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American pop star Justin Timberlake has won substantial libel damages from a British newspaper that claimed he had an affair behind his girlfriend's back. The News of the World paper claimed Timberlake, whose girlfriend is Hollywood actress Cameron Diaz, had an affair with model Lucy Clarkson while he was in Britain at the end of 2003 to promote his album Justified. At London's High Court today, the paper admitted the July 2004 story was fabricated and agreed to pay undisclosed substantial damages. It will run a prominent apology. The paper printed an interview with Clarkson, saying the model revealed their...

A PHOTOGRAPHER who took steamy photographs of actress Cameron Diaz before she was famous went on trial today for what prosecutors said was an attempt to blackmail her for more than $US3 million ($4 million). John Rutter, 42, is charged in Los Angeles Superior Court with forging the Charlie's Angels actress's signature on a May 1992 model release form and of attempted grand theft. An earlier charge of extortion was dropped against Rutter, who is alleged to have tried to sell Diaz the photos in 2003 before shopping them to others. Diaz is expected to testify at the trial that...

In appearance Cameron Diaz is someone lovely enough to make me believe – if only for a second – in ‘intelligent design’ - but even those most inclined to give her the benefit of every doubt have to contend with the sneaky, troubling, suspicion that she is as dumb as a particularly stupid rock. First there were those ‘rape’ comments during the election, and now there is this: “The 32-year-old Diaz, who earns a reported $20-million a movie, boasted that the cow-dung slathered walls of a Nepalese village hut were "beautiful" and "inspiring," and she called the primitive practice of...

Cameron Diaz is featured in a new MTV series that has Hollywood celebrities praising the developing world's primitive lifestyles as earth-friendly, despite those poor nations' high infant mortality rates and short life expectancies.  The eco-tourism show, called "Trippin'," premiered on March 28 and was heavily promoted in the runup to Earth Day.  The show encourages environmental awareness and lauds traditional tribal lifestyles, which lack running water, electricity and other basic infrastructure. Diaz and a rotating crew of "her close, personal friends [who] think globally and act globally," tour developing nations, including Nepal, Bhutan, Tanzania, Honduras and visit remote villages...

Rosie the Riveter has given way to Sally the Sniveler. During World War II, young Rose Will Monroe was the face of American women in adversity: strong, supportive, and resolute against the enemy forces that threatened our existence. Tens of thousands like Rosie rolled up their sleeves, gritted their teeth, and flexed their muscles in factories and shipyards and arsenals across the country. They made rockets and rifles and bombs and boats. They painted and drilled and welded. When they got home to their kids, they cooked and cleaned and collapsed in bed after praying for their husbands and brothers...

On Oprah's Wednesday 'voting party' show featuring very important celebrities like P. Diddy (Vote or Die!), Drew Barrymore, Christina Aguilera, svelte suffragette Cameron Diaz took to shock tactics to get the female vote out. After a discussion on lynching and the vote, Diaz spoke of the dire consequences for women if they sit out this election: Ms. DIAZ: We have a voice now, and we're not using it, and women have so much to lose. I mean, we could lose the right to our bodies. We could lo--if you think that rape should be legal, then don't vote. But if...

Cameron Diaz obtains the prohibition of a diffusion of photographs the naked ones The star Hollywood Cameron Diaz obtained American justice the prohibition of diffusion of photographs of it taken naked centres before the beginning of his cinematographic career, according to a legal source. In its complaint deposited in the current of the month in Los Angeles, Cameron Diaz, 30 years, which played in "Charlie' S Angels" and "Mary at all costs", had reproached the photographer John Rutter for wanting to sell these photographs. The agent of the actress, Brad Cafarelli, refused to describe the images, but according to...

Hollywood beauty Cameron Diaz has begging a Los Angeles judge to ban 11-year-old photos of her wearing only a leather basque. The Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle star wants 28 risque pictures and a sexy video of herself semi-naked banned from being published in newspapers and magazines worldwide - as the images were taken when she was just 19. Cameron, who is dating Justin Timberlake, told a Los Angeles court on Friday, "These pictures will cause me distress, embarrassment and anger." The sexy actress also fears they will damage her reputation as one of the highest paid actresses in Hollywood. However...