Every now and then, along comes a well-born and usually quite beautiful gal who at a young and dewy age comes to epitomize the uber-chic intersection between New York City’s nitty gritty downtown art world and uptown high society denizens. In the mid- to late-1960s that female flower of downtown freaky meets uptown money was Jane Holzer (nee Brukenfeld).
Everyone can breathe a sigh of relief because according to the Orange County Register , Real Housewife of Orange County Jeana Keough has once again pulled a real estate rabbit out of a foreclosure hat. Last week Your Mama discussed and dissected the impending foreclosure and scheduled auction of Miz Keough’s hulking house behind the gates of the upscale Coto de Caza development in the blistering hot inland area of Orange County, CA
BUYER: Maurice Marciano LOCATION: Beverly Hills, CA PRICE: $10,000,000 SIZE: 9,000 square feet (approx.), 5 bedrooms, 7 bathrooms YOUR MAMAS NOTES: Oh lo-ward children Your Mama has people streaming in and out of our house for days, tying up the guest room and taking up more of our time than we got to give. We love us some house guests, especially when those house guests are Bunny, Flower and the Chicken, but they are just so damn distracting.
SELLER: Mel Gibson LOCATION: Malibu, CA PRICE: $14,500,000 SIZE: 5,403 square feet, 6 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms YOUR MAMAS NOTES: Thanks to Malibu Mary Your Mama has learned that two-time Oscar winning actor Mel Gibson recently listed his long-time family compound in Malee – boo’s guard-gated Serra Retreat community with an asking price of $14,500,000 . Back in the 1980s and 90s, mouthy Mister Gibson earned mammoth mountains of money for making movies like Braveheart , Ransom , Payback and, of course, the Lethal Weapon franchise
All us real estate gossips and celebrity property watchers knew this day was a comin ‘ and that day, lamb cakes, has arrived. Recently deceased actress Brittany Murphy’s hairrific widower Simon Monjack contacted the folks at gossip juggernaut TMZ to let them know that Miss Murphy’s mother–who now, apparently, controls Miss Murphy’s assets–hoisted her Hollywood Hills home on to the market with an asking price of $7,250,000. The 8,000 square foot house at the tail end of Rising Glen Road is where the young actress died of a complicated causes having to do with pneumonia, iron deficiency anemia and multiple (prescription) dug intoxication while taking a shower on the 20 th of December 2009.
