♦ Super secretive hedge funder Israel Englander has paid $9.3 mil. for a co-op apartment at 1000 Park Avenue. The four-bedroom spread features a maid's room and a library. You can see the floorplan after the jump. [Real Deal]
♦ Makeup maven Laura Mercier has flipped her Chelsea loft at 205 West 19th Street. Mercier sold the 5,500-square-foot space to Lionel Pincus' son, Henry, and his wife Ana, for $8.5 mil.—$1.8 mil. more than she paid for it in late 2006. [NYO]
♦ Italian photographer Elisa Sighicelli paid $3 mil. for a 2,000-square-foot loft at 225 Lafayette Street. She purchased it from video artist Douglas Gordon. [NYO]
♦ The five-acre Bellport property once owned by Elmer Sperry, who founded the Sperry Corporation, is on the market for $5.7 mil. The property includes a three-bedroom house, two pools, and a guest cottage. [Newsday]

The French make-up artist makes actresses camera-ready-and her cosmetics and skincare line is purchased by decidedly non-superstar women everywhere.