Celebrity Real Estate: Lena Dunham, Tyra Banks, Donald Rumsfeld

By Laura Vecsey


Lena Moving On Up

Lena Dunham is getting what she wants, and not just being the voice of her generation, or a voice of a generation. This time, the writer and producer of the series "Girls" and author of a new book "Not That Kind of Girl" has gotten a very big girl apartment in Brooklyn Heights.

The new condo cost a cool $4.89 million and sprawls 3,200 square feet, including 4 bedrooms, 3.5 bathrooms. The luxury brownstone building comes with indoor parking and a roof deck to take in some pretty alternative views of Brooklyn.

Dunham's new digs aren't far from her old one-bedroom abode that she bought in 2012 for $500,000.

Banking On It

Tyra Banks is aiming for a new look. The supermodel and host/producer of "America's Next Top Model" has listed her Manhattan apartment for $3.795 million. The Soho abode sits in a 1924 Beaux Arts building and has 2 bedrooms, 2.5 baths and measures just a hair over 2,000 square feet. Banks paid $2.1 million for the apartment in 2005.

Rumsfeld Is Out

Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld is packing up his Federal-style home in Washington, D.C. Rumsfeld and his wife got $3.9 million for the 7-bedroom, 6.5-bathroom home, which was only about $550,000 more than they paid back in 2001, when Rumsfeld was brought into the Cabinet by former President George W. Bush. The Rumsfelds reportedly split their time between New Mexico and the Eastern Shore of Maryland.

Fogarty Testing L.A. Housing Market

Creedence Clearwater Revival rocker John Fogerty is looking to sell a rental home he's long owned in Beverly Crest. The 1,920-square-foot rancher is on the market for $1.549 million. Fogerty paid $1.385 million for the house in 2008, and in recent years has listed it for rent at $5,900 a month and up.