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Will You Please Buy Glenn Beck’s House? [Real Estate]

A year ago today, we brought you news that hysterical paranoiac Glenn Beck was selling his $4.2 million walled fortress in New Canaan, Conn. He still hasn’t sold it. Let’s take another tour! More

Tour a Notorious Tech Playboy’s Party Mansion [Playas]

A forthcoming Facebook movie should further Sean Parker ‘s reputation for enjoying coke-fueled parties with college coeds. Maybe the elaborate, celeb-studded soirees he’s been throwing at his $20 million Manhattan mansion will class up the Facebook co-founder’s rep a bit. Parker has been renting the three-floor , six-bedroom historic Bacchus House in the West Village. After going on the market for $21.5 million , the property was put up for rent for $45,000 a month. It’s not clear if the Napster and Plaxo co-founder is paying that much or negotiated a discount. But it is clear Parker is maintaining the house’s reputation as a big party hub. Owner Enrico Marone Cinzano, an Italian liquor heir, was known for having his Eurotrash guests greeted by models in nothing but their underwear. Parker, meanwhile, raised $60,000 for malaria eradication at his birthday party there in December , with help from guests like actors Val Kilmer, Josh Hartnett, Lucy Liu and Gina Gershon; director Oliver Stone; DJ Mark Ronson; and, for better or worse, right-wing-nut Stephen Baldwin. Then there was the November shindig that attracted actor Hugh Grant and “armies of bubbly-imbibing young lovelies,” in the words of Page Six . The pad certainly seems well suited to entertaining. The 1883 carriage house has ample vertical space but is just 24-feet-wide, keeping the various rooms at once intimate and expansive. There are also outdoor terraces surrounded by other 19th-century mansions, so “It’s like you’re outside a little palazzo in Tuscany,” as one real estate broker told the New York Observer . There’s a coveted curb-accessible private garage — great for celebrity privacy. For the security-obsessed A-lister, there’s even an internal safe-room plus bulletproof glass on the windows, according to one recent guest. There’s a video tour of the property embedded in the first frame below, via LX.TV’s Open House NYC , which aired in the New York market a couple of years ago when Bacchus House was still up for sale. Below, you can find more pictures, along with an excerpt from The Social Network , Aaron Sorkin’s forthcoming movie about Facebook. The screenplay excerpt, provided with help from sometime Deadspin contributor mosesloaf , depicts Parker at a wild, coke-studded party near the Stanford campus during his days with co-founder Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook. In another scene, he smokes a bong with some nubile young women. We presume the drugs and party scene is based on testimony and other accounts of Parker’s hard-partying lifestyle several years back. Now that Parker is trying to up his game — the Founders Fund partner reportedly just invested in innovative music service Spotify and may have even taken a board seat — it sounds like he’s trying to take the socializing to a swankier place. And he’s even enlisting his old company to help out: We’re told hired help at his birthday party this past fall were instructed to memorize guest’s names and faces using printouts of their Facebook profiles. That way, they could be greeted by name when they arrived. Julia Allison, founder of the microcelbrity factory NonSociety , has been a guest and was duly impressed with the “classy” surroundings: Sean Parker is a consummate host in the old school model of Hollywood. You walk into the house — it’s ridiculous — and you feel like you’ve walked into another era. There’s Sean in his three piece suit: ‘Do you want a Scotch? Do you want a Brandy?’ It is not the home of a 25 year old; it’s covered in priceless art. Sean is very young but he has the taste of a curator. There are no kegerators in this house. I’ve never seen Sean do drugs. Sean is not pretentious and it’s important to emphasize that—I have dated and known people who would have a house like this to get laid. Sean is faithful; he has a beautiful model girlfriend, and he wants to share his life with people, to have salons, to have the best and the brightest in his home. His parties aren’t parties, they’re gatherings. It’s classy. Parker should hope his older friends, with longer and more distinguished tech track records, are similarly impressed. Blueprints to Parker’s Bacchus House. The coveted curbside private garage. A look into the garage, via the New York Times . Inside. Garage, with allegedly bulletproof house windows above. Shots from the master suite and indoor pool. It’s not clear whether Parker keeps more or less liquor than this near the fireplace. Or rather, near one of the fireplaces. First page of a scene in Aaron Sorkin’s Facebook movie The Social Network that places Parker at a sorority party with a young girl who does coke. Second page of a scene in Aaron Sorkin’s Facebook movie The Social Network that places Parker at a sorority party with a young girl who does coke. Third page of a scene in Aaron Sorkin’s Facebook movie The Social Network that places Parker at a sorority party with a young girl who does coke. Fourth page of a scene in Aaron Sorkin’s Facebook movie The Social Network that places Parker at a sorority party with a young girl who does coke. Parker in another scene, smoking out with some young women.

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A Guided Tour of John Edwards and Rielle Hunter’s Future Love Den

The National Enquirer says John Edwards proposed to Rielle Hunter and is buying a $3.5M beach house. Now that we’ve found the real estate listing, a guide to the custom mahogany cabinetry (that’s yuppie for “marital bliss”) that lies ahead. The Enquirer ‘s print edition included two photos from this listing with Bald Head Island Real Estate (which is, according to its website, is the only real estate firm serving the North Carolina beach community), which is the only Bald Head property currently listed for $3.5 million. Since John will likely support Elizabeth and Rielle’s lives for the rest of his life, moving in with the one of those women who doesn’t want him castrated (perhaps the only woman in America who still likes him) makes sense. When you lose this much for a woman, you have to at least try to make it work with her. My only question is whether our “Bald Head” jokes should focus on John’s hair or his gigundo penis . Onward to the tour! If you’d like to see these images on one page, click here . 15 Cape Fear (L#1025) Trail is a 4000-ft. ocean- and riverfront mansion boasting five bedrooms, six bathrooms, a whirlpool, an elevator, intercoms (fun for the kids!), central vacuum (fun for the maid!), and a wet bar. Community amenities include a boat dock, beach club, canoe pier, tennis courts, and a golf course. Bald Head Island’s PR team describes local “homesites”: Planners and designers have established a Bald Head Island aesthetic, reminiscent of a style called the “Architecture of the American Summer,” characterized by deep roof overhangs, wide porches and traditional cedar siding. Deep roof overhangs = better shadows in which to hide from paparazzi. With floor-to-ceiling windows and a patio, the master bedroom’s abundant natural light will make shooting daytime sex tapes a dream. Cannabis-themed rug sold separately. Here we see the Great Room and its vaulted “Cathedral Ceiling,” for when you’re ready to repent for living in sin. The “Gourmet Kitchen” includes mahogany custom cabinets, granite counters, a sub-zero refrigerator, wine cooler, double ovens, and maple hardwood floors. It’s like living inside the trunk of a huge redwood tree. The cheery dining room is large enough for whenever your first wife’s kids stop hating you. The master bathroom features ceramic tiles and a gleaming white whirlpool, which Frances Quinn will stain blue with Manic Panic when she reaches her inevitable teenage rebellion. Speaking of little Quinn, here are her picks for nursery. The multi-use space is bathed with the bright light of shame. Here’s the satellite view, revealing the lucky duck neighbor with the swimming pool and how far you have to walk to get to the ocean. At least they have a nice dock… This will probably get super hot in the sun, forcing John and Rielle to race down it screaming “ooh! aah! ouch!”, pumping their knees high so as to maximize the distance between their feet and the ground, as though they are Lipizanner horses. No matter how many times you burn your feet on the dock, you will never think to bring shoes. That’s just the way it is. Let us conclude with a clip from one of the Bald Head Island PR team’s video promos . (Which are very effective. I am completely sold on their “pre-fab Martha’s Vineyard of the South” aesthetic.) The island is personified as a female who “giggles when the ocean waves tickle her shoulder.” It would seem the future Mrs. John Edwards has found paradise at last.

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Goldman Sachs: Lifestyles of the Subsidized and Anonymous

Happy Goldman Sachs Bonus Day! As we mentioned earlier , Goldman announced today that its 2009 bonuses will total $16 billion, spread ( very unevenly) among its 32,500 employees. We thought we’d take a look at how they spend our money.

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Goldman Sachs: Lifestyles of the Subsidized and Anonymous

Sarah Gilbert Looks Weird

Filed under: We’re Just Sayin’ Here’s former “Roseanne” star Sarah Gilbert out and about in L.A.

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The Dumbest Fashion Faux Pas Ever

Filed under: Celebrity Justice , Burglar Bunch It doesn’t get much dumber than this — one of the chicks arrested in the Burglar Bunch case rolled into court Friday wearing one of the very necklaces the gang is suspected of stealing from Lindsay Lohan. Didn’t take Sherlock Holmes to notice — ..

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‘Twilight’ House Has Stalking Problem

Filed under: Twilight The “Twilight: New Moon” house is getting more attention than the realtor can handle — except it’s mostly from crazed fans who just want to get closer to Rob Pattinson … you know, by sleeping on the same floors he once walked on.TMZ spoke with … Permalink

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