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If Kanye West doesn't regret hijacking Taylor Swift, he will now -- we're told his concert tour with Lady Gaga was scrapped because ticket sales sucked. And "sucked" happens to be a nicer version of the word we were told. And not only that -- our insiders say another factor in the cancellation was West and Gaga's people were at each others throats like their last names were Gosselin........

NEW YORK (AP) - A CBS News employee pleaded not guilty Friday to trying to blackmail David Letterman for $2 million in a plot that spurred the TV host to acknowledge sexual relationships with women who worked on his show. Robert J. "Joe" Halderman, a producer for the true-crime show "48 Hours," entered the plea in a Manhattan court as he was arraigned on one count of attempted first-degree grand larceny, punishable by five to 15 years upon conviction. Bail was set at $200,000. [snip] [snip] Documents filed in Stamford Superior Court in Connecticut show that Halderman, of Norwalk, was...

Even Anna Nicole Smith's companion Howard K. Stern is not beyond being libeled, a judge ruled Wednesday. Former TV journalist Rita Cosby had charged Stern's tattered reputation made him "libel-proof." Manhattan Federal Court Judge Denny Chin rejected that argument in a decision that allows a portion of Stern's libel action against Cosby to go to trial. Stern is suing Cosby for $60 million, charging that more than a dozen passages in her tell-all best seller, "Blonde Ambition: The Untold Story Behind Anna Nicole Smith's Death," damaged his reputation. Stern cites a passage in which Cosby writes that Smith, in front...

Maxim brings the hottest female stars to FOXNews.com every Monday. Today, meet 'Bring It On' star Christina Milian. Christina Milian likes to keep her relationships exciting. The “Bring It On” star, 27, says that includes everything from costumes (like the red, robed, maid one she describes as “really cute”) to strip clubs. “I try a little bit of everything,” she says in the new issue of Maxim magazine. “Im all about keeping the excitement in the relationship. That’s why I sing songs like ‘Dip It Low.’ When I’m with somebody, I like to keep it exciting.”

They have plenty in common. Well OK, then, they both shave their legs and both are worth a fortune. So it is perhaps not too surprising that departing Manchester United star Cristiano Ronaldo and socialite Paris Hilton are reportedly enjoying the first flushes of romance. The perma-tanned Portuguese winger has been celebrating news that he has been snapped up by Real Madrid for the eye-watering sum of £80 million by hitting the town in Los Angeles with the American party queen.

It's simply unthinkable. After hundreds of man hours of scrutiny, the research is in ... and Megan Fox may have a Megan flaw -- her thumbs!

AMID all the chaos in Albany, the upstate billionaire at the center of the state Senate upheaval yesterday coyly confirmed he's dating tennis great Monica Seles. Buffalo Sabres owner and upstate king-maker Thomas Golisano, 67 -- credited with convincing two rogue Democratic senators to join forces with the GOP -- has been spotted for months squiring around Seles, 35. When asked yesterday if the two were a pair, the normally unflappable Paychex founder -- who was making the interview rounds all over the state capital -- seemed taken aback. "Why do you want to know?" said Golisano, clearly more comfortable...

Furious Eminem stormed out of the MTV Movie Awards after finding serial prankster Sacha Baron Cohen's bare buttocks just inches from his face. The rapper was left fuming when Cohen - as his flamboyant fashionista alter-ego Bruno - descended from above dressed as an angel in a thong and landed head first right in his lap. The 36-year-old looked disgusted by the surprise stunt but sat powerless with Cohen, 37, on top of him before his bodyguards came to his aid..............."

Wall Street's all the rage again -- literally. And Oliver Stone and Michael Douglas have decided they have more to say about it. Stone has just closed a deal with Fox to direct the follow-up to "Wall Street," now tentatively called "Wall Street 2," with Douglas starring. This would provide an unusual amount of continuity since Stone directed and co-wrote, with Stanley Weiser, the original 1987 exploration of the inner workings of the finance sector and its complicated relationship with greed. The plot line for the new "Wall Street" iteration has not been divulged, but it will pick up with...

Tila Tequila got thrown curbside by Billy Corgan and is now back to dating broads.

In an interview that airs Monday on The Tyra Banks Show, Levi Johnston admits he and Bristol Palin were allowed to share a room at Sarah's Alaskan home even though she probably knew they were having sex. "I'm pretty sure she probably knew," says Johnston. "Moms are pretty smart." Johnston, 19 and Palin, 18, called of their engagement in March. They welcomed Tripp Easton Mitchell on Dec. 27....."

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The longtime companion of Anna Nicole Smith and two psychiatrists were charged on Thursday with conspiring to furnish drugs to the former Playboy playmate in the years before her 2007 death from a prescription medication overdose. Howard Stern, an attorney, and doctors Sandeep Kapoor and Khristine Eroshevich were each charged with a single count of conspiracy, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office said. Other charges were filed for unlawfully prescribing opiates and other controlled substances. California Attorney General Jerry Brown said the trio furnished thousands of prescription pills to Smith, "often for no legitimate medical...

Sarah Palin's 18-year-old daughter Bristol has reportedly broken off her engagement with Levi Johnston, the father of her 2-month-old son Tripp. It's surprising because in an interview just last month with FOX's Gretta Van Susteren, Bristol said the 19-year-old Levi is a hands-on dad and that they planned on marrying after finishing their education. But in a new interview with Star Magazine, Levi's sister Mercede Johnston says Bristol actually broke up with Levi more than a month ago, is not attending school and rarely lets her baby daddy see their young son. Mercede also says Bristol even told him that...

First Lady Michelle Obama has had enough of talk show titan Oprah Winfrey! "Oprah marched into the White House with Gayle King in tow like she owned it," an insider told The ENQUIRER when the chatty twosome arrived for an interview with Michelle. "(Oprah) believes she played a major role in getting President Obama elected and expects to be treated like royalty when she calls on them. "But Michelle had other ideas. She appreciates that Oprah endorsed her husband, but considers her role minor in getting him elected." Michelle, 44, is still annoyed by the way Oprah flirted with her...

First there were the matching tattoos, then the public declarations of love and now it seems Lindsay Lohan will marry her lesbian lover.......[snip] ......[snip] And while dad Michael thinks the pair are just seeking fame and attention – which getting married after dating for only a few months obviously proves wrong – mum Dina approves. She was by Lindsay's side as the actress showed off the heart-shaped jewel at a Marie Claire party.

Kerrville Texas - A bitter divorce trial slated to begin in a Kerr County courtroom in late August between Joseph and Kimberly Burkett already is making national headlines. Public interest in the case grew when CBS’s chief foreign affairs correspondent, Lara Logan, announced she was pregnant. The father, she claims, is Joseph Burkett of Kerrville. Their relationship began while Logan was on assignment in Iraq, where Burkett was stationed as a federal contractor, according to news reports. The relationship reportedly began shortly after Logan broke off another relationship with a fellow journalist last November. Burkett and Logan apparently met years...

London - Troubled British singer Amy Winehouse has been diagnosed with emphysema and is being treated at a London hospital, a British newspaper report said Sunday. The Grammy award-winning singer's serious lung condition has been attributed to the abuse of crack cocaine and cigarettes, her father Mitch Winehouse told the Sunday Mirror newspaper. Doctors warned his daughter that she could end up in a wheelchair within a month if she fails to stop using the drugs, he said. The 24- year-old then told him, 'Don't worry about me, dad. I know I've got to stop taking drugs now.' Winehouse was...

MAY 21--Meet Alex Phillips. The Wisconsin teenager is facing felony child pornography charges for allegedly posting naked photos of his 16-year-old ex-girlfriend on his MySpace page. When contacted by police about the two images, Phillips, 17, balked at removing the pictures of the girl. Warned that he could face jail for publishing images of the minor, Phillips told an investigator, "F#@! that, I am keeping them up," according to a criminal complaint filed yesterday in Lacrosse County Circuit Court. Phillips, pictured in the below mug shot, told cops that he posted the photos last week "because he was venting." The...

LONDON (AP) - Sky News television says British singer Amy Winehouse has been arrested on suspicion of assault. London's Metropolitan police said Friday they have arrested a 24-year- old woman on suspicion of assault but are not naming her. British authorities do not usually name suspects until they have been charged.

Cyber Vigilantes Track Extremist Web Sites, Intelligence Experts Balk at Effort MIAMI, Fla. — While the debate grows on how to tackle global jihadism on the Internet, some security experts warn that "cyber vigilantes" — people who track and help shut down terror-related Web sites — are compromising government investigations with their amateur sleuthing tactics. Michael Radu, a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute and an expert on terror-related Web sites, said the government is already overburdened trying to monitor the thousands of sites on the Web believed to contain radical Muslim messages. These cyber vigilantes, he said,...

22 March 2008 FOX NEWS JOINS THE "FAKE BUT ACCURATE" SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM by Aaron Weisburd

And the Winner is: 1. Sarah Jessica Parker Where You´ve Seen Her Unsexy: Sex and the City, Failure to Launch, Honeymoon in Vegas Why She´s Unsexy: How the hell did this Barbaro-faced broad manage to be the least sexy woman in a group of very unsexy women and still star on a show with "sex" in the title? Pull your skirt down, Secretariat, we´d rather ride Chris Noth. The Rest: 2. Amy Winehouse (...beholding her openly hemorrhaging translucent skin, rat´s nest mane and lashes that look more like surgically attached bats, we were the ones screaming, "Nooo, nooo, nooo!") 3....

Time to tighten the belt, Paris. Hotel magnate Barron Hilton announced yesterday that he's leaving 97% of his wealth to charity, dramatically cutting the fortune his children and grandkids will get. That means granddaughter Paris Hilton, who once stood to inherit $100 million or more by some accounts, could end up with a measly $5 million or so. "The whole family will be devastated, particularly [Paris' mom] Kathy," a pal of the clan told the Daily News last night. "Some of them could be likely to contest the will - it'll be in the courts longer than Anna Nicole Smith...

The anonymous e-mails and letters began dropping into inboxes and through front doors this summer. One claimed that Hillary Clinton was having a lesbian affair with Huma Abedin, her beautiful aide. Another online mass-mailing cautioned of the “dark secrets” of Mitt Romney’s Mormonism. A blogger claiming to support John McCain said that Rudy Giuliani's wife supported the killing of “innocent puppies”. Flyers appeared on cars accusing Barack Obama of being a Muslim extremist. An anonymous website said that Fred Thompson was a corrupt playboy. Welcome to South Carolina, the foulest swamp of electoral dirty tricks in America. This state’s primary...

He's a singer who has made some odd career moves in his time, from changing his name to an unpronounceable love symbol to scrawling "slave" on his cheek in protest at his record company. But industry experts yesterday warned that Prince's latest decision might be the most controversial of all. He has threatened to sue thousands of his biggest fans for breach of copyright, provoking an angry backlash and claims of censorship. His lawyers have forced his three biggest internet fansites to remove all photographs, images, lyrics, album covers and anything linked to the artist's likeness. A legal letter asks...

We’re still a bit incredulous on this one, but a top level U.S. Department of Justice official is telling Big Head DC that Michael Musto’s rumor about Hillary Clinton fooling around with one of her top female aides Huma Abedin is based in reality! “I am close enough to Hillary and Huma to tell you that this ‘rumor’ is true,” the official says. “It is well known inside her campaign that Hillary and Huma are an item. “If you call Hillary’s residence in DC first thing in the morning, Huma answers the phone,” the official continues. “Same thing late at...

PHOENIX — A man who agreed to plead guilty in a plot to extort more than $1 million from Tom Cruise for the actor's stolen wedding photos was found dead in his home, authorities said. Investigators said it appeared David Hans Schmidt, 47, who was under house arrest and faced up to two years in federal prison, had committed suicide. He was found dead in his townhouse around 3 p.m. Friday after police noticed a tracker placed on him had not moved and he had not checked in, Lt. Anthony Lopez said. It wasn't known when Schmidt, who was free...

David Hans Schmidt, aka the "Sultan of Sleaze," has finally learned what the potential consequences are of peddling his shadily procured wares back to their original owners. Having attempted to shake down Tom Cruise with stolen photos from Cruise's lavishly mounted Italian fairytale wedding, a guilty-pleading Schmidt is finally looking at serving up to two years of hard time............

Our report yesterday about Angelina Jolie banning press from interviews and requiring interviewers to sign contracts touched off a firestorm. Mostly it was from colleagues who were relieved that we’d finally lifted the veil on all this craziness. And it wasn’t just about FOX News getting banned from the red carpet. That was bad, but it wasn’t the central issue. Jolie treats all the press with hostility unless she can control the outcome of an interaction. Insisting interviewers sign contracts was an affront, considering that her movie is about the murder of a reporter who tried bravely to do his...

LOS ANGELES - Paris Hilton's latest jail cell may be as far from a Hilton hotel as she's ever been. The heiress has been in the medical unit of the Twin Towers Correctional Facility in Los Angeles since Friday. Inmates call it "the crazy ward" because it houses psychiatric patients. "When I was here, it was the worst of the worst," said Donese Allen, 40, who said she stayed in the unit because she had seizures.[snip].. He said meals consist of "mystery meat" sandwiches; ground beef and potatoes on toast, popularly known as "s--- on a shingle," or macaroni and...

LOS ANGELES - It was apparently the one time she was camera-shy. Paris Hilton was so terrified guards would snap a cell-phone picture of her on the toilet that she didn't eat or drink for three days, which left her facing a life-threatening collapse, a source told the Daily News. She also was not taking prescribed medication while in jail, Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca said. The stainless steel lavatory in the hotel heiress' 12-foot-by-8-foot cell was in plain view of a large window in the door, which guards could look through 24 hours a day. "She was absolutely...

PETRIFIED PARIS HILTON mouthed “I love you” to her parents last night — before being carted off to face a hostile reception in prison.....[snip] [snip]Prisoner number 9818783 was put back in her special cell — isolated from other inmates — amid fears the angry lags could RIOT over her special treatment. Wardens even ordered a lockdown as prisoners — who think Paris pretended to be sick to con doctors — threatened a revolt. An insider at the prison in Lynwood, California, said: “The women inside the jail are seething. They say if you’re a rich white girl you get special...

Larry Birkhead just filed a lawsuit against Debra Opri for allegedly defrauding him out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. In a lawsuit filed Friday in Los Angeles County Superior Court, Birkhead claims an MSNBC reporter hooked him up with her. He says Opri said she was willing to represent him free of charge, because "the publicity from her representation of Plaintiff would greatly benefit Opri's legal career." Birkhead says shortly after hiring Opri, he did an interview with the MSNBC reporter who was asking questions about confidential documents she shouldn't have had. Birkhead says Opri told him she had...

May 28, 2007 -- I'M mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore! There are two - count 'em two - premieres this week, "The Ex-Wives Club" and "The Starter Wife," that are so demeaning to women that I propose we declare this "In Praise of Parasitic Women Week." Both shows celebrate women who marry well for a living and then have the nerve to whine about it. [snip]... ..[snip] Marla Maples? Nice woman, but - hello? - she was married to Donald Trump and tries to come across as the wronged woman in the show. Not...

Girls Gone Wild' creator Joe Francis has been charged with sexual battery, just two days after he was sentenced to 35 days in jail for contempt of court. The 34-year-old picked up the misdemeanor charge Wednesday. It relates to a January incident at a birthday party in Hollywood, where Francis allegedly touched an 18-year-old woman's breast, buttocks and inner thigh at least 10 times, despite being asked repeatedly to stop. Francis faces six months in jail and a $2,000 fine if found guilty. His arraignment is set for May 22.....[snip]

Joe Francis is FREAKING OUT! He's sitting in jail, serving time for tax evasion, contempt of court, molesting minors, bribery etc. - facing a hundred years in prison, and NO ONE is returning his calls! The Girls Gone Wild mogul has been reaching out to his celebrity friends - he wants them to write letters defending his character to the judge. These are the same celebrities who didn't hesitate to accept Joe's hospitality when he was on top of the world. They flew in his Gulfstream jet and enjoyed his Caligula-like parties in LA, Miami, Mexico, etc. Paris and Nicky...

Her announcement this morning has nothing to do with contract negotiations breaking down. ABC did not end Rosie’s "View." Rosie ended it. And don’t believe the spin that ABC was mad at her for comments made at the Matrix luncheon on Monday. Rosie was finished with "The View" over the Christmas holiday when Barbara Walters failed to defend her against Donald Trump. In fact, it was worse than that: When O’Donnell discovered that Walters had bad-mouthed her to Trump, she decided to leave the show. It was that simple. ABC, in fact, wanted O’Donnell to stay with the show. They...

"Girls Gone Wild" founder Joe Francis has been ordered to spend 35 days in jail for violating a federal order to surrender to authorities in Florida. The 34-year-old California entrepreneur, who wept in court, also was fined $5,000 Monday by U.S. District Judge Richard Smoak, the Panama City (Fla.) News Herald reported. Francis was given credit for 13 days he'd already served. Francis admitted he willfully violated Smoak's order to give himself up to authorities April 5. He was arrested at the Panama City airport five days later. Francis' attorney, Jan Handzlik of Los Angeles, was rebuffed by the judge...

PANAMA CITY “Girls Gone Wild” founder Joe Francis spends his days and nights in a cold, concrete cell, isolated from almost all human contact. Francis was cut off from the medication that has kept him sane, his attorney said, and a light burning 24 hours a day has kept him awake. “He can’t sleep. He hasn’t eaten properly. He’s prone to anxiety attacks,” his lawyer, Aaron Dyer, said Wednesday night. “I know if it was me, I’d be cold and frustrated. Joe has been breaking down, and Joe Francis does not break down.” Dyer said Francis had been trying to...

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April 13, 2007 -- HAPPY Friday the 13th. The black cats no dinner table seems able to stay away from this week are Paula Zahn and Don Imus. I mean, forget Bush and Iraq. And it's Hillary who? The Paula conversation is, how could she let things go this far? Kiss off a marriage of 20 years with three kids to go for somebody else who's a husband and father and stepfather. Lots of children are involved. Money's no issue because even if the new guy has a few bucks more, all the principals have it. It's like beautiful brainy...

"Girls Gone Wild" bad boy Joe Francis has allegedly been found with pills in his Florida jail cell -- and the reason he got caught is because he allegedly tried to bribe a guard for a bottle of water with a $100 bill on Wednesday night. And get this ...TMZ has also learned that the President of Mantra Films, Scott Barbour, the company that produces "Girls Gone Wild," has also been arrested by the Bay County Sheriff on suspicion of slipping the pills and the cash to Francis. Authorities say Barbour made the handoff when he visited Francis Wednesday night...

TMZ has learned that Mel Gibson went on a rampage when he was arrested Friday on suspicion of drunk driving, hurling religious epithets. TMZ has also learned that the Los Angeles County Sheriff's department had the initial report doctored to keep the real story under wraps. TMZ has four pages of the original report prepared by the arresting officer in the case, L.A. County Sheriff's Deputy James Mee. According to the report, Gibson became agitated after he was stopped on Pacific Coast Highway and told he was to be detained for drunk driving Friday morning in Malibu. The actor began...

Translated from news article in “Isvestia” Russian newspaper: Dutch Astrophysicist Dr Piers Van Der Meer, an expert of the European Space Agency (ESA) believes, that some observations testify that the Sun will explode in just a few years. The temperature of the nucleus of the Sun, according to Dr Van Der Meer is usually 27 million degrees Farenheit. However in the last few years the nucleus has risen up to a dangerous 49 million degrees. In his opinion, the internal heating process of our star during the last few years is very similar to the changes occurring in stars just...