Sept. 25, 1991

An emaciated husky mix and her 13 puppies were picked up Friday on an undeveloped stretch of Middle Jam Road and the Gorham-Standish line. Concerned neighbors had contacted police of both towns when it became apparent that the dogs had been abandoned and were in danger of starvation. The mother dog, more wary than her offspring, was among the last to be captured and taken to the Animal Refuge League in Westbrook. Carol Monroe, executive director, said homes have bee… (View original article)

The Old Westbury mansion belonging to Victoria Gotti was raided by federal agents last week in what reports said was part of a tax fraud investigation.

A search warrant was issued for the property on behalf of the Internal Revenue Service for an investigation targeting her sons John, Carmine and Frank, the New York Daily News reported.

Victoria Gotti is the daughter of late Gambino crime family boss John Gotti, who was notorious for being … (View original article)

Cue jokes about how the New York City co-op market is “killing her softly.”

Roberta Flack, the Grammy award-winning R&B singer best known for 1970s classics “Where is the Love?” and  “Killing Me Softly With His Song,“ has relisted her two-bedroom, two-bathroom co-op in the famed Dakota building on the Upper West Side, and is now asking $7.5 million, down from $9.5 million when she first put it on the market in June 2015.

The apartment  was delisted earlier this year and … (View original article)

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Brangelina’s sudden split is making entertainment headlines for many reasons. Did he cheat? Is he an angry alcoholic? Whatever the real cause, as with most famous celebrity breakups, our minds go to an important question: Who’ll get the house? Or, in their case, who’ll get one of the many sprawling international properties they own.

The Malibu home of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie is pictured in this undated hando… (View original article)

In addition to new single “Perfect Illusion,” pop diva Lady Gaga is reportedly debuting a new real estate property in her portfolio. The singer/performance artist is said to have bought Frank Zappa’s estate in the Hollywood Hills for $5.25 million.

Although the buyer’s identity is shielded behind a trust, the beneficiary is believed to be Lady Gaga, according to Variety.

The Zappa Estate seems like the perfect fit for Lady Gaga (whose real name is Stefanie Germanotta). The 7,… (View original article)

Eagle-eyed real estate yenta Yolanda Yakketyyak was the first to whisper in our eager ear that Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood sold their fairly unassuming beach getaway in Malibu in an off-market deal for $7 million. The buyer, according to property records, is internet entrepreneur Adam Bern­hard, who additionally owns a neighboring property he scooped up early this summer for about $3.3 million. Bernhard previously owned a stunning estate in Bel-Air bought from Meg Ryan in 2012 for $11.1… (View original article)

The Associated Press

Published Wednesday, September 21, 2016 1:00PM EDT

RHINEBECK, N.Y. — A dilapidated mansion in New York believed to have inspired the phrase “Keeping up with the Joneses” is on the auction block.

The Poughkeepsie Journal reports the 24-room Wyndclyffe Castle will be auctioned Wednesday.

The mansion was built in 1853 in Rhinebeck as the country house of Manhattan socialite Elizabeth Schermerhorn Jones, a member of a wea… (View original article)

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Wyndclyffe, a mansion in Rhinebeck, New York, which is about 100 miles north of New York City, has been in bad shape for decades, ever since it was abandoned in the 1950s after a series of owners couldn’t afford to maintain it. 

Owing to its size, it’s not hard to see why: 24 rooms on 80 acres, a pre-Civil War manor house that preceded the Gilded Age, when many such mansions were routinely built, that later fell into disrepair.

But Wyndclyffe (a… (View original article)