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CHELSEA co-owner Behdad Eghbali has bought the UK's most expensive flat - costing £56million. The Iranian–American businessman - who took over Chelsea with Todd Boehly in 2022 - purchased the luxury penthouse in Mayfair. (Behdad Eghbali has bought the UK's most expensive flat.Credit: AFP) According to Bloomberg, the billionaire bought the flat in the summer and it features a cinema, swimming pool and spa. Eghbali - worth an estimated £3BILLION - already has a similar apartment worth £34m in the same neighbourhood. Boehly and Eghbali paid former Blues owner Roman Abramovich £4.25bn in the summer of 2022. But at the start of this season, rumours swirled...

There's a sweet love story that continues to bloom every Valentine's Day. It's the story of Northern California couple John and Diana. They were married for almost 50 years, and even after John passed away, the flowers keep coming. "We were married 47 years, but we actually met in high school when we were 16 years old," said 77-year-old Diana Maver. They married and had three children and were living their 'happily ever after,' until John Maver passed away in October 2017. But their love story continued four months later, on Valentine's Day 2018. Daughter Marilee Heard shares: "Through whatever magic works in his world, it's set up so that every year a bouquet of flowers shows up...

He’s taking a bigger bite out of the Big Apple. Jacob Batalon, who stars in the comedy series “Reginald the Vampire,” was recently spotted house hunting in Greenpoint, Brooklyn with his interior designer fiancée, Veronica Leahov. They eyed a $2.45 million penthouse there, spies told Gimme Shelter. The residence is at the Huron, a new-construction waterfront tower designed by architect Morris Adjmi. “He already lives in Brooklyn and was interested in moving to the water,” a friend said. Batalon is also known for playing Ned — the best friend of Tom Holland’s Peter Parker/Spider-Man character in the Marvel films. He did not immediately...

A Bollywood director of B-grade films decided to go mainstream. He hired Sanjeev Kumar for his first A-grade film, and put his entire life's savings into it. But Sanjeev Kumar quit the project, sending the director spiralling into the poverty and alcoholism that would eventually take his life. In the 1960s and 1970s, former actor and stuntman Kamran Khan began directing B-grade action movies starring Dara Singh. These were films such as Beqasoor, Watan Se Door, Ilzam, and Panch Ratan. However, after welcoming his second child, he thought to go mainstream. He mortgaged everything he owned, pooled his entire life’s savings into the project, and signed Sanjeev Kumar to star in it....

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A Los Angeles abode once owned by the English actress Kate Beckinsale listed for sale on Friday, The Post has learned. Beckinsale paid $3.59 million for the Cape Cod-style home in 2006, then sold it for $3.99 million in 2021, a $400,000 profit. It now has a $4.29 million price tag. The 51-year-old is known for her roles in the 1996 film “Emma,” the “Underworld” film series and 2003’s cult classic “Tiptoes.”   (Kate Beckinsale in September 2024.Anthony Harvey/Shutterstock)   (The property includes a two-car garage.Blake Worthington)   (A living area.Blake Worthington)   (The open-format kitchen and living room.Blake...

Sleep here at your own risk. The infamous house from the 1982 horror classic “Poltergeist” is being transformed into an Airbnb, available to rent by supernatural-obsessed fans. The home, built in 1979, is located in Simi Valley, California.   (The “Poltergeist” house in Simi Valley, California.Google Maps) It sold Friday for $1.28 million, the Zillow listing confirms. The new investor, who is from Los Gatos, Calif., allegedly wants to turn the four-bedroom, three-bathroom home into an Airbnb that will replicate the iconic movie’s set.   (4267 Roxbury Street.Shad Yassini no22media)   (Craig T. Nelson, Heather O’Rourke, Jobeth...

The Golden City is losing its shine. Housing prices in San Francisco have plunged to pre-pandemic levels amid widespread layoffs in the tech sector, SFGATE reports. Despite still being one of the more expensive metropolitan areas in the US, prices for condominiums and co-ops in the city were down 14.7% from May 2022 and now average $986,000. Those prices have not been seen since 2015, according to Zillow data analyzed by Wolf Street.   (The price of San Francisco homes, condos and co-ops have fallen to pre-pandemic levels. gdvcom – stock.adobe.com)   (SFGATE and Wolf Street reported that the prices of single family homes have hit 2019 levels in San Francisco.Aaron...

A South Florida home once owned by Bill Gates hit the market on Wednesday for $23.5 million. A limited liability company tied to Gates—Front Range Investment Holdings, LLC—bought the Jupiter Island property in 2009 for $5 million, according to Martin County records. In 2018, it sold at a loss for $4 million to businessman John Textor. Textor has long worked in the digital media industry, serving as the executive chairman of FuboTV from 2018 to 2020. He’s now the chairman of Eagle Football Holdings Limited, the leading shareholder of professional football clubs Botafogo in Rio de Janeiro, Crystal Palace F.C. in London, RWD Molenbeek in Brussels, and Olympique Lyonnais in...

If you were flying up above and looked down at the 727 Fuselage Home, you might think it’s a passenger plane that crash-landed into the Costa Rican jungle many years ago. In reality, this vintage 727 plane is not only the most unique hotel in Costa Rica, but one of the most unique hotels in the entire world.In a previous life, the 1965 Boeing 727 plane shuttled globetrotters all around the world, working for South African Airlines and then Avianca Colombia. Its glory days should’ve come to an end after it was abandoned in San Jose, except some aviation enthusiasts decided to salvage the plane and give it new life. After being broken into five pieces and carted out to the...