Wild events, a Catholic convent and a misplaced window are only some of the the explanation why some celebrities bought concerned in very public property disputes.
Celeb actual property agent and Bravoverse character Jeff Lewis notoriously held nothing again in his complaints towards his neighbor Machine Gun Kelly’s rock star way of life.
Throughout the pond, U.Ok. pop icon Robbie Williams waged a nasty authorized battle together with his London neighbor, Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Web page, for greater than a decade over modernizing a historic Holland Park property.
Maybe essentially the most iconic dispute of all was Katy Perry’s multi-year authorized battle with a gaggle of nuns who tried to dam her $14.5 million buy of their former convent.
Hold scrolling for a glance again and a number of the strangest movie star neighbor and actual property battles:
Jeff Lewis vs. Machine Gun Kelly
The Flipping Out star vented his frustrations about MGK’s alleged wild antics a number of instances on his SiriusXM present Jeff Lewis Dwell in 2020. The pair lived close to one different in Los Angeles on the time.
“Now, I’ve no concern with this man however there’s rigidity brewing,” Lewis mentioned on his radio present. “He mentioned it’s truly going to show into the film Neighbors and that he’s Zac Efron, which signifies that I’m f***ing Seth Rogen.”
The famously outspoken Lewis insisted he didn’t “hate” MGK — he was merely talking out as a result of a few of their neighbors had related frustrations.
“I’ve realized so much about him,” Lewis complained on his radio present. “At 5 p.m. — that to them is day ingesting. He had a giant cake within the form of a guitar [at his ‘Dirty 30’ party]. They nonetheless park in entrance of the fireplace hydrant, they park in entrance of individuals’s driveways. It’s simply, I believe they’re so f***ed up that they only cease the automotive wherever it lands.”
MGK ultimately smoothed issues over by sending Lewis a bottle of champagne and welcoming him over to satisfy face-to-face.
“I want we might have had an opportunity to satisfy,” he mentioned by way of Instagram. “For those who ever want something, simply come knocking. … Cheers, neighbor.”
Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard vs. Justin Bieber
Bieber has had quite a few run-ins together with his neighbors through the years, together with settling a lawsuit in 2018 filed by Jeffrey and Suzanne Schwartz. The go well with alleged that Bieber antagonized the Schwartzes with loud events and egging their residence, along with allegedly spitting in Jeffrey’s face throughout one heated confrontation. (Bieber served probation in a separate prison plea deal after pleading no contest to 1 depend of misdemeanor vandalism. On the time, Bieber’s lawyer said he was “glad to get this matter resolved and behind him.”)
Bell and Shepard, who as soon as lived close by, complained throughout a 2012 look on The View that the “Sincere” singer was not notably neighborly.
“The music and the events and the paparazzi, I imply, it’s like residing in Lebanon now,” Shepard mentioned.
Bell backpedaled barely by explaining, “In his protection, I’ll say we don’t know the precise home the music is coming from. We simply know since he moved in, the music has been blaring.”
Magic Johnson and Samuel L. Jackson vs. Denzel Washington, Reba McEntire, Eddie Murphy
This uncommon disagreement developed over an entry gate utilized by the well-known residents of the Beverly Park group in Los Angeles.
The residents of the North Beverly Park aspect of the group – together with Washington, McEntire, Murphy, producer Haim Saban and late Viacom chairman Sumner Redstone — banned service employees (equivalent to nannies and gardeners) for residents of the South aspect from utilizing their primary entry gate. This required guests to journey a further seven miles to entry the South aspect’s 16 properties behind its personal entry gate.
Residents of the South Beverly Park – together with NBA nice Johnson and Marvel star Jackson – filed a lawsuit in 2005, accusing the Northside residents of being “downright unneighborly,” in response to The AP.
A decide agreed with the Southern residents and allowed “visitors and invitees” of each Beverly Park neighborhoods to make use of whichever entry gate they most popular.
Charlie Sheen vs. Ursula Auburn
Auburn is probably not a recognizable title however she claimed that Sheen used her as inspiration for one of the vital memorable characters from his sitcom Two and Half Males — the obsessive neighbor Rose, performed by Melanie Lynskey.
In response to Fox News, Sheen reached a personal monetary settlement with Auburn in 2007 after she filed a lawsuit towards him the earlier 12 months. Auburn alleged in her lawsuit that Sheen used a few of their actual encounters when creating the “wacky neighbor and feminine stalker Rose.”
Auburn additionally accused Two and a Half Males of copying her wardrobe and private model in creating Lynskey’s character. She initially went public with the feud by creating an internet site all about her interactions with Sheen.
Jim Belushi vs. Julie Newmar
When he wasn’t filming his hit ABC sitcom In response to Jim, Belushi spent plenty of time all through early aughts combating together with his neighbor, Batman star Newmar. Lengthy working animosity between the Brentwood, California residents exploded as soon as Belushi filed a $4 million lawsuit accusing Newmar of instigating a “malicious and premeditated marketing campaign to stop and destroy [his] quiet peace” in 2004.
The feud began when Newmar objected to Belushi constructing a second home on the again of his property, alleging that his plans violated their neighborhood’s zoning plan. Belushi fired again by accusing Newmar of defaming and harassing him.
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After years of battling within the courtroom, the pair released a joint statement to substantiate they’d settled their authorized dispute in 2006.
“Belushi and Newmar have amicably resolved their dispute and remorse any hurt they might have precipitated to the opposite,” their representatives mentioned. “They sit up for a peaceable and neighborly relationship.”
Belushi prolonged Newmar an olive department by inviting her to visitor star on In response to Jim, the place they poked enjoyable at their authorized battle.
Porsha Williams Vs. Simon Guobadia
The Actual Housewives of Atlanta star was in the course of divorce proceedings with estranged husband Guobadia when he was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in February 2025. He stays in ICE custody on the Stewart Detention Heart in Lumpkin, Georgia as of Might 2025.
Guobadia’s detainment took place on account of President Donald Trump’s mass deportation plan for undocumented immigrants, which might see him deported to Nigeria.
The timing of Guobadia’s detainment put the standing of his and Williams’ $7 million mansion into limbo. In Touch reported in March 2025 that Williams filed a authorized discover for the property to inform officers of her ongoing divorce proceedings.
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Williams sought to stop the sale of the 284 square-foot property residence till a settlement was reached with Guobadia. She additionally requested unique use of the mansion till a division of marital belongings occurred.
Within the meantime, Actual Housewives of Atlanta viewers noticed Williams touring new properties in a season 16 episode. Guobadia’s absence was noticeable as she visited a media room large enough to deal with a golf simulator.
“We left the person who likes golf on the different home,” she quipped.
Katy Perry vs. Sisters of the Most Holy and Immaculate Coronary heart of Mary
The “Lady’s World” singer ended up in an unlikely – and expensive feud – with a gaggle of nuns when she deliberate to purchase a former Los Angeles convent in 2015.
Two aged nuns from the Sisters of the Most Holy and Immaculate Coronary heart of Mary objected to Perry’s buy of the property from the Archdiocese of Los Angeles for $14.5 million. The nuns have been intent on promoting the property for $15.5 million to developer Dana Hollister, who’d promised to revive the convent and open it to the general public.
Perry teamed up with the Archdiocese in a lawsuit to stop the nuns from promoting the convent to Hollister. One of many nuns concerned, Sister Catherine Rose Holzman, collapsed throughout one court docket listening to and later died.
A 2017 court docket resolution lastly granted Perry the best to buy the property, offered it was permitted by the Vatican. (Any sale of Catholic Church property exceeding $7.5 million requires final approval from the Vatican.)
Nevertheless, the Vatican temporarily blocked the sale until Perry might discover a substitute location for the convent’s Home of Prayer. Perry ultimately backed out of the sale, although each the singer and the Archdiocese obtained a multimillion dollar payout when a decide dominated that developer Hollister deliberately interfered with Perry’s tried buy.
Robbie Williams vs. Jimmy Web page
Some of the weird chapters of U.Ok. pop icon Williams’ life was lacking in his 2024 biopic Higher Man, as he was concerned in a property feud with Led Zeppelin guitarist Web page for greater than a decade.
The pair became neighbors in London’s Holland Park district in December 2013 when Williams paid $17.5 million for Woodland Home, which is adjoining to Web page’s personal historic property, Tower Home. Web page virtually instantly took concern with Williams’ plans to modernize Woodland Home, together with including a basement, demolishing the storage and including a window that provided a view of Web page’s property.
“I’m now confronted with having to struggle a brand new menace to this valuable and distinctive constructing,” Web page complained in a letter of criticism to the native council.
As soon as Web page raised a proper criticism with the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, each rockers exchanged insults in numerous interviews. Williams was unknowingly caught on a scorching mic at an Italian radio station accusing Web page of being “mentally in poor health” and “sitting in his automotive outdoors our home with the home windows down, 4 hours at a time with recording tools,” in response to The Daily Mail.
“He’s recording the workmen to see in the event that they’re making an excessive amount of noise. And likewise two weeks in the past, the builders got here in and he was asleep in his backyard, ready,” Williams claimed in a second he didn’t notice was being recorded, per the outlet.
Williams later retracted his statements, saying, “Jimmy Web page has defined to me that sure particular factual assertions which I made have been the truth is not true and I’m completely satisfied to simply accept what Jimmy Web page says.”
“I perceive why Jimmy Web page could have discovered my feedback offensive and I apologize for any harm that they’ve precipitated him and his household consequently,” Williams concluded.
The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea granted Williams permission to lastly transfer ahead together with his building plans in December 2018.
Sylvester Stallone vs. Vin Scully
The longtime voice of the Los Angeles Dodgers sued Stallone in 1985 over allegations that the Rocky star’s landscaping crew precipitated water injury at his Pacific Palisades, California residence. Scully claimed that Stallone’s landscapers allowed water runoff to invade his close by property after altering a hill that bordered their two properties.
Scully sought $106,000 in damages from Stallone, although he was solely marginally profitable as soon as the case went to court docket.
When a Los Angeles Superior Court docket decide decided that Stallone’s landscaping was solely partially accountable for property injury at Scully’s residence, the payout was lowered considerably to $69,000 for repairs.