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Alex Rodriguez sells Miami Beach manse to a mystery Palm Beach celeb for $30M

TMZ reports that ARod has left the building--that is, his 9 bedroom, 11 bathroom Miami Beach manse, which he just sold for $30 million. Though the Yankee slugger took an $8 million pay cut in the price of the home, originally listed at $38 mil, he bought it in 2010 for $7.4 million, raking in a pretty impressive profit nonetheless. The buyer, TMZ says, is a Palm Beach celeb. Rush Limbaugh? Rod Stewart? G-d forbid Donald Trump?  No one knows--yet. Says our real estate mole, "It's a couple from Palm Beach." The home is not so far from Matt Damon's, which is currently on the market for the bargain basement price of $20 million. True high rollers, however, may want to consider the Versace mansion, which just dropped its asking price today from $100 million to $75 million.

Camp MDNA: Elsa Patton was never Madonna's psychic! #RHOM

Madonna's in town for her shows at the American Airlines Arena, and while many people love to name drop the iconic ex-Miami resident's name around town, her closely guarded camp wants it known that she never, ever hired erstwhile and eccentric Real Housewives of Miami cast member Elsa Patton as her personal psychic. Huh? According to Purveyors of Pop, the show's producers, via Twitter, "Did you know that #ELSA was #Madonna's psychic advisor for years? #THETRUTH #RHOM." That statement, says a mole in Madge's camp, couldn't be further from the truth. Despite a Twitter response from Madonna pal Ingrid Casares trying to squash it, the rumor seems to have more lives than Shirley MacLaine. While Patton and her daughter Marysol met Madge many moons ago, that was pretty much it, says our source. No psychic connection there. As for Madonna commenting on the situation, only a true psychic will be able to get that out of her because she has no time for nonsense. "She wants nothing to do with the Pattons or the show," says our source.