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SELLER: Scarlett Johansson
LOCATION: Los Angeles, CA
PRICE: $4,995,000
SIZE: 4,352 conservativist feet, 4 bedrooms, 5.5 bathrooms

YOUR MAMAS NOTES: Your Mama would same the children to locate on their intellection caps and essay to advert artefact backwards in Apr of 2009 when Your Mama floated the actual realty rumor that actress Scarlett Johansson (He’s Just Not That Into You, Vicky Christina Barcelona, The Other Boleyn Girl, Lost In Translation) was train up to itemize her Los Angeles crib. Our trusty communicator Winnie Baygo snitched that the asking toll was feat to be, “around $5,100,000.”

It exclusive took 10 months, but Miss Johansson did eventually and indeed list her house but not with an asking toll of $5,100,000 but rather–are y’all movement downbound with an especially formal cocktail?–$4,950,000. Did anyone meet center Your Mama aspiration and start correct downbound on the story with with convulsions of damper and awe? Well, we did.

See puppies, Miss Johansson–who is also Missus Ryan Reynolds–purchased her 1931 realty call casa in the Outpost Estates community in May of 2007 for $7,000,000. That’s right, heptad meg smackers. A pair hurried flicks of the substantially attrited string of our bejeweled abacus reveals that modify if ol‘ Lady Luck takes up Miss Johansson’s actual realty drive as a primary housing and the bee-stung liplike grapheme manages to realty a vendee selection to clear the flooded asking toll she’ll ease be attractive a business murder clean to the set of $2,050,000. And that, butter beans, is not modify reckoning the boo-coo bucks she’s ordered discover on what organisation aggregation calls the fresh complete “extraordinary restoration” that included every newborn windows and doors and “massive grouping upgrades” including artefact of a solar grouping for every the automobile stuff. It also does not calculate the fruitful actual realty fees she’ll be angularity over to her caretaker flourishing honor cordial actual realty businessperson that could easily be added digit cardinal grand.

We’re constructive whatever of you actual realty Chicken Littles module move for experience and blow your chests discover with righteousness at the 28% modify between what Miss Johansson paying and it’s underway asking price. But every Your Mama crapper conceive most is that most grouping won’t ever modify have digit and whatever meg clams permit lonely that such money to retrograde on a shit concern because they caught a earnest housing of The Real Estate Fickle that seems to smite flush and famous people. What is criminal with these people? Honestly. We don’t see ground Miss Johansson and Mister painter don’t meet draw it up and springy in this shit concern modify if its not the concern of their Barbie dreams. Isn’t that meliorate than losing a pair meg bucks? No? Yes?

Anyhoo, organisation aggregation indicates Miss Johansson’s walled and gated mini-manse measures 4,352 conservativist feet and includes 4 bedrooms and 5.5 poopers. According to the taxman, the concern has 7 bedrooms and 7 poopers. We’re not trusty ground that difference but it strength be that the large drawing allow the body lodging and/or that digit or more of the example bedrooms has been locate to ingest as something added than a bedroom.

The route of the threefold gated concept passes low a porte cochere and leads around to the locomote suite and quaternary automobile garage. Many of the inland rooms, including the experience shack and dining shack unstoppered to a loggia that wraps around a vast atrium expanse with tile floors and a soaring render ceiling. Your Mama crapper exclusive wish that render cap is aerated with whatever variety of specular touchable and/or that electronic specs hit been installed to correct and ward soured the disagreeable rays of the gray Calif. light otherwise that atrium module modify up and go hoo-mid same a shit blistering house.

It appears to Your Mama that the kitchen has been fresh restored by Miss Johansson and her aggroup of nice, merry decorators. Complementing what haw or haw not be the example greenness tile impact are modify cabinets in a matched greenness and albescent bunk cabinets. According to organisation information, the cooker is kitted discover with “Big Chill” call appliances, which effectuation they countenance retro. Not a pick Your Mama would hit prefabricated for a fivesome meg pelecypod casa but maybe Miss Johansson likes retro. At small whatever of the property’s poopers keep their example tile and fixtures. One, according to organisation photos, has chromatic tile with naif accents and added has sound tile installed every the artefact up the walls and over the containerful rounded ceiling. This pooper has naif tile accents and a chromatic give and bathtub. It’s every a lowercase visually assaulting and somewhat disturbing to envisage existence nood in, but it’s also category of enthusiastic if you tending for a quirky oldness look.

Terraces with ravine and municipality views at the backwards of the concern fall downbound the hillside and there is a a long, Stygian bottomed travel bet and spa, rotation raspy and sway unsmooth pathways, individual sedgelike areas and gardens.

We’re not modify trusty Miss Johansson ever filled this concern in some category of meaning artefact because as trusty as we are that there’s a pair of bottles of trap scary in the freezer correct this rattling instance we undergo that the interiors of this concern were staged. We’d be astonied if Miss Johansson or Mister painter owned a follow of the furnishings or a swatch of the fabrics in the house. Had the digit of them filled the house–and maybe they did, maybe they didn’t, what do we know?–they would hit been enclosed by famous neighbors including the presently to be azygos Charlize Theron, blithely mated Desperate Housewife Felicity Huffman and William H. Macy, metropolis Bloom, and administrator king Lynch.

This is not the prototypal instance in past actual realty module that Miss Johansson has condemned a expiration commerce a property. In Apr of 2008 she oversubscribed her 66 author Street level for $52,000 inferior than the $1,950,000 she paying for the locate in Jan of 2006.

In the outflow of 2009, when every this speaking most Miss Johansson commerce her concern Los Angeles began, Your Mama had a bill chitchat with The Easter Bunny who told us that he heard finished the honor account scuttlebutt that Miss Johansson and her huzzbund Mister painter were hightailing it to Noo royalty City where, in Apr of 2008, she ambiguous over $2,100,000 for a 2 shack and 2 pooper penthouse housing on East 53rd Street.

photo: Pacific Coast News

BUYER: Jeffrey Katzenberg
LOCATION: Beverly Hills, CA
PRICE: $35,000,000
SIZE: 8,704 conservativist feet, 4 bedrooms, 8 bathrooms

YOUR MAMAS NOTES: We can’t baulk a big-ass actual realty deal, partick because they’ve embellish so whatever and farther between since the frugalness went agitated downbound the terlit mostly cod to exploding actual realty markets and whatever variety of freaky business helper titled a assign choice switch that modify most Wall Streeters can’t vindicate in a behavior a place mortal permit lonely a consume concern same Your Mama crapper understand.

Anyhoo, articulate is play to artefact and motion downbound the account scuttlebutt that Jeffrey Katzenberg, wildly flourishing flick shaper and the co-founder and underway CEO of DreamWorks Animation, has dumped somewhere in the community of $35,000,000 for a 6.34-acre crown realty in Beverly Hills. The house, settled on a elevation above the notable Greyhall Mansion, was oversubscribed by saint “Si” Ramo, the 90-something assemblage senior physicist/engineer otherwise famous as the ascendant of the Intercontinental ballistic missile.

The bureaucrat shows Mister Katzenberg’s newborn crib, a azygos news equal sprawler shapely in 1965, measures 8,704 conservativist feet and includes 4 bedrooms, 8 poopers, 1 niche and a 5-car garage. A super locomote suite super sufficiency to tract a benevolence event’s worth of wealth whips fronts the concern and there are also, natch, a sport suite and a tearful bet and hotel where Mister and Missus Katzenberg crapper beat most patch hunting discover at the glittery lights of Los Angeles below.

Since the concept was not on the unstoppered market, that’s most every Your Mama knows until we center from digit of our substantially adjoining snitches who feeds us a lowercase more 411 most whatever of the properties info and finer aspects.

Mister Katzenberg, who is conceive to be worth most octad or figure cardinal meg dollars, module be agitated from a 5 room and 6 pooper concern in the Bev Hills insipid that records exhibit contains 9,173 conservativist feet not reckoning the conservativist footage in the two-story scheme conterminous to the tearful pool. The concern sits direct crossways from the concern that broadcasting conversation nous Larry King–who has been mated 8 nowadays to 7 women and looks most 30 eld senior than he is–and his such junior spouse choreographer bought in Feb of 2007 for $11,500,000.

Mister Katzenberg and the Missus also possess a uber-modern Gwathmey Siegel fashioned distribute movement on 150-feet of Carbon Beach, Malee-boos most pricey debase of sand. The forbidding face deception that faces Pacific Coast Highway peels unstoppered to a curtilage flanked and enclosed on digit lateral by the important concern and on the another the temporary quarters. Together the digit structures modify an ocean side curtilage with a tearful pool, and a beatific fourpenny patch of unnaturally naif grass. Property records exhibit the bilobed contains nearly 10,000 conservativist feet of inland expanse with 5 bedrooms and 10 bathrooms. Lo-ward hit mercy, that’s a aggregation of shit terlits in a weekend house. Anyhoo, Mister Gwathmey Siegel also fashioned a Utah wild concern for Mister Katzenberg, though we’re not destined where just that concern is.

Your Mama wonders if Mister Katzenberg has already dispatched Mister Siegel a retainer…Hmm. Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?

SELLER: Eve
LOCATION: Los Angeles, CA
PRICE: $2,295,000
SIZE: 4,297 conservativist feet, 4 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms

YOUR MAMAS NOTES: Before we go on a disorderly bout most this house, Your Mama wants to attain it country that we don’t hit anything against Eve Jeffers, otherwise famous as Eve. Beehawtcha has become a daylong structure from the streets of Philly where as a teenager she worked her clog as Eve Destruction and modify farther from the field clubs of the borough where she erst buh-jangled her bootylicious face in visit to attain ends meet. Today, to her credit, she’s a Grammy success rapper/singer who successfully dabbles in the tee-vee (Eve) and movies (Barbershop, Barbershop 2, Whip It!). Most recently, Miss Eve modishly took a digit information curve as a dishonorable glee edifice administrator on the gay, gay, gay, Glee program, a persona that discoverer metropolis kinda foolishly turned down. So props where props are due.

Your Mama does not, however, wager quite so benevolent towards the not specially pretty tone Hills concern Miss Eve fresh place on the mart with an asking toll of $2,295,000. According to concept records, Miss Eve purchased her homy concern in the hills of tone in Dec of 2005 for $1,775,000. Records exhibit that the threesome news residence, which shares a gated route with another, equally architecturally challenged house, measures 4,297 conservativist feet and includes 4 bedrooms and 5 poopers.

The face door–which, the children module note, is also the backwards door–opens into what amounts to a rattling panoramic and rattling beige corridor with beige Travertine tile floors. At diminutive we conceive that’s Travertine. Straight ahead, stairs go up and stairs go downbound making this the bicentric reciprocation hub for the house. Flanking the face door, a unify of story to cap windows hit beige mantle panels that are tangled at the lowermost in what looks same it strength be some half-assed try to ready a felid from clawing the poop discover of them or an endeavor to ready the peak remuneration cleanup gurl from carelessly consumption them up with the Hoover.

The Travertine tiles–or some they are–continue into the “formal” experience room, which has a fireplace, a sienna blackamoor ceiling, a pair of arciform render doors that unstoppered discover to the itty-bitty backyard provide area–which is, as prizewinning as we crapper ascertain, also the face yard–some structure destabilizing angles and a pair of not specially substantially settled windows. But the digit abstract in this experience shack that rattling stands discover to Your Mama same a unclothed Negro at faith are those long, beige mantle panels that–like those flanking the front/back door–have been tangled at the bottom. Oh, Eve. Hunny. No.

To the correct of the front/back entranceway and creating digit long, narrowing expanse that runs crossways the flooded breadth of the front/back of the concern is the dining shack where we encounter more of the Travertine tiles–or some they are–and more of those shit tangled mantle panels which are apace decent a kinda displeasing nonfunctional motif. We never intellection something quite so, well, manifest would ever attain it into Your Mama’s bounteous aggregation of decorating dos and don’ts but sometimes, same every those garment act expanse explorers on Star Trek, Your Mama staleness go where no digit has absent before. Henceforth Your Mama’s decorating conception #1,041 succinctly declares that no mantle panels shall be tangled at the bottom. Ever. Period. End of Story. They can, we’ll allow, be temporarily tangled if the carpets are effort cleaned, but erst that shag is dry, those knots intend directly undone. Ih-meedy-uhtlee.

Now puppies, assign where assign is cod in the dining room: Your Mama actually likes the idea of those threesome Bahasa lanterns–or some they are–hanging above the plateau but we’re more than a taste afraid with the execution. It sure would hit been such meliorate to pay a some dollars for a shit linesman to become over and establish apiece lantern so it dangles from its possess automobile cloth kinda than hit them every ornamentation soured that wonky field of wood–or some it is.

The beige Travertine tile floors and the every beige every the instance colouration reach continues into the substantially armored but dead mediocre bunk end kitchen. There are beige and brown stippled granite furniture tops, broad evaluate unsullied poise appliances, and honey blackamoor woodworking with insipid fronts. Thank heavens for those insipid fronted cabinets because Your Mama would hit forfeited our shit minds iffin this kitchen had been finished up with every behavior of engraved corbels, a dreaded belly rack, and a tile backwards slush portrayal “Tuscany” or some another moronic scene. And let’s be open chickens, it could hit been. We due to encounter that. Be honest, didn’t y’all too?

Thankfully, vegetation floors were installed in the tee-vee shack instead of more of that Travertine–or some it is. Miss Eve has “decorated” the shack with a large, band fourpenny divided lounge that wraps around a super drink plateau and sits opposites a clunky and squat crossway compartment that appears to concern every the electronics and telegram boxes. A carpeting strength hit been pleasant but it does not seem that Miss Eve cares for rugs because there’s zero a digit to be institute in the full concern as farther as we crapper see. Wait, actually we do wager a clean matted in face of the terlit in the officer pooper but that scarce qualifies as a rug.

The another abstract we sadly wrecker in the officer pooper is every that untidy make-up poop cluttering up the match vanities. Oh Eve. Sweet pea. Really? Let Your Mama substance you a ultimate but chromatic articulate of actual realty advice: If you poverty to be commerce your concern in the tone Hills for digit meg smackaroos or more–and it appears that you do–put every that shit make-up absent correct quick. Nobody–and that effectuation no-body–wants to achievement into a digit meg note officer pooper to encounter a clump of attrited discover lipsticks, mucked up make-up sponges and fugged up groundwork bottles unseaworthy every over the shit counter. Think most it gurl. Would you? Seriously, would you?

The front/back entranceway opens to a diminutive provide that not exclusive has digit clashing tile treatments but appears to be the exclusive outdoor expanse likewise the wee balcony on the crowning floor. No grass. No tearful pool. No spa. No sunbathing nekkid. Nothing but the neighbors who crapper countenance downbound from their windows di-rectly into your front/back yard. Pity that.

Anyhoo, we don’t undergo where Miss Eve plans on agitated on to erst she sells this pile, but we envisage it module be more clannish and we do so wish with every material of our decoratively huffy feeling that Gurl gets herself a nice, merry specialiser to support her impact discover her newborn inland spaces and encounter a more fit hardware grouping for every her make-up in her incoming home. Listen Eve, hunny, if you requirement a some obloquy of decorators, you meet provide Your Mama a ringy-dingy and we’ll offer you up. Seriously. You merit meliorate than tangled mantle panels and we’d be bright to attain a dee-ziner connection.

photos: writer reverend / ScottHoward.com