the media millionaires - the only tennis court this Fourth Estate meets on is for doubles and martinis ...
Just when it seemed Robert Redford would never get rid of his Manhattan penthouse, neighbors Diane Sawyer and her director hubby Mike Nichols stepped up to the plate, according to published reports. Redford had been hoping for an ambitious $15 million for his southwestern-style home, but after he dropped the price a few weeks ago, Diane Sawyer and Mike Nichols decided to take the plunge. The couple is reportedly paying less than $10 million for the place. The move will be fairly easy--it's just upstairs from their current 12-room apartment. The couple wanted to gain access to Redford's terraces so their dog can roam freely. The trouble and cost of moving will apparently be worth it since they won't have to take their dog to the park every morning.
Sawyer, 56, (born Lila Sawyer in Glasgow, Ky.), a 1963 America's Junior Miss and a Wellesley graduate, started co-hosting Good Morning America in 1999, thinking it would be temporary. But the "temporary" gig has lasted three years, and with ratings growing by the day, it doesn't look like she's going anywhere anytime soon. Nichols, born Michael Igor Peschkowsky in Berlin in 1931, first rose to fame in the late 1950s as half of a comedy act with Elaine May. He then went on to direct such hits as The Graduate, Catch-22, Carnal Knowledge and The Birdcage. He and Sawyer were married in 1988.
George To Georgetown?
Back to where it all started.
ABC news correspondent George Stephanopoulos might be even closer to returning to Washington D.C. According to a local real estate source, Stephanopoulos is under contract to buy a six-bedroom $2.275 million home in Georgetown that just went on the market last month. Stephanopoulos, a regular commentator on This Week, has been rumored to be in line to either replace existing co-anchors Sam Donaldson and Cokie Roberts or to get a new show of his own to be shot in Washington. Last month the former campaign manager for Bill Clinton put his $2 million-plus Gramercy Park apartment on the market, just a couple of months after completing the purchase of the property.
http://www.forbes.com/2002/05/03/0503movers.html