Denzel Washington has made three trips to check out a 15-room New York City co-op duplex residence with a $10.9 million asking price. The 7,000-square-foot apartment overlooks the East River and has five bedrooms and 5 1/2 baths, the New York Post reported. Washington previously had been eyeing the former Washington Square Methodist Church building on West Fourth Street, which is being converted into eight condominiums. The co-op, a historic prewar Campanile dwelling at 450 E. 52nd St., has housed many actors, including Greta Garbo, Rex Harrison, Ethel Barrymore and Mary Martin.
Marcia Cross has fine taste: Witness her wedding registry at the exclusive store Gearys Beverly Hills. MSNBC.com reports the “Desperate Housewives” actress’ wish list includes a 12-piece set of wine glasses that retail for $155 each; and Richard Ginori dinnerware, with plates at $62 each, matching $70 cereal bowls and dessert plates for $59. Cross’ rep didn’t respond to inquiries as to whether the listing is legit.
Jann Wenner, publisher of Rolling Stone and Us Weekly magazine, admitted in an interview with the Wall Street Journal that he is a cleanliness fanatic. “Well, I’m a neat freak … It seems to me that an orderly desk is reflective of an orderly and organized mind, you know? And there’s a level of immaturity to people who just can’t clean up after themselves.”
Pregnant actress Maggie Gyllenhaal was spotted recently eyeballing a three-bedroom, two-bath loft on Vestry Street in Manhattan, with an asking price of $2.7 million, the Post reports. Gyllenhaal, 28, and actor Peter Sarsgaard are engaged after a four-year courtship. Sarsgaard, 35, starred with his fiancée’s brother, Jake Gyllenhaal, in the war drama “Jarhead.”
