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Post by artemis on Aug 1, 2012 15:33:42 GMT -5
"Macaulay Culkin Addicted to Heroin?
Is former child star Macaulay Culkin hopelessly hooked on heroin?
The 31-year-old actor has allegedly been seen by several eyewitnesses using a deadly mix of potent prescription drugs and unless he gets help, they say his secret addiction will kill him!
According to a blockbuster new report in the National Enquirer, the Home Alone star regularly shoots up heroin and the powerful prescription painkiller oxycodone and nearly overdosed once.
Macaulay’s legal team strenuously denied the claims that the actor nearly overdosed and bought thousands of dollars of prescription drugs.
According to the Enquirer, Culkin spends up to $6,000 a month on other dangerous painkillers, and has turned his Manhattan apartment into his own private drug den where he gets high during hours alone or with his close circle of whacked-out pals.
The once golden boy’s drug use intensified about 18 months ago, say the insiders, when he fell into a downward spiral over his dead-end career and a shattered romance with Hollywood hottie Mila Kunis, who’s now dating Ashton Kutcher.
“Macaulay Culkin is hooked on drugs and it’s killing him!” said a source close to the star told the Enquirer.
“He’s been hooked for a year and a half, and his drug of choice is either heroin or oxycodone. Mac is surrounding himself with junkies and lowlifes. It’s a real tragedy.”
Another close friend claims to have witnessed Culkin’s increasing drug use and said his friends are afraid for his life.
“Macaulay Culkin is surely dying. He’s addicted to heroin, oxyco done, Percocet and Vicodin. I have witnessed his drug taking, which has escalated over the past year and a half to the point where he needs serious help.
“His closest friends fear that he’ll overdose or his heart will explode. If he doesn’t get help and enter rehab now, he could be dead in six months.”
The friend told the National Enquirer that they hoped he would get help before something tragic happens. “It should have been a wake-up call, but it didn’t seem to have any effect on him. Mac is still partying hard. I pray that he finds the courage and strength to clean up before it’s too late.”
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Post by artemis on Aug 1, 2012 15:40:54 GMT -5
"Victoria Beckham reveals why she never smiles
"I actually used to smile a lot in pictures," the former Spice Girl tells Glamour in its September issue (which she guest-edited). "I think I only stopped smiling when I got into fashion. Fashion stole my smile! I've created this person. And I'm not saying that's not me, but I wouldn't say that's the whole me … It's an armor that goes up."
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Post by artemis on Aug 2, 2012 14:22:33 GMT -5
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Post by artemis on Aug 2, 2012 15:20:03 GMT -5
"Jackson says she was kept from communicating
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The mother of Michael Jackson said in court papers she was kept from communicating with outsiders while at a resort in Tucson and was unaware she had been reported missing.
Katherine Jackson declared in the documents obtained Thursday that she had no idea she was the subject of a search until she accidentally heard a TV report.
She said she was told her doctor had ordered her to rest and she was flown to Arizona. At a spa, her cell phone was confiscated along with her IPad and she said she was kept in a room with no working phone or TV service.
She said she asked about Michael's children and was told they were fine.
The disclosure marked the latest development in a series of events that began when Katherine Jackson was reported missing but later turned up at the spa with family members.
The documents were released after a judge reinstated Katherine Jackson as the guardian of the children in an arrangement that also keeps their cousin as temporary co-guardian.
Superior Court Judge Mitchell Beckloff said during a hearing that an investigator who looked into the children's care found that the late pop star's 82-year-old mother was an excellent guardian and the children love her very much.
"I think the kids are in terrific hands," the judge said. "It appears from the report that Katherine Jackson has done a wonderful job and cares about the children very much."
Beckloff noted that the children, Prince, 15, Paris, 14 and Blanket, 10, also have a close relationship with their 34-year-old cousin TJ Jackson, who was named temporary guardian last week after working closely with Katherine Jackson since Michael Jackson died.
TJ is "incredibly respectful" of the family matriarch and she is respectful of him, the judge said.
Beckloff said he will finalize the arrangement later in the month but for now will issue letters of co-guardianship allowing both Jacksons to make decisions about the children's welfare.
TJ Jackson's new co-guardianship status is temporary, but the judge could make it permanent when he convenes the next court hearing on Aug. 22.
The shared guardianship plan is apparently designed to remove pressure from Katherine Jackson who was previously named in her son's will as the children's sole guardian.
Perry Sanders Jr., her lawyer, has said the arrangement will allow his client to focus on the children's upbringing and not on home or logistics issues.
Beckloff said then that he didn't believe Jackson had done anything wrong but suspended her guardianship duties because she had been out of contact with her grandchildren for 10 days.
The changes in guardianship come on the heels of family dissension over Michael Jackson's will, which left nothing to his siblings when he died three years ago. Several of them signed a letter that was leaked to the media alleging the will was a fake and calling on executors of the estate to resign.
The dispute at one point led to a driveway confrontation involving several family members at the Calabasas mansion where Katherine Jackson and the children have been living.
On Wednesday, Jermaine Jackson issued a plea for peace in the family and withdrew his support of the letter.
"Mistakes have been made and irrational things have been said on both sides in a highly charged emotional environment," Jermaine Jackson wrote. "It is time for us all to draw a line in the sand and move toward peace, co-operation, love and healing."
He wrote that the family is still raw from Michael Jackson's death, and his mother has endured incredible stress and pressures since then.
Another party to the Jackson family drama, singer Diana Ross, who was named by Michael Jackson in his will as a potential guardian of the children if Katherine Jackson was not available, issued a statement saying the recent turmoil is a private matter and shouldn't be playing out publicly.
Ross and Jackson were longtime friends before his death in 2009.
Ross, who lives on the East Coast, came to California to visit with the Jackson family on Wednesday, Katherine Jackson's lawyer said, adding the singer supports the co-guardianship arrangement."
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Post by artemis on Aug 3, 2012 7:18:30 GMT -5
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Post by artemis on Aug 3, 2012 7:20:14 GMT -5
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Post by artemis on Aug 7, 2012 6:07:11 GMT -5
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Post by artemis on Aug 7, 2012 15:59:49 GMT -5
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Post by artemis on Aug 8, 2012 5:53:41 GMT -5
"Lucy Hale Opens Up About Her Eating Disorder: 'I Would Go Days Without Eating' "
“I’ve never really talked about this, but I would go days without eating. Or maybe I’d have some fruit and then go to the gym for three hours. I knew I had a problem…It was a gradual process but I changed myself," she revealed."
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Post by artemis on Aug 8, 2012 14:29:06 GMT -5
"Randy Travis arrested naked, charged with DWI
DALLAS (AP) — Randy Travis was charged with driving while intoxicated and threatening law officers after the country singer crashed his car and was found naked and combative at the scene, officials said.
A mug shot released by the Grayson County Sheriff's Office shows a battered-looking Travis in a gray T-shirt, with a black eye and dried blood on his face. He later walked out of the county jail wearing scrubs, a University of Texas ball cap and no shoes.
It was the second Texas arrest this year for Travis, who was cited in February for public intoxication.
The sheriff's office in Grayson County, located in far North Texas along the border with Oklahoma, received a 911 call at 11:18 p.m. Tuesday about a man seen lying in a road west of Tioga, where the entertainer lives.
Texas Department of Public Safety troopers responding to the scene said a Pontiac Trans Am registered to Travis, 53, had been driven off the road and struck several barricades in a construction road.
Travis was not wearing clothes at the time of his arrest and made threats against the Texas troopers, said Tom Vinger, a DPS spokesman. He said the singer refused sobriety tests, so a blood specimen was taken.
Travis was released on $21,500 bond Wednesday morning from the jail in Sherman, about 60 miles north of Dallas. Blood test results are pending.
Grayson County Sheriff's Sgt. Rickey Wheeler said Travis faces charges of retaliation or obstruction in addition to driving under the influence.
"Travis had a strong odor of alcoholic beverage on his breath and several signs of intoxication," according to a statement from the sheriff's office. "While Travis was being transported, Travis made threats to shoot and kill the troopers working the case."
A Travis representative said there would be no immediate comment on the arrest.
A message left Wednesday afternoon with the Grayson County district attorney's office was not immediately returned.
In February, Travis was charged with public intoxication after being spotted in a vehicle parked in front of a church in Sanger, about 20 miles from Tioga.
He also has been involved in messy court proceedings with his ex-wife. Travis was divorced from Elizabeth Travis in 2010 after 19 years of marriage.
Earlier this year, Elizabeth Travis, who had been his manager for more than three decades, filed a lawsuit claiming that Randy Travis made it impossible for her to do her job and terminated her management contract without proper notice. She said her ex-husband sent several men, including an armed guard, to clean out her offices.
Randy Travis countersued in May, accusing his ex-wife of divulging confidential information about him in order to damage his reputation and career. The court documents don't say what information Elizabeth Travis is alleged to have betrayed."
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Post by artemis on Aug 9, 2012 14:56:30 GMT -5
"Amy Winehouse’s ex Blake fights for his life after drink and drug cocktail
AMY Winehouse’s ex-husband Blake Fielder-Civil was on a life-support machine last night after collapsing following a cocktail of drink and drugs.
Blake, 30, was found choking in bed after a booze session. The junkie — said to have also taken heroin — was rushed to hospital in Dewsbury, West Yorks, with multiple organ failure.
Stricken Blake’s partner told of her anguish last night as he lay in a coma.
Sarah Aspin, mother of the junkie’s 15-month-old son, has been at his bedside every day since his collapse.
She sobbed: “The doctors say they don’t know the prognosis. They said they put him in a coma to help him and due to infection.
“I’m praying he’ll survive, but I’m having to prepare myself that he may never wake up.”
Blake, 30, who has long battled heroin addiction — was rushed to intensive care days after the first anniversary of ex-wife Amy Winehouse’s death from accidental alcoholic poisoning at just 27.
He had been on an afternoon boozing session with a pal after meeting probation officials following his release from a jail term.
But he staggered home “slurring his words” and 34-year-old Sarah found him choking on his vomit in bed at 6am the following morning.
A source said he had taken a packet of heroin and morphine he had obtained earlier in the day.
Blake's former father-in-law Mitch Winehouse has urged his daughter’s fans to “pray” for him, saying it was was “terrible news”.
Writing on Twitter, he said: “Remember Amy loved him. Let’s pray for his recovery.”
Blake suffered multiple organ failure and medics in have warned Sarah they can’t rule out permanent brain damage. He was still critically ill last night.
Shocked Sarah said: “I am devastated, just devastated, at what has happened.
“I just want to cry all the time — but I have to be strong for our son Jack.”
She added: “We’d been so happy last Thursday morning and talked about getting married.
“Blake had a 1pm appointment with the probation service in Morley and said he might be late as he was meeting a friend.
“He’s never really been a drinker, but when he got home with this friend, he was slurring his words and staggering — I thought he was on something. I was very angry because he’d been doing so well.”
Sarah, who met Blake in rehab three years ago, went on: “I had to get his shoes and trousers off to help him into bed.
“Next morning I went to get up and heard a horrid scratching and grating breathing sound. I looked round and saw Blake lying there completely grey.
“His eyes were rolled back and his mouth was locked together.”
Sarah said she shouted to Blake’s “pal”, who was still in the house — and he FLED.
She added: “I called the paramedics who were there within two minutes.
“They said he had swallowed his tongue and choked on his vomit. They were putting a tube in his throat and pumping oxygen into his mouth. I was terrified.
“At the hospital I realised they were frantically working on him, trying to keep him alive.
“They said his left lung was not working and they were trying to clear it.
“They let me in to hold his hand after 45 minutes. I found out later that they did that because they thought he was going to die.”
Blake was jailed in June last year after he was found with £4,000 stolen goods and an imitation gun.
But he was freed with a tag two weeks ago in preparation for full release later this month.
Amy’s dad Mitch blamed Blake for setting the tragic singer on the road to hard drugs. But he said last year he was NOT to blame for her death."
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Post by artemis on Aug 10, 2012 6:22:36 GMT -5
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Post by artemis on Aug 14, 2012 4:09:16 GMT -5
"Mayhem Miller Arrested Naked in a Church
Jason “Mayhem” Miller, who was cut from the UFC after two disappointing losses, was arrested today in Orange County after breaking into a Church, spraying the place with a fire extinguisher and sitting on a couch naked.
According to TMZ, cops received a call about a possible burglary at Mission Hills Church in Mission Viejo. When police arrived, the place was trashed with fire extinguisher spray everywhere. CDs, books and broken pictures were littered over the place.
Cops discovered Mayhem on the second floor. Naked, sitting on a couch, awake and coherent. Miller was taken in and medically evaluated.
Coincidentally, this was just after a war of words on Twitter with UFC president Dana White Saturday afternoon. It started out jokingly and ended with Miller telling Dana to kill himself. Dana commented to MMA Heat later that “that kid’s on medicine, he has some issues, and the last thing I want to do is have that kid more bummed out and depressed than he already is. He started talking like a jackass on Twitter, so I blasted him back. Now I kind of wish I didn’t.”
To be fair, it has been really hot in SoCal for the past week or two. It’s pretty easy to work up a sweat when your trashing a church. What else can you do besides sit there naked and wait for the police to come."
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Post by lucy on Aug 14, 2012 13:20:16 GMT -5
A parade of celeb trainwrecks.....it seems more and more of these are being made public. While it used to be most of the issues celebs dealt with was brushed under the proverbial rug, but anymore, you see a parade of strange things....it's as if the handlers were all given permission to make these people self destruct...all at once.
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Post by artemis on Aug 14, 2012 15:08:54 GMT -5
"Ron Palillo Dead at 63 - 'Welcome Back, Kotter' Star Dies from Heart Attack
Ron Palillo -- the actor who played Horshack on "Welcome Back, Kotter" -- died this morning at his home near Palm Beach, FL from an apparent heart attack ... this according to someone close to the actor.
We're told Palillo was found by his partner of many years Joseph Gramm around 4:00 AM. Gramm called an ambulance and Palillo was rushed to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
We're told the heart attack was very unexpected. Palillo was 63.
According to one of Palillo's colleagues at G-Star School of the Arts, Palillo had appeared to be in good health ... but was a heavy smoker. We're told he had been suffering from a bad cough and had even scheduled a doctor's appointment for today.
Palillo was known for calling out, "Ooh ooh ooh, Mr. Kotter" as one of the Sweathogs on the show ... which he appeared on with John Travolta from 1975 to 1979.
After Kotter, Palillo appeared in "Laverne & Shirley" and voiced a character on the Disney cartoon, "Darkwing Duck."
Palillo's "Kotter" co-star Robert Hegyes -- who played Epstein -- also passed away earlier this year after suffering a heart attack."
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