| LeAnn Rimes has a drunk driver crash through her fence: legit or conspiracy? Posted: 04 Oct 2011 09:18 AM PDT 
Another day, another “LeAnn Rimes: pay attention to me” story. That’s basically what they all boil down to. When something actually notable and maybe legitimate happens in LeAnn’s tailored for public consumption life, she jumps on it like a small mangy dog humping your leg, a dog that would hump your leg even if you were wearing sandpaper pants. So a drunk driver crashed through the gate on LeAnn’s property, and no one was hurt since they were either away or safely ensconced in their home, which was probably a full country lane down from the accident, but of course LeAnn had to tweet all about it. She predictably got sanctimonious about it too, and was so happy to lecture us on the dangers of drunk driving.
On Monday morning, a car — driven by a suspected drunk driver — plowed into the fence of the home shared by LeAnn Rimes, husband Eddie Cibrian and his two sons. Police confirmed to E! News that a 20-year-old driver with a suspended license knocked over a stop sign before smacking into a light pole and fence of the singer and actor’s gated community home. The unidentified driver is believed to have been under the influence, but toxicology reports are pending. Rimes, 30, flew out of town on Monday night to North Carolina, but talked about the incident via Twitter. “To address the accident that happened in front of our home this morning, everyone is ok and safe. However, if drunk driving was involved it is terribly sad,” she wrote. “My family could have been seriously injured and any situation where someone is drinking and driving should not be taken lightly. Needless to say, it was a very unsettling call to receive this morning. Thank goodness the young driver and everyone at home are ok.” She replied to a tweet with, “Yes, we are ok. I’m sure it will hit me when I go home tonight and see our fence. The pics are terrifying.”
[From US Weekly] This happened to LeAnn’s house, maybe-not-so-coincidentally, on the exact same day that her nemesis, her husband Eddie’s ex wife Brandi Glanville, appears in her second episode on “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.” Cue dramatic hamster. Brandi has a DUI in her past, and suddenly, on the day of the night that Brandi appears on television, a drunk driver plows into LeAnn’s fence. It all works too conveniently in LeAnn’s favor for my taste. I wouldn’t put it past her to have paid some dude to do this, although this is a stunt that seems way too hard to stage given that law enforcement is involved. E! got confirmation from the police department and everything. E! has a recap of Brandi’s appearance on RHOBH. I’m not going to watch it, sorry. I can’t stand those shows now, and you guys know why. 
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| Leonardo DiCaprio & Blake Lively have split, their reps confirm to Us Weekly Posted: 04 Oct 2011 08:50 AM PDT 
Stunning news! Well, it surprised me, in any case. Us Weekly is reporting that Leo DiCaprio and Blake Lively are done. Blake has been working in LA and NYC for a few months, while Leo has been in Australia, filming The Great Gatsby. Is it a distance thing? A work schedule thing? Or is it something else? LaineyGossip just reported yesterday that Blake was spotted having dinner with Ryan Reynolds, who she allegedly might have gotten close to when they filmed The Green Lantern. But Us Weekly just makes it sound like it was the distance thing: It was fun while it lasted! After five months together, Blake Lively and Leonardo DiCaprio have parted ways, reps for both stars confirm exclusively to Us Weekly.. The pair “remain friends,” Lively and DiCaprio’s reps added. First spotted getting cozy while aboard Steven Spielberg’s yacht in Monte Carlo on May 17 during the Cannes Film Festival, the couple embarked on a whirlwind, super-luxe summer romance that spanned the globe. During their time together, the Gossip Girl actress, 24, and Inception star, 36, took their PDA parade to romantic locales ranging from Venice, Italy to Anaheim, Calif. to NYC. In late August, Lively even flew thousands of miles from the U.S. to Sydney, Australia — for a quick weekend — where her beau was filming The Great Gatsby. Weeks before he and Lively became an item, DiCaprio and model Bar Rafaeli called it quits on their on-and-off, five-year relationship. Back in October 2010, Lively and Gossip Girl costar Penn Badgley ended their three-year romance. The pair’s recent split is sure to come as a surprise to some DiCaprio pals, one of whom told Us they’d “never seen him like this with a girl.” Back in June, the couple were ensconced in DiCaprio’s L.A. home, where Lively “spent the whole time baking….Leo’s never dated a girl who can cook. And he’s smitten!” The duo also bonded with one another’s parents. Echoed another insider this summer: “I bet they get engaged in six months.” As for Lively, she’s long said she never lets public opinion affect her relationships. “I have a strong sense of myself. That gives me a sense of security, you know? Every relationship you have, you’re learning and growing and taking something from that,” the actress recently told Glamour magazine. “So for me, it’s never been too dramatic of a thing when something ends.”
[From Us Weekly] It’s interesting that both of their reps confirmed it to Us Weekly, right? How do you think it went down? Leo dumped her over the phone and Blake wanted to be the one to announce it, but Leo was like, “No, we’ll both confirm it”? I don’t know. I’m disappointed, though. I think very highly of Blake’s game, and I hoped that she and Leo would make it through the awards season. Sigh… maybe they’ll get back together? 
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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| Cher on the Kardashians: Those bitches should be drop kicked down a freeway Posted: 04 Oct 2011 08:32 AM PDT 
Mike Walker’s column in this week’s National Enquirer claimed that “Dancing With The Stars” execs have been pressuring Chaz Bono to get his famous alien-faced mom, Cher, to appear in the audience on the show pronto. I’m sure they’re rethinking that ratings strategy after seeing Cher’s latest tweets. Cher Tweeted some pretty negative comments about the Kardashians, later clarifying that it had nothing to do with the fact that their brother was competing against Chaz on DWTS. She wrote “I don’t watch reality ! Never saw a Kardashian but these Bitches should b Drop kicked down a freeway !Not kidding! Nos I no r this Fkn nuts.” I’m not sure exactly what she’s responding to (or exactly what she’s saying other than that the Kardashians suck), but it seems to be due to Kim’s over-the-top wedding, and not Khloe Kardashian’s recent remarks in which she called herself and her sisters “trannies.” Later on Cher apologized and tweeted something about putting her foot in her mouth.
feel like I live in a cave !Once watched J&Kate they were sweet! This shit is HARD CORE! Is true Kardashian did Porno ! I’m so Fkn outa it ! Let me be clear ! Am not Hate’n Kardashian Fam.Don’t know them! Bridezilla’s crazy Bitches!Saw Brother onDWTS & my friend told me bout girls [Rob] Seemed Adorable on Dwts! Am not rag’s girls dont even know about em RT @pjdelcampo2attn:Rob K is a sweet doesn’t deserve bad rap Nice guy. By lovelies! Seems I put mySize8 1/2’s in my mouth again! Isn’t the 1st time Won’t b the last !Sometimes I should run my words by my BRAIN
[From Cher's Twitter] Oh well, all the words and excuses she piles on top of that can never erase the image she put in my head of someone drop kicking the Kardashians one-by-one off an overpass. I’ve never even thought about that before, but now I remember that it was a minor plot point in that terrible, creepy Macaulay Culkin film from 1993, The Good Son. Remember that? I totally forgot that Elijah Wood was in it! There are people jumping off overpasses in plenty of other movies, particularly action films, but that’s what came to mind. (Update: she was probably saying the Bridezilla’s chicks should be drop kicked, as someone commented but they were super snotty about it so I deleted it. How can you tell really with the way she writes?) Cher might be watching DWTS live and in person next week. She tweeted that she hopes Chaz hangs in there so she can come. It’s hard to say whether Chaz will be on next week given his God-awful performance last night. He scored at the very bottom with this awful rumba, to his late dad Sonny Bono’s “Laugh at Me.” At the beginning he rips off a faux fur vest as some sort of 60s tribute and then awkwardly walks around partner Lacey Schwimmer. Lacey is dressed in a bejeweled outfit with a faux bikini lace overlay that only Cher could pull off. Chaz will be off this week or next. E! Online has a full recap of Monday’s DWTS if you’re interested. Thanks to DListed for the heads up! Cher is shown in July at the Zookeeper premiere and in December, 2010 at the Burlesque premiere in Berlin. Credit: Fame 
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| Milla Jovovich on her veneer catastrophe & “embarrassing” male models Posted: 04 Oct 2011 08:29 AM PDT 
I’ve had a serious girl crush on Milla Jovovich since she and I were both 11-years-old. The major difference between us, of course, was that Milla was gracing the covers of Seventeen and Mademoiselle at the time while I was sitting in my bedroom wishing that I looked like her. These days, Milla is still a highly successful model (who has been a L’Oréal spokesperson for over a decade) and has managed to carve herself out a very lucrative acting career as well. She recently sat down with the Telegraph to promote The Three Musketeers, and the journalist takes great pains to mention that Jovovich didn’t bring a publicist and appears to possess no PR filter of which to speak. It shows, mostly in a good way. On Never Taking Fame Personally: When people held up my picture to sign at a premiere it didn’t feel like it was because I was famous - just a part of the job. I would only ever get horrible things said about my acting and so on. And they were right: I was a horrible actress back then. On Supermodels: The girls who endure past the age of 25 are fascinating because they brought something more to the table. Take the supermodels: sure they had mystique and the glamour, but those girls are smart businesswomen. Lots of pretty faces came and went over the years, but some stuck around and I happen to be one of them. Now, every client would rather work with an actress. After the supermodel thing, the clients just said, “We’re done with paying top dollar for girls with attitudes who are constantly late.” These days they’ll pay them nothing so they don’t create stars - and I get that. Why have a model on the front of your magazine when you can have Kate Winslet, Cate Blanchett or Hilary Swank? Because those girls are intelligent and talented, people are interested. On Early Success: My poor mum had a lot of problems with me around that time. I was young but I’d been working for years, so if she asked me to clean my room I’d say, “You can’t tell me what to do after I’ve worked a 12-hour day.” It gave me a power that no one that age should have. On Male Models: They’re even worse than actors. I mean seriously: you’re going to model for a living? It’s embarrassing for a man to model. Because it’s not like their career can take them anywhere - except in rare exceptions, like my ex-boyfriend [the photographer] Mario Sorrenti. If I ever had a boy, my one terror would be that he wanted to be an actor or a model. On Mothering In Los Angeles: I worry about Ever. She’s the daughter of two successful people living in Beverly Hills: that’s gross. And that’s why at some point I want to take her to live in a village in Mongolia where we can help milk the yaks. Not that I’m ever going to be just a mum because it’s not in my nature, and what’s the point of being with your kid 24 hours a day if you’re depressed, which I would be? On Her Recent Cosmetic-Enhancement (Veneers) Mistake: It didn’t even look like me. I couldn’t believe that I’d let them take away my smile. Luckily I found a dentist who recreated my teeth the way they were, but it taught me a lesson. Until you can’t bear to look in the mirror without feeling uncomfortable, don’t touch yourself. What is it you people say? “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it?” Because you will break it.
[From Telegraph] That last part sounds rather scary, for Milla admits to allowing a cosmetic dentist talk her into the veneers after she chipped a tooth while filming a movie. Fortunately, another dentist was able to “redo” them so that she could regain her old look, which probably cost her a fortune and was a process filled with pain. Yet the experience has given her a fresh outlook on the risks of changing one’s appearance, so I am hopeful that she’ll never go the way of the botox and plastic surgery monsters that we’re so familiar with in contemporary society. While Milla’s male model statements do sound slightly bitchy at first glance, the girl does have a point because modelling is probably the only industry where women outearn males by a hefty proportion. While neither sex can necessarily count on longevity as a model, I think most people see male models as just pinch hitting until they move on to a more practical career or get booted out after they can no longer pass for college aged. Yes, there are the occasional faces that stick around, like Tyson Beckford, but it’s very rare for a male model to become a household name unless, you know, they happen to get mixed up with crazy Halle Berry or start sleeping with Madonna. Ugh. Milla, however, shall be around as a model (and actress) for as long as she desires. She’s so damn beautiful, and her little girl is just adorable too. 
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| Johnny Depp covers Vanity Fair, compares photo shoots to “rape” Posted: 04 Oct 2011 08:04 AM PDT 
Look, I really like and enjoy Johnny Depp, but there is absolutely NO reason for him to be on the cover of Vanity Fair AGAIN. He was just on the January cover! Meaning VF made him cover boy twice in 11 months! WTF? Vanity Fair has just become the magazine that puts dead celebrities, dead politicians and Johnny Depp on their covers. That being said, the cover shot hasn't been released yet - we've only got the header image, which was shot by Terry Richardson, because that's how Depp rolls. Anyway, I suppose Depp is promoting The Rum Diary, that film that sees him doing his Hunter Thompson impression again (but it looks really awesome). Here are the VF highlights: He's Hollywood's best-paid actor, but he doesn't have to like it: "Basically, if they're going to pay me the stupid money right now, I'm going to take it," he says in Vanity Fair's November issue. "I have to. I mean, it's not for me. Do you know what I mean? At this point, it's for my kids. It's ridiculous, yeah, yeah. But ultimately is it for me? No. No. It's for the kids." He admits, with much difficulty, that there is also "a part of me that needs to have this kind of stimulation to the brain." (Depp is ever mum on the size of his Pirates ransom, but a report this summer cited his total take in the $300 million range, due to a gross-profit-sharing deal brokered with Disney. The four-film franchise has tallied $3.7 billion to date in worldwide receipts.) But Nick Tosches, Depp friend of a decade and writer of this month's cover profile, says the Rum Diary actor is "the same old Johnny" who pumped gas to make ends meet and for a period attended Scientology study groups because they paid $3 per meeting. "I went to a bunch, man. It was so great, it was so fantastic," Depp says. Today, compliments from rock idols mean more to the actor than cash. During the interview, Tosches shared with Depp that their mutual buddy Keith Richards, the professed inspiration behind Captain Jack Sparrow, had "beautiful things to say" about Depp's singing in Sweeney Todd. "He never told me that," Depp says, touched. Take that one to the bank.
[From Vanity Fair] Page Six had some highlights from Johnny's interview too - and it's like he's channeling Kristen Stewart, I swear to God. Remember the controversy last year when she compared having her photo taken by paparazzi to "being raped"? K-Stew later had to apologize and clarify. Well, Johnny takes it a step further than Kristen Stewart. Ridiculous. Despite being one of the world's most handsome men, Johnny Depp hates photo shoots so much, he compares them to violent sexual assault. He tells Nick Tosches in Vanity Fair, "Well, you just feel like you're being raped somehow. Raped … It feels like a kind of weird — just weird, man." He'll pose with fans, "But whenever you have a photo shoot or something like that, it's like — you just feel dumb. It's just so stupid." Depp says his next project, "The Rum Diary," came straight out of Hunter S. Thompson's basement. He was staying with the writer researching the 1998 movie "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" when they came upon Thompson's forgotten novel in boxes in his basement. "I pulled it out. I was like 'What is this?' Hunter was like, "Oh, [bleep], 'The Rum Diary' … Hunter didn't know it was there." Depp prides himself on edgy projects. But he's finally settled his grudge against Harvey Weinstein for putting his 2004 "The Libertine'' in limited release: "He basically said he [bleep]ed it … He made a choice to kill it, Harvey killed a great film."
[From Page Six] Okay, just shoot me because I think Kristen Stewart's old comments were more reasonable than Johnny's. Kristen was talking about the violation of privacy from the paparazzi, and she compared THAT to rape. Johnny is comparing photo shoots to rape - as in, being beautifully lit, wearing makeup and being told that you're pretty and you should turn to the light - that's like "you're being raped somehow"??? Ridiculous. 
Photos courtesy of Vanity Fair and WENN.
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| Angelina Jolie honored in Geneva after a decade with the UNHCR Posted: 04 Oct 2011 07:24 AM PDT 
Angelina Jolie has completed ten years of work as a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations High Commission on Refugees, and to recognize her decade with the organization, Jolie was honored at a joint ceremony in Geneva on Monday. The joint ceremony part was because the UNHCR was also awarding their prestigious Nansen Refugee Award to the Society for Humanitarian Solidarity, a Yemeni refugee organization. When she spoke, Angelina told the audience of "200 government officials, diplomats, donors and aid workers" that: “It is an honor to work on behalf of refugees, and I look forward to the next 10 years… I’m so grateful to the many refugee families that I have had the honor and privilege to spend the last years with. From them I’ve learned so much. I’ve learned to become a better person, a better mother. They’ve inspired me by showing me every day the unbreakable strength of the human spirit.” Here's more from the UNHCR press release: The UN refugee agency paid lavish tribute on Monday night to award-winning American actress Angelina Jolie and Yemeni humanitarian aid group Society for Humanitarian Solidarity (SHS) for their outstanding work for refugees over many years. Before an audience of 200 government officials, diplomats, donors and aid workers, Jolie was recognized for completing 10 years as UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador, while the founder and 290 staff of SHS received the prestigious Nansen Refugee Award for their live-saving work helping tens of thousands of desperate boat people arriving on the coast of Yemen from the Horn of Africa. “This award motivates us to increase our effort to helping those who are in need,” said SHS founder Nasser Salim Ali Al-Hamairy, while Jolie told the audience, “It is an honour to work on behalf of refugees and I look forward to the next 10 years.” Lauding Jolie, UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres said, “She is the very best of the goodwill ambassadors that exist in the humanitarian world.” In a slick ceremony presided over by former British politician and broadcast journalist Sir Martin Bell, Norwegian musician Sivert Hoyem warmed up the audience with two songs before a tribute to Angelina Jolie and her work for UNHCR was screened in Geneva’s distinctive 19th Century Bâtiment des Forces Motrices, a former water pumping station on the River Rhone. “I’m so grateful to the many refugee families that I have had the honour and privilege to spend the last years with. From them I’ve learned so much. I’ve learned to become a better person, a better mother,” Jolie said. “They’ve inspired me by showing me every day the unbreakable strength of the human spirit.” The actress, who was presented with a gold pin, has visited almost 30 countries worldwide as UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador over the past decade, including Tunisia, Turkey, Malta and Italy this year alone. In the highlight of the evening, Jolie and Guterres presented the Nansen Refugee Medal to SHS founder Al-Hamairy, whose non-governmental humanitarian organization has since 1995 been helping people fleeing by smugglers’ boats across the Gulf of Aden. SHS also helps needy local communities. “I do think they deserve the recognition of the international community,” said Guterres, while Jolie also paid tribute to the Yemeni aid workers. “The staff of SHS often risk their own lives to save others,” she said, describing their life-saving assistance as “extraordinary.” The Nansen Refugee Award was created in 1954 in honour of Fridtjof Nansen, a Norwegian explorer, scientist, diplomat and politician who in the 1920s became the first international High Commissioner for Refugees. It is given annually to an individual or organization for outstanding work on behalf of refugees and consists of a commemorative medal and a US$100,000 monetary prize donated by the governments of Switzerland and Norway. The winner can donate spend the funds on a project approved by the Nansen committee. Past winners include Eleanor Roosevelt, Tanzania’s late President Julius Nyerere, King Juan Carlos I of Spain, Graça Machel, late Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti and last year’s winner, photographer Alixandra Fazzina. A number of humanitarian organizations, and partners of UNHCR, have also won the award, including the League of Red Cross Societies. Médecins Sans Frontières, Handicap International and the UN Volunteers. In 1986, the Nansen went to the people of Canada. Monday’s event was supported by the Swiss and Norwegian governments, the Canton of Geneva, the City of Geneva, the IKEA Foundation and the Norwegian Refugee Council, which also helped to organize the presentation ceremony.
[From UNHCR] Oh, so she got a gold pin. I was wondering if they gave her a plaque or something, but a gold pin is nice, and look, it probably wasn't very big and it was probably donated, so don't start in on "that gold pin money could have been used to save a refugee!" She's worked for the UNHCR for a decade, and she's going to continue to work there for decades to come. It's nice that she got a small token of appreciation, because she really is one of the best, most prominent ambassadors working for any UN organization - and getting attention IS the job. Also, in the header pic, doesn't it look like Angelina is wearing a dress that's very similar to the one Duchess Kate just wore last week? Interesting. 
Photos courtesy of the UNHCR & WENN.
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| Amanda Knox’s conviction overturned, she’s headed home to Seattle Posted: 04 Oct 2011 07:04 AM PDT 
I'm not trying to start a huge fight about the Amanda Knox case, this is merely going to be a forum to discuss the events of the past 24 hours. In 2007, Amanda Knox was found guilty of killing her roommate, a British exchange student named Meredith Kercher, in what the prosecution deemed a "sadistic sex game gone awry." Yesterday, in Italy, Amanda's conviction was overturned, and she's en route to her home in Seattle right now. The Knox case brought international headlines - the Italian and British press campaigned against Knox, while American coverage was more sympathetic. Here's what went down when Knox's conviction was overturned: After always proclaiming her innocence, Amanda Knox finally is free. Nearly two years after the University of Washington student – who had been studying in Perugia, Italy – was convicted of the brutal 2007 murder of her roommate, an appeals court overturned the most serious charges on Monday. Knox, who had faced a sentence of 26 years in prison, sobbed as the decision was read and gasps could be heard in the courtroom. “Silence, please!” the judge snapped. “Silence, please!” Officers led the crying Knox out of the courtroom as friends, family and lawyers embraced and cheered. Outside the courthouse, a crowd chanted, “Shame! Shame!” The two judges and six jurors upheld only one charge – defamation for her statements originally implicating another man in the murder. She’ll get credit for time already served in prison. She later was seen being driven out of the prison in a black Mercedes sedan with tinted windows. Knox’s former boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, 27, will also be released. He too had been convicted of the 2007 killing and sentenced to 25 years in prison. A Personal Plea
Knox herself took to the stand Monday morning, to declare, “I did not kill.” A major linchpin of her appeals trial stemmed from problems with the DNA evidence in the case. An independent report by forensic experts questioned the validity of tests of blood samples on a 12-inch knife allegedly used to kill Meredith Kercher, 21, in what authorities called a sadistic sex game gone awry. Prosecutors originally presented evidence that Knox’s DNA was on the knife handle and the victim’s on the blade. The court-appointed experts didn’t question the finding of Knox’s DNA, but raised questions about that of the DNA on the blade. Judge Claudio Pratillo Hellman in Perugia rejected a prosecution request to introduce new records on the original tests and to hear from a new witness, a ruling that hurt their case. In their closing arguments, the prosecution urged the court not to release Knox and Sollecito, but rather to extend their sentences to life behind bars. A Controversial Character
Knox – who dubbed herself “Foxy Knoxy” on her MySpace page – was viewed from shortly after the murder as a controversial character, and the bizarre sex- and drugs-saturated murder quickly made headlines worldwide. Police, answering a routine call about missing cell phones placed by a neighbor, found Kercher’s body Nov. 2, 2007, after forcing the locked door to her room. Blood was everywhere. Kercher, lifeless on the floor under a duvet cover, had been raped and her throat cut – possibly, theorized police, resisting an “extreme” sex game. During her appeals trial Knox was called “witch of deception” and “a satanic, diabolic she-devil given to borderline behavior” by Carlo Pacelli, an attorney for bar owner Diya “Patrick” Lumumba, whom Knox once accused of committing the murder. Kercher’s family also had a presence at the trial, and their lawyer showed dozens of autopsy photos showing extensive gashes and other bloody wounds. But Knox had her defenders. She’s “not bad, she’s just drawn that way,” attorney Giulia Bongiorno, Sollecito’s lawyer, told the court.
[From People] People Mag also has a story about Amanda's release: After four years in an Italian jail, Amanda Knox reportedly boarded a British Airways flight with her family at Rome’s Leonardo Da Vinci Airport late Tuesday morning. They are bound for London to connect to a flight to Seattle as the 24-year samples her first taste of freedom since the murder convictions against her and onetime boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito were overturned in a Perugia court late Monday night. Before leaving – Knox had checked out of Capanne Prison within two hours after the court decision – she thanked those “who shared my suffering and helped me survive with hope,” she said in a letter to the Italy-U.S. Foundation, which seeks to promote ties between the two countries and has supported Knox throughout her ordeal. “Those who wrote, those who defended me,” Knox wrote. “I love you, Amanda.” The Knox family, whose swift getaway from Italy was coordinated in part by former FBI agent Steve Moore, a longtime Knox supporter, ran into one small snag Monday night: They almost forgot to bring along Madison Paxton, Amanda’s best friend who had moved to Perugia to be closer to her friend and lend support during weekly prison visits. What looms ahead for Amanda remains to be seen. The prosecution in the case, which had painted her as a monster and sought to extend her prison sentence from 26 years to life, says it will appeal Monday’s decision, reports the BBC, noting that it seems unlikely Knox would be extradited back to Italy from the U.S. Monday night’s stunning decision, which followed Amanda’s taking the stand Monday morning to proclaim her innocence, is being credited to both the public outcry against Amanda’s imprisonment and key DNA evidence that was found to be unreliable.
Francesco Sollecito, Raffaele Sollecito’s father, said after the decision that he had “allowed himself some tears” and the court has “given me back my son.” In a separate earlier trial, a third party, Rudy Guede, 24, was convicted of Kercher’s murder and sentenced to 30 years in prison. That was later reduced to 16 years. Shortly after the decision, the Kercher family held a press conference in Perugia. “We want to say we accept the decision but we are also looking at how a decision so certain a few years ago should be overturned,” Lyle Kercher, brother of Meredith, told reporters. “Rudy Guede’s appeal was upheld by the court and the court agreed he wasn’t acting alone. So, if those two aren’t guilty, who are the others? We’re back at Square One, and the search goes on to find out what really happened.”
[From People] I honestly stopped following the case shortly after she was convicted, so I can't speak to any strong beliefs I have about Knox's guilt or innocence. I do think she knows more about Kercher's murder than she's admitted, but I've also seen and read reports about how the Italian legal system threw everything at Knox because she was a young, pretty American girl who had an active sex life. It was a legal slut-shaming, a case that was exploited for tabloid appeal. 
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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| Linnocent: “Marilyn never wanted to be a celebrity. Neither do I.” Posted: 04 Oct 2011 06:59 AM PDT 
Here are some more photos of Linnocent being crackie in Paris - most of these pics are from the weekend, where she partied with some A-listers and Terry Richardson. Considering there aren't any photos of her today, I wonder if she hasn't already moved on to a new city. Page Six has an interesting little story about Linnocent partying on Saturday night - apparently, "someone" sent Lohan 40 magnums of Dom Pérignon. She probably got through that in about an hour, right? Lindsay Lohan insists she's still on the wagon, but somebody sent 40 magnums of Dom Pérignon to her table at the Mister H at L'Arc Paris club. Lohan, in Paris for fashion week, joined the party put on in partnership with Morgans Hotels' Mister H and L'Arc on Saturday night. While others were sending bubbly to her table in four batches of 10 magnums each, she didn't appear to touch a drop. Also there: Clive Owen, Mary-Kate Olsen, Ciara and Vivienne Westwood.
[From Page Six] CLIVE OWEN?!? Linnocent was at the same party as Clive Owen? Bitch. As for "she didn't appear to touch a drop"… bullsh-t. By the way, do you remember how Linnocent was asked to write an essay about Marilyn Monroe for a new coffee table book called Marilyn: Intimate Exposures? A while back, we had some excerpts of the essay, and now we have the whole cracked-out thing. It's pretty rough, and it's not really about Marilyn at all. It's just about Linnocent and how she's just like Marilyn. I was twelve and watching the film "Niagara" over and over again when I was shooting The Parent Trap. I didn't refer to it as film noir then. I just thought it was dark and full of emotion. Marilyn was the beautiful bad girl in that tight, rose-colored dress. The character she played was strong and taking control, which I unconsciously knew at that young age was a necessary quality for a woman. I had seen what my mother, whom I love, had gone through with my father. She, I and my brother Michael, my sister Aliana, and my youngest brother Dakota were in a constant state of uncertainty. I would have to put myself between him and my siblings. I can understand the photographer Bernard of Hollywood's statement, "it took a superhuman effort to be Marilyn." I identify. Without any real family to come home to and no education, Marilyn managed to have her dream. The dream of a little girl looking out of an orphanage window at the RKO sign, and promising herself, "There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me, dreaming of becoming a movie star. But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest." People in their mind have created who I am and act as if there is no real person inside of me. Just like Marilyn, who created the blond sex goddess on camera…. Marilyn never wanted to be a celebrity. Neither do I. I started working in commercials, when I was three. I always wanted to be in great films. I had always thought that movie stars were in films that would last forever in your mind. But now the films don't. I don't want to be remembered as someone who just wanted to be photographed, who goes out at night, and gets in trouble. Look, I never had a normal high school life. I was home schooled for two years, never had a high school prom or went to college. I was just sort of acting out that period of time I never had, and I made some bad choices. So all the tabloids, just like Marilyn, keep harping on my mistakes. Heath Ledger once said to me, "It's build you up to knock you down and that's all it is. And you just have to see if you can stand through it." Marilyn said she had no foundation. But she said she was really working on it. I've been trying to do the same thing. But sometimes a relationship doesn't work out like you'd hoped. The tabloids don't give you a chance. They don't want to know who you are inside. If everything's OK with you, who wants to hear about it? I believe in myself and I'm a good actress. It took time for Marilyn to be taken seriously as an actress. She risked everything and broke her contract with FOX Studios, demanded more money, approval of directors, better scripts, more respect, and formed Marilyn Monroe Productions. That was really empowering for a woman in the '50s. Marilyn was not a victim. She took control. And we remember her, 50 years later, for her "great films."
[Lohan's 'Intimate Exposures' essay via Perez Hilton] "Move that corpse, I'm Lindsay Lohan!" That's what it is. What many of you have said - and I couldn't agree more - is that the family Lohan (specifically Dina and Lindsay) simply have NO SHAME. They don't realize or acknowledge when they're acting inappropriately. How could they feel shame when obviously NOTHING is ever their fault? This essay is obviously not Linnocent's fault either. Someone obviously forced Linnocent to come in and take a dump on Marilyn Monroe's corpse (not to mention Heath Ledger’s). By the way, I'm not trying to pretend that Marilyn didn't have a drug problem, but I just hate the way that this trained, talented and inspirational actress has become the poster girl for every cracked-out blonde dumbass in the world. Bitches, you're not Marilyn. 
Photos courtesy of WENN & Terry Richardson's Diary.
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| Ashton Kutcher partied in a hot tub with Sarah Leal & three other chicks Posted: 04 Oct 2011 06:57 AM PDT 
The Mail has a long, extensive article about what exactly went down on the night Ashton Kutcher (allegedly) boned Sarah Leal, which was incidentally just days before his sixth wedding anniversary. The incident involved three other naked girls, steaming in the hot tub with a naked Ashton. It involved one of the girls having a boyfriend who had to collect his girl from Ashton's hot tub. It involved Ashton saying the words, "’Yo, where's the vodka at" to the boyfriend. That's when you know someone is trying too hard to sound "cool". Shouldn't it be, "Bitch, where the vodka at? And get me a sammich." Sorry, that's just what I say when I have four naked dudes steaming in the hot tub with me. "Yo, where's the vodka at?" is the new "Move that cone, I'm Lindsay Lohan!" Anyway… here's the full story from the Mail. It's complicated with all of the secondary characters, but just bear with it: Ashton Kutcher yelled for vodka as he languished naked in a hot tub with four similarly bare young women, according to a witness present at the actor’s lavish San Diego hotel suite on the night he is alleged to have cheated on wife Demi Moore. The 33-year-old actor should’ve been preparing to celebrate his sixth wedding anniversary with Moore, 48. But instead he enjoyed the company of 23-year-old Texan Sara Leal, with whom he is alleged to have had sex that night in his suite. Jacques Du Toit, a South African yacht worker, described the sordid scene at the £2,500-a-night 'top of the rock' Diamond Suite at the Hard Rock Hotel, to a friend. Du Toit told close friend Gavin Naumoff, 23 , how he hot-footed to the 1,200 sq ft suite, which features an outdoor jacuzzi, after his girlfriend told him she was attending a party in Kutcher’s suite on September 23rd. ‘He was concerned,’ explained party promoter Naumoff to the Mail on Sunday. ‘Jacques is the boyfriend of one of the girls partying with Sara that night, Alexis. He wanted to make sure she was behaving herself.’ But The Mail revealed that it was the pretty blonde from small town McAllen in Texas, who stayed behind that night, before going on to uncover the humble origins that propelled her into the seedy set-up with the married millionaire. Naumoff recalled the scene that night as Du Toit painted it: ‘Alexis told him Ashton's room number and when he got there, a bodyguard was at the door who said it was a private party. Jacques explained he was the boyfriend of one of the girls and was let in. 'He found Ashton in a hot tub on the balcony with Alexis, Sara, a girl called Katie and another girl called Marta. They were all naked. Ashton invited Jacques to join them in the tub. Apparently, Ashton said, ‘Yo, where's the vodka at?’ and Jacques was like, '’It's over there but I'm not going to get it.’ So Ashton gets out to get the vodka and that's when Jacques saw he was butt naked.' The alleged sexual encounter took place that night after everyone except Sara and her friend Marta had left. 'Sara is telling everyone 100 per cent that she and Ashton had sex,' claimed Naumoff. 'Jacques and Alexis are two of my best friends and Sara is a good friend. If she says she slept with him then I think she's telling the truth.' Naumoff, who arranges for good looking girls to be shipped to certain hotspots, also told the newspaper: ‘Sara's a great girl. My job is to round up hot girls and bus them into clubs in San Diego or Vegas. The girls get free booze, food, whatever, and they attract rich and famous guys to the clubs. It's a two-way street. The girls get to meet rich men and the guys get what they want.' Which is? 'Sex, obviously.' Pointing proudly to photographs he took recently of a topless Leal, he bragged: 'She was off her head, we all were. She's a wild girl and loves to party. She is someone who knows what she wants and is determined to get it.' Another friend, this time from her schooldays in McAllen, on the border of Mexico in Texas, said that Sara ‘hoped to find a richer older guy to take care of her. She wasn't great at anything in particular that would have enabled her to make it on her own. But she was good at looking good.’ Leal is yet to speak out publicly about the alleged incident but she has already retained a high powered attorney. He has so far declined to respond to any media calls about his client. She is reportedly letting it be known that she won’t ’spill the beans’ on Kutcher for less than $250,000, but is hoping she will receive a similar offer from Kutcher to fade away. Naumoff explained how earlier in the evening, the Two and a Half Men star selected girls at Fluxx nightclub : ‘Ashton was picking out girls who were ‘hot tub worthy or not.’ He would send his friends to hand-pick the prettiest girls from the dancefloor.' The club's promoter, Aaron Klose, said: 'I saw Ashton dancing with several girls, including Sara. Fluxx has the reputation for only allowing the prettiest ones in. Ashton was clearly up for a good night.' Katie Boggus, a friend of Leal's from Texas, who allegedly took part in the hot tub high jinks, refused to be drawn on the subject when approached at her San Diego home late Friday by the Mail on Sunday. The pretty blonde said: 'Sara is a great person. It's really sad people are saying mean things about her.' When asked directly if Leal slept with Kutcher that night, she said: 'I can't talk about that.' Asked about being in the hot tub with a naked Kutcher, she smiled and said: 'I'm sorry, I can't say anything about that.' According to another girlfriend of Leal, she is 'keeping low'.
[From The Mail] A few things: Sarah sounds like a straight-up hooker. This isn't even a "professional party girl" situation where she has a day job and she just moonlights as a party girl. It sounds like Sarah's job is to be the entertainment for rich clientele. So… is Ashton the first famous married guy she's ever boned? I feel like this kind of thing happens a lot - meaning that a lot of married men go and have their flings with these party girls/hookers, and for the most part, the women just keep their mouths shut. Why in the world did it come to this kind of blackmail/payoff situation with this girl on this night? Did the Tiger Woods stuff change the game as far as hookers selling their stories? Does every "party girl" think she's struck it rich as soon as a rich married guy uses her and forgets her name? Ugh, these people. I find them all disgusting. 
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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| Alex Skarsgard in a shiny blue suit at Melancholia premiere: always hot? Posted: 04 Oct 2011 06:43 AM PDT 
Here’s Alexander Skarsgard in a shiny blue suit paired with a brown shirt and matchy blue tie at the Melancholia premiere in New York last night. He’s dressed like Ryan Reynolds here, but I don’t hate his look. This dude could make a muumuu look hot, primarily because we know what’s underneath.
Alex’s co-star Kirsten Dunst was also there looking overdressed in a floor length loose black v-neck gown paired with a black fabric choker. I like the simple cut of the dress and her hair and makeup were so pretty. As far as Dunst’s looks go this was a win for her. She’s had some disastrous fashion in the past. She’s really pulled it together lately and has shown a lot of improvement with a kind of conservative covered-up but feminine style. 
Also there was Charlotte Gainsbourg putting our minor criticisms about Alex and Kiki’s looks to shame. She had major shaggy dog bangs trauma, heavily black rimmed eyes, and ridiculous too-long loose trousers festooned with sparkly silver front panels and an oversize belt. This is the chick who was pregnant during the Cannes promotion for Melancholia and who wore a see through wrap dress over her bump. It looked like she had on a robe, no joke. Maybe she felt uncomfortable with her post-baby body and wanted to cover up. Kristen shows how you do it well and without looking clownish. Melancholia is a movie about the pending end of the world, as seen through a new bride’s eyes. It’s out in the US in limited release on November 11. It was directed by Nazi-loving Lars Von Trier, and I keep thinking of what Paul Bettany just said about how terrible it was to work with Von Trier after Alex Skarsgard’s dad, actor Stellan, convinced him to do it. “[Von Trier] has no interest in you being any part of the cerebral process with him. You're absolutely his puppet. But no, I don't want to be too down on Lars. He is extraordinary and he is a sensation.” You know that Alex isn’t going to trash talk Von Trier, though, he’s going to be gracious about him because he’s not about to jeopardize his career. Plus, that’s just the type of guy he is. 
Aren’t these stills from Melancholia so pretty? Here’s a link to the trailer. It’s so weird looking. 
              Photo credit: Diane Cohen/Fame Pictures  |
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