Don Imus Puts Connecticut Waterfront Compound on the Market at $30 million

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Don Imus, host of the ABC Networks radio show "Imus in the Morning", has put his Connecticut  waterfront compound on the market at $30 million.

The compound has a white clapboard, Georgian Revival-style main house with 16 rooms in 10,000 square feet, including six bedrooms and six bathrooms, bay windows, and wood interiors, painted white.

The compound also has a two-bedroom guest house and a two-bedroom gatehouse with parking for six cars.

The four-acre property has such exterior features as 215 feet of sandy beach frontage and room for a pool, according to the listing. Imus, 68, bought the property for $4.6 million in 1997, and he completed construction on his compound in 2000.

The compound is in Westport, a community 48 miles northeast of Manhattan. Talk-show host Phil Donahue sold his Westport home for $25 million in 2006, and that is still a record for the area.

Darlene Letersky of Fine Homes Connecticut has the listing.

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The largest apartment on the 165-unit cruise liner "The World," has been listed at $17.5 million. "The World" is described as "the only private residential community on a seafaring ship."

"The World," currently in the Caribbean, set sail in 2002 and sold out in 2004 at $1 million to $9 million per unit, according to Nikki Upshaw, the ship's senior vice president of sales and marketing.

The apartment now for sale in the ship is owned by a British family with five children. The unit has five bedrooms, two kitchens and a 150-square-foot veranda.

The ship has four restaurants. Homeowners can vote on the itinerary of the ship, which includes Alaska and Peru this year.

The unit also can be rented with a minimum six-night stay. The ship is headed south to the San Andres Islands.

Lynette Dodds of ResidenSea, has the listing.

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Randy Spendlove, the Grammy-winning president of music for Paramount Pictures, and his wife, model Alecia Guzman, have put their Beverly Hills home on the market at just under $4.4 million.

The Mediterranean estate has six bedrooms and five bathrooms in 5,622 square feet, in a gated community. The master bedroom has an attached gym.

Other features are a wood-paneled library, a family room, a two-story entry, and a breakfast nook.

A pool, grassy yard and cabana with a wood-burning fireplace and barbecue are outside.

Spendlove, who won a Grammy for the soundtrack to "Chicago," worked on the music for "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" and Steven Spielberg's "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull."

Guzman has appeared in ads for VPXL, Old Navy and Clairol Herbal Essence shampoo.

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Jeremy Strick, former director of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, has taken a new job at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, and with his new position, Strick listed his Westwood-area home at $2.8 million.

The Spanish-style house has six bedrooms and 4.5 bathrooms in 4,327 square feet.

The home, built in 1930, also has two walled courtyards, a paneled library, a covered patio with an outdoor fireplace, a pool, a spa, a circular driveway and mountain views.

Strick was head of MOCA for the past nine years.

Linda Janger of Pace Properties, Beverly Hills, has the listing.

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Ruben Blades, a Grammy-winning singer who is also the tourism minister of Panama, has listed his Windsor Square home at $2.65 million.

The home has five bedrooms and 4.5 bathrooms in slightly more than 3,740 square feet. It also has three closets in the master bedroom suite. Among its other features are a vine-covered porch, a stained-glass window in the dining room and an eat-in kitchen.

Blades, 60, ran for the Panamanian presidency in 1994, but he was unsuccessful. He also has appeared in dozens of films.

Lisa Hutchins of Coldwell Banker, Hancock Park North, has the listing, according to the Multiple Listing Service.

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In case you missed it, Ashton Kutcher has closed escrow on selling his bachelor's pad - a Beverly Hills - area house, at $3.67 million. The home, where Kutcher lived before he married actress Demi Moore, had been listed at $3.7 million.

Bill Parks of Prudential California Realty had the listing while Zach Goldsmith and Rita Goldsmith, both of Hilton & Hyland in Beverly Hills, represented the buyer.

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