Rumer Willis Buys Half of a House

A few days ago gossip queen Perez Hilton dropped a celebrity real estate tidbit about Tinseltown scion, former Golden Globe gurl, and way too big for her barely accomplished britches ack-truss Rumer Willis buying a house in Los Angeles, CA.

Property records do indeed show that in late October of 2009, Miss Willis paid $971,500 to purchase an 1,846 square foot, single story ranch style house in Los Angeles' legendary Laurel Canyon area. As far as Your Mama can tell, the property was never on the open market. A closer look at the property records reveals that Miss Willis owns only 50% of the gated and hedged 2 bedroom and 3 pooper property. The other half, the children may find inneresting to learn, is owned by her Twitter addict step-father, actor and prolific reality tee-vee producer Ashton Kutcher.

Until doing a wee bit o' research on the interweb, Your Mama had no idea that Miss Willis currently plays a teenage lesbian on the tragic redux of Beverly Hills 90210. But she does and, ironically, her new nearby neighbors include singing superstar and real life lesbian k.d. lang and ladee luvin' gym jock/reality tee-vee "star" Jackie Warner. Other neighbors include soo-blime actress Stockard Channing, and colossally compensated comedian Will Ferrell who now owns a compound he bought from yet another real life lesbian, Ellen Degeneres. Just in case Miss Willis goes to route of far too many spoiled offspring of Hollywood honchos, her new crib is conveniently located a quick car ride from the celeb-friendly Wonderland Treatment Center where SCRAM bracelet wearing Lindsay Lohan was once not so successfully treated for her (alleged) issues with the booze and dope.

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UPDATE: Mischa Barton

In early March of 2010, Your Mama revealed that down on her professional luck ack-tress/model/troubled starlet about town Mischa Barton (The OC, The Sixth Sense) listed the Beverly Hills, CA house she shares–or shared, we don't know–with her parents and equally troubled sister Whatsername. Our sources snitched–and we were able to confirm–that the property was being shopped off-market for $8,395,000.

Conventional real estate wisdom say that if a house does not sell at $8,395,000, it should probably undergo a price chop and not a price increase as was done with Miss Barton's Mediterranean manse this week when it was officially listed–with a different real estate agent, dontcha know–with a puzzlingly higher asking price of $8,695,000. It's also been put out for lease at $30,000 per month.

Miss Barton and her wealthy parents purchased the 7,607 square foot residence in July of 2005 for $6,400,000 according to property records and previous reports. The gated, three story mansion is located in the same gated enclave as filthy rich HSN-co-founder Bud Paxton and actor John Stamos who Your Mama thinks is a fine specimen of manhood despite his rather bizarre belly button situation.

Listing information indicates that in addition to the 8 bedrooms and 10 poopers, the Barton above has 6 fireplaces, a colossal eat-in kitchen with walk-in pantry, a library, fitness facilities, staff quarters, and guest quarters with separate entrances, private patios, and "hotel style amenities," whatever that is. There are, according to listing information, a seemingly unnecessary cacophony of of flooring materials including carpet, hardwood, marble, stone and tile. The hillside property has views of canyons and Catalina Island, a heated swimming pool and spa, expansive terraces, and meandering pathways that wind along the lower part of the property.

Miss Barton, who seems to have a penchant for bad boy boyfriends and fast living, has in the past expressed interest in living in New York or London but Your Mama hasn't an iota of where she currently resides or what her future real estate plans may be.