty of room for any like-minded thespian to easily relax in cinematic style while enjoying scenic ocean views. One of several L.A. properties occupied by West before her death in November 1980 at age 87—including her longtime residence at the historic Ravenswood Apartments—records show the place was last sold for $2.3 million in 2004 to real estate investor John Sauter and his wife LeeAnn, a designer and entrepreneur.
Previously put up for sale by the Sauters in late 2022 at $8.3 million and then removed from the market, the charming abode also is currently available for lease at $24,500 per month.
The chic primary suite includes a boutique-style dressing room equipped with a wet bar.
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Built in the 1920s and hidden away on a nearly quarter-acre parcel secured by gates and high hedges, the updated Mediterranean-style structure is fully decked out with decorative tile work, colorful wallpaper, hardwood floors, arched doorways, and picture windows. There’s also a detached two-car garage and additional parking for up to three more vehicles.
Upon entering the double front doors, a wide foyer flows to a glam fireside living room boasting French doors leading out to the backyard. Other highlights include a formal dining room displaying a floor-to-ceiling china cabinet, plus a chef-worthy kitchen outfitted with an eat-in island topped by a custom pot rack, high-end Viking appliances, and a cozy breakfast nook with banquette seating.
An ocean-view deck with a fire-pit and hot tub is ideal for entertaining guests.
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Secluded upstairs, a chic primary suite features the original tiled fireplace and a boutique-style closet flaunting display shelves, a wet bar, and a Juliet balcony, as well as a light-filled sunroom that doubles as an office and a luxe bath spotlighted by dual vanities, a soaking tub, and a separate shower. Outdoors, the terraced grounds are laced with mature trees and manicured gardens and host numerous al fresco lounging and entertaining vignettes, including a roof deck enhanced with a built-in hot tub.
“Buyers will be buying a piece of history,” says Jonathan Mogharrabi, who shares the listing with Marci Kays, both of Carolwood Estates. “It brings you right back to the 1920’s with a vintage modern flare. We see the home likely going to someone who is creative and artistic, with a keen eye for design and style.”
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The late Marie Delphine LaLaurie is remembered as both a wealthy New Orleans socialite and an enslaver, and her gruesome legacy is tied to a historic mansion on Royal Street, which has been seen on America’s Most Haunted Homes and depicted on FX’s American Horror Story: Coven.
Though it is rumored to be haunted, according to The Wall Street Journal, that didn’t stop actor Nicolas Cage from buying the home in 2007. Two years later, the Hollywood icon, struggling to maintain a vast portfolio of properties around the world, lost the property to foreclosure; it was eventually scooped up by energy trader Michael Whalen for around $2.1 million in 2010. Whalen proceeded to pour over $4 million into renovations before recently putting the property back on the market for $10.25 million. Patrick Knudsen of Latter & Blum | Compass holds the listing.
The primary bedroom is a moody, decadent space with silk drapes and lavender jacquard wall coverings.
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The LaLaurie Mansion spans a commodious 10,284 square feet with a host of amenities that highlight its historical significance and grandeur. The home was completed in the 1830s, but its original structure was burned in an 1834 fire. The mishap left the charred interiors of the building exposed to the street, at which time abused slaves and chained bodies became visible to other residents of the French Quarter. Disgusted onlookers destroyed what remained of the structure, and the LaLaurie family reportedly sold the land by 1837.
An Empire-style antebellum home was later built on the property and was used as a girls’ high school at one point. It now features a three-story structure that houses the main house and is connected to a four-story service wing. New images of the home appear to lean into its spooky history, adding eye-catching colors like bright red, purple, black, and a wicked-green hue to modernized living and dining areas. Eight bedrooms, eight baths, and two powder rooms are spread across its expansive square footage, which is topped by a private rooftop deck.
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Beyond the gated entrance, double parlors come into view alongside a billiards room, a guest suite, and a 2,000-bottle wine cellar. The gourmet kitchen and elegant dining room are found on the second level, where a wrap-around balcony grants views of the cityscape and the street life below. The primary suite, plus two others, are accessible on the floor above. While it might not be the primary, one of the guest suites dons red lacquered walls that feel devilishly deluxe. The service wing contains two apartments and additional bedroom suites for overflow guests and staff.
A central brick courtyard is ideal for catching a breath of fresh air and taking in the historic property.
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Over the years, married entertainment industry veterans Dick Ebersol and Susan Saint James have racked up some pretty impressive accomplishments. He’s a broadcasting legend best known for co-creating Saturday Night Live with Lorne Michaels, as well as developing the concept for Sunday Night Football and producing numerous Olympic Games as head of NBC Sports, while she’s a retired actress who starred in shows like McMillan & Wife alongside Rock Hudson.
Now the husband-and-wife duo—who already own properties in the beachside city of Santa Monica on the westside of Los Angeles, New England, and Colorado—have plumped up their real estate portfolio with another L.A. residence. Records show they recently paid $6.7 million for trendy modern farmhouse-style digs sited in the upscale and family-friendly neighborhood of Cheviot Hills, just south of Beverly Hills and Century City.
A family room and kitchen open via glass doors to the backyard.
Joe Bryant
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Resting on a nearly quarter-acre parcel near the Hillcrest Country Club, the two-toned and wood-sided structure was newly built in 2018 and features five bedrooms and seven baths in about 5,800 square feet of space over two levels that boast European oak floors, high ceilings, a stylish capsule-style elevator, and a Control4 smart-home system.
A set of steps ascends through a manicured lawn before emptying out at the covered front entrance. Once inside, a double-height foyer leads to a fireside living room on one side and a formal dining room with a snazzy chandelier on the other. In the rear, a family room displays a fireplace embedded within a charcoal-hued accent wall and glass doors spilling out to a terrace nestled alongside a built-in barbecue and bar, while a gourmet kitchen is outfitted with custom cabinetry, quartz countertops, dual islands, top-tier Asko, Sub-Zero, and Wolf appliances, a breakfast nook, and a butler’s pantry.
A capsule elevator heads to the second floor, where a loft area and an office await.
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Other highlights include a tiered movie theater, a loft area for watching TV, and an office with its own bath, plus a luxe primary suite resting beneath a vaulted ceiling and offering a fireplace, two walk-in closets, and a marble-clad bath that comes with dual vanities, a soaking tub, and a glass-encased shower. Outdoors, the private backyard hosts a pool and spa, a fire-pit conversation area, and a detached building that currently accommodates a gym. There’s also an attached two-car garage out front.
The listing was held by Christopher Dyson of The Agency; Richard Maslan of Carolwood Estates repped the buyers.
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In 1963, clinical psychologist and pioneering psychedelic drug proponent Timothy Leary rented a huge house on a vast estate in the historic Hudson Valley village of Millbrook, which dates to before the American Revolution and ranks as one of the wealthiest enclaves in the state of New York. The almost 2,100-acre property had recently been acquired by brothers Billy and Tommy Hitchcock, members of one of the United States’ wealthiest families. The LSD advocate stayed five years, during which the estate was reportedly the target of drug raids.
Still owned by the Hitchcock family, the storied property has recently come available with a price tag of $65 million. Should it go for anywhere near the asking price, it will totally obliterate the standing record as the highest residential sale in the Millbrook area, which currently stands at just under $19 million.
The Victorian mansion’s 38 rooms include a dining room wrapped in a gold jacquard wall covering.
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Originally assembled over a period of almost 30 years beginning in 1889 from a handful of farms by German-born gas tycoon Charles F. Dieterich, a founder of Union Carbide, the vast property and its main house came to be known as Daheim. The estate was later owned by Standard Oil president and chairman Walter C. Teagle, who sold it in 1963 for a mere $500,000—nope, that’s not a typo, folks—to the Hitchcock brothers, heirs to the Mellon family oil and banking. Billy Hitchcock, who has long lived in Texas, told The Wall Street Journal that it was his sister Peggy who invited Leary to the Millbrook estate; he claimed she had a romantic relationship with Leary.
Still owned by the Hitchcock family, the property’s mostly wooded acreage includes two lakes, one spanning 45 acres and the other 60, along with a 38-room Victorian mansion, a smaller (but still very spacious), single-story residence known as “the bungalow,” and numerous other residences and outbuildings.
The four-story Victorian, originally designed by James E. Ware in the late 1800s, was much expanded during Dieterich’s time and spans almost 15,000 square feet. The house fell into a state of neglect, but over the last few years it has seen numerous restoration efforts and upgrades overseen by a local historian. Today, the public rooms still showcase high ceilings and ornate fireplaces, elaborate wood paneling, a carved wooden staircase, and stained-glass windows. Among the ten bedrooms is a two-room suite connected by a shared sitting room. There are also staff quarters.
The 2,100-acre estate’s secondary residence is a 10,000-square-foot bungalow designed by Addison Mizner.
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The low-slung, elegantly proportioned bungalow measures about 10,000 square feet and sits on a slight rise above a swimming pool; it was commissioned by Dieterich and designed by famed architect Addison Mizner, who is best known for the Mediterranean mansions he designed in the early 20th century.
Other buildings sprinkled around the property include a bowling alley housed in a stone building; several Bavarian-style structures that include a gate house; a three-bedroom caretaker’s cottage; a carriage house with two apartments for guests or staff; and an extensive stone-built equestrian and farm complex.
The listing is held by Heather Croner of Sotheby’s International Realty.
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Around 14 years ago, Moby doled out just over $3.9 million for a “replica of a Norman castle” that was reportedly occupied in previous years by the likes of Debbie Reynolds, Marlon Brando, and The Beatles. Alas, the Los Angeles spread proved too “elaborate for one simple little guy,” so the musician and architecture aficianado wound up selling the fairytale-esque digs after four years and an extensive restoration at a hefty profit. Now, a decade later, the illustrious structure has once again popped up for sale in the Beachwood Canyon neighborhood of Hollywood Hills, this time with a $15 million asking price.
“I loved Wolf’s Lair,” Moby said of the place he called “the most interesting home in L.A.” at the time. “If I’d started a cult or a family (and trust me, I’ve tried to start both) it would have been the perfect home. Basically I wanted something simpler than a mountaintop castle.”
The fireside living room has a bookshelf-flanked picture window offering up views of Griffith Observatory.
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Originally built in the late 1920s for real estate developer and art director L. Milton Wolf (complete with a turreted room for his exotic pet gibbon), the estate was sold to Moby in 2010 by businessman Jay Faires and onetime TV host Debbie Matenopoulos. Moby went on to drop about $2 million on an extensive renovation and restoration before transferring it in 2014 as part of an off-market deal to an LLC tied to Switzerland-based Nathaniel (Nat) Rotschild, a wealthy heir to the Rotschild banking dynasty, who undertook his own update of the premises.
Hidden away behind walls and gates, atop a secluded promontory spanning 3.4 acres, the property includes a main house and a guesthouse that was tacked on in the 1960s by noted modernist architect John Lautner—for a total of eight bedrooms and six baths in nearly 5,000 square feet boasting carved-wood details, arched doorways, coffered ceilings, and large windows overlooking picturesque views of Lake Hollywood, the iconic Hollywood Sign, and Griffith Observatory.
The park-like grounds are spotlighted by a kidney-shaped pool alongside a pool house.
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Inside the primary residence, largely period interiors are highlighted by formal living and dining rooms, as well as a galley kitchen sporting high-end stainless appliances and a breakfast nook with built-in banquette seating. One of the bedrooms has been transformed into an office space, while the primary suite features a bath equipped with dual vanities, a soaking tub, and a separate shower.
A two-bedroom guesthouse that was used as a recording studio during Moby’s tenure has its own living area, kitchen, and roof deck, and rounding it all out are park-like grounds showcased by a kidney-shaped pool nestled alongside a pool house, a pergola-shaded dining area, and private hiking trails. There’s also said to be a “secret” subterranean room that once served as a prohibition-era bar, plus an attached two-car garage and a cobblestone motorcourt.
The listing is held by Billy Rose of The Agency.
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Back in 1997, Helene An and her husband Danny bought a French chateau-style mansion tucked away in the Coldwater Canyon area of Beverly Hills. The Vietnamese-born couple—he a former Air Force pilot from a prominent industrialist family, and she a Smithsonian-recognized master chef who owns the Crustacean and AnQi Bistro dining dynasty known as House of An—subsequently transferred the property to their daughter, House of An CEO Elizabeth An. Now the family’s longtime residence is available for the first time in over two decades, asking a speck over $5.6 million.
Completed in the early 1950s and since updated, the fully walled and gated estate occupies an almost half-acre parcel of land fronted by a driveway that empties out at a detached two-car garage at the rear of the property. Once inside, a total of five bedrooms and a matching amount of baths are sprawled across a little more than 4,700 square feet of multi-level living space featuring rustic hardwood floors, high wood-beam ceilings, and double-pane windows providing abundant natural light.
The expansive living room features a formal space on one side and a more casual seating area on the other.
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Especially standing out is a marble-clad entry foyer, which flows to a formal dining room and a gourmet kitchen outfitted with dark gray Chevron-patterned floors, custom cabinetry, top-tier stainless appliances, and an accompanying breakfast nook. The living room is highlighted by a formal section housing a grand piano and a more casual seating area warmed by a granite-trimmed wood-burning fireplace, plus French doors spilling out to a brick-enhanced backyard hosting a barbecue-equipped terrace and a pool and spa.
Also on the main level is an en-suite bedroom boasting a subterranean hallway lined with closets, along with an office sporting a wall of hand-painted shelving and its own powder room. Elsewhere is a lavish primary suite that comes complete with access to the outdoors, dual walk-in closets, and a luxe bath spotlighted by a custom marble spa tub matching the walls and countertops.
The posh primary bath is equipped with dual vanities, a dressing area, a marble spa tub, and a separate shower.
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A spiral staircase heads upstairs, where a landing with a built-in seating area leads to a pair of en-suite bedrooms that each have walk-in closets, one of which was recently expanded with glass doors, recessed lighting, and a lounging spot. And, per the listing held by Jane Dorian and Shaun Alan-Lee of Carolwood Estates, there’s also a large space on the top-floor that could easily be used as an office or a recreation room.
After leaving her homeland of Vietnam in the 1970s, Helene went on to work at her mother-in-law’s Italian deli in San Francisco before founding the first Crustacean restaurant in the Nob Hill neighborhood in 1991 and later opening a second location in Beverly Hills—with both eateries well-known for their roasted crabs and garlic noodles, as well as a celeb-studded clientele that includes the likes of Lady Gaga and Kim Kardashian. Today, Helene’s House of An empire is operated by her five daughters and grandchildren and touts six restaurants in the U.S., three international establishments, and a catering division.
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