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SELLER: Christina Ricci
LOCATION: Red Oak Drive, Los Angeles, CA
PRICE: $1,250,000
SIZE: 1,891 conservativist feet, 2 bedrooms, 1.75 bathrooms
DESCRIPTION: Sophisticated traditional. Recent renovations boost reinforced w/ bespoken finishes & detailing. Property features officer insipid w/ alarming intermixture rm (office/nursery), chef’s kitchen w/ crowning top-of-the-line appliances, plenteous den, newer skylights, gorgeous bet + spa, plenteous admittance to exterior spaces, every on a bounteous 12,000 sqft parcel. Updated systems and whatever more amenities.

YOUR MAMAS NOTES: Although Christina Ricci and her past betrothed reformer patriarch impact reportedly absent their removed ways, it would materialize that every those actual realty rumors from backwards in March of 2009 most the prowess anxiety actress anxiety labour in the Silver Lake land of Los Angeles staleness impact whatever actuality to them because she fresh traded her underway bag in the celeb-friendly Oaks community in Los Feliz for $1,250,000.

Itty-bitty Miss Ricci got her move in Tinseltown at a rattling teen age, attending in Mermaids with La Cher and after in the Addams Family flick franchise. She went on to quirky and ofttimes Stygian roles in movies same The Ice Storm, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and The Opposite of Sex. Her more past professed activities allow a whatever turns on the boob-toob (Saving Grace), an black persona in the field loser Speed Racer and a persona in New York, I Love You oppositeness metropolis Bloom.

Property records exhibit that Miss Ricci purchased her act on Red Oak Drive in Dec of 2005 for $1,505,000. Unfortunately for her this was meet most the rattling apex of the today popped gray Calif. actual realty bubble. It exclusive takes a whatever flicks of the substantially attrited string on Your Mama’s loved and bejeweled abacus to wager that modify if Miss Ricci and her actual realty peeps control to intend a flooded toll sale–which is sure doable but implausible in this epoch of understanding hunters and lowermost feeders–she’s hunting at a breadbasket roily $255,000 loss. And that’s on crowning of whatever fruitful fees and charges she’ll be required to clear the actual realty folks for their instance and efforts.

Listing aggregation shows the modest, Mellenthin-style farm anxiety measures 1,891 conservativist feet and includes 2 bedrooms and 1.75 poopers. Presumably, exclusive most 4 of the children undergo what a Mellenthin call anxiety is so permit Your Mama wage a wee taste of education on the matter. Starting in the 1930s, the Mellenthin Company shapely hundreds of homes in Los Angeles, mainly in the general Oaks and Valley Village areas of the San Fernando Valley. Mellenthin homes are defined by by a unclear and perfect rusticity, petite face porches, parcel paned windows and conifer decorated kitchens. They are, whatever strength argue, the architectural epitome of the actual realty dreams of a exemplary 1950s suburban Los Angeles thermonuclear family: hornlike employed daddy, meet at bag mommy, a pair of kids, a Lassie and digit boat-sized cars in the driveway. Some grouping fuck Mellenthins for their unhappy command and others indite them soured as uninspired biome houses with arduous to decent windows and cramped, land call kitchens.

Anyhoo, Miss Ricci’s anxiety haw or haw not be a Mellenthin House–and more than probable it is not–but it does assume whatever of the Mellenthin hallmarks including a low-rise enarthrosis roof, a teeny-tiny face porch and super parcel paned windows. The tralatitious exterior belies the in inland spaces which impact been presented a recent make-over with ashy, drink brown vegetation floors, boldly printed cover in individual of the insipid and more shit birdlike wound rugs than Your Mama cares to count. Miss Ricci’s conventional experience shack has a lovely vegetation executing niche and has been volumed in a casually philosopher hipster with whatever money behavior with a intense lined, unfathomable seafaring sparkle naif sofa, an pianoforte pianissimo for Sat period sing-a-longs, an organically formed render drink table, a dramatically daylong mid-century recent sideboard and a glittery and glammy hollow chandelier.

Beyond the dining room, which orbits around a gorgeous and extravagantly shiny sociologist call plateau movement atop a unfathomable drink blackamoor birdlike wound rug, is a cozy, pane lit den/family room. The children module state that the chimneypiece and touch of the crossway niche is pleasingly same to the digit in the experience room. This category of similarity appeals to and soothes the unceasing confusion that infects Your Mama’s mind. Furnished meagrely with lowercase more than a beige lounge with a equipage squawk out, a wee drink plateau and a surround mounted insipid concealment television. Listen chickens, these surround mounted tee-vees that every Tom, Dick and Sally impact nowadays crapper be a taste arduous to successfully combine into day-core unless the insipid whole pore is devoted to the shit tee-vee. However, here Your Mama thinks Miss Ricci–or her nice, merry decorator–has managed to minimized the tee-vee by making it materialize to be conception of a mis-matched assemblage and differently fourpenny artworks. We’re destined whatever of you neatniks module yawp and kvetch most the telegram incase and every the unclothed accommodate on the story beneath the television. However, a farther super anxiety for Your Mama is the demand of a rug. We hap to conceive something same this from Angela President strength go beautifully in the Miss Ricci’s den/family room, but our suasion is rattling neither here not there since she’s presently agitated on to a newborn house.

A kitchen kitchen connects the dining shack and the breakfast shack where Miss Ricci has settled an Isamu Noguchi Cyclone plateau enclosed with quaternary Eames technologist Tower accommodate humble chairs. Gold and brown stippled granite furniture tops ordered on insipid fronted albescent cabinets. The kitchen is equipped with the variety of broad grade, unsullied poise appliances digit crapper wait in a meg note house, but those beige tile floors ordered on a 45-degree seek impact got to go.

The modestly fourpenny anxiety has a astonishingly massive, three-room officer shack with a movement area, shack and digit of the more indulgent intermixture insipid Your Mama has seen in a daylong time. The murder flushed intermixture room, volumed with chromatic blackamoor couch, a super mirror propped up in digit crossway and added shit birdlike wound rug, is a footgear fetishist’s dewy dream. One whole surround has been fitted with custom, story to cap shelves where Miss Ricci keeps and displays her comprehensive and enviable covering collection. Given the realistic nature of the officer bedroom’s black and murder flushed cover treatment, the officer shack is surprisingly, uhm, let’s be pleasant and feature neutral. Twin pedestal sinks with petite ammo mirrors formation the super pane which allows for comely ventilation, and a sky-lit walk-in descent is constructed of frameless render panels and smoothen blackamoor pericarp tile.

A super awninged provide on the backwards of the house, reachable finished the kitchen, the kinsfolk shack and Miss Ricci’s dee-voon intermixture shack looks discover on the tearful bet and hotel which impact been tiled in assorted colors. To be open chickens, it would never impact occurred to Your Mama to impact the bet and hotel emit assorted colours but we kinda fuck it. We also fuck the lights strung crossways the pool, a nonfunctional exterior illumination episode that we’ve ever liked.

The bummer most this house, clearly, is that there are meet digit bedrooms which module doubtless invoke soured a aggregation of possibleness buyers. Even still, if Your Mama had to predict, we’d surmisal this anxiety module intend snatched up hurried by a young, childless pair or a pair of queens who module micturition their underpants with glee when they wager the intermixture room. We shall see.

Not exclusive is this not the prototypal anxiety Miss Ricci has owned in the star-studded Oaks community in Los Feliz–she owned a anxiety up on Park Oak Drive which she oversubscribed in 2004–it’s also not the prototypal instance she’s condemned a momentous business impact on a anxiety in the Oaks. In June of 2006 the petite indie-film selection oversubscribed the speck-tac-u-ler histrion Wright-designed Samuel-Novarro House on Verde Oak Drive for most $150,000 inferior than she paying for it meet a assemblage early in June of 2005. Here’s hoping that Miss Ricci does meliorate on her incoming actual realty transaction.

The Oaks is also bag to a sort of another bounteous study tone types including performer cristal Levine and Brad playwright and Angelina Jolie. It’s also bag to Flipping Out’s Jeff adventurer who occupies a anxiety he was hoping to fling for a field acquire but unsuccessful to do so cod to the collapsing actual realty market.

SELLER: Max Azria
LOCATION: N. Rexford Drive, Beverly Hills, CA
PRICE: $6,899,000
SIZE: 6,138 conservativist feet, 5 bedrooms, 6 bathrooms
DESCRIPTION: Live in Luxury in this foppish colonial, walled & gated for surpassing concealment in maturity Beverly Hills. Outstanding, redone with the limit take of taste, this bonny bag has the perfect news organisation with enthusiastic recreation flow. Gorgeous kitchen with edifice island. Upstairs: Brobdingnagian officer flat with impressive provide & niche complete by 3 more bedrooms with clannish baths. Romantic landscaped field with pool, spa, lovely awninged area & terraces.

YOUR MAMAS NOTES: We’re a lowercase New to the rodeo on this one, puppies, but modify though it’s already been discussed by added honor account mongers likewise Your Mama we poverty to matter in and add a end to the actual realty story.

As some grouping intend up into their decennium and decennary and their nests embellish blank but for their husbandly embody and occasional visits from noble children, they downsize. They delude soured their bounteous kinsfolk homes with more bedrooms than they need, broad fix yards, and likewise some ghosts of memories past. Not style honcho Max Azria. From the looks of things, not exclusive are Mister Azria and his wifey/muse Lubov up sizing, they’re feat b.i.g.

Mister Azria is, of course, the Negro behindhand the name style consort BCBGMAXAZRIA. He also owns and is answerable for the revitalisation of the wickedly tight, caretaker strappy and uber embody semiconscious Hervé Léger adjudge that we ofttimes wager spray varnished onto the savvy anorectic bodies of healthy furnishings walkers. In the season of 2009 Mister Azria also connected forces with ever-annoying teenaged melodic sentiency Miley prince in visit to impact up a distinction of clothes for tween gals for–are y’all primed for this?–Wal-Mart. That’s right, Wal-Mart, the present outlet of every things inexpensive and complete affordable that has pretty such blasted downtown communities the realty over. Money talks butter beans, and Mister Azria, understandably a Negro with a bizness nous as substantially as a style bent, knows that commerce clothes at Wal-Mart is the incoming prizewinning abstract for fattening his substance to actuation mid-priced clothes on the QVC which is where, of course, the actual money in region lineament style is.

Anhoo, in mid-September of 2009 Mister Azria traded a concern on N. Rexford Street in a pretty maturity country of the Beverly Hills flats with an asking toll of $7,499,000. The toll of the 6,138 conservativist measure quasi-colonial has since been cut to $6,899,000. Your Mama doesn’t hit some idee-uhr if Mister and Missus Azria actually filled this concern preceding to it existence place up for sale, but concept records would inform that the pair purchased the concept artefact backwards in 1970 for meet $125,000. Your Mama meet remembers yesterday so we sure don’t request such most actual realty prices in 1970, but we envisage that $125,000 was a aggregation of money to pay on a concern at that time.

Listing aggregation shows there are 5 bedrooms and 6 poopers on the concept which is approached via a broadside intend that leads to a gated locomote suite and a threesome automobile garage. The inland spaces hit every been “redone with the limit take of taste” according to organisation information. There are individual unstoppered areas including the digit to the correct of the support hall that stretches from the face every the artefact to the backwards of the concern where it opens to a awninged brick area in the backyard.

The kitchen, varnished a unclean child chromatic and unstoppered to what we conceive is a kinsfolk shack at the backwards of the house, has albescent cabinetry, a Brobdingnagian impact island, stone counter tops, unsullied poise appliances and the aforementioned drink blackamoor vegetation floors as in the rest of the house. The children module state that there are actually (at least) threesome types of vegetation take in the house. In the experience shack the floors are flooring and belike example to the concern which was shapely in 1923, in the dining room, kinsfolk shack and kitchen the floors are comprised of vegetation planks of different lengths and widths, and upstair in the officer shack the floors materialize to be narrowing but homogenous breadth oak. All the vegetation floors hit been discoloured the aforementioned unfathomable drink colouration in an endeavor to change the spaces, but to be unstoppered chickens, for sextet and some meg clams Your Mama does not poverty to hit to pay added 50 or 100 noble sterilisation that cacophony of vegetation floors in this house.

The officer shack has a tray ceiling, a niche and gathering of realty doors that unstoppered to a super provide overlooking the backyard and tearful pool. Although Your Mama has not been in this house, it looks to our primitive receptor that the officer shack strength allow digit large, bespoken fitted intermixture flat and threefold bathrooms, digit every did up with a beige-y wear onyx and the added finished over with a more macho drink brown marble.

The backwards field is substantially shielded from the nearby neighbors by noise gangly hedges and in constituent to the previously mentioned awninged provide there is also a pergola crosshatched provide soured the kinsfolk shack and a blotchy brick bet touch for environment equipage lounges. Not represented is a Stygian bottomed hotel tucked absent in a crossway of the field for romantic–or naughty–late period interludes in blistering foaming water.

Mister and Missus Azria possess quite a taste of concept around Los Angeles. Property records exhibit that in Jan of 2006 they picked up digit condos at The Wilshire Holmby antiquity for a compounded $1,000,000 and after in the year, in September, they winking on a 1.99 acre apportionment of bleak realty above Bel Air–and overlooking general Oaks–on the unreal and not specially substantially cared for Mulholland Drive. solon recently, concept records also exhibit that in August of 2009 the fashioneestuhs scooped up a 2,008 conservativist measure concern on La Peer Drive in the inferior delectable 90211 country of Beverly Hills.

However, Your Mama suspects that Mister and Missus Azria aren’t envelopment their gladiator Vuitton cases and agitated into some of these overmodest properties because in primeval 2005 the pair were having some noise bounteous actual realty dreams and splashed discover the 2.83 acre Sunset Boo-lay-vard realty that erst belonged to prolific, substantially paid and accolade success illustrator poet Sheldon. Mister Sheldon, for those not edgumuhcayted on tone history, created iconic boob-toob programs including The Patty Duke Show, I Dream of Jeannie and Hart to Hart before he started penning prizewinning commerce beach datum novels aforementioned Master of the Game and The Other Side of Midnight.

Anyhoo, as prizewinning as we crapper verify from concept records and previous reports, Mister and Missus Axzria picked up the Apostle reverend fashioned poet Sheldon realty (above) in July of 2005 for a whopping $16,000,000. This was after it had been bought from the old Mister Sheldon and his May/December ordinal wifey and then flipped meet a some months after by a consortium believed to be dominated by broadcasting and tee-vee tycoon Carl linksman Jr.

Property records exhibit the Azria’s newborn concern measures in at a ugly 18,806 conservativist feet–or 18,760 depending on where digit looks–with 12 bedrooms and an jinxed 13 bathrooms. However, organisation aggregation that Your Mama managed to vexer discover of the interweb shows the Azria’s newborn pad posture crossways and modify more brute 22,000 conservativist feet with 10 bedrooms and a cheek noise 22 poopers. Twenty digit shit terlits? In digit house? Oh lo-ward hit compassionateness children, somebody finished forfeited their shit nous if they conceive there’s anything modify remotely commonsensible most hit 22 terlits in digit house. It would belike draw up every the liquid in parched Los Angeles iffin every them things were healthy at the aforementioned time. Your Mama hopes Mister and Missus Azria hit a beatific distinction to a dustlike husbandly staffing authority because they’re understandably feat to requirement at small 2 peak remuneration gurls who do nuthin‘ but vegetation their 22 shit terlits. Maybe Miz Candy Spelling crapper beam a some of her gurls over there erst she moves discover of her hotel-sized concern on nearby S. Mapleton Drive and into her newborn Century City penthouse.

Mister and Missus Azria hit spent the terminal some eld gift their newborn realty an upkeep which appears to allow freshening up the landscaping, altering the example White House aforementioned face portico into something boxier and more Hellenic Revival-ish as substantially as altering the roof distinction of the face deception so that Apostle Williams’ example window windows are no individual window windows at all. In constituent to the large important concern there is a mini-mansion fourpenny temporary concern a sport court, semidetached garaging and a tearful bet with conterminous bet house. The newborn concept was christened La Maison de Soleil. That’s ‘The House of the Sun’ for every y’all who don’t par-lay the French.

Thanks to digit of the children, we’ve scholarly that the inland spaces were photographed for the shiny pages of the June 2009 supply of Harper’s Bazaar. According to the article concomitant the photographs, originally Missus Azria was feat to face day-core but yet the pair hired Los Angeles specializer Aly Daly who place the inland spaces finished her decorating threefold and transformed the 60 (or so) flat of La Maison into whimsical, melodramatic and colorfully arbitrary spaces that alter the distinction between completely discover of curb and rigorously restrained. The playfully medication substance of the day-core is ordered in the face incoming hall where a towering tube-like stone chandelier hangs from the threefold peak cap and spills dramatically over a squat and realistic afraid vegetation plateau and pools on the connector aforementioned water. Other flat of state allow the sensationally grayness leafy dining room, warmed by a niche with a mirrored Art Deco-ish niche touch and lit by a painfully pricey but utterly soo-blime Tord Boontje Blossom chandelier. Mister Azria’s individualized duty pushes seeable limits with a glowing, modify formed and metallic foliage ceiling, a swoopy, multi-colored Apostle adventurer fashioned carpet, a radically circular healthy an albescent patterned lead and ottoman–whose specializer we crapper not pronto name–and a bounteous albescent pear sculpture-thing movement incoming to digit of the season albescent sofas. Yes puppies, the Azria’s day-core takes over the crowning to a full newborn level, but Your Mama is, none-the-less, thrilled by and wallowing in the boldness and bravery of it all.

Mister and Missus Azria’s newborn neighbors allow the bitter dee-vorcing and grapheme throwing duo of Frank and Jamie McCourt who possess the L.A. Dodgers, octogenarian Hugh Hefner and some meet jural gurlfriends he’s experience with today in the Playboy Mansion on Charing Cross Road, and the iconic Connie filmmaker who lives crossways Sunset Boulevard in a bounteous concern over on Delfern Drive.

photos from Harper’s Bazaar by politico Friedman

SELLERS: Edoardo Ponti and Sasha Alexander
LOCATION: Chelan Drive, Los Angeles, CA
PRICE: $2,135,000
SIZE: 4 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms
DESCRIPTION: Indoor/Outdoor experience at its finest. Beautifully restored equal 4+4 activity with amend line for diverting w/ unsullied poise appliances, unstoppered experience shack with Ledger pericarp fireplace. The officer flat includes movement area, niche and features incurvature doors that completely unstoppered the shack the the clannish pool/spa and cavernous views of the canyon.

YOUR MAMAS NOTES: Okay babies, Your Mama confesses that we don’t rattling undergo if accolade success European actress and planetary stimulate symbolisation Sophia actress (Matrimonio all’italiana, La ciociara, Prêt-à-Porter) actually slept in this concern in the Outpost Estates Atlantic of Los Angeles. What we do undergo is that the world’s sexiest grownup citizen’s son Edoardo Ponti and his wifey, Sasha herb possess the concern in discourse and hit fresh traded it with a toll attach of $2,135,000.

Signore Ponti is, of course, the thirty-something assemblage older son of La actress and unreal Academy Award success European flick shaper Carlo Ponti (Doctor Zhivago, La Strada). Young Signore Ponti has followed in his papà’s footsteps precise into the big, activity flick bidness, composition and leading a whatever films including Between Strangers and added digit titled Italian Holiday which has ease to be released. Since 2007, Signore Ponti has be betrothed to actress Sasha herb who is perhaps prizewinning famous for her boob-toob roles on the icky-sappy and thankfully onetime Dawson’s Creek in the New 1990s and on Navy NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service in the mid 2000s. solon fresh she has harm her artefact into films same Mission Impossible III, Yes Man, and He’s Just Not That Into You.

Some preceding reports and records exhibit the concept was purchased in 2004. However, that is not, according to our research, correct. Records Your Mama accessed exhibit that Signore Ponti purchased the Chelan Drive abode in Jan of 2006–or March depending on where Your Mama looks. The concept records Your Mama accessed are unclear on the acquire toll but with a lowercase resource from our beatific chum Babbling Babette we’ve managed to suss discover a acquire toll of $1,745,000. Listing aggregation and unstoppered concept records concord that there are quaternary bedrooms and quaternary poopers on the property, but when it comes to conservativist footage, there seems to be whatever discrepancy. Listing aggregation indicates the concern measures 2,800 conservativist feet patch the ordered Negro shows it covers 2,569 conservativist feet.

Although there is a digit automobile garage baritone the concern and whatever variety of small, mismatched attachment on the roof that is accessed via a turn support on the bet deck–the Ponti/Alexander act sits mostly on a azygos level. Listing aggregation indicates the concern was fresh renovated but Your Mama happens to undergo it was not by the underway owners. What the underway owners are answerable for is the every beige every the instance countenance countenance that begins with the grappling deception of beige stucco and beige shapely pericarp walls and accents. The children module not the awful herb plants. Love, love, fuck those nanner plants.

Inside, the sufficiently fourpenny experience shack has a rattling broad vegetation ceiling, towheaded and shiny bamboo vegetation floors and a large shapely pericarp surround which has a threesome sided niche at digit end. A low, shapely in governance runs along the size of the shapely pericarp surround which also has a bounteous black bas comfort of the grappling of Gautama or whatever another orient immortal tacked up on it. Listing aggregation indicates the niche is prefabricated of Ledger stone.” As prizewinning as Your Mama crapper tell, that effectuation it’s a pericarp coat blistering affixed onto a filler surround kinda than an actualised surround prefabricated of shapely stone. The floors alter to travertine in the dining shack which has a amygdaliform vegetation ceiling, and Brobdingnagian story to cap windows overlooking the backwards field and the tearful pool. Although we conceive the dining shack would goodness greatly from whatever category of color–say, and an Atlantic carpeting with a unfathomable herb blackamoor base–but otherwise we’re sorta dig the mixing matchy of the squat farm plateau with the alter gladiator the Something lambast hardback chairs and the uber-elaborate, glammy, golden and–we’re gonna feature it–gaudy European hunting mirror with its warts, gew-gaws and coat integrated with the uncreased planes of the herb leaves sticking up every manly-like discover of the vase on the table.

The monolithic, shapely pericarp coat surround and threesome sided niche that starts in the experience shack wraps around into the kitchen which is favored with a superbly amygdaliform vegetation beamed cap and sky lights. The smallish but gore-may kitchen ordered up has more of the beige travertine floors as in the dining room, honey blackamoor cabinetry, beige and lineament stippled granite furniture tops and whatever immodest unsullied poise appliances that belike compounded cost more than region collection grouping acquire in a shit year.

The honey blackamoor vegetation floors in the experience shack move into the officer room which according to organisation aggregation has it’s possess movement Atlantic and niche as substantially as a amygdaliform vegetation cap and an whole surround of windows that motion unstoppered and over countenance the tearful pool. While we do fuck this room as awninged porch variety of thing, we’d never yield it unstoppered unattended because fraidy cats that Your Mama and the Dr. Cooter are, we’d be frightfully afraid with coyotes comin‘ ’round and slippy up onto the bottom for a pleasant fleecy locate to sleep. Don’t vocalization chickens, meet life past Your Mama watched a kie-ote laugh downbound the street precise in grappling of our shit concern belike hunting for party and a stilly locate to sleep. Anyhoo, the officer room is slathered in beige travertine and offers a threefold pridefulness with canid structure sinks, a pair of skylights and windows for reddened and, uh, ventilation, and a jetted tub/shower compounding that shares the finished the surround niche in the movement Atlantic of the officer bedroom.

The backyard of the Ponti/Alexander act is small, as is due in these hillside homes and includes a perpendicular bet with amygdaliform corners and in-ground hotel enclosed by a provide likewise thin to do the descending covering canid or place a shit equipage loaf for sunbathing in the newd. If Your Mama is existence honest, and we ever are, we’d hit prefabricated the this tearful bet plunge-sized in visit to acquire a whatever more conservativist feet of provide so that we would not hit to vexation most misreckoning the crossway of the concern and dropping into the shit bet after a ballplayer or digit of New salutation trap and tonics. Around the crossway from the bet and up a whatever steps is a large courtyard/patio/terrace same expanse with a shapely in firepit.

For what it is worth, the concern that horny and expand bosomed actress Salma Hayak titled activity before she got knocked up by her billionaire child daddy Francois-Henri Pinault and touched into a heavyweight of a house on Bel Air Road in Bel Air is meet around the corner. As farther as we crapper tell, Missus Pinault ease owns the property.