New Cases

Rumors of a pool-table-top murder within an uninhabited Hollywood Hills mansion’s billiards room: false.

The one about aliens landing on the 22-acre property, giving them a clear view of the Los Angeles skyline and the whitewashed Hollywood sign: false.

Speculation about the soft pink Mediterranean home’s owner filing bankruptcy papers, desperate to avoid a foreclosure auction: true.

Chicago’s largest balloon seller has filed for bankruptcy protection, but owner Lee Kaufman insists the party isn’t over.

At 100 years old, helium-filled balloon distributor M.K. Brody & Co. still turns a profit but blamed its financial unease on several events that sucked the air out of its finances.

For one Florida company, it’s out with the citrus and in with the stone.

Old Corkscrew Plantation LLC, which has thousands of acres of orange groves on its Florida property, doesn’t seem to have any immediate ideas for how to restructure the hefty debt load that propelled it into bankruptcy on Friday. It does, however, have big plans for the future of its business: Scrap all that citrus, and start digging up minerals.

Hello, and welcome to The Broke and the Beautiful. With this new weekly fixture, Bankruptcy Beats aims to bring you a roundup of the biggest celebrity-related bankruptcy news. This week, creditors of Eva Longoria’s Beso LLC want a trustee for the business, whose nightclub just closed. Rapper 50 Cent is fighting former protégé Young Buck’s bankruptcy plan, and the Los Angeles Dodgers make headlines with news on injured fan Bryan Stow.

A Las Vegas church that’s tried to redirect some of Sin City’s glitzy brilliance to illuminate one of its darker corners—its robust sex trade—has