♦ Will & Grace co-creator Max Mutchnick and his partner Erik Hyman have sold their two-bedroom pied à terre at 15 West 11th Street for $4.1 million. Mutchnick originally bought the sixth-floor co-op for $2.59 million in 2005. [Real Estalker]
♦ Scott Latham, executive director of Cushman & Wakefield and one of the highest-paid commercial brokers in the country, has sold the three-bedroom at 269 Broadway that he shares with his wife for $4 million. [Cityfile]
♦ Kimora Lee Simmons has reportedly picked up yet another mansion in Beverly Hills. This time she's paying $11.5 million for a 9,405-square-foot Mediterranean-style villa. [Real Estalker]
♦ The 15 Central Park West owners who listed their ninth-floor apartments jointly for $21.5 million this summer have already lowered the asking price by more than $2 million. The two can now be yours for $19.495 million. [Curbed]

Ah, thought so. Photographer Herb Ritts died of pneumonia, as his publicist said, but only after HIV infection had weakened his immune system, which she has belatedly disclosed. "Herb was HIV[-positive]... at the end of the day, his immune system was compromised." Michelangelo Signorile works himself up into indignation, accusing newspapers of glossing over the persistence of AIDS. But it's a broader issue: whether the cause of death is cancer or AIDS, obituaries shy away from the details.
Don't Hide the Truth About AIDS [Signorile]
Update: Turns out the New York Daily News, at least, ran the story, a few days after Ritts died.