3 articles from 2008
25 May 2008 6:09 PM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news
Los Angeles' struggling property market is beginning to give the celebrities a headache - many are struggling to sell their homes.
Sharon Stone, Angela Bassett and Frankie Muniz have each been forced to lower the asking price on their properties in a desperate effort to sell them.
Stone fears she'll have to let her Beverly Hills home go for a loss, relisting it at $10 million (GBP5 million) - that's $1 million (GBP500,000) less than she paid for the property, according to the Los Angeles Times newspaper.
The actress never actually lived in the mansion she renovated, according to the publication.
Meanwhile Bassett and her husband Courtney B. Vance have drastically reduced the asking price on their Hancock Park home, which features five bedrooms and its own hair salon, from $6 million (GBP3 million) to $4.6 million (GBP2.3 million).
And former Malcolm in The Middle star Muniz is struggling to sell his Hollywood Hills property after placing it on the market for $3.7 million (GBP1.85 million) - almost $200,000 (GBP100,000) less than his original asking price late last year.
16 May 2008 8:55 AM, PDT | From Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news
Ex-Malcolm in the Middle star Frankie Muniz is leaving Hollywood to become a race car driver.
The 22-year-old announced in 2006 that he was taking a break from acting to pursue his passion for cars, saying he would return to work after two years.
However, he has now put his West Hollywood home on the market for £1.9 million and plans to move to Arizona permanently.
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5 May 2008 9:08 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news
Ashton Kutcher has given up "punking" his co-stars, because he is scared it will cost him future acting roles.
Kutcher produced and starred in hit 2003 MTV series Punk'd, playing gags on the likes of Justin Timberlake and Frankie Muniz.
But he has decided to play it straight on-set, so he doesn't alienate himself from all of Hollywood.
He says, "You punk your co-stars (and) people won't want to work with you anymore. So I kind of had to lay off of that."
And Diaz was glad to hear the actor has changed his ways, explaining, "He's figured that out because the biggest thing when you're doing a partnership like this is trust and if you don't trust the person, if you think around every corner you're going to get slapped in the face, it's not so fresh."
3 articles from 2008