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By ANN BRENOFF

Los Angeles Times

Published: December 14, 2008

LOS ANGELES - Actress-singer Jennifer Lopez has listed her French farmhouse estate in Bel-Air at $8.5 million. J-Lo, her singer husband, Marc Anthony, and their 9-month-old fraternal twins have been the subject of ongoing sightings in the Long Island, N.Y., community of Brookville, fueling speculation that they have relocated to New York.

The house that the pair just listed has four bedrooms and 51/2 bathrooms in 7,357 square feet. The walled and gated villa sits on three-quarters of an acre and, according to the Multiple Listing Service, has a "European ambience."

There is a detached guesthouse, a pool and pool house, gardens and pathways around the property upon which to amble, though it's hard to imagine Lopez and Anthony as amblers.

Lopez is one of the industry's highest-paid actresses and was identified by Forbes magazine as the richest person of Latin American descent in Hollywood. As a singer, she has sold more than 48 million albums worldwide.

Ushered In To Brand-New Digs

The one-man antidote to TiVo - that nifty device that, among other things, allows you to whiz past commercials that interrupt your favorite TV shows - may be Kinka Usher. His House of Usher production company makes commercials that are often more entertaining than the shows they are interrupting - remember the talking Chihuahua who says, "Yo quiero Taco Bell"?

Usher is moving to L.A.'s Pacific Palisades section, where he just bought a newly constructed home for $3.5 million, according to the MLS. The home, listed originally at $4.8 million and then lowered to $3.9 million, had been on the market for about nine months.

The house has five bedrooms and five bathrooms in 4,200 square feet. The East Coast-traditional-style home has a formal dining room, gourmet kitchen with stainless-steel appliances and granite countertops, a family room with wood sliding doors, a pool, a spa and a barbecue area.

'Lost' Actress Finds Buyer

Consider actress Cynthia Watros-Gilliland no longer "lost" in the sea of sellers. The woman who played Libby, a psychologist, on the popular ABC series "Lost," has sold her 1923 Los Angeles home for $5.2 million.

The property in the Hancock Park neighborhood has about 8,000 square feet of living space, which includes a detached 2,300-square-foot two-story guesthouse. The 5,700-square-foot main house has five bedrooms and five bathrooms. There are fireplaces in the formal dining room and living room. The home, completely updated and remodeled, has hardwood floors, a gourmet kitchen, custom stone work and wrought iron throughout.

The guesthouse has two bedrooms and two bathrooms. There is a pool, gazebo and fountain in the landscaped yard.

Watros-Gilliland played nurse Annie Dutton on the CBS soap opera "Guiding Light" from 1994 to '98 - a role for which she won a Daytime Emmy Award for lead actress in 1998.

The actress' character on "Lost" was killed after 23 episodes.

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