First, Faye Dunaway:

Faye Dunaway is a defendant in case No. 76667/11 in Manhattan housing court, just another rent-stabilized tenant facing eviction. In a lawsuit filed Tuesday, her landlord claims that Ms. Dunaway, who pays $1,048.72 a month for a one-bedroom walk-up apartment in a century-old tenement building on East 78th Street, does not actually live there, but rather lives in California.

So what? The property's rent-controlled, and under local law someone benefitting from rent stabilisation needs to actually live for the majority of the time in the property. Her relationship with her landlords appears to have already been fractious, with a claim of unpaid rent back in 2009. How's it looking, according to the New York Times her New York neighbours claim to have never met her.

Next, Burt Reynolds:

The 75-year-old actor is being taken to court after claims he has failed to make a payment on his waterfront mansion for almost a year.Lawyers for Merrill Lynch have asked a judge to sell the £1.4million house, set in 4.5 acres, so they can recover the £700,000 the bank says it is owed.

The property has a beach, a pool, even - bizarrely - it's own hairdressers. It's actually a rather sad story, of prescription pain killers, heart problems and a failing career.

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