This is the Highland Park family home of Juanita and Michael Jordan in suburban Chicago where they lived for almost 20 years until their divorce in 2006. Though it has been on the market for some time, the new price cut of $8 million should surely excite the interest of any Chicago Bulls fan who has $21 million to spend on the mansion that Air Jordan called home. It even has his famous uniform #23 molded onto the huge front entry gate. If the future buyer is another spo......more
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What’s a little ‘ol $9 million apartment to Judge Judy, who earns $123,000 a day? That’s about $45 million a year from her job, not considering investments. What’s interesting is that her husband, Jerry, was also a real judge and a television judge too. At age 70, this is one woman who won’t have to worry about her retirement. Instead, she and Jerry can just enjoy traveling between their other homes: the penthouse in Naples, Florida and t......more
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Man’s association with nature has run the gamut from fear of survival with the Pilgrims to understanding the necessary balance between the two that calms and opens up the human mind to higher achievement. This is the house that will be owned by a person who embraces and is open to all the exciting possibilities in life. Those who have the need to “protect” themselves surrounded by clutter and drawn drapes may as well stop reading. Designer Steve Herman......more
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Bert Lahr was an all-around talent on Broadway, film and television from the 1920s into the 1960s. Most well-known for his part as the Cowardly Lion in The Wizard of Oz, Lahr was an award-winning actor and comedian appearing in numerous Broadway shows. Remember the Lay’s commercial, "Betcha can't eat just one?” That was Bert Lahr. He was a versatile performer with an astute ability to tune into his audience. In 1956, Bert was acting in Waiting for Godot at......more
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This seems to be the year for spectacular Florida equestrian estates. The dressage community already knows this lovely estate designed by Carol Cohen, who pioneered the concepts of adding covered riding arenas and spa-like horse facilities for private estates. Both Carol and her daughter, Rebecca, are decorated dressage competitors who have moved to New Jersey where Rebecca is training in dressage with Pan Am Gold Medalist, Lauren Sammis. The village of Wellington is j......more
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A rare and exciting opportunity has hit the market that heretofore we could only dream about and we did . . . for months! Every year, HGTV creates a stunning home in an equally stunning location crafted by their masterful designers that they give away in their Dream Home Sweepstakes to a lucky winner. In 2011, it was a spectacular Stowe, Vermont ski home. Certainly one of the best HGTV home prize winners ever. When Eric and Catherine Makstenieks of Hinsdale, Illinois wo......more
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Historically known as the “W.C. Fields estate,” this legendary Mediterranean retreat is located in the lushly landscaped and very private Hollywood enclave of Laughlin Park. Laughlin Park is a secluded gated community as much favored by early film stars and other movie industry moguls as it is today. Across the street are the lavish estates of Cecil B. DeMille and Charlie Chaplain. W. C. Fields was the house’s most illustrious tenant, although it ha......more
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Like so many celebrated actors and notable TV stars, Kelly Ripa got her first serious professional part as character Hayley Vaughan on the soap opera All My Children. She appeared in 1990 and stayed in the part until 2002. We remember how she was first seen disguised as a waif of a boy, for what reason we have long forgotten. But to endure and succeed as she has from soap opera to sitcom, to two films, to Live! with Regis and Kelly, to Live! with Kelly and now to Live!......more
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Even people who hate sports probably know of “Neon” Deion Sanders. Although he is best known as a professional star in both football and baseball (first person to hit a MLB home run and score an NFL touchdown in the same week, and the only person to play in an MLB and NFL game on the same day), Deion has also been a rap singer, frequent TV talk show guest and Saturday Night Live host, had his own reality TV show, and was even the emcee for the 2002 Miss USA p......more
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Remember the hard rock band, Slaughter? Remember their debut album, Stick it to Ya? We look at this piece of real estate a bank got stuck with and we can’t help but wonder if that is what the bank might be thinking these days. After they got stuck retrieving an $18 million loan for $3.1 million. So looking at this 30,000 square foot Moorish, Mosqueish manse, just what were they thinking? It goes to prove the point that a few years ago banks were financing anything......more
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