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The good news is that celebrity homes seem to sell more easily than your average luxury real estate. The bad news is that there a lot of celebrity homes still seeking a new buyer. I dug through my 2010 archives, month by month, to assess the damage and see who is still trying to sell.

Some celebrities including Mel Gibson, have tried a price cut of over a million. Others including Uma Thurman, Ricky Martin and Richard Chamberlain have held their ground and their properties have sat on the market for over six months. Sheryl Crow tried to take the auction route but failed to sell her Tennessee farm.

But of course the biggest celebrity real estate tail of woe for 2010 has to be Nicolas Cage. He managed to sell off his New York apartment and his Las Vegas house but saw two New Orleans homes and his Bel Air mansion fall to foreclosure. His Rhode Island home, shown above, is still on the market for $7.75 million, a far cry from the $15.7 million he paid for it.

A look at every celebrity home listing we covered in 2010 with updated results is after the jump.

Mirror, mirror on the wall. Whose house is the fairest of them all?

Which celebrities have the most expensive properties on the market right now? Let's apologize up front for not including any pocket listings that we don't know about. (In fact, if you'd be so kind as to let us know about them, we'd be most grateful.)

And sorry, but we aren't counting Candy Spelling's Bel-Air listing at an unrealistic $150 million here -- not because it isn't a super property (if overpriced) but because despite her befriending us on Facebook, we still don't quite consider her a celebrity. We're also not including Dennis Hopper's estate, no disrespect intended toward the recently departed but if we opened the cemetery floodgates, there wouldn't be enough room in cyberspace to list them all. And lastly, we're so sick of athletes who misbehave that we'll pass on considering them celebrities for the moment. Overgrown kids maybe, but not celebrities.

So with those caveats, here's the unofficial Luxist list of 10 of our favorite and most expensive celebrity homes on the market.

1) Billy Joel's Sagaponack Village house for $19.9 million. We love love love this beachfront house in Sagaponack Village South that sits on 145 feet of oceanfront. We even loved it when it was first listed at $22.5 million. Classy, elegant, blends with the surroundings. You half expect a seagull to land on you while you stare at the photos. High beamed ceilings, white-washed, New Englandy without the pretensions. It was renovated in 2009 and clearly is a place where great music could be made -- although apparently not between Billy Joel and his soon-to-be-ex wife Katie Lee Joel. Nothing like a divorce to force the issue of liquidating the real estate. And nothing like a recession to keep things from moving. The piano man and his fourth wife also listed the property next door to this one for $12 million. There are some reports it sold in the $10 million vicinity.

We've been tracking this one for a while. Christina Aguilera has been struggling to sell her home in the Hollywood Hills for several years. Aguilera first put her architecturally splendid West Hollywood home in April 2008 after she and her husband bought the Beverly Hills home of Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne. The four-bedroom home was listed for $7.995 million but then in October 2008 she cut a quick million off the property reducing it to $6.995 million. It popped off the MLS for a while but the LA Times Hot Property column reports that the property is back with a low price of $6.25 million. Aguilera bought the home in 2003 for $5 million from Steve Hermann who gave the home its gorgeous remodel. The home includes a sumptuous theater room, shiny stainless steel kitchen, beautiful pool area and great space for entertaining. The 1,200-square-foot master bedroom suite has a marble bathroom that includes a tub with a view. The listing is with Hilton & Hyland.

Like her former rival in pop princessdom, Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera isn't having the easiest time selling her home. Aguilera first put her architecturally splendid West Hollywood home on the market in April after she and her husband bought the Beverly Hills home of Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne. The four-bedroom home was listed for $7.995 million but so far no takers and so as the Real Estalker reports, she has cut a quick million off the property reducing it to $6.995 million. There's much to love here, a sumptuous theater room, shiny stainless steel kitchen, beautiful pool area and great space for entertaining. However the home is not family friendly which may be why she is selling and why the home is lingering on the market.

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From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:
--A look at the planned Nobu Hotel and Residences in the Financial District. The project, in which Robert De Niro is an investor, is a 62-story glass tower at 45 Broad Street that will include 77 "super-luxury" condos, a 128-room hotel, retail space and a Nobu restaurant on the third floor.
--Hillary Clinton's communications director Howard Wolfson and his wife, Terri McCullough, who's chief of staff for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, have sold their condo at 455 Central Park West for $1.91 million. Not much of a profit, they bought the condo in 2005 for just under $1.8 million.
--Former Mets and Yankees pitcher David Cone is looking for an in-town apartment. He was recently spotted in the Miraval Living condominium sales office on the Upper East Side.

From the NY Observer's Manhattan Transfers:
--Baron Eric de Rothschild just bought his painter wife, Maria-Beatrice Caracciolo Di Forino, a Village penthouse where she can do some work whenever they're staying in New York. According to deeds, they paid $1.15 million for the one-bedroom, 1,050-square-foot co-op at 40 West 12th Street.
--Hotelier Jeff Klein has sold his house at 153 West 18th Street for $5.95 million.
--The listing for the late Brooke Astor's duplex at 778 Park Avenue is finally online, we covered it as our estate of the day on Friday.

From Berg Properties Big Time Listings:
--Melissa Etheridge has sold a six-bedroom house in Hidden Hills for an undisclosed price after it had been listed for $4,995,000. The home was purchased by a two trusts (the Olivers Estate Trust and the Veronica Matsui Trust) which may indicate the home was purchased by a celebrity (the Real Estalker says Michael Bolton and Nicolette Sheridan are
--Actress and former MTV VJ Kari Wuhrer has sold a Craftsman-style house in Los Angeles' Windsor Square area for $1.7 million.
--Comedian Carlos Mencia and his wife, Amy, purchased an Encino, CA home in November from actor Eddie Cibrian for an official purchase price of $4.3 million.
--via the Observer, Elisabeth Hasselbeck and her NFL husband Tim have paid $3,25 million. for a condo on Manhattan's Upper West Side.

From the Real Estalker:
--The Real Estalker Mama drops a tasty blind item that a mystery billionaire will be bidding on the Kaufmann house auction that will be part of the Christie's auction on May 13.
--Action actor Jason Statham has been spotted checking out the Devlin Drive home, shown above, recently put on the market by Christina Aguilera for $7.995 million. The virtual tour of this amazing home is here.
--Former CSI: Miami actress Khandi Alexander has cut the price again on her Hollywood Hills home. It was ginally listed at $4,495,000 but is now down to $2,995,000 which is not much more than the $2,850,000 she paid back in January of 2006. The listing says "huge $1 million price reduction" in bold block letters with an army of exclamation points.
--Angela Bassett and Courtney Vance have dropped the price on their Hancock Park home from $5.999 million to $4.6 million. The listing is here.
--Britney Spears has been spotted touring a 7,350 square foot house on Tara Drive in the Clark Gable community of Encino.
--Dishonored Lord Conrad Black and Barbara Amiel are quietly putting their Palm Beach, Florida home on the market. No listing price yet but in 2007, the Palm Beach assessor valued the estate at $27,980,115 so we are likely looking at a fairly big number here.
--Football player Pacman Jones has listed Tennessee home, it's our estate of the day later today.
--Once again, Michael Jackson has forestalled foreclosure on Neverland.
--Louwana, a grand old Palm Beach, Florida estate has been listed for sale for $30 million. The listing is here.
--Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn have put their Malibu home for summer rent again for $95,000.

From the Wall Street Journal's Private Properties:
--More background on Roman Abramovich's purchase of Wildcat Ridge. Abramovich also bought another home in the area for $11.8 million in February.
--Baseball great Henry "Hank" Aaron has listed his West Palm Beach, Fla., home that borders a golf course for $900,000.
--A home in Corona del Mar, California has sold for about $28 million, a record for an Orange County off-water property, local brokers say.

From the LA Times Hot Property:
--Former NHL player Ken Belanger has put his three-bedroom Manhattan Beach townhouse on the market for $1.125 million. It is listed with Ed Kaminsky.

New mom Christina Aguilera is the muse behind the latest collection by London jeweler Stephen Webster. The new Stephen Webster Sterling Collection includes two different lines. The first, called Shattered will feature Aguilera in the advertisements. The collection includes over 50 styles of rings, cuffs, pendants and earrings that have gemstones such as jade, chalcedony, goldstone, hematite and white agate inlaid into silver in designs that are meant to resemble bits of broken stained glass from Gothic church windows. The second collection is called Superstud and is more punk. The Stephen Webster Silver Collection will launch in Switzerland at Baselworld early next month, and will be sold in Neiman Marcus exclusively this spring with a roll-out planned to other stores later. The line is meant to be a bridge line between fashion and fine jewelry with prices starting in the low hundreds.

From the NY Post's Gimme Shelter:
--Donald Trump's SoHo building on Spring Street is doing big business, they have 2,800 applications for 500 units. The biggest suites could cost as much as $18.9 million for one apartment.
--Ellenborough, the Easton, Maryland home which was see in the movie, "Wedding Crashers" has been sold. It was listed at $16.5 million but sold for around $11 million.
--Celebrity hairstylist Oribe, is spending about $2 million for a two-bedroom, two-bath apartment at the Grand Madison condo building at 225 Fifth Ave.

From the Real Estalker:
--Celebrity agent Kevin Huvane has listed his Beverly HIlls home for $15.95 million. Huvane never lived in the house and reportedly bought it in 2003 when it had a list price of $8,495,000. Pretty pricey for a place without a pool. The listing is here.
--As we mentioned earlier this week, Paris Hilton's home sold at list price. No word on the buyer yet but apparently they took it furniture and all.
--Kimora Lee Simmons has picked up a home in Beverly Hills that was listed at $5.9 million.
--Gene Wilder has listed his Bel Air home for $2.75 million. It's in need of major remodeling but is a bit of a steal at the price. Check out the listing here.
--Football player turned action film star turned real estate agent Brian Bosworth has listed a Malibu home for $11.9 million. The listing is here.

From Berg Properties Big Time Listings:
--Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne have purchased a 10,953-square-foot mansion in Hidden Hills, California and have sold their Beverly HIlls mansion shown above to singer Christina Aguilera and her husband Jordan Bratman for an undisclosed price (it was listed for $11,995,000).
--Check out the listing for the modern home that actor Jamie Kennedy is buying in the Los Feliz area of Los Angeles.
--Gwen Stefani has paid $2,395,000 for a 3,351-square-foot house in Los Angeles' Hancock Park area. She already has a posh home so this is assumed to be just another addition to her growing portfolio.
--Actress Joan Cusack has paid $5.3 million for a six-bedroom, 8,000-square-foot-plus vintage mansion on the Gold Coast.
--The official price on Posh and Becks Beverly Hills buy is $18.2 million not the $22 million previously reported.

From the NY Observer's Manhattan Transfers:
--Director Martin Scorsese has sold his five-bedroom town house on Manhattan's Upper East Side for $6,158,250. Check out the pics of the place from when it was our estate of the day.
--Jeffrey Hyland, Rick Hilton's partner at Beverly Hills real estate brokerage Hilton & Hyland, signed a contract last year for a sixth-floor place at Ian Schrager's brand-new 40 Bond condo without even visiting the building.

From the Wall Street Journals's Private Properties:
--Red Sox general manager Theo Epstein has agreed to sell his Boston condominium, it was listed for around $1.54 million.
--Developer George Santopietro is asking $50 million for a newly built Tuscan-style mansion in Beverly Hills, Calif.

From the LA Times Hot Property:
--Steve Carell has sold his Studio City house for $1.5 million. Carrell recently bought a $6.5-million home on the water in Toluca Lake.
--Scarlett Johansson purchased director/producer Harold Becker's house in the Outpost Estates area of Hollywood for slightly more than $7 million.
==Courteney Cox Arquette and David Arquette bought a family compound in Malibu for almost $17 million.
--Actress Vicki Lawrence has listed her home in Long Beach for $5 million. You can check out the listing here.
-- Snoop Dogg has sold his home in Claremont for $1.83 million.

Joining the ranks of other celebs who have their own fragrances, Christina Aguilera has just signed a deal with Proctor and Gambol Prestige to create her own signature scent. It wouldn't be a surprise if the perfume turned out to be bold with romantic undertones, matching both Aguilera's personality and her Marilyn-esque looks. From the sound of it, however, the scent has not yet been put together, but it is tentatively scheduled for a release in the fall of this year.

The pop artist Christina Aguilera has just dropped £25,000 - that's about $43,500 - on a painting by the British graffiti artist Banksy.  The painting shows the late Queen Victoria, who passed anti-homosexual laws and "famously believed women were incapable of being gay", depicted as a lesbian. Victoria, clad in stockings and garter belt, is painted in a compromising position with another woman. Aguilera plans to display the controversial painting in her home.

The painting is after the jump and is possibly not safe for work.