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How Billy Joel planned to surprise wife with Sagaponack house

As a young girl, Katie Lee Joel always dreamed of having a home on the ocean. This summer, husband Billy Joel made that dream come true, buying actor Roy Scheider's five bedroom waterfront home in Sagaponack for her for almost $17 million.

"He bought it without my knowing! I don't know how he pulled it off, because I'm so nosy," she tells Hamptons magazine in its latest issue, which hits...

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