Deranged Stalker Arrested at Diddy’s Hamptons Home When groupies attack! A deranged Florida woman claiming to be Diddy’s wife was busted for trespassing near his East Hampton home last week after asking locals where she could find the rap mogul’s residence. Cemelia Green, 35, of Jacksonville, was arrested outside of a Bianca Road residence she mistook for Diddy’s [...]

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Things are looking up in the Hamptons. Buoyed by a rising financial tide down on Wall Street, the volume of property sales in the ritzy Long Island beachfront community surged by 59% in the final quarter of the year, compared with the hyper-depressed levels of a year earlier, according to a report released Thursday. The [...]

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Pop singer Madonna has purchased a horse ranch in the Hamptons.  Madonna loves to ride horses.  The horse ranch sits on 30 acres of land and cost the “Material Girl” $9.6M. The 51-year-old mother of two purchased the ranch from the ex-wife of designer Calvin Klein.  Part of the purchase agreement stipulated that Madonna must keep [...]

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Carter Glatt, a sixteen-year-old junior at the Horace Mann School, is lanky, with black hair and long eyelashes. He loves to play sports, especially football and tennis. He speaks in a slightly stiff, respectful manner that suggests that he’s used to conversing with adults. He carries a BlackBerry with a crack down the front. Last [...]

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The listmasters at Forbes have unveiled this year’s 500 Most Expensive Zip Codes in America, with a few East End contenders taking the top spots. Water Mill’s 11976 and Bridgehampton’s11932 enter the list at numbers 14 and 15, respectively, while Amagansett’s 11930 comes in at number 45. Elsewhere in the top 100 are Wainscott (47), Shelter Island Heights (68), [...]

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The Hamptons Green Alliance (HGA) spent much of 2008 searching for a local project to adopt as its green demonstration house. The Bridgehampton, N.Y.-based green home building educational organization wanted to build a net-zero energy, carbon-neutral house to show homeowners in the Hamptons just how well it could be done. So when David and Sandra Dubin’s family [...]

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Is Montauk now the new Hampton?  Although driving passed the Surf Lodge on almost any given night you might get that impression, I would like to think not. With its unspoiled charm and “nautical” way of life, it feels more like New England than Long Island. However, it now seems to have a vibe and that’s [...]

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The luxury beachfront home of now-imprisoned Bernie Madoff, purchased with money stolen from his victims of his $65 billion Ponzi scheme, is up for grabs to the first buyer who offers $7 million for the oceanfront estate in the Hamptons, Long Island. With four bedrooms and three baths, the estate in the village of Montauk [...]

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Shelter Island is gorgeous. There’s so much water and it’s so relaxing without the crowds and the scene of the Hamptons. Even the air is different here — it is earthier. To get here from Southampton, we followed the signs from 114 near Sag Harbor to the Shelter Island Ferry. No need to check the schedule [...]

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Q: What is Feng Shui? Karen Lynn Ferraro: Feng Shui — the Chinese words for wind and water – is the foundation of living consciously. Feng Shui is like acupuncture for the home: opening up the energy meridians of the space to allow emotional and physical energy to flow. Q: What can one do to Feng Shui a summer share [...]

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