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But a simple check of L.A. County’s public records reveals that almost none of the homes featured on
the tour (simply titled Hollywood
Tours) that day have ever been associated with the stars mentioned.
A Beverly Hills home said to belong
to Jennifer Aniston in fact belongs
to Dr. Phil. Kobe Bryant was said to
live down the street from Aniston,
when in fact Bryant’s three homes
can be found in Newport Beach.
Lili Bosse, a Beverly Hills city
council member, is the actual owner of a home the tour linked to Kim
Kardashian. She laughed about it in
a conversation with Huffington the
day after the tour.
“Kim Kardashian has never lived
in this home,” she confirmed. “We
have tour buses all the time, and
the names are constantly changing.
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I guess Lili Bosse isn’t interesting
enough,” she joked.
Star tours started appearing in
L.A. almost as soon as entertainment industry blossomed in the
region, and the tour bus industry’s most recent crop of independent operators all model themselves after Starline, a Hollywood
tours juggernaut that has been
operating since 1935. Today, dozens of hawkers work on commission on Hollywood Boulevard, selling perpetually discounted tickets
for celebrity home tours.
For Starline, dominating the industry means occasionally getting
blamed for the less scrupulous actions of their scrappy little competitors. While there is no real effort to
keep track of which tours lie (confirming the veracity of Hollywood
home tours isn’t high on the list of
priorities for city officials), many
tours were on routes similar to the
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partnered
with Starline
in May
of 2011
for a tour
experience
that
spotlights
celebrities’
most
embarrassing
moments.