Steve Jobs' Iconic Black Turtleneck Sells Out After Death

The black mock turtleneck worn by Steve Jobs is selling at a brisk pace following the Apple co-founder's death last week.

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The Minnesota company that makes it, St. Croix, tells Business Insider (via Gawker) that sales doubled the day aft Jobs' death. Many local stores have run out of the shirt.

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The company's Website is sold out of the $175 shirt in black. It offered to donate $20 the American Cancer society for every one sold; Jobs died after a lengthy battle with pancreatic cancer.

There are plenty of other colors available for sale on the site.

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Job's eponymous authorized biography, written by former Time managing editor Walter Isaacson, is expected to become the year's bestseller when it hits stores in three weeks. Its publish date was moved forward following Jobs' Oct. 5 death.

In the first few hours after Jobs’ death the book jumped 42,000 percent on Amazon, going from 424 to No. 1.

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Haunted 'American Idol' House Sells for $11.2 Million

Toy mogul buys the Beverly Hills mansion that "Idol" contestants fled from in Season 10.

The allegedly "haunted" 15,000-square-foot Spanish-style Beverly Hills mansion that housed contestants during the most recent season of Idol has changed ownership. Toy mogul Steven B. Dunn has purchased the house for $11.2 million; it was listed for $12 million. Dunn is the CEO of the baby product store Munchkin. Munchkin sells such baby products as their Soft Animal Stackers, which won Creative Child Magazine’s Top Toy of the year award in 2009.

The Idol contestants moved out of the house halfway through the season because of such spooky occurrences such as flickering lights and, according to singer James Durbin, an incident in which he opened the garage door and saw something that looked like a ghostly white hand fall from the top of the door. Contestants also reported that there was a serious spider infestation in the house.

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"Me and Pia [Toscano] were upstairs and the doors flew open. We were watching a scary movie before that and we were [already] freaked out. Me and Pia decided we were going to sleep downstairs, and James Durbin was making fun of us. [Then] he opens the garage door and supposedly sees a hand fall down," said runner-up Lauren Alania to E! Online.  
The mansion has nine beds, nine baths, enough room to park 100 cars, and a large pool. No word on whether the ghosts are still there. 

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'Entourage' House Sells for $4.2 Million

Just as the final season makes its debut, the house that Vinny Chase called home is under new ownership.

The Tuscan style home belonging to Adrien Grenier’s Vincent Chase on the hit HBO series Entourage has been sold.
The easily recognizable gated villa went on the market in 2010 for a hefty $5.75 million, AOL Real Estate reports. The house reportedly dropped to $4.85 million before reaching its final selling price of $4.2 million.
The 9,010-square-foot house boasts seven bedrooms, eight bathrooms and seven fireplaces. The public rooms feature walnut floors, while the bathrooms are accentuated with tumbled and polished marble and limestone. The grounds are complete with a guest Casita, a mosaic-tiled pool, spa and waterfall. If the buyer is so inclined, there is also room to install a tennis court.
Though unconfirmed, the new owner is believed to be an executive producer of the many CSI series.

Entourage is currently airing its eighth and final season Sundays at 10:30 pm on HBO.

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Vogue’s Creative Director Sells Memoir for Seven Figures

Grace Coddington, The 'September Issue' star and former model, has inked a $1.2 million sale with Random House.

Vogue’s creative director, Grace Coddington has sold her memoir to Random House for seven figures. The September Issue’s personality—who won the hearts of fans as the passion-filled alternative to Vogue’s tough-as-nails editor Anna Wintour-reportedly co-wrote the book with Vogue writer Michael Roberts.

The tome covers Coddington’s life, including her modeling days in London during the ‘60s, a car accident at 26 which changed her life and career drastically—she lost an eyelid and had to undergo extensive plastic surgery—her rise from junior editor to photo editor at British Vogue, and eventually her entrance into American Vogue in 1988.

Coddington told Women’s Wear Daily that the book, rumored to have sold for $1.2 million, will be about fashion. "It's more than just about me," she said.

Coddington already has two books published: Gracie: Thirty Years of Fashion at Vogue (2002’s $700 photo and coffee-table book) and 2006's illustrated book titled Catwalk Cats.

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Elizabeth Taylor's Bel Air Estate Sells

Elizabeth Taylor’s estate in Bel Air, Calif., which was listed May 20 for $8.6 million, has just sold to an undisclosed buyer.

The property sold in 33 days, according to an e-mail announcement from listing agent David Mossler of Teles Properties. The purchase counts as a quick sale in L.A.’s residential real estate market, which is still in the doldrums.

The purchase price was not immediately known.

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The actress bought the home -- a four-bedroom house set on a wooded property -- in the early 1980s.

The gated 1.27-acre estate includes a bricked motor court and swimming pool. The house is 7,000 square feet and featured a galley-like country kitchen, powder room and maid’s quarters on the lower floor, with a master suite with adjacent dressing room on the second floor.

The garden features the climbing rose “Cecile Brunner,” which climbs over an arbor, while the hybrid tea rose Elizabeth Taylor, introduced in 1985, grows nearby.

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Before she died in March, Taylor let Architectural Digest into her home to shoot the interiors and gardens, which are featured in the magazine’s July issue.

The magazine described the house as being designed for family and enjoyment.

“Of course when she had to appear at an important event, she would put on the most beautiful dress and the most amazing jewelry and become Elizabeth Taylor, the star,” fashion designer Valentino told Architectural Digest. “But at home she liked a cozy life, friends, good food.

Almost every room in the house — which was redecorated in 2010 by Waldo Fernandez, who has also done interiors for Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie — was done in blues and lavenders, which evoked the color of Taylor’s legendary violet eyes.

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The furnishings include a Franz Hals portrait, Impressionist paintings, Taylor’s three Oscars and Irene Sharaff sketches of the costumes for the actress’ 1968 film Doctor Faustus with Richard Burton.

Elizabeth's son Christopher Wilding recently said of the property: "(The house was) where we all gathered, especially at Thanksgiving and Easter. ... She never entertained the notion of moving."

Mossler could not immediately be reached for comment.

Email: Degen.Pener@THR.com

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