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February 6, 2012
How Much Does It Cost to Sleep in Elvira’s Bed?

Six degrees of celebrity real estate.

February 6, 2012
How Do You Keep TMZ Out of Your Yard?

The cost of privacy.

February 6, 2012
What Do You Get Just for Showing Up?

An appearance-fee pecking order.

February 6, 2012
Kids: Money Pits or Moneymakers?

A nanny who won’t gab to the tabs isn’t cheap.

February 6, 2012
Do Actor-Producers Make Any Real Money?

For A-listers, the appeal lies elsewhere.

February 6, 2012
What is Ashton Kutcher Doing In Silicon Valley?

Using his fame to promote his own high-upside investments.

February 6, 2012
Fame: a P&L

Stardom’s changed. So have its benefits. And invoices.

February 6, 2012
The Celebrity Economy

Fame pays. But it costs a fortune.

January 26, 2012
The Classifieds: A Workplace Confidential

Trade secrets from a Per Se waiter, a New York Times reporter, a Met, a Hollywood agent. What really goes on inside a public-school classroom and under a plastic-surgeon’s knife. What a bikini waxer sees, what a drunk cop doesn’t.

December 21, 2011
Up and Down

The restaurants that gained or lost stars from Adam Platt’s original 101.