Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch is up for auction – by the trustees, not the pop star himself, and will include everything in the house and on the grounds:

Jackson received word Monday from Financial Title Company, the trustee, that unless he pays off $24,525,906.61 by that date, a public auction will go forward in Santa Barbara, Calif., in front of the county courthouse.

It’s not just the house either. When Neverland is auctioned, it will include everything: all personal property inside, all fixtures and appliances, furniture, and “all merry go round type devices,” any rides, games. The auction literally includes every single thing that is or isn’t nailed down.

Fox News

Michael hasn’t lived there since 2005, when he moved to Bahrain following his last child molestation trail. While the Ranch does have a zoo, all of the animals are gone, and some of the rides are shut down too. No one lives there currently.

Michael Jackson has been in financial trouble for quite some time, as a result of some bad business decisions and large loans he has been unable to pay. Several years of legal action, from his child molestation cases, his Neverland employees, and business associates, have also drained his finances. MJ just released a new edition of his best selling album, titled Thriller 25, maybe a check will clear from his royalties and he’ll be able to buy his house back, but it’s doubtful.

Fox News suggests that if the property is not sold at auction in March, it will be listed with a real estate agent and marketed as a private corporate retreat. There is also a possibility that a very rich person might be interested in purchasing what could be quite a bargain in the fire sale.

I can imagine a very wealthy parent who likes to spoil their children might buy this for their family. The property, according to Wiki, is 11km², and has a zoo and a theme park, with a Ferris wheel, merry-go-round, zipper, spider, sea dragon, wave swinger, super slide, dragon wagon kiddie roller coaster and bumper cars.

I don’t know why people think Jacko is crazy for having the property – doesn’t it sound like fun? Unfortunately the ranch has somehow just become another sign of his wackiness, and evidence that he is a child molester. I’ve always thought it was such a shame that Michael Jackson has become best known for his marriage to Lisa Marie Presley, court appearances and plastic surgery instead of his music. Regardless of your opinion of his personal life, he is incredibly talented.

You’ve probably seen these pictures by now since they came out last night and all, but here are the Diablo Cody “scandalous” photos that aren’t much more than topless pics. She comes across like she’s fun and doesn’t take herself too seriously, and considering what she must have been up to these photos aren’t that big of a deal.

Diablo blogged that she doesn’t really care that people are publishing these old photos again since she’s the one who put them online in the first place. She titled this entry VIVA TRASH!

Hey! Did you guys hear about the “nude” (except not really) pics I voluntarily posted on the Internet myself? What a tantalizing “scoop!” Seriously, I thought nudity was only a scandal if it the photos were leaked by some crumb-bum rat or vengeful ex. I personally put my vag out there with pride, ladies and gents. And you bet your ass I’d do it again if the Beef Council would cough up the proper endorsement money.

Bitches are lucky I don’t get naked now. I’m built for comfort these days. However, tempt me long enough and I just might drop ‘em…

As I’ve said in the past, they can dress me up, they can give me awards, they can coach me on the right responses, and they can sand the callouses off my giant fucking feet, but I will always be me. And I will never be ashamed.

No secrets, ever. (Well, hardly any.) Just like I promised.

[From Cody Diablo's blog on MySpace]

I love how she says she’s “built for comfort!” Cody worked for a year as an exotic dancer in Minneapolis, an experience she used to write her memoir Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper. I read the excerpt available on Amazon.com, and now I want to read the entire book. It was funny, quirky, and well written. She describes how she ditched Chicago at the age of 24 to move to Minneapolis for a guy she met online. She starts off with a boring office job and gets antsy, at which point I assume she starts working as a stripper but that’s where the excerpt cut off.

Cody, 29, just took home the Oscar for best screenwriting for Juno, a coming of age story about a pregnant teenager.

She is currently in an undisclosed location trying to catch some sleep after the Oscars and has asked people to try and guess through her MySpace blog where she is.

Thanks to Egotastic and Drunken Stepfather for these pics. She seems like a lot of fun.

Whoopi Goldberg and her colleagues on The View wondered aloud on Monday why the comedian wasn’t shown hosting the ceremony in the many clip montages shown at Sunday night’s Oscars. Whoopi was the first woman and the first African American to host the top Hollywood awards ceremony, and she served as emcee in 1994, 1996, 1999, and 2002. There was no specific clip montage dedicated solely to the hosts, but one that included other hosts didn’t have anything with Whoopi. She was seen accepting her award for best supporting actress for 1990’s Ghost. (She was the second of four black women to be awarded a statue in the event’s 80 year history.) Whoopi also mentioned on The View that she didn’t see two time host Steve Martin in any of the clips, either.

The producer of the Oscars has spoken about the slight, and unlike Brad Renfro’s exclusion from the In Memoriam clip, which they didn’t say was a mistake but claimed “It is simply not possible to include everyone in that segment,” Whoopi wasn’t left out on purpose:

“No harm was intended, and I feel very, very badly that she was left out,” Gil Cates said Tuesday. “I’m going to call her and tell her that.”

Although described as a montage of hosts, the piece shown at Sunday night’s telecast on ABC was actually “supposed to be a montage of 80 exciting moments of the Academy Awards” culled from hundreds of hours of footage, says Cates. “Basically, that was not a montage about hosts.”

He noted that former host Steve Martin also wasn’t in the montage.

Still, Cates said, “It was an absolute oversight” to leave out Goldberg, an Oscar winner and nominee who had hosted telecasts that Cates himself produced.

“I asked her to be on the show. She did it twice,” he said. “She is a formidable talent.”

[From People.com]

They were probably just looking for the most sensational clips and were scrambling to put those segments together ahead of the show. More care should have been taken to make sure that people were honored that deserved to be, though.

We thought that the Oscars were the most entertaining ever this year and although they were long they kept it moving well, with both funny jokes and well produced clips. Not many journalists agreed with us, and neither did the viewing audience. People called the Oscars unfunny and antiquated, and way too long to fit into anyone’s schedule. The Oscars had their lowest rating ever this year, which might also have to do with the fact that no blockbuster films were nominated. Only Juno took in more than $100 million at the box office, and that started out as an indie film.

Rachel Bilson just made the cardinal mistake with the popular but questionable “helmet hair” style that is sweeping Hollywood and the female masses. She went for the full bang treatment while leaving her hair long and not taking enough volume out to make it sleek and straight. In my opinion this cut doesn’t work for thicker hair unless it’s thinned out to achieve a sleeker, smoother style like Katie Holmes or Christina Ricci.

We covered the helmet hair phenomenon in an earlier post, and Bilson looks like Elle Macpherson now. They’re both gorgeous women but the heavy bangs don’t suit their longer, thicker hair and just make them look like night creatures peering out from beneath a mass of fur. The hair takes over their face and becomes the look and the features are secondary.

Bilson looked so much prettier before she covered half her face with a continuous curtain of hair. Don’t fall prey to this latest hair trend! You can sweep the bangs to the side until they’re grown out, but there is a real risk of depression with a bad haircut. Just ask Javier Bardem.

Thanks to PRPhotos for these pictures from the Jumper Tokyo premiere on 2/26. Bilson is also shown on 11/14/07 at the Awake premiere for comparison. This haircut is recent as she was seen on TRL without bangs earlier in the month.

So Britney has been showing a little pudge lately, like a very little, and most everyone attributed it to the positive effects of having her medication stabilized and having access to food that’s not chock full of pharmaceuticals. She has been dancing for exercise, and it’s thought that she’s been doing better and just gained some weight as a result of having things settle down for her.

Now Star Magazine is reporting that her boyfriend, paparazzo Adnan Ghalib, is telling friends she’s pregnant with his baby. This would be the last thing Britney needs right now, and since the source is Star let’s hope they’re making this up based on moderate weight gain. This is Britney, though, and she’s not likely to take precautions or to even mind if she’s pregnant again despite the fact that she just got back visitation rights with her two boys. By some accounts she wants more children and has said that if she can’t see her kids she’ll just have another baby anyway:

Only weeks after Britney Spears drove to Rosarita Beach, Mexico to exchange marriage vows with Adnan Ghalib, the paparazzo is bragging to friends that she is going to have his baby, Star has learned exclusively.

And what do you know! The fallen pop princess’ belly is starting to show a little bulge, in spite of hours of classes at the Millennium Dance Complex.

“Britney is Adnan’s dream come true. He knows that if he has a child with Brit, he’ll be made for life,” one friend of Adnan’s tells Star.

But while Adnan, 35, may be happy, Britney’s family is not. Dad Jamie has stabilized her life and the last thing he and her mom Lynne wants is another grandchild. “Her parents know she can’t handle more children,” says a Spears family source.

[From Star Magazine's website]

Please don’t let this be true! We’ll have to wait it out, but if Britney is really pregnant she’ll need to go off some of her meds. It would also make her life much more complicated. This story is originating with Star Magazine, so take it for what it is.

A judge has rejected Britney’s civil rights challenge of her father’s conservatorship and sent it back to state court. The judge ruled that there’s no reason for it to be under federal jurisdiction and said that attorney hasn’t even proved that Britney hired him.

Here are photos of Britney out jeans shopping yesterday, thanks to Splash News. You can see her stomach and she doesn’t look pregnant.

Pam Anderson sure knows how to pick ‘em. She married heavy metal douchebag Tommy Lee twice, then wed scrubby rap/rock star Kid Rock. That marriage clocked in at just three months and ended amid claims from Kid that Pam faked a miscarriage to get him to cancel his tour. Not long after the ink on that divorce dried, Pam married Rick Salomon, after claiming that she paid off a poker debt to him in sexual favors. That marriage lasted even less time than her marriage to kid. Now, the aging Playmate has decided that her marriage to Rick was such a mistake, a plain old divorce isn’t enough– she wants an annulment.

In documents filed yesterday in Los Angeles County Superior Court, Anderson is seeking an annulment of her two month marriage to Salomon, based on fraud!

In addition, both parties are seeking to have a private judge hear the matter.

[From TMZ]

You can see the court document here. In it, Pam stipulates that both parties are not entitled to any property, assets or spousal support, and that the grounds of the annulment are based on fraud. Actually, if you look at the document, “Fraud” is one of the least offensive choices to get an annulment– there’s also “bigamous marriage,” “incestuous marriage,” “incurable insanity” and “force.”

Could it be that Rick is looking for alimony from his bride of two months? And why the hell does Pam have such horrible taste in men? If she were smart, she’d find herself a rich plastic surgeon and settle down. Dating and marrying rock stars and scumbags has taken a toll on her looks.

Picture note by Celebitchy: Anderson is shown visiting the Brigitte Bardot Foundation in Paris on February 14 as the new PETA spokesperson.

Gossip lovers from the Boston area (like me) just love it when Bobby Brown comes to town to visit his kids. It’s pretty much a guaranteed celebrity mugshot every time he sets foot in the city. The last time Bobby came around to watch his son play in a basketball game in December, he was busted for cocaine possession outside a Brockton hotel. Bobby lucked out this time, though– apparently, the amount of coke found on the washed-up R&B singer was too small to meet the requirements for criminal possession. Instead, Bobby will get one year of community service. And get this– Bobby wants to fulfill this sentence by mentoring young people.

Singer Bobby Brown will not face any criminal charges after police said they found a small amount of cocaine in his possession, but has agreed to a year’s community service.

Brown’s attorney said Tuesday a Brockton District Court clerk magistrate found no probable cause to issue a criminal complaint, but recommended that Brown volunteer to mentor young people, which Brown wanted to do anyway.

Attorney Jeff Denner said if no other issues arise over the next year, the matter will be struck from the docket.

Police responding to a disturbance at a Brockton hotel on Dec. 1 said they found Brown, 39, sitting in an SUV in the parking lot, with cocaine in his possession.

The Boston native is the former husband of singer Whitney Houston and stars in the CMT Network show “Gone Country.”

[From WCVB Channel 5 News]

Why in the world would anyone think Bobby Brown is a positive role model for young people? He just got busted for coke, people! He is in no position to mentor kids about the dangers of drugs if he’s still using them. This guy is a total mess and has been for years. It’s no coincidence that the minute Whitney Houston left his sorry ass, she started looking better, singing better, and might even have a shot at staging a comeback. Mysteriously enough, Bobby keeps getting reality show gigs. All I can say is, I hope he comes back to Boston real soon. It was getting boring around here without him.

Picture Note by Celebitchy: Brown is shown on the CMT reality show “Gone Country,” when he was reduced to tears after meeting a sick little girl in the hospital. Thanks to Splash News.

Jennifer Love Hewitt and her fiance, Ross McCall, are planning what they call an “intimate” ceremony for their upcoming wedding. Though Jennifer won’t give details about the date or location - probably to avoid the nasty comments of Internet bloggers who might make fun of her backside or something - she did say that she and Ross want something romantic but low-key.

Jennifer Love Hewitt is already plotting out her upcoming wedding to Scottish actor Ross McCall.

“You know Diana and Charles – it’s going to be a little like that!” she joked with Usmagazine.com at SBE’s The Abbey on Sunday.

Kidding aside, “it is going to be small and private and romantic and wonderful,” Hewitt, 29, told Us. “We have nothing picked out yet.”

“We are very low-key people,” McCall, 32, added. “If we kind of wake up and say, ‘Let’s go do it,’ that’s how we will do it.”

The actress — who met McCall on the set of her CBS show Ghost Whisperer — got engaged in November, around the time those controversial bikini photos of her surfaced.

“We fell in love,” she told Us of how she spent her downtime during the recent writers’ strike. “We had a lot of fun, did a lot of traveling.”

So was it love at first sight for the pair?

“Absolutely,” Hewitt told Us. “As soon as I saw him.”

[From Us Weekly]

I never thought much of Jennifer before Bikinigate, but she has really conducted herself with dignity, class and a sense of humor since then. I’m rooting for her to be able to pull off this wedding without too much privacy invasion, and for the marriage itself to work. That said, you will not catch me watching “The Ghost Whisperer.”

Note by Celebitchy: In honor of Hewitt’s upcoming nuptuals, here’s a link to our very first post of her out with Ross McCall on her 27th birthday almost two years ago. McCall is Scottish and I bet he has the cutest accent.

Photos are from “The Envelope Please” 7th Annual Oscar Viewing Party on 2/24/08, thanks to PRPhotos.

Mischa Barton was busted driving drunk and without a license on the morning of the day after Christmas. Cops found pot in her car when she was pulled over for driving in the middle between two lanes and making a turn without signaling. She got hauled into jail and was let out later that morning on $10,000 bail. Police announced yesterday that she will face misdemeanor charges for driving without a license, DUI and marijuana possession.

Mischa Barton has been charged with driving under the influence and possession of marijuana, stemming from her arrest in December, police announced Tuesday.

The former star of The O.C. was also charged with driving without a valid license. Her arraignment on the misdemeanor charges is set for Thursday in Beverly Hills Superior Court.

[From People.com]

Mischa has since hired a driver and owned up to her actions. She told Ryan Seacrest on his morning show that “I’m 100% responsible for my actions in this case and I’m really disappointed in myself… I don’t know what to say about it, except that I’m not perfect and I just don’t ever intend to do something this stupid again.”

At least no one got hurt. She’ll probably plead guilty on Thursday and get off with probation and community service. She did it once, and it was very dumb and she could have killed someone, but she seems like she learned from it and won’t drive drunk again. If she does, that’s when they should throw the book at her. Lohan should have spent time in jail, for instance, because she did it twice and endangered a lot of people’s lives in a high speed chase and a separate accident.

Barton is shown on the set of her film Homecoming on 2/21/08.

In more Gary Busey Oscars awesomeness, a video clip has surfaced of the actor being interviewed on the red carpet by an 11-year-old girl from the celebrity web site Starzlife. The young reporter has to ask her question a few times because Gary can’t hear her. But his response to her question about young stars getting in trouble with the law is extra-awesome.

“Guess what? They’re not celebrities. They’re idiots; they’re losers. Britney Spears, Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan–they are all children of God, but they need to wake up and understand that they have a responsibility to the people who admire them and look at them to be better behaved, and have better….feelings about life and those charities that Paris talked about? She’s done nothing. She’s a liar. She’s a pathological liar, in terms of what the heck she said on Larry King, and what she doesn’t do after she says it. That’s a shameful thing to do, and it’ll bite her in the butt when it comes around.”

[Transcribed from Gary Busey interview]

Gary surprised Jennifer Garner, Ryan Seacrest and Laura Linney with an unexpected accosting of Jen Garner’s neck during the red carpet walk on Sunday night. He then called into Ryan’s radio show the next morning, calling Seacrest the “innocent champion of honesty.”

While Gary has never been in trouble with the law– at least, there is no mugshot or police report anywhere– the actor did sustain massive head trauma after a motorcycle accident in which he was not wearing a helmet. Since that near death experience, the eccentric actor has become a born-again Christian and briefly was the star of his own, bizarre reality show, “I’m With Busey.”