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Sunday, January 21, 2007
P. Diddy, Puffy, Puff Daddy, Mr. Combs Denied
Diddy was left red-faced after being turned away from an exclusive Golden Globe Awards after-party.
The rap mogul, real name Sean Combs was reportedly fuming after turning up to the bash hosted by Creative Artists Agency (CAA) at Los Angeles' Sunset Tower hotel on Monday (1-15-07) and being told his name was not on the list.
A witness told the New York Post that Diddy became "verbally abusive and started yelling at security", who then called hotel owner Jeff Klein who "kindly asked Diddy to leave".
The furious rapper shouted, "What are you going to do... call the police?" Klein replied, "Yes!", and then Diddy screamed, "Just try it... I'll spend the rest of my life hunting you down!"
Diddy left shortly after the altercation, and he has allegedly now been banned from Sunset Tower.
However, Diddy's representative insists it was all just a misunderstanding, saying: "Sean never said those things. He respects people's wishes and left and went to Prince's party instead."
Diddy reportedly soured his name with CAA after he flew into a rage at an assistant to CAA co-chief Bryan Lourd, who was hosting an Oscar party and hadn't invited him.
A CAA representative has denied the star has been blacklisted. The rep said: "There is no ban on Diddy officially or unofficially. He just wasn't invited."
Former "King of Pop" Michael Jackson has settled a dispute with a Los Angeles pharmacy who claimed he owed 100,000 dollars in unpaid bills, a spokesman for the star said in a statement.
Mickey Fine Pharmacy had filed a lawsuit in Santa Monica Superior Court, alleging breach of oral contract, saying Jackson had failed to pay for prescription drugs supplied to him since December 2005.
However a spokesman for Jackson said in a statement the bill had now been paid. "The issue has been amicably resolved," the statement said. "Mikey Fine Pharmacy has been paid."
The statement said the dispute was related to a separate legal action Jackson is waging against his former accountants.
In court documents filed last month Jackson alleged the company of Bernstein, Fox, Whitman, Goldman and Sloan, had mismanaged his financial affairs.
Jackson is struggling to rebuild his career since his acquittal on child molestation charges last year, and all hopes of a come back are pretty much over.
Cameron Diaz Out! Scarlett Johansson In For Justin Timberlake
After weeks of rumors, singer Justin Timberlake and actress Cameron Diaz confirmed on Thursday they had broken up after more than three years as one of the highest-profile celebrity couples.
"It has always been our preference not to comment on the status of our relationship, but, out of respect for the time we spent together, we feel compelled to do so now, in the light of recent speculation and inaccurate stories that are being reported by the media," they said in a joint statement.
"We have, in fact, ended our romantic relationship and have done so mutually and as friends with continued love and respect for each other."
The rumors of a split made entertainment headlines this week with the kickoff of Timberlake's 36-date FutureSex/LoveShow tour at which "Charlie's Angels" star Diaz was conspicuously absent.
According to People Magazine, Timberlake told the crowd, "Sometimes love isn't easy." The magazine said the couple often dodged breakup rumors but quoted sources as saying this time it was real.
Us Weekly said the 25-year-old Timberlake's bitter breakup with Diaz, 34, drove him into the arms of her worst enemy, 22-year-old actress Scarlett Johansson.
The weekly entertainment magazine reports on it's blog that Cam had a good reason to be concerned. Noelle Hancock writes, The decision to cast the 20-year-old as the video vixen pushed Timberlake's relationship with Diaz to the breaking point, and paved the way for Johansson to move in for the kill.
“She could not believe he went behind her back to put her in the video," says a Timberlake pal. "Cameron was very jealous of Scarlett.”
Marilyn Manson and Dita Von Teese File For Divorce
A New Year and a new start for this celebrity couple, Marilyn Manson and Dita Von Teese have gone their separate ways.
After just over a year of marriage, Dita has filed for divorce from Marilyn, according to court documents obtained by People Magazine.
In her papers, which were filed on 29th December 2006, Dita cites "irreconcilable differences" as the reason for the split.
The couple's date of separation is listed as the 24th December 2006.
According to the papers, Dita is not making any claims for spousal support.
This coupling had all the ingredients of a happy marriage, they'd known each other for more than five minutes.
Marilyn (whose real name is Brian Warner) and Dita (born Heather Sweet) began dating on his 32nd birthday in January 2001.
The couple wed in Ireland in a non-denominational ceremony in December 2005, before 60 friends and family members.
"Everyone expected Manson and Dita to have some sort of crazy vampire wedding, but anyone who knows the couple knew it would be the classy, stylish affair that it was," a wedding guest told People at the time.
Hip-hop musician and actor Busta Rhymes has been arrested on misdemeanor assault charges after allegedly attacking a former employee during an argument over "payroll issues," police said.
Accompanied by his lawyer, the 34-year-old Brooklyn native, born Trevor Smith, walked into a lower Manhattan precinct on Wednesday night where he was arrested.
Police said the rapper is accused of kicking and punching the former employee during an argument outside Rhymes' Manhattan office the day after Christmas.
Following the alleged attack, police said the man, who has not been named, reported the incident and sought medical treatment for swelling and bruising to his face.
The rapper will be arraigned Thursday.
This is not the first incident of violence surrounding Rhymes, whose hits include "Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Could See," "Dangerous" and "Touch It." He has also appeared in films, including 2000's "Shaft" and "Finding Forrester."
In February, a bodyguard for the rap star was shot dead during a music video shoot. Israel Ramirez, 30, was shot once in the chest.
And in August, Rhymes was arrested and charged with kicking a 19-year-old man in the head.
The cash-strapped Grammy-winner Whitney Houston, who famously sang "I Have Nothing" has been forced into a court-ordered garage sale of personal belongings, from designer dresses, shoes, awards, music equipment, and even her undies after she failed to pay to keep them in storage.
This is just the latest embarrassment for 43-year-old Whitney, who has been in rehab to battle drug addiction and who recently filed for divorce from Bobby Brown after 14 years of marriage.
Last November she almost lost her spectacular 7 million dollar, 10-acre estate in New Jersey because she owed tens of thousands of dollars in back taxes.
Now Jersey-based storage company Speed Of Sound has the court's permission to put Whitney's old stage gear up for auction after her company, Nippy Inc, stopped paying the bills in 2005.
Some of Brown's possessions appear to be among the items up for sale, including "16 assorted Bobby Brown music awards".
The star has entered drug rehab twice. The National Enquirer recently published photographs purporting to show drug gear in her squalid bathroom.
The auction house owner, expects to raise millions of dollars. Houston will keep any money left over when the storage bill is paid.
Her publicist claims that it will be good riddance to bad rubbish, saying the auction consists of "old equipment from past tours that she doesn't need any more".
A San Francisco woman who once broke into former Beatles guitarist George Harrison's Hawaii home has been found dead in California, the victim of a murder-suicide, police said on Sunday.
Cristin Keleher, 34, made headlines in December 1999 by entering Harrison's Maui estate and then cooking herself a frozen pizza and helping herself to a root beer. After she did her laundry and called her mother, she was found by the security staff and charged with burglary.
She had apparently been stalking Harrison for months.
On December 19 of this year police in Truckee near California's popular Lake Tahoe found her body and that of a 48-year-old man in a SUV vehicle, both with gunshot wounds to their heads, according to a coroner's report.
From the investigation it appears that she was shot first and then he shot himself, so it is a murder-suicide, police said.
Britney Spears' biggest internet fan club is set to be closed down.
The 25-year-old who has been seen partying since filing for divorce from Kevin Federline has shocked fans on website www.worldofbritney.com so much they have decided to shut it down.
Ruben Gray, who founded the website, revealed: "Britney is losing her identity and credibility. Britney is done. For me at least.
"No matter what anyone thinks or how they may disagree, it is very hard to maintain the respect needed to keep things going. So we have decided to shut the website down."
The website has had almost 37 million visitors since it opened in 2000.
It will officially close on January 31.
Britney who has been photographed on four occasions without underwear was seen wearing another revealing outfit at a Los Angeles party this week.
The mother-of-two, who was spotted chain-smoking and drinking cocktails,arrived in a black top, but soon whipped it off and partied in just a bra.
Diddy was left red-faced after being turned away from an exclusive Golden Globe Awards after-party.
