Celebrity Homes Luxurious

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The apartment is 6,600 square feet and has 28 windows and 23 closets. This home also features soaring 11-foot ceilings and views of Central Park.

Credits: River 2 River Realty Inc. at 646-416-6846

You’re looking inside Lindsay Lohan’s former Manhattan pied-a-terre, Luxist.com reports. The asking price for this 40th floor apartment in the Atelier building is $1.25 million. The Atelier’s amenities include a marble lobby, basketball and volleyball courts, a rooftop lounge, sun deck, fitness and yoga center and indoor swimming pool, says Luxist.com.

The two-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment features floor-to-ceiling windows with views of the Empire State Building, according to NBC New York. Nick Lachey and Vanessa Minnillo reportedly own a place in this building as well.

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Baseball player Manny Ramirez has put his Boston apartment on the market, according to Citylife Real Estate, the listing agent. Ramirez’s 37th-floor penthouse apartment at the Ritz Carlton Towers Boston is listed for $8.5 million.

The home is 4,500 square feet and has four bedrooms and an 800-plus-square foot private terrace. The building offers a concierge, doorman and sports club.

Ramirez’s place was extensively renovated with the highest quality finishes and includes three valet garage parking spaces. It has 270-degree panoramic views of the Back Bay, Charles River, Public Garden, Beacon Hill and Boston Harbor.

Credits: Kuper Realty – Agent: Liz Blue Braden

Pictured here is Tony Parker and Eva Longoria’s 5,500-square-foot, five-bedroom, four and a half bath Mediterranean style estate, which is set inside a 24-hour gated community.

Distinctive architectural elements accentuate the mood of the Parker/Longoria home including a tile roof, massive interior columns, window walls with recessed lighting and soaring ceilings.

Credits: Kuper Realty – Agent: Liz Blue Braden

The Parker/Longoria master suite is centered by a unique tray ceiling and includes a double-sided fireplace that opens to a whirlpool tub in the master bath (to match the pool, perhaps?). The home includes a study lined with mill work built-ins, a media room with flow to an outdoor terrace and a specialized storage room.

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Brangelina may soon be New Yorkers.

In a week where Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie were both nominated for Academy Awards, the Daily News reported Oscar’s golden couple were planning a move to a sprawling $40 million estate on Long Island’s Gold Coast. The Sassafras estate – a 22,000-square-foot Tudor-style mansion that boasts 18 bathrooms – would make the commute easier for Angie on her new film, “Salt,” which began shooting in the area in March.

Meanwhile, Pitt and Jolie are putting their Malibu home (pictured above) on the market, Pitt said at Newsweek’s Oscar roundtable. According to Forbes, the three-bedroom, 4,000-square-foot home has bamboo floors, a pool, tennis court, stairway straight to the beach and sits on three acres of land. Pitt paid $8 million for the property, Forbes reported.

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Manhattan’s 15 Central Park West is the celebrity residence du jour these days. Sting, Denzel Washington, Bob Costas and Lloyd Blankflein all reportedly own places in the building, according to Realestalker.com. The exclusive building overlooks Central Park and featues a large motor court (so the stars can come and go without being seen by us ‘common folk’), a private theater (told you the VIPs like their privacy…), 20 wine cellars, room service, a fully stocked library, and a huge pool, according to Realestaker.com.

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Shaquille O’Neal put his 16,960-square-foot Miami Beach home on the market for $25 million in January 2009, according to Active Rain Real Estate Network. The home has eight bedrooms, nine bathrooms, a six-car garage, gym, tennis court, indoor racquetball court and a pool. It sits on more than 2.5 acres and overlooks the water.

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Looks like Ricky Martin is truly living la vida loca. His hot New York City pad at 40 Bond St., designed by starchitect Ian Schrager, features floor-to-ceiling windows, 24-hour concierge services provided by the staff at the Gramercy Park Hotel and a hip location in downtown Manhattan.

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It seems Mr. Ritchie “snatched” this estate right out of Madonna’s hands in the divorce. Ashcombe House, former home of the couple, is nestled in the lush English countryside in Wiltshire. This Georgian manor sits on 1,134 acres. Madonna has said of the home, “It’s the most beautiful place in the world.” If only she could have been as enthusiastic about her marriage…

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Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne recently bought this 10,953-square-foot Hidden Hills, Calif., home for an estimated $10 million. The home has six bedrooms, 10 bathrooms and sits on a 2.3-acre lot. Other celebrities that reportedly live in Hidden Hills include Denise Richards, Matt Leblanc and Lisa Marie Presley.

Ozzy and Sharon sold their former Beverly Hills mansion – where their MTV reality series was filmed – to Christina Aguilera and her husband, Jordan Bratman, for roughly $11 million.

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Looks like Christina Aguilera got exactly “what a girl wants” with this stunning home (until she and hubby Jordan Bratman recently upgraded to the Osbourne’s old home!). This mansion, worth a reported $3.7 million, sits atop a hill in an exclusive gated community in Hollywood Hills, Calif. The house sports five bedrooms, seven bathrooms, a screening room for 18, a gym, a pool, and a 12-person spa with a fireplace, according to Baller House.

Credits: Everett Fenton Gidley

Actor Frankie Muniz, star of “Malcolm in the Middle,” tried to sell this 4,000-square-foot gated home overlooking Sunset Strip in the Hollywood Hills for a reported $3.8 million in the fall of 2007. But even celebs get hit by the housing slump! He subsequently reduced the price of the five-bedroom, four-bathroom mansion to a reported $3.6 million in 2008.

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Heiress Paris Hilton obviously does not live “the simple life.” The actress recently bought this Beverly Hills mega-mansion, which sits across the street from Avril Lavigne’s home, for a reported $6.25 million. The roughly 7,500-square-foot, five-bedroom, Mediterranean-style home features six bathrooms, a swimming pool, spa, gym, maid quarters and a wine closet.

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The lavish home of Jerry and Jessica Seinfeld is no laughing matter! They bought this enormous East Hampton, N.Y., estate for a reported $32 million from rocker Billy Joel. The home includes a 22-car garage and a baseball diamond, according to ABC News. OK! Magazine named it the #1 celebrity party house.

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Just like the Kennedy family themselves, the Kennedy Compound is classic American – a series of white-trim clapboard homes, typical of vacation residences on uber-exclusive Cape Cod. The compound is located on 6 acres of waterfront property along Nantucket Sound and features a movie theater, sauna, swimming pool and tennis court.

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Looks like Courteney Cox hit pay “dirt” with the recent sale of this unique Malibu home she owned with husband David Arquette. The couple sold the home for an estimated $33.5 million, according to Realestalker.com. The home, located on the same stretch of beach where Jennifer Aniston lives, was designed by famed architect John Lautner.

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Ms. Lopez isn’t “Jenny from the Block” anymore, judging from this home! This fabulous Miami Beach estate is worth an estimated $9.1 million. The roughly 10,000-square-foot mansion is reported to have a gym, sauna, pool and Jacuzzi.

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Actress Halle Berry ’s sprawling home in West Hollywood, Calif., has four-bedrooms, a swimming pool, a hot tub and two “fire pits” made of volcanic lava, according to Female First. Looks like the home is as hot as Ms. Berry herself!

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The classic movie star with the classic Italian villa. Yes, ladies, take a deep breath, you know I could be talking about none other than heartthrob George Clooney with his 15-bedroom Italian home, Villa Oleandra, on Lake Como’s shores. In the summer, Clooney throws frequent dinners with famed guests including Al Gore and Quincy Jones, according to Time Magazine.

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Seems the queen of daytime TV is also the queen of real estate (and the queen of about a million other things!). Oprah Winfrey owns this beautiful, 42-acre, 23,000-square-foot Montecito, Calif., estate, complete with barn, gardens, an orchard, two ponds and a lake. She paid an estimated $50 million for it, which the Los Angeles Times reported is one of the highest amounts ever paid for a private home in the U.S.

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The home of director Steven Spielberg is truly picture-perfect. The East Hampton, N.Y., estate is valued at $25 million and reportedly features a state of the art film studio (of course!), stables and a guest house.

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No celebrity real estate gallery is complete without arguably the most famous piece of celebrity real estate in the nation: The Playboy Mansion. The mansion, owned by Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, is more than 21,000 square feet, sits on 5.3 acres and is worth an estimated $50 million. The Beverly Hills home has a wine cellar, game room, private zoo, tennis courts, waterfall and swimming pool area (including the famous grotto). But perhaps the most famous “features” of the house can’t really be listed as real estate…

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