Adrien Brody: His Home Is Her Castle

For her 31st birthday, Adrien Brody bought his girlfriend, Spanish actress Elsa Pataky (Snakes on a Plane), a 19th-century four-story stone castle in upstate New York. "I blindfolded her," Brody told Hello! magazine. "Right at the castle there's a giant, beautiful church bell. And I said, 'When you hear the sound of the bell, you can open your eyes and you'll see your surprise.' And then I rang the bell." Together, and with the help of Giorgio Armani, they completely renovated the place. Unless they flip it beforehand, we'll be curious to see who gets to keep it in the divorce settlement down the road. (Lainey Gossip)

Lohan Behold: Lindsay's Prospective Party Pad

Who knows if it's true, but the UK's News of the World is reporting that Lindsay Lohan is giving serious thought to buying a penthouse in New York's fabled Dakota apartment building on Central Park West for $2.5 million (that's all?), so she and girlfriend Samantha Ronson can "live it up." It's said that the other residents of the building where the widow Lennon lives are not eager to welcome the notorious lady and her lover as neighbors. Like Lohan cares. The report claims she's planning on installing a 12-foot circular bed with leopard-print headboards, designing pink and black bathrooms, creating a DJ area for Ronson with a big disco ball, and making the pad a "hotbed for parties." We await the denials from Lohan's camp.

Packing Up the House

The owners of architect Richard Neutra's significant 1941 Maxwell house, which had been scheduled to be razed, wanted to move it from its original plot in Brentwood to a vacant lot in Angelino Heights in downtown Los Angeles. So it was sawn into sections, put onto a flatbed truck, and driven down Sunset Boulevard. And like any house move, it took several trips. (LA Times; photos: Brian Thomas Jones)

Heeeeeeer's Donald!

We don't much like Donald Trump (at all, actually) but he seems to have done a good deed recently, buying the financially strapped Ed McMahon's house that was going into foreclosure and allowing the venerated 85-year-old TV personality to continue living in it. Or rather, Trump will buy the home from the lender and lease it back to McMahon. Still, nice. "I don't know the man, but I grew up watching him on TV," Trump told the LA Times. "When I was at the Wharton School of Business, I'd watch him every night. How could this happen?"

What a $4.5 Million Loft in Tribeca Looks Like

Cityfile says now that Hollywood producer Paula Wagner has split from longtime writing partner Tom Cruise and left her job as CEO at United Artists, and her Hollywood-agent husband Rick Nicita has left CAA for Morgan Creek Productions, the couple are probably moving to Lower Manhattan, if buying a splashy, weirdly shaped 2,241-square-foot, three-bedroom, three-bathroom Tribeca loft means anything. And we don't envy decorating that master bedroom. (Photo: WireImage)

She's in the Blog House

A bit earlier today we posted pictures of what some popular bloggers look like. Now we're posting where one of them lives. But don't think gossipist Janet Charlton's midcentury house in Hancock Park is typical of a blogger abode. So not. In fact, soon it won't even be typical of Charlton. She's selling the place after 11 years of bringing it up to mint. We've had some really fun times at Janet's over the years – barbecues by the pool and whatnot – and we'll miss it. We're checking for change under the cushions of our couch to see if we can scrape together $2,695,000 to buy the house for ourself. But that's another thing not typical for bloggers: spare change. (Story and photos via LA Times)

Karl Lagerfeld: Trés Sheik

Designer Karl Lagerfeld has signed a deal with Dubai Infinity Holdings to design limited edition homes on Isla Moda, the world's first dedicated fashion island, located on Dubai's The World project. Lagerfeld will design 80 stunning haute couture houses with lots of closet space expected, and the island will also feature a 250-room fashion hotel and a variety of luxury residential villas. (Luxist)

Madonna's Childhood Home Destroyed by Fire

Michigan arson investigators say a fire Friday night that destroyed Madonna's Rochester Hills childhood home is looking suspicious. Detroit papers report that investigators from the Oakland County Sheriff's Arson Unit and the Rochester Hills Fire Department are investigating. The fire was reported by a passerby who saw flames shooting out of the house and called the fire department. The divorce, the book, now this. (Source; photo: Bill Pugliano/GettyImages)

Chateau Brangelina

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie just bought a house in the south of France, a 35-bedroom chateau on 1,000 acres. The couple spent $70 million for Chateau Miraval in the village of Brignol, but the vast acreage includes a vineyard, a lake, and a forest, and has 13 varieties of olives growing on it. Plus, a stream runs through the estate, passes through hidden tunnels, fills up the lake, and flows into the moat that surrounds the house. And just the other day, it's said, a prince, passing through the forest on a quest for something or other, came across a family of unicorns drinking from one of the chateau's 20 fountains. The Pitt-Jolies plan to be fully ensconced at Miraval in three months. (SAWF News; photo: Splash)

A House Is Not a Home

This 10-bedroom, 16,000 square-foot Malibu estate on 5.33 acres, called Villa Versailles, was built in 1992 by a developer for the woman he loved, but she instantly disliked its remoteness and the couple spent only a weekend there before leaving it to languish, empty, for the last 16 years as a location for video and photo shoots. The house's somewhat tacky nouveau-riche grandeur includes multiple pools, formal and informal gardens, horse stables, caretakers' residence, tennis courts, so many many rooms, vast parking, beautiful sunsets daily, etc, and is on the market for $23.75 million. Click here for an extensive tour. (Luxist)

Malibusey

Gary Busey, actor, has been evicted from his Malibu house for being $50,000 in arrears on his rent. He rents? And, yes, tenants in Malibu get the same embarrassing eviction notices posted on their front doors as tenants where you live. In his defense, Busey claims he's withholding rent because the air-conditioning vents in the house are unclean and causing health problems. (ContactMusic)

Warhol-in-the-Walls

Former Viacom head Tom Freston bought Andy Warhol's 12-room, six-story Manhattan townhouse in 2000 for $6.5 million and after extensive renovation has now put it on the market for $38.5 million. The East 66th Street house built in 1910, which Warhol bought for $310,000 in 1974 and lived in until he died in 1987, features four bedrooms, a floor-through master suite, a rooftop terrace, chef's kitchen, staff quarters, gym, elevator, and seven fireplaces. Simultaneosly, Warhol's previous, less imposing house, at Lexington and 89th (above) – which he bought in 1959 and lived in with his mother and a shitload of pop art until 1974 – has been listed for $5.99 million. If you run into the WOW Report editor, ask us about the time we stopped by uninvited and Mrs Warhola asked us upstairs.

Crazy Idea: The 'Vue

Bellevue, the striking 1931 Italian Renaissance-style onetime psychiatric hospital on First Avenue in New York, may be turned into a luxury hotel. The name "Bellevue" has become generic for "loony bin," and among the so-called loonies who stayed there are Norman Mailer, Edie Sedgwick, and Charlie Parker. "Our patients were not normal New York neurotics, but very sick people – otherwise known as crazy," said Dr. Frederick Covan, who was the chief psychologist there for 14 years. If it becomes a hotel, they can expect the same clientele. (NY Post; photo: Gottscho-Schleisner Collection, Library of Congress)

Housing Developments

Hotelier Jason Pomeranc paid $3 million for the 4,200-square-foot, five-bedroom, three-bathroom former Hollywood Hills home of onetime Hollywood It Couple, actress Sandra Dee and singer Bobby Darin. The classic midcentury beauty was built in 1955, but it looks so 2001. (LA Times; house photos: Jason Pomeranc)

Ledger Domain

Heath Ledger's Manhattan loft, at 421 Broome Street in Soho, is already available to rent. Has it even been two weeks? (Though it's not nearly as grisly as the pap who's selling photos of Ledger's dead body for $300,000.) The 4,400 square-foot fourth-floor space, with three bedrooms, two-and-a-half bathrooms, gourmet kitchen, office, laundry room, and balcony, will go for somewhere around $25,000 a month, $3,000 a month more than Ledger was paying. You don't wait around in a hot rental market like this," said a New York real estate agent. "As ghoulish as it sounds, people will rent that place in a heartbeat, especially when the vacancy rate is below one per cent.” (The Sun; photo via Defamer)

Guilty by Association

Lindsay Lohan won't be able to move back into her condo in the celeb-infested (Michael Caine! Cher! Matthew Perry!) Sierra Towers in West Hollywood if the building's tenants association has anything to say about it. And it does. An angry Towers dweller remembers: "She was a disgrace when she lived here, no respect for the other tenants. I'd be leaving for work early in the morning and I would see her staggering in drunk." It's true. When she lived at the Sierra she got those two DUIs, flooded ex-boyfriend Harry Morton's place, and earned the building the reputation of being "party central." The disgruntled tenants are meeting to find a way to block her return. "We don't want her back here," says one, "especially after those pictures surfaced yesterday of her slipping while sipping from that champagne bottle. It's really sad to see but we just don't want that kind of attention at our building. Clearly she hasn't changed much." And neither have tenants associations. (PageSix.com)

Trudie, Madly, Deeply

So we figure that when Sting starts flagging around hour seven of tantric sex with the wife Trudie Styler in the special red bedroom of their $24-million 18-room Manhattan apartment overlooking Central Park, all he need do is glance up for a moment at one of the tacky Helmut Newton photos on the walls to refuel his mojo and resume pumping vigorously. All we'd need do is remember for a moment that we're living in a $24-million 18-room Manhattan apartment overlooking Central Park. (via Daily Mail; photo: Splash)

Looking to Buy

If Michael Jackson doesn't make good on the back mortgage payments on his 2,700-acre Neverland Ranch in Santa Barbara, the Pitt-Jolies have expressed an interest in having a walk-through. A source said, “Brad and Angelina are very interested in the property and will be closely following any developments involving the Neverland Ranch.” They think their brood would love the fairground rides and zoo at the ranch, and are impressed with what they know about the property's security system. Developing. (Source)

Jackson in the Hole

The good news is Michael Jackson has finally realized his dream of becoming a full-on flawless white woman – on the ironically named Ebony magazine, at least. The bad news is Jackson, now living in a rented house in Washington DC, has only 90 days to pay back a $23-million loan or lose his Neverland Ranch, like, foreverland. (TMZ; Implode-o-Meter)

Green Mansions

If you're relocating to the Bay Area and would like to find eco-friendly shelter, you might want to look into Dystopic Horizons Realty, which offers, agents there say, near-loftlike affordable artist housing, like the one pictured above.

Each inspired live/work unit is hand-crafted, and capable of magnificent views. The loft-like Cubist floorplan allows convenient interior access and customized storage solutions. Green construction and copious natural lighting and ventilation support ecologically responsible living. "It's not a cardboard house... it's a cardboard home."

Wine House

Motley Crue drummer (or did he quit?) and recent Kid Rock sparrer, Tommy Lee, has bought a very large Calabasas house for very nearly $6 million. The former home of a Calabasas real estate exec, the house takes up 9,000 square feet, and has six bedrooms, a gym, two steam showers, a movie theater, a 10-car subterranean garage, two kitchens (one just for wine tasting), a three-story atrium with a retractable roof, and a piano-shaped pool. With that wine-only kitchen, Lee might not miss having his own personal Starbucks, like the one he had in the house featured a while back on Cribs. (LA Times; Lee photo: WENN)

Floor Plan

Ivanka Trump models a fantasy apartment by Daddy, as seen in an ad in the NY Times. Sharpie scratch-out by Randy Barbato.

The Hand That Feeds Him Is His Own

Recognize those hands? You should, according to celebrity hand model Rick Wagner, who says people recognize his hands before they recognize the rest of him (and with hands as handsome as his, we do wonder about that "rest of him"). And we're talking big-money hand jobs, not catalogue work. Wagner has put his Griffith Park-facing 1927 Normandy-style home in Los Feliz Oaks on the market for $1.78 million, and in doing so is able to promote his in-progress documentary, A Day in the Life of a World Famous Hand Model. Wagner is not shy in revealing that he's been the hand-in for the likes of John Travolta, Dennis Quaid, Sting, Ryan Seacrest, Tim Allen, and Jeff Goldblum, and doesn't mind dropping the names of your neighbors should you buy his house. "It's very quiet considering who some of the more popular neighbors are," he said, rattling off the names Mandy Moore, Vince Vaughn, Tim Curry, Kirstie Alley, and Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. When it comes to self promotion, you have to hand it to him. (LA Times)

Hunted House

Victoria Beckham has quickly tired of her "smallish" six-bedroom $10-million house in Beverly Hills, which was more or less an impulse buy, and has engaged an estate agent to look for something a bit more, um, posh in the $40-million range on the strip in Malibu known as Billionaire's Beach. David likes to swim on a whim, but more importantly, it's "tremendously important to her that she competes with the mega-rich crowd," said someone who was asked to comment. (Daily Mail; photo: Splash)

Housing Developments

Boat house. At the asking price of $899,000, legendary Mary Tyler Moore Show and Love Boat star Gavin MacLeod is practically giving away his three-bedroom, three-bathroom house in Palm Springs. The 3,000-square-foot house with pool, spa, and mountain views is in the Deepwell Estates neighborhood, where over the years the likes of Loretta Young, Carmen Miranda, Eva Gabor, Tippi Hedren, William Holden and Elizabeth Taylor lived. Oh, Murray! (LA Times)

Safe Harbor?

Michael Jackson is on the prowl for a large waterfront house in St Michaels, Maryland, a new "in" spot for celebrities always on the lookout for new "in" spots to invade. (The quaint boating community is more like an "inn" spot, however.) The town foiled an invasion by the British in 1813, but this new celebrity invasion seems unstoppable. VP Dick Cheney, who has a house there, has designated St Michaels a "no-fly zone" barring choppers full of paparazzi swooping down and snapping tourists shopping for Revolutionary bric-a-brac, and that makes the Chesapeake Bay town attractive to shy types like Julia Roberts and Oprah, who are said to have their people sifting through real estate there. Of course, Jackson probably just likes the name of the place. (Source)

Housing Developments

You can go home again. But why? Mouthy deejay Moby is tired of living on Manhattan's Central Park West and is uncomfortable in the enormous penthouse he bought in the landmark El Dorado two years ago for $4.5 million. Though he says the five-floor two-bedroom, two-bath apartment with four terraces – you might call them Moby decks (one of which has a 360-degree view) – is "the most interesting and unique apartment I've ever seen in New York City," he wants to move back below 14th Street, where he started. Maybe that one-bedroom with an eat-in kitchen is still available. His penthouse is on the market now for $7.5. (Source; apartment photos via Radar)

Maguire House Rules

Who's a lucky boy, then? Tobey Maguire, that's who. The 32-year-old star with massive matinee appeal despite his lack of lips and personality finds himself not only in the cash-cow Spider-Man franchise, but also engaged to the daughter of Universal head Ron Meyer, and selling his Hollywood Hills house for an $8 million profit. Maguire purchased the one-story, three-bedroom Mediterranean in 2002 for $3.7 million and just unloaded it for $11.5 million. The house has a courtyard entrance, gym, infinity pool, maid's quarters, and chef's kitchen. Maguire, his fiancee Jennifer, and their baby Ruby Sweetheart lived in the house until the sale. (LA Times)

Crib Death

Bullet-riddled rapper 50 Cent is selling his 51,000-square-foot Farmington, Connecticut, estate that once belonged to Mike Tyson for $18.5 million. We guess 19 bedrooms, 19 bathrooms, 16 half-bathrooms, two billiard rooms, indoor swimming pool, handball court, fully equipped nightclub with deejay booth and 20-screen video wall, library, screening room, basketball court, two guesthouses, shooting range, one-acre koi pond, and 40-person hot tub cramped his style. To be fair, though, it is Connecticut. (Take a tacky tour)

Housing Developments

While it's only of passing interest that supermodel Gisele Bündchen has sold her gated 4,000-square-foot four-bedroom Spanish hacienda in the Hollywood Hills for $4 million, it's fascinating to find out that the mildly attractive 26-year-old Brazilian is verified by the Guinness book of records as the world's richest supermodel, with a personal fortune of $150 million. According to yesterday's LA Times, "She has modeled for Victoria's Secret, Louis Vuitton, Valentino, Lanvin and Vogue Eyewear. She is a spokesmodel for Christian Dior and Ralph Lauren. And she has her own line of shoes, called Ipanema Gisele Bündchen. More than 100 million pairs have been sold in six years." She has moved to New York.

Dogg House

"It's virtually brand new," says the real estate broker selling Snoop Dogg's house. The operative word is "virtually," since the rapper bought the Cribs crib in 1994 and expanded the footage from 3,700 square to 6,500. Snoop's selling the eight-bedroom Mediterranean for $1.995 million. It's on a cul-de-sac in the college town of Claremont, 30 miles outside LA. You know it has a basketball court and a recording studio, but there's also a gourmet kitchen, and movie theater, and more than five bathrooms. It's said that Snoop has had some trouble keeping the acre of grassy land the house sits on weed-free.. (Source)

Cecil B Duhamel

Fergie and Josh Duhamel have moved into a Los Angeles house of epic proportion and Hollywood excess. It's the house that "Humps" built. (Photos: Celebrity Upchuck)

Into the Wild 'Bu Yonder

We're not aware of Avril Lavigne owning any property yet in Malibu, which we hear is a decent suburban area just outside of Los Angeles. We think she should look into a piece of real estate there soon, since even leasing a house in the 'bu is becoming increasingly difficult. If she hurries, she and Deryck might score Tyler Perry's place; at only $5,350,000, it would make a darling getaway for them when the stress of Bel Air starts to bug. We would direct them – and you – to the new website InsideBu.

House of Lavigne

Avril Lavigne, whose "Girlfriend" – which she recorded in eight languages – debuted on Billboard's Hot 100 chart at #5 blah blah etc, has just purchased her second house in virtually the same area of town as her other one. Lavigne, 22, and her new husband, Sum 41's Deryck Whibley, 21 (at right, on moving day), paid $9.5 million for a 12,000-square-foot, three-story, eight-bedroom, 10 1/2-bathroom Tuscan-style manse in Bel Air that star-crossed lovers Travis Barker and Shanna Moakler lived in while shooting their reality series. It has garages for 10 or more cars, a large grass yard, solar heated pool, spa, state-of-the-art kitchen, family room, formal dining room, office, elevator, wine cellar, media room, play room, exercise room, sauna, windows, doors, floors, walls, and ceilings. Lavigne's other house is in Beverly Hills and it's yours for $6.2 million. (via The Real Estalker)

Lohan High

Remember when Lindsay Lohan bought that condo in the Sierra Towers apartment building last year? She paid $1.9 million for the three-bedroom, 21/2-bathroom pad on the 27th floor and had every intention of remodeling it, but what with location shoots, nightly rounds of binge drinking, and that near-lengthy stay in rehab, the actress never got around to it and decided instead to sell it for $2,495,000. At least that's what the reliable old LA Times says, but we think they got the building wrong. The Sierra Towers has only seven floors and with all the amenities a rich young celebrity could ask for, Lohan would never think of selling. Here's what we found out:

All rooms are air conditioned, have sinks, and telephone jacks, internet access, intercom and share conveniently located community bathrooms. Sierra Towers is equipped with an fitness center and recreation room. The center has a variety of exercise machines and free weights and is open each evening except Friday. A kitchenette (with microwaves), vending machines, a TV room, laundry rooms, secured parking, swimming pool, jacuzzi, and a comfortable and spacious lobby are provided. Sierra Towers has a keyless entry system and a gated parking lot. Sierra Tower’s men worship in either Meier or Angwin Chapel.

This Old House?

Posh Spice has her greedy little heart set on buying the old Ryan homestead where she and hubby David can entertain Hollywood society. As the website The Offside notes: "The couple will follow the path of many immigrants by living in a mansion in Bel Air." The mansion in question is ambiently Mediterranean and once belonged to the sleepless, email-sending actress Meg Ryan (though she did "sleep" with Russell Crowe there). The Beckhams' have offered over $20 million for it. Posh had made it quite clear while going about her househunting duties that she was looking solely in the under-$20 mill range, but that was probably so we'd think she was being thrifty with Becks' $250 million. Here's what $20 million will buy if the Beckhams' offer is accepted: seven bedrooms, six bathrooms, ocean views, a games room, gym, sauna, swimming pool, 100-year-old garden, eight-foot-high security fence, and 11-foot-high entrance gate. (Source)

Moron Posh's Possible Pad

Er, our bad: Make that More on. Anyway, Your Mama, the Real Estalker, has lots to say about that $20 million, seven-bedroom Beverly Hills property we mentioned Mrs Beckham was looking at recently.

Wilma Washington, one of our favorite tattlers in the rarefied Beverly Hills real estate world, recently told Your Mama [that] considerable snickering echoes up and down Sunset Boulevard about the Beckhams' "not very good taste." Ouch! It appears The Spice Gurl and Sexy are more interested in the ridiculously opulent than the tastefully elegant.

Surprising? (t/y Fenton)

Posh Property

Posh is back in LA and spending her days searching for the new Beckingham Palace. Here she is sniffing around a $20-million, 20,000-square-foot, seven-bed, eight-and-a-half-bath structure on an acre of land at Sunset and Whittier in Bev Hills. She can do better. (Photo and info via x17online)

Housing Developments

Courtney Cox and David Arquette bought what is known as the Segel residence in Malibu in 2001 for $10.2 million and have put it on the market recently for a whopping $33.5 million. The four-bedroom, 5,500-square-foot house, designed in 1979 by famed architect John Lautner, is on a double lot with a pool and 80 feet of beach frontage; the ocean can be seen from every room. Experts say a respectable price for the house after six years would be in the $10.5 - $13.3 range. (LottaLiving)

No Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands Here

We should have seen it coming, that Bob Dylan would move to the Scottish Highlands. In a song called "Highlands" off his Time Out of Mind album, he squawks, "Well, my heart's in the Highlands wherever I roam/that's where I'll be when I get called home." Now, it's rumored around the tiny village of Strathspey that Dylan's brother David Zimmerman has bought the 10-bedroom Aultmore House for $4 million on behalf of the singer. The Edwardian estate on 25 acres has views of the Abernethy Forest and the Cairngorms and was previously a luxury $6,000-a-night bed and breakfast. A spokesman from the real estate agency said, "We can confirm we have sold the property to a member of Bob Dylan's family." (Scotsman)

Says Alan Taylor in the Sunday Herald: "Aultmore may have been bought for Dylan by his younger brother, David Zimmerman, for whom many Dylanophiles harbour mixed feelings. He it was, for example, who on hearing the first version of Blood On The Tracks – the best album ever – told Dylan that it would never sell and that he really ought to think about re-recording several of the numbers."

A Townhouse Named Desire

The Sun has, and now so do we, exclusive pics of the house in New Orleans that Brad and Angelina bought. Above, one of the six bedrooms; below, the exterior and the courtyard. Yeah, we ran the bedroom photo large. So?

Posh Gets Help

Those photographs from a Golden Globes after party that showed Tom and Katie and Marc and J-Lo and Posh all crammed into one car make more sense now. It seems that in Posh's search for a Los Angeles house in the $20 million range, she's being advised by Scientologist J-Lo on the best areas of town. So far, Posh has failed to find a house big and grand enough to satisfy her ostentatious sensibility; Lionel Richie's five-bedroom, six-bathroom house was too small. Meanwhile, the Cruises are trying to wear down the Beckhams into becoming Scientologists, but Posh, whose husband will be making a million dollars a day, is firmly against the Church's heavy tithing policy. "She can’t see the point of joining something like that where you have to donate money," reports The Sun.

Housing Developments

Andy Warhol's sprawling 5.6-acre oceanfront compound in the more fashionable section of Montauk that he bought with filmmaker Paul Morrissey in the 1970s for $220,000, finally snared a buyer after being on the market since 2001. The estate, called Eothen, was sold at considerably less than its $50 million asking price to Millard Drexler, chief executive of J Crew, who may have paid as little as $30 million. The Colonial Revival main house has seven bedrooms, four and a half bathrooms, and four fireplaces. There are four other houses, a three-car garage, and a horse stable scattered around the property. (Source)

Housing Developments

Britney Spears is selling her 9,000-square-foot, eight-bedroom, eight-bathroom Malibu house (it smells of Kevin) and has bought – for $7.2 million – a much-smaller, more manageable shelter for herself: a 7,000-square-foot, six-bedroom, six-bathroom house in a gated Beverly Hills community that will be a lot closer to the clubs and restaurants she likes to pass out in. The new crib has, says Ruth Ryon in her Hot Property column, an office, a media room, a maid's quarters, a balcony, and a lush yard. No word on whether there's a pool – or nursery. According to Star, Britney went to look at the house with seven or eight friends. "She stayed for five hours and said she wanted the house immediately. She then got ready in one of the bedrooms at the house for her night out on the town. She took forever to do her hair and makeup. It was such a scene!"

Private Property – Keep On

Jon Bon Jovi's 28th-floor Manhattan apartment is up for sale for $6.95 million. At the fabulous new real estate blog Real Estalker, Your Mama says: "Are all the children as slack jawed and aghast as Your Mama was when we first found the listing for this rock star's Manhattan pied a terre? Not only is it as plain as a plain bagel, the price is astronomical." Estalker also has views of and views on the properties of Sharon Stone and Diana Ross.

Says Fenton Bailey of this new blog for the house hungry: "Anyone who's a fan of the "Hot Property" column in the LA Times will LOVE Real Estalker. It's hardcore real estate porn." And you can quote him.

She's Just a Girl

Gwen Stefani's new $15 million, 10,000 square-foot house on two acres in Beverly Hills features four bedrooms, seven bathrooms, a movie theater, tennis court, infinity pool, Gavin Rossdale, and baby Kingston. (Sun)