Movers & Shakers
Sharon Percy Rockefeller pays $2,175,000 for an apartment overlooking New York City’s Museum of Modern Art
By Bob Goldsborough at 27 June, 2007, 3:44 am
Sharon Percy Rockefeller, who runs a public television station in Washington, D.C. and who is the wife of Sen. John D. “Jay” Rockefeller, has paid $2,175,000 for an apartment in mid-town Manhattan that overlooks the Museum of Modern Art. The New York Observer’s Max Abelson this morning has a fascinating piece on Mrs. Rockefeller’s recent [...]
Read More >>Former HUD secretary Henry Cisneros pays $1.56M for house in Los Angeles’ Bel-Air neighborhood
By Bob Goldsborough at 20 June, 2007, 4:14 am
Former U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Henry Cisneros has paid $1,560,000 for a 2,678-square-foot house in Los Angeles’ Bel-Air neighborhood, according to public records. In a Big Time Listings exclusive, we can report on Cisneros’ purchase of the house at 11816 Henley Lane in Bel-Air, which is his third high-end property purchase in [...]
Read More >>Rupert Murdoch reportedly to list his mansion on Centre Island in Oyster Bay, NY for $14.8M; house is just down the street from Billy Joel’s 14,273-square-foot mansion, which is available for $32.5M
By Bob Goldsborough at 15 June, 2007, 5:01 am
The Wall Street Journal is reporting today that media mogul Rupert Murdoch, who in 2005 paid $44 million for a triplex penthouse at 834 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, is getting ready to list his waterfront mansion in Oyster Bay, N.Y. for $14.8 million. Murdoch, who owns properties under his real first name Keith, and wife [...]
Read More >>Bezos purchase price revealed; Amazon.com mogul paid $24,450,000, and not the "close to $30 million" amount that was reported in the L.A. Times
By Bob Goldsborough at 3 June, 2007, 7:36 am
The purchase price for Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos’ new Beverly Hills mansion has finally cleared public records, and it was far below the “close to $30 million” figure that the Los Angeles Times’ Ruth Ryon had reported in April. In a Big Time Listings exclusive, we can report that Bezos paid $24,450,000 through his Redwood [...]
Read More >>Tommy Mottola lists North Salem, NY estate for $19.5M
By Bob Goldsborough at 25 May, 2007, 4:42 am
Although we haven’t written much about entertainment mogul Tommy Mottola in this blog, in our previous life, while writing the Upper Bracket column in the Chicago Tribune from 1998 to 2004, we wrote plenty about the 57-year-old ex-husband of Mariah Carey, since he’s always making news for buying and selling real estate. It’s hard to [...]
Read More >>J.P. Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon lists Chicago mansion for $13.5 million, pays $17.05 million for house in Bedford Corners, NY
By Bob Goldsborough at 4 May, 2007, 5:52 am
Jamie Dimon, the chairman and chief executive officer of J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., has listed his 15,500-square-foot brownstone mansion on Chicago’s Gold Coast for $13.5 million. The listing, which was reported first in Friday’s Wall Street Journal, is one near and dear to our hearts, since in a previous life, we broke the story [...]
Read More >>Amazon's Bezos reportedly pays close to $30M for Beverly Hills estate
By Bob Goldsborough at 15 April, 2007, 6:36 am
Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos reportedly has paid nearly $30 million for a seven-bedroom, 11,891-square-foot Spanish-style house on a 2.03-acre property in the flats of Beverly Hills, according to Ruth Ryon’s “Hot Property” column in the Los Angeles Times this morning. The sale hasn’t cleared public records yet, so we don’t know if Bezos, 43, bought [...]
Read More >>Dexter King pays $4.16M for one Malibu house, lists another for $3.495 million
By Bob Goldsborough at 14 April, 2007, 6:37 am
Dexter King, who is the son of the late civil rights leaders Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King and who now is the chairman of the Atlanta-based King Center, has paid $4.16 million for a 6,823-square-foot house in Malibu and has listed another, 4,705-square-foot house in Malibu for $3.495 million. Your Mama over [...]
Read More >>No deal yet for Old Trees estate in Southampton, which is listed for $48 million
By Bob Goldsborough at 12 April, 2007, 6:42 am
A deal for Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein to have paid a reported $41 million for the 10.6-acre Old Trees estate in Southampton, N.Y. apparently has fallen through, and the storied property, including its 13-bedroom, 20,000-square-foot shingled Georgian-style mansion, is back on the market for a little more than $48 million, according to this week’s [...]
Read More >>$18.5M purchase price revealed for Hard Rock Caf
By Bob Goldsborough at 9 April, 2007, 10:45 am
We finally have a sale price for the 8,110-square-foot, Beverly Hills mansion that Hard Rock Caf?o-founder Peter Morton purchased late last year from radio station mogul Norman Pattiz: $18.5 million. The amount that Morton paid for the eight-bedroom mansion at 1225 Angelo Drive is decidedly below the $20 million figure that the Los Angeles Times’ [...]
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