Another big spender joins the celebrity foreclosure follies. This time it's Roc-A-Fella Records company co-founder Damon Dash and his wife, fashion designer Rachel Roy. The high-profile pair could lose two of their Manhattan apartments. Eastern Savings Bank says the couple owe $7.3 million on the properties and were supposed to make hefty monthly payments of $78,500 but haven't done so since January. Dash has a $100,000 federal tax lien on the properties and reportedly owes the city of New York $2 million in back taxes. Damon Dash is allegedly has a $50 million fortune amassed from his hip-hop empire.

Today's estate, Swanhurst Serenity is a vintage grand dame in Spring Lake, New Jersey. Located overlooking the lake, this early 1900s beauty is also within walking distance of both the beach and town. The seven-bedroom estate could use a bit of updating but it has plenty of historic details to treasure like the columned wraparound porch. The one-acre property also includes a guest house in need of an update. This estate is listed at $7.999 million.

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Now this is just getting ridiculous. First Roman Abramovich was rumored to have bought Villa Leopolda, the pricey estate in Villefranche-sur-Mer on the French Riviera. Then Russian precious metals mogul Mikhail Prokhorov was said to have snapped it up. As my colleague Jared Paul Stern reported over the weekend, Prokhorov is the 24th richest man in the world with a $22 billion fortune and was briefly detained during an investigation into a suspected prostitution ring at a ski resort in the French Alps. Turns out Prokhorov still has some hurt feelings over that bit of police drama says BBC News and according to a spokesman, refuses to do business in France until he gets a proper apology.

We are starting to run out of Russian billionaires to pin this on. Well, that's not entirely true, there is still a long list but hopefully someone will own up to the $750 million purchase pretty soon. You can't keep a secret that big for too long.

We've been looking at a lot of traditional homes lately so let's mix it up with a big slice of modern. Today's home was designed by architect Rafael Vinoly in 1994. It sits on a five acre hilltop setting with long views in Ridgefield, Connecticut. The home has both indoor/outdoor pools and a glass bridge to the private tower which houses the master bedroom, penthouse office and an observation deck. The interior features lots of heavy concrete, wood ceilings and so much stainless steel, the owner probably has to employ a designated polisher. It's stunning but I wonder how easy it is to live in. It's listed at $10 million.

I mentioned this one back in 2006 but it deserves another look with some new pictures. There's a reason it's been on the market for a long time, it appeals to a very particular style. This eight-bedroom home in Chandler, Arizona has a manor style that seems rather out of place in the Southwest. The home was built in the 1980s by someone with a taste for the baroque. It is on over 11 acres and the home itself has over 13,600 square feet of space. Most of the furniture is remaining with the house because it was purchased for the home. The home also has an English bar with a pool table, a large theater room, game room, wine cellar and two workout rooms. The estate also includes a guest house, gardeners house and a garage that can hold 15 cars. Murals, stained glass and an amazing barrel vaulted library room all contribute to the overall sense of English style gone theme park. A Sotheby's listing shows the home at an even $10 million but the property website has it at $8.8 million. It was listed at $11.5 million back in 2006.

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The mysterious billionaire who just bought the world's most expensive house - the $750 million Villa Leopolda (above) on the French Riviera - is none other than controversial Russian precious metals mogul Mikhail Prokhorov, the AFP reports. Luxist readers may remember Prokhorov as the over-the-top tycoon who announced plans in April to spend $150 million launching a magazine for snobs in Russia, called simply Snob. Prokhorov is ranked as the 24th richest man in the world with a $22 billion fortune. Some earlier reports had erroneously identified the villa's buyer as Roman Abramovich. Last year Prokhorov was briefly detained during an investigation into a suspected prostitution ring at the ritzy ski resort he frequents in the French Alps.

Just when I was despairing of finding a fun celebrity home to dish about this Sunday, the Real Estalker Mama delivered with the news that infamous porn goddess Jenna Jameson has put her Los Angeles home on the market. Jameson's three-bedroom home is a sweet little piece of Los Angeles history, a Spanish style charmer that was a former Valentino family home.

The multi-story Mediterranean is a quirky mix of California casual with some of the more bold choices you might expect from a woman with a reputation to uphold such as a bordello-red bathroom and a media room with black striped walls, a zebra striped ottoman and sliding glass doors leading out to the courtyard spa. There's much to love here including the tiled staircases, gleaming hardwood floors and beamed ceilings. It also must be noted that she has one impressive shoe collection in her large dressing room. But the house does seem to be one of those hillside homes that gives you stairs at ever turn, stairs to the entrance and the home has a piecey multilevel vibe. Not great as a family home.

Jameson must be in a hurry to move (there is that pregnancy rumor after all) because she's put the home on the market for the same price she paid in 2006, $2.7 million.

From the LA Times Hot Property:
--NBC Today Show travel editor Peter S. Greenberg has listed his home in Sherman Oaks for $2.395 million.
--Emmy winning director Todd Holland and actor Scotch Ellis Loring have sold the Studio City house that's been their temporary home for the last two years while they were remodeling their principal Mulholland Drive residence for $1.66 million. The buyers are songwriter Pamela Sheyne and her husband, Nigel Rush.
--Irwin Yablans, an executive producer of the original "Halloween,"has listed his Hollywood Hills home, shown above, for $2.95 million. The property website for the three-bedroom, 4 1/2 -bathroom traditional home near the Sunset Strip is here.
A hilltop vintage Spanish villa in the Highland Park area of Los Angeles owned by French artist Sylvain Copon has hit the market for $1.899 million. The home, which was built in 1939 has four bedrooms and is full of charming details such as and-hewed wood beams, bronze window screens, an octagonal breakfast room and is decorated with over 800 Batchelder tiles. The property website is here.

From Newsday Real LI:
--An Upper Brookville, NY home used in the filming of Gossip Girl is on the market for $12.9 million. It was our estate of the day on Friday.
--James Seuss, the chief executive of Cole Haan has put his four-bedroom getaway home on Shelter Island on the market for $1.485 million. The listing is here.

From the Real Estalker:
--Jenna Jameson has put her Hollywood Hills home on the market. It's our estate of the day later today.

From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--Earlier this year, Roman Abramovich spent nearly $50 million for two houses in Snowmass, Colorado, now another wealthy Russian, energy tycoon Eugene Shvidler has paid $14.5 million for a house in the same town.
--In nearby Aspen, a mansion has sold for $20.75 million to a Greenwich, Conn., family, making it one of the biggest purchases in the area recently. You could say they got a deal though, after all the house was listed at $27.5 million when we checked it out as an estate of the day last year.
--Baseball player Mike Piazza has put his condo in the the Murano at Portofino development in the South Beach area of Miami, Florida on the market for $4.9 million. The listing is here.


From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:
--NY Yankees Alex Rodriguez is in negotiations to buy a four-bedroom unit at 15 Central Park West.
--Tim Burton and Helena Bonham Carter have sold two apartments in the vintage 27-story Art Deco tower at 1 Fifth Ave. in Greenwich Village that had a combined assking price of $8.75 million.
--Chef Thomas Keller has closed on a new condo two years after signing a contract at 20 Pine St. He aid $1.46 million for a two-bedroom, two-bath apartment in the Armani-decorated former Chase Manhattan Bank building.
--Male model Tyson Ballou is taking one of the first apartments in the Charles, a planned 34-story condo with 45 units at 1355 First Ave. Ballou is rumored to be buying a two-bedroom with a terrace priced in the vicinity of $2.5 million.

From the Luxury Property Blog:
--Kenneth Brown, star of HGTV's reDesign, has listed his loft in The Broadway Hollywood building for $1.899 million. He designed the pad himself and you can check out his work on the two-bedroom space at the listing here.

From the NY Observer's Manhattan Transfers:
--Renée Zellweger has gradually created a $8.2 million spread in a co-op at 82nd Street and Madison Avenue. A real estate trust called the East Coast Group, which has been connected to her past deals just paid paid $2.8 million for a unit on the same floor where she also owns a $2.2 million space and a $3.2 million combined-unit co-op she bought last year.
--Cardboard magnate Dennis Mehiel who was once a nominee for lieutenant governor of New York, and his wife, Karen put their 10,350-square-foot duplex condominium at the Carhart Mansion on the market this week for $35 million. They bought the five-bedroom space in September 2005 for $15.5 million. The listing is here.
--Anilesh Ahuja, the former head of the multibillion-dollar mortgage-backed securities group at Deutsche Bank, bought a five-bedroom apartment at 120 East End Avenue back in 2005 for $7.5 million. He has sold it for $9.3 million and the deed has him at the penthouse at 807 Park Avenue, a 5,577-square-foot space currently on the market for nearly $16 million. The building was once owned by Sean Combs.
--Anita Mandl, the wife of architect David Mandl who died a year ago, has sold the apartment that he built for the two of them at 280 Park Avenue South. Shel sold it for $3.1 million and is moving to a smaller condo in the building.
--The Upper West Side apartment that belonged to cookbook writer Karen Hess, who died last year at age 88, has been sold for $1,911,000, according to city records.

The Wyck Estate in Manchester-by-the Sea, Massachusetts is another old beauty that has been on the market for a while. It had been on the market for at least a year when I first wrote about it in 2005. This is one of the most beautiful homes on Masschusetts's North Shore. Built in 1912, the main residence is a replica of a French chateau created using bricks imported from France. The 7.85 acre compound also includes tennis courts, a private beach, boat house, children's playhouse and a filtered saltwater pool. The home has been owned by the same person since 1944 so it maintains its original charm including marble fireplaces, plenty of carved wood and ornate stonework. This grand summer estate was on the market for $23.5 million three years ago. Now it looks like the carriage house is being sold in a separate parcel of 2.1 acres and the main home is for sale for $13.25 million.

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If you want to sell a this house attractive, why not also make a little money using it in film shoots? Today's home in Upper Brookville,NY was recently used in two episodes of the trendy television show "Gossip Girl" but has a scandalous past all its own. It will be showcased in the upcoming season which will include scenes from a "white party." The home has also been used in a Kohl's commercial and Ludacris filmed an AT &T commercial in June. The home is certainly party ready with a foyer with dual wraparound staircases perfect for dramatic descents, a 65-foot ballroom, a gym and a saltwater swimming pool that sits in a greenhouse-like glass enclosure. The five-bedroom home is on five acres which back up to an arboretum.

This estate may also be familiar to long-time readers of this column, in fact it was an estate of the day in 2007. That's when the home was seized as part of "Operation VIN City," an 18-month investigation that busted up the largest stolen car ring on the East Coast. It was the home of ringleader Michael Pescatore and was sold at auction by the Treasury Department on March 22. Real estate agent Kim Greenberg and her fiancé, real estate developer, Fred Rudd picked up the home for $8.3 million which is pretty close to what two sharp commenters guessed it would go for in my 2007 post.. Now it's all prettied up and on the market for $12.9 million.

[via Real LI]

I usually save Ann Brenoff's Hot Property column in the L.A. Times for the Sunday Real Estate Round-Up but this is too interesting not to share as soon as possible. Donald Trump has offered to step in and buy Ed McMahon's Beverly Hills home and allow McMahon to continue living there. Trump said in an interview with the Times that although he didn't know McMahon personally he grew up watching him on television and felt that it was an honor to step in and help.

McMahon who is 85 and suffered a debilitating neck injury last year was facing foreclosure within two weeks on his Beverly Hills home. McMahon bought the home in 1990 for $2.6 million and has had it on the market for several years. Most recently it was listed at $4.6 million as shown in the Hilton & Hyland listing. McMahon had defaulted on $4.8 million in mortgage loans with Countrywide Financial Corp.

Trump isn't giving McMahon a free ride. He plans to buy the home from the lender and lease it back to McMahon. According to the Times, McMahon's listing agent, Alex Davis of Hilton & Hyland flew to New York to make a personal pitch to Trump to save McMahon's home.

UPDATE: The LA Times reports that listing agent, Alex Davis, has said there is a second anonymous would-be buyer and so the property is now in a "multiple offer situation."

Gallery: Ed McMahon House