• Fox News entertainment correspondent Jill Dobson and her husband Jim Ornstein, a William Morris agent who counts Kelly Ripa as a client, have paid $1.995 million for a two-bedroom condo at 243 West 60th Street. [Cityfile]
• El-Ad is re-listing one of the Plaza's penthouse apartments that became the subject of a lawsuit after the "30-something hedge fund manager" who planned to buy it backed out of the deal. It's expected to go back on the market for an amount that is "astoundingly low" compared to its original $31 million price. [NYO]
• Energy exec Charles Price III paid $3.375 million for the late novelist Elizabeth Hardwick's three-bedroom duplex at 15 West 67th Street. [NYO]

We hear that Star News & Style editor-at-large Jill Dobson—you know her from all her pimping of the magazine on the morning chat news shows—is leaving the magazine, and Candace Trunco and Bonnie Fuller, for the presumably more lucrative pastures of the Fox News Channel. Meanwhile, Star is wasting no time in hiring a replacement for Dobson—recruiters are now sniffing around for a Star head-reporter type who can give TV. Send in those audition tapes, talking headettes!