As pop-prince Michael Jackson nears the end of his second month’s stay at the Palms, he has told friends that he’s house hunting here in Vegas again. The news comes against the backdrop of a last-ditch effort to save his Neverland ranch in Santa Barbara as bankers move to foreclose on it.

“Michael is quite prepared for it to go now,” I was told. “He’s lost all interest in it, and if it pays off $23 million in loans then he’s just as happy.”

Billionaire grocery mogul Ron Burkle apparently pleaded to Fortress Investments not to foreclose instantly on the famous ranch to recoup their massive loans to the King of Pop. The slight stall may have won him a short reprieve, but there’s still no-one waiting in the wings to buy it—so expect that storm to hit any moment.

According to my gossip pal, Roger Friedman at FOX News, Michael has also dumped his controversial antagonistic long-time manager publicist Raymone Bain—and he’s juggling a possible appearance at the upcoming 50th Annual Grammy Awards ceremony all by himself on Sunday Feb. 10. The world-telecast of him performing with Will.I.Am, Kanye West and Akon, who duet on his new 25th Anniversary edition “Thriller” album being released on Feb. 12, would be extraordinarily valuable for sales.

Says Roger, “It all sounds good, but without a manager Michael’s unlikely to get it altogether himself and is now unlikely to show up.”

Meantime as we reported yesterday in our Luxe Life late posting, Michael has taken on the role of Mr. Nanny, taking his children out for trips to the Luxor—first to see the IMAX 3D movie there and then the mid-afternoon show of ventriloquist Ronn Lucas.

Roger revealed that his children’s longtime nurse, Grace Rwaramba is out sick and he won’t allow her near them all at the Palms until she’s well again.

Yesterday Luxe Life was hard at work trying to get a photo of teen-princess Miley Cyrus playing with the dolphins at Seigfried & Roy’s Secret Garden and Dolphin Habitat at The Mirage!. Finally we succeeded and here’s the one and only shot of Miley with her mom and younger sister Noah.

While Montana-mania was in full scream as fans waited for her MGM Grand Garden Arena concert, the young singer squeezed in a two-hour break to take part in the Dolphin Training Program at The Mirage!

Hours before they arrived to host a party at the new Privé nightclub in Planet Hollywood Resort, Playboy cover-girl and reality star Kim Kardashian was involved in some saucy shenanigans inside a photo-booth with her Saints running back boyfriend, Reggie Bush! Their amorous antics had all of the Sundance Film Festival attendees agog. One of the star-swag gift-suites there featured the photo booth—naturally the sponsor was Lifestyles Condoms, promoting safe romantic romps! Apparently Kim and Reggie decided to put it to the test! I need say no more. Naturally they kept the four-strip photos of their make-out maneuvers all to themselves!

Later they showed up here at Privé and even Eddie Murphy and the cast of Entourage showed up to check out the cuddling couple! Kim arrived in a tightly fitted sexy blue dress and high-heeled Christian Louboutin shoes.

“It’s a night off from filming our reality show’s second TV season,” said Kim. The romantic two-some didn’t care who saw them kissing, cuddling and draping themselves all over each other—even without the privacy of a photo-booth! Kim ordered up Dom Perignon champagne, Grey Goose vodka and Hennessey cognac for her friends, and it was 2:30 a.m. before they decided to call it a night. He was off for football and she was off to Colorado to film a family getaway for the show.

Before they left, in came Eddie Murphy with an entourage of 30 people including the Entourage stars Kevin Dillon and Kevin Connolly—and that prompted boxer Zab Judah to buy 50-magnums of champagne at once to welcome them all! Not to be outdone, rival fighter Floyd Mayweather Jr. bought three larger bottles of Perrier Jouet Rose and tossed out $5,000 onto the dance floor. Watching in amazement were Floyd’s Dancing with the Stars pals, Mario Lopez and Stacey Keibler, actors Adrian Brody and Anthony Michael Hall and MySpace’s chieftain, Tom Anderson!

“It just doesn’t stop here, does it?” said Mario to me. “Vegas just keeps on getting wilder every time I come here.”

“Where else can you drink a Guinness on a red carpet?” asked Entourage star Kevin Dillon as he hosted the grand opening of the new McFadden’s Irish pub restaurant saloon at the Rio resort casino. He had gorgeous America’s Next Top Model contestants Mercedes Yvette and April Wilkner alongside.

As Kevin walked into the new 7,000 square foot saloon to setup shop on the 100 foot-long mahogany bar, the DJ played the Entourage theme. Dillon shouted “Victory,” as his character Johnny Drama does on the fictional “Viking Quest” show within the show! Also attending the red carpet gala opening were magicians Penn & Teller who appear at the Rio, Nathan Burton who appears in Comedy Magic at Planet Hollywood’s Miracle Mile, the sexy X girls from the Flamingo’s X-Burlesque show and Murray Sawchuck, star of VH1’s new reality series Celebracadabra.

Kevin’s “ceremony” capped a three-day non-stop opening which featured a calendar girl competition, and he wound-up picking the winner and giving her $1,000!

Not only did pop-queen and Grammy Award winning artist Ashanti host her party at Pure nightclub in Caesars Palace, but she also debuted her soon-to-be released track “The Way That I Love You.” The R&B bombshell even performed some of her older favorites for the excited crowd.

For yet another night, fighter Mike Tyson stopped by, greeted Ashanti, and then settled in his VIP booth with the ladies. He’d returned there for a second consecutive night and happily posed for photos with fans.

Alongside Tyson were members of the NHL’s Colorado Avalanche, San Jose Sharks and football greats Marcus Washington of the Washington Redskins and NFL Pro-Bowl defensive end Simeon Rice, who stuck to Voss water. Gorgeous actress Tiffani Thiessen celebrated her birthday in style at Pure after feasting with friends on chicken salad, sushi and sake up at the Social House restaurant’s Newspaper Room in TI. The former Saved by the Bell beauty was surprised with a super-sized birthday cake presented by the sexy Las Vegas Pussycat Dolls who performed a “Happy Birthday” sing-along. Watching the festivities at the next-door VIP booth was femme-boxer Tatyana Ali.

Meantime down at sister-club LAX in the Luxor, it looked as if its was UFC “boys night out.” The macho-men of the octagon included both Mike Swick and Josh Burkman after their fight, which Mike narrowly won. UFC stars Randy Couture, Gray Maynard, Jay Heiron, Manny Gamburyan, David Terrell, Patrick Cole and, of course, Tito Ortiz with galpal Jenna Jameson after a sake sushi session at Social House, were all there lending support. Even now-regular night owl Mike Tyson popped in, and Mindfreak magician Criss Angel mingled with poker stars Phil Ivey and David Williams. Also hitting LAX was System of a Down drummer John Dolmayan, celebrity chef Kerry Simon, U.S. soccer star Cobi Jones and NFL signal caller Jay Fiedler.

Finally, our congratulations to good friend, zany comic Carrot Top on the third anniversary of his box-office smash-hit show at the Luxor and for landing his own new reality TV show. The redheaded prince-of-props celebrated in high style by partying late into the night at the LAX nightspot!

It’ll be several weeks before the Guinness World Records statisticians declare the Vegas Strip “chorus line” no.1 in the world, but it’s sure looking good.

Over 1,700 ladies clad in their traditional bright red and purple outfits high-stepped it down the boulevard to Harrah’s where comedienne Rita Rudner and singer songwriter Melissa Manchester greeted them. It was all part of the opening celebrations for the new Hats! musical at the resort casino that celebrates women’s maturity as they hit the big 5-0!

Melissa wrote several of the songs for the show and starred for a while in the Chicago version. Rita follows the show each night with her comedy act as the Harrah’s headliner.

*An advance heads-up that Tao’s executive chef at The Venetian, Sam Hazen, will feature on an advance Super Bowl segment on NBC’s Today Show tomorrow morning at 8:30 a.m. He’ll showcase his signature Tao dishes of roasted Buddha chicken lollipops, dragon tail spare ribs, oyster shooters and tuna tartar fish tacos. In addition, Sam will give hints on how to keep updating the menu throughout the big game.

*Two giant sports figures arrived simultaneously, but separately, at the N9NE Steakhouse in the Palms. For NASCAR racer Jeff Gordon it was “boys night out” with five guys, and for star Kansas City Chiefs running back Larry Johnson it was “date night” with his lovely companion!

*CineVegas film-festival executives hosted a luncheon in the new Fin restaurant at the Park City Sky Lodge during the rival Sundance Film Festival for our chairman, Dennis Hopper. Artistic director Trevor Groth and VIP guests included our heroic head-honchos, CineVegas Presidents Robin and Danny Greenspun.

Dennis premiered two of his films, “Sleepwalking” and “Hell Ride” while there, but promises both will be seen here when he returns to Vegas for the 10th annual CineVegas Film Festival June 12–21, 2008.

*Congratulations to young actress Abigail Breslin, just named ShoWest’s “Female Star of Tomorrow.”

It’s the first award announced by the annual convention of the movie industry and theater owners to be held here at Bally’s & Paris hotel resorts, March 10-13. Abigail actually made her big screen debut at just five years of age in Mel Gibson’s Signs, and followed with Little Miss Sunshine. Abigail has already worked with such stars as Kate Hudson, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and James Garner—and she’s only now 11. She will be seen next with Jodie Foster in Nim’s Island, opening April 4.

Congratulations to Brendan Fraser on the second award—the “Distinguished Decade of Achievement in Film.” He made his debut in 1992’s Encino Man. The movie industry is already abuzz about his huge summer release, Journey 3D follow-up to such action blockbusters as The Mummy trilogy, Crash and George of the Jungle. Based on the classic Jules Verne novel, “Journey to the Center of the Earth,” this flick is the first live-action digital 3-D movie ever. Next year he’ll be seen in Inkheart with Helen Mirren.

LUXE LIFE will have all the award announcements between now and the celebrity-crowded closing ceremonies on March 13. Over 5,000 delegates from more than 50 countries as far away as Asia and Australia will be in Vegas for the single largest gathering of motion picture professionals in the world.

*The 4th annual National Heads-Up Poker Championship is all set to return to Caesars Palace starting Feb. 28 thru March 2 with 64 of the world’s most elite poker players. Gorgeous model-actress LeeAnn Tweedon will serve as the sideline reporter interviewer for the three-day tournament, which will be broadcast on NBC over seven consecutive weekends in April and May! The “who’s who” of the poker world includes defending champion Paul Wasicka, 2006 champion Ted Forrest, 2005 champion Phil Hellmuth and 2007 World Series of Poker (No Limit Texas Hold ’em) Champion Jerry Yang. Also competing in the ultimate one-on-one showdown will be Johnny Chan, Antonio Esfandiari, Sam Jamie Gold, Joe Hachem, Gus Hansen, Phil Laak, Howard Lederer, and Daniel Negreanu, among many others.

*Congratulations to our hometown Mosaic musical group for picking up their “Next Great Acapella Group” award on the CBS Early Show earlier this week. Comedy-king George Wallace discovered them here and gave them an early break with an on-stage run with him at the Flamingo. The nationwide search was judged by best-selling Motown group, Boyz II Men.

Mosaic, formed three-years ago, comprises six members: Josh Huslig, Sean Gerrity, Corwyn Hodge, Troy Dolendo, Heath Burgett and John Gibson. They moved here from Florida in 2006.

Comedy-king Drew Carey brings a lineup of improv comedy stars to MGM’s Hollywood Theater for four nights of standup—unrehearsed, unscripted and totally unique! On hand will be Greg Proops, Ryan Stiles and Chip Easten from Whose Line is it Anway? Plus, Mimi herself, Kathy Kinney, from the Drew Carey show, and sketch comics Julie Larson, Jeff Davis and Sean Masterson… Iceman Chuck Liddell, the UFC heavyweight champion, will sign copies of his new book “My Fighting Life” at the main entrance bar to the Mandalay Bar Events Center. He writes candidly about his life growing up in poverty and his battle to become a top fighter. Never heard of a book-signing in a bar, so buy a drink at the same time!… The O’Jays smooth their old-time R&B harmonies into The Orleans through Sunday night… Direct from London’s famed Palladium theater, several top British variety acts amaze at the Suncoast for a three-night run of Variety Live!… The Bravery have Switches as their special guests for their House of Blues show at Mandalay Bay… Kurtis Blow will “slide” at the Tabu ultra-lounge in MGM Grand…

It’s Superbowl weekend 42—and while it’s the grapple of the Giants and the power of the Patriots, just a hop, skip and a jump down to the Valley of the Sun, our Vegas valley is jam-packed with stars and attractions. Can you believe Madison Avenue is shelling out $2.7 million for each 30-second commercial? If the New England team wins it will be a perfect season undefeated—and you have to go back to both the 1972 Miami Dolphins and the 16-game expanded regular season in 1978 for the last time that happened. We’ve got the entire rundown of one of the biggest weekends in the (sports) book!

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