Blog Posts by Lizbeth Scordo

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The Star: Katy Perry

The Splurge: Three adjacent lots in the Hollywood Hills, including one with a mid-century home and guest house on it

How Much: $11.2 Million

Why It's Quite a Feat: None of the properties were actually on the market

Katy Perry is proving that she's not just a California "Gurl" … she's a Hollywood Hills one, too. Though her current home in the area still for sale, Perry has plunked down a reported $11.2 million for a house and three plots of land in the star-studded neighborhood.

Katy Perry (Getty Images)According to property records obtained by real estate website Zillow, none of the adjoining parcels were on the market, nor was the home, which the 28-year-old purchased for $3 million via a trust held by her manager. Clearly, she must have made the owners an offer they couldn't refuse!

Janet Jackson, billionaire. (Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images)Michael Jackson may be one of the most successful dead celebrities, but his sister Janet (who, of course, is alive and well) is doing pretty well herself. The 47-year-old is officially a billionaire.

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The Star: Howard Stern

The Splurge: A waterfront mansion in Palm Beach, Florida

How Much: $52 Million

Some of His New Neighbors: Anne Coulter and Rush Limbaugh. We can just imagine the block parties now …

Redfin

When it eventually comes time for Hugh Hefner to leave us for that big Playboy Mansion in the sky, his new bride won’t have to worry about where she’ll end up.

The 87-year-old mogul has bought his wife, 27-year-old former Playboy Playmate Crystal Harris a stunning 6,000-square-foot pad off Hollywood’s Sunset Strip for nearly $5 million, according to real estate website Redfin. The two married in December.

Swift's new home in Watch Hill (SeabordPropertiesRE.com)

Welcome to the neighborhood, Taylor Swift! Just weeks after reports surfaced that the 23-year-old dropped more than $17 million on a waterfront mansion in the small coastal community of Watch Hill, Rhode Island, a man was arrested for trespassing on her property in the middle of the night.

[Related: J.Lo Buying $10 Million Hamptons Estate]

Swift. (Getty Images)

According to police, the man, 22-year-old Lucas H. Borsteveld, was spotted coming out of some bushes by officers on routine patrol around 2:15 a.m. Wednesday morning and was cited for trespassing.

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If residents of the Hollywood Hills feel things are getting a little serious in the neighborhood, they’ll be happy to know some comic relief just moved in.

Anna Farris and Chris Pratt. (Lester Cohen/WireImage) Married actors Anna Faris and Chris Pratt (you’ll recognize her as the ditzy blonde in movies like “Scary Movie” and “Take Me Home Tonight” and him as star of NBC sitcom “Parks and Recreation”) just dropped $3.3 million on a new pad, according to real estate website Zillow.

And they must have really wanted the place. The home was initially listed for $2.975 million back in January, which means the couple paid $325,000 over the asking price.

According to the listing, the four-bedroom, three-and-a-half-bath Mediterranean-style home totals 4,700 square feet and sits on more than a half acre of land in the picturesque Nichols Canyon, near Sunset Boulevard.

When Faris, 36, and her hubby, 33-year-old Pratt, aren’t cracking each other up, they’ll probably be getting their exercise. The gated property includes an outdoor gym perched above a regulation tennis court.

Kanye West is having a tough week. Actually, more like a blunder-filled one.

The 35-year-old made headlines last Friday when he slammed his head into a street sign with baby mama Kim Kardashian (and then got really mad at the paparazzi for causing the clunk), documented in the video now seen 'round the world.

So far, so good ... (Splash News)

Whoops! (Splash News)

Then on Tuesday, the father-to-be's Lamborghini Aventador (worth a reported $750,000) was hit by a closing gate outside his baby mama Kim Kardashian's house in Beverly Hills. But this time West (who owns a whole collection of fancy cars) really can blame someone else: The guy who was behind the wheel of the car – reportedly returning it from a service appointment – took a few seconds too long to drive it through the electric gate after it opened, and it ended up shutting right on the pricey set of wheels. Yikes!

Photo courtesy of Trulia.

She may play a struggling single mom working as a call girl to make ends meet on "The Client List," but in real life Jennifer Love Hewitt seems to be doing just fine.

Jennifer Love Hewitt (Jason LaVeris/FilmMagic) The 34-year-old recently paid $3.25 million for a 2,872-square-foot house in Los Angeles's swanky community of Pacific Palisades, according to real estate site Trulia. The site also notes that the actress sold a home in the San Fernando Valley's Toluca Lake for $2.15 million in December. That house had been used as the primary residence of her mother -- who recently passed away -- while Hewitt lived down the street.