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Their 22,000-square-foot newly constructed Brentwood, Calif., mansion has a moat, but owning that lavish estate hasn’t stopped Gisele Bündchen and Tom Brady from wanting a home in NYC again.
Bündchen, on her own, stopped by the new Walker Tower luxury development at 212 W. 18th St. The supermodel/mom toured a three-bedroom, 2,800-square-foot condo listed for $11.495 million. The home includes a 400-square-foot terrace and great views of the Empire State Building.
Ralph Thomas Walker originally designed the Art Deco building in 1929. Amenities in the still in-the-works condo conversion include a concierge, library lounge, children’s playroom, gym with yoga room and landscaped roof deck with dining area, sun lawn, “observation” area and covered cabana room.
Bündchen, who previously owned a West 11th Street triplex penthouse, and Brady, who once owned a Time Warner Center apartment, have been on the prowl for a Manhattan pad in the $9 million to $12 million range. They recently eyed a three-bedroom at One Madison Park.
Living in harmony
Ten-time Grammy Award-winning musician George Benson has listed his grand Englewood, NJ, estate (pictured) on Next Day Hill Drive for $2.99 million. The eight-bedroom, six-bathroom home on 1.3 acres has a stately entrance hall, elevator, great room with large stone fireplace, library and billiards room. There’s also, of course, a music studio, along with a theater, pool and rose garden. The property includes a bubbling brook that runs under the house.
The home — designed by Eleanore Pettersen, who studied with Frank Lloyd Wright — is listed by Mary Lenk of Prominent Properties Sotheby’s International Realty.
Benson, a vocalist and guitarist whose genres include jazz and soul, got his start playing in an unlicensed nightclub when he was only 8. Now 70, he continues to make music. His new album, “Inspiration: A Tribute to Nat King Cole,” is out Tuesday.
Water Mill-ions
Real estate investor Andrew Borrok has relisted his 20,000-square-foot Water Mill mansion at 315 Rose Hill Road for $58.5 million, the same price he asked for in 2010.
As we reported in 2010, the eight-bedroom home on 4 acres includes over-the-top features like a $3 million dream kitchen setup — including a prep kitchen with walk-in refrigeration, a bakery with artisan deck ovens and a finishing kitchen on another floor with under-counter refrigeration, heated counters, a custom Molteni stove and a steam-convection oven. Borrok, who made news in 2007 when he sold 14 Penn Plaza for a $250 million profit, is an avid cook.
The neoclassical home, built in 2005, has eight fireplaces, a grand entrance that opens to a cast-bronze double staircase and a 19th-century stained-glass skylight. Borrok bought the estate in 2003 for $3.6 million.
Douglas Elliman listing brokers Paul Brennan, Tal and Oren Alexander and Michaela Keszler declined to comment.
We hear . . .
That RXR Realty and Giants football star Justin Tuck will hold their annual celebrity billiards event tonight at Slate NYC. The event will benefit Tuck’s R.U.S.H. for Literacy charity and the United Way Hurricane Sandy Recovery Fund. Giants teammates Eli Manning, Victor Cruz, Chris Snee and Terrell Thomas are slated to attend along with Knicks Amar’e Stoudemire and Jason Kidd.
Billionaire’s summer spot
Russian billionaire Igor Sosin loves the East End so much that he is back for another summer, and he’s spending a whopping $1 million for the season to rent the Ox Pasture Lane mansion that he’s rented before. He paid $860,000 for two months in 2011.
Sosin, who owns Russia’s equivalents to Home Depot and Petco, will spend the summer in the 12-bedroom Southampton mansion with a master bedroom that alone is 3,000 square feet. The property includes a carriage house, rose gardens and a 50-foot water fountain. There are also indoor and outdoor pools, a bocce court, a hot tub, a sauna and a gym.
Sosin has certainly shown the East End, and United States, some love in the past by hosting a grand Fourth of July bash from his estate-section summer palace.
Sosin’s Douglas Elliman brokers were not available for comment.