Blog Posts by Lizbeth Scordo

The home Simpson is selling. (Limeorchardrd.com/Sothebys)

Jessica Simpson is having a whirlwind year.

She gave birth to her first child last May and – what do you know! – discovered she was pregnant again before the year was over. Now, with baby number two on the way and a wedding to fiancé Eric Johnson in the works, the 32-year-old is adding another change to the mix: She's selling her Beverly Hills home for $7.995 million, according to real estate website Redfin.

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Major League Baseball star Alex Rodriguez may be considered one of the game’s greatest players, but when it came to selling his Miami mega-mansion, he was striking out ... until now.

A-Rod's keeping his Miami mansion ... for now. (Troy Rizzo/Getty Images)

After buying the waterfront lot in 2010 for $7.4 million and having the 10-bedroom home custom built, A-Rod put the place on the market in August just a year after taking possession of it. Asking price? A cool $38 million.

Then, in January, the New York Yankees third baseman took the stunning contemporary pad off the market. Guess no one wanted to shell out the hefty purchase price?

Now, however, A-Rod's scored a home run and sold the place for $30 million. Sure, it's $8 million under his one-time asking price, but according to various reports, the athlete spent somewhere between $7.6 million and $18 million to build the home, which means he still netted him some sort of profit even after selling at the "discounted" price.

And the new owner has plenty of luxury to look forward to.

The house, situated on Miami’s

Who wants Chinese takeout tonight? (Jamie Sher/The Sher Group)

She's got tattoos on her face, was once engaged to motorcycle man Jesse James after his infamous cheating scandal, and is planning an underwater wedding to her current fiancé (who happens to call himself deadmau5), so, you already know that reality star Kat Von D has interesting taste. Now, however, we get to see inside the ultimate example of her eccentricity – her home, which the 31-year-old has listed for sale at $2.5 million, according to real estate website Trulia.

Kat Von D (Paul Archuleta/FilmMagic)

The 1920s Spanish-style pad, located in the Hollywood Hills, totals 4,148 square feet and has four bedrooms and four and a half bedrooms, a guest house, and a gated entrance, which all sounds pretty innocuous. But décor wise, Von D seems to be going for an Alice in Wonderland-goes-Goth vibe. The living room features red and purple

There are two things the majority of us will never get to do: Become president of the United States and go to the prom in Hawaii. Barack Obama has gotten to do both.

Though the world has seen plenty of pics of the 51-year-old in his presidential role, we're only now getting a peek at his prom night thanks to a former high school classmate of Obama's, who turned the pic over to Time magazine recently.

Kelli Alman/Contact Press Images

The photo shows (L-R) Obama's pal Greg Orme, a fellow varsity basketball player; Kelli Allman (nee McCormack), Orme's date and the woman who shared the photo; a cream blazer-wearing Obama; and his date, Megan Hughes. The foursome was heading to the prom at the Punahou School, where three of the foursome were students. Obama's date attended the Hawaii School for Girls at La Pietra.

The shot was taken at Allman's mother's house where the group sipped champagne (uh-oh, they were underage!) before heading to the dance and the afterparty.

Photo courtesy of Zillow.

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.

Photo courtesy of Trulia.

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 …

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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.