Wild parties, a Catholic convent and a misplaced window are only a few of the reasons why some celebrities got involved in very public property disputes.
Celebrity real estate agent and Bravoverse personality Jeff Lewis notoriously held nothing back in his complaints against his neighbor Machine Gun Kelly’s rock star lifestyle.
Across the pond, U.K. pop icon Robbie Williams waged a nasty legal battle with his London neighbor, Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page, for more than a decade over modernizing a historic Holland Park estate.
Perhaps the most iconic dispute of all was Katy Perry’s multi-year legal battle with a group of nuns who tried to block her $14.5 million purchase of their former convent.
Keep scrolling for a look back and some of the strangest celebrity neighbor and real estate battles:
Jeff Lewis vs. Machine Gun Kelly
The Flipping Out star vented his frustrations about MGK’s alleged wild antics several times on his SiriusXM show Jeff Lewis Live in 2020. The pair lived near one other in Los Angeles at the time.
“Now, I have no issue with this guy but there’s tension brewing,” Lewis said on his radio show. “He said it’s actually going to turn into the movie Neighbors and that he’s Zac Efron, which means that I’m f***ing Seth Rogen.”
The famously outspoken Lewis insisted he didn’t “hate” MGK — he was simply speaking out because some of their neighbors had similar frustrations.
“I’ve learned a lot about him,” Lewis complained on his radio show. “At 5 p.m. — that to them is day drinking. He had a big cake in the shape of a guitar [at his ‘Dirty 30’ party]. They still park in front of the fire hydrant, they park in front of people’s driveways. It’s just, I think they’re so f***ed up that they just stop the car wherever it lands.”
MGK eventually smoothed things over by sending Lewis a bottle of champagne and inviting him over to meet face-to-face.
“I wish we would have had a chance to meet,” he said via Instagram. “If you ever need anything, just come knocking. … Cheers, neighbor.”
Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard vs. Justin Bieber
Bieber has had numerous run-ins with his neighbors over the years, including settling a lawsuit in 2018 filed by Jeffrey and Suzanne Schwartz. The suit alleged that Bieber antagonized the Schwartzes with loud parties and egging their home, in addition to allegedly spitting in Jeffrey’s face during one heated confrontation. (Bieber served probation in a separate criminal plea deal after pleading no contest to one count of misdemeanor vandalism. At the time, Bieber’s attorney said he was “glad to get this matter resolved and behind him.”)
Bell and Shepard, who once lived nearby, complained during a 2012 appearance on The View that the “Honest” singer was not particularly neighborly.
“The music and the parties and the paparazzi, I mean, it’s like living in Lebanon now,” Shepard said.
Bell backpedaled slightly by explaining, “In his defense, I will say we don’t know the exact house the music is coming from. We just know since he moved in, the music has been blaring.”
Magic Johnson and Samuel L. Jackson vs. Denzel Washington, Reba McEntire, Eddie Murphy
This unusual disagreement developed over an access gate used by the famous residents of the Beverly Park community in Los Angeles.
The residents of the North Beverly Park side of the community – including Washington, McEntire, Murphy, producer Haim Saban and late Viacom chairman Sumner Redstone — banned service workers (such as nannies and gardeners) for residents of the South side from using their main access gate. This required visitors to travel an additional seven miles to access the South side’s 16 homes behind its own access gate.
Residents of the South Beverly Park – including NBA great Johnson and Marvel star Jackson – filed a lawsuit in 2005, accusing the Northside residents of being “downright unneighborly,” according to The AP.
A judge agreed with the Southern residents and allowed “guests and invitees” of both Beverly Park neighborhoods to use whichever access gate they preferred.
Charlie Sheen vs. Ursula Auburn
Auburn may not be a recognizable name but she claimed that Sheen used her as inspiration for one of the most memorable characters from his sitcom Two and Half Men — the obsessive neighbor Rose, played by Melanie Lynskey.
According to Fox News, Sheen reached a private financial settlement with Auburn in 2007 after she filed a lawsuit against him the previous year. Auburn alleged in her lawsuit that Sheen used some of their real encounters when creating the “wacky neighbor and female stalker Rose.”
Auburn also accused Two and a Half Men of copying her wardrobe and personal style in creating Lynskey’s character. She initially went public with the feud by creating a website all about her interactions with Sheen.
Jim Belushi vs. Julie Newmar
When he wasn’t filming his hit ABC sitcom According to Jim, Belushi spent lots of time throughout early aughts fighting with his neighbor, Batman star Newmar. Long running animosity between the Brentwood, California residents exploded once Belushi filed a $4 million lawsuit accusing Newmar of instigating a “malicious and premeditated campaign to prevent and destroy [his] quiet peace” in 2004.
The feud started when Newmar objected to Belushi building a second house on the back of his property, alleging that his plans violated their neighborhood’s zoning plan. Belushi fired back by accusing Newmar of defaming and harassing him.
After years of battling in the courtroom, the pair released a joint statement to confirm they’d settled their legal dispute in 2006.
“Belushi and Newmar have amicably resolved their dispute and regret any harm they may have caused to the other,” their representatives said. “They look forward to a peaceful and neighborly relationship.”
Belushi extended Newmar an olive branch by inviting her to guest star on According to Jim, where they poked fun at their legal battle.
Porsha Williams Vs. Simon Guobadia
The Real Housewives of Atlanta star was in the middle of divorce proceedings with estranged husband Guobadia when he was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in February 2025. He remains in ICE custody at the Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Georgia as of May 2025.
Guobadia’s detainment came about due to President Donald Trump’s mass deportation plan for undocumented immigrants, which could see him deported to Nigeria.
The timing of Guobadia’s detainment put the status of his and Williams’ $7 million mansion into limbo. In Touch reported in March 2025 that Williams filed a legal notice for the property to notify officials of her ongoing divorce proceedings.
Williams sought to prevent the sale of the 284 square-foot estate home until a settlement was reached with Guobadia. She also requested exclusive use of the mansion until a division of marital assets occurred.
In the meantime, Real Housewives of Atlanta viewers saw Williams touring new homes in a season 16 episode. Guobadia’s absence was noticeable as she visited a media room big enough to house a golf simulator.
“We left the person that likes golf at the other house,” she quipped.
Katy Perry vs. Sisters of the Most Holy and Immaculate Heart of Mary
The “Woman’s World” singer ended up in an unlikely – and costly feud – with a group of nuns when she planned to buy a former Los Angeles convent in 2015.
Two elderly nuns from the Sisters of the Most Holy and Immaculate Heart of Mary objected to Perry’s purchase of the property from the Archdiocese of Los Angeles for $14.5 million. The nuns were intent on selling the property for $15.5 million to developer Dana Hollister, who’d promised to restore the convent and open it to the public.
Perry teamed up with the Archdiocese in a lawsuit to prevent the nuns from selling the convent to Hollister. One of the nuns involved, Sister Catherine Rose Holzman, collapsed during one court hearing and later died.
A 2017 court decision finally granted Perry the right to purchase the property, provided it was approved by the Vatican. (Any sale of Catholic Church property exceeding $7.5 million requires final approval from the Vatican.)
However, the Vatican temporarily blocked the sale unless Perry could find a replacement location for the convent’s House of Prayer. Perry eventually backed out of the sale, though both the singer and the Archdiocese received a multimillion dollar payout when a judge ruled that developer Hollister intentionally interfered with Perry’s attempted purchase.
Robbie Williams vs. Jimmy Page
One of the most bizarre chapters of U.K. pop icon Williams’ life was missing in his 2024 biopic Better Man, as he was involved in a property feud with Led Zeppelin guitarist Page for more than a decade.
The pair became neighbors in London’s Holland Park district in December 2013 when Williams paid $17.5 million for Woodland House, which is adjacent to Page’s own historic property, Tower House. Page almost immediately took issue with Williams’ plans to modernize Woodland House, including adding a basement, demolishing the garage and adding a window that offered a view of Page’s property.
“I am now faced with having to fight a new threat to this precious and unique building,” Page complained in a letter of complaint to the local council.
Once Page raised a formal complaint with the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, both rockers exchanged insults in various interviews. Williams was unknowingly caught on a hot mic at an Italian radio station accusing Page of being “mentally ill” and “sitting in his car outside our house with the windows down, four hours at a time with recording equipment,” according to The Daily Mail.
“He’s recording the workmen to see if they’re making too much noise. And also two weeks ago, the builders came in and he was asleep in his garden, waiting,” Williams claimed in a moment he didn’t realize was being recorded, per the outlet.
Williams later retracted his statements, saying, “Jimmy Page has explained to me that certain specific factual assertions which I made were in fact not true and I am happy to accept what Jimmy Page says.”
“I understand why Jimmy Page will have found my comments offensive and I apologize for any hurt that they have caused him and his family as a result,” Williams concluded.
The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea granted Williams permission to finally move forward with his construction 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 caused water damage at his Pacific Palisades, California home. Scully claimed that Stallone’s landscapers allowed water runoff to invade his nearby property after altering a hill that bordered their two homes.
Scully sought $106,000 in damages from Stallone, though he was only marginally successful once the case went to court.
When a Los Angeles Superior Court judge determined that Stallone’s landscaping was only partially responsible for property damage at Scully’s residence, the payout was lowered significantly to $69,000 for repairs.
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