You KNOW the real estate market in Los Angeles is teetering on the brink when the LA Times features a story about L.A. Ink star and tattoo artist Kat Von D LEASING a guest house! Usually celebrity real estate stories feature huge multi million dollar home sales or purchases, so the paper must be rather hard up for news. Kat, who's dating Nikki Sixx, leased a 500 square foot furnished one room studio with a parking space above Sunset Strip for $2000 a month. That's considered a real bargain in this town.

LA Ink star Kat von D brought some much needed effervescence to the Young Hollywood Awards red carpet - her boyfriend Nikki Sixx let her walk it alone and bask in reality show glory. Reporters asked her if she and Nikki were planning to marry and she coyly replied "maybe." She'd BETTER think it over. This girl has questionable taste in men - she actually used to date Steve-O.
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Kat Von D is carving out quite a name for herself in the world of LA tattoo shops. She films her TLC reality show called LA Ink at her place on La Brea called High Voltage Tattoo and has more customers than she knows what to do with. We were enthralled with the fact that her boyfriend is Alex Orbison the drummer from Whitestarr - who happens to be the legendary Roy Orbison's son! Above, she's at the Letterman show where she displayed her latest artwork.



