Barton G. Weiss, a Miami restaurateur, has turned the late Gianni Versace’s beachfront villa into a 10-room hotel, The New York Times reports.

The hotel, called The Villa by Barton G., is modeled on a Roman palazzo filled with fountains, frescoes and stained glass, featuring a pool and terrace tiled in thousands of colorful mosaics.

Gianni Versace’s former bedroom has a nine-foot-wide bed, two balconies and – for those who don’t pack light — seven closets. Rooms start at $2,100.

David and Victoria Beckham are reportedly keen to snap up George Clooney’s Lake Como villa after he put it up for sale.

The 48-year-old actor has put his Italian home on the market because of harrassment by paparazzi.

Billionaire Chelsea boss Roman Abramovich is topping other high fliers with private jets – by splashing out on his own airport, it was reported today (monday).

Abramovich is heading a syndicate of Russian tycoons in a bid to snap up Tassignano airport in northern Italy as an investment.

The terminal – worth more than 4 million GBP – is near a settlement of exclusive villas and holiday homes, reports Italy’s Corriere della Sera newspaper.

Paris-based Agence Jouin Manku took on its first large-scale integrated architectural and interior design commission in 2003, when YTL Design Group from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, invited it to design the residence of a Malaysian power family.

Completed in the latter part of 2008, the residence is the ultimate expression of the taste, influence and industrial-scale capabilities of the prominent family whose entrepreneurial activities have shaped Kuala Lumpur’s skyline.

Three generations of the family inhabit the 3,000 square-meter residence designed to accommodate both private and public functions.

Melanie Brown, the artist formerly known as “Scary Spice” or “Mel B”, a key member of the planet’s most successful all-girl band, Spice Girls, is selling her Los Angeles house with an asking price of $2,999,999.

Located on Mount Olympus Drive, Los Angeles, the residence measures 3,476 square feet and includes 5 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms.

Swede Hill is next project from Newport, RI based design+build firm, Aquidneck Fine Properties.

This 3000 sqft LEED registered home is designed by award winning architects Estes/ Twombly and promises to be one of Southern New England’s truly “green” luxury homes.

Set on four protected acres, this stunning private hilltop retreat offers breath-taking southerly and westerly ocean views towards Montauk Point and Long Island Sound.