Celebrity Homes

The Late George Michael’s Highland Park Mansion Traded This Summer

By Candy Evans / January 4, 2017 /

It sold on July 25, 2016, snapped up by young designer Ashley Tripplehorn and her husband, Ward Hunt. Owned by Kenny Goss, former partner of pop singer George Michael and principal in the Goss-Michael Foundation, the 5,538-square-foot, four-bedroom, five-and-a-half bath home came to the market at just under $4 million. It closed at $2.9 after…

Just in Time For Christmas: Clay Stapp Lists The Ultimate Car Cave

By Dotty Griffith / December 23, 2016 /

  Somebody better snap this up before Jay Leno hears about the ultimate car collector’s garage. If Leno doesn’t get it first, maybe one of the other nine biggest car collectors in the world will shell out the $5.5 million asking price for a retirement home turned into a 20,000-square-foot garage, i.e. car cave. “It is…

Rex Tillerson Bought the Late Charles Wyly’s Equestrian Ranch in Argyle: Horse Country Just Got Hotter

By Candy Evans / December 16, 2016 /

As you may have heard this week, our next Secretary of State, if approved by Congress, could be Exxon Mobile CEO Rex Tillerson. He is the head honcho at the Irving-based multi-national oil and gas corporation, but he lives in Bartonville. His recommendation is said to have come from former Defense Secretary Robert Gates and…

Former CBS Producer Mary Mapes puts Her Swiss Avenue Home on the Market

By Candy Evans / November 1, 2016 /

Mary Mapes is the CBS News producer who lived the life fantastic as Dan Rather’s principal producer for 60 Minutes. In 1999, their collaborative work culminated in a prestigious George Foster Peabody Award for an investigative report on abuses in Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison. But Mapes and Rather, as you may recall, are also known…

A Preston Hollow Listing with Hockey History: First Mike Modano, Now Tyler Seguin

By Valerie Jarvie / October 19, 2016 /

Oh my Stars! Here’s a listing that got my attention: 6424 Mimosa Lane, hockey phenom Tyler Seguin’s home!  It’s just your average 24-year-old sports superstar’s 7,250-square-foot abode, and a typical gig for the listing agent, Julie Provenzano, broker associate with Dave Perry-Miller Real Estate, who’s become something of a superstar herself as the official real estate…