OUR favorite Jersey boys, the Jonas Brothers (Kevin, Joe and Nick), could be close to buying a mansion in Alpine, NJ — near other stars like Britney Spears and Yankee CC Sabathia.
The approximately 8,000-square-foot home is a five-bedroom Colonial in the $10 million price range, and we hear that a deal is currently being negotiated. The home, which had an original asking price of around $12 million, has been unofficially on the market since the end of April.
It’s an area the boys are already familiar with. They grew up in Wyckoff, NJ, a town only 20 minutes west of Alpine. Neighborhood kids in Alpine are already in a tizzy thanks to Jonas Brothers sightings.
Fannie packing
Notorious Daniel Mudd — out on his fanny as Fannie Mae CEO — has listed his Washington, DC, home for $9.5 million. And he’s on his way to the New York metro area.
Sources tell us Mudd is looking to buy or rent in Greenwich, Conn., or another ritzy destination soon. He starts his new job at New York’s Fortress Investment Group on Aug. 11. Already a Fortress director, Mudd will be joining the firm after the company’s stock has tanked. It’s down more than 90 percent from where it traded at the time of its initial public offering in February 2007.
The move comes as Mudd’s name is getting dragged through the mud in Washington. The exclusive Chevy Chase Country Club has still not accepted his request for membership. He is no longer on the board of Ryder System, and there is talk that he was rejected from jobs he tried to get in DC.
Mudd also took some heat for luxuriating at “Mudd Manor” while so many homeowners suffered. Mudd’s 22-room mansion in tony Cleveland Park sits on the former property of President Grover Cleveland. It includes a home theater, wine cellar, solarium, servants’ quarters and terrace. The home is decorated in heavy maroon colors inspired by the time he once spent in Japan.
Phish food for Bracco
Lorraine Bracco — ex-wife of Harvey Keitel and our favorite TV mob shrink — has found a buyer for her Hudson River hideaway. Trey Anastasio, the lead singer/guitarist of the jam band Phish, is in contract to buy her cottage in the celebrity enclave of Sneden’s Landing (part of Palisades) for around $2 million.
The 1960s-style riverfront cottage (which Bracco and Keitel bought from Ellen Burstyn in 1989) was last listed at $2.7 million. The 1,800-square-foot, three-bedroom, 2½-bath home sits on 2 acres. It could be the perfect quiet spot for the country-loving Anastasio, who will join area residents like Al Pacino, Mikhail Baryshnikov and Bill Murray.
The home includes a wisteria-covered entrance, water views from the master bedroom and a waterfall, all in a woodsy setting. Its original asking price was $4.4 million in 2004. Listing agent Richard Ellis of Ellis Sotheby’s International Realty had no comment.
Gerhard bargain
Where does one go after selling a Time Warner Center penthouse for $37.5 million? If you are Austrian-born investor Gerhard Andlinger, you pocket your hefty profit — never mind that the original asking price was $65 million — pack your bags and head out of town for an even larger residence.
Andlinger, who bought the five-bedroom, 8,300-square-foot Time Warner Center penthouse for $25 million in 2005, is now in contract to buy a stately 1920s home on Sherwood Avenue in Greenwich, Conn.
The stunning mansion is 20,000 square feet, with about 10 bedrooms depending on the choice of layout, and it comes with a guesthouse, a pool, tennis courts and divine old trees.
Although the home was never officially listed, it has quietly been on the market since April at around $19.5 million. The seller is Steve Black, co-CEO of the JP Morgan investment bank. Black, with three kids in college, is downsizing in Greenwich and also looking to rent in Manhattan.