July 18, 2008
LOS ANGELES, Calif. --
Britney Spears and Kevin Federline have ended the custody fight for their two sons with an agreement allowing the pop star to see her children more, Access Hollywood has confirmed.
Spears’ attorney, Laura Wasser, told Access Friday at the Los Angeles Superior Courthouse that Britney will get more custodial time by the end of the year and Federline will retain full custody of their two sons, Sean Preston and Jayden James.
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July 18, 2008
LOS ANGELES, Calif. --
Khloe Kardashian was released from jail on Friday, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.
She served four hours and 37 minutes of her 30-day sentence.
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July 18, 2008
LOS ANGELES, Calif. --
Britney Spears and Kevin Federline have ended their custody fight for their two sons.
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July 18, 2008
CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. --
Rapper 50 Cent is free to take a vacation with his son after passing a court-ordered drug test.
The 33-year-old entertainer was in a Long Island courtroom Thursday to ask a judge for permission to take 11-year-old Marquise on a trip next month.
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July 15, 2008
LOS ANGELES, Calif. --
Lindsay Lohan’s attorney says the star is on track after pleading guilty last year to drunken driving.
Lohan’s attorney, Blair Berk, gave an update Tuesday on how the actress is complying with her sentence for misdemeanor drunken driving and cocaine charges.
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July 15, 2008
LOS ANGELES, Calif. --
Bruce Jenner has spoken out about his stepdaughter, Khloe Kardashian’s, impending jail sentence.
As previously reported on AccessHollywood.com, Khloe was sentenced on Monday to 30 days in jail for failing to adhere to the terms of her March 2007 DUI probation.
In a new interview with Access’ Billy Bush for his “Billy Bush Show” and Access Hollywood, Jenner said Khloe is very upset over the news.
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July 15, 2008
LOS ANGELES, Calif. --
Phil Spector’s prosecutor has found a sixth woman who wants to testify that the music producer threatened her life, according to a new motion that sets out facts similar to those alleged in the 2003 shooting death of actress Lana Clarkson.
The incidents, however, are separated by seven years and a defense attorney said he will oppose use of testimony by this woman and by five others who testified in Spector’s murder trial last year.
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July 11, 2008
NEW YORK, New York --
Christie Brinkley gained sole custody of her kids on Thursday. And while she is undoubtedly happy for the end of her divorce nightmare, how exactly did her relationship with Peter Cook begin?
Following the court’s ruling yesterday, Access Hollywood’s Billy Bush spoke with Jill Rappaport – Christie’s best friend and the woman who introduced Christie to Peter in the first place.
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July 9, 2008
NEW YORK, New York --
What began with Madonna and Guy Ritchie divorce rumors has spiraled into a soap opera on two continents. Access Hollywood has your guide to the cast of characters and the story so far inside.
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July 8, 2008
NEW YORK, New York --
A feisty Christie Brinkley took the stand on Tuesday after being bolstered by a court-appointed psychiatrist.
The supermodel should have custody of her kids, Dr. Stephen Herman told the court at the Brinkley/Cook divorce trial.
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July 9, 2008
NEW YORK, New York --
Christie Brinkley’s Long Island divorce trial has been put on hold — and the model says she’s praying for a settlement.
Lawyers declined to comment on the record Wednesday.
However, Brinkley was asked while leaving the courthouse if a settlement is in the works. She pressed her palms together as in prayer and replied: “It’s what I hope and pray for.”
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July 8, 2008
LOS ANGELES, Calif. --
The producer of the hit reality series “Survivor” and “The Apprentice” has been sued in Los Angeles by his former business partner.
Conrad Riggs filed the lawsuit against Mark Burnett on Monday. Riggs claims he is owed more than $70 million for his contributions to their joint efforts.
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July 7, 2008
NEW YORK, New York --
The Christie Brinkley/Peter Cook divorce trial continued on Monday, with Brinkley taking the stand as she continues to fight for custody rights of son Jack, 13, and daughter Sailor, 10.
“I had to deal with his affair with a teenager, I had to deal with his Internet porn life,” Brinkley said, according to an Access Hollywood source on the scene. “Anyone who would chase a teenager, a young girl, I mean, where was his judgment?”
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July 5, 2008
NEW YORK, N.Y. --
When the media capital of the world meets a celebrity divorce, it’s a breakup made in tabloid heaven. So the city that has hosted the spectacular splits of Woody Allen, Liza Minnelli and Rudolph Giuliani now is feasting on the salacious details of model Christie Brinkley’s fourth marital breakup.
The collapse of the 10-year union of the former Sports Illustrated swimsuit model and architect Peter Cook is being recounted in slow motion in a Central Islip courtroom on Long Island, not far from the Hamptons home where the couple had lived together.
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July 5, 2008
SYDNEY, Australia --
“Crocodile Dundee” star Paul Hogan challenged Australian tax authorities Friday to track him down in the United States after a newspaper report that he was under investigation for tax evasion.
The 68-year-old actor has repeatedly denied that he dodged taxes.
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July 3, 2008
LOS ANGELES, Calif. --
Ashley Dupre is calling it quits, withdrawing her $10 million lawsuit against “Girls Gone Wild” head honcho Joe Francis and his film company, People reports.
“Ms. Dupre wants to eliminate all negativity from her life and focus on the positive,” Dupre’s attorney, Richard C. Wolfe, said in a statement to the mag. “She has prospects for many exciting new projects and is looking forward to starting a new chapter.”
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July 3, 2008
OCALA, Fla. --
Wesley Snipes will be allowed to leave the United States to work on two movies while his lawyers appeal his tax convictions.
Federal judge William Terrell Hodges on Wednesday approved the actor’s motion to travel to London and Bangkok, Thailand. Snipes will be in England about three days this month for post-production editing of “Gallowwalker,” and in Thailand for eight weeks to film “Chasing the Dragon.”
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July 2, 2008
LONG ISLAND, New York --
Christie Brinkley’s estranged husband said Wednesday he had sex with his teenage lover in his office, then paid her $300,000 while hoping to keep their affair quiet. He also showered her with spending money, including $500 hidden under a rock.
Peter Cook, called to the stand by his wife’s divorce lawyers, was questioned about his affair with Diana Bianchi, who is expected to testify that Cook seduced her shortly after hiring her for his Hamptons architectural firm.
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July 2, 2008
LAS VEGAS, Nev. --
“Girls Gone Wild” founder Joe Francis is being sued by a Las Vegas Strip casino for $2 million in gambling debts from February of last year.
Francis spokesman, Ronn Torossian, said Tuesday that the man who built the soft porn empire already had satisfied his debt to the Wynn Las Vegas casino through “prior agreements.”
In a statement, Francis said he planned to fight the lawsuit.
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July 2, 2008
NEW YORK, New York --
Tatum O’Neal has pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct in connection with her June cocaine possession arrest in lower Manhattan.
Manhattan Criminal Court Judge Elisa Koenderman has ordered the 44-year-old actress to spend two half-day sessions in a drug treatment program and pay a $95 surcharge.
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June 29, 2008
LOS ANGELES, Calif. --
A host of former employees for Rob Lowe and his wife Sheryl, submitted declarations to the Superior Court of Santa Barbara earlier this week, accusing the family’s former nanny, Jessica Gibson, of a host allegations including being overly “sexual” and sprawling out on the kitchen floor suggestively, in hot pants.
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June 27, 2008
LOS ANGELES, Calif. --
Attempts by Britney Spears and Kevin Federline to settle custody issues on their own terms have failed. The next stop for the former husband and wife appears to be a custody trial in August.
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June 26, 2008
LOS ANGELES, Calif. --
The California Supreme Court refused Wednesday to take up Phil Spector’s claim that the judge who presided over his deadlocked murder trial was biased against him and should be disqualified from handling his second trial.
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June 26, 2008
FRANKLIN, Tenn. --
Mindy McCready’s legal troubles continue to persist. The country singer was arrested in Tennessee and charged with violating her probation, Access Hollywood has learned.
She has allegedly been lying about the number of community service hours she has completed.
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June 24, 2008
LOS ANGELES, Calif. --
Britney Spears and Kevin Federline are back in court on Tuesday, for the latest hearing in their ongoing custody battle.
Access Hollywood was on the scene with all the details from inside LA Superior Court as the day goes on…
11:14 AM PDT — Britney and Kevin’s hearing is now over.
On the steps of the courthouse, court spokesperson Alan Parachini was asked how long will this case go on?
“For as long as it takes to resolve this case in the way the court wants to see it resolved,” he said.
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June 25, 2008
NEW YORK, New York --
As if his legal trouble wasn’t enough, Anne Hathaway’s ex-boyfriend was hospitalized on Wednesday, according to People.
Raffaello Follieri was hospitalized due to a severe sinus infection following his appearance in a New York courtroom to face charges of fraud and money laundering, a rep for Follieri told People.
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June 24, 2008
NEW YORK, New York --
Do they really want to hurt him?
That’s the question Boy George’s managers are asking U.S. authorities now that the 47-year-old singer has been denied a visa to enter the country.
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June 24, 2008
NEW YORK, N.Y. --
An Italian businessman who once dated actress Anne Hathaway was arrested Tuesday on charges he posed as a representative of the Vatican to fleece wealthy investors in a real estate company that sought to buy and redevelop Roman Catholic Church property.
Bail was set at $21 million for Raffaello Follieri. Federal prosecutors said they have “overwhelming” evidence that he improperly spent up to $6 million from investors.
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June 24, 2008
NEW YORK, New York --
Ashley Dupre is allegedly set to drop her $10 million lawsuit against Joe Francis – at least according to Francis.
Dupre was scheduled to give her deposition against Francis on Wednesday, however, Francis told Access Hollywood exclusively today that plans have changed.
“She is [going to be] a no show,” Francis told Access. “Her lawyer says that she is dropping it and issuing an apology to me.”
However, an attorney for Dupre tells a different story.
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June 24, 2008
NEW YORK, New York --
Two days before July 4, there will be equally explosive fireworks in a Central Islip, New York courthouse, where Christie Brinkley and Peter Cook are set to begin their divorce proceedings.
But it won’t be just the two of them squaring off.
Diana Bianchi, the then-teenager whose affair with her boss (Cook) caused the rift between Brinkley and her husband, is slated to testify the very first day of the case, her attorney Rosemarie Arnold told Access Hollywood exclusively.
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June 24, 2008
LOS ANGELES, Calif. --
Britney Spears’ nights just got a little better, thanks to news that the pop singer will be able to keep her boys from dusk until dawn.
Spears was granted overnight visits with her children by a Los Angeles Superior Court judge on Tuesday, a source told People.
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June 23, 2008
LOS ANGELES, Calif. --
Supermodel Naomi Campbell has claimed her air rage incident in April was, in part, sparked by a racist remark.
“I was called a racial name on that flight and that was part of my reaction,” she told Britain’s Sky News.
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June 25, 2008
LONDON, England --
A British court on Wednesday acquitted a former pub manager of taking a bribe to drop assault charges against Amy Winehouse’s husband.
A jury deliberated for three hours before finding James King not guilty of trying to pervert the course of justice (the equivalent of obstruction of justice in the U.S.).
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June 21, 2008
LOS ANGELES, Calif. --
Citibank is suing Ed McMahon, seeking to recoup nearly $200,000 lent to the financially strapped Hollywood icon, court records show.
Citibank filed the lawsuit against McMahon in Los Angeles Superior Court on June 9, according to the documents. The bank’s suit seeks at least $179,687 in damages as well as attorney’s fees on debt incurred within the past four years.
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June 21, 2008
LOS ANGELES, Calif. --
Woody Harrelson has been sued for $2.5 million by a paparazzo who accused the actor of assaulting him and breaking his video camera two years ago.
According to a lawsuit filed Friday in Los Angeles Superior Court, Josh Levine was filming Harrelson in Hollywood late one night in June 2006. He alleges the Academy Award-nominated actor choked him, broke his video camera and ordered his bodyguard to attack him.
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June 20, 2008
LOS ANGELES, Calif. --
Denise Richards was back in court Friday morning in Los Angeles for an emergency hearing allegedly called by Charlie Sheen.
Sheen, who was not present in court Friday, claims Richards continuously fails to bring their daughters, Sam and Lola, to his supervised visitations.
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June 20, 2008
LONDON, U.K. --
Temperamental model Naomi Campbell was sentenced to 200 hours of community service Friday after pleading guilty to assaulting two police officers after an “air rage” incident at Heathrow Airport.
She was also ordered to pay 200 pounds ($400) to each of the police officers she attacked and 150 pounds ($300) to Miles Sutherland, the captain of the British Airways plane she disrupted,in addition to a 2,300 pound ($4,600) fine.
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June 19, 2008
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. --
A Santa Barbara Superior Court Judge has thrown out two allegations made against Rob Lowe and his wife Sheryl, in court earlier today.
Judge Denise de Bellefeuille tossed out two of 12 allegations made by Jessica Gibson, a former nanny for the Lowe family, according to People.com.
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June 20, 2008
LONDON, England --
Naomi Campbell pleaded guilty Friday to assaulting two police officers during an “air rage” incident at Heathrow Airport. She has not been sentenced yet.
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June 19, 2008
LOS ANGELES, Calif. --
A Los Angeles hotel is suing Phil Spector, his wife and agent for failing to pay more than $100,000 in accommodations for lawyers and expert witnesses in his murder trial.
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June 18, 2008
NEW YORK, N.Y. --
Robert De Niro’s planned $43 million hotel in downtown Manhattan features a handmade brick exterior, Carrara marble bathtubs — and a luxurious penthouse, which has raised the hackles of preservationists who say he flouted the rules with that top-floor suite.
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June 17, 2008
LOS ANGELES, Calif. --
Taylor Dayne has pleaded no contest to a reckless driving charge in connection with her March 6 arrest.
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June 16, 2008
LOS ANGELES, Calif. --
Britney Spears has one less court date to worry about.
Prosecutors have declined to press charges against the pop star over an incident in November 2007 where she allegedly drove her car over the foot of a photographer, according to court documents obtained by Access Hollywood.
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June 13, 2008
LOS ANGELES, Calif. --
An unscheduled hearing in the Britney Spears custody case Friday yielded no change in the arrangement between the pop star and ex-husband Kevin Federline.
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June 13, 2008
CHICAGO, Ill. --
A Chicago jury has acquitted R&B superstar R. Kelly on all counts at his child pornography trial.
The verdict came six years after the singer was first charged with appearing on a graphic videotape with a girl prosecutors said was as young as 13 at the time.
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June 13, 2008
CHICAGO, Ill. --
Two jurors are having issues at R. Kelly’s child pornography trial.
One sent a note to the judge after three hours of deliberations Friday that reads: “How can I be removed and go home? I really need to.”
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June 13, 2008
CHICAGO, Ill. --
The jury in the R. Kelly child pornography case has reached a verdict after less than a day of deliberations.
Judge Vincent Gaughan is scheduled to read the verdict Friday afternoon.
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June 13, 2008
LOS ANGELES, Calif. --
Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee are back together again and living together, according to the Motley Crue drummer.
“Pamela and the kids have moved in with me,” the lanky musician told Rolling Stone.
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June 12, 2008
CHICAGO, Ill. --
A total of 34 prosecution and defense witnesses have testified in R. Kelly’s child pornography trial. As the case comes to a close, someone won’t be taking the stand: The man on trial himself.
Closing arguments were set to begin Thursday without jurors having heard from the R&B singer, who on Tuesday told the judge he doesn’t plan to testify.
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June 13, 2008
LOS ANGELES, Calif. --
A musicians union has filed a federal lawsuit against the producers of “American Idol,” claiming musicians were underpaid because the show’s live music was re-recorded for reruns.
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June 12, 2008
LONDON, England --
Police have charged a man and a woman in London with supplying drugs to Amy Winehouse.
The charges stem from a video that appeared to show the singer smoking crack cocaine.
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June 11, 2008
CLEARWATER, Florida --
Hulk Hogan’s estranged wife is asking a Florida judge to cite the wrestler for allegedly not paying his share of a $4.2 million Las Vegas condo.
Linda Bollea is asking that Hogan, whose real name is Terry Bollea, be held in contempt of court and jailed until he pays. A court order requires them to share the purchase of the condo at ThePalms hotel and spa.
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June 10, 2008
LOS ANGELES, Calif. --
Amy Winehouse’s husband beat up a pub landlord and then offered him $400,000 to keep quiet about the attack, a prosecutor said Tuesday.
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June 10, 2008
CHICAGO, Ill. --
R. Kelly told the judge in his child pornography trial Tuesday that he doesn’t plan to testify in his own defense.
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June 10, 2008
LOS ANGELES, Calif. --
An emotional Hulk Hogan hit “Larry King Live” on Tuesday night to tackle a host of topics, including the release of phone calls to his incarcerated son, Nick Hogan, by the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office.
Plus, Hulk clears up rumors about his love life and confirms news of his wife’s 19-year-old love interest.
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June 10, 2008
CHICAGO, IL --
R. Kelly told the judge in his child pornography trial Tuesday that he doesn’t plan to testify.
After Judge Vincent Gaughan told Kelly he had a right to not take the stand, the R&B singer leaned forward at the defense table with his hands folded and, speaking for the first time at the tial, responded: “I decided not to testify.”
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June 9, 2008
CHICAGO, Ill. --
Defense attorneys have rested their case in the child pornography trial of R&B singer R. Kelly in Chicago.
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June 9, 2008
LONDON, England --
Blake Fielder-Civil, the husband of Grammy award-winning singer Amy Winehouse, plead guilty to perverting the course of justice and assaulting a bar manager last week.
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June 5, 2008
CHICAGO, IL --
A forensic expert testified Thursday at R. Kelly’s child pornography trial that a fingernail-sized mark seen on the lower back of the man in the sex tape at the center of the case was not a mole but video distortion.
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June 5, 2008
CHICAGO, Ill. --
A sex tape that prosecutors say shows R. Kelly having sex with an underage girl has sharply divided the alleged victim’s family into those who think it’s her and those who don’t, a relative told jurors.
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June 3, 2008
WESTBURY, New York --
The battling Lohans are back in court.
Nearly a year after they settled their divorce, Lindsay Lohan’s estranged parents were in a Long Island courtroom Tuesday over custody issues.
Michael Lohan complained that his ex-wife, Dina, wasn’t living up to a visitation agreement involving their two youngest children, Ali, 14, and Dakota, 11. The children live with their mother in Merrick; Michael now lives in Southampton.
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June 2, 2008
CHICAGO, IL --
A star prosecution witness grew emotional Monday as she alleged at R. Kelly’s child pornography trial several three-way sexual encounters with the R&B superstar and the alleged victim, some of which she said were videotaped.
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June 3, 2008
TAMPA, FL --
A judge has denied a request by incarcerated teenager Nick Hogan to serve out his sentence under house arrest or out of solitary confinement.
Hulk Hogan’s son, Nick Hogan (known legally as Nick Bollea), is currently serving an eight-month sentence for felony reckless driving, in a Pinellas County, FL jail. The crash landed Nick Hogan’s friend, John Graziano in the hospital, where he remains.
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June 2, 2008
LONDON, England --
Amy Winehouse gave her jailed husband loving glances when he appeared in an east London court on charges of assault and conspiracy to obstruct justice.
Winehouse sat in the front row during Blake Fielder-Civil’s appearance on Monday.
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June 2, 2008
NEW YORK, New York --
A Manhattan judge has sentenced a former mental patient to three years of probation for stalking and harassing actress Uma Thurman.
Jack Jordan of Gaithersburg, Md., will serve the probation in his home state, with the condition that he receive outpatient psychiatric treatment. The prosecutor had sought a year in jail.
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May 30, 2008
LOS ANGELES, Calif. --
Britney Spears is not yet fit to participate in court proceedings in her conservatorship case, her lawyer has told a Los Angeles Superior Court commissioner.
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May 29, 2008
LONDON, England --
Naomi Campbell has been charged with assaulting two police officers during a “luggage rage” incident at Heathrow Airport, her lawyer and prosecutors said Thursday.
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May 28, 2008
GLOUCESTER, Mass. --
A woman whose car struck actress Sandra Bullock’s SUV last month has been placed on probation for one year.
Lucile Gatchell pleaded guilty Tuesday to operating under the influence of alcohol and marked lanes violation.
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May 27, 2008
LOS ANGELES, Calif. --
Rob Lowe and his wife Sheryl have dropped their lawsuit against their former chef.
The Lowe’s filed paperwork last Friday, asking the Superior Court of Santa Barbara to dismiss the suit they filed against Peter Clements, according to the court filing obtained by Access Hollywood.
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May 28, 2008
CHICAGO, Ill. --
A former personal assistant to R. Kelly became the latest person to take the stand and say she believes the R&B superstar appeared in a sex tape at the center of his child pornography trial.
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May 22, 2008
CHICAGO, Illinois --
Prosecutors trying to prove that a woman appeared in a sex tape with R. Kelly when she was underage — over her protestations that she didn’t — have turned to one of her childhoodfriends, the friend’s father and two relatives.
The R&B superstar is accused in the child pornography trial of videotaping himself having sex with a girl who may have been as young as 13. His attorneys have said Kelly is not on the tape and the alleged victim, now 23, denies she’s the person in the video.
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May 21, 2008
ORLANDO, Fla. --
Lou Pearlman, the man who created the Backstreet Boys and ‘N Sync, was sentenced Wednesday to 25 years in federal prison for engineering a decades-long scam that bilked thousands of investors out of their life savings.
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May 21, 2008
CHICAGO, IL --
A childhood friend of the alleged victim in the R. Kelly child pornography case testified Wednesday that she recognizes her longtime friend as the one in the explicit video at the center of the trial.
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May 20, 2008
LEWES, England --
A photographer convicted of assaulting Heather Mills won an appeal Tuesday because Mills didn’t attend a court hearing.
Jay Kaycappa had been sentenced to 140 hours of community service for allegedly grabbing Mills by her shoulder and taking her photograph in 2006.
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May 20, 2008
CHICAGO, Illinois --
A prosecutor in the child pornography trial of R. Kelly warned jurors Tuesday they would have to watch a videotape depicting an “underage child performing sex acts that you havenever seen before.”
“A child doesn’t choose to be violated and placed on a videotape, a videotape that will live on forever — long after this child becomes an adult,” Cook County prosecutor Shauna Bolikertold jurors as opening statements got under way in the R&B singer’s long-delayed trial.
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May 16, 2008
LOS ANGELES, Calif. --
After news broke of the historic California Supreme Court decision to overturn a voter-approved ban on gay marriage Thursday, Hollywood is weighing in on marriage equality.
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May 15, 2008
PHOENIX, AZ --
DMX has pleaded not guilty to felony drug possession and misdemeanor animal cruelty charges.
A judge entered the plea for the musician-actor (real name: Earl Simmons) at a brief court hearing Thursday. Simmons was late for court.
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May 15, 2008
LOS ANGELES, Calif. --
Anne Heche will not have to pay her ex-husband, Coley Laffoon, spousal and child support for the month of July according to a judge’s ruling in Los Angeles on Wednesday.
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May 14, 2008
LOS ANGELES, Calif. --
Kim, Khloe, Kourtney and Robert Jr. Kardashian have hit back legally at accusations they improperly used a credit card, registered to Sonja Norwood, in a new legal filing.
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May 16, 2008
LOS ANGELES, Calif. --
A Hollywood private investigator was convicted Thursday on charges that he schemed to dig up dirt for his well-heeled clients to use in lawsuits, divorces and contract disputes against the rich and famous.
Anthony Pellicano, 64, was accused of wiretapping stars such as Sylvester Stallone, and running the names of others, such as Gary Shandling and Kevin Nealon, through law enforcement databases to help clients in legal and other disputes.
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May 13, 2008
NEW YORK, New York --
Remy Ma has been sentenced to eight years in prison in the shooting a woman outside a Manhattan nightclub.
The state Supreme Court sentence was handed Tuesday to the 26-year-old rapper, whose real name is Remy Smith, for assault, weapon possession and attempted coercion.
Remy Ma, who could have faced up to 25 years in prison, was teary-eyed as she heard the sentence.
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May 15, 2008
LONDON, England --
Two photo agencies have agreed to pay $113,000 to Hugh Grant, his ex-girlfriend Liz Hurley and her husband for taking photos of them while they were vacationing in the Maldives.
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May 12, 2008
LONDON, England --
The ill-fated marriage of former Beatle Paul McCartney and his estranged wife Heather Mills came to a formal end during a 30-second hearing at London’s High Court on Monday.
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May 9, 2008
LOS ANGELES, Calif. --
A judge has reinstated a wrongful-death lawsuit brought by the family of slain rapper Notorious B.I.G., reversing an earlier decision to dismiss the case.
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May 8, 2008
NEW YORK, NY --
French cosmetics giant Lancome and Uma Thurman are wrangling over the use of her name and image in an advertising campaign.
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May 9, 2008
TAMPA, Florida --
Nick Hogan has been sent to jail for eight months after pleading no contest to felony reckless driving.
Read on for all the details of the reality star’s sentence.
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May 9, 2008
CHICAGO, Illinois --
Jury selection can begin in R. Kelly’s long-delayed child pornography trial, a judge ruled Friday.
Cook County Circuit Court Judge Vincent Gaughan denied a defense motion to again postpone the trial in which the Grammy-winning R&B singer is accused of having sex with a girl as young as 13 on videotape. The trial has been delayed for six years.
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May 7, 2008
LOS ANGELES, Calif. --
Actor Gary Dourdan has been charged with three felony drug possession counts following his arrest in Palm Springs, just over a week ago, Access Hollywood has confirmed.
Find out what drugs he is being charged with possessing and what penalties the actor could face if convicted.
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May 6, 2008
LOS ANGELES, Calif. --
Britney Spears has been granted increased visitation with her two young sons, Access Hollywood has learned.
Following Tuesday’s court hearing, Kevin’s attorney, Mark Vincent Kaplan, said the outcome was “something that is more than it has been,” in regards to the time the pop star will get to spend with her boys – Sean Preston and Jayden James.
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May 6, 2008
LOS ANGELES, Calif. --
Access Hollywood is on the scene as Britney Spears and Kevin Federline are in court for the latest chapter in the couple’s very public custody battle…
12:16 PM – The court hearing is over. The next court
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