Timelines for year 2009
Milla Jovovich
Sold her four-bedroom, 3582-square-foot house in Beverly Hills, Calif. for $2.750 million. She originally purchased the house in late 2001 for $1.8 million.
She owns a 5559-square-foot house in Los Angeles' Hollywood Hills that she purchased in 1998 for $775,000. A 4026-square-foot house in Beverly Hills that she paid $2,223,000 for in 2004. And a 3010-square-foot house in the Doral Isles St. Croix development in Doral, Florida (just outside Miami) that she purchased in 2005 for $910,000.
Idina Menzel
Idina and her husband, Taye Diggs, are expecting their first child, due later this year .
Idina gave birth to her first child with husband Taye Diggs, a boy named Walker Nathaniel Diggs, on September 3, 2009.
Eric Bruno Borgman
Eric filmed his comedy The Girl of His Dreams, starring Andria Blackman, Greg Seymore and Casey McDougla.
Scarlett Johansson
Raised money for international relief organization Oxfam by auctioning off two tickets for He's Just Not That Into You on eBay, giving the winning bidders the opportunity to mingle with her.
Replaced Brazilian 'Gisele Bundchen' as the face of "Dolce & Gabbana" perfumes .
Dolly Parton
Inducted into the Music City Walk of Fame (Nashville, TN) in 2009.
In 2009 the University of Tennessee - Knoxville presented Parton with an Honorary Doctor of Humane and Musical Letters Degree. Parton was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Letters Degree from Carson-Newman College in 1990.
During the 40th Annual Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards in 2009, Parton won for Best Musical Score for "9 To 5: The Musical" which played the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles during in the fall of 2008.
She was nominated for a Tony Award (Best Score for a Musical) for her work on "9 To 5: The Musical" in 2009. She did not win the honor. The Tony was bestowed to the score writers of the Broadway musical "Next to Normal".
Elected into the Gospel Music Association's Gospel Music Hall of Fame in 2009.
Bryce Dallas Howard
Was a huge fan of the Terminator franchise before she was cast in the series fourth chapter - Terminator Salvation .
Tiffani Thiessen
Won the CLCA Green Image Award presented by the "Green Expo/Green Image Awards" for her contributions to help residents learn sustainable living techniques and support the California Green Movement .
Made USA network audition casting history, when the role of Elizabeth Burke on "White Collar" took her no more than 3 hours to read for her scene with Tim DeKay before it was finally decided that she was cast.
Shannen Doherty
Landed a second job as an art director for a California based magazine called, 'Pasadena' .
Listed her Malibu beach home at $4 million. The gated mansion, built in 1976, has five bedrooms and 4 bathrooms in 3,410 square feet. It has an outdoor patio with a waterfall, overlooking an ocean view with 1 acre of park-like grounds and includes a pool and spa .
Michael Jackson
Two months after his death, just before what would be his 51st birthday, and the day of his burial, his Number Ones album surpassed Taylor Swift's highly successful album Fearless as the best selling album of 2009 at that point.
It is estimated that Michael Jackson's earnings in the six months following his death on June 25 2009 will top the entire $149 million (£90 million) made by Jimi Hendrix since he passed away in 1970.