June 16, 2008
- “Mad Libs” creator and TV producer sells house in Beverly Hills, CA for $4.0625M to “Sopranos” writer
Leonard B. Stern, a long-retired TV producer and writer who created the popular “Mad Libs” game, has sold his house in Beverly Hills, Calif. to a writer for “The Sopranos” for $4,062,500.
In a Big Time Listings exclusive, we can report on Stern’s sale of his 5,688-square-foot house at 1709 Angelo Drive in Beverly Hills, which [...]
April 7, 2008
- Welcome aboard the celebrity real estate beat, Ann!
As our friends over at the Real Estalker noted yesterday, the Los Angeles Times on Friday announced that Times veteran Ann Brenoff will take over the storied “Hot Property” column, replacing Ruth Ryon, who founded the column (and truly, created the niche).
From us, a warm welcome to the beat to Brenoff, 58, who has been [...]
March 14, 2008
- Humorist and radio star Garrison Keillor lists his house in St. Paul, MN for $1.65M
Humorist, author and radio star Garrison Keillor has placed his seven-bedroom Georgian-style mansion in St. Paul, Minn. on the market for $1,650,000.
The Keillor listing is not new news, but in catching up on items, we wanted to share with readers the complicated Keillor tale, which first broke in the St. Paul Pioneer Press last week, [...]
March 5, 2008
- Ruth Ryon leaving the LA Times?
We have just learned that the Los Angeles Times’ celebrity real estate columnist Ruth Ryon, who launched the “Hot Property” column in 1984 and who pioneered the celebrity real estate gossip format that all of the rest of us – which includes Big Time Listings, the Real Estalker, the New York Observer’s “Manhattan Transfers” column, [...]
August 2, 2007
- Professional poker player Annie Duke sells 3,528-square-foot house in Los Angeles’ Hollywood Hills for $2.84M
Professional poker player and author Annie Duke has sold her house in Los Angeles’ Hollywood Hills for $2,840,000.
In a Big Time Listings exclusive, we can report on the sale of the 3,528-square-foot house at 1958 Outpost Circle by Duke’s Fluffhead Trust, according to public records. Duke, 41, purchased the house in July 2005 for [...]
July 30, 2007
- Author Robert Crais pays $2,975,000 for a four-bedroom house in Los Angeles’ Hollywood Hills that is next door to a house owned by actress Jennifer Aniston
Detective author Robert Crais and his psychotherapist wife Pat have paid $2,975,000 for a house in Los Angeles’ Hollywood Hills that is next door to a house that long has been owned by actress Jennifer Aniston.
In a Big Time Listings exclusive, we can report on the purchase by Crais, who is in his 50s and [...]
November 24, 2006
- Who says journalists can’t be rich?
People magazine executive editor Jeannie Park has paid $5.1 million for a five-story brownstone in the Washington Square Park area of Manhattan, according to the New York Observer. Read their account of it here (Observer). Our guess is that Park’s 166-year-old, 7,150-square-foot brownstone won’t be occupied exclusively by her and her family, since [...]
- Michelle Branch Lists 5,300 square foot home in Calabasas
The Los Angeles Times reports that singer-songwriter Michelle Branch has listed her one-story, 5,300-square-foot house in Calabasas, Calif., north of Los Angeles, for close to $3.3 million, and is moving to Nashville. Read about it here (LA Times). The piece neglects to mention that Branch previously had owned a place in L.A.’s [...]
