Jack Nicholson plans to demolish Marlon Brando’s old house, the Times of London reports. Nicholson paid $6.5 million for Brando’s Mulholland Drive home when his friend and next-door neighbor died two years ago. Brando had called his home Frangipani, after the cream and yellow flower beloved by Buddhists. Nicholson, 69, told the Times he would plant frangipani flowers on the site of the home, which proved too costly to restore because of mold contamination, Nicholson said.
The Namibian resort where Angelina Jolie gave birth to her and Brad Pitt’s daughter Shiloh three months ago is up for sale. TMZ
.com reports the Burning Shore resort is going on the auction block Aug. 30. The couple allegedly paid $2 million to clear the hotel for 80 days to be isolated from the paparazzi. Desert and ocean flank the exotic African retreat.
Justin Timberlake takes the comforts of home with him when he tours. According to contactmusic
.com, the pop singer admits that sleeping on his own sheets is soothing. “I have a thing about sleeping in my own bedding. It reminds me of home,” Timberlake was quoted by the website.
CBS sportscaster Greg Gumbel has sold his one-bedroom Midtown West apartment, the New York Post reported. Gumbel, 60, had co-hosted the network’s pregame NFL show from New York. Gumbel now is doing play-by-play with commentator Dan Dierdorf and is expected to travel from his Florida residence. Gumbel bought the 26th-floor unit at 350 W. 50th St. for $235,000 and sold it for $650,000, according to city records.
Kate Moss has spent $7,600 on a sculpture of a blue breast “sleeping” on a prayer book to decorate her Cotswolds, England, country home, bangshowbiz.com reported. Fine-art taxidermist Polly Morgan created the sculpture, titled “To Every Seed His Own Body.”
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People compiled by Greg Henry from wire and Internet reports
