Broadway producer Jonas Neilson and the former wife of Johnny Carson are battling over a sofa once owned by Truman Capote. The “In Cold Blood” author died at Joanne Carson’s Bel Air house in 1984. The following year, she bought 20 of his furniture pieces. She sold some to producer Lester Persky, including the couch. Persky died in 2001, and left the sofa to Neilson, his producing partner. Carson recently demanded the settee back, via her lawyer, claiming she only had lent it to Persky. “She doesn’t have a leg to stand on, and neither does the couch, by the way,” Neilson told the New York Daily News. “It’s a terrible design. The legs curve out and every time someone sits on it, it breaks.”
Cal Ripken Jr. played 2,632 consecutive Major League Baseball games. All that travel means he should know a thing or two about comfortable bedding. The Cal Ripken Wool Underlay and Duvet – a mattress pad and comforter made by retired Australian sports star Barry Young – is named after the former Baltimore Orioles star. The Australian rules football star sent Ripken the bedding after the two met at an event in Australia. “He called me and said ‘What is this thing? I’ve never slept so well in my life,”‘ Young told the New York Daily News. The premier wool duvet sells for $200 to $400; the underlay sells for $250 for a twin size and $450 for the king-size “premium.”
Nicolas Cage’s home is his castle. The actor last month purchased the Schloss Neidstein castle in Bavaria, People magazine reports. Cage (below with his wife Alice Kim Cage) told German magazine Bunte his mother, dancer Joy Vogelsang, inspired him to buy the castle because, “her ancestors are all from good old Bavaria.” Schloss Neidstein sits on a hill with a stunning view of its 395 acres. The 9,688-square-foot castle has 28 rooms, including 10 bedrooms and five bathrooms.
