Karl Lagerfeld was a mega-collector. Of high-collared white shirts (1,000). Of books (300,000). Of period décor (Art Deco, Memphis Group, 18th-century European). And of homes — at least 20, in Europe and in New York. “He loved buying, redesigning and decorating houses,” said Sébastien Jondeau, the longtime assistant and bodyguard of the fashion designer, who…
La Villette | €1.39 million ($1.5 million) A two-bedroom, two-bath industrial loft entered through a private courtyard near the Canal de l’Ourcq This two-bedroom loft is in the vibrant La Villette district, formerly a neighborhood of slaughterhouses in northeast Paris that has been undergoing redevelopment since the 1980s. The 136-acre La Villette Park, with concert…
Nunhead Green | £795,000 ($1.01 million) A semi-attached, renovated two-bedroom, one-bath Victorian cottage with a contemporary interior and front and rear gardens. This updated house, with a traditional Victorian exterior and contemporary interior, is on a quiet street in Southeast London’s Nunhead Green Conservation Area, close to a small village area with a new community…
The Florida man in Amit Patel — the Jaguars’ employee who embezzled $22 million from the team — was very strong. You’d expect that much ill-gotten cash would be spent on things that the cast of The Italian Job would buy, but this is the land of Parrot Heads, so the preferred route is to…
Many of the festivities were up for discussion following the NBA’s All-Star Weekend, with none more talked about than the slam dunk contest. Former dunk champion and current TNT NBA analyst, Vince Carter, appeared on “Run it Back” on Fanduel TV and confirmed a legendary rumor. Carter said he was approached by the league regarding…
Dr. Thomas Connelly has turned the cliché “million dollar smile” into reality. In 2021, the “Father of Diamond Dentistry” — as Rolling Stone named him — reconstructed Post Malone’s smile with 18 porcelain veneers, eight platinum crowns and two six-carat diamonds replacing the singer-songwriter’s upper canines. Just diamonds. The total cost: $1.6 million. “Posty needed…
Los Angeles | $2.2 Million A three-bedroom, three-and-a-half-bathroom storybook cottage built in 1926, on a 0.1-acre lot This house is in the hills above Laurel Canyon, less than a five-minute drive from Hollywood Boulevard and less than 10 minutes from the nightlife on the Sunset Strip. It is also close to Canyon Country Store, a…
Carley Calvi came to the second floor of a public library in suburban Milwaukee one morning this month without health insurance to cover the vertigo medication she needed. Worse, she said, was not having a doctor she trusted. “I want somebody to value me as the person I am,” said Ms. Calvi, a 35-year-old woodworker….
Farfetch, the beleaguered luxury e-commerce platform that has spent months teetering on the brink of bankruptcy, found its white knight: The retailer said Monday that Coupang, described as South Korea’s answer to Amazon, would acquire it, providing a $500 million lifeline. Farfetch, which is based in London, was once feted as the most dominant force…
