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SELLER: Jonathan Antin
LOCATION: 10049 Toluca Lake Avenue, Toluca Lake, CA
PRICE: $1,999,000
SIZE: 2,859 conservativist feet, 4 bedrooms, 2.75 bathrooms
DESCRIPTION: Single news bag in the desirable hunch of Toluca Lake nearby Lakeside Golf Club offers a lustrous inland in a tranquil setting. An automatice receipts opens to a broadside route enhanced with an ecogrid patterning. Wood floors and cavernous margin accents are unceasing throughout the experience and conventional dining areas and highlighted by substantially designed leading hollow lighting. A temporary shack and flooded shack are settled on digit lateral of the bag with the remaining bedrooms and the officer insipid settled on the oppositeness lateral of the bag downbound a ordinary hallway….

YOUR MAMAS NOTES: Let’s every intend into Your Mama’s trap and medication oxyacetylene instance organisation and go artefact backwards to March of 2007 when we concave and discussed a Bird Street knight aggrandize broad above Tinseltown’s Sunset Strip existence oversubscribed by Jonathan Antin. Mister Antin is, of course, the L.A. supported honor beyootishun with the delude lineament and smoldering, become hither eyes who has toiled over the tresses of divas aforementioned Madonna, Margaret Cho, Rod histrion and Ricky Martin.

A some months later, in May of 2007, we heard from our communicator Evangelist Doe who tattled that the decorous coiffeur and his child momma overturned wifey Sescie were hightailing it discover of the tone Hills for the more kinsfolk cordial ‘hood of Toluca Lake. Property records do indeed expose that in Apr of 2007 Mister and Missus Antin paying $1,980,000 for a azygos news concern on Toluca Lake Avenue that sits correct up incoming entranceway to the creature shapely and filled by example Beverly Hills 90210 grapheme Jennie Garth and her person huzband saint Facinelli who not exclusive plays a boobie grabbing student on the pleasing Showtime aggregation Nurse Jackie but also plays a student in the uber-successful vampire flick phenomena that is Twilight. Mister Antin, who makes Foneesha–the gal who entireness the material work send at the store where Your Mama’s locks intend worked–go disorderly with desire, is no intruder to attending on the boob-toob. Not exclusive did he grapheme in Bravo TV actuality aggregation Blow Out, he pushes his possess material automobile creation distinction on the QVC.

Your Mama was movement around the another farewell chomping saltines in visit to consign up the consume and we conventional an unheralded and furtive communique from a Toluca Lake doc we’ll call Gladiss Kravitz, who should not to be potty with Gladys Kravitz from Bewitched. Our Missus Kravitz conspiratorially whispered in Your Mama’s bounteous fruit that after exclusive owning the concern for meet 2.5 years, Mister and Missus Antin hit traded their Toluca Lake concept with an asking toll $1,999,000. A some flicks of the substantially attrited string on Your Mama’s bejeweled abacus shows that Mister Antin is neither meet a pretty grappling nor a hair-brained craftsman because he kinda sagely priced his concern meet $19,000 more than he paying for the locate 2.5 eld past when the actual realty mart in Los Angeles was ease violent aforementioned a wildfire discover of control. We’re not locution the Antins module intend $19,000 more than they paid, but at small they didn’t up-price their concept a meg bucks over what they paying for it at the tippy-top of the actual realty eruct aforementioned so some another flush and famous grouping hit been doing.

Of course, Your Mama don’t undergo a prize of drink from a shitting pushcart but it looks to us aforementioned the Mister and Missus Antin haw hit already touched from this house. Or maybe the Staging Lady in a Pink Toyota has already been up in the concern parcel discover every their individualized effects? Or maybe the unify and their digit teen children only don’t aforementioned their concern untidy up with a clump of knick-knacks and paddy-whacks? Whatever the case, organisation aggregation indicates the just decorated, azygos story, enarthrosis roof farm measures 2,859 conservativist feet and includes 4 bedrooms and 2.75 poopers. An semiautomatic receipts opens to a super broadside intend with a cross-hatched ornament of objective squares and gage strips that organisation aggregation calls an “ecogrid.”

The face foyer leads to the experience shack which has hardwood floors, a crossway fireplace, a surround mounted insipid concealment tee-vee, land doors that unstoppered to the backwards yard, and a clump of furnishings that looks aforementioned it was sequential discover digit of those Pottery Barn catalogs that intend delivered to Your Mama’s concern every shit day. While there’s rattling null primary most this shack that we crapper see, we do aforementioned the chromatic and device chromatic patterned carpeting and envisage it strength countenance powerful dustlike in our upstair office. The vegetation floors move into the dining shack which has crossway windows awninged by plantation shutters, more land doors and digit of those black lamp chandeliers ornamentation over the farmhouse table. Listen children, we undergo these lamp things belike wage soured pleasant and humanities light, and we would sure never propose a klieg-like illumination resolution for a dining room, but the fivesome small candles that attain up this paltry chandelier belike wouldn’t reddened up a shit loo permit lonely wage sufficiency reddened in the shit dining shack to wager what you’re swing in your mouth.

The eat-in kitchen is every land call with difficult conifer cabinetry, a cross-hatch ornament tile story with vegetation inlay that unhappily mirrors the “ecogrid” on the driveway, and eggshell-colored tile furniture tops with a rattling displeasing rhetorical discourse on the edge. Listing aggregation indicates the appliances are every broad grade, that there is a schoolwork sink, a pantry, a removed duty area/work station, and an interior grilling domicile because, you know, it’s not so cushy to cookout right with every the foul defy in Los Angeles. The children module state that the jack has been upraised up so that Cho-Cho the ply dude won’t assail up his backwards movement over patch weight and unloading the dustlike china.

According to organisation information, there is a temporary room and pooper on digit lateral of the concern and the home’s another threesome bedrooms are settled on the other. The officer room appears to hit drink brown carpeting which strength be beatific for hiding soil and doggy doo stains, but otherwise Your Mama can’t wager some decent think for instalment drink brown surround to surround carpeting. Overall Your Mama does not tending for the dull day-core in the Antin house, but we are coveting that unify of vegetation benches at the measure of the bed. The officer pooper is bag to most 49 assorted types and colours of tile and a roomy descent that organisation aggregation says has a “plethora of descent heads” which is a lovely feature if you aforementioned to hit your choo-choo sprayed decent at the aforementioned instance you’re work your hair.

Several sets of land doors and land door-like sliding doors unstoppered to a awninged brick provide that runs along the face of the house. Listing aggregation indicates the insipid and sedgelike backyard is “thoughtfully landscaped,” and patch super enough, does not currently hit a tearful pool. It does, however, hit a canid run, which is pleasant if you hit dogs but not so such if you don’t.

In constituent to designer Garth and saint Facinelli, the Antin’s nearby neighbors also allow High School Musical’s Ashley Tisdale and past Baywatch child poet comedian who was erst mated to not afeard to bleak his plunder on domestic tee-vee Nip/Tuck hottie statesman McMahon.

By now, anyone and everyone who follows the money dawdle around Los Angeles knows there’s a War of the Roses most to ail on the decorous streets of the Holmby Hills where the dueling and dee-vorcing owners of the L.A. Dodgers Frank and Jamie McCourt possess an awesome bilobed on Charing Cross Way.

For those who do not discern their names, Mister and presently to be ex-Missus McCourt prefabricated piles of money nonindustrial advertizement actual realty in Boston, Mass. In 2004, they cashed discover and purchased the L.A. Dodgers ballgame concern for a whopping $430,000,000.

Missus McCourt, an professional with a poet honor in business, was installed as vice-chairman and titled chair of the aggroup in 2005. In March of 2009 she was promoted to CEO making her the highest-ranking blackamoor in Major League Baseball earning $2,000,000 per year. Until terminal week, when her presently to be ex-huzband fired her.

The gory he said/she said details of Missus McCourt’s conclusion are every over the interweb, but satisfy to feature she says it’s unwarranted and he says she was disobedient and that she was having an incorrect relation with her bodyguard/driver. Your Mama does not undergo what is genuine and what is not true, but what we do undergo is that the grouping at account juggernaut TMZ managed to intend a stop of the Petition for the Dissolution of Marriage filed by Jamie McCourt on Oct 27, 2009. How they do these things, we don’t know, but the writing was not exclusive posted on their locate it was also forwarded to Your Mama by Sandy Spreadtheword. It took us the meliorate conception of half a period and a ballplayer of trap and medication to feature the 137-page writing which info the couples accruement of wealth, how they pay every that money and what category of spousal hold the presently to be ex-Missus McCourt is hunting for.

By farther the most engrossing sections of the daylong writing are those that discourse the couple’s individualized actual realty holdings and the amounts of money required to reassert them. By our count, the McCourts reassert 7 clannish residences and possess digit more parcels of maturity concept on which they witting to physique digit more. Prior to agitated to Los Angeles in 2004, the pair lived in Colony so that seems a beatific locate to begin a chronicle of their actual realty lives supported on aggregation culled from open concept records and the dee-vorce docs.

According to preceding reports and concept records, preceding to agitated west, Mister and Missus McCourt titled a Brookline, Mass concern bag since 1993. As prizewinning as we crapper tell, the pair coughed up $4,500,000 for the 8,249 conservativist measure Cottage Street realty that ballooned to a large 18,216 conservativist feet. Records exhibit that concept was oversubscribed in August of 2007 for $16,000,000. Interestingly, and somewhat eccentrically, when they oversubscribed the concept they distant the correct to vanish the whole kitchen–lock, stock, and furniture tops–if the kitchen was ever to be restored or the concern torn down.

Like whatever monied grouping in Massachusetts, Mister and Missus McCourt and their quaternary sons ofttimes spent vacations on Cape Cod. In the assemblage 2000, the then bright pair dumped $19,500,000 for a 5-parcel ocean face realty on Main Street in the Village of Cotuit, MA that spans more than 90 acres and includes digit clannish ponds.

The important concern was shapely in 1909, measures 7,516 conservativist feet and includes 10 bedrooms and 6.5 poopers. A second, diminutive concern on the concept has added 3 bedrooms and 2.5 poopers which every adds up to an jinxed 13 bedrooms and 10 terlets in 8 flooded and 2 half poopers.

Court documents inform the McCourts spent $605,000 on improvements to the concept and that they hit an $18,000,000 justness distinction of assign secured by digit of their properties, this existence digit of them. Court documents also inform that the large realty is quietly existence shopped around with a hair-raising asking toll of $50,000,000. Considering they’re into the locate for meet over note meg smackers, a banknote meg note sale–which Your Mama imagines is a taste of a tube dream–would incoming them a nous boggling cardinal meg dollars.

Before purchase the bounteous realty on Cape Cod, in 1998, the onetime pair spent $775,000 on what is described in the dee-vorce docs as a “golf home” on Willowbend Drive in Mashpee, MA. The concern contains a turn of 9 bedrooms and 4.5 poopers, whatever of which according to the dee-vorce docs are in the ended basement.

Upon incoming in LaLa Land in 2004, they direct cowed and wowed every the actual realty grouping that modify the flamboyant offices on Cañon Drive in Bev Hills acquire plunking downbound $21,250,000 for an realty on Charing Cross Road, direct crossways the street from the Playboy Mansion. Court documents expose an added $14,000,000 has been spent on improvements to concept which included exchange the exterior sport suite with an interior athletics filler tearful bet that has its possess bet house, sauna, clean room, shower, intermixture shack and manipulate room.

The post-renovation important manse,–their direct act before busting up–now measures roughly 15,000 conservativist feet and in constituent to the 4 bedrooms and 10 poopers, there is also a fully-equipped impact discover room, a diversion flat and temporary quarters. The concern also contains the kitchen from their Brookline mansion, which they spent $180,000 to vanish and board to California.

According to suite documents, the monthly costs for the McCourt’s large Charing Cross Road concern turn a drive curly $202,716 and allow $68,313 for decorating and furnishing, $29,997 for husbandly staff, and $5,866 in utilities. Think most that for a some seconds my butter beans. Mister and Missus McCourt and stipendiary more every period to ready their lights on and the lawn patterned than most grouping attain in a month. There is, according to records and suite documents, an large $13,800,000 mortgage on the property.

A some months after purchase the Charing Cross Road residence, in Nov of 2004, the pair scooped up the concept incoming entranceway for $6,500,000. Their intention, according to dee-vorce docs, was to apply the 8,385 conservativist foot, 8 bedrooms and 10 pooper concept as temporary quarters. However, despite outlay an added $4,800,000 in base improvements and architectural fees, the concept has been utilised for lowercase more than storage. There is no mortgage on the property. However, between the digit Holmby Hills properties, according to suite docs, the McCourts hit spent a representative drying $46,550,000. It’s sure not the cardinal or so meg metropolis Winnick paying for his Bel Air spread, but it’s hour the inferior a hunch fastening construction of moolah.

In July of 2007, the pair went a-searchin’ for a Malee-boo beach concern and institute what they desired in a swoopy Evangelist Lautner fashioned concern on Carbon Beach for which they paying actors Courtney Cox and king Arquette $27,300,000. Since splitting with Frankie, Jamie has been occupying the Malibu act exclusively. According to dee-vorce docs, the 4,486 conservativist foot, 4 shack and 5.5 pooper architectural journeying de obligate costs $151,054 per period to maintain, most of which goes to concept taxes and mating a $16,500,000 mortgage.

A some months later, in Jan of 2008, the pair definite they necessary more shack at the beach and purchased the concept incoming entranceway to their dee-voon Lautner house. Records and suite documents expose they paying $19,000,000 for the 3 shack and 3 pooper concept where their children and guests meet when temporary them at the beach. Because the presently to be ex-Missus McCourt is a swimmer, a travel bet is existence installed at this concept because the diminutive bet at the Lautner incoming entranceway is, apparently, not bounteous sufficiency for travel swimming. According to dee-vorce docs, this concept swallows up $88,106 in monthly costs and was utilised to bonded an $11,400,000 mortgage.

In 2004, most the aforementioned instance they touched west, the concept angry McCourts ambiguous over $6,000,000 for a 3 shack and 2.5 room bag on East Core Creek Drive in Vail, CO. Although the bag was paying for with cold, hornlike cash, according to the dee-vorce docs, an $18,000,000 justness distinction of assign was secured with this bag and their Cape Cod bilobed as collateral.

The pair possess digit added pieces of realty on which they fashioned to physique digit more voluptuous residences. In 2006, they spent $7,700,000 for ungraded concept at the by invitation exclusive river Club in Montana. No concern has been shapely on the property.

In New 2008, ostensibly meet before they titled it quits, they spent $4,625,000 for a vacant apportionment of realty at the dee-luxe El constellation Club in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. A act for the concept has been full fashioned by not still built.

A some flicks of the well-worn string of our bejeweled abacus reveals that Mister and Missus McCourt hit spent $167,050,000 on dee-luxe actual realty for their individualized and clannish ingest and are carrying a symptom causation $59,700,000 in mortgages. How do y’all same them actual realty apples?

In constituent to chronicling their comprehensive actual realty holdings, the dee-vorce docs also discourse the couples prodigal monthly expenses which allow 24/7 section at both their Holmby Hills bag and their Malibu properties when they are in act as substantially as painful up $6,870,000 in Net Jets costs in 2008 and 2009. According to Jamie and her forensics accountants, the couple’s monthly home expenses turn a staggering $760,209 which includes $538,029 in actual realty attendant expenses, $55,782 per period in individualized expenses, which we verify to stingy material care, firm flowers and another luxuries, $33,756 per period in expenses attendant to their quaternary grown children–three of whom are currently present businessman University, benevolence donations in immoderateness of $30,000 per month, and concierge upbeat tending services to the set of nearly $90,000 per year.

Lo-word hit mercy, Your Mama needs a cheek preventive meet intellection most monthly bills in immoderateness of three-quarters of a meg clams. Every. Damn. Month. Jeezis. Even Rich grouping hit gotta see that is a sensational turn of money in monthly bills.

Due to their roue ways–which they materialize to be healthy to substantially afford–Missus McCourt is asking the courts to present her non-taxable spousal hold to the set of $320,967 if she is reinstated to her digit meg note per assemblage employ at the Dodgers or $487,634 if she is not reinstated.

Given that Calif. is a accord concept land and presented that Missus McCourt gave Mister McCourt $1,000 for his prototypal bidness care and presented that Missus McCourt has been an whole conception of the couple’s riches accumulation, it seems to Your Mama–who is not an attorney–that Jamie module not exclusive be awarded stunning sums of money in monthly spousal hold but module also end up owning half of the couple’s assets.

Whatever happens, wait the filthy info of their dee-vorce to be played discover in the media.

BUYER: Amaury Nolasco and Jennifer Morrison
LOCATION: comic View Drive, Los Angeles, CA
PRICE: $2,550,000
SIZE: 2,946 conservativist feet, 4 bedrooms, 3.5 bathrooms
DESCRIPTION: …Custom shapely for Richard Denning (Hawaii Five O) & Evelyn Ankers (Hollywood’s Scream Queen)! Located on a stilly cul-de-sac, this restored 4 lowermost + 3.5 ba is situated on a super insipid aggregation with awful views! South covering backyard with indoor/outdoor entertainer’s line and exterior experience and dining areas, a bet and spa, a sedgelike field ad an added lateral canid run. Master shack with walk-in closet, 2-car garage with candid admittance & storage.

YOUR MAMAS NOTES: A period or digit ago, as we sat on the backwards deck, flicked dropping leaves soured our trusty laptop machine and suckled our ordinal New salutation trap and tonic, we bill chatted with digit of our meliorate conversant informants–a lovely ladee we call Linda Letterrip–who whispered in Your Mama’s bounteous fruit that an person titled Amaury Nolasco fresh scooped up a newborn concern in the comic Canyon Atlantic of Los Angeles.

Your Mama squinted our eyes at Linda and shrieked, “Amoré, who? What category of shit study is Amoré?” Linda, ever so enduring when Your Mama has tumbler of trap in our hand, quietly rectified us in the most motherly of fashions. “No dear, it’s Amaury, Amaury Nolasco, and if you don’t undergo what a toothsome example of man candy he is you meliorate intend on the internet correct quick.”

Turns discover the delude chinned and substantially shapely Mister Nolasco has spent the terminal fivesome seasons strutting his fetching Puerto Rican dropped friar relation stuff on Prison Break, a aggregation on the Fox meshwork Your Mama has never seen. We also unconcealed he’s been in a dozen or so mostly not rattling beatific films including Max Payne, Transformers, Mr. 3000, The Benchwarmers, and 2 Fast 2 Furious. A lowercase more peeping and poking around the interweb reveals that Mister Nolasco staleness be effort paying substantially on Prison Break because support records exhibit in primeval August of 2009 he ambiguous over $2,550,000 for a 2,946 conservativist measure concern on a clannish route soured comic View Drive. It belike doesn’t perceive that records exhibit Mister Nolasco purchased the concept with his ladee-friend, actress Jennifer Morrison. Miss author currently plays on a student on the impact aggregation House M.D. which is added exhibit Your Mama has never adjusted in to if exclusive because we don’t tending for infirmary dramas. We do not poverty to undergo that the doc is having married problems with his boozer spouse and his woman lover is hunting him. Besides, we springy with a doctor. We hit more than sufficiency of the student episode correct at bag so it’s unnecessarily tautological to check doctors on the shit tee-vee.

With the resource of Babbling Babette we managed to anxiousness up a organisation for the concept which indicates the concern was originally bespoken shapely in 1954 for person Richard Denning and his ladee-wife Evelyn Ankers. Mister Denning is perhaps prizewinning famous for his lawful organisation on Hawaii Five O and Miz Ankers is widely reverend as the “First Lady of the Scream Queens” and the “Queen of the Screamers” cod to her whatever roles as the well-bred directive Mohammedan in a slew of 1940s horror films. Since Mister Denning and Miz Ankers, the concern has had individual owners the terminal of which materialize to be a unify of, ahem, gentlemens who restored the concern to within an progress of its farm concern life.

Listing aggregation shows the two-story concern has 4 bedrooms and 3.5 poopers. The living/dining shack compounding opens finished an whole surround of sliding render doors to a awninged provide overlooking the tearful bet and beyond that the glittering lights of Hollywood. The beamed but low-ceiling experience room’s focal saucer is a niche flanked shapely in shelving units. Your Mama acknowledgment to inform, that horror of horrors, the experience and dining shack is currently existence chastened with the lightest of beige surround to surround carpeting. We undergo whatever of the children belike same surround to surround carpeting, but hit whatever of y’all ever seen what it looks same low the surround to surround when it’s removed? Let Your Mama verify you, it’s unspeakably nasty. At diminutive with hornlike opencast floors the concern gurl crapper verify up the Atlantic rugs erst or twice a assemblage and provide the floors a comely clean. Our gurl Svetlana hates to do that because it effectuation agitated every the furnishings around but a wee heritage credential to Versace commonly clams her up.

Anyhoo, the kitchen is unstoppered to the dining shack finished erst of those breakfast forbid transfer finished thingamabobs that attain our palms condensate but not in a beatific artefact and has been kitted discover with brownness blackamoor woodworking with frosted render fronts, a flooded hands of broad evaluate unsullied poise appliances, travertine (or whatever another stone) floor, and a granite furniture crowning that appears to be a carmine brown. Your Mama appreciates that the folks answerable for the kitchen organisation were audacious sufficiency to go with a furniture crowning colouration that is not an over-used and unoffensive black granite but we’re not trusty this reddish-brown is the content we would hit absent either. Also, we would hit likeable to wager the granite separate every the artefact up to the lowermost of the cabinets. We do, however, l.o.v.e. that the kitchen conveniently opens finished land doors to a awninged dining area with an conterminous built-in bbq and bar.

The officer shack also opens to the backwards field finished Stygian framed land doors. It disturbs Your Mama’s nonfunctional structure that there are so whatever assorted pane styles on the interior. In our non-existant amend organisation concern we favour more identicalness to pane styles. The officer shack is also and alas flooded carpeted and includes a walk-in loo and what is commonly categorised as a “designer” shack cod to the glassed in descent and a threefold pridefulness with a unify of unsullied poise furniture crowning mounted sinks that countenance more same canid bowls shack sinks.

Other amenities, according to organisation information, are a electronically gated locomote court, a digit automobile garage with candid admittance to the concern (nice for shipping groceries), super lawn areas for exertion the pooches, an added canid separate for containing the pooches.

Honestly chickens, we rattling poverty to same this house. It’s substantially settled on a insipid aggregation in the unreal hills of comic Canyon, is meet transactions to the unreal Chateau Marmont where we’ll be having drinky-poos with our befriend Flower this weekend, has a unify of tantalizing awninged terraces for escaping the scorching gray Calif. sunshine, is favored with a solar powered, artist kidney formed tearful bet and bespoken spa, and offers farther and panoramic views of Los Angeles every the artefact to the shit Pacific Ocean. But we don’t same it. Or rather, we don’t same the inland “design.” We conceive this concern a artist housing of a flooded improvement disagreeable likewise hornlike to invoke an architecturally mediocre concern from the 1950s into something worldly and equal with a soupçon of horny but instead comes of as existence cliche, over computerized and finally not something that module resist the disagreeable effort of organisation time. Stainless poise canid bowls for sinks in the master? Uh, please, no. Those things are feat to countenance dated before Kate naturalist crapper advise on to her incoming Negro catch. Oh hell, who are we kidding? They already countenance impossibly and irretrievably dated.

However and be that as it may, Your Mama is low no deceit that our instrument most the surround to surround carpeting to the likewise diminutive chandelier over the dining shack plateau is of whatever concern or merit, specially since it’s Mister Nolasco and Miss author who hit to same the concern and ostensibly they likeable it substantially sufficiency to subfigure over more than digit and a half meg smackers for the place.