Don Johnson
must come up with $14.3 million by Wednesday, or New York-based D.E. Shaw Laminar Lending Inc. will sell his 17-acre estate in Aspen, according to the Aspen Daily News. Johnson secured the loan in 2004 to pay off other creditors, including a liquor store and a bank trying to foreclose on the property. A recent report claimed a local tavern set up a tip jar to help Johnson.
Katie Couric has $15 million burning a hole in her Chanel skirt pocket, so she is enlisting help from brokers to buy or rent a home in the Hamptons, the New York Post reported. “Yes. She is looking,” Couric’s spokesman, Matthew Hiltzik, confirmed to the Post’s Braden Keil. Sources said Couric may be considering renting in the $300,000 range if she cannot find a home to buy at $6 million to $7 million. Couric has time to shop; she likely will not take over as anchor of “CBS Evening News” until after Labor Day.
Stephen Baldwin is selling his lavish Rockland County, N.Y., home because he owes the government back taxes, a source told the New York Post. The “Usual Suspects” actor owns a four-bedroom Victorian built in 1850, priced at $3.4 million and on the market since February, a real estate insider said. “It’s worth nowhere near what he’s asking,” the source said. Baldwin bought the home, with great views of the Hudson River, in 1997 for $515,000. The property is worth about $2.8 million, experts say. Jackie Kennedy Onassis visited relatives at the Nyack home as a child.
Catherine Zeta-Jones’ secret to a successful marriage? “Separate bathrooms is always a really great idea,” she told the London Evening-Standard. “Mine is so messy. I’d absolutely hate for my husband to realize just how incredibly cluttery I can be.” Zeta-Jones and her husband, Michael Douglas, have homes in Los Angeles, Canada, Wales and Bermuda, so that’s a lot of bathrooms.
