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Eat your heart out, Janet. [NBC] More »
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Yesterday it came to light that Herman Cain, the Dr. Hibbert of the 2012 Republican Presidential field, was accused of sexually harassing two female employees who worked for the organization he headed during the 1990s. His campaign has admitted that Cain was accused, but vehemently insists the allegations were baseless. Has the damage already been done? Here's how Herman Cain can convince a skeptical America that the only thing perverted about him is his pervertedly dumb tax plan, and that the only inappropriate thing he's done was consider pizza-making relevant to political candidacy. More »
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The founder of IKEA — which once seemed like the most wholesome of all multinational companies — was apparently a Nazi. At this point, basically every retail chain is tainted with some sort of scandal. Here's a helpful guide. More »
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According to The New York Post, the woman who accused Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault was doing "double duty as a prostitute," which is supposed to hurt her credibility. More »
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Yesterday was Anthony Weiner's first day of unemployment, and the former congressman was back in the spotlight as he stepped out in his Queens, NY neighborhood and was snapped by a photographer. The pictures, which are so obviously staged and posed, show Weiner in jeans and a dress shirt — sleeves rolled up — buying flowers. A simple task, but a calculated attempt at manipulating and controlling his public image. More »
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In addition to the bevy of women Anthony Weiner "romanced", there are a few others Weiner communicated with online, and apparently not all of them were over 18. More »
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But that is in fact what Lisa Weiss has done. More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5809935&view=rss&microfeed=true Nobody really expected the week to end without Anthony Weiner's penis splashed all over the internet. And here it is: Andrew Breitbart showed a couple of radio DJs a picture of what is likely Anthony Weiner's dick, then they leaked it on Twitter. [Gawker] More »
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By all evidence, twenty-one year-old Gennette Cordova has committed the following crimes: Following Congressman Anthony Weiner on Twitter, and being young, female, and pretty. Stone her! But while Twitter made her an instant news target, she's also using it admirably to fight back. More »
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Usually a sex tape results in personal embarrassment, and possibly a reality show career. But in Turkey, the release of sex videos featuring prominent politicians could change the course of history. More »
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Today Good Morning America aired an exclusive interview with Randy and Evi Quaid, which should have cleared things up and set the record straight. Instead it was a weird display of paranoid, possibly delusional and definitely bizarre behavior. More »
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Since being arrested in Vancouver for immigration violations after blowing off court dates and other bad moves, the couple is now begging the Canadian government for protection from a "Hollywood hit squad." Say what? More »
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David Letterman was suffering from both a hoarse voice and a cold last night, and his main guest, comedian Chris Rock, saw that as an opportunity to mercilessly mock the talk show host's messy personal life: More »
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So what's Elin Nordegren post-scandal strategy? She's not really doing anything! But every public figure must have an ongoing narrative, and Elin's non-strategy of constantly filling her big white SUV with gas qualifies. [Daily Beast] More »
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In this brave new world, not selling one's sex tape is, apparently, tantamount to a laudable achievement. Or at least a piece in Newsweek titled, "The Quiet Dignity of Rielle Hunter." More »
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Variety reports that Fox won't air certain episodes of Our Little Genius, but creator Mark Bunett denies it has anything to do with the Times piece. Rumor has it that the kids were being fed answers. [Variety, NYMag] More »
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As in any good marriage, Signora B., of course, voices her displeasure in a public email to the newspapers. More »
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It seems that when you allow your children to deify young women who have been in show-business since childhood, sometimes these role models disappoint them. Apparently the latest good-girl rep to bite the dust is that of someone named Adrienne Bailon of The Cheetah Girls, who's just had a Hudgens-like incident involving the exposure of "semi-nude" photos. And, as the Daily News tells us, the real question now is: how do you talk to your tween about it? More »
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One of the most-loathed figures in sports history, former figure skater Tanya Harding, is trying to glide back into the limelight and the public's good graces with a new memoir, The Tanya Tapes. According to Newsweek, Harding claims that her ex-husband, Jeff Gillooly, the man who orchestrated the kneecap busting attack on Nancy Kerrigan in 1994, raped her in order to keep her silent about his crime. "They said, if I didn't cooperate and say exactly what he [Jeff] told me to say, they were going to take me out. I had a gun at the back of my head and [was raped] on the back of a truck … and they told me this is what you are going to say. This is what you are going to do, and if you don't, you're not going to be here anymore," Harding tells Newsweek. Harding has insisted that she knew nothing of Jeff's involvement with the attack until after it was perpetrated. "[She] struggled the most with this conflicting set of circumstances: if she knew nothing about the assault on Kerrigan until after it happened, why was her ex-husband so desperate to keep her quiet that he'd rape and threaten to kill her?" writer Winston Ross ponders. More »
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The high drama currently surrounding the French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, his ex-wife, Cécilia, and his new girlfriend, former model Carla "The Maneater" Bruni, is better than anything you'd see on Days of our Lives. The Elysee Palace intrigue reached a fever pitch this week when not one, but three biographies about Cécilia and Nicolas were released, in which the former first lady called President Sarkozy: "ridiculous, badly behaved and not fit to be president." And that's the nicest thing Cécilia (allegedly) said about him, even though she's the one who left the President for another man. She also labeled him a stingy philanderer, and called Sarkozy's ladyfriends "slappers" (American translation: low hanging fruit). More »
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