Mom of octuplets may be evicted from home

La Habra, Calif. — Octuplets mom Nadya Suleman could be kicked out of her Southern California home.

Mortgage holder Amer Haddadin says he is starting foreclosure proceedings on the $565,000 La Habra residence because the family hasn’t kept up the payments.

His friend and adviser, Ramsey Masso, said Friday that Haddadin signed over the home to Suleman’s father last year.

Ed Suleman, who leased the home to his daughter, was supposed to pay about $4,000 a month and a final balloon payment of $450,000 that was due earlier this month.

Masso says the family was late on recent payments and also missed the balloon payment.

Court: Smith estate gets none of oil fortune

San Francisco — A federal appeals court ruled Friday that Anna Nicole Smith’s estate will get none of the more than $300 million the late Playboy model claimed a Texas billionaire to whom she was briefly married meant to leave her after he died.

The ruling came in a 15-year legal battle that started in a sleepy Houston probate court and stretched all the way to the U.S Supreme Court.

It initially pitted Smith against the son of J. Howard Marshall over the $1.6 billion estate the oil tycoon left after his 1995 death at age 90. J. Howard Marshall had wed Smith the year before when she was 26.

Marshall’s son E. Pierce Marshall died in 2006 and Smith perished after a drug overdose in 2008. Their heirs and lawyers kept up the legal fight that included one ruling awarding Smith $474 million.

Kent Richland, who represents the Smith estate, said he would appeal the latest ruling.

Eric Brunstad, a lawyer for Marshall family members, said they hoped the legal fight was over.

Bullock still poised for successful future

Los Angeles — Sandra Bullock reached the pinnacle of her profession on March 7, when she won an Academy Award. Her husband, Jesse James, was by her side. He even teared up when she went on stage to accept the Oscar.

Little more than a week later, amid allegations of James’ infidelity, Bullock canceled a planned appearance at the London premiere of the movie that won her the prize, citing “unforeseen personal reasons.”

But the brand-new Oscar winner isn’t likely to experience any professional consequences from this public exposure of her personal pain.

“If anything, it would engender a massive amount of sympathy toward her, and she’s already exceedingly well liked,” said veteran publicist Michael Levine.