Rich Cribs: Hamptons houses for sale

LAURA MANN; SHAWNA VANNESS;

12:00 AM EDT, July 6, 2007

A rooftop hot tub, tennis courts, a private putting green and pool houses galore - multimillion-dollar properties for sale in the Hamptons are loaded with luxuries.

From a $6-million Mediterranean villa inWater Mill with an outdoor dining area, oxygenated pool, tennis court and a hot tub perched on the roof to the $19-million gated compound rented last season by Russian aluminum heiress Anna Anisimova, take a peek inside some of the palatial estates listed by the Corcoran Group where the uber-wealthy like to spend their summers and weekends.

- SHAWNA VANNESS

SPEAKING OF ANNA. Anisimova, who bought a $5-million 8,000-square-footWater Mill home a few months back, has put off all plans to renovate the place until she returns to New York this fall, says an insider.

Recently engaged to Florida real estate tycoonDavid Weisser, Anisimova will spend most of July and August in Europe. When she returns, "Anna plans on building a 21,000-square-foot estate on the Water Mill property. No expense will be spared."

The current home will eventually be moved more than an acre on the property to become the guest house for the 11-acre spread. The home is said to be in the same neighborhood as the home that presidential hopefulRudy Giuliani shares with wife Judi.

Meanwhile, the home the heiress famously rented for $635,000 last summer is now on the market for just under $20 million with Corcoran's Gary DePersia.

LUXURY FOR SALE

There's oceanfront property, and there's bayfront property, and one Hamptons house has both. For $25 million, you can own a five-bedroom, 5 1/2 bath spread on Flying Point Road in Water Mill, with a dock on Mecox Bay on one side, and the Atlantic on the other.

The 4,500-square-foot renovated traditional shingled home sits on 1.9 acres, and has a dining room, an elevator, a sauna, a three-car garage and a Gunite pool.

Exclusive listing agent Lori Barbaria of Prudential Douglas Elliman is no stranger to the area. She says she brokered the deal when Christie Brinkley purchased an oceanfront cabin just four doors down in 2005. That home was on the market for $7.9 million before Brinkley decided to take it off the market for the summer.

FunnymanMel Brooks also lives nearby in a four-bedroom home he purchased in 2000.

THE ROYAL FERGIE. Hamptons Magazine gives readers the royal treatment this week with a cover story onSarah Ferguson, the duchess of York, in the June 29-July 5 issue. The former wife of Britain's Prince Andrew speaks about her children, her businesses, her charity work, and, of course, the Hamptons.

"I really like the Hamptons. ... I love walking down the beach and really enjoy some of the people I've met. The American people have been very good to me," she says.

Ferguson, 47, and her daughters, Beatrice, 18, and Eugenie, 17, have been guests at theSouthampton home of her business partner J. Todd Morley and his wife, Dorritt, as well as at the Montauk estate formerly co-owned by Andy Warhol.

Ferguson is a fixture on the charity circuit, but don't expect to see her wearing white, even before Labor Day. "I always believed I had to have the perfect figure, reach the perfect weight, be the perfect person, get it all right," she says, adding, "It's OK if you don't fit into the white jeans, or whatever - because I know in the Hamptons, they all wear white jeans."

- LAURA MANN

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