Wesley Snipes was looking for some of that paparazzi cash last night, hitting up everybody with a camera for a few bucks -- anything to get a few more greenbacks into that $17 million "I Screwed the Government" fund.
Filed under: Celebrity Pay Dirt, Denied!
Fear not little children, Ed McMahon won't be homeless on Christmas.
TMZ has learned Foreclosure Trackers, an Orange County company, has negotiated a new mortgage loan for Ed that will allow him to be able to make the mortgage payments -- and not get kicked to the curb.
McMahon's home fell into foreclosure earlier this year. At one point, Donald Trump stepped in to help, but that fell through.
Ed's rep had no comment.
Filed under: Celebrity Pay Dirt
Being homeless would be sucky enough, but Michael Bolton might be homeless -– and paying for not just one, but two houses.
Nicollette Sheridan has apparently pulled the ol' bait-and-boot on Mike, reports the New York Post, luring him westward to live with her in LA, then kicking out of the house just days later. Problem is, Bolton paid a few mil for his new house ... and hasn't sold his $11 mil Connecticut house either.
Reps didn't return calls, but apparently Nic's new boytoy is not David Spade.
Filed under: Celebrity Pay Dirt
For a few blood diamonds you can own a home previously occupied by that guy from the Titanic movie.
Call it pap pressure or an even pushier real estate agent, but Leonardo DiCaprio has just listed his 2,374 square foot, 2 bed, 2 bath Malibu retreat for a thousand shy of 9 mil.
Extras include a guest house, four car garage, and a matrix of underground tunnels leading to and from every Hollywood hot spot.
Filed under: Movies, Celebrity Pay Dirt
AIG exec's lookin' to spend some of that sweet bailout money take note. Meg Ryan's Bel-Air home can be yours for the low, low, price of only 19.5 million dollars.
The 6,877 square foot township includes a pool, spa, and guest house.
Hopefully a quick sale will lift more than Meg's spirits.
Filed under: Celebrity Pay Dirt
Justin Timberlake is putting down stakes in NYC -- and by stakes we mean this insane new $5.5 million pad in Tribeca.
We're told JT (and, presumably, lady love Jessica Biel) will be moving in within a week.
Filed under: Celebrity Pay Dirt, Justin Timberlake
Hayden Panettiere is the latest owner of this $2.6 million arrangement of block shapes, and windows.
Deceptively large on the outside, the L.A. hillside home boasts a mere three bedrooms, not including the mystery barracks on the far right. Other perks include a 360 degree view of dead foliage, and the world's largest air conditioning duct display.
Filed under: Celebrity Pay Dirt, Hayden Panettiere
If you're looking for a 4,700 square foot Brentwood Villa previously owned by Ving Rhames for under 3 mil you're in luck. 
If you're looking for another house from the same Ving dynasty where a man died you'll have to wait -- Rhames still lives there. No word yet as to why Ving isn't selling the house where his caretaker died of a heart attack last year following a tragic run-in with multiple dogs on the property.
It's a strange market indeed.
Filed under: Wacky & Weird, Celebrity Pay Dirt, Nurse!
Joaquin Phoenix isn't just retiring from Hollywood (**cough, BS, cough**) -- sources tell us, he's moving the hell out too!
We're told Joaquin just put his 3,200 sq. ft. Hollywood Hills home on the market through realtor.com. The four-bedroom, five-bath home comes with a swimming pool and a hot tub -- all for just $3,975,000.
Small price to pay to make sure there isn't a sequel to "The Village."
Filed under: Celebrity Pay Dirt
Country music singers like crooning about hard times and the small town life in their double wides, but from the looks of these luxury estates the only thing these Nashville stars find heartbreaking is if the pool boy shows up late.
Filed under: Life Style, Celebrity Pay Dirt, Photo Galleries
What in the name of Jor-El is going on with Nicolas Cage?!
The Cagester has just listed his New Orleans home for $3.7 million -- which is the third house Cage has on the market -- and it's a bad time to sell, to say the least.
In addition to the 13,000 sq. foot N.O. home that was just listed on Realtor.com, Cage has listed his homes in Rhode Island and Bel Air, at $15.9 million and $30 million respectively.
And Cage recently sold his 132 foot yacht -- reportedly for $7.7 million.
If Nic shows up at your front door with a pillow and a sleeping bag, now you know why.
No comment yet from Cage's people.
Filed under: Celebrity Pay Dirt
As if life couldn't get any better for Tom Brady being a hot, rich NFL quarterback with a supermodel girlfriend -- now it turns out the football star just made a killing in real estate. Donald Trump, we've found your apprentice.
In 2006, Brady bought a Boston building and began renovating and converting it into four condos. According to the Boston Globe, the New England Patriot kept the top floor for himself and recently sold the other three to a South American businessman for $7.95 million -- about $1.7 million more than he paid for the entire building. Housing crisis? What national housing crisis?!
Besides the Boston property, Brady recently purchased a plot of dirt in L.A. for $11 million and put his NYC pad on the market for $19 million. Comparatively, the Cowboys' quarterback Tony Romo is living on skid row, purchasing a home in Dallas for under $700K and having girlfriend Jessica Simpson decorate it. Oh, the humanity.
Filed under: Celebrity Pay Dirt, Talk Sports
Dane Cook has apparently decided renting apartments is for people who don't make zillions and have a dog that craps in common areas.
After losing an eviction case because a jury decided Dane's dog was pooping with aplomb in the common areas, Dane dropped a pile on a Hollywood Hills mansion -- $7,078,412 to be specific.
Now Beast the pinscher can pinch a loaf wherever he feels like it, including on the Travertine Navona floors!
Filed under: Celebrity Pay Dirt
We've confirmed the guy who went into escrow to buy Ed McMahon's house has pulled out of the deal.
We're told the buyer never came up with any cash ... which means the whole thing sounds phony. The escrow was opened without a deposit, but the buyer never put his money where his mouth was.
So that leaves Ed with no place to live if the house does go into foreclosure ... which again leads to the doorstep of Donald Trump. Trump has said he'd step in again and buy the house and lease it back to Ed for life. Our sources say Donald has offered a low ball offer already, but that's it.
We're told Trump has had discussions with Ed's realtor, Alex Davis, since the deal fell apart last Thursday. Will Donald save the day or is this a publicity stunt? We know the stumbling block with Trump is price -- he hasn't offered what Ed wants/needs to get the monkeys off his back.
Filed under: Celebrity Pay Dirt
Is that "Frasier" money not enough?
Already making some serious TV syndication coin, Kelsey Grammer stands to make a cool $6 mil off a house he just bought a year ago!
According to the LA Times, Grammer has listed an English Country-style estate in Holmby Hills for $19.9 million. He bought the house last summer for $13.7 mil.
You would think his wife Camille's notorious IBS would drive the price down, not up. To each their own.
Filed under: Celebrity Pay Dirt
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