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The EMM Group Estate was the scene of a private barbeque on July 4, with guests including Kellan Lutz, who plays Emmett in the film "Twilight". Also at the party were AnnaLynne McCord of 90210 and "Gossip Girl"’s Jessica Szohr. The party was hosted by Perrier-Jouet and Estate owners Eugene Remm, Mark Birnbaum and Michael Hirtenstein.

The Estate is a 7-bedroom, 8 ½ bath mansion in Noyack, with 10,000 square feet of living space on 8 acres of land. Amenties include an Olympic-sized swimming pool with fountain, tennis court, Jacuzzi and 6 fireplaces.

Frustrated would-be sellers are in star company. On Long Island, Christie Brinkley ($30 million, seen here), Kelsey Grammer ($13.9 million), Rupert Murdoch ($12.8 million), Richard Gere ($7.2 million) and Kathleen Turner ($5.9 million) are among the celebs who have been trying to sell their homes, often after lowering their asking prices. Read all about it here.

-- VALERIE KELLOGG

He may be a hotshot cable news host, but FOX News' Bill Hemmer's favorite spot in the Hamptons is his own Sag Harbor home. "The Hamptons can be whatever you want it to be," Hemmer says. "If you want to go to the beach, go to the beach. You want to stroll through town, you can stroll through town. But I love my home."

Public records show that "America’s Newsroom" host purchased the home in 2005 for $1.75 million. The single-family home was built in 1995, and is on 2-1/2 wooded acres.

Hemmer credits the home’s backyard for selling him on the property. "I just stood in the backyard and I thought to myself, Well, this would be a nice place to live. Who wouldn’t want to live here?"

Hemmer says he had never owned a house before. "I’ve learned an awful lot, and it’s taught me an awful lot about home and how to make one," he says. "You buy a house, but you make it a home."

While Hemmer won’t label the house a fixer-upper, he does admit it needed some work. "It’s been a project," he says. "It’s been a labor of love and I’ve mostly enjoyed it. But there is a tremendous sucking sound of money that leaves you when you’re paying for your projects."

Whenever he’s got a free weekend, Hemmer tries to make it out East, even in the winter. "It’s just desolate and you cannot see a single car all weekend," he says. "Some people might think that’s something out of 'The Shining.' But when you’re surrounded by the concrete and the steel of New York, it’s a great getaway."

— TIERNEY BRICKER

Architect Peter Cook turned out Wednesday for the unveiling of his latest home design -- a six-bedroom, 7.5-bath house in East Hampton that recently went on the market for $19.95 million. He's seen here with co-listing agent Evan Kulman of The Corcoran Group, developer James Fantaci of By Design Properties, and to Cook's right, Kulman's partner at Corcoran, Gene Stilwell.

- VALERIE KELLOGG

"Top Chef" head judge Tom Colicchio names the North Fork as his favorite place in a recent issue of Travel and Leisure. "There’s no traffic, no obligations, no feeling that I have to go to this party or that party," he tells the magazine.

No wonder Colicchio bought a house there. In 2003, he and his wife, Lori, purchased a farmhouse in Mattituck for $890,000, according to public records. He tells Travel and Leisure that they are now renovating the 1850s house, which overlooks a vineyard.

Colicchio says he first discovered the North Fork because he loves to go fishing. He now fishes in the Peconic Bay and the Long Island Sound.

— TIERNEY BRICKER

Photo by Virginia Sherwood

Just a few months after listing their Water Mill home for $8.8 million, Richard Gere and his Huntington-born wife Carey Lowell have lowered the asking price for the estate by more than $1 million. The new price for the seven-bedroom, 10.5-bath farmhouse is $7.2 million, according to the Saunders & Associates Web site. The listing agent is Linda Haugevik.

The couple are no doubt eager to sell the estate since they also own a home and property in North Haven, right near neighbor Jimmy Buffett.

LAURA MANN

Christie's will hold a wine auction Saturday at the 1903 Westhampton Beach estate known as Atwater, which is on the market for $29 million.

The nine-bedroom, 9.5-bath shingle-style manor house is one of the only turn-of-the-century estates that remain on the East End. It was built for coal baron William C. Atwater. It was designed by architect Henry Bacon, formerly of McKim, Mead & White. He is best known for his design for the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.

The 16,000-square-foot house faces Quantuck Bay. The property has 1,000 feet of water frontage.

It went on the market a year ago for $39 million.

In June 2008, the caretaker of the estate committed suicide in a garage on the 10.37-acre property. His wife had been found badly burned in the caretaker's cottage. That structure has since been torn down.

The invitation-only auction will take place in the carriage house as exclusive listing agents Marcia Altman and Mark Roter of the Westhampton Beach office of Brown Harris Stevens show the main house. Among the wine auction's offerings is a 1929 bottle of Moët & Chandon autographed by Tina Fey, Alec Baldwin, Robert Downey, Jr., Matthew Broderick and other celebrities.

— VALERIE KELLOGG

The 2006 Hampton Designer Showhouse is back on the market, now for an asking price of $16.9 million.

The 14,000-square-foot Bridgehampton home, which was listed for $24.5 million when it went on the market three years ago, had been in foreclosure; earlier this year, through a series of legal maneuvers, it was turned over to a holding company that is now trying to sell the property, says exclusive listing agent Mary Slattery of The Corcoran Group.

The investors behind the holding company are now paying to have the house completed, she says. The media room was never finished, and neither was the patio, she says. Even some trim and knobs are missing — "the kinds of things you'd expect to see in a house on the market for $16.9 million," she says.

Still, she says, "It's a spectacular property. It's just under four acres in one of the most beautiful spots in Bridgehampton south of the highway."

The eight-bedroom, 9.5-bath Arts & Crafts style house on Sagg Pond was designed by architect Peter Cook, Christie Brinkley's ex-husband. There is a wine room, a pool and a tennis court.

— VALERIE KELLOGG

The owner of Sandcastle, the Bridgehampton estate recently shown to a rep for the Jonas Brothers, has increased the asking price to $59.5 million.

Builder Joe Farrell, who built the 31,000-square-foot home for his family, says he raised the price on the advice of brokers. "I brought in the best brokers and they were all quoting me prices between $45 million and $65 million," he says.

Farrell is also trying to rent out the house for two weeks this summer, at a price of $500,000.

The 11.5-acre estate has a two-lane bowling alley, a heated gunite pool with an underwater stereo, a sunken tennis court, a disco and bar, virtual golf, a movie theater with a planetarium on the ceiling, a squash and racquetball court, a half-pipe for skateboarding, a rock-climbing wall, a DJ booth and recording studio, a Jacuzzi, and more.

The property hit the market last month for $50 million.

- VALERIE KELLOGG

This is Sandcastle, the Bridgehampton house that real estate sources says a real estate agent recently showed to a representative of the Jonas Brothers.

Another summer, another Hamptons party scene at The EMM Group Estate, a seven-bedroom mansion on 8 acres in Noyack.

The Estate, which over the past two years has been visited by celebrities such as Aretha Franklin, Mary Kate Olsen, James Blunt and Mischa Barton, will be open for its third season of private parties for “a select group of influencers” who will be treated to hotel-like amenities and entertainment.

The home has 10,000 square feet of living space, six fireplaces, tennis courts and an Olympic-sized swimming pool with a fountain. The spread is owned by EMM Group’s Eugene Remm, Mark Birnbaum and Michael Hirstenstein, who are also responsible for Manhattan’s Tenjune nightspot.

Other celebs who’ve partied at the Estate include Russell Simmons, Jamie-Lynn Sigler and Ryan Seacrest.

- LAURA MANN

Want to stay at the Southampton house where "The Real Housewives of New York City" stars Alex McCord and Simon van Kempen stayed last summer and got massages? Check it out here, and get some tips on getting the right Hamptons share at the right price this summer.

- VALERIE KELLOGG

Newsday Photo / Michael E. Ach

Could the Jonas Brothers be Hamptons bound?

Real estate sources are buzzing about the possibility that the Jonas Brothers may be renting a Bridgehampton estate this summer known as "Sandcastle," which has everything from a recording studio to a two-lane bowling alley to a half-pipe for skateboarding.

The house is available to rent for $500,000 for two weeks (it's also on the market for $50 million).

A Disney spokeswoman declined to answer questions, saying in an e-mail "we do not comment on the personal lives of our talent."

- VALERIE KELLOGG

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Dragon's Head, the controversial Southampton castle on Meadow Lane, is finally being torn down, says one eyewitness. Owner Calvin Klein wants to build a smaller home on the beachfront site.

- VALERIE KELLOGG

Photo by Karli Kittine

Jack may not have built this house, but he rented it a few years back while filming scenes in the Hamptons for the movie “Something’s Gotta Give.”

Jack is Jack Nicholson and the house is a 5,800-square-foot, five bedroom, 7 ½ bath oceanfront contemporary in Southampton. The property is available for Memorial Day through Labor Day for $400,000, but listing agent Gary DePersia of the The Corcoran Group says that the owners would also rent the home for various periods throughout the summer, including weekly or monthly.

The 4.5-acre spread includes a heated pool with an outdoor fireplace and a private walkway to the beach. Amenities include a great room with a fireplace, a sitting room with views of Shinnecock Bay, and a master suite with two fireplaces and his-and-hers baths with ocean views.

— LAURA MANN

No word on why Kelly Killoren Bensimon has changed her mind, but the star of "The Real Housewives of New York City" has taken her East Hampton manse off the market. The four-bedroom, 4 ½-bath, 5,800-square-foot home had been listed for $10.9 million. A spokeswoman says, however, that Bensimon "is open to renting it for the summer." As a rental, the property has been listed with an asking price for $335,000 for Memorial Day to Labor Day, or $300,000 for July and August. Read more about "the housewives" and their Hamptons homes here.

— VALERIE KELLOGG

Victoria Gotti is vowing to fight the foreclosure on her Old Westbury estate. Read about it here.

- VALERIE KELLOGG

If you're looking for a summer rental with star appeal, then this oceanfront contemporary may be just the ticket. The five-bedroom, 4 1/2-bath spread in Wainscott is available for Memorial Day to Labor Day for $350,000.

The Beach Lane home has a history of celebutenants, including Dina Lohan and daughter Lindsay, as well as designer Calvin Klein. Listing agent Gary DePersia of The Corcoran Group says that "it's a wonderful spot for sunsets, and one of the most sought-after streets in the Hamptons."

The home is furnished and newly renovated, and comes with a heated pool and a cabana. If you want to settle in for a full year, that'll cost you $400,000.

— LAURA MANN

Flamboyant designer Betsey Johnson once vowed never to live in East Hampton. “I was out here in the 1960s … with the … Warhol crowd, and we were treated so rudely, like we were freakos, and I said I'd never come out here again. Ever,” she tells writer Diane Roncone in a recent article for Hamptons.com.

It wasn’t until her daughter Lulu convinced her to rent a home there one summer that Johnson relented. Johnson tells Roncone that she sent her daughter to the Hamptons with a video camera to check out rentals within the $15,000 to $30,000 range. The designer wound up renting a “red old barn-Swiss chalet” home with open ceilings and lots of windows. The rental cost considerably more money than originally intended, somewhere in the $60,000 range. Johnson says, “of course, the real estate lady always shows you the one a little over your budget.”

After renting for the summer, Johnson decided to purchase a home of her own in East Hampton. Public records show she owns a 1.65-acre property that she purchased in 1999 for $695,000. The home is now valued at more than $2 million.

Johnson tells Roncone that when she bought the home, “It was shutter-less and all white, contemporary, modern. It was a completely different house. It was like an art gallery kind of space.” These days the home is more child-friendly to accommodate Johnson’s grandchildren, with a bright blue garage with a hot pink interior, kids toys strewn about, and a backyard swing set.

And if Johnson’s daughter Lulu and son-in-law Arthur have any plans on changing the decor, Johnson says they’ll have to wait awhile. “They cannot wait for the day when they can rip this wallpaper off, paint it white, modernize it. And I said, 'You know, when I'm in heaven, then you can do whatever you want.' "

— LAURA MANN

Hamptons.com photo by Diane Roncone

Victoria Gotti, daughter of the late crime boss John Gotti, says she is "bitter" over the prospect of losing her Old Westbury estate to foreclosure. Despite a four-judge panel ruling that JP Morgan Chase Bank can proceed with foreclosure on the home, the four-acre property, which was featured in the cable TV show "Growing Up Gotti," is still on the market with Century 21 Laffey Associates. The current asking price range is $2.9 million to $3.2 million. Listing agent Anthony Piscopio says he did not know of the court proceeding but adds, "The property's available." Read all about the court proceedings here.

- VALERIE KELLOGG

Writer Michael Henry Adams thinks so. In his blogging column for The Huffington Post, he writes, "As they’re known to be looking for a place to vacation this summer, I’m recommending that the Obamas check out the Hamptons."

Adams, whose books include "Style and Grace: African Americans at Home" (Bulfinch, $19.95), cites the area's ethnic diversity, natural beauty, party scene, great restaurants and golf and tennis clubs among its draws.

But the local economy is why Adams, an Obama supporter, says the first family should be here. "These days, there are dozens of ... houses in the Hamptons that they could easily choose from," he writes. "And this would be a way that the Obamas would help the Hamptons. Their arrival would be sure to spur interest enough in real estate to undo all the unfortunate effects of the depression."

- VALERIE KELLOGG

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Know someone who has been fighting a losing battle to keep up a house while quietly struggling with enormous problems? ABC-TV’s “Extreme Makeover, Home Edition” is looking for just those people on Long Island.

"We're looking for those special people who have amazing strength of character and never give up,” says casting supervisor Morgan Fahey for the television show’s host Ty Pennington, at right, and his crew. “Whether it’s keeping their chin up in really tough circumstances or going out of their way to help others. We want to help people whose stories have really affected their community or made a big difference in other people's lives.”

To be eligible, a family must own their own single-family home and be able to show producers how a makeover will make a huge difference in their lives.

Interested families should e-mail a short description of their family story to Karen Happel, a Westbury native now living in California, at castlongisland@gmail.com

- LIISA MAY

Photo by Joe Schmelzer

After her famous tumble off a horse last week in the Hamptons, Madonna reportedly rested at the Amagansett home of pal Gwyneth Paltrow. Read all about the home -- and see photos -- here .

- VALERIE KELLOGG

Photo by Gina Tomitz

The East Hampton estate where Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon stayed last summer has gone into contract, according to The Corcoran Group's Web site.

Stone Meadow Farm was on the market for $19.995 million when the newlyweds took residence there. It is now listed for $15.9 million. Gary DePersia, a Corcoran senior vice president, is listing the property.

So far, there's no word on who the buyer is.

The main house has 15,000 square feet. There are two guest cottages, a spa, a media room, tennis courts, a heated gunite pool, a stable for five horses and riding fields.

Last summer, the eight-acre property also hosted a star-studded celebration of the 125th anniversary of the Suffolk County Chapter of the American Red Cross.

- VALERIE KELLOGG

It’s all fun and games in Roslyn Harbor. Behind this restored 1869 Victorian exterior lies a state-of-the-art home with a soundproofed music studio room, a game room and a gym. Among the 2.2-acre property’s English cutting gardens, you’ll find a skateboard area with ramps and jumps, and a heated, non-chlorinated Gunite pool with a poolhouse.

The seller, Michael Tunnicliffe, is a partner in the Los Angeles-based Filament Entertainment Group, a combination talent agency, entertainment, and branding and technology business, which lists singer and "American Idol" judge Paula Abdul as a business partner. He also is a private adviser to a number of musicians, entertainers and advertisers.

The asking price is $2.699 million, and is also available for rent for $11,000 per month.

Annual taxes are about $20,900.

Tunnicliffe says he’d be willing to make his marina space and boat -- a 23-foot Sea Ray Sunfast berthed at the Glen Cove Marina five minutes from the house -- available as part of a sale or rental.

Mollie Grossman of Prudential Douglas Elliman Real Estate, who is co-listing the property with Donna Ferrara, also of the Roslyn office, says the home is “like a London townhouse … It’s very European inside, Italian.” The 4,900-square-foot house, which has an additional 1,000 square feet in the fully finished basement, includes a Scavolini kitchen and an Hauge water purification system.

Grossman and Ferrara are sharing the rental listing with Eileen Heimer of the Glen Head office of Daniel Gale Sotheby's International Realty.

- KRISTIN TAVEIRA

Actress Jessica Lange makes for a glam cover of the May issue of Town & Country, but she stretches body and makeup to play the aging Big Edie Beale in the HBO movie "Grey Gardens," which premiered last night.

The May mag has an interview with Lange as well as a commentary (The Ghosts of Grey Gardens) by the Bouvier Beale Jr., nephew and cousin of the notorious bohemians of East Hampton, the late Big Edie and Little Edie Beale and their beyond shabby-chic mansion.

A full page of pictures with the Bouvier Beale's article shows the beauty and vitality of the mother and daughter before their descent into squalor. Most memorable are Big Edie as a young mother in the summer finery of 1924, and Little Edie in a swimsuit on a catwalk at an East Hampton fashion show in 1940.

- LIISA MAY

Today she's Jenny from a private road in Brookville. But as the 2009 Kips Bay Decorator Show House is reminding the public, Jennifer Lopez really used to be from a block in her native Bronx.

A framed photo of Lopez sits on a desk in one of the rooms at the show house, a fund-raiser for the Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club which opens today on the Upper East Side. The prop is an ode to Lopez, one of Kips Bay's most famous alums.

The Manhattan design firm of Paula + Martha designed the room -- a fantasy office for the executive director of the Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club, which serves disadvantaged children. Many of the materials used by the designers were natural or inexpensive or even both -- like the distinctive burlap embroidered in bright colors with slogans by some of the kids currently in Kips Bay programs.

Lopez performed at the Castle Hill-based Kips Bay for the "Today" show in 2002 -- on the same stage where she danced as a youth.

See more photos of the show house -- including the room by Paula + Martha -- here.

- VALERIE KELLOGG

Newsday photo / Valerie Kellogg

An oceanfront home in Sagaponack belonging to the ex-wife of New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine recently rented for $900,000, real estate sources say.

Susan Breitenbach of The Corcoran Group brought the renter, says a spokeswoman for the agent. She declined to identify the customer's identity, but did say that it might be a record-setting price for a seasonal rental in the Hamptons. Beate Moore of Sotheby's International Realty, the listing agent for the property, agrees. "It is a big number," she says.

The lease is for Memorial Day to October.

The 6,200-square-foot, six-bedroom, 5.5-bath home is on a gated property. The 6.64-acre estate includes a heated gunite pool, a Har-tru tennis court and more than 500 feet of ocean frontage along Gibson Beach.

The house was signed over to Joanne Corzine in 2002 as part of her divorce settlement from Gov. Corzine.

- VALERIE KELLOGG

Christie Brinkley used her Water Mill beach house as inspiration for her new line of eco-friendly fabrics.

Brinkley said in a telephone interview some of the fabrics in the just-launched line at Jo-Ann Fabric and Craft Stores are made of recycled polyester made from plastic water bottles. “I was shocked at how soft they come out,” she said. Other fabrics are made of organic cotton.

As a mom, she says she wanted to design casual, great-looking fabrics that are great looking and casual but, as a mother of three and a longtime environmental advocate, also friendly to the environment.

Brinkley lives in Bridgehampton — in a mansion now on the market — and owns several other properties in the Hamptons. For these fabrics, she was inspired by her beach house, which has a living room, three “tiny bedrooms,” a kitchen and two “little bathrooms. It’s a gem,” she said. “Most of these places have been torn down and replaced by McMansions ... I love that little place. It’s irreplacable. They’re just not making these any more.”

The fabrics, in color stories beachglass and Coral Reef, are on sale at Jo-Ann's Web site for $12.49 to $17.49 a yard.

Brinkley is working on a line of bedding under the brand Christie Brinkley Home with Richloom. It will feature organic sheets, pilowcases and decorative pillows.

— VALERIE KELLOGG

Since the 1970s, it's been the subject of documentaries and a musical, and now Grey Gardens, the shingle-style house in East Hampton that Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis’ kin Big Edie and Little Edie Beale made famous, will be the subject of an HBO movie, airing at 8 p.m. EDT Saturday.

"Grey Gardens" created fictionalized lives of Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale (Big Edie played by Jessica Lange) and her daughter, Edith Bouvier Beale (Little Edie, Drew Barrymore) before the 1970s when they found themselves impoverished and living in an aging, neglected house with such a serious feral cat and raccoon infestation that the Suffolk Heath Department threatened fines and eviction. The movie was filmed in Toronto with a facade of the house that duplicates Grey Gardens.

The 14-room house was built in 1897 from a design by architect Joseph Greenleaf Thorpe, who designed many of the summer cottages in East Hampton. Big Edie and a former husband bought it in the 1920s. Little Edie, after pursuing a career in Manhattan, moved back home.

The well-known 1975 documentary, "Grey Gardens," by Albert and David Maysles reveals the women’s relationship in those years -– Big Edie nearly bed-ridden and Little Edie always dressed up with no place to go and their to-the-manor-born attitudes at odds with their surroundings.

After Big Edie’s death in 1977, Little Edie sold the house to former Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee and his wife, Sally Quinn, who restored it. Quinn has been quoted as saying it would have been less expensive to tear down Grey Gardens and build anew. Little Edie moved around after the sale until her death in Florida at age 84 in 2002. The house lives on in its former grandeur.

- LIISA MAY

Retired professional hockey player and sports commentator Edwin Westfall is selling his 4.19-acre Lattingtown estate for $1,950,000.

Annual taxes are $21,000.

Westfall, who played 18 seasons in the National Hockey League with the Boston Bruins and New York Islanders from 1961 until 1979, says the property includes a portion of one of the former Pratt estates. Charles Pratt, who founded Standard Oil, owned 1,100 acres in the community and built homes for his children on the property as each of them married.

Listing agent Michele Gottlieb of Brigitte Greene Realty in Richmond Hill says the main residence, an English cottage-style house with five bedrooms and six bathrooms, was once a caretaker’s cottage. The property holds several additional structures.

“I loved the property,” says Westfall, who was the Islanders’ first captain and scored the team’s first goal. “It had space. It was interesting because it was more of a compound, rather than one large house. It had separate challenges, and I like to putter and do things.”

His puttering included having a local architect and pick-up hockey buddy design a four-car garage with an apartment above it. Westfall and some friends built the structure together, and “made it look like it had always been part of the property,” he says. There’s also a second cottage – a former barn -- with two bedrooms and a fireplace. That’s attached to a 30-foot greenhouse, which Gottlieb says was once used by the Pratts to supply all the vegetables and flowers for the estate.

Behind that is an additional garage where Westfall keeps his landscaping machinery -- a space Gottlieb says could serve as an additional two-car garage. The original stone wall and stone pillars remain at the entrance to the property, says Gottlieb.

- KRISTIN TAVEIRA

Another star of "The Real Housewives of New York City" is trying to rent out her Hamptons digs.

Ramona Singer is asking $295,000 to live in her Southampton home for the Memorial-Day-to-Labor Day-season.

The 7,000-square-foot Mediterranean-style house has been featured several times in the hit cable TV show, now in its second season. It has six bedrooms and six bathrooms. The property has a bocce court, a heated pool and a sunken har-tru tennis court. The lower level has a 70-inch flat screen TV and a pool table.

For July and August, Singer is asking $180,000. The asking price for the rental from August to Labor is $100,000. For July only, $90,000.

Kelly Killoren Bensimon is trying to rent out her home in East Hampton , which is also on the market for $10.9 million.

- VALERIE KELLOGG

The listing for the Woodbury home belonging to former New York Jet Jonathan Vilma has been taken off the market. The Eagle Chase condominium, which had been on the market since March 2008, is now the scene of a double murder investigation in which Vilma is not implicated. Police are reportedly looking to question Vilma’s cousin in connection with the crime.

Vilma, who now plays for the New Orleans Saints, had originally listed the two-bedroom home in the gated community for $929,000. He had recently lowered the price to $899,000. The two-story condo has an eat-in-kitchen, a master suite with a bedroom, bath and loft, and a fireplace. The development has a clubhouse, pool and tennis courts.

Taxes on the unit are $18,462.

Vilma was not the only former New York Jet to live in the Eagle Chase development. Former Jet wide receiver Keyshawn Johnson once lived in a three-bedroom, 3-1/2-bath unit there . That condo was listed last November for $1.199 million.

LAURA MANN

The newest star of Bravo's "The Real Housewives of New York City" is trying to sell her house in the Hamptons.

Kelly Killoren Bensimon's home on Further Lane is East Hampton is asking $10.9 million. Roseanne Lebwith of Devlin-McNiff Real Estate has the exclusive listing for the four-bedroom, 4 ½-bath, 5,800-square-foot home. The property features maid’s quarters, three fireplaces, a two-car garage and a heated gunite pool.

Taxes are about $56,000.

The home also is available for rent: $335,000 for Memorial Day to Labor Day, or $300,000 for July and August.

Records show that the home is listed in a corporate name. The previous owner is listed as Gilles Bensimon, Kelly’s ex, who purchased the spread for $750,000. The house had been on the market in 2007 for $14.5 million.

A spokeswoman says that Bensimon put the home on the market following her divorce. "She wants a fresh start," she says. Bensimon "would like a new home for her and her children," she adds.

Bensimon told RealLI earlier this year that she built the house, which has been featured this season in the hit cable TV series.

LAURA MANN

Now comes word that Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are renting Rupert Murdoch's house in Centre Island while renovations are done to Sassafras, the 40-acre estate in Lloyd Harbor that the star couple is leasing. Read more here.

- VALERIE KELLOGG

Photo by Jay L. Clendenin

The Water Mill home belonging to Richard Hilton, Paris Hilton's father, is on the rental market this summer.

The Hiltons are asking $400,000 for the Memorial Day-to-Labor Day season. The 10,000-square-foot traditional-style home has six bedrooms, 7.5 bathrooms and a heated pool. The house is on 2.7 acres of hedged property.

The Hiltons brought the property in 1999 for $2.385 million. It was once part of the Henry Ford II estate.

The house was rented out last summer for an undisclosed amount, a real estate source tells Newsday.

Last year, Paris Hilton filmed a mock ad spoofing a John McCain campaign commercial taking Barack Obama's celebrity to task. The viral video, which featured Hilton poolside, was reportedly shot at the house.

- VALERIE KELLOGG

Elizabeth and Emanuel Stern have sold their 1.84-property in Bridgehampton for $8.5 million, public records show. The 6,500-square-foot home was built in 2005 and has eight bedrooms, 9.5 baths and a heated pool.

Emanuel Stern is president and chief operating officer of New Jersey-based commercial real estate developers Hartz Mountain Industries, Inc. His father, Leonard Stern, founded the real estate company in 1966 and is a former owner of the Village Voice newspaper.

Max Stern, Emanuel's grandfather, founded the Hartz Mountain pet supply company, which the Stern family sold in 2000 after 76 years of ownership.

The house was custom-built for the Sterns. A half-mile from the beach, the home includes a wine cellar and a steam room. There also is a suken HAR-TRU court, a spa, a 1,500-square-foot two-story pool house and a golf hole.

Gary DePersia of The Corcoran Group was the listing agent.

- LAURA MANN

The Brookville house Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony recently bought next door has taken a real beating online for its so-called lack of style. So the blog Hooked on Houses asked its readers to come up with five things to change about the house to make Lopez "feel at home" (never mind that the previous owners probably took the furniture with them).

So far, they've come up with a lot of ideas, from hanging chandeliers to adding gables to gutting the kitchen. But there are a few who actually like the 1972 white Colonial and its traditional decor.

"I so love the way it looks now … and I just know that JLo will destroy all the things about it I love," wrote Sue, adding, "I hate to see such old beauties torn down."

"How would one possibly bring the bling to a very formal and traditional home like this and not make it look ridiculous?" asked Cindy. "I don’t think Colonials lend themselves to too much decorating variation, but this will be interesting to research ... Maybe a shiny brass toilet seat might be a start."

"I think it’ll be a tear-down, which is kind of sad," Ritasmeeta wrote.

As RealLI first reported, Lopez and Anthony bought the five-bedroom, 4 ½-bath house in December for $2.05 million. The 2.24-acre property had been on the market several months. It is located behind the same estate gates at the end of the private road where the couple's main house resides, leading to speculation that they merely purchased it to preserve their privacy.

- VALERIE KELLOGG

The owner of DiRaimo Pizzeria Restaurant in Huntington says that actor Brad Pitt recently came in and bought a couple of slices. "He was alone," says Steve DiRaimo of the reported sighting, adding that someone was waiting for him in a car outside the Wall Street restaurant but that he didn't see who it was.

"We didn't even know it was him," DiRaimo says of Pitt's pre-dinner visit in late February, until two women in the restaurant said they recognized them.

Pitt and Jolie are renting a nearby 40-acre Lloyd Harbor estate to live in while Jolie films part of the movie "Salt" on Long Island. There have been no confirmed sightings of the couple since news broke that they signed the lease.

DiRaimo says he hasn't seen Pitt since the visit. Still, news that the star stopped in has made the tabloids: The March 23 edition of Life & Style magazine features a story about the Sassafras house Pitt and Jolie are renting that makes mention of the in-and-out pizzeria stop, and about how Huntington is abuzz with news of it.

- VALERIE KELLOGG

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That little game of touch football with Nate's family on Monday night's "Gossip Girl" took place on the grounds of Old Westbury Gardens. In fact, several scenes were shot there, like this one, according to a blog for the National Register of Historic Places location, the former home of John S. Phipps, his wife, Margarita Grace Phipps and their four children.

Filming took place over three days in January, after it had snowed, says Vincent Kish, director of communications and public relations for the Gardens. The Westbury House subbed as Nate's grandfather's estate. The scene where the grandfather flies in by helicopter took place on the north lawn in front of the house, Kish says. "It was really fun when the helicopter landed," Kish adds. "We don't usually have helicopters flying around here all over the place."

The touch football game was shot behind the house, he says. The Gardens staff had to clear the snow so the actors could play, he says.

The "Gossip Girl" crew shot most of the party scenes in the Red Ballroom over two days, mostly at night, adds Kish. "People were getting punchy and forgetting their lines," says Kish, an actor who took three vacation days to play Maurice the Waiter in the episode.

For the scene in the dining room, where Nate's grandfather tells him how proud he is, the crew replaced paintings of the Phipps family for fakes of Nate's so-called Vanderbilt clan. Kish says this was at the Gardens' request, to avoid any possible negative references to the Phipps.

Last year the CW show filmed in the Hamptons and at a Brookville estate.

- VALERIE KELLOGG