Wendy McCaw has sold her 193-ft. yacht Calixe. The impressive steel and aluminum, 1986-built, 13-crew motor yacht complete with helipad, which boasts accommodation for up to 10 guests in five staterooms, was priced at $15.9 million. The Dutch-built vessel, with interior design by Terence Disdale and a cruising speed of 14 knots, has been renamed the Minderella by the new owner, who completed the purchase last year. It is now available for charter.
Polo Club staffers masked for the boffo bash (photo by Shannon Jayne Miller)
Order Restored
The Brazilian beat throbbed (photo by Shannon Jayne Miller)
Dan and Linda Walker, party hosts (photo by Shannon Jayne Miller)
It was quite a weekend at the Santa Barbara Polo Club when more than 3,000 colorfully garbed guests turned out for the Gulfstream Pacific Coast Open, the biggest tournament on the Left Coast, which was won convinc-
Santa Barbara Youth Ensemble Theatre members Jackson Guilles, Larissa Mehling, and Hunter Hawkins (photo by Shannon Jayne Miller)
Guests and entertainers at the bustling Brazilian-style beano (photo by Shannon Jayne Miller)
ingly by Restoration Hardware, led by Ben Soleimani, who beat Henry Walker’s FMB Too! 13-9. The match, which was pre-taped by
NBC Sports for broadcast on Sunday, September 11, kicked off with three singers from Janet Adderley’s talented Ensemble Youth Theatre, including this year’s Teen Star Jackson Guilles, Hunter Hawkins, a Teen Star finalist – who are both starring in the SBYET production of How To Succeed
in Business Without Really Trying at the Lobero in May – and Larissa Mehling, II. To add to the equine merriment former club president and banker Dan Walker, who has just been elected the new governor of the U.S. Polo Association’s Pacific Coast Circuit, and his wife, Linda, threw a paella party 36 hours earlier featuring sequined and befeathered Brazilian carnival dancers. Among the horse-riding heavenly host turning out for the boffo bash were Glen and Gloria Holden, Scott Wood, John Muse, Pat and Ursula Nesbitt, Madison Richardson and Toni Simon, Chris and Mindy Denson, Jason Crowder, Charlie Walker, Bilo Zarif, Costi Caset, Mike Uretz, Justin Klentner, Charles Ward, David Sigman, Leigh Brecheen, Sandy Henney, Chris Lancashire and Catherine Gee, Santi Von Wernich, Nigel Gallimore, and Brian Fagan. A weekend to remember. Ellen, on the House TV talk-show host Ellen DeGeneres is raking in the cash! The Montecito-based Oscars host, who has interests in interior and fashion design, just sold a Hollywood Hills mansion for $9.9 million to Calvin Klein confidante Barry Schwartz and his wife, Sheryl. But it was not 58-year-old Ellen’s first time selling the handsome estate, as she previously owned the 4,000-sq.ft. home, with five bedrooms and three bathrooms, from 2005 until September 2007, when she received $10 million for the mansion and an adjacent property from window heiress Allison Milgard. However, Ellen was obviously
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