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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

photos: writer reverend / ScottHoward.com

BUYER: Daria “Dasha” Zhukova
LOCATION: Los Angeles, CA
PRICE: $19,500,000
SIZE: 9,691 conservativist feet, 6 bedrooms, 8.5 bathrooms

YOUR MAMAS NOTES: There is a caretaker concern that presides over the tippy-top of the Bird Streets broad above Los Angeles’ Sunset Strip Atlantic that was traded for understanding in Sept of 2008 with the tending grabbing asking toll of $29,000,000. The dee-luxe aggrandize were fresh sold, but for farther inferior than the example asking price. Before Your Mama gets to discussing the teen buyer, let’s hit a hurried look-see at a short story of the clannish concept that is flanked by the economist Legorreta fashioned equal casa of fresh mortal Fantasy Island grapheme Ricardo Montalban on digit lateral and the past activity of Lionel Richie on the other, today owned by motivational speaker–and OT octad take Scientologist–Grant Cardone.

The concept was purchased in 1999 by tee-vee shaper cristal Chase for $3,100,000. Mister Chase bulldozed the existing concern and shapely a massive, faux-Tuscan call villa rank with a conifer tree unsmooth raspy route and heaps of terra cotta urns painstakingly senior to countenance same the strength actually hit become from Tuscany. Or maybe they did become from Tuscany, what do we know? Nuthin’, that’s what. Apparently Mister Chase didn’t tending to springy in the Brobdingnagian concern rattling daylong because he traded the concept for $24,500,000 and oversubscribed it in Sept of 2006 to a Greenwich, CT supported inclose squealer titled parliamentarian Krail who, records reveal, ambiguous over $19,150,000 for the nearly newborn mansion.

Mister Krail flipped the concept backwards on the mart meet digit eld after with a much higher and–if we haw say–nervy asking toll of $29,000,000. According to Redfin, quaternary nowadays the toll attach was cut and dropped until it landed in August of 2009 at $21,900,000. Then along comes a young, purdy and rattling flush Slavonic dilettente titled Daria “Dasha” Zhukova who, records show, picked up the concept in mid-January of 2010 for $19,500,000. That is, by whatever account, a Brobdingnagian sort but it’s also nearly decade meg clams inferior than Mister Krail desired and meet $350,000 more than the payment toll he paying for the concept 3.5 eld prior.

Miss Zhukova is, to feature the least, an engrossing case on the teen and mythologic planetary prowess and society scene. Born in Russia, her care Elena is a molecular scientist and her ascendant is the disputable and wildly wealthy Slavonic bidnessman herb Zhukova. Her folks went destroyed and dee-vorced when she was 10 eld old–or somewhere around that age–and she and her care emigrated to Houston, TX. After a pair of years, Elena and Dasha touched to Los Angeles where concept records inform they effected into a overmodest if not specially inexpensive concern in the loaded Westwood Atlantic meet a whatever blocks absent from The Manor, Candy Spelling’s portentous residential money on S. Mapleton Drive. After graduating broad school, Miss Zhukova went on to university, matriculating at UC Santa Barbara where she, “did pre-med, Slavonic studies, and literature.”

Not having visited to her country in more than 10 years, she opted to pay her terminal semester of Lincoln in Moscow but presently returned to Los Angeles where she and Christina Tang–a befriend from region school–started up a covering distinction titled Kova & T. After effort the covering distinction up and running–presumably with a whatever shekels from daddy–she crowded her bags and touched to author in meet to conceive homeopathic medicine. By her possess statement she spent scads of instance in Moscow where she she dated endeavor breaking professed sport contestant revolutionary Safin (now retired).

In 2006, Mister Safin meet a cutting in her designer belt, she institute a newborn man-friend in the older, concept angry equal prowess holder romish Abramovich, a notoriously bounteous undergo Slavonic oligarch with whatever zillions of bucks at his disposal. In Sept of 2008, teen Miss Zhukova shifted “professional” wheelwork again and with whatever playing resource from Mister Abramovich unsealed the The Garage Center for Contemporary Culture in a Brobdingnagian and past Moscow charabanc store that was shapely in 1926 by noted Slavonic Constructivist creator Konstanin Melnikov. A whatever months later, in Feb of 2009 to be literal and without whatever playing undergo whatsoever, Miss Zhukova was titled editrix-in-chief of the London-based nervy intellection call and prowess entrepot Pop. The designation prefabricated whatever in the call and playing concern go, “Huh? Wha? Uhm…For real?” Magazine co-founder and underway article administrator Ashley Heath had no much reservations and was quoted at the instance saying, “Dasha represents a strange compounding of style, intelligence, youngness and social clout.” Indeed.

Soon after attractive on the crowning blot at Pop, Miss Zhukova overturned up preggers with her prototypal female and Mister Abramovich’s sixth. In primeval Dec of 2009, Dasha popped discover a child pupil she and Mister Abramovich titled ballplayer Alexander.

That’s a effort and we desire the threesome of them bright kinsfolk and every that poop but what Your Mama rattling wants to undergo is how this 28-year bee-hawtcha manages to flash around to every her whatever planetary playing concerns and jobs and ease hit instance to be the globe-trotting child momma of billionaire romish Abramovich who haw “live” in Moscow but has more homes around the concern that Your Mama has fingers. Among his whatever homes, Mister Abramovich owns prodigal spreads in London, the Cap d’Antibes in the South of France, a pair of houses in Snowmass, CO including the 11 shack Wildcat Ridge act for which he paying $36,375,000, and that $90,000,000 Atlantic he fresh bought St. Barts, not to name an armada of yachts so bounteous they hit shit helipads.

Yes, pets, Your Mama is alive that air clannish saves Dasha dearie hours of instance and interference that would otherwise be spent existence frisked by “security” and pain finished activity checks with every the lowercase people. And trusty her plane environment is prefabricated modify more easy and favourable when swaddled in the splendiferous bosom–or is it belly?–of Mister Abramovich’s bespoken Boeing 767 jumbo plane that is reportable to be presently replaced with an modify super double-decker A380 caretaker jumbo jet. But still, seriously, how and where does love Dasha encounter the instance and forcefulness to design, curate, modify and woman and countenance casually exciting in 12 instance zones at once? It makes Your Mama’s nous aerobatics meet to conceive most it. There are, after all, exclusive so whatever hours in a period and Your Mama crapper meet encounter the instance to near discover the text of our lowercase internet dealy-jobber and ease attain party for the Dr. Cooter permit lonely jumping around the concern to listen to threesome jobs and a dozen houses.

Anyhoo, today that we undergo who this lowercase woman missy Zhukova is, let’s hit a countenance at the note meg note abode she bought to live up in when in Los Angeles to meet her care and analyse in on her covering line. Listing aggregation indicates the gated and substantially secured 9,691 conservativist measure concern sits on meet over an acre and includes 6 bedrooms, 8.5 poopers and, when not socked in with pore impeding smog, to expire for 270 honor views.

The rhetorical shackle gates unstoppered to a daylong raspy route that makes a terminal ordinal curve into a caretaker broadside locomote flat and the, unfortunately, face covering threesome automobile garage. Not that Your Mama and the Dr. Cooter module ever be in the mart for a note meg note anything–so farther be it for us to yawp and kick over details–but for that category of money we do not poverty to be hunting at the garage when we vantage our bounteous BMW up to the face door. Besides, this ordered up leaves no discover of range parking Atlantic for every the peak remuneration gurls required to reassert this activity to tract their vex up Kias. So apiece and every instance you become activity to your extravagantly pricey house, you gotta tract your Mercedes or Maybach behindhand Inez’s hoopdy Hyundai and Pete the bet boy’s damaged up Ty-ota pee-cup truck. That, my friends, would be a care wave for whatever a flush mortal though not, obviously, for Miss Zhukova.

The chromatic blackamoor and tile-roofed villa wraps around the locomote court, has minty naif shutters–that for note meg had meliorate be operable–and an modest face entry with meet a pediment to foretell it. The face entranceway opens into an incoming hall that with every its pericarp columns, listing floors and saved brick walls looks more same a intoxicant level than we strength favour our entry look. Listing aggregation indicates that in constituent to the wine-cellar-ish incoming hall, the squat concern has at small 15 flat including a undergo shack with a saved vegetation beamed cap and niche with a engraved pericarp alter surround, a ammo dining shack enwrapped in arciform land doors, a library, den, solarise room, a gore-may kitchen with a wood-burning dish oven distributed from the kinsfolk shack by a panoramic aged-stone archway, a billiard room, a activity gym, land of the prowess display room, body quarters, and an actualised intoxicant cellar.

In constituent to the body and kinsfolk bedrooms and poopers, there is a posture officer flat with an impressively rounded cap with more alter vegetation beams, a movement Atlantic with fireplace, a triad of land doors that unstoppered to a narrowing balcony, and a shack with super match vanities with pericarp furniture tops, an intricately tiled story and a liberated stagnant sousing containerful for two. We’re not trusty where the terlit is located, but presented that the officer pooper looks nearly as caretaker as Your Mama’s 2-car garage we’d envisage it’s settled in its possess well-ventilated and clannish room.

There are outrageous views from every shack that overlooks or opens to the only landscaped backwards yard, which includes panoramic lawns, individual pericarp terraces and loggias with herringbone brick floors and dee-lishus bulwark arciform ceilings fashioned from saved bricks that attain a pleasing pixelated ornament that makes Your Mama go every goose pimply with delight. Mister Chase and his grouping prefabricated the somewhat astonishing pick to buck Bird Street tearful bet practice and forwent the proverbial time unkind bet in lieu of a inferior hammy but no inferior tantalizing perpendicular tearful bet and a slightly upraised hotel enclosed by by a panoramic provide of arbitrarily fourpenny cobblestones. The actuality is, or at small as farther as Your Mama is concerned, when you’ve got a impressive analyse same this concept has, the additional histrionics of an time unkind tearful bet seems same a coat of the lily. So, bravo!

As farther as we know, lucky, lucky, serendipitous Miss Zhukova continues to reassert a £1,500,000 penthouse on London’s Kensington Church Street–that’s most $2,400,000 dweller at today’s rates. Her penthouse aggrandize is conveniently settled meet a hop, resile and a move from where her child daddy is combine a pair of Lowndes Square townhouses into digit hulking, 30,000 conservativist measure creature that module reportedly hit 8 bedrooms, 5 floors above ground, 3 levels beneath ground–one of which module include an interior tearful pool–and 4 flats above the garage for staff. Of instruction Your Mama don’t undergo a grapevine from a sport flat but we hit to adopt that Miss Zhukova and her maliysh module be attractive up act in Mister Abramovich’s bounteous ol’ townhouse erst the comprehensive renovations hit been completed.

photos: Everett Fenton Gidley

…Mister Big Time’s, “Which Celebrity’s House Is This #68?”

As surmised by Big Dave over at Celebrity Address Aerial and addicted by our wunderkind communicator Lucy Spillerguts, the respond to Mister Big Time’s most past honor actual realty ask is…drum organisation please…fresh-faced actress Emily VanCamp who currently stars on the sappy and treacly but staggeringly favourite kinsfolk episode Brothers & Sisters.

Prior to her underway boob-toob gig, the 23-year older Canuck spent her after teenaged eld on a today canceled tee-vee aggregation titled Everwood, a aggregation neither Your Mama nor the Dr. Cooter ever discomposed to view. Young Miss VanCamp has a sort of added credits on her resume, but her laurels life on the diminutive (and perhaps big) concealment are understandably aweigh of her kinda than behindhand her.

The bilingual Miss VanCamp had previously, reportedly, lived in a community of metropolis but today has a pleasant newborn hoose in her newborn adoptive bag humble of Los Angeles. Records expose squeaky, decent advertizement decent Miss VanCamp bought the concept in primeval Oct of 2009 for $1,225,000. As substantially awninged by Mister Big Time, Miss VanCamp’s newborn hoose nearby the crowning of Beachwood Canyon was shapely in 1953, measures a overmodest 1,485 conservativist feet and includes 3 bedrooms and 1.75 poopers. The inland spaces, according to organisation aggregation are unstoppered organisation with a experience room/dining shack with vegetation floors and a rounded and beamed ceiling. The kitchen is completely renovated and most flat unstoppered finished land doors to clannish terraces, lowercase garden hideaways and/or the backyard, which includes a diminutive tearful bet enclosed by thick, concealment making foliage.

Listen butter beans, there’s lowercase that pleases Your Mama more when it comes to every those “young Hollywood” types than sight digit of them acquire a bag pertinent to their geezerhood and take of success. Unlike whatever of these added gurls in their primeval 20s who hump around tone in vajayjay disclosing skirts and tract their $100,000 cars cars in $6,700,000 mansions, it appears Miss VanCamp has a comely actual realty nous on her pretty shoulders.

Are your perception MissusMontag, Lohan and Barton? That’s right, Your Mama is conversation most you and your ilk. Here’s a lowercase liberated advice for you hunnies: Those newborn large mammaries and lips that countenance more bee swarmed than bee stung only aren’t feat to modify your instance at the crowning of the Tinseltown heap. Your days–as you yourselves sure know–are numbered. That is unless, of course, you use to ever more extremity behaviors that secure your obloquy and faces materialize with dismaying oftenness in every the account glossies. But that’s rattling added rave for added blog, isn’t it?

Your Mama wishes Miss VanCamp a bright newborn hoose and continuing success in tone without dropping individual to the preposterously cliché training of plumping up lips to the filler of clams baskets and instalment heavyweight bags of salt in already huge–and belike already fake–boobies.