• Leftovers

    Olive Garden Shies Away From Kendra Wilkinson • GGW Assaulter Released From Jail

    Kendra Wilkinson's love for the Olive Garden and role as a "rogue brand ambassador" (not to mention promoting the company's employees in Playboy) isn't appreciated by the family-friendly restaurant who view her endorsement as a "complicated issue." • The Girls Gone Wild crew member who was arrested for sexually assaulting a girl in Long Island has been released from jail because no indictment was filed. He still faces charges for the assault. • An Australian woman got revenge on her cheating husband by selling pictures of his lover's underpants and an empty condom wrapper on eBay. • More »
  • Snap Judgments (Weekend Edition)

    Speidi Dines With Joe Francis? • Nicole Kidman Is Luxurious In Leather

    Welcome back to the Monday morning edition of Snap Judgment, in which we publish the celebrity snaps that came in over the earlier part of the weekend. Inside: Naveen Andrews, George Clooney, Kristen Johnson, Heidi Montag, Spencer Pratt, Joe Francis, Lindsay Lohan, Sam Ronson, Nicole Kidman, Katie Holmes, and Mr. and Mrs. George W. Bush at the Olympics. All those — and others — in a gallery beginning below. (Click on the post headline, then a picture to begin the gallery view.)
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  • blaming the victim

    Blackmail Gone Wild: Joe Francis's Scary Brush With Crime, Before He Was A Criminal

    About 4 years ago, Joe Francis was on the receiving end of a crime that involved his being videotaped in a sexually explicit manner without his consent (or signed release form). His house was broken into, and when Francis returned home, a masked man was waiting there for him. The man bound and gagged Francis, stole a bunch of valuables, then pulled Francis's pants down, strategically placed a dildo by his ass, and forced Francis to say, in various "corny and creepy" ways that Francis was gay. The masked man — who later turned out to be (sexy) Hollywood conman Darnell Riley — then tried to blackmail Francis for up to $500,000 for the tape. And he would've gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for Paris Hilton, who was also being blackmailed by Riley. (She was the idiot who befriended him and introduced him to her social circle to begin with.) With Paris's help, police were able to arrest Riley, who copped a plea and is currently serving 8 years in prison for robbery and extortion. The irony is that he'll probably be a free man in a few years while Francis will likely be serving his term on tax evasion charges. The clip explaining the case, from VH1's documentary Hollywood Blackmail, is above. More »
  • dirt bag

    Ooh La La! Angelina & Brad En France

    • Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie and all of their kids have hit the French Riviera. They're staying in a villa owned by Microsoft's Paul Allen that has breathtaking views of the Mediterranean Sea. A source says: "They love France and will now be here until after the babies are born and Angie is looking at Marseille hospitals as a potential place to give birth." [E!]
    • These rumors about Mariah Carey marrying Nick Cannon will not die. Could they possibly be true??? [People]
    • Gossip Girl gossip: Girl-on-girl action is on its way! [Perez Hilton]
    • Plus! Lisa Loeb will make a cameo on Gossip Girl, playing a socialite. Hee! [LA Times]
    • Paula Abdul spaced out or went cuckoo or something on American Idol. You can watch it here. [EW]
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  • abuses of power

    Sheriff Charged With Raping, Sodomizing & Bribing Female Prisoners

    An Oklahoma Sheriff is being accused of running his own version of Girls Gone Wild in prison: On Wednesday, Mike Burgess, the top officer in Custer County — 90 miles outside Oklahoma City — was arrested for, among other charges, forcing female prisoners to "engage in wet T-shirt contests and offering cigarettes to those who would flash their breasts," reports the AP. Burgess's T-shirt contests weren't his only alleged misconducts: A federal lawsuit against him includes "14 counts of second-degree rape, seven counts of forcible oral sodomy and five counts of bribery by a public official." Other dastardly deeds attributed to the asshole: telling a drug court participant he would send to jail if she didn't give him sexual favors; giving a prisoner a coveted "jail trusty" job after she performed a sex act on him, then taking the position away when she would no longer service him, and telling a third woman he would get her brother released from jail if she did him. More »
  • boy gone vile

    In Defense Of Joe Francis (Sort Of)

    Don't get me wrong, Girls Gone Wild founder Joe Francis is a douche nozzle. He has a lot of idiot friends (Tara Reid, Paris Hilton), he's bristling with entitlement, and probably worst of all, he's under the assumption that his brand of objectification is merely the observation of women's sexual liberation. But people shouldn't have to go to jail just because we aren't fans of them or their work. Joe's legal problems have been going on for years, a lot of which has been at the hands of the Justice Department's Obscenity Prosecution Task Force. Here's the thing about that: The government doesn't give a fuck that drunk girls are flashing their tits for frat guys to jerk off to. They care that they don't get a cut of the action it's bringing in. (Stuff like firearms, tobacco, and alcohol all have hefty government taxes.) The business of sex is a lucrative one, and the Obscenity Task Force was formed to catch smut peddlers on shit like sloppy record keeping, in order to fine them or seize their assets. "It's terrifying, honestly," Vivid Alt's Eon McKai* told us. "It's a bit like a witch hunt." More »