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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: Judge Judy
LOCATION: Fifth Avenue, New royalty City, NY
PRICE $6,750,000
SIZE: 3,150 conservativist feet, 2 bedrooms, 2.5 bathrooms
DESCRIPTION: Over 3,000 conservativist feet of fully-renovated, divinely unequalled crossway work on 11th story nonnegative 150 square-foot maids shack on 6th floor. The refined layout includes a 2 bedroom, 2.5 bathrooms with a bonny vegetation decorated library. The delicate experience shack is solarise splashed every period with gray views of Fifth Avenue and Western views of Central Park…

YOUR MAMAS NOTES: Thanks to the newborn gal titled Chloe Malle who today pens the New royalty Observer’s Manhattan Transfers column–the ever diverting Max Abelson touched on to other, greener journalistic pastures at the Observer–we’ve learned that faultfinding Judge Judy Sheindlin fresh winking on a pied-a-terre at The Sherry-Netherland, digit of Manhattan’s most blue Fifth Avenue hotel and housing towers.

Interestingly and perhaps as a clew of the kinda macabre actual realty times, Miz Sheindlin’s newborn nest at The Sherry-Netherland was prototypal traded in Oct of 2008 with a laughter instigating asking toll of $15,000,000. The toll attach apace dropped to $13,500,000 and then again to $9,995,000. After existence distant from the mart in Jan of 2009 and then re-listed with a newborn actual realty agent–Manhattan concept worker Carrie Chiang and along with a gal titled Janet Wang–the asking toll stood at a hugely low $7,999,000.

It module become and no assail to anyone who has the breadbasket and fortitude to check Judge Judy verbally injured whatever dingbat who banged up his auntie’s Monte Carlo and blamed it on the his prizewinning friend’s child momma’s ordinal cuzzin Clover Promise that the ladee drives a hornlike shit actual realty bargain. After quaternary months on the mart at $7,999,000, Miz Sheindlin swooped in and snatched the locate up for $6,750,000, a staggering turn of money by some statement but, according to our bejeweled abacus, an modify more staggering 55% inferior than the example sky broad asking price.

Listing aggregation indicates the crossway occupying 11th story housing measures approximately 3,150 conservativist feet and contains 2 bedrooms suites, substantially situated at oppositeness ends of the apartment, nonnegative a solid pooper. The experience room, essentially an cavernous 30-foot conservativist space, has delectable and pricey views southward downbound Fifth Avenue and westerly over the cityfied shelter of Central Park. Given its closeness to the diminutive but full armored kitchen, the 21-foot long, vegetation decorated accumulation could easily be place into assist as the dining room.

Beyond the library/dining room, a ordinal shack is unsmooth with built-ins and has a clannish but alas windowless pooper. As farther absent as is doable from the ordinal shack and situated meet soured the foyer, the officer shack encompasses a park-view boo-dwar, a park-view intermixture room, a achievement in closet, and a convenient park-view pooper with threefold sinks, a removed descent and a daylong sousing containerful where the gajillionaire gran crapper drink champagne in a eruct clean and flavour her thin beatific phenomenon that she manages to attain tens of jillions of smackers a assemblage as a brow-beating bee-hawtcha on boob-toob.

Listing aggregation reveals that Judge Judy’s newborn pad also allow a claustrophobic’s situation of a body shack downbound on the ordinal story that measures inferior than 7 feet panoramic but does wage at clannish pooper with a super window.

Other underway and time residents of The Sherry-Netherland allow Diana Ross–who has been disagreeable to deliver her eyrie since at small the season of 2008, billionaire prowess helper Eli Broad–whose 33rd story shape organisation is currently traded at $10,950,000, lamp power Harry Slatkin, school titan overturned prowess holder and presenter Max Palevsky, assets banker Roberto de Guardiola and his inland specializer wifey Joanne who reportedly possess fivesome close units, bounteous intense Babs (Streisand, natch), martyr Burns, Jack filmmaker and Francis author filmmaker as substantially as some sort of another bounteous bizness barons, wildly wealthy industrialists, and soiled flush financiers.

Judge Judy’s another actual realty holdings allow a penthouse bag in Naples, FL which cost her $6,900,000 in June of 2005, a ordinal organisation in the aforementioned bag Byzantine bought in Jan of 2006 for $2,625,000 and a 6 shack and 7 pooper concern on 6.06 rattling clannish acres in stylish and decorous Greenwich, CT which records exhibit was purchased in July of 2002 for $5,150,000.

If honor account doyenne Cindy President is to be believed–and we can’t conceive of a azygos think ground she should not be–Judge and Mister Judge Judy hit traded their Brobdingnagian concern in borough for a vastly super 24,000 conservativist measure creature in the borough backwards land that Ms. President reportable backwards in June of 2008 includes 8 bedrooms, 13 bathrooms with metallic plated fixtures, 10 assistance engraved fireplaces, 26 measure ceilings, and guard, gate, temporary and bet houses. There is also, according to Ms. Adams, a bag thee-ay-ter for 50, a intoxicant cellar, a conservatory, a manipulate room, endeavor room, mettlesome room, a land of the prowess bag gym and an obscenely super officer shack that, funnily enough, measures 3,150 conservativist feet and features an conterminous “snoring room,” an extraordinary taste of shack bizness Your Mama feels destined the Dr. Cooter wishes he had too.

Oh dear.

According to the ever-intrepid folks at account juggernaut TMZ, added of the questionable to be flush housewives from Orange County is involved in added actualised realty fracas. This instance it is the instruction but every likewise discolour “jewelry” specializer Lynne Curtin who was, meet today, served with a threesome period attending to action or grappling coercion by her Laguna Beach, CA landlord.

That’s correct chickens, her landlord. Apparently Miz Curtin and her antiquity fasciculus huzband Frank engage their concern in ordered backwards but extortionately priced Laguna Beach and, according to the coercion notice, the pair owe their landlord $12,363 in complimentary section deposit, New fees and unreimbursed agitated expenses. The possessor also claims that the utilities to the concern hit been overturned soured because the Curtains hit unsuccessful to clear them and, because actualised realty episode ofttimes arrives in threes, a actualised realty businessperson is breathing and exhalation that she never conventional the $2,500 authorisation unpaid to her for composing the engage for the Curtins.

Your Mama does not actually undergo where the Curtin’s newborn cards is but we do undergo thanks to Lucy Spillerguts that until sometime in June of 2009 Mister and Missus Curtin filled digit half of a flat bag concept on Camino Capistrano in Dana Point, CA.

Now center children, Your Mama is destined that Mister and Missus Curtin or their representative module presently place discover whatever variety of evidence that this is every whatever variety of nonachievement and the analyse got forfeited in the accumulation and that it’s already every unwooded up or whatever much thing. And we truly wish that’s the structure because we never same to wager anyone overturned discover of their (rented) house.

However, we do hit a cows with consume drinking tee-vee exhibit host/Senior Vice President of Production and Programming Andy Cohen and his sportfishing minions at The Bravo who can’t seem to encounter actualised flush grouping to grapheme in their Real Housewives of… concern which is questionable to be most actualised (nouveau riche) flush grouping and their disturbingly roue structure and not cash-strapped couples who pay in the most frivolous, sweeping and vulgar behavior modify though they’re not stipendiary their mortgage. That is, not stipendiary their mortgage iffin they modify hit a shit mortgage.

First was past mortgage broker and wannabe wife Slade Smiley from the Orange County edition whose bag slid into foreclosure backwards in primeval 2008.

A some months ago, blistering and spicy wife NeNe Leakes in besieging was rumored and reportable to hit been evicted from her concept concern terminal year. She sorta denied it.

More fresh Lisa Wu Hartwell and her past footballing huzband Ed were tossed from their lake fronting multi-million note concern in the St. Marlo Country Club accord in Duluth, GA after defaulting on their mortgage. Their reps claim the pair proven to structure their mortgage but since the concern had forfeited a ton of continuance the slope said, nay. They have, according to their peeps, effected in a newborn concern on 10 acres that they own.

Let’s not block past dee-vorcee She by Sheree Whitfield whose suburban besieging concern was foreclosed primeval this assemblage because, she claims, she was clueless most the fact that her stingy ol‘ ex-huzband Bob was not stipendiary the mortgage. We’d look our daylong corporate bitches Linda and Bevelry that there is more to this news than She by Sheree is saying.

Then there’s past Playboy Playmate overturned actualised realty criminal Jeana Keough who someways managed to structure individual mortgages she has on individual pricey properties in Orange County and currently has her octad terlit distribute in the gated accord of Coto de Caza traded with an pollyannaish asking toll of $4,900,000.

Next up is thinks-she’s-the-hottest-housewife Tamra Barney and her tequila commerce huzband saint who hit their Ladera Ranch, CA biome concern traded as a brief understanding at $1,149,000. They paying $1,320,500 for the 5 room mock-Mediterranean in August of 2005. Of course, they’re moving the status same they don’t nous intake the expiration so they crapper verify plus of a anaemic structure mart and acquire a foreclosed concept or a buildable aggregation where they crapper elevate a newborn and meliorate faux-Tuscan biome house.

And then there is woman-with-a-past Danielle “Beverly Merrill” Staub in New milker who admitted during an primeval portion of that program that she’s most digit transactions and a Range Rover commercialism from business smash because she and her ex-huzband crapper not become to cost on the info of their acrimonious dee-vorce.

And let’s not block that hot-tempered, curly-haired baller Teresa Giudice in New milker who pays for everything with a wad of change as bounteous as a listing of terlit paper. Now, it crapper sure be argued that if table moving nun is humping around historiographer Lakes with a pair cardinal noble in her specializer container she’s rich. However, iffin anyone were to communicate Your Mama, and of instruction no digit did, we’re suspicious because, pleeze, let’s be honest, who does that–on domestic tee-vee for chrissakes–if they ain’t disagreeable to establish something to somebody?

Next up? One of those bonkers behawtchas in New York? Have mercy.