Gisele Bundchen makes graceful leap
April 29, 2007 - 9:00 pm
Gisele Bundchen, one of the world's most famous faces in modeling, has for the moment turned up her nose at living in Los Angeles.
The 26-year-old, who has appeared on the covers of just about every major international fashion magazine since -- as the story goes -- she was discovered in a Brazilian shopping mall at the age of 14, has sold her 4,000-square-foot Hollywood Hills home for $4 million and is now living in New York.
The one-story, gated Spanish hacienda in the Sunset Strip area that she sold has a media room, gym, city views and pool.
The home has four bedrooms -- room enough for all of Bundchen's five sisters, including her twin -- to stay overnight.
Bundchen said an official farewell in 2005 to her relationship with Leonardo DiCaprio. They were chosen by People magazine as the "Most Beautiful Couple in the World" in 2004.
Her personal fortune, valued at $150 million, put her in the "Guinness World Records" book as "the world's richest supermodel."
She has modeled for Victoria's Secret, Louis Vuitton, Valentino, Lanvin and Vogue Eyewear.
She is a spokesmodel for Christian Dior and Ralph Lauren. And she has her own line of shoes, called Ipanema Gisele Bundchen. More than 100 million pairs have been sold in six years.
U2's The Edge completes
sharp purchase
Dave "The Edge" Howell Evans, whose nickname was inspired by his sharp facial features and sharp mind, has purchased a 120-acre parcel in Malibu with a cottage and a creek on it.
The U2 musician, who sings and plays guitars and keyboards, purchased the canyon property for close to $15 million, according to local real estate agents.
Evans, now 45, joined U2 at the start of the popular rock band's career in 1976. Bono, the band's front man, gave Evans the nickname.
Besides his role in U2, the Edge has recorded with Johnny Cash, B.B. King, Tina Turner and Ron Wood.
Bionic sale for
Bionic Woman
Lindsay Wagner, known best as "The Bionic Woman" (a character she played on TV in the '70s), has sold a condo in the San Fernando Valley for $649,000.
Wagner, 57, sold a nearly 2,000-square-foot unit with three bedrooms and three baths. The condo was built in 1989; she bought it in 2004.
The actress also appeared in "The Six Million Dollar Man" (1974) and in a number of movies and commercials.