It's a great house for entertaining with its gourmet kitchen and French doors leading from the dining room to a brick terrace. Rubenstein held many fund-raisers there with as many as 200 guests at a time. She described the house as a canyon retreat in the Beverly Hills Post Office area.
The Rhythm Nation pop star, now 59, called on producer Steve Nicolaides to make the sensitive request, according to an excerpt The Hollywood Reporter published from Jeff Pearlman's Only God Can Judge Me: The Many Lives of Tupac Shakur, out Tuesday. You know, Tupac's reputation is that he's a cat about town, the Grammy winner reportedly said. And I don't want to swap saliva with him until I'm really sure that he's healthy and clean.