Cher’s exotic duplex pied-a-terre listed as off market

The Goddess of Pop, singer-actress Cher, has listed her two-storyluxury condo perched on the 26th and 27th floors of star-studded Sierra Towers buildings in West Hollywood, CA as off market. Cher paid for it somewhere between $3 and 4.5 million in January 2006 and redesigned it with the help of friend and interior designer Martyn Lawrence-Bullard into ‘something ethnic, spicy and romantic’. The predominant colors of her rooms creams, ivories and buttery beiges.

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Oprah’s Streeterville (Chicago) co-op – a bargain for the buyer

In July 2012 media mogul and queen of ‘rapport talk’ shows Oprah sold her Streeterville condo at half the price she paid for it in 2006 ($5.6 million) – such a bargain for a 3-bedroom, 3.5 bath  co-op and a number of external rooms. Oprah never lived in the condo, probably because of lack of privacy, and spends her time in the city two blocks away at her massive duplex condo in Water Tower Place.

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The Osbournes’ Hidden Hills on the market for $12M

“We’ve never stayed in any place longer than seven years,” those were Sharon Osbourne’s words when she and her Prince of darkness, heavy metal rocker Ozzy Osbourne, sold their Beverly Hills mansion to Christina Aguilera, when their reality show on MTV came to an end, in 2007, and they purchased a luxurious private estate in Los Angeles’ exclusive gated Hidden Hills community. She got ‘itchy feet’ before seven years had passed, and in 2011 the wacky reality family list this estate as well.

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Actor Aaron Scoop’s $1.39M Hollywood Hills crib

Two-time Emmy winner and Breaking bad actor Aaron Paul, 34, bought a $1.39 million pad in the Hollywood Hills luxurious area. The two-story mansion built in the 1930s Spanish-villa style stands on a hillside and a cul-de-sac above the Sunset Strip, the stretch of Sunset Boulevard famous for its entertaining industry.

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Vanessa Paradis lives in Johnny Depp’s $4.4M posh villa in the Hollywood Hills

The unmarried couple – Vanessa Paradis and Johnny Depp – lived with their two children in the suburbs of Paris, a villa in the South of France and a private island in the Bahamas but  when they moved to Los Angeles rumor had it that their life together had come to an end. It all came out in the open when Depp acquired a Mediterranean-style Hollywood Hills, reportedly as a parting gift to his ex.

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Carly Simon pops West Village crib back on the market

Celebrated Golden Globe/ Academy Award/ Grammy-winning singer/songwriter, Carly Simon, 67, paid $1.2M for her New York City duplex pied-a-terre back in 2004. In 2008 when asked why she was selling her duplex in the West Village (with an asking price of $3.850 million), she explained, “I’m not in New York enough now.” Five years later, she is re-listing the bohemian  home cutting the asking price to $2.975 million.

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Big time financier’s inheritors sell his posh Park Avenue penthouse for $20-plus million

Back in the 70s Banker Herbert Allen Sr., one of the most affluent businessmen on Wall Street at the time, purchased the Upper East Side penthouse at 733 Park Avenue for $526,500, which has recently been sold for $2o million.

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The foyer features two-floor windows and a spiral staircase connecting the 30th and 31st floors of the penthouse. The duplex three-bedroom pad boasts a private elevator, an all- marble bathroom, a unique hand-laid parquet floor and three magnificent landscaped terraces covering 1,250 square foot. The behemoth bedrooms feature large windows overlooking awesome views of Central Park – actually no other building from Park Avenue offers such views since this is the tallest residential building on this street.

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