Financial whiz turned "lifestyle designer" Richard Nilsson apparently felt that plain old luxury had lost its luster, so he decided to focus on "extreme luxury." When he was running a business empire Nilsson was only able to take one week off per year, so for his first project he came up with the "Résidence Supérieur" concept as an ultimate retreat where vacationing moguls and movie stars could pack as much luxury and privacy into their vacation as possible, cost be damned.

The first RS is the Villa Oxygene in Cannes on the French Riviera. In addition to ultra-luxe surroundings, it includes exotic sports cars, a private jet and helicopter, yacht, butler, chef, bodyguards and basically anything else you could wish for. Desperate Housewives star Eva Longoria recently shot an ice cream commercial there, and Nilsson is now planning other equally outrageous outposts. See the gallery for pix.

So Eva Longoria and Tony Parker finally made it official this past weekend when they got married in France. What better way to promise their eternal love to each other than with these beautiful and unique Piaget Possession wedding bands -- made of two bands that are "inseparably linked, turning together for eternity." Eva's features double rows of brilliant cut diamonds divided by a row of 27 square cut diamonds down the center (for a total of 107 jewels), and Tony's is elegance in its simplest form. Both rings are 18k white gold and, per the couple's request, have a personalized French engraving on the inside.

In addition to choosing Piaget for their wedding bands, Eva also ordered a one-of-a-kind timepiece made as a wedding gift for her new husband. A customized version of the Piaget Polo watch, the Piaget 'Number 9' features a 43mm white gold case, a slate grey 18K gold and titanium bezel and matching slate grey dial, and 50 diamonds in the shape of his MVP number 9 -- so it's truly just for him.

Most brides just have to worry about who they're going to have take their wedding pictures, but Eva Longoria and fiancé Tony Parker also had to decide who would get the rights to publish them. The biggest bidders for exclusive rights to wedding coverage were People magazine and OK!, with OK! coming out on top by offering $2 million dollars.

The wedding is planned for this weekend, July 7th, in a castle just outside of Paris. I wonder how much Eva and Tony are paying for their own personal wedding photos? Think $2 million will cover it?

It's a big week for celebrities in the restaurant business. First we had Danny DeVito in South Beach now comes news that Eva Longora is investing in a restaurant in Hollywood, California. And she's partnering up with one of my favorite chefs, Todd English. The restaurant will feature upscale Tex-Mex (Ms. Longoria is from Texas). This makes English and odd choice. He's famed for his rustic Italian food with an emphasis on seafood. But perhaps after the closing of his last restaurant, English Is Italian in New York, he is in need of a change of pace. Eater LA reports that the restaurant will be located on the corner of Ivar and Hollywood and will open in the next few months. I'm there if there is a chance of a Todd English sighting. Yum.

This year you can give your mother the same gift that a celebrity is giving theirs. Fortunoff has launched Charms for Charity with celebrities such as Brooke Shields, Eva Longoria, Denise Richards, Hayden Panettiere, Keri Russell, Molly Sims and Petra Nemcova. Each selected their favorite gold charms from Fortunoff'charm collection. The bracelets will serve personalized gifts and Fortunoff will create replicas of each of the celebrity designed bracelets to be auctioned off on Portero.com from May 8th through May 17th. One hundred percent of funds raised will benefit the charity of the celebrity's choice. The choice of charms are interesting, for example, Eva Longoria's bracelet, which benefits her charity Eva's Heroes has an Eiffel Tower, a basketball, an umbrella cocktail, drama masks and a heart and cross combination, things which seem to be more about Eva and her upcoming wedding than her mom. Keri Russell's includes three seashells and gardening tools and Brooke Shields's is the blandest of the ones I have seen with a pair of baby shoes, a baby carriage, Empire state building and a present box. You can check out the rest of the designs at the website. Keri and Brooke's bracelets are after the jump.

From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:
--Harry Belafonte has sold his West Side apartment. The last asking price was $11.75 million.
--The Greenwich Village apartment where Brad Pitt and Gwyneth Paltrow once lived has been sold by Blythe Danner, Gwenyth's mom for $1.8 million.
--Sand Dollar Development has turned Warner LeRoy's former estate in Amagansett into starter homes for the rich. The homes of Southwood Court will sell for around $5 million each.
--Fashion photographer Mario Testino has paid $6 million for a three-bedroom, 31/2-bath condo at 40 Bond, the Ian Schrager condo project.
--The stunning residence which was our Monday estate of the day turns out to belong to "Chicago" producer Marty Richards.
--Dr. Bartha's blown-up townhouse is back on the Brown Harris Stevens web site for $8 million.

From the Wall Street Journal's The Real Estate Journal:
--Miramar, one of Newport, R.I.'s grand mansions, which was previously on the market for $25 million will now be sold at auction. Details on the auction can be found here.
--The longtime Fifth Avenue home of the late Lee Anz Lehman is about to go on the market for more than $30 million.

From the LA Times Hot Property:
--Eva Longoria has purchased a new home in the Hollywood Hills that had a listing price of nearly $3.8 million. She also has a Hollywood Hills home that she bought in 2005 for about $1.2 million.
--A Hollywood Hills house that was designed by architect Paul Williams and was owned at one time by Marlon Brando and at another by David Carradine is for around $2.8 million.

From the NY Times Big Deal:
--Marc Brown, the creator of the Arthur kid books and PBS show is also a serial renovator. He just bought an 1842 town house for $3,950,000. He has listed a 7,777-square-foot five-story loft building on Jay Street in TriBeCa that he and his wife paid $6.15 million for in 2004, and are now hoping to sell for $15.8 million. The listing is here.
--Jeff Tarr Jr., a former professional BMW racecar driver, and his wife, Amy, have moved into a huge $6.4 million turreted duplex condominium in a building that was built in 1887 for the New York Cancer Hospital. Other condos are still available.
--Jorge M. Pérez, a Florida real estate developer celebrated by Time magazine as the "king of condos" closed late last month on a duplex condominium on the 60th floor of the south tower in the Time Warner Center but Perez reports he has already sold the apartment to a good friend.

From the NY Observer's Manhattan Transfers:
--Alan Ball, creator of the HBO series Six Feet Under has bought a 2,215-square-foot loft in Chelsea for $2.495 million.
--Entertainment lawyer Alan Grubman has bought his daughter Lizzie -a one-bedroom apartment at the Savoy, on East 61st and Third Avenue. Grubman already lives in the building and is using the unit for additional space.