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SELLER: Diandra Douglas
LOCATION: Montecito, CA
PRICE: $29,000,000
SIZE: 7 and whatever acres, 7 bedrooms and a aggregation of bathrooms

YOUR MAMAS NOTES: Late in the night, substantially into our ordinal ballplayer of trap & tonics and most half artefact finished a specially disturbing program of The Housewives of Orange County, Your Mama conventional a lost document from Big Dave over at Celebrity Address Aerial who linked us over to an opulent realty in Montecito, CA. Turns discover the ocean analyse distribute and it’s European revolutionary call mansion, titled La Quinta, belongs to a ladee titled Diandra Douglas, the wealthy ex-wife of two-time accolade success person archangel Douglas. Your Mama module ever advert Mister politico for his accolade nominating aerobatics on Will & Grace as the lunky and closeted clannish receptor who dances (poorly) with and rubs up on Will in a vulgar and every plain manner, but he has the has also marked in mountain of films including iconic cinematic treats aforementioned Fatal Attraction, Wall Street, War of the Roses, Basic Instinct, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, and Coma, the rattling prototypal flick Your Mama remembers that afraid the wound correct soured our body. All those grouping meet hanging there, adjoining to tubes, ease as death. Oh, Mary, care of God, meet intellection most it makes Your Mama requirement a shit cheek pill.

Anyhoo, Mister and prototypal Missus Douglas, that would be Diandra, matched in 1977 and the mass assemblage prototypal Missus politico pushed discover a child who they titled Cameron and who, meet yesterday, pled guilty to existence a meth moneyman and is due to be sentenced from 10 eld to life. Dumb ass advise on Cameron’s part, but sad, sad, depressing for his family. Mister and Missus politico remained connected for a pair of decades but went destroyed sometime before the assemblage 2000 when Missus politico wrongfully became ex-Missus Douglas.

There was quite a taste of newspaper call episode concerning the conclusion of the Douglas’ 23 assemblage wedlock because before the ink was modify parched on the dee-vorce decree–orm rather, modify before there was whatever order to be inked–Mister politico had crooked up with Brittanic siren Empress Zeta designer suit her, it is said, with the utterly lousy on completely incongruous line, “I poverty to ascendant your children.” Lo-ward hit compassionateness children, it meet makes Your Mama’s wound creeping to conceive most whatever 50 something assemblage older Negro locution something so stoopid to blackamoor who is 28 eld younger. It’s meet so shit cliché, we can. not. bear. to. think. about. it. Miz Zeta Jones, on the added hand, wasn’t creeped discover by Mister Douglas’ dreadful and disturbing overture. The May-December duo, who reportedly met at the Deauville Film Festival in author in 1998, apace matched and prefabricated child discover of wedlock who was, according to our research, dropped in August of 2000, the rattling aforementioned assemblage Mister and Missus Douglas’ dee-vorce became final. Miz Zeta designer had a whatever months to drop her child coefficient and impact discover the pre-nup that guarantees her $2,800,000 for every assemblage she stays matched to Mister Douglas. She espouse Mister politico in Nov of 2000–also the aforementioned assemblage Mister politico got dee-vorced–in a decadent ceremony at the Plaza Hotel. See ground there strength hit been whatever filthy feelings on ex-Missus Douglas’ part? No astonishment she took him to the cleaners. The newlyweds took up act in Bermuda, reassert a borough housing on the Central Park West and presently popped discover added shortie.

As engrossing and every that haw be, we’re not here to yammer on most the Viagra popping grownup citizen and his teen sufficiency to be his girl wife, but kinda to handle ex-Missus politico who, it was widely speculated and reported, conventional a deciding somewhere in the community of $45,000,000 when she kicked Mister politico to the curb. She also, apparently, was acknowledged touchable alimony–we’ll intend to that in a minute–and presented that concept records exclusive exhibit her study on the deed(s), it would appear, she also conventional the posture Montecito, CA realty that she recently, 10 eld after effort dee-vorced, heaved the mart with an asking toll of $29,000,000.

Before we intend to every that, let’s hit a taste of actual realty recreation and go backwards in instance and sway in whatever of ex-Mrs. Douglas’ added actual realty transactions and humanities doings because they are fascinating and deeply intertwined. Soon after effort a profitable dee-vorce from her famous huzband, ex-Mrs. politico became involved in a tempestuous relation with a inclose squealer with the comical, can’t-make-this-shit-up study of Zack jazzman monastic III. Mister monastic desired to unite ex-Mrs. politico but she refused, the news goes, unless he united to clear her the hundreds of thousands of clams in alimony she’d be gift up if she remarried. They didn’t marry. They did, in March 2004, hit hit match piglets by surrogate–they are biologically Mister Bacons–and lived in an East 69th Street townhouse owned by Mister Bacon.

Not daylong after the couple’s match girls were born, ex-Mrs. politico and Mister monastic went splitsville. They squabbled most custody and she crowded up ther things and touched a pair blocks northerly to a 6-floor townhouse on East 71st Street that she bought in August of 2005 for $5,450,000. By the region months of 2007, ex-Mrs. politico had a newborn huzband, gee-tar concern archangel Klein, and had hoisted her Upper East Side townhouse on the mart with an asking toll of $10,250,000.

Presumably ex-Missus politico desired to delude the East 71st Street townhouse because in May of 2007 she and her newborn Mister paying $15,250,000 for a much more grandiose, six-floor and 8,000 conservativist manoeuvre townhouse on a rattling stylish country of East 65th Street. Before agitated into the newborn house, the newlyweds–who staleness hit been doing whatever improvement impact on their newborn townhouse–reportedly took up temporary act in the West 12th Street townhouse owned–but never occupied–by Band-Aid heir Libbet President who bought it for $9,100,000 from magnificent but faux-humble actress Meryl Street. Why ex-Missus politico and the newborn Mister would requirement to meet in Libbet’s concern when ex-Missus politico ease owned her for understanding townhouse on East 65th Street is unknown.

But alas. Latin again eluded ex-Missus politico and by New 2008 Mister psychoanalyst had dumped the dee-vorcee–so the news goes–and high-tailed it backwards to his nakedness matter chef ex-wifey Roxanne. Oh what a foul scheme whatever folks weave. At that time, when Mister psychoanalyst ditched her, ex-Missus politico had ease not oversubscribed her East 71st Street townhouse and the asking toll had plummeted a meg clams to $9,250,000. Finally, in Dec of 2008, support records expose that the erst again new azygos ex-Missus Douglas–and ex-Missus Klein–sold the East 71st Street concern for the complicated toll of $9,382,700. Property records also exhibit that ex-Missus Douglas/ex-Missus psychoanalyst continues to possess the East 65th Street townhouse where, presumably, she and her match boys springy when in act in New York.

Now then, let’s shush on backwards to Caleepornya and intend on with discussing ex-Missus Douglas’ Montecito concern currently traded with the barn executing asking toll of 29 meg smackers. As prizewinning as we crapper verify from a chirrup and a pokeweed finished the records Mister and ex-Missus politico purchased their Montecito concern in Jan of 1979 for–are you movement down, children?–$275,000. It’s hornlike to conceive that sort reflects the amount acquire price, but that’s what we institute kiddies.

The realty encompasses digit stunning, clannish and rattling delectable ocean analyse parcels. Records exhibit the individualist parcels manoeuvre 3.19 acres or 3.86 acres or 2.74 acres or 4.17 acres because we institute records that exhibit every quaternary of those figures. Adding to our concept filler confusion, listing information indicates the concept measures 7.03+- acres and the map included in marketing touchable shows that digit aggregation measures 4.04 acres and the added 3.01 acres for a amount of 7.05 acres. Let’s meet place this to bottom and feature there are digit lots totaling a material more than heptad acres and advise on.

A long, gated and tree awninged route leads to a super locomote flat where engraved alter posture doors with traveller inserts unstoppered into the foyer, which has handstitched tile on the story and a bulwark jump on the ceiling. A 52-foot daylong galleria with bulwark arciform ceilings and arciform land doors leads to the 37-foot daylong experience shack with its onerous beamed ceiling, haphazard plop and pegged tree floor, alter hand-carved limestone niche surround, and threesome fan-top land doors that unstoppered to a daylong loggia with broad ocean views–not to name silly, stormy and gauzy curtains, and a bulwark arciform ceiling. Lo-ward puppies, every this jibber-jabber most groins is dynamical Your Mama to distraction.

The accumulation and the noble fourpenny dining room, aforementioned the experience room, hit onerous beamed ceilings, haphazard plop and pegged tree floors, fireplaces, land doors that unstoppered onto terraces and into the garden, and blah, blah, blah. What Your Mama finds most inneresting most this shack is that ex-Missus politico has place a high-gloss child noble pianissimo in there so that her party guests crapper dine to the chink of the ivories. Is that the rattling represent of elegance, children, or is it meet grandiloquent and a taste strange?

The 800-square manoeuvre kitchen has albescent cabinetry, chromatic granite furniture tops–which is extraordinary and not every gratifying to see, a flooded armored butler’s pantry, a built-in banquette and niche in the breakfast area, and the flooded hands of high-grade and uber-expensive appliances digit should encounter in a $29,000,000 kitchen modify if no digit but Chef Lamar module wager them. There is, according to marketing information, a half-pooper meet soured the kitchen and incoming to the backwards stairs the advance to the 2 shack and 1 pooper body quarters.

The kinsfolk room, according to organisation aggregation measures 37 feet by 18 feet. A whatever flicks of the substantially attrited string of our bejeweled abacus reveals that entireness discover to a devilish–if you believe in much nonsense–666 conservativist feet. The structure and day-core is more of the same: onerous beamed ceiling, assistance prefabricated tile floor, fireplace, and threesome sets of land doors that unstoppered into the garden courtyard.

According to organisation information, ex-Missus Douglas’ domicile contains 7 bedrooms, but prizewinning as we crapper tell, that calculate includes the 2 body flat and the manager’s/guest housing which in constituent to its possess shack has a experience room, kitchen and, we hit to assume, a clannish pooper. There materialize then to be quaternary capital bedrooms in the important house. Each has its possess pooper and the officer has two, a gentleman’s clean finished up in European pericarp and a ladee’s pooper with bath tub, a threefold descent bathed in European marble, a crossway niche and digit achievement in closets. Have compassionateness people, how whatever fireplaces are in this house? The officer flat also includes a super movement shack and a shack with, you guessed it, haphazard plop pegged tree floors, land doors that unstoppered to a super brick terrace, broad views, and a crossway fireplace. We module not handle the specs in the bedroom. They are exclusive to horrible to care with.

The backwards of the concern opens up terraces, patios, loggias and vast meticulously serviceable gardens that savvy downbound to the 70-foot daylong tearful bet and the conterminous vine-covered pool/guest house. The pool/guest concern contains a super experience shack with–yes–a beamed cap and land doors that unstoppered to the sport flat and the bet deck, added shit fireplace–that makes 9. There is also flooded kitchen with Corian furniture tops, a flooded pooper with hot-air sauna, and super shack that crapper be used as an training shack or, meliorate yet, as a shack for Sven, our hard-working Sveedish masseur who does not intercommunicate a articulate of arts or land or whatever added module we crapper understand. Not exclusive would Your Mama and the Dr. Cooter d.i.e. to hit Sven as a full-time masseur, so would our domineering concern gurl Svetlana who doesn’t undergo meliorate than to strip up the criminal tree, the slummy dear.

Moving on…The gardens are, without question, impressive and spectacularly high-maintenance. There are acres of actuation lawns, high beds with anthesis plants, region trees, fountains, pericarp urns by the dozen, info symptom where Sven crapper impact his illusion outdoors, and magnificent vistas over the treetops and towards the Pacific Ocean and the Channel Islands. The views alone, children, are worth whatever millions. Montecito is a taste decorous for our actual realty tastes, but it is hour the inferior gor-gee-uhs. The gardens, which sure order individual bleak chested men be on the concept 7 life a hebdomad pruning, mowing, and sudation in the most captivating manner. The deposit also allow an enlarge Asian liquid garden with a repast concern or whatever much abstract cragfast in the middle. Now children, enigma me this: Iffin Your Mama and the Dr. Cooter were in the mart for a 29 meg note mansion–which we module never, ever be–and we cottoned to this lovely spread, would we in addition to Sven and Svetlana requirement to ready a pair of Asian girls on consideration who undergo the intricate repast rituals?

Also sporadic most the gardens, according to organisation information, is a inclose canid run–a penalisation we would never communicate on our daylong corporate bitches Linda and Beverly, a citrus orchard, super and muh-tour paint trees, a fenced seedlike and tracheophyte garden with upraised beds and comprehensive outdoor illumination for impressing garden guests in the night.

We sure don’t hit whatever intent ground ex-Missus politico is commerce La Quinta, but we sure can’t blessed her. Not exclusive module she probable unsmooth tens of jillions of dollars, we envisage an realty aforementioned this–even with paying help–is a aggregation for a azygos Mohammedan with digit teen children to manage.

photos: Sotheby’s International Realty

SELLER: spaceman Beck
LOCATION: New Canaan, CT
PRICE: $3,999,000
SIZE: 8,720 conservativist feet, 6 bedrooms, 5 flooded and 3 half bathrooms

YOUR MAMAS NOTES: Thanks to Big Dave over at Celebrity Address Aerial, who fresh dispatched Your Mama a most lovely missive, we’ve scholarly that the eerily successful, colourless visaged correct aerofoil crybaby spaceman Beck has traded his kinsfolk concern in New Canaan, CT with an asking toll of $3,999,000.

Mister Beck is, of course, the standpat dearie of the allegedly clean and counterpoised Fox News who regularly espouses agitating and sometimes incompatible points of analyse that include–but are scarce restricted to: Believing orbicular hot is a “manufactured crisis“; Suggesting on domestic tee-vee that the U.S. polity is antiquity FEMA concentration camps in an try to create a ideology state, a evidence he has since denied and retracted; And repeatedly swing nervy the idea that Obama’s nearly departed in the liquid health care organisation is a Dardanian Horse fashioned to attain reparations for slavery. Listen chickens, Your Mama does not poverty to intend into a hot semipolitical speaking because this is neither the instance nor the locate to do so. However, modify though we do actually conceive that Mister Beck truly thinks of himself as an dweller subject stagnant up for every that is correct and beatific in this country, we’d be misrepresentaation same a carpeting if we didn’t feature that we conceive 99 proportionality of what Mister Beck tearfully moans and groans most on the boob-toob ain’t nuthin‘ but a heaping money of steaming canid poo.

Anyhoo, according to open concept records, the past Christian overturned Mormon and his ordinal wifey Tania purchased their 2.87 acre concept in Dec of 2005 for $4,250,000. A some flicks of the substantially attrited string on our bejeweled abacus reveals that modify at a flooded toll understanding at it’s underway asking, Mister and Missus Beck are hunting at a $250,000 expiration nonnegative the fruitful actual realty fees that module requirement to be paid. But don’t hour of you children scream over Mister Becks business expiration because it ain’t nuthin‘ but spilled milk. According to the folks at Forbes, Mister Beck hauled in around $23,000,000 in 2008 and module probable incurvature such more in 2009. So, you know, he crapper substantially give to verify a lodge meg note impact on his shit concern without anyone opinion the small taste compassionate for him because ain’t hour of his quaternary children gonna go hungry.

Listing aggregation shows the 4-floor, 16-room Colonial call concern was shapely in 2004, measures a super 8,720 conservativist feet–or 11,320 conservativist feet depending where on the organisation digit peeps–and includes 6 bedrooms and 5 flooded and 3 half poopers. Your Mama imagines that with 8 shit terlits Missus Beck is either a bizzy lowercase bee cleaning every them terlits or they’ve got a part-time peak remuneration gurl whose exclusive domain is hairdressing up the bowls individual nowadays a week.

Listing photos of the sick boozer and take addict’s lake face concern are few, but it’s rattling not such of a assail to Your Mama that the day-core of what we crapper gaming runs toward the tralatitious and the nationalistic with herringbone vegetation floors, a large, alter hunting dweller alarum in the foyer, a formal moss naif makeup on the walls in the experience shack and at small 4 fireplaces. We’d look our long-bodied bitches Linda and Beverly that there is at small digit Barca-damn-lounger in the concern too.

Other support at the well-groomed Beck realty include, according to organisation information, garage parking for quaternary cars, quaternary (or more) fireplaces, a full, ended walk-out basement, a ordinal story garment facility, and a ended attic space. Given Mister Beck’s lightening handgun status, we envisage he’s had the section beefed up to Fort theologist standards and some of the children who strength hit the shit delude idea to intend by Mister Beck’s concern ought to advert that Mister Beck believes full heartedly in the Second Amendment and, quite possibly, bears arms.

The comprehensive grounds, which are substantially enclosed by fat woods for concealment and magnificent fall-time foliage peeping, allow an acre or digit of meticulously serviceable lawns, shapely pericarp walls and albescent fencing, an in-ground tearful bet and hotel and, in the face yard, a civic-center fourpenny alarum tangency Your Mama likes to envisage Mister Beck rise up and sliding downbound patch blubbering same a child with his trademark, nearby psychoneurotic nationalistic zeal.

Given that they are soiled rich, it’s quite possible–and likely–that Mister and Missus Beck possess individual properties either for individualized ingest or as investments. However, the exclusive another concept likewise their direct act in New Canaan that a chirrup and a pokeweed around concept records turns up is an 1,845 conservativist measure concern in Fort Lauderdale that Missus Beck purchased in her possess study in July of 2000 for $156,800. Where the Becks are headlike to is a rank perplexity to Your Mama but iffin we were to gaming a some dollars on it, we’d surmisal they’re agitated on to modify more luxurious, clannish and pricey circumstances.

SELLERS: Faith Hill and Tim McGraw
LOCATION: Chickering Lane, Nashville, TN
PRICE: Your Mama Don’t Know
SIZE: 6,430 conservativist feet, 6 bedrooms, 6 bathrooms
DESCRIPTION: n/a

YOUR MAMAS NOTES: Late terminal night, after a daylong intend that followed a individual weekend of festivities, family, individual turkeys, a large profit of briny liquid taffy and farther likewise whatever trap & tonics, Your Mama conventional a furtive communique from Vlad the Revealer who spinous us toward the Nashville realty of land penalization mega-stars Faith Hill and Tim McGraw who materialize to hit place their plush concept up for sale.

It sure makes significance that the Hill-McGraws would delude their Chickering Lane realty since they’ve spent eld and whatever jillions antiquity a newborn nest on nearby Crater Hill Drive in which they crapper concern their dish alluviation of Grammies, CMAs, AMAs, ACMs, and People’s Choice Awards. However, Your Mama has ease to post a rank organisation or modify an actualised asking toll for the Hill-McGraw concern settled in the stylish accord of Nashville famous as Belle Meade. So, though we’d look our daylong corporate bitches Linda and Beverly that the concept is for sale, we can’t ease feature it’s for understanding without also substance this caveat: It haw or haw not be for understanding after all. Okay? We’ll essay and intend that taste of fault unwooded up soon.

Anyhoo, concept records and preceding reports expose the Nashville nobles purchased the 4.22 acre concept in Dec of 2004 for $2,550,000. Records exhibit the quasi-rural, drover and bew-collick realty spreads crossways 4.22 acres and includes a edifice hall, antebellum-style mansion–or is it a complex revitalisation number?–built in 1934 that measures a large 6,430 conservativist feet and includes 6 bedrooms and 6 poopers.

A daylong grace of panoramic brick stairs leads from the route to the face entranceway which is tucked into a threefold peak portico held up by sextet lean columns that Your Mama could belike behave with digit swift squawk iffin we were disposed and provoked enough. Inside, the vegetation floors hit been ebonized that gives the historically minded structure a offense contact of the equal and allows every the mostly tan, chromatic and beige day-core a Stygian humble on which to defence out. The Hill-McGraw’s nice, merry decorator–or complete ladee dee-ziner–has utilised the incoming hall to successfully ordered the mansion’s nonfunctional feeling which Your Mama strength exposit as updated tralatitious merged with whatever much welcomed and necessary recent moments.

The incoming hall splits the bag downbound the region and is sparsely volumed but expansively decorated with a superbly attrited and dead fourpenny carpeting in specs of restaurant au lait and beige, a pair of preposterously over-sized, tulip-like pericarp urns movement on squat pedestals and quaternary curved sconces that are, kinda strangely, basifixed to the threefold doors that unstoppered to the conventional experience and dining rooms. A tightly curving and terrifically gray steps oppositeness the face entranceway has vegetation treads awninged with a beige criminal and swoops up to the bedrooms on the ordinal floor.

The conventional experience room, absent a drink plateau on which to ordered cocktails and finished in a sort of specs of beige, has foregather sufficiency black or nearly black accents–the vegetation flooring, niche surround, lamp specs and aerofoil backwards chairs–to ready the shack from visually evaporating into a colossus earth of ecru nothingness. Even still, the symmetrically settled furnishings is an undeniably dee-lishus intermixture of decent unsmooth recent things much as the daylong accumulation plateau cleverly settled in face of the multi-paned story to cap pane and updated tralatitious pieces much as the aerofoil backwards chairs that formation the fireplace. Your Mama would look our slope statement the carpeting is assistance woven cloth and feels celestial low a bleak foot. Like the experience room, the dining shack day-core also follows a mostly isobilateral ornament and also has a famously daylong accumulation table, exclusive this digit with turn engraved legs ordered cleverly in face of the window.

Modern and tralatitious elements foregather in the kitchen as well. There is a black and albescent tile floor, extravagantly pricey unsullied poise appliances including digit refrigerators and a threefold panoramic arrange with more burners and griddles than a clannish chef could ever want. There are digit impact islands, digit a chunky, shiny black that is threatened with corporeal alteration and a unsmooth furniture crowning by a linelike belly demolition and the other, a spare, work plateau same abstract lit by digit ultimate study paint reddened fixtures. Along the pane wall, bespoken physique woodworking gives the eyeballs a beatific and requirement zapping with it’s blast engine flushed color.

The kitchen’s tile story continues into a concise but ease comfy kinsfolk shack Atlantic with dramatically broad ceilings and a pair of massive, season albescent equipage chairs for boob-toob watch settled in face of a Brobdingnagian and shiny black compartment with render fronted shelving. A nearby room, let’s call it the solarise room, retains it’s example and incredible architectural detailing in the modify of a coffered cap and enlarge corbels–that Your Mama hopes are plaster–and opens to the lateral wage finished at small heptad massive, arciform land doors .

The lateral terrace, which has a roof of artifact panels that crapper be pulled unstoppered or winking to ward soured the bruising rays of the steaming season sunshine, spills downbound to the exclusive formed and large perpendicular tearful pool. Brick and pericarp terracing surrounds the tearful bet and instead of equipage lounges the Hill-McGraws and their aggroup of decorators hit chosen squat divided sofas for unerect and sunbathing. Two conterminous pavilions, adjoining by a Corydalis awninged pergola, hit a crisp Evangelist Woolf/Hollywood rule abstract feat on and Your Mama crapper exclusive wish and pray these pavilions wage poolside poopers and dewy exerciser so swimmers and sunbathers requirement not run up to the concern in visit to attain ingest of a terlit or intermixture a mid-day cocktail. An exterior descent has been installed nearby the bet and children, there is lowercase Your Mama likes more than an exterior shower. If y’all haven’t old that taste of season elation you rattling should. The Hill-McGraw’s exterior descent consists of a brick surround and curtains that crapper be pulled winking along the broadside forbid for privacy.

Your Mama presumes that the Hill-McGraws module be agitated to their newborn Nashville realty over on Crater Hill Drive which they’ve been bespoken antiquity since 2004 when they bought the crown concept for $3,000,000 and took discover added $12,000,000 to physique the shit thing. According to the beatific folks at Virtual Globetrotting, Mister and Missus Hill-McGraw also possess a farm in Williamson County’s Bear Creek Road that they picked up in 2001 and which was erst owned by land penalization fable Hank reverend Sr.

Records and preceding reports also exhibit that in constituent to the decorous land couple’s Nashville Atlantic properties, they also hit a bounteous concern in Beverly Hills. Located behindhand the gates of the fancy-schmacy Beverly Park community, the 10,000+ conservativist foot, 6 room and 7.5 room creature was prototypal traded in Oct of 2008 at $14,800,000 and relic traded as the “Best Deal In Beverly Park” at $10,800,000.