Eva Longoria hosted the Inaugural Stand for Hope! 5K Charity Run/Walk event at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. The event helps to rise money in support of children with cancer and their families. This is an excellent cause and hopefully it will continue for year to come.
Christina Aguilera was out at LAX in Las Vegas hosting a party along with her husband and showing off her new additions. Ever since her cleavage jumped to a size E or EE she has been making sure not to leave home without them half exposed. She took in the night at the VIP section sipping champagne and just earning her money like a good celebrity at a party does. All that alcohol can’t be good for the milk now can it?
Such threats are almost never carried out. Eight years ago, Barbra Streisand, Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder, Alec Baldwin, and the late director Robert Altman all threatened to leave the US if George W. Bush got elected. None did. Four years ago, Robert Redford said he’d leave the country if Bush got re-elected. He’s still in Utah. So don’t believe Sarandon, either.
ANGRY Alec Baldwin trashed friends and strangers equally at a party to launch his new book on divorce Friday night. At a private bash to hype the book “A Promise to Ourselves,” the 50-year-old “30 Rock” star first promised the book was not meant to “bury” ex-wife Kim Basinger – then he proceeded to rake her over the coals. “My ex-wife reaches an almost sexual level of satisfaction when she’s in a room full of highpriced lawyers,” he said of Basinger, with whom he has battled since their 2001 divorce over the custody of their daughter, Ireland. Baldwin
added, “There are serious repercussions for children living in a fatherless home. I won’t name names – Lindsay Lohan!”
A multimillion-dollar home at the center of a bitter dispute between 50 Cent and the mother of his son was destroyed by a suspicious fire early Friday.
Six people, including 50’s ex-girlfriend Shaniqua Tompkins and their 10-year-old son, Marquise, were taken to a hospital after suffering smoke inhalation and later released. A firefighter also suffered a minor eye injury, officials said.
50, whose real name is Curtis Jackson, doesn’t live in the home and wasn’t there at the time.
“Informed this morning while filming a new motion picture on location in Louisiana, Curtis Jackson expressed deep concern over this fire at his property,” a representative for 50 said in a statement. “He is extremely thankful that everyone including his son, Marquise, escaped the burning house safely. He is confident that authorities will be conducting a thorough investigation of the incident and is eager to review their findings.”
The home was essentially burned to the ground, with charred embers and wreckage littering the lot where the home once stood in the tree-lined neighborhood in Dix Hills.
Investigators from the Suffolk County arson squad were called to the scene after Dix Hills Fire Chief Larry Feld deemed the blaze suspicious. The fire was reported at 4:59 a.m. and was extinguished about 45 minutes later, Feld said. The arson squad had finished its work at the scene six hours after the blaze.
He referred the case to the arson squad “because of the intensity of the fire, and also being that who belongs to the house.”
Police said the victims included the rapper’s former girlfriend Shaniqua Tompkins and two of her children, and Marquise. Three other adults in the home weren’t immediately identified.
A passing off-duty police officer helped rescue the six people off an elevated deck in the home’s backyard, Feld said.
The home has been the subject of an intense feud between 50 and Tompkins.
Tompkins filed a lawsuit against 50 earlier this year claiming he had promised her a house more than a decade ago, but that since their breakup, he now wants to evict her and their 10-year-old son from the home.
Tompkins’ lawyer, Paul Catsandonis, told The Associated Press in a telephone interview that the dispute over the house had become “extremely, extremely contentious” in recent days. Although he declined to be specific, he said there was an “extremely dangerous incident” Monday in his Manhattan office while taking a deposition for the lawsuit.
The dispute was “involving the parties in question,” he said.
He said the case was back on the calendar in state Supreme Court in Manhattan on June 10.
Catsandonis said the 31-year-old rapper paid about $2.4 million for the house last year, one of the largest in the Long Island neighborhood of Dix Hills. He said 50, who grew up surrounded by violence and was once shot outside his grandmother’s Queens home in 2000, had told the 32-year-old Tompkins that he wanted her and their son to live in a safe and secure place.
He also contended the rapper signed an agreement that would give Tompkins half of all his earnings as a hip-hop superstar. “Everything that’s his is hers, everything that’s hers is his. He memorialized in an e-mail that he intended to give her the house.”
50 has been nominated for 13 Grammys, including nominations for the song “In da Club” and the album “Get Rich or Die Tryin’.” In 2005, he starred with Terrence Howard in a semi-autobiographical movie based on that album.
Amy Winehouse showed up late for her first concert since leaving rehab, giving an underwhelming performance in front of 90,000 people Friday at a Lisbon music festival.
The Grammy-winning jazz-pop diva turned up almost an hour late for the outdoor show. She apologized for having a sore throat, and her voice cracked during the 55-minute set.
Winehouse, wearing a short dress, appeared distracted during her performance. She paused to talk to members of her band, fiddled at length with her microphone, sucked throat candy and at one point dashed offstage but quickly returned.
She had cuts on her left arm, and her right hand was bandaged.
Winehouse’s musical career has flourished despite her erratic behavior, missed concerts and stints in drug rehab.
“Hey Lisbon,” Winehouse told the crowd, which had booed when she failed to show up on time. “I’m sorry I’m late,” she said.
The sell-out crowd, gathered in a park for the Rock in Rio festival, warmed to Winehouse as the 24-year-old sang hits including her breakthrough song “Rehab,” soul classics and reggae songs.
The crowd wasn’t thoroughly thrilled, though, and she walked off stage without playing an encore. The crowd remained subdued.
Winehouse was the third act of the day on the festival’s main stage, coming on before headliner Lenny Kravitz.
Winehouse’s management told the festival organizers she would not speak to the media.
The singer is booked to play at a series of music festivals in Europe this summer. She said she is set to perform next month at a concert in London honoring Nelson Mandela.
Last week she won an Ivor Novello award, a prestigious British prize, for “Love Is a Losing Game” from her “Back to Black” album. Her father received the prize after Winehouse arrived late to the ceremony.
Earlier this month, the singer was arrested and questioned by police about video footage that appeared to show her inhaling fumes from a crack pipe. Authorities said the singer would not be charged.
Last year she canceled a series of British concerts and postponed a tour of the U.S. and Canada after British media reported that she was in and out of rehab.
Demi Moore, Ashton Kutcher and several of their famous colleagues – including newlyweds Charlie Sheen and Brooke Mueller – spread their wings Saturday night at the exclusive Butterfly Ball fundraiser benefiting Chrysalis, a Los Angeles-based organization that helps homeless men and women find jobs and homes.
“We love it, and we really believe in it,” Moore said before the event.
Sheen and Mueller created a stir among photographers and reporters when they arrived on the ball’s purple carpet. It was the first public appearance by the recently married couple, who wed Friday night. The “Two and a Half Men” star and real estate developer were engaged last summer after meeting at the Chrysalis Butterfly Ball in 2006. The newlyweds didn’t stay for this year’s ceremony.
Inside, the evening almost served as a “That ’70s Show” reunion. Before dinner, Topher Grace stopped by Kutcher’s table, just a few seats away from fellow former “’70s Show” co-star Mila Kunis. Kutcher and Grace were interrupted by 15-year-old singer Spensha Baker, who performed after Geffen Records chairman Ron Fair was honored. Baker was eager to meet the “What Happens in Vegas” star.
The casts of “Grey’s Anatomy” and “Private Practice” were also out en masse to laud executive producer Mark Gordon during the ceremony, which was attended by over 800 people. Among them: Katherine Heigl, Kate Walsh, Tim Daly, Eric Dane, T.R. Knight and Justin Chambers, who has no idea what will ensue following his character Alex’s steamy season finale kiss with Heigl’s Izzie.
“We go back in three weeks,” Chambers told The Associated Press before the festivities. “I have no idea what’s going to happen. It’s always so last minute that we really have no clue what’s going to happen. I just want the writers to keep making an entertaining show. They always have a way or surprising us actors.”
Other famous faces in attendance at the Butterfly Ball included emcee Chris Kattan, co-chair Rebecca Gayheart, Eva Mendes, Jason Lewis, Seth MacFarlane, Brett Ratner, Keyshia Cole, Patrick Muldoon, Amaury Nolasco, Eliza Dushku and Jason Segel, who honored Universal Pictures production president Donna Langley. The event was said to have raised over $1 million for Chrysalis.
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt may not have welcomed their twins just yet (Entertainment Tonight is sticking by their account).
For now, the actress, 32, is just enjoying her pregnancy.
She opens up in July’s Vanity Fair about being pregnant, raising an international family, their 2-year-old daughter Shiloh and how they annoy their children.
On being pregnant:
“I love it. It makes me feel like a woman. It makes me feel that all the things about my body are suddenly there for a reason. It makes you feel round and supple, and to have a little life inside you is amazing. Also, I’m fortunate. I think some women have a different experience depending on their partner. I think that affects it. I happen to be with somebody who finds pregnancy very sexy. So that makes me feel very sexy.”
On her international family:
“When I was growing up I wanted to adopt, because I was aware there were kids that didn’t have parents. It’s not a humanitarian thing, because I don’t see it as a sacrifice. It’s a gift. We’re all lucky to have each other. I look at Shiloh — because, obviously, physically, she is the one that looks like Brad and I when we were little — and say, ‘If these were our brothers and sisters, how much would we have known by the time we were six that it took into our 30s and 40s to figure out?’ I suppose I’m giving them the childhood I always wished I had.”
On Shiloh’s birth:
“We were in this little hospital in Africa when Shi was born. I don’t think there was anybody else in the hospital. It was just a little cottage, the three of us. It ended up being the greatest thing…. I had a C-section and I found it fascinating. I didn’t find it a sacrifice and I didn’t find it a painful experience. I found it a fascinating miracle of what a body can do.”
On nannies:
“We don’t ever have anybody spend the night. We may have to adjust that when the next one comes. But we do have ladies that work with us, and they’re also from different cultures and back-grounds. One lady’s a Vietnamese teacher — wonderful. One is of Congolese descent from Belgium. Another is from the States and is really creative and does art programs.”
On raising her children:
“Artists raise their kids differently. We communicate to the point where we probably annoy our children. We have art around the house, we have books, we go to plays, we talk. Our focus is art and painting and dress-up and singing. It’s what we love. So I think you can see how artists in some way raise other artists.”
Lindsay Lohan went to the hospital on Thursday night because she was having an asthma attack, her mom tells PEOPLE.
“She was losing oxygen. She couldn’t breathe,” Dina Lohan says about her 21-year-old daughter, whose emergency room trip with deejay Samantha Ronson was photographed. On Friday, the star’s rep claimed that she went to the hospital to visit a friend.
“She was afraid to go the hospital because [the paparazzi] were gonna write about it. She was sick,” the elder Lohan adds at an event for Project Cuddle. “If you were sick, and you’re mother couldn’t even take you to a hospital because paparazzi will fabricate some story, you know, it’s sad. It’s really sad.”
But Dina says Lindsay’s lucky to have Ronson by her side, telling PEOPLE, “Samantha is an angel.”
Six months after the case was thrown out of court, Lindsay Lohan’s attached-at-the-hip BFF Samantha Ronson wants to reinstate her defamation lawsuit against gossip blogger Perez Hilton.
The celebrity DJ claims that her former lawyer (whom she’s also suing) mishandled the case, which was originally filed in July 2007. Ronson is suing Hilton (aka Mario Lavandeira) for writing that she owned the cocaine found in LiLo’s car after a May 2007 crash.
Ronson will make her appeal on Wednesday to Judge Elihu M. Berle, the same judge who threw out the case back in November 2007.
Her dad, Jamie, had worked out a deal with Danish entrepreneur Claus Hjelmbak where she would endorse a line of shabby-chic Scandinavian furniture – specifically, creating a piece called a “Woofy.” A spy said, “It was a plastic dog that retails for over $200 and hides electrical wires in your home. Britney wanted to do a pink-and-blue Woofy.” But Jamie pulled out of the deal because he didn’t feel “comfortable” with Claus, who he thought was just using Britney for publicity. Imagine that!
Charlie Sheen married real estate investor Brooke Mueller at a private estate in Los Angeles on Friday, PEOPLE has confirmed.
“They’re well matched and incredibly happy,” says a friend of the couple.
Mueller, 30, and Sheen, 42, exchanged vows in front of about 60 close friends and family. The bride wore a Reem Acra gown. Among the guests were Grey’s Anatomy star Eric Dane and actress Rebecca Gayheart, who first introduced the couple in 2006.
“Brooke really wanted to walk down the aisle in a big way, but Charlie insisted they keep it simple and small,” says a source.
The Two and a Half Men star proposed to Mueller in Costa Rica last June, presenting her with a $500,000 custom-designed 11-carat yellow diamond and platinum ring from jeweler Lord Alon Barak.
The newlyweds are expected to attend the Chrysalis Butterfly Ball in Los Angeles on Saturday, an event where they made their first public appearance as a couple two years ago.
In lieu of wedding gifts, the newlyweds have asked guests to donate to the Chrysalis: Changing Lives Through Jobs charity and to Pugs ‘N Pals, a dog rescue charity.
As for their future, Sheen and Mueller are eager to start a family, according to an insider. “Brooke is hoping to get pregnant very soon,” says the friend.
Sheen is dad to three daughters already: Sam, 4, and Lola, 2, with ex-wife Denise Richards, and Cassandra, 23, with ex-girlfriend Paula Profitt.