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Girls Gone Wild's resident jerkass Joe Francis is getting sued for $2 million. Apparently billionaire Steve Wynn gave Francis a $2.8 million loan and has only seen $800,000 of that cash returned to him. • A theater was named for Heath Ledger in the actor's hometown of Perth, Australia today. Heath's dad, Kim, attended the ceremony. • The gossip is tepid today, so I give you David Beckham grabbing his junk. Thanks Dlisted and Michael K.! [TMZ, Us, Dlisted]
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Sheryl Lowe, Rob's wife, is speaking out against a slew of allegations from the couples' former nannies. "The charges against me are lies meant to embarrass and humiliate. I find it deeply offensive the false allegation that I would use racially insensitive comments. I'm certain that my dearest and longtime friend, and godfather to my children, Marcus Allen would beg to differ with their charges." Omg she totally used the my best friend is black defense. • Girls Gone Wild jerkface Joe Francis has been cleared of sexual battery charges in Los Angeles. Blerg. • Mariah Carey's nephew, Shawn McDonald, left a "cryptic message" on his Facebook page that is possibly about the Carey/Nick Cannon nuptials. "Shawn can officially say that what you may or may not have read or heard is not true..." Uh, ok then! [The Insider, TMZ, Us]
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Why Is Mariah So Shady?
- Did Mariah Carey have an eye job or something? She won't walk down the red carpet without her sunglasses. If so, it's probably not her first procedure; her nose and boobs seem to have changed in the past few years. [Page Six]
- Also: Mariah's been wearing a giant ring that gossipers want you to think is engagement-esque. And she's been hanging with Nick Cannon. [People]
- David Bowie and Iman's 7-year-old daughter, Alexandria, listens to Hilary Duff songs, at which point "David just leaves the room," Iman says. "He thinks she should be listening to underground music." [ONTD]
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 »
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Lindsay Lohan & Sam Ronson: Living Together?
- Sam Ronson has "practically moved in" with Lindsay Lohan and "spends every night at Lindsay's" in an effort to "keep her out of trouble"? LOL! Lezbe friends — breast friends! [Page Six]
- Liz Taylor: Rushed to the hospital after mixing booze and pills. [Perez Hilton]
- Rob Lowe's nanny is claiming that he "exposed himself" to her. He also allegedly put his hand in her pants several times and grabbed her buttocks without her consent. Tsk, tsk. [People]
- Britney may release her video diaries, which contain rants about her family and friends as well as intimate info about Justin Timberlake and Kevin Federline and details on her feud with Christina Aguilera. It's tough to admit this but they sound kind of awesome. [Mirror]
- Sure, the audience booed Heather Mills at the Miss USA pageant — but producers hated her too. [Page Six]
- Bill Cosby is releasing a rap album. Repeat: Bill Cosby is releasing a rap album. [USA Today]
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."
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Dear Florida Governor Charlie Crist, If You Can't Charge Joe Francis With Hate Speech, Here's An Idea
Joel Stein's story about the jailbound Joe Francis in the April GQ begins with Joe remembering the first time they met one another, six years ago; God it was great. They'd been in the Girls Gone Wild tour bus, watching the crew tape some chick on a bunk bed. Joe had told Joel to fill a Mike's Hard Lemonade bottle with water, and the girl poured it on her tits and shoved the neck of the bottle in her pussy, and sometime around then her cell phone rang. The number, she said, was her boyfriend's. So Joe Francis flipped it open gleefully — you can almost see him doing it — and announced his identity and that he was watching the caller's girlfriend shove a Mike's Hard Lemonade up her vagina. "His eyes went manic," Joel recalls of the moment, and no doubt they went manic again in fond memory of the event, because now he is in jail, although we can't seem to get rid of him, as evidenced by his charming statements touting his footage of famed Spitzer hooker Ashley Dupre at the tender age of 17: "Our footage is from when she was 18-years-old, and it doesn't get much better than that. Eliot Spitzer has put some miles on that girl!" But wait, the depressing part is here:More »
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Nicky Hilton shot down allegations of anorexia last night at the show for her Nicholai fashion line. "There's no truth to any starvation, eating disorders... I think the press has been printing a lot of pictures of me from unflattering angles." • Mariah Carey will fill in for an ailing Janet Jackson on this weekend's SNL. Trading one diva for another! • Britney Spears's mom, Lynne, visited her on the set of How I Met Your Mother, where she's filming a guest-starring role. Brit's video for "Break the Ice," her third single off Breakdown, premieres tonight at 6:30 on the website blackoutball.com. [People, Entertainment Weekly, Us]
Nicky Hilton shot down allegations of anorexia last night at the show for her Nicholai fashion line. "There's no truth to any starvation, eating disorders... I think the press has been printing a lot of pictures of me from unflattering angles." • Mariah Carey will fill in for an ailing Janet Jackson on this weekend's SNL. Trading one diva for another! • Britney Spears's mom, Lynne, visited her on the set of How I Met Your Mother, where she's filming a guest-starring role. Brit's video for "Break the Ice," her third single off Breakdown, premieres tonight at 6:30 on the website blackoutball.com. [People, Entertainment Weekly, Us]
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Will Heath Ledger Win A Posthumous Oscar?
- Will Heath Ledger earn an Academy Award for his role as the Joker in The Dark Knight? That's the buzz coming out of his native Australia. [News.com.au]
- Pete Doherty setting young heroin addicts straight on a new TV show? With music-based therapy sessions? Verdict: Maybeshambles. [Sydney Morning Herald]
- Amy Winehouse took a cab home but couldn't pay for it. Anybody got a tenner? [TMZ]
- George Clooney is putting pressure on Olympic supplier Omega watches to make a stand against China's lax Darfur policy. This gossip column calls it the Sexiest Scolding Alive. [Rush & Molloy]
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Madonna Gave It To Justin Timberlake In The Ass
- While Justin Timberlake was working with Madonna on her album, Madge offered JT a B-12 shot. "She proceeds to pull a Ziploc bag of B-12 syringes out [of her purse] and says, 'Drop 'em.' I don't know what you say to that, so I immediately dropped my pants," Justin says. "She gave me a shot in my ass and looks at me and says, 'Nice top shelf.' That was one of the greatest days of my life." [People]
- Last night, Madonna was been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Music. Makes the people. Come together. Music makes the bourgeoisie and the rebel. [Mirror]
- A source calls Lindsay Lohan's new friends "leeches." Maybe LL is used to that? CoughmommyDinacoughcough? [Page Six]
- Dina Lohan on her show, Living Lohan, which begins shooting on the 16th and will air around Memorial Day on E!: "Be nice to us." [Gatecrasher]
- "I may be Eccentric, i certainly speak my mind and am slow to put out a record i need to mean the world to ME, and im sure i am quite Nuerotic [sic] but 'Bi Polar'. Thats just slander." — Courtney Love. [Rush & Molloy]
- Yeah, yeah, we know. Patricia Heaton has no belly button. [TMZ]
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Girls Gone Wild sleaze Joe Francis tried to convince a Reno judge to keep him from being extradited to Florida after his current Nevada trial for tax evasion is over. There is a no-bail warrant out for Francis in Florida stemming from charges that he filmed underage girls for some of the GGW vids. Unfortunately for Joe, the judge wasn't buying what he's selling. Francis will indeed have to face the Florida charges after his Nevada sentence is determined. • OMG you guys, Kristin Cavallari, Laguna Beach alum and arch-enemy of Lauren Conrad, was the one who originally set up Heidi and Spencer. Is this a Machiavellian plot to destroy L.C.'s life??? [AP, Us]
Girls Gone Wild sleaze Joe Francis tried to convince a Reno judge to keep him from being extradited to Florida after his current Nevada trial for tax evasion is over. There is a no-bail warrant out for Francis in Florida stemming from charges that he filmed underage girls for some of the GGW vids. Unfortunately for Joe, the judge wasn't buying what he's selling. Francis will indeed have to face the Florida charges after his Nevada sentence is determined. • OMG you guys, Kristin Cavallari, Laguna Beach alum and arch-enemy of Lauren Conrad, was the one who originally set up Heidi and Spencer. Is this a Machiavellian plot to destroy L.C.'s life??? [AP, Us]
MagHag
Coming to a newsstand near you: Girls Gone Wild, the magazine. Each $9.99 issue will feature editorials, pictorials, a DVD and lots and lots of barely-legal nipples. Meanwhile, GGW founder Joe Francis remains in a Florida jail. His bastion of journalistic integrity hits April 15 and is bi... Bi-monthly, that is. [Ad Age]
Coming to a newsstand near you: Girls Gone Wild, the magazine. Each $9.99 issue will feature editorials, pictorials, a DVD and lots and lots of barely-legal nipples. Meanwhile, GGW founder Joe Francis remains in a Florida jail. His bastion of journalistic integrity hits April 15 and is bi... Bi-monthly, that is. [Ad Age]
evening purge
Flagging With The Kardashians
Over the weekend I watched Keeping Up With The Kardashians for the first time, and watching Bruce Jenner's resigned, paralyzed-looking face spliced up against scenes of his nine-year-old skipping around the household stripper pole to observe their elder sisters' trip to the Mexican estate of Girls Gone Wild founder Joe Francis, I started thinking idly about what Norman Mailer would have to say about it. And about then I decided I didn't want to know. Moving on, so: Hillary Clinton has started pairing her pantsuits with boots, a nun who abused hundreds of students throughout the sixties is finally being brought to justice and the well-liked priest who stalked Conan O'Brien turned himself into a news studio over the weekend. Banks are expected to take up to $400 billion more dollars in writeoffs, which wasn't good for today's market, but the Energy Department projected gas prices will rise another 20 cents a gallon — and the Gulf States have money to burn — ha ha, literally too! — on big-ticket exports, which is why it's a little depressing they're favoring Airbus to manufacture planes for them despite the fact that we're not the ones demanding they pay in Euros. More »
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RIP Kanye's Mom
- Kanye West's mother, Dr. Donda West, died Saturday in L.A. She was 58 years old. The cause of death has not been released. Dr. West was formerly the chair of Chicago State University's English Department. In her book, Raising Kanye, her son wrote in the foreword: "I have known my mom since I was zero years old. She is quite dope." [USA Today]
- Britney Spears has a new manager — her "friend" Sam Lufti. The same guy who may or may not have been trying to
sell her emails to the tabloids. Stay classy, Brit! [Page Six]
- Uh, did Britney fail a drug test? [Perez Hilton]
- Maybe! The test came back positive, says a source. But the source also says it was a false postive. Maybe she had a poppy seed bagel? Also, did she run a red light with her kids (and court-appointed monitor) in the car — and not even notice, because she was texting? [TMZ]
- Uh, did Britney fail a drug test? [Perez Hilton]
Girls Gone Wild mogul Joe Francis is giving away some of his hottest porn in the name of a worthy cause. He's launching a campaign against frivolous lawsuits. Specifically the one filed against him by two randy — and legally adult — young ladies named Brooke (pictured here in her MySpace) and Christina, who clearly gave consent to the cameraman before stripping off their clothes and licking whipped cream off one another's tits with the sentiments, "Tomorrow, we're going to be like, "what the F*** were we doing?'" This is all according to the press release. Could he get any classier? The press release goes on to say "Francis intends to use the unequivocal hard evidence of the accusers themselves to expose the truth about them and let the public decide for themselves." [Meet Joe Francis]
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Kevin Federline to Britney's Assistant: You Got Served
- Britney Spears' assistant/cousin, Alli Sims, was served with papers by Kevin Federline's lawyer. Federline reportedly wants to force Alli to spill about Brit's lifestyle, including drinking in front of the kids. We have a feeling this is going to get ugly, y'all! [TMZ]
- Girls Gone Wild producer Joe Francis is in jail and Hugh Hefner won't help. Boo hoo. [Page Six]
- Is Chris Robinson thrilled that Kate Hudson is shacking up with Dax Shepard? An aside: Do Kate and Dax sort of look alike? [Page Six]
- Ashton Kutcher worked at Closet Factory for a day — and installed a tie rack. Demi, now's the time to ask for some cool shoe cubbies! [Gatecrasher]
- Lauren Conrad banned Perez Hilton from her party for The Hills. Perez fired back in the usual classy way, calling her a "two-faced (bleep)." [Gatecrasher, 3rd item]
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