Celebrity Homes

It’s No Champ d’Or, But Celine Dion’s Private Island Castle Is Just as Insane

By Joanna England / May 21, 2012 /

Holy mackerel. I was staring at these photos of Celine Dion’s insane $29.3 million mansion on her own private island outside of Montreal and I was a little overwhelmed … but it’s all coming back to me now. Tell me this: Does the French Normandy-style compound look a lot like the lost cousin of Champ…

Who Bought Champ d’ Or? The Tabani Family, Yes, Just Like I Told You

By Candy Evans / May 16, 2012 /

Alan Peppard (and I think, by now, the Dallas Business Journal) are reporting what I told you as soon as it closed April 30: Champ d’Or was purchased by the Tabani family, more specifically their privately held, family-run development company which owns and operates a ton of bread and butter shopping center properties in places…

Monday Morning Millionaire for Mother’s Day: Somewhere, Over The Rainbow, in a Golf-Historic Home for LESS THAN A MILLION, In a League of It’s Own!

By Candy Evans / May 14, 2012 /

Did Jo and I enjoy our Mother’s Day? You betcha! I got so caught up with brunch and Mimosas I completely forgot to post the Deep Throat house, where the then-quite-controversial X-rated film took place about a doctor’s home and home medical office (now that’s antiquated!) where he “treated” this woman, played by actress Linda Lovelace, who ah, shall we say, was anatomically challenged.

Troy Aikman Sold Potashnik Lot This Week: Dallas Celebrity Real Estate News

By Candy Evans / May 11, 2012 /

Remember when I told you all last month that, at the suggestion of his agent Allie Beth Allman, Troy decided to sell off the full acre lot next to his Highland Drive home? Then I told you someone was hovering? Well, Alan Peppard is reporting that the lot sold and closed this week.

Fame Slept Here: Condo Once Owned by the Late Margaret Hunt Hill Up For Foreclosure at 3525 Turtle Creek Blvd.

By Candy Evans / May 8, 2012 /

Update, 9:17 p.m. Bruce Tomaso at the Dallas Morning News was kind enough to give us a link, and now we hear from the folks at 3525 that Mrs. Hunt actually owned three units in this building  on the 13th floor, but only two (the B/C units) are listed for foreclosure. Mrs. Hunt, says Lee…