Celebrity New Year Parties 2009

Usher in your new year with Usher? 

That's one of 32 ways we were invited to posture with famous faces on the biggest night of the year.

Today: Coast to Coast Scouting Report on Celebrities Hosting New Year's Parties.

City 1: New York City

Known For: Relocating to Miami

Emanuelle Chriqui and Perez Hilton - Gansevoort

Mario Lopez - Marquee

Miami

Known For: Celebrity Gravity

Mollie Sims, Adam Levine, and Diddy at Liv, Blade, and poolside Fontainebleau Hotel

Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson - Mansion

Bustah Rhymes and Pras of the Fugees - Shore Club

Macy Gray (Taft '93) - The Setai

John Legend - Prive

Oddball Award: Chloe Sevigny and "going to jail in 2009" rapper T.I.- Gansevoort South Hotel

Las Vegas

Oddball Award:

Denise Richards, Lance Bass, & Run DMC - Prive (Planet Hollywood)

Heidi Montag & Spencer Pratt - Christian Audigier (Treasure Island)

Fergie and Josh Duhamel - Lavo

Usher - The Bank (Bellagio)

Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz - Pure

The Kardashian Sisters - LAX

Benji Madden - Body English

New Kids on the Block Donnie Wahlberg & Danny Wood - Jet (Mirage)

Los Angeles  

Known for: Upholding its reputation as lamest NYE

**DJ AM and Travis Barker Concert - The Wiltern

Katy Perry - Paramount Studios

Oddball Award: XZibit hosts the posh, "Hills-like" Apple Lounge

And Look Who's Left On the Sidelines