This is still a team that dispenses eight-figure salaries as if tipping a coat check.

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The newly finished manse spans 30, 000-square feet that includes 12 bedrooms, 19 bathrooms, a ballroom with wet bar and coat check closet, and a subterranean basketball court equipped with scoreboards and locker rooms.

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George Clooney's entire collection of suits may be less expensive than Lil Jon's chain, but the latter certainly comes with its perks--it's safe to say that a 5-pound "Crunk Ain't Dead" pendant is a bit too conspicuous to be lost at a coat check.

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It's an arrangement that recalls Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum with its new entrance pavilion by Renzo Piano, which now houses all the necessary but distracting museum functions such as ticketing and coat check to ensure that once inside the Venetian palazzo you are able to focus exclusively on art and taste.

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Soirees in this storied piece of real estate are held in the classic ballroom which comes complete with chandeliers and a coat-check closet handy for keeping track of a few dozen mink coats or, say, 200 winter overcoats.

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Before then, the check was used mostly as a trench coat lining or on accessories, such as hats.

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