Speaking of gossip….

Legenary Kirk Kerkorian has just cut the $25 million asking price of his 30–acre Beverly Hills mansion to a reasonable $18 million, after it has languished on the market for nearly a year. His lovely gated estate boasts a Mediterranean-styled main home, two guest cottages, two pools, two tennis courts, a putting green and lots of room for expansion.

The Wall Street Journal reports that Mr. Kerkorian, 89, has purchased this estate in three different phases. The first parcel was purchased for $5.7 million in 1989. The other two were added in subsequent transactions. The package is listed by Coldwell Banker in Beverly Hills.

All this leads Active Rain's Gossip mongers to wonder if the parts might be more valuable than the whole? 

(Just call this a catty stage in blogging;-))

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