Now Canadian psychologist Ray Blanchard says the answer depends on how many older brothers a man has.
However, the researchers think their findings are linked to what happens in the womb, rather than the effects of growing up among older boys.įor decades, academics have argued over nature versus nurture - whether individuals are born gay, or become gay because of where and how they grow up. Gay men had more older brothers, on average, than straight men, a study has found.įor every older brother a man has, the chances of him being gay increases by 33 per cent.
It was sold 31 years ago to its current owner, John Rudey, who leads several timber companies.Boys with older brothers are more likely to be homosexual than those with sisters, younger brothers or no siblings at all, according to research. The Wall Street Journal reported that the Lauder Greenway family built the home and that George Lauder was a partner in Carnegie Steel. In addition to 12-foot ceilings, a solarium, 1,800-foot driveway and a grass tennis court, the 1898 estate comes with formal gardens, a carriage house with clock tower, apple orchard, two greenhouses and a 75-foot-long heated pool. But it’s the two parcels and 4,000-feet of frontage that pushes the price to the sky for this Old-World charm kind of estate not too far from Manhattan. What do you get for that kind of money? A 13,519 square-foot home with 12 bedrooms and 9 baths, for starters.
The real estate market is booming in many ZIP codes around the country, but it takes a special sense of entitlement to try and fetch the record for a single-family “home” in America.Ī 50-acre waterfront estate overlooking the Long Island Sound has hit the market with a list price of $190 million, making it the most expensive listing in the U.S. But there’s no doubt that the eternally busy Ellen will be monkeying around with the décor in the 6-bedroom, 7-bathroom, 13-acre mansion that overlooks the Pacific. The 1928-era estate was designed by architect Wallace Frost and remodeled in 2009 by designer John Saladino.
The Hollywood couple and serial real estate flippers have reportedly picked up a new property in Montecito, Calif., for $26.5 million.ĭeGeneres is no stranger to pricey properties, but this one comes with a name: Saladino Villa. The all-grown-up childhood star has listed the Montecito-area home for $7.5 million just a year after getting married to Will Kopelman.Īnother Really Big Set for the Real Ellen ShowĮllen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi can’t get enough of that real estate stuff. Perry gets all that and more in her new open-floor planned, 5-bedroom ranch that has ample amounts of glass and angular roof lines from where she can spy the sprawling metropolis that Perry glorifies in her chart-topping tunes.ĭrew Barrymore has listed the 6,000-square-foot Santa Barbara home that served as her wedding ceremony site. Perry’s new 2,100-square-foot Hollywood Hills home once belonged to a Getty oil heiress and drummer/bandleader Max Weinberg, but the pop diva added her name to the deed after looking for a fresh start after previous forays into more traditionally styled dwellings. The purchase includes a nifty and sleek mid-century modern abode that comes with the requisite list of former celeb owners. California Girl Katy Perry paid $11.2 million for three parcels totaling about 4 acres to serve as her new L.A.