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Christina Aguilera told USA Weekend magazine that she suffered from her father's abuse while her family was stationed on a military base. She says that domestic abuse is common on military bases in her experience. Starpulse runs the quote from the article with commentary that she's "attacking" military bases, but she seems to be speaking about her childhood and doesn't overgeneralize:
Aguilera has never been one to shy away from the abuse she experienced as her mother and father fought and often writes about her memories in songs like "I'm OK" and new song "Oh Mother."
She adds, "It's therapeutic for me to talk about it. It gives me a reason to understand why I went through what I did."
That's too bad that Christina had to go through that as a child and it's good that she found a decent man like Jordan and didn't pick another creep like her dad. It's hard to take her seriously as a person, though, when it's rumored that she doesn't even look interviewers in the eye. Still, she should be commended for talking about her difficult childhood.
Here is Christina in a Robert Sebree Photoshoot (via Gossipin) and in Seventeen Magazine (from Hollywood's Best)
Gallery of the Absurd has this fabulous new Mel Gibson bumper sticker. If they would create actual bumper stickers like this, they would sell out.
The pictures of Mel partying it up before refusing a ride home, getting arrested and going apeshit have come out. He looks every bit the aged, washed up bigot.
Mel also said back in the day that he hates gay people, and that he's such an asshole because he's a closet case:
He really must hate himself most of all for ruining his posh lifestyle making obscure vanity films.
People are pointing out that if Roman Polanski violated a 13 year-old girl and got his career back after fleeing the country, Mel can too. It took Polanski over twenty years. In Mel's case, he can probably put his extreme bigotry behind him in about ten.
Maybe he should just invest his money or go into real estate development.
Everyone was saying that Mel Gibson's career was over after he was caught defaming Jewish people during a DUI arrest. It was assumed that he would go on some sort of unspoken industry black list.
It's gone beyond passive-agressive whispers and shunning. People are so pissed that they're calling for an all-out boycott of Mel:
"The entertainment industry can't stand idly by and allow Mel Gibson to get away with such tragically inflammatory statements," Emanuel wrote.
"People in the entertainment community, whether Jew or gentile, need to demonstrate that they understand how much is at stake in this by professionally shunning Mel Gibson and refusing to work with him," said Emanuel.
The arresting officer, a Jewish guy with 17 years on the force, is contrite about the whole episode, and insists that he doesn't want to ruin Mel's career. Mel did that all on his own.
Meanwhile those stupid women on "The View" are trying to remain relevant by saying that they don't want to see any more Mel Gibson movies. Countless people undoubtedly agree with them.
The U.S. Jewish Anti-Defamation League has said his colleagues should "condemn him and distance themselves from him."
And it gets even better - it's come out that several people offered Gibson a ride home that night and he refused.
Gibson has checked himself into rehab in an effort to do damage control, but the damage is extensive and it's already done. He's richer than sin, and unless Opus Dei has taken all his cash he should sit back and enjoy his millions while waiting for this to pass. Maybe he should get some sensitivity training, too.
Now that the news is out that Mel is a royal jerk, the LA County Sheriff's department figured they may as well release his mug shot. The long beard is gone and he doesn't look half bad for a drunken bigot.
Posted to Abusive | Drunk | Mel Gibson | Scandals
I wouldn't mind having a $1,000 purse or some frivolous jeans, but I usually don't envy the very rich or famous - except when it comes to travelling. They don't have to go through the incredible bullshit that the rest of us endure just to get from point A to B.
After flying from NY to London with a three hour delay, then waiting 45 minutes in line to get my flight changed since I missed my connection, then flying another two hours and being made to wait standing outside a locked baggage claim office for ten minutes while the receptionists looked at me without a nod of acknowledgment, I almost started freaking out. Did I mention that I was alone with a two year-old toddler and had been travelling for 13 hours? I understood air rage at that moment.
When my husband told me that Naomi Campbell trashed her lover's yacht, I thought "Well maybe she had a hard day." Her days never approach the level of difficulty an average person faces, and she was on a chi-chi yacht with space and air, not some cramped commercial airline with overperfumed stewardesses.
While the rest of us get pissy and bitchy, Naomi Campbell takes dramatic, violent action.
Bitch caused $55,000 worth of damage after she got in a tiff with the chef over the plain mozarella and dried ham appetizer that he served. It seems she doesn't understand simple Italian fare, and she coped by busting up the place:
Fiery Naomi, 36, clashed with the chef aboard £1.5million yacht Nasma on Italy’s Tuscan riviera.
Naomi asked him to create a memorable, romantic meal for her and new lover Badr Jafar, a Dubai-born prince.
But his simple tomato, mozzarella and dried ham starter with a local white wine failed to impress.
Reports say Naomi — already fired up after a row with a photographer — told him where to shove it, and he hit back in “colourful Tuscan dialect”.
Staff on the 100ft yacht ducked as she lashed out at antiques, light fittings, china plates and glasses.
A man in Viareggio harbour said: “All hell seemed to break loose. All you could hear was shouting and screaming in English. There was the sound of plates being broken.
“Some of the crew later said the kitchen was a complete mess and the curtains and cushions had all been ripped apart.”
The chef, called Andrea, works at Viareggio restaurant il Porto.
A colleague said last night: “He wouldn’t have taken insults from Naomi.”
She needs to get medicated and go into therapy. I think she also should get dropped from all her current ad campaigns, because she's not going to change unless it hits her where it hurts. Hopefully one of the libel suits against her will also stick - hard.
Here she is looking like the victim for once. (Why do magazines do this to women? I usually don't complain about objectification, but this is ridiculous. It's Naomi, though, so that's ok.) These are from Style magazine and are low resolution.
Having failed to convert Britney Spears to Kabbalah, Madonna is trying to bring Lindsay Lohan into the fold. Lohan is in need of some spiritual guidance in between all of her exhausting bed hopping, and
admitted to being interested in the cult back in March:
Now that Lohan has stuck her little toe into the expensive Kabbalah tap water, Madonna has renamed her in an attempt to prime her for full-on indoctrination:
People who stay in cults are so gullible. (There's no shame in getting caught up in a cult or being born into one. Staying active in one for years by your own will and trying to convert other people is another thing.) Madonna may think she's the queen of pop music, but she's giving all her cash to some shysters in exchange for their bubble-gum insight and a sense of superiority. It may feed her smug attitude, but maybe she'll realize at some point what's going on and feel like the fool she is.
If you don't think Kabbalah is a cult, read cult expert Rick Ross' articles on it. Kabbalah and its founder, Philip Berg, have ruined lives and ripped off thousands of people. Lohan is about to be next. She loves spending money, and she's about to get a chance to throw some down the dark hole of manufactured spiritual enlightenment.
Here's a link to a good overview of the characteristics and techniques of cults. It's not just about losing money. A lot of families, friends, and personal identities get washed out too.
Here is Madonna with her daughter, Lourdes, in NY on 6/27, [via] and Lindsay Lohan at the opening of club Social Hollywood also on 6/27. [via]
Madonna is wearing blue slippers in these pics, and she's not wearing her wedding ring.
Predictably enough, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's legal team have sent out notices to several blogs to pull the baby shower pictures that capture their clients in private moments. The digital card with the photos was stolen, they say. They never sent notice to us, but TMZ is a higher-profile site and was threatened with a lawsuit:
This letter is to provide you with notice that the Stolen Photos are copyright protected, to which my clients own right and title thereto. Any unauthorized publication, reproduction or dissemination of the Stolen Photos constitutes an infringement of my clients' copyrights in violation of the U.S. Copyright Act, Title 17 of the United States Code Section 101, et seq., and exposes you, and anyone else acting in concert with you, to civil liability, damages, injunctive relief and reimbursement of all attorneys' fees and costs incurred by my clients in connection with any copyright infringement action. Furthermore, if any monies are paid for the purchase of the Stolen Photos, you will be engaged in the purchase of stolen property.
In addition, under the circumstances that the Stolen Photos were taken, namely, at private and personal events on private property, my clients had a reasonable expectation of enjoying total privacy. The publication of the photos would therefore constitute a unlawful invasion and violation of my clients' right of privacy and would also be an unauthorized commercial appropriation of their names, likenesses and personas.
Anyone who publishes, disseminates, displays or otherwise exploits the Stolen Photos will be liable for substantial compensatory damages, punitive damages, and injunctive relief. If you publish or disseminate and of the Stolen Photos, our clients will take further legal action to protect their rights, including by the filing of a lawsuit seeking compensatory and punitive damages, statutory damages for copyright violations, and attorneys' fees.
We'll take 'em down shortly, but as much as people like Angelina and Brad - they're too heavy handed with legal and security tactics. This is the cost of fame. If you don't like it, then don't try to fight it with all your might and just stop making movies. You could be gracious about it and play it up for what it's worth, but no, you have to fight every picture tooth and nail.
I understand not wanting someone to publish all 450 pictures, but making a huge fuss and threatening bloggers for publishing three of the pictures is ridiculous.
It's like the music industry acting all indignant that people are copying digital music. It's the nature of the medium, and that's how these things work. Digital files spread - get over it, and use it to your advantage.
Angelina decided to close down an entire country to give birth. What gives her that right? Namibia's National Society for Human Rights claims that Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are acting like "Colonial Overlords" and that they have no right to use an entire government to shield themselves from the paparrazi. The NSHR said "To shut down a national border so she can give birth in peace is a massive abuse of power."
To shut down a bunch of websites so people can't see your cute baby shower pictures is also a massive abuse of power. It's not on the same scale, but they're abusive. Fans made them popular and fans pay for their luxurious lifestyle. Just because they do some charity work doesn't mean that they don't have to play the game.
Posted to Abusive | Angelina Jolie | Arrogant | Brad Pitt | Brangelina | Photos
A lot of the crap that happens on movie sets would be a fireable, sueable offense in any office anywhere. Celebrities tell stories about their co-stars messing around and sexually harassing them during filming, and although they try to play it off, they're saying these things because they want people to know what they went through.
Case in point: Anne Hathaway. She was totally harassed by Stanley Tucci on the set of "The Devil Wears Prada." She says Tucci elbowed her in the chest repeatedly and she had to tell him to stop. The asshole didn't just do it once, he did it again and again and it was painful and probably embarassing to her:
The 'Devil Wears Prada' actress revealed her cheeky colleague would repeatedly elbow her in the chest to demonstrate his fondness of her assets.
She said: "He would just smack me in my boob and elbow me.
"It really hurt, so, after about the fourth time, I finally said, 'Stanley, can you please stay away from my t**s?'"
However, the curvaceous brunette insists Tucci wasn't deterred by her request.
She added: "He got really flustered and said, 'What do you expect? You're flinging those melons around like its harvest season'."
What an asshole! I would kill the guy - after I sued him for sexual harassment. I'm serious, there's no way I would tolerate being treated like that by a coworker.
There shouldn't be different rules for performers and office workers - when you're on the job, you're not supposed to grab people. Tucci should know better.
Sure some of the sexual harassment guidelines are a bit strict, and some people like to talk smack, but sexual jokes and comments - if they're not directed at someone or threatening - are much different than elbowing someone in the chest and telling them they're "flinging their melons" around.
Stanley Tucci does not have a fabulous career, and he does not deserve one if this is how he treats women.
Another actor who probably deserves his career slump is Ben Affleck. Director Kevin Smith said Affleck engaged in the bizarre practice of sneaking up behind him while he was sitting and putting his balls on Smith's bare neck while they were working. Christina Applegate also said that Ben put his "junk" on a suitcase during filming for "Surviving Christmas." Maybe now that he's a father he'll keep his "junk" in his pants where it belongs.
Here is Hathaway outside Nobu restaurant on 6/12 with her boyfriend, real estate developer Raffaello Follieri. She is also seen in InStyle Magazine, and in one candid at "The Devil Wears Prada" after party on 6/19.
Marc Anthony may or may not be ill. When we say he's ailing, we're referring to an earlier story where we speculated based on scant evidence that the Latin crooner is dying. He may not be verifiably ill, but he sure acts grumpy enough to at least be suffering from an intestinal disorder.
Anthony got in a fight with photographersat the Women in Film awards on Tuesday. When a photographer pushed him back while trying to get a picture of J.Lo he went off on the guy:
Anthony exploded, "'Don't ever push me again, and step back! Step back away from them,'" according to the source. "He physically shoved one guy back."
The snapper "briskly pushed away Marc's hand off his shoulder," but also apologized, says the witness.
Honoree Lopez had paused for a photo op with co-host Nicola Maramotti, wife of MaxMara owner Ignazio Maramotti. But Anthony had his enormous bodyguard plant himself in front of the offending photographer's shot.
Marc has a too-short fuse and is quick to declare his love for his diva wife. Somethings wrong with him!
Meanwhile J.Lo has publically denied that she's pregnant. People are insisting she is, though, because In Touch says she supposedly bought a diaper bag and told Leah Remini that her boobs are going to get bigger while they were out shopping for clothing. TMZ was there too, and said it's not true since sales staff swore that Lopez had a flat stomach.
Here is Marc doing his national duty as grand poobah of the Puerto Rican Day parade with J.Lo in tow on Saturday in NY City. [via]
BlogNYC ran a story about former playmate Stephanie Adams going batshit on a cabbie and then suing the NYPD for $5 million for being rough (topless photos NSFW) while arresting her for it. Adams promptly encouraged her "friends" on MySpace to bash BlogNYC and another reporting blog. Her "friends'" comments on the post are ad hominem attacks against the author, calling him "shitty" and criticizing the fact that he dared post a recap of the story. The papers who originally reported the story must have been beyond Adams' wrath since they don't accept comments.
Adams also sent a nasty all-caps e-mail to BlogNYC, threatening legal action if they didn't remove the photos they posted from her 14 year-old cheesy Playboy spread and dizzying mySpace. She tried to play herself off as her own shrieking publicist, but she couldn't hide behind her bad prose and caps lock.
YOU HAVE 24 HOURS TO REMOVE THESE PHOTOS OR WE WILL TAKE THE
APPROPRIATE LEGAL ACTION AGAINST YOU.
PUBLIC RELATIONS DEPARTMENT
---------------------------------------
WHILE 16 BOOKS RANGING FROM UNDER 100 PAGES (ONE BOOK) TO OVER 300
PAGES IS A GREAT DEAL MORE THAN SOME UNKNOWN WRITING ABOUT NOTEWORTHY
CELEBRITIES ON AN AMATEUR WEB SITE, THAT IS BESIDE THE CASE.
YOU DO NOT OWN THE COPYRIGHTS TO ANY OF THE PHOTOS AND THEY ALL HAVE
TO BE TAKEN DOWN.
THE PREVIOUS E-MAIL WAS COPIED TO PLAYBOY'S LEGAL DEPARTMENT IN
CHICAGO AND PLAYMATE PROMOTIONS IN CALIFORNIA REGARDING THE FOLLOWING:
http://blognyc.net/images/stephanie_adams_04.php
http://blognyc.net/images/stephanie_adams_05.php
http://blognyc.net/images/stephanie_adams_13.php
http://blognyc.net/images/stephanie_adams_14.php
AND GODDESSY OWNS THE COPYRIGHT TO THE FOLLOWING:
http://blognyc.net/images/stephanie-handcuffs.php
http://blognyc.net/images/stephanie_adams_08.php
http://blognyc.net/images/stephanie_adams_11.php
IF THE PHOTOS FROM GODDESSY ARE NOT TAKEN DOWN TODAY, WE WILL BE
CONTACTING OUR LEGAL DEPARTMENT TOMORROW.
IF THE PHOTOS FROM PLAYBOY ARE NOT TAKEN DOWN BY MONDAY, WE WILL SPEAK
WITH PLAYBOY'S LEGAL DEPARTMENT IN CHICAGO AND THEY WILL CONTACT YOU
DIRECTLY.
Poor Adams has to resort to yelling and citing her status as an author to get her point across, because she doesn't have the "capital" to sue over a critical blog post.
Adams is an out and proud lesbian, so while she's in touch with her sexuality she's not quite as aware of her personal failings. She believes she's some kind of psychic and offers "love readings," and "tarot readings" for $100 payable by PayPal on her website. The commentors attacking BlogNYC for writing an article about her are the same people who shell out $100 to get her shouted metaphysical e-advice.
She clearly has low self esteem. In an image caption on the front page of her website she writes "I never really cared about how others see me as much as I care about how I see myself when I look in the mirror." She's protesting too much. If that was true she wouldn't bother writing a single e-mail trying to silence bloggers.
These are Adams' MySpace pictures. So while her Playboy pictures might be copyrighted these pictures legally belong to MySpace, not her.
An article in the Sydney Morning Herald discusses how Russell Crowe tried to manipulate a journalist into writing positive stories about him, with the promise of becoming his publicist. Crowe had the guy and his wife over to his house several times, initially asking him to promote his sophmoric album to his friends in the press corps. He offered to pay him for his services, but the writer, who has a family and could have used the money, refused for moral reasons.
The journalist, Jack Marx, soon discovered how Crowe gets lauded in the press - he pulls this same buddy scam with tons of journalists, and even phones people personally to discuss negative articles about him.
Crowe befriended Marx and groomed him to write an article about him while he was promoting "Cinderella Man." Marx initially refused, saying he was too close to Crowe to be objective. Crowe insisted though, and Marx went through with it. When the article came out and it was cautiously positive and believable instead of kissing Crowe's ass - Crowe turned on him and dumped him as a friend.
He once bragged to me about how he had called a prominent Sydney gossip columnist who had been dumping on him, promising her that should she publish a positive word or two, he would grant her an exclusive interview. Like magic, a nice mention appeared in her column the following week, and the exclusive interview followed. It was doubtful, I thought, this transaction hadn't been noted by the columnist's peers, who'd consider her weak and Russell quite the meddler. If he needed an answer for why so many journalists disliked him, I thought, he need look no further.
That I was part of this nonsense was not lost on me, and at times it troubled me beyond mere embarrassment. One evening, I discussed with Russell a particular journalist who seemed to dislike him, and I suggested some approaches that might be useful in changing the journalist's mind. With a schoolboy laugh, Russell shook his head and declared that if it were too much trouble, he'd just have the bastard killed. He was joking, of course, and we both laughed a lot. But it got me to thinking: I wondered if this had ever happened in the annals of Hollywood's history with the press. Syndicates have killed for less, and we are talking about multi-million dollar estates...
What's more, I began to doubt whether my friendship with Russell Crowe was altogether exclusive. There were sightings of Russell taking long strolls with rival journalists. There was talk of him writing a book with another. On the grapevine, I heard of another Cinderella Man article in the works, the local journalist disclosing her friendship with Russell and telling of their late night chatter at the film star's north coast farm. I had been stroking my own ego with such industry it hadn't occurred to me that there may be other ponies on the same carousal.
Marx's article on Crowe came out, and was praised by other writers for presenting the bombastic actor as a decent guy with regular human failings. Crowe was mighty pissed at Marx for not making him seem better than God, and blew him off with a one-line e-mail: "Yeah, yeah, whatever."
Crowe later wrote him a longer message, completely dismissing him.
Crowe is a total asshole, and the next time you see a positive story about him in the press, realize that he most likely called the journalist or had her over for dinner. That seems to be his pasttime when he's not abusing hotel staff, trying to pass himself off as a humble singer, or getting paid millions to act in films.
The Sydney Morning Herald e-mailed me this story, and it was quite a useful tip. E-mail tips to info at celebitchy.com.
Posted to Abusive | Arrogant | Russell Crowe
Top gossip and fashion blogs are members of the "Glam Network," a celebrity and fashion site that partners with blogs with the promise of advertising revenue from ad placement. The Glam Network is scamming fashion and gossip bloggers into giving them massive free advertising in exchange for a small link on the Glam website and the promise of ad revenue which never materializes.
The Glam Network lures bloggers with exclusivity and .50 cents a click. After applying to join, your blog might get approved about a month later and you're sent a lengthy contract that states that Glam will pay you .50 cents a click for third party ads, which they can swap out with ads for Glam.com at their discretion. This sounds like a decent deal and it seems better than the payout for AdSense or CrispAds.
Glam never explains the contract in simple terms, and there are no Terms of Service or FAQs for Glam Network bloggers on their website.
In order to finalize your membership you're required to place one Glam ad, either 160x600, 300x250, or 728x90 on your site, along with a small Glam membership logo and a 160x200 Glam "Module" which features content from Glam. Most sites choose the large 728x90 vertical banner, assuming they're getting .50 cents a click.
Here's the relevant part of the contract:
The thing is - Glam doesn't give any payout for its own ads, and third party ads are rarely, if ever, seen. It also doesn't offer any real time statistics or network blog control panel. Get this - you have to e-mail them to request statistics and then take their word on it.
It is incredibly rare to see a third party ad on a Glam Network blog, and the Standard Blog Contract states that Glam can swap out the ads with free Glam ads at their discretion.
Celebitchy was approved for the Glam Network and we signed the contract this week. We got suspicious after we realized that we wouldn't receive any paying ads for a while, and that there were no statistics available.
Our contact at Glam e-mailed us:
I answered:
When we checked, only one Glam network blog had an ad that wasn't for Glam.com. We e-mailed with a top gossip blog that gets a huge amount of traffic and they said that they've had Glam ads up since April and only saw a third party ad appear occasionally at the beginning of this month, June
No one has ever been paid by Glam that we could verify. That same top gossip site told us that they've never seen a dime from Glam despite having their ads up since April.
Two other gossip bloggers told us they assumed they would be receiving .50/click for the huge ads on their site from Glam, and did not realize that there was no payout for Glam.com ads.
Glam is a much worse deal than CrispAds or AdSense because you don't get paid for every click - you get paid when Glam decides to throw you a bone, but they haven't paid anyone yet!
Glam might continue to get away with this because bloggers are afraid of being sued. The contract that we signed states that we have to give Glam 90 days notice before removing their ads.
We suggest that everyone who thought they would be receiving .50 a click for Glam ads remove them immediately.
To be fair, they did withdraw our contract without penalty when we requested it a day after signing up.
Once Glam tries to sue us for reporting this, we'll let you know. We're not going to take this down if they threaten us.
Update: One blogger claims to have been paid "not much" in March, but another e-mailed us to ask if we'd been paid, and said "Have you gotten paid yet? Not just told how much you're getting paid, but have you actually gotten paid? I haven't and it's been over a month." We only had Glam ads up for a day, so they're never going to pay us.
Posted to Abusive | Arrogant | Site Announcements
Thanks to the PopBitch e-mail newsletter for pointing this out. An easy nickname for Shiloh Pitt is Pile 'O Shit!
The poor girl is named after the place she was conceived and has a name that's not only weird, but quite easily mocked.
Brad and Angelina may not have anticipated the hysterical Spoonerism of their baby's name, but they did prepare for her blogging future. They're not taking any chances and had their lawyers snatch up most variations of the Shiloh Pitt domain name on Saturday when the baby was born.
PopBitch also states that Angelina and Brad's thugs are so unrelentless that they followed a journalist home and totally harrassed her. They also say that a female journalist got the scoop on Angelina's birth by sleeping with one of the male doctors at Swakopmund Cottage Hospital:
I do like Angelina and Brad, and I think they meant well by holing up in Namibia, but their staff is out of control and it makes them look like clueless squatters. It's also a sad commentary on the state of the gossip media when a "journalist" trades sex for a story. (If you send stories I'll give you a shout out at least. Just send me tips at info@celebitchy dot com.)
Posted to Abusive | Angelina Jolie | Babies | Brad Pitt | Brangelina
Johnny Depp and Kate Moss, who split up in 1997 after dating on and off for three years, may play ill-fated lovers Michael Hutchence and Paula Yates in a film about the INXS frontman's life.
But he is happy for Moss to get close again, and play Hutchence's girlfriend Paula Yates in the rock movie.
An insider said: "Johnny was asked if it would be a deal breaker for him if Kate was cast."
"He said 'Not as far as I'm concerned.' He figures there's been enough water under that bridge.
"Obviously director Nick Egan hoping there's still enough chemistry between them that will translate to the screen.
"It has been claimed she never got over him and in the film they'll have to appear deeply in love."
Both Yates and Hutchence are now dead. Hutchence was found dead in November, 1997, in a hotel room in Sydney. He was naked and died of self-suffucation from a leather belt. Yates insisted that Hutchence's death was an accident, and that he was practicing dangerous auto-erotic asphyxiation, or trying to increase sexual pleasure through lack of oxygen. Yates died in 2000 from a heroin overdose. She was said to be distraught over losing custody of her three ridiculously-named daughters to her ex husband, Bob Geldolf. Yates and Hutchence are survived by a ten year-old daughter, Heavenly Hiraani Tiger Lily. (Yes, that is her name.)
While Moss has her share of drug abuse and tragedy, which may help her relate to her character, it is unclear whether she can act. She has only bit parts to her credit. If she can act it will be an impressive role to add to her resume.
With Johnny Depp in the lead, people are sure to be interested in the film, and it could be an incredible story of the late Hutchence.
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Here is Kate Moss leaving her home on 5/25. [via]. Her left cheek looks swollen and there was a report that Pete Doherty hit her, but her publicist insists it's just a badly angled photograph.
A longer video of a Lindsay Lohan fan confronting Brandon Davis for his "firecrotch" rant has been posted on YouTube. You can even see the woman's face. She first yells at Brandon when he enters the club, and again confronts him when he comes out to smoke a cigarette. The video makes it seem as if she annoys Davis so much that he's forced to leave in a waiting limousine, but maybe it's just edited together to look that way.
The woman makes a good point when she tells Davis that Lohan earned her money while he got his from daddy. According to people dishing about the demise of Davis' relationship with Mischa Barton last spring, he had to ask his family for money constantly, which may explain his vile for "self-made" teen star Lohan.
Thanks to PhoenixComplex on the JJB board for posting the link to this video.
Posted to Abusive | Brandon Davis | Lindsay Lohan | Video
Star Magazine says that Tom Cruise has postponed his nuptuals to Katie Holmes, pending her complete submission to the cult of Scientology:
And he's willing to delay any nuptials to make certain - the report claims.
"There will be no (Nicole Kidman like) wiggle room," a source named Skip Press reveals to the weekly. "In the coming months, Press says, "Katie will undergo intensive training on how to spot and avoid anyone critical of Scientology."
"At the same time - the former Scientologist claims - "Her exposure to the outside world will be censored while she's flooded with Scientology doctrine.
Cruise's rep denies the story.
This seems like speculation from a former Scientologist based on his experiences with the cult. If he still has ties to the community and people are blabbing about Cruise's plans for Katie, it could be true.
It could be bad news for the doe-eyed actress and new mother, whose identity has already been completely changed during her relationship with the crazy half pint. On the other hand, if Katie is being forced to submit to more Scientology bullshit that means she's resisting somewhat. If she doesn't buy into the cult wholeheartedly Tom isn't going to marry her. If the cult keeps pushing her she may get fed up enough to leave. According to her prenup she'll get a sweet deal even without marrying him and she may get her life back in the process.
Posted to Abusive | Cults | Katie Holmes | Tom Cruise | TomKat | Weddings
Kate Moss was so pissed off about Pete Doherty's blood squirting stunt that she asked him to come over to her place. When he arrived she promptly kicked his ass!
At least Doherty didn't fight back, but we doubt the junkie would have had the strength even if he wanted to. Moss shouldn't have even bothered with Doherty, though. Why doesn't she just ignore him? She's supposed to be dating comic Russell Brand now anyway.
Meanwhile Doherty's antics have lead his record label, Rough Trade, to drop his group Babyshambles. An source is quoted as saying: "Rough Trade were in the process of renegotiating a deal, but the talks broke down because it just proved to be so difficult to deal with Pete and the people he surrounds himself with."
Maybe losing his record label will help Pete follow-through on kicking heroin as he's been planning. It won't be easy, but he needs it desperately.
Here's Kate in a Primal Scream video:
The video of Pete Doherty squirting a blood-filled syringe has come out. You can view it below with a watermark on the screen:
Or go to an article about the incident on MTV and launch the video from the bottom right. It's now available to viewers outside the UK. There's a commercial before it, though.
Somehow we were expecting it to be more dramatic.
Posted to Abusive | Addictions | Drugs | Pete Doherty | Video
The NY Post reports on the video on TMZ you've most likely seen in which Brandon Davis goes on a creative drunken rant on Lindsay Lohan. Paris Hilton and Caroline D'Amore giggle in the background, but Paris doesn't add much except to say that Lindsay's movie bombed. Near the end of the footage she asks Davis "Whose movie bombed?" to get him to say "firecrotch" yet again.
Perhaps most grotesquely, Davis sneers of Lohan, "I think she's worth about seven million, which means she's really poor. It's disgusting. She lives in a motel."
But Lohan found a unique way to exact revenge upon her former friend Hilton at Bungalow 8 early yesterday morning. She was spotted making out with Paris' ex-boyfriend, Stavros Niarchos, when she wasn't hanging out with Barton and pirate-costumed fashion designer John Galliano. Take that, Paris!
As we've mentioned here, Davis decided not to be friends with Paris a while ago and claimed it was because Paris was a racist, citing her use of the "N" word and bigotry against Jews. The Post notes that Davis is a hypocrite because he jokingly asks in the video if Wilmer Valderrama is "in a mariachi band."
Davis dated Mischa Barton for about a year until she broke up with him in the spring of 2005. People say Barton was annoyed by the tight control the oil heir's family had over his finances, and how he had to ask for money for everything. He was most recently tied to Camilla al-Fayed, the daughter of Harrods owner Mohamed al-Fayed, but it's doubtful that they're still together based on the way he's been acting.
The Gallery of the Absurd has a new illustration of Davis as shown above, picturing the bloated oil heir with unflattering adjectives spewing forth from his oversized head.
The video reminded me of college, in which liquored-up do-nothings would talk smack about each other after going out to clubs. No one cared what my friends had to say, though.
Davis is rather gross and stupid, but you have to admit that "firecrotch" is a pretty clever nickname for Lohan and we will enjoy referring to her as such in the future. As the NY Post notes, she was seen yet again with Stavros Niarchos, Paris' ex. She also spent the night a few days ago with Paris' other ex, Paris Latsis, but he must not have been on hand for a quick revenge screw when she needed him.
Here's a non-censored and slightly different version of the video. The paparrazi are calling Davis "Stavros"!
Someone added a classical intro and "Firecrotch" title. So great.
And here is Paris on the night in question, in which she attended Janet Jackson's 40th birthday party [via]
Update: Paris' publicist has responded to the incident, emphasizing that Paris was not the one bashing Lohan.
Pete Doherty squirted a syringe full of blood onto a camera during an MTV News UK interview, causing one of his band members to apologize and declare how f**ked up it was:
That wasn't just anyone's blood - it was heroin addict blood which is extra foul. The cameramen were said to fear for their health after coming in contact with the blood.
This comes right after news of Doherty smoking crack before he performed dressed in drag in Germany last weekend. He was wearing what looked like a wedding ring at the time, causing people to speculate that it was from his on-again off-again girlfriend, supermodel Kate Moss, whom he once bragged that he was going to marry.
There is a video of the blood-squirting incident, but MTV has ridiculously limited access to it to people who are in the UK or Ireland. I tried to use a UK proxy to view it, but it didn't work.
Pete's mom is writing a tell-all book about her son. There's not much about Doherty that can shock people, but it is sure to be full of interesting tidbits.
Here is Doherty in a different Channel 4 interview.
In the interview above he talks about his brief imprisonment and drug use, but he mumbles a lot and is really messed up, so it's hard to tell what he's saying. He does say he's going to "start a drug-free life." Yeah, right. Towards the end of the interview he waves to the camera and mouths "Hello Kate" when asked about his relationship with Kate Moss, but he doesn't admit much and calls the interviewer nosy.
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The Bastardly's sexiest woman of 2006, self-professed virgin and Victoria's Secret model Adriana Lima, smacked her royal boyfriend across the face at his own birthday party:
It's reassuring that there are models so sure of themselves that they don't worry about pissing off princes worth billions. Little girls dream of marrying princes and being sweet perfect wives. Maybe thanks to Adriana Lima's example some of them will realize that they don't have to put out or be nice to rule rich and powerful men. All is takes is sex appeal, nerve, and holding out.
Here she is at a Victoria's Secret fragrance promotion on 5/10.
A new chick lit book whilch the author claims is based on celebrity in general, not Jennifer Lopez specifically, is so close to Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony's story that it's not fooling anyone. The author, Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, has the arrogant J.Lo character cheat on Ben Affleck with Marc Anthony in a bid to boost her career:
She is engaged to "the boyishly handsome and patently non-Hispanic actor and screenwriter Jack Ingroff." Formerly Sanchez dated "a mealy-mouthed" rapper named D-Kitty, until the night "some dudes in his crew" shot another rapper.
"The public seems to have forgotten all about how the gun was found stashed beneath her very own seat in the Escalade limo, or about how she'd worn a bandanna around her head like a gang member..."
Sanchez "in her own estimation, is the sexiest, cleanest woman alive." She's lifted her style of pairing innocence with lust, pretending to be "surprised by her own sexy gyrations," from Britney Spears. Botox and belly lipo are her friends.
Sensitive Ingroff hopes that "some of Jill's cruelty will rub off on him." Sanchez has never learned the name of anyone who works for her. Her clothing line is the product of a team of designers who get no credit. In the recording studio, she's vicious to the very producers who are digitally manufacturing her voice.
In fact, the only time Sanchez delivers an Oscar-worthy performance is when she's pretending to be a professional singer "getting ready to lay down some kick-ass tracks." As if.
Imperious, demanding and dismissive, Sanchez uses humiliation as a motivational tool on her staff. In meetings, no one is allowed to speak directly to her unless she first gives permission.
The lead character periodically puts her hands on her stomach during photocalls to drum up press speculation about her pregnancy status, and tries to train her husband to be more media-savvy and manipulative.
The author, Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez admits that "There are some anecdotes in there based on experiences that I or people I knew had with Jennifer Lopez." No kidding. She also claims that members of J.Lo's staff approached her and told her that the book was dead-on.
That sounds really juicy and it's sure to be a best seller!
Here's her royal highness herself at Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People party yesterday.
When I think of PeeWee Herman, I have to concentrate to remember the skinny pale guy in a bowtie with the weird laugh. That's because the first image that comes to mind is his disheveled mugshot.
Kevin Costner is lucky there is no photographic evidence of the fact that he jerked off while having a massage, because we might still think of the hot suave Costner from Bull Durham. When pictures like this of him come out, though, it's easy to imagine him doing the deed. (Although if you try and substitute old creepy Costner with young baseball player Costner it's kind of hot.)
The story is that Costner is said to have jerked off in front of a horrified female masseuse while honeymooning at a Scottish resort in 2004. Everyone speculated it was Costner a while ago, but the actor's involvement was confirmed, at least according to his accuser, when the court lifted privacy restrictions on the case last week.
One of Costner's exes has come to his defense, stupidly claiming that the hotel worker must have been rejected by Costner and is going through all this trouble to get back at him:
Clearly this woman remembers the younger, hotter Costner of yore. Maybe that guy wouldn't have dared to get off in front of a bewildered masseuse, but creepy Costner didn't care.
Here is Costner performing with his new "garage band" at the BMW Charity Pro-Am golf event in Greenville, South Carolina on April 29th. Costner was the "headliner" celebrity golfing at the event. Other stars involved included hockey great "Wayne Gretzky and Brett Hull, quarterback John Elway, actresses Catherine Bell and Janet Jones-Gretzky, and actors "Cheech" Marin and John O'Hurley."
The Sun has pictures of Pete Doherty injecting heroin into a passed-out woman on his kitchen floor. Kate Moss is shown in another photo sleeping on a bed at Doherty's house, but she wasn't there when he drugged the unconscious fan. The pictures were said to be taken in the "past five weeks":
Other pictures seen by The Sun show the rocker — who faces drugs charges — injecting himself and being helped to take drugs by a girl using her hands to form a makeshift tourniquet.
Yet another sees Doherty, 27, smoke a “crack bowl”, his tattooed and blood-stained arms betraying his addiction.
The disturbing scenes were captured by a pal at Doherty’s pad in Hackney, East London, within the last five weeks.
Kate, 32 — who has been secretly seeing the singer despite claims they had split — was NOT present when the drug photographs were taken.
The comatose girl is from a middle-class background and idolises Doherty, often visiting him at his flat. She was left on the floor while he and his pals prepared more class A drugs for themselves.
Doherty was placed on 2 years probation and received orders to attend 18 months of outpatient rehab in drugs posession case last week. He was arrested again on drugs charges on the same day he was sentenced, and was let out on bail.
We thought Doherty might be cleaning up slightly, as he was praised for his efforts by the judge at his sentencing and he bragged of his sobriety at a recent concert. He might be trying, but he won't escape his past without a great deal of effort.
The Sun website says that you have to buy the print version to get the pictures. Once they're online, we'll post them. In the meantime Here are pictures of Doherty at a Babyshambles gig on 4/26.
Paris Hilton has two lawsuits pending against her. One is $10 million defamation case filed by Zeta Graff for a story that Paris invented about Graff attacking her in a night club in July, 2005. Paris arranged to have the fabricated incident leaked to Page Six, which is otherwise a bastion of responsible journalism.
There is another defamation lawsuit against Paris by party planner Brian Quintana. He was granted a three year restraining order against her after she made threatening phone calls to him, famously calling him a "lazy Mexican." Quintana was friends with Paris, until he is said to have told Paris' boyfriend, Stavros Niarchos III, to dump her to get back with Mary-Kate Olsen.
Paris is not allowed to get within 100 yards of Quintana, unless they're at the same party.
Now Quintana is willing to drop the lawsuit - if Paris will show up at the launch of the nightclub he's now running, Teddy's, which was recently closed for underage drinking and mismanagement.
He explains, "I don't want to drag out a lengthy legal battle. I need people to know they can trust me because I'll be around for years. "So, for a small fee, I'm asking her to make an appearance with me (at Teddy's)." He'll even drop the restraining order, which prevents Hilton from coming within 25 yards (75 metres) of the party planner when they're at the same event, and 100 yards (300 feet) at all other times.
That's pretty generous and business-savvy of Quintana. Whether Paris shows up or not, he just got a ton of free publicity for the club.
Here she is getting out of her car. I know - thrilling - but she does seem to get caught behind the pop-up door for a moment.
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Charlie Sheen is involved in an incredibly stupid business venture: he launched a line of children's clothing this weekend!
Unfortunately for Sheen, the clothing line was in the works from some time, and announced over two months ago. The launch couldn't come at a worse time for him, because the allegations in his wife's divorce deposition are explosive.
The divorce statement from Denise Richards acquired by The Smoking Gun is pretty incredible and well worth the time to read. Richards says that Sheen:
It just goes on.
Charlie Sheen and Denise Richards were married in June 2002, and first announced their divorce in March, 2005 when Richards was six months pregnant with their second child. They reconciled in the fall of 2005, but announced that they were divorcing again in March of this year. They have two daughters, Sam, 2, and Lola, 9 months.
It's bad news for Sheen's new clothing line that his divorce details are now public, but it's rather suspect that he's involved in children's clothing if the allegations by his ex-wife are true.
Update: pictures from the Sheen Kids launch party. Charlie Sheen has of course denied Richards' allegations. And Denise Richards is now dating Richie Sambora.
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have come under fire for closing off roads to The Burning Shore Lodge where they're staying in Namibia. They've also been criticized for the agressive, over-the-top behavior by their security team, headed by a security guard who was once charged with murder. So far their guards have pepper-sprayed a photographer and grabbed one local female reporter around the neck!
The latest news is that a photographer was beat totally senseless by one of their secuirty guards - right in front of Brad and four year-old Maddox!
Tough guy Mickey Brett, the security guard overseeing Brangelina's high-security compound, issued this threat to the press earlier this week: "If I find anyone getting a picture of Jolie, I will f****ing smash someone to pieces. I'm not joking. I'll f***ing put someone in the hospital. Tell your friends."
According to the source, it was unclear whether Brett was the guard who scuffled Sunday with the unlucky paparazzi.
They need to get some new help right away, because it's unacceptable for people to get beat up or even threatened by the thugs on their staff. Maybe they'll realize that they can't let their staff hurt the paparrazi when they're slapped with some huge lawsuits for the damage they've caused.
Here are some pictures of Brad Pitt shopping in Paris a little while ago. [via]
Jude Law, 33, is on vacation in California with his ex-wife, Sadie Frost, 40, and their three children. Jude was said to have reunited with Sienna Miller for a few days when he had nothing better to do. Meanwhile Sienna Miller scared off Kiera Knightly's ex, hooked up with Jude, and then was spotted with some mystery guy in NY. Jude supposedly said no to a blonde at a party a little while ago, which made me think that he was back with his ex, but I really have no clue.
While on vacation, Law has struck out at the paparrazi for taking pictures of his precious children, and TMZ has the video.
After threatening the photog ("I'll have you up for pedophilia!"), Law questions the cameraman about filming his kids, and the cameraman claims he didn't realize he was filming them. Law then appears to slap the camera, saying, "Look in your f***ing camera!"
Looking at these old nude pictures of Law made me feel like a pedophiliac I have to say.
One can hardly blame him for protecting his kids, but why did he go on vacation with his family in California? Couldn't he have found a more out of the way place?
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The NY Post is embroiled in a scandal involving a senior editor of Page Six, Jared Paul Stern, asking for huge bribes in exchange for positive reporting. The news on Page Six seems to be going downhill fast. Although it is Monday and gossip is harder to find, we can't help looking at the NY rag with an overly-critical eye. It seems like they could make up anything at this point.
Of course that's true about most newspapers lately. Scandals involving plaguarizing journalists rocked USA Today, The New York Times, and The New Republic in the last few years.
Page Six is seriously lame today, and leads with a story of "dueling dwarf bands." They did have this gem, though: evil bitch Naomi Campbell may appear on Oprah to cleanse her soul. She's also said to be fighting with Diddy after she pulled out of his cooking show. Now why would he still want her to come? She must be fabulous at tenderizing:
Embattled supermodel Naomi Campbell is feuding with her old pal, Sean "Puffy" Combs. The two - who until recently would travel the world together and party till dawn - are not talking after Campbell unexpectedly pulled out of the new NBC show Combs is producing, "Cooking Showdown," which pairs celebrities with superchefs. "Naomi found out Puff was the producer and dropped out," said our spy. Combs, who will have to do with just Ja Rule on his show, is mystified as to why she's so mad at him.
You know Oprah is not going to be as hard on Naomi as she was on James Fry. Maybe Jared Paul Stern should go on Oprah to redeem himself too. He can sit there looking at his hands and act as if he's sorry that Page Six made up all those stories to try to embezzle money out of innocent billionaries and socialites.
The NY Daily News says that Page Six's positive coverage of "Girls Gone Wild" mogul Joe Francis was totally influenced by Francis' star treatment of another Daily News coumnist, Richard Johnson. Francis held a lavish bachelor party for Johnson at his resort in Mexico and flew in all of Johnson's friends on his private jet. Page Six had a glowing report on Francis that ran afterwards, saying that he wanted to get into publishing to become "the next Hugh Hefner."
Page Six is also said to have a chummy relationship with richie Ron Perelman, who recently jilted his wife Ellen Barkin.
Buh-bye to that shitty rag.
Posted to Abusive | Naomi Campbell | Oprah | Scandals
Naomi Campbell is still working as a model after hitting her maid so hard with a cell phone that she couldn't see straight and required stitches.
Campbell was in Geneva, Switzerland yesterday working for Mont Blanc. She wore the most expensive and dangerous watch Mont Blanc has ever made. Also present was model Marcus Schenkenberg, who looked bemused. Johnny Depp and his French wife Vanessa Paradis attended the show. We will publish pictures of Depp and Paradis shortly.
Campbell's scheduled appearance on P. Diddy's celebrity cooking show has been canceled, which may or may not be related to the abuse charges against her.
Campbell also made an ironic peacekeeping visit to South Africa to meet with Netson Mandela after the incident. The press was not allowed to be present at the event.
Here is Campbell modeling for Mont Blanc. The company should have hired a better spokesmodel.
Naomi Campbell doesn't just hit, bite, headbutt and throw objects at people, she also spits. Campbell spat in a security guard's face at a U2 concert a few months ago::
"Campbell told the security officer that she was not going to get down and that he was a f------ a------," the source revealed.
"She told him to go f--- himself and to get the f--- away from her. She then spat in the officer's face."
The source said the abuse was witnessed by two other security guards and a senior Garden official was called in to intervene.
Campbell was not even removed from the concert and was characteristically rude when officers gave her a verbal warning. The abused guard's harrassment complaint to police was closed because "Campbell's actions were considered more rude than harassing."
Meanwhile the maid that Campbell struck with a crystal-encrusted Blackberry on Thursday said that she suffered from blurred vision and extreme blood loss after the attack.
Cops have also recovered a mobile phone from Campbell's house that may be the one she used to hit the maid from behind. Campbell faces up to 7 years in jail if she's convicted.
If Campbell wasn't famous she would have been hauled away for spitting at a security guard at a concert. Let's hope she has severe legal and monetary consequences for this latest episode.
Posted to Abusive | Arrests | Naomi Campbell
Naomi Campbell hid her handcuffs under a white poncho yesterday morning when the cops hauled her away for hitting her housekeeper in the head with a crystal-encrusted Blackberry.
Campbell claimed the housekeeper stole a pair of jeans, provoking the attack. Campbell hit the poor woman so hard she required four stitches. She then is asked her staff to say that the woman fell and hit her head.
Raging, Campbell cracked the BlackBerry against her housekeeper's head at 8 a.m. - and then demanded her staff tell cops the 42-year-old maid had hurt herself falling, sources said.
But the sinewy supermodel's servant alerted officials at Lenox Hill Hospital, and soon cops arrived at Campbell's $3.5 million apartment to haul her away.
Campbell, 35, insisted she had no idea what cops were talking about and showed them a flip-phone, not the BlackBerry, as supposed proof, sources said.
But the cops cuffed her - disappointing an Oprah Winfrey camera crew waiting to film her for a cooking segment.
Ever the diva, Campbell hid the handcuffs under a white fur poncho. Sources said she also asked to ride in her own car to the police stationhouse and then paused as her minions begged cops to let them fix her bangs before she was escorted outside. The requests were denied.
Campbell is known for her violent outbursts, and has a long record of abusing her help. Glitterati has a good overview of Campbell's history, which spans at least eight years and includes guilty pleas for past abuse charges.
We hope Campbell gets more than a slap on the wrist for this latest incident, and that her housekeeper successfully sues her for a huge sum.
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