Paris Hilton Was Maybe Paid Millions for That Fake Plane Crash Stunt

Paris Hilton either was or wasn’t in cahoots with an Egyptian production company to fake a plane crash and pretend she was scared.http://jezebel.com/paris-hilton-f...
Kim Kardashian: Hollywood's Dubai Is Different Than the Real Dubai
Kim Kardashian: Hollywood has expanded far outside the scope of Hollywood. As Kim told Kara Swisher at Re/Code's recent Code/Mobile conference, new versions of the game follow her around the world in real time. They also places she's been before, like Dubai. But the Dubai of Kim Kardashian: Hollywood doesn't quite…
Ad for UN Women Campaign Duplicates Awful Google Search Suggestions
This ad, created for the United Nations Women campaign (which is unfortunately shortened to the UN Women campaign), becomes more devastating when you realize that the Google search boxes are the results of genuine searches, and although the ad-crafting and Googling were all done by Christopher Hunt at Ogilvy & Mather…
Internet Helps Free Norwegian Woman Jailed for Being Raped in Dubai
Marte Deborah Dalelv, a 24-year-old Norwegian woman living and working in Qatar, was on a business trip to Dubai when her male colleague pushed her into his hotel room and raped her. She reported the incident to authorities, she was sentenced to 16 months in prison for having sex outside of marriage — a sentence that…
Dubai Women Are Wearing Bumpits Under Hijabs: 'Camel Humps'
Women in Dubai are taking a cue from Jersey Shore (where else to take your cues from?) and placing Bumpits under their hijabs. The look is called "Camel Humps." Initially it came into vogue as a technique to hold the scarves in place, but it's now become a sort of status symbol/female rebellion. The video also…
Wannabe Rapist Threatens U.S. Navy Sailor, Gets His Ass Handed to Him
A feel-good attempted rape story (TGIF): A 21-year-old bus driver tried to kiss a woman in Dubai; when she refused, he pulled out a knife and threatened to rape her, because buses around the world seem to come with a special rape-seating only area these days. The woman, a 28-year-old off-duty United States Navy…
Two Westerners Are Sentenced to Three Months in a Dubai Jail After Allegedly Sexing Up the Back of a Taxi
If you've seen Sex and the City 2, first off, my condolences — that movie is awful except for the "Lawrence of my labia" joke, though it does teach us all a very important lesson about Dubai, which is that, if you have to have a drunken sexual escapade with an especially attractive European businessman on the beach,…
Fountains Sync to I Will Always Love You in Moving Whitney Houston Tribute
The past couple days have seen their fair share of Whitney Houston tributes in the wake of the singer's tragic passing. However, few of the tributes have been as stirring as the one at the Dubai Fountain in the United Arab Emirates where they created a beautiful light and watershow in sync with Whitney Houston…
In Insane New Ad, Gym Likens Itself to Auschwitz Because It's 'A Calorie Concentration Camp'
Just when you thought every single person in the world had learned the lesson that it is never, never, never a good idea to make light of the holocaust, this comes along: A gym called the Circuit Factory in Dubai put out an ad several days ago that features a picture of the Auschwitz concentration camp with the…
Paulina Porizkova Says ANTM Will End A Modeling Career Before It Starts
- Paulina Porizkova on America's Next Top Model: "The one guarantee that you will never make it as a model is to go on that show." Which is both honest and interesting, since she used to judge "that show." [NYPost]
How The Sex And The City 2's Harem Pants Ended Up In Abu Dhabi
Why is Sex And The City 2 set in banal Abu Dhabi but shot in Morocco? Now we know: international sexual mores, intra-Emirates drama and the narrative need for both luxury shopping and Lawrence of Arabia imagery. Mystery solved! [ABCNews]
Brim & Proper
[Dubai; March 1, 1989. Image via Getty]
Spectator Sports
[Dubai, February 25. Image via Getty]
Beyoncé's Hot Scent; Madonna Prefers Shoes To Sex
- Beyoncé's first perfume, Heat, launches in February. She says, "Red is one of my favorite colors, as is gold." And the bottle is intended to look antique, because her mother had so many old perfumes when she was little. [WWD]
Life's A Beach
[Dubai, November 16. Image via Getty]
