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WEALTH
Top 10 Celebrity Homes you
would like to own
Homes of the rich and famous
2018
saw a plethora of fascinating, spectacular
and unusual celebrity homes hit the market
and Top Ten Real estate deals have picked
ten of our favorites to share with you.
“Paris Hilton’s Sunset Strip-Hollywood Hills Home”
Now living in sunny Ibiza, Spain, granddaughter of hotelier
Conrad Hilton and super-socialite heiress, Paris, lived in this
Sunset Strip-Hollywood Hills home from 2003 to 2007. It is
now for sale and selling with Paris’s original furniture, at the
newly reduced price of $4.195 million, down from $4.8 million.
Paris started her career as a model for Donald Trump’s agency,
Trump Model Management, while still a teenager. Her looks,
family connections and lifestyle of the wealthiest social circles
made her popularity soar when she was featured in tabloids
and entertainment news. When ex-boyfriend, poker player
Rick Salomon, released a sex tape which he filmed during their
affair, Paris was devastated but shortly thereafter co-starred with
her friend Nicole Richie in the hit television reality series ‘The
Simple Life’ that ran for five seasons on Fox. It was during this
time frame when Paris lived in her Hollywood Hills home that
is now for sale.
The house Paris called home is a three-story, Spanish-style
property overlooking Sunset Strip and sweeping views of the
Los Angeles city lights. Built in 1926, the 3,064-square-foot
house includes four bedrooms and four baths, formal living and
dining that open to a courtyard and a large eat-in kitchen that
opens to the backyard with high-low terraces, lawn, swimming
pool, spa and firepit. Old Hollywood-style glamour elements
include dark wood floors, wood-beamed ceilings, pool cabanas
and impressive chandeliers, which have always been hallmarks
of star-studded California real estate. There is also a game room
with pool table, a spacious media room, guest quarters, den and
separate office. The master suite is pure Hollywood sparkle. Paris
brought in her team of decorators for the house to turn it into
a true heiress-style abode as they had done for her other homes.
These same furnishings are included in the sale.
Paris Hilton’s glamorous Hollywood Hills home and her
original furnishings, where she lived during the five seasons of
her television program ‘The Simple Life’ are now for sale priced
at $4.8 million. Co-listing agents are Rebekah Schwartz Sklar
and Paris’s uncle, Mauricio Umansky of The Agency in Beverly
Hills. Still for sale, the price has been reduced to $4.195 million.
“Robert Redford’s Wine Country Estate”
There is still time to grab Robert Redford’s magical Napa Valley
retreat. Though just recently listed at $7.5 million, it is no doubt
being coveted by the next creative visionary looking for a respite
almost guaranteed to refresh their creative spirit.
Not one of Hollywood’s Ordinary People, especially when
it comes to super-star actor, director and supporter of the arts,
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Robert Redford recently celebrated his 82nd birthday and
announced his retirement as an actor. His final film, ‘The Old
Man & His Gun’ in which he stars with Sissy Spacek and Casey
Affleck and plays a real-life career criminal and escape artist was
released in September to rave reviews.
For decades, Redford’s permanent residence has been in Utah,
home of his Sundance Institute. He and his artist wife, Sibylle
Szaggars, also own a Napa Valley wine-country retreat where
they enjoy hobbies and hosting family and friends. The Redfords
have enjoyed the home for 14 years and have now decided to
move back to the Bay Area near family and put their beloved
Napa home on the market. It is priced at $7.5 million.
Robert Redford is one of the few actors who started his career
near the top in television, Broadway and then breaking through
to the top of the movie-star chain as the wise-cracking cowboy
in ‘Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.’ With every film he
made, the awards grew larger and more important continuing
to mushroom with the addition of directing and producing.
Redford’s long list of money-making and critically acclaimed
films rank with the best in Hollywood history: ‘Butch Cassidy
and the Sundance Kid,’ ‘The Sting,’ ‘The Electric Horseman,’
‘Ordinary People,’ ‘Out of Africa,’ ‘The Way We Were’ and ‘A
River Runs Through It.’
Redford’s other passion in addition to working for his
ecological interests, was to help advance new artists in the film
industry and creative arts. After filming ‘Butch Cassidy and the
Sundance Kid’ and ‘Downhill Racer,’ he put all his proceeds
from the two films into buying an entire ski area near Provost,
Utah where he started the Sundance Institute. Using the name
from the film, he formed related non-profit businesses under
its umbrella such as the Sundance Film Festival, the Sundance
cable channel, Sundance catalog and others as outlets for new
filmmakers and artists. The first of its kind, it now draws artists
worldwide. In addition to receiving the highest film industry