Posted on Sun, Oct. 05, 2008

Britney Spears, pop princess or pop pariah, has listed her Beverly Hills home for $7.9 million.

The house is in a gated community and has about 7,500 square feet, with six bedrooms and 6 ½ bathrooms. There's a wet bar, a library, a den, high ceilings and stone and mosaic tile floors. The master bedroom has a fireplace and a loggia. Then there's the pool, spa and arbor. It is being offered for sale partially furnished and decorated. And we suspect neighbors are popping open Champagne bottles.

This is the house that Spears was wrenched from in January by a well-executed LAPD plan to skirt the paparazzi and have the singer involuntarily committed to a psychiatric ward.

Neighbors are unlikely to forget that winter night with helicopters buzzing overhead and more than 100 paparazzi who chase Spears for a living hovering at the gates.

Spears, whose every move has been dutifully recorded by paparazzi, the courts, her fans and her detesters, was last seen looking for a new place to live in the Hidden Hills and Calabasas areas northwest of downtown L.A. Definitely gated.

LEEZA LISTING

HOUSE IN THE HILLS

Talk-show host Leeza Gibbons and her estranged husband, actor and architect Stephen Meadows, have listed their house in the Hollywood Hills at $7,395,000.

The house was listed in December 2006 at just under $8 million. It is set behind gates and up a long driveway on more than an acre that includes landscaped gardens. The 11,137-square-foot Mediterranean was built in 1926 and was once owned by Joan Crawford.

Gibbons and Meadows remodeled and renovated the home, which has carved moldings, hardwood floors and lots of stone and wrought iron. The main house has seven bedrooms and eight bathrooms in three stories. A detached guesthouse, built in 2000, is suitable for use as a studio or office.