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  • Vince Vaughn Trying to Unload Playboy Building Condo Cheap

    Vince Vaughn owns what is known as the most expensive condo in Chicago. Vince Vaughn’s address in Chicago is at a three level penthouse on the top floors of the Palmolive building at 159 E Walton Place. That address is famous for once being the Playboy Building. In fact, Vince Vaughn’s office in his condo is where Hugh Hefner’s office used to be.

    The condo is 12,000 square feet and boasts five bedrooms, four full baths, four half baths, two fireplaces, and three valet parking spaces.

    Vince Vaughn bought the condo in 2006, right before the market crash, for $12 million. Now he is selling it, and asking $13.9 million.

    Chicago Now reports that Vaughn has been trying to sell the place for a while now, and had originally asked a whopping $24.7 million back in 2011. Over the years that followed, the price dropped again and again. First to $18.4 million. Then $16.75 million. Then $14.9 million.

    At this rate, Vince Vaughn is going to end up taking a bath on this investment, if he hasn’t already. Vaughn is an Illinois native, hailing from Lake Forest on Chicago’s north side in the North Shore area.

    Vaughn made news recently when HBO announced that he would be joining Colin Ferrell, Rachel McAdams, Taylor Kitsch, Kelly Reilly, and Afemo Omilami in the second season of their hit show True Detective.

    And just this week, it was announced that Vince Vaughn would act as Grand Marshal for the Daytona 500 on Fox.

    “Last year was an exciting one for NASCAR, and I can’t wait to help kick off the 2015 season as the Daytona 500 grand marshal,” Vaughn said. “The Daytona 500 is one of the biggest events in all of sports, and I feel honored to be able to be a part of it in it in such a major way.”

    Vaughn joins a list of celebrities who have acted as Grand Marshal at the Daytona race, including: James Franco, Chris Evans, John Travolta, Ben Affleck, Nicolas Cage and True Detective season one alum Matthew McConaughey.

  • Portia de Rossi Makes a Deal With Ellen DeGeneres

    Amid all the swirling rumors of divorce, Portia de Rossi just told everyone to shut up. Portia just bought a new condo with wife Ellen DeGeneres, and word is that the place is swanky as all get-out.

    According to RadarOnline, “Ellen and Portia just purchased an entire floor of a luxury building in Beverly Hills. It is very centrally located, right in the heart of everything that they do in Hollywood.”

    Portia and Ellen also own a place in Santa Barbara, which they love. But the condo gives them a more convenient access to be able to take care of business.

    The couple have a reputation for buying, improving and flipping luxury homes. It has become a joke that they move a lot.

    They bought a sprawling estate in Hidden Valley back in 2009. That property had two barns and eight guest cabins, each with a different decor.

    “When we bought the place, it was a professional horse facility,” DeGeneres said. “But it was really not taken care of.”

    But Ellen went to work on the place and turned that all around.

    “I thought it might take Ellen five years to finish the project and she did it in one,” de Rossi said. “It was shocking!”

    They sold that place for $10.85 million.

    The most recent purchase should put to rest any more of the vicious rumors that Portia and wife Ellen are on the outs. You just don’t go around buying houses with someone who you think is cheating on you while you are in rehab and about to divorce you.

    “It’s a good sign that they are going to stay together,” the source tells Radar. “Ellen and Portia have always loved working on a home project together!”

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