Reese Witherspoon has been having such a cute pregnancy this time around. I know that seems like a really vapid and superficial statement, but it’s still true. Reese has looked adorable during this, her third pregnancy. I remember her second pregnancy – she was still really cute, but I have strong memories of her looking rather miserable. I think she’s enjoying it more this time around, in her 30s, with a husband she trusts. Anyway, these are some cute bump photos of Reese yesterday in Brentwood. I don’t know when she’s due exactly, but I’m pretty sure it’s soon. Maybe not a Virgo baby, but a Libra baby is looking pretty good. We’ll see! Every morning the past few weeks, I come into work (“stumble to my computer”) expecting to see a story about Reese’s new baby, so who knows?
Meanwhile, there’s some weird news – Reese is selling her beloved Ojai ranch. This is the same ranch where she keeps farm animals and a chicken coop. The same ranch where she married her second husband. The same ranch where Robert Pattinson hid out after Kristen Stewart Mini-Cooper’d her married director.
Twilight fans, take note: Reese Witherspoon’s Ojai., Calif., ranch – the same secluded home where heartbroken Robert Pattinson escaped to after Kristen Stewart cheated on him – is up for sale.
Witherspoon’s ranch, which is selling for $10 million, is also full of happy memories – for Witherspoon. It’s where the actress tied the knot with her husband Jim Toth in front of family and friends, including Robert Downey Jr., Sean Penn, Renée Zellweger and Scarlett Johansson.
The house sits on 7 acres of land and includes 4 bedrooms, 3½ bathrooms, a pool, stables, an organic garden and a carriage house, according to the real estate listing on Zillow.com.
The home was featured in a recent issue of Elle Decor, where Witherspoon said, “[Libbey Ranch] reminds me of growing up in Tennessee, where we spent all day outside. I wanted my children to have that experience, to get muddy and hang out with the animals.”
And Witherspoon isn’t the only famous person to have owned the home. According to Zillow, Ghostbusters actor and director Harold Ramis also owned the home previously, as did designer and model Kathy Ireland.
I really don’t get why she’s selling it? Is she poor? No, she’s not. She can afford to keep both places. Maybe she just doesn’t have the time to enjoy her second home anymore. Maybe she’s keen on a beach pad in Malibu rather than a country ranch. Or maybe Robert Pattinson smells kind of funky and she can’t get the Sparkle-stench out of her pillows.
I thought this Robert Pattinson story sounded familiar, and as it turns out, I already mentioned it in my wrap-up of Us Weekly’s Twihard story last week. Us Weekly had a long story with extensive coverage of what was and is going down between Rob and Kristen Stewart, with their sources claiming that Kristen is still insisting that she and Rupert Sanders never had sex and that Rupert “manipulated” her into the affair. I became so focused on Team Kristen’s flawed defense of their girl that this piece of news barely made a dent: Robert Pattinson is definitely (maybe, probably) selling the LA home that he bought last year, which he and Kristen had been sharing:
When Robert Pattinson joked to Jimmy Kimmel Aug. 22 that he’s “homeless,” he wasn’t exactly kidding. Although the British actor, 26, re-emerged earlier this month to gamely promote his new film Cosmopolis, things are definitely not back to normal over a month after he (and the rest of the world) discovered girlfriend Kristen Stewart’s July 17 tryst with Snow White and the Huntsman director Rupert Sanders.
Case in point: An insider confirms to Us Weekly that Pattinson is “selling” the posh Los Feliz home in Los Angeles that Stewart moved into nearly a year ago. “He said there are too many memories,” says the insider of Pattinson, who had been dating Twilight costar Stewart for three years.
Although Stewart has been splitting her time with BFF Scout Taylor-Compton in Burbank, Calif. and with her parents in L.A.’s Woodland Hills nabe, she hasn’t yet officially moved out of the $6.3 million house, which Pattinson bought in September 2011. Once owned by ER star Noah Wylie, the abode is “on an acre and a half of land and has a 150-person screening room and amazing gardens,” according to a source.
A second insider adds that Pattinson and Stewart “are talking” in the wake of her fling with married Snow White and the Huntsman director Sanders, 41.
“Rob doesn’t hate her and he’s not mad . . . He just doesn’t get why she did it. He loves her and thinks about her constantly.”
Stewart, meanwhile, is “close to a total meltdown,” according to another source. “She isn’t sleeping and she stays up all night crying.”
See, I take this as further proof that Rob dumped Kristen and that he’s looking to cut Kristen out of his life over the course of the next few months. Would you talk about selling your home – that you shared with your partner of some-odd three years – if there was still a possibility of getting back together with that person? So while Rob might have agreed to meet Kristen and he might not flat-out hate her, I do think the signs are looking pretty good that the breakup will hold. For now. Fingers crossed.
Photos courtesy of Pacific Coast News, VF, Fame/Flynet.
I really didn’t pay that much attention to Mary-Kate Olsen’s new relationship when it began several months ago. My initial thought was that probably no one would care, but I was surprised by the interest from many commenters. MK has been dating a man named Olivier Sarkozy – he’s the half-brother of former French president Nicholas Sarkozy. Olivier and MK met earlier this year, and their May-December romance has been widely derided. My thought was (and is now): the Olsen twins are weird, and they never date who you’d expect. They’re just… weird. Like, one of them (?) dated Justin Bartha, who I find genuinely cute, but other than that, their romantic choices just seem odd. Anyway, MK is 26 years old and Olivier is 42, already divorced and a father of two children with his first (and only) wife. His ex-wife has already stated publicly that she finds his romance with MK to be “grotesque”. Which… sure. I can see that. He works in New York too – and so this news isn’t all that weird. He’s just bought a new townhouse, and he plans to make a home in it with Mary-Kate:
Obviously he’s into twins. Olivier Sarkozy, 42, the much older beau of elf-like Mary-Kate Olsen, 26, has plunked down $6.25 million for a storied East 10th Street townhouse, which, like the “Full House” star, has a twin. The half-brother of the former French president bought the pad alone, but plans to share the palatial 146-year-old love nest with Olsen, sources said.
Sarkozy is buying it because he and Olsen “like that it is old,” a real estate insider told The Post’s Jennifer Gould Keil. The 4,200-square-foot home, built the year Abraham Lincoln took office, was designed by architect James Renwick Jr., best-known for St. Patrick’s Cathedral and the Smithsonian.
Sarkozy paid the full asking price for the five-story house with nine fireplaces, a Juliet balcony in front and a large rear garden. The townhouse is in the St. Mark’s historic district, but the couple can gut the inside so long as they keep the façade intact.
It isn’t clear how much renovation they plan to do, although the plumbing and kitchen need to be completely updated. Listing broker Jason Haber, CEO of Rubicon Property, declined to comment.
The sale has brokers wondering if Mary-Kate’s sister Ashley will snap up the house’s twin, which was initially being sold as a package with its next-door neighbor but recently was taken off the market. Sarkozy — whose ex-wife, Charlotte, has blasted his May/December relationship with Olsen as “grotesque” — finally unloaded his Upper East Side townhouse earlier this year for $8.4 million by slashing the price from $11.95 million after it languished without a buyer. A rep for Olsen did not comment.
Gah, I love New York townhouses. I love Washington, DC townhouses too. That was always a real estate dream of mine – to own a beautiful, historic townhouse in one of America’s great cities. Of course, the renovations needed would probably send me running. You can check out some photos of Sarko’s new townhouse here – it’s really, really gorgeous. Like… if someone (anyone) asked me to live with them in that townhouse, I would. I would sleep with Kellan Lutz’s Lutzy ass if he invited me to shack up with him in a beautiful townhouse. So imagine how MK feels? She probably feels… God, who knows? The Olsens are so weird.
These are some blurry new photos of Tom Cruise in London yesterday. He was “taking meetings” about a new film project called All You Need is Kill. This is the “new” Tom Cruise that he wants us to see – the doting and loving father who books back-to-back movies, the powerhouse producer who doesn’t let Xenu interfere with his business, the consummate professional who will move heaven and earth to see his youngest child. Are you buying that image of Cruise? Eh. In an interesting coincidence-or-conspiracy moment, upon Tom’s arrival in London, Radar claims that The Church of Scientology will be distributing L. Ron Hubbard’s 1980 book, The Way To Happiness, to Olympic fans. Radar says that the CoS sent out a fundraising letter to help pay for 2 million copies of the book to be distributed for free. Apparently, CoS passed out the book during the World Cup and they claim that as a direct result, it was the “least violent” World Cup ever. So, is that what Tom’s really doing in London?
But on to this interesting little story about Tom in New York City… over the weekend, Page Six reported that Tom has begun looking for a new apartment in Manhattan, and sources claim he definitely wants to spend more time there.
Tom Cruise may have been absent when Katie Holmes first dropped her divorce bombshell, as he was filming in Iceland — but now sources say the “Mission: Impossible” star intends to be spending a lot more time in New York to be near daughter Suri, and he’s shopping for a bachelor pad for himself.
“Tom’s looking for a new home here,” says a source. “He wants a fresh start. He doesn’t want to go back to the East Village apartment where he was living with Katie.”
But while Holmes has settled into a new pad in Chelsea, Cruise is eyeing houses outside the city, as well as high-end residences in town.
“He’s looking for something that’s very private,” a source told us. “Where he won’t have to deal with going through a lobby, and people outside all the time.
“He also wants to have a nice amount of space for Suri, with outdoor space. That could mean high-end luxury apartments, but he’s also looking at houses outside of the city or in gated communities.”
Area brokers are buzzing with word that Cruise could be looking for a new mega-home. Holmes reportedly has primary custody of Suri, but the terms of the settlement are confidential.
Meanwhile, Cruise, who also has a sprawling Beverly Hills estate, is wary of going back to the space he and Holmes shared at the American Felt Building on East 13th Street.
A source pointed out that Cruise chose to stay in a hotel this week on his latest New York trip to see Suri. “Tom wasn’t staying in their old apartment, because that would have been strange,” says the source.
The source adds that Cruise wants to “be an active parent,” adding, “So, New York, get ready for a lot more of Tom.”
Besides enrolling Suri in school here, Holmes is becoming a further Big Apple fixture after her split from Cruise, signing on to star in the upcoming Broadway show “Dead Accounts” and showing in New York Fashion Week for the first time in September with the Holmes & Yang line.
Tom has never really been a New York guy – whenever he’s not working on a film set, you mostly hear about him in LA, or you don’t hear about him at all, because when Tom flies under the radar, no one has any idea where he is. I always think of it as Tom’s “boy time” – and I would love to know if David Miscavige also “went missing” during those times too. Anyway, as for Tom’s new New York lifestyle – this too is part of The New Tom. It wouldn’t surprise me at all if we learned that Tom had quietly hired some crisis-management firm or a war-time consigliere/publicist to advise him and help him with his post-divorce counter-attack and media blitz, the effects of which we’re seeing now. This is Tom’s “It’s All About Suri And What She Needs” counter-attack. It’s one of his most effective counter-attacks, so let’s see how it plays out.
I love seeing photos of celebrity real estate and interior design. To me, they’re like shirtless photos of hot guys, they fuel fantasies of living in those pristine, decked out mansions. Or, like in the case of tacky houses like Nicky Hilton’s, it’s fun to point and laugh at rich people with bad taste. That’s the case with this latest story on a new documentary on the world’s largest mansion under construction, a giant eyesore in Florida dubbed “Versailles.” While the nouveau riche owners were constructing it, while filming was underway, they ended up losing a lot of money after the market crashed and facing the possibility that they were in way over their heads. The mansion remains to this day just a giant, gaudy shell of a house. (You can see tons of photos of it here. The few photos where it looks super gaudy and finished are just “artist’s renditions” of what they intended to do with it.) The film ends with their insane house still under massive construction and facing foreclosure. Now the homeowners, the owners of the biggest timeshare company, want the filmmaker to edit it in order to show that they’ve since recovered control of the home. The filmmaker isn’t backing down, though. Here’s more:
The timeshare tycoon who wants to build the biggest home in the country — America’s very own Palace of Versailles — claims an upcoming documentary about his exploits is misleading.
And because of that, Westgate Resorts President David Siegel wants the director of “The Queen of Versailles” to tweak the ending.
In a letter obtained by TheWrap.com, Siegel wrote to director Lauren Greenfield’s attorney that his real estate company is currently healthy and “the most profitable” in its 32-year history.
He said he’s having no problem finishing construction of the palatial 90,000-square-foot mansion on 10 acres in Windermere, Fla.
Today’s economic troubles served as a backdrop for the film’s drama.
“Versailles does not face foreclosure because it was refinanced, and construction is starting again,” Siegel wrote in a letter dated Monday.
He’s asking the filmmaker to update the postscript with that information.
“As it stands now, it’s like ending an account of a basketball game after the third quarter,” he added. “I believe that it’s only fair that (Greenfield) complete the story honestly and with integrity.”
Siegel, 76, also has a lawsuit against Greenfield, executive producer Frank Evers and the Sundance Institute for alleged defamation, claiming the documentary contains harmful statements, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Those include: “Their timeshare empire collapses” and “their house is foreclosed.”
The documentary first premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, and opens in limited release Friday. Cable TV network Bravo is supposed to air it in 2013.
Siegel, meanwhile, also contends that some of the scenes were orchestrated, with the whole documentary coming off as a “Real Housewives of Orlando pilot,” he wrote.
But Martin Garbus, the director’s attorney, told TheWrap.com that the film will not be changed.
“It tells a story about a time in America and everybody should see it and make their own judgement (sic),” Garbus said in a statement. “Nothing in The Queen of Versailles is staged. There is no reason to update the film.”
The documentary also features Siegel’s 46-year-old wife, Jackie, and the eight children they are raising together.
Construction on Versailles began about six years ago, but work was halted in 2009 after Siegel said he had to refocus on his company, the Wall Street Journal reported. Just two-thirds of the home was completed.
In the meantime, Siegel looked into selling the opulent stunner — at one point dropping the asking price from $100 million finished or $75 million as-is to $65 million as-is.
Siegel was recently approved for a $25 million loan to help finish construction, according to reports, after the documentary completed filming.
And with 13 bedrooms, 22 bathrooms, three pools, two movie theaters, a bowling alley, a ballroom for 500 guests and Italian white marble in the designs, Siegel isn’t exactly motivated to sell the house, he told The Journal last week.
There are photos below of the home as it is now (as I gather), under construction – I guess the Seigels are shown in their other giant mansion while this one is getting prepared. They needed a $25 million loan to finish it and that think that somehow means they’re not in too deep? I found several real estate listings for this “house.” It has its own website, Lake Butler Mansion, and it’s also listed on PriceyPads.com, which has a link to over a hundred photos of the place. Inside, it just looks like a big cathedral or a public building under construction. It’s just a tacky, overpriced dream. It reminds me of Candy Spelling’s house, but she was able to offload that one to a young heiress with gaudy taste. Candy also had much better, albeit early 90s, taste in decor. What billionaire would drop $65 million on this monstrosity or pay $100 million to get it completed? The Seigels are stuck with it.
Before Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi decided that Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s beachfront home in Malibu was the pile of bricks for them, they put their Beverly Hills mansion on the market. (Added value alert: It was where they tied the knot!)
And now Ryan Seacrest has bought DeGeneres’ not-so-humble abode!
All things considered, how much money has been changing hands here?
First off, DeGeneres and de Rossi paid a bargain $12 million for Brangelina’s pad, which was originally listed for $13.5 million.
And it turns out that Seacrest may have scored a friend-of-the-family discount as well. Contrary to reports that he is paying the full sticker price—$49 million—for the 2.87-acre property, industry sources tell E! News that $37 million is the actual number.
DeGeneres and de Rossi swapped vows on the grounds of their soon-to-be-former home—which Ellen originally bought from Will & Grace cocreator Max Mutchnick for $29 million—in August 2008. And yes, Seacrest was a wedding guest.
The estate boasts a 9,200-square-foot main house, three guest homes, a pair of swimming pools, koi ponds and fruit trees.
That should be plenty of room for Seacrest, who revealed yesterday on The Howard Stern Show that he and girlfriend Julianne Hough are living together. He originally listed his Hollywood Hills West estate for $14.95 million in 2010, then unlisted it, then relisted it last month for $11.985 million, per the Los Angeles Times.
Further adding to the surreal-estate scrum: Seacrest’s current address used to belong to Kevin Costner! The American Idol judge moved in for $11.5 million in 2006.
So Ryan Seacrest is really, really rich I guess. He’s richer than I would have imagined, given the fact that I still think of him as a radio host and emcee for Idol. I know he’s a TV mogul, although I don’t consider foisting the Kardashians on the public as any kind of accomplishment. I shouldn’t talk, I gossip for a living and they’ve only benefited my career too.
Speaking of TV moguls, over the weekend I watched a special on HGTV on Candy Spelling selling her home, the largest in LA County, for $85 million. It was fascinating. Candy is an uber-wealthy, very organized hoarder and collector, basically. She had three gift wrapping rooms, a bowling alley, a barber shop, a huge room bigger than my house filled only with collectible dolls, every Beanie Baby known to man, and an attic filled with boxes full of holiday decorations. The wench that bought her house, Formula 1 heiress Petra Ecclestone, gave Candy just 30 days to move out more stuff than entire hamlets of families will collect in their lifetimes. I found myself feeling sorry for Candy and actually liking her, despite her massive excess. She accomplished the move at the end of the first part of the series. (Spoiler I guess.) I still have to watch part 2, where she goes through and purges warehouses full of stuff.
Here’s a somewhat related Today Show segment this morning on celebrity real estate. It features the real estate mogul from Shark Tank (I just started watching that show and I love it!), Barbara Corcoran. She shows us homes for sale from Meg Ryan, Billy Joel, Barry Manilow, and Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell. I love Goldie and Kurt’s modern beach home. It’s amazing.
When I wrote about Jennifer Aniston’s $40,000-a-month rental yesterday, the Pity Party Patrol came out in full force to claim that Brangelina NEVER gets the kind of mild criticism Aniston ENDURES for their respective excesses. I beg to differ – we always cover Brangelina’s real estate rumors, especially when the alleged purchases/rentals are crazy and/or expensive. Most recently, we discussed the rumor that Angelina Jolie bought Brad a motherchucking WATERFALL for his birthday. We also discussed the possible real estate purchases/rentals that the Jolie-Pitts might be undertaking in England, as the family settles down so Angelina can film Maleficent. Now E! News reports that the early reports (that the Jolie-Pitts bought a UK mansion outright) are false, and they are in fact renting a big mansion. I’m including some of the aerial photos below, and here’s E!’s story:
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt just snapped up one fancy rental home. While the betrothed actors didn’t buy the Whornes Place estate in London, it turns out the über-famous couple is temporarily residing in another “palatial” home in the area. And it looks like they’re settling in.
Despite reports Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie forked over $16 million to reside in the Whornes Palace in the West London town of Richmond, E! News has learned exclusively the charitable pair is renting a huge mansion in one of the most “exclusive areas” in the United Kingdom.
“[Brad and Angelina] have decided to settle into one property rather than move around because they are going to be in London for 15 months,” a source told E! News. “It seems better for the whole family if they have a proper base. They have been moved into a palatial mansion that resembles the White House on the exclusive Wentworth golf course in Surrey. It is in a beautiful, gated community, one of the most exclusive areas in the U.K.”
But, Jolie and Pitt aren’t the first celebrities to reside in the stunning home, which sits 21 miles outside of London.
The estate has had its share of star-studded residents, including Elton John and Fergie, the Duchess of York.
And there’s plenty of room for Jolie to stretch her legs.
“The house has eight bedrooms and eight bathrooms, staff quarters, a gazebo in the garden, an indoor swimming pool and a playground for the children,” the source said.
“They have also hired a full time chef.”
Meanwhile, there’s still no word yet on when the newly engaged pair, who moved into the home a week ago, will tie the knot.
But, their new digs certainly would make for one fine place for a wedding. We’re just sayin’.
There’s no mention of how much this rental costs per month, but I can imagine that it would be in the tens of thousands (per month). I should also note this – considering Angelina is the big-name “star” of Maleficent and the studio wants to keep her happy, I’m guessing that the studio is probably paying for all or part of the Jolie-Pitts’ living expenses. I don’t know what Angelina has in her contracts – she might get a general “living allowance” stipend, or the studio might pay for everything flat-out.
(Sidenote: I’d still really like to know what happened to the converted farmhouse Angelina bought in England back in 2001. Did she sell it?)
By the way – Brangelina should be in the South of France within the next few days. Brad’s film is competing at the Cannes Film Festival. So… Brangelina red carpet sighting! It will be Angelina’s first red carpet with her engagement ring.
Real estate photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet and archive images of Brangelina in England courtesy of WENN.
Jennifer Aniston is always good for a real estate p0rn story, especially over the past few years when it seems like Aniston has really been getting into the real estate market in a big way. In the past year she bought two Manhattan condos worth millions, with the idea that she would make the condos into one huge super-apartment, only to end up selling the properties at a $500,000 loss. She also sold her one-bedroom Beverly Hills home – which she had spent YEARS renovating – last year. She sold that property at a massive profit.
As a place to live while your lavish estate is renovated, Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux aren’t doing too badly. The loved up couple have just rented a gorgeous Beverly Hills home at a cost of $40,000 a month until their main house is ready.
Their new mansion being an 8,500 square foot, $21 million palatial palace complete with a vineyard and views of the Pacific Ocean. But in the meantime they will have to settle for five bedrooms, six and a half bathrooms in a somewhat smaller space.
The Hal Levitt-designed exteriors have been masterfully updated as part of a meticulous renovation. This home also has the modern convenience of RTI Smart Home technology and state of the art home theater/entertainment system blends with the highest quality craftsmanship and materials. The Patrick Blanc living wall entices as you walk across the honed basalt entry, suspended above cascading water features, to approach the impressive hand-carved front door.
The interiors and exteriors offer the best of California living: ocean and city views, entertainer-friendly layout with Lynx outdoor cooking area, zero-edge pool with 18 feet deep lounge area and spa. Rooms include stone-lined temperature controlled wine cellar; bar with custom cabinetry, walnut shelving and LED glass lighting installation.
The Bulthaup kitchen has stunning Monobloc stainless steel island, floating appliance cubes, warm bronze and striped walnut cabinetry, and appliances by Miele and Leibherr. The master suite has custom walnut closets and is complete with his and hers baths featuring book-matched Calcutta Borghini marble, Ann Sacks tiles, heated flooring, steam shower, and private outdoor shower.
That all sounds really amazing, doesn’t it? But can you even fathom RENTING a place for $40,000 a month? You can’t even rationalize that by saying, “Oh, it’s an investment.” It’s not an investment. You’re just renting. You’re just blowing through tens of thousands of dollars a month because your multi-million-dollar villa is facing extreme renovations. I mean… it’s her money, she can do whatever she wants with it and God bless. But it does seem very excessive.
These are photos from a few days ago of Lea Michele attending the “Glee” Screening, and she looks pretty cute in a very short white Jenni Kayne dress. As always, Lea posed (hard) on the red carpet while solo, and presumably she and Cory Monteith didn’t want to attract attention to themselves as a couple even though they’ve been quietly dating and spent this past Valentine’s Day together. Lea’s strappy, high-heeled sandals add a nice effect to her simple dress. (I’ve got no idea who designed them.)
Lea has some good reason to celebrate these days outside of work too. According to RealEstalker, Lea just purchased a new Los Angeles “starter” home that came at a price tag of $1.4 million and is basically a fancy bungalow with 2 bedrooms and 2 baths. Here’s a follow-up story about Lea’s lovely home and how she’s now spending all her time there with Cory:
Lea Michele is happier than ever and filled with “glee” now that she’s bought her self this gorgeous $1.4 million Hollywood mini-mansion and has a new boyfriend — her co-star Cory Monteith — to share it with. “He has really brought out a different side of her,” reveals a friend of the actress, who has watched her romance with Cory, 30, blossom over time and says Lea’s purchase shows how serious she is about setting down roots and starting a new life with him. “She really feels stable and confident about Cory,” says the friend.
Insiders say Lea, 25, wh had been single since calling it quits last year with her longtime boyfriend, Broadway actor Theo Stockman, has been secretly dating Cory since fall, but is just now letting the world in on their romance. The couple has been doing more and more things together, such as canoodling n public at the recent Coachella music festival, taking a trip to Cory’s hometown of Vancouver to meet his family and friends, and jetting off to a romantic vacation in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. “They seem to be really happy together,” says the friend. Although Lea has yet to comment publicly on her romance, reportedly the couple was extra-affectionate when on the set together, and during Coachella she tweeted that she was wtih her “hot” Canadian beau.
Best of all, now that Lea has purchased her very own Hollywood “starteer crib,” she’ll be able to spend a lot of nights cuddled on the couch with Cory, engaging in her favorite pastime — watching TV.
“I’m not really a big going-out girl,” reveals Lea. As for her romance with Cory, the two will most likely be spending the majority of their “Glee” summer hiatus huddled together at her new home. “She thinks she and Cory can be something serious,” says the friend.
[From In Touch, print edition, May 14, 2012]
Another story in this week’s Star (via Hollywood Life) reports further that Lea and Cory are completely shacking up with each other in Lea’s new home, basically because he’s tired of living with three other dudes. How romantic.
Seriously though, even though Lea doesn’t have the greatest rep as a nice person, she’s got a lovely new home! Here are some more pictures of it.
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet and The Real EStalker
These are a few photos of Brad Pitt and Knox at Legoland in Windsor, England. The Jolie-Pitts are huge fans of all of the international Legolands. Back in February, Angelina took the kids to the Berlin Legoland, and the family also went to this English version back in September of last year. I think Angelina is tight with the people who run Legolands – she donates money to a charity associated with them. Anyway, the photos aren’t that great, but I do think that’s Knox (as opposed to Fax) in the photos. Lainey thinks he’s carrying a Sith saber. Which is kind of awesome!! UPDATE: People Magazine has a nice story about the Legoland trip which you can read here. Apparently, the whole family was there.
A few more pieces of news… Brad’s latest film, Killing Them Softly, will premiere (and compete) at the Cannes Film Festival in a few weeks. This is the film where Brad plays some kind of gangster/enforcer. With a mullet! They released the first promotional photo:
Um… Brad looks kind of hot, right? Or is it just me?
Last story: British sources claim that Brangelina have bought property in Richmond, England. Allegedly, they “paid over 10 million pounds (16 million dollars) for a property named Whomes Place in Richmond, Surrey. They rented the property during the summer of 2011 when Pitt was filming ‘World War Z’ in the UK and it comes complete with a large indoor swimming pool and topiary elephants in the grounds.” Back in the day, before Angelina met Brad, she owned a converted farmhouse in England, and I have no idea what happened to that property. I’m guessing she sold it at some point. So… they may have bought in England yet again! Here are some photos of the alleged property – OMG ELEPHANT TOPIARY!
