Ashton Kutcher

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Swatting Celebrities Could Cost Pranksters $10,000 Under Proposed Law

See also: SWATting, a Deadly Political Game. Swatting has hit the homes of Rihanna, Justin Timberlake, Ashton Kutcher, Sean "P. Diddy" Combs and others. And, while it probably is pretty funny to the braces-wearing little buttheads who dial 911 with app-enabled masked numbers to report that their fa ... More >>

Diddy's Toluca Lake Home Gets Swatted

See also: Diddy's Son Justin Combs Gets Full Scholarship to UCLA as Many Students Struggle. The swatting phenomenon hit the home of one Sean "P. Diddy" Combs today. Police told the Weekly an assault-with-a-deadly-weapon call this morning at a Toluca Lake residence turned out be a big nothin.' In ... More >>

Ashton Kutcher: 12-Year-Old Charged In Swatting Case

A 12-year-old was charged in a case of swatting at Ashton Kutcher's Hollywood Hills home. Little smart-ass. (Normally we'd give a 12-year-old props for making Kutcher's life more difficult. He's such a douche. But swatting is bad for the rest of us -- it drains resources in a city where cops are sp ... More >>

Justin Bieber, Ashton Kutcher Swatting Cases Net Arrest Of Suspected Juvenile Prankster

Cops today said that the big bad wolf responsible for some of the celebrity mayhem known as "swatting" has been arrested. This would-be hardened criminal wreaked havoc on the LAPD when officers rushed to the homes of Justin Bieber, Ashton Kutcher and possibly others based on false reports of home ... More >>

Swatting Celebrities, Political Enemies Is High-Tech Vengeance

Swatting is officially a thing. It made the front page of the Los Angeles Times today. Not that the Times hasn't covered the phenomenon before, but this time it's real. The report on people who call the police and say horrible crimes are in progress at the homes of celebrities like Simon Cowell, J ... More >>

Justin Bieber Sex Tape? Biebs Gets Punked in Calabasas as Video Stolen

Justin Bieber might have been the victim of a "swatting" prank early today, when deputies went to his Calabasas home on "false" reports of an assault, according to our reading of an L.A. Sheriff's Department statement. This as he tweeted that "personal footage" on a "computer and camera" were taken ... More >>

Caltech is World's Best University; UCLA Ranks 13

Los Angeles: Home of the Playboy Bunny, Ashton Kutcher and pet spas. This we all know. But who knew that our town is where the smartest nerds in the world get their degrees on? It's true. According to the latest World University Rankings by Times Higher Education in the UK ...

Ashton Kutcher Home Invasion Robbery in Hollywood Hills, Or Just 3 Workers Inside?

Police investigating reports of a possible home-invasion robbery at the Hollywood Hills home of Ashton Kutcher might actually be checking out what is known in the cop community as a "big nothin.'" Officers responded to the 3000 block of Arrowhead Drive at 11:08 a.m. because three men were inside a ... More >>

Ashton Kutcher Is A Philandering, Racist Toolbag? VIDEO

Ashton Kutcher is a true moralist who has made no secret of his distaste for sex traffickers, adult classified advertising, and men who employ prostitutes (U.S. Secret Service agents be damned). He even launched an ad campaign called "Real Men Don't Buy Girls." Then he allegedly cheated on his wif ... More >>

Ashton Kutcher's Popchips Ad Pulled

A popchips ad featuring Ashton Kutcher in "brownface" was launched, skewered, and pulled in less than 24 hours. The new $1.5 million ad campaign showed Kutcher as four characters -- among which was a fictional 39-year-old Bollywood actor named Raj -- in a parody of an online dating service. Except K ... More >>

Two and a Half Men vs. Mad Men at PaleyFest: Is it Better to Have Ratings or Emmys?

Sometimes on the red carpet, you overhear things. Such was the case on Monday night during the arrivals for PaleyFest's Two and Half Men event, for which the show's stars (sans the glaringly absent Ashton Kutcher, who participated only in the panel) along with its creators walked the red carpet, pra ... More >>

Sex Worker Billboards by Group That Wants to Decriminalize Prostitution Roaming Streets of L.A.

'Sex and Zen'​You might call them victims or exploited, but a pro-sex-worker group founded in L.A. wants you to know pros are in control of their own bodies. And it's doing so with mobile billboards that are being driven around town this week. The group, SWAAY (Sex Work Activists, Allies, and ... More >>

Siri, New iPhone Virtual Assistant, Works With Your Girlfriend to Bust Your Cheating Ass

AppleA girl's best friend?​Ashton Kutcher, you definitely don't want to get the new iPhone. Reports indicate that the iPhone 4S' voice-activated assistant, Siri, can still take commands when your phone is otherwise passcode locked. Meaning that your wife -- Demi Moore, for example -- can ask ... More >>

Ashton Kutcher: Do Real Men Cheat on Their Wives?

Following revelations that Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore might be splitting up as a result of an alleged rendezvous on the part of the young Two and a Half Men star at a San Diego hotel last weekend, we have to ask, do real men cheat on their wives with a 23-year-old woman? You see, this was bound ... More >>

'L.A. VS. WAR' Exhibit: Less of a '9/11 Tribute,' More of a 'Circle-Jerk of Tired Grievances'

​ For more photos check out our slideshow: "L.A. vs. War II" Equally as superficial and reductive as its title, the "L.A. VS. WAR" exhibition in The Vortex last weekend was a hollow chorus of misdirected angst. Less a commemoration of 9/11 as it was a circle-jerk of tired grievances common to ... More >>

Ashton Kutcher Alert: LAPD to Screen Sex Trafficking Documentary

Ashton's cause.​Paparazzi should be on alert. Because this is the kind of thing we think Ashton Kutcher -- adamant in his disgust over sex trafficking -- would really want to check out. The LAPD, strangely, is trumpeting a screening of a sex trafficking documentary called FLESH, Bought & Sold ... More >>

Ashton Kutcher Lookalike Punking Residents of Newport Beach, Stealing Bikes, Cops Say

NBPDAshton?​Residents of tony Newport Beach are wondering if they're being punk'd. Several valuable bikes have been stolen from the Villa Balboa condo complex, and security videos stills of one of the suspects makes him out to look a little like Ashton Kutcher. Now we know the Two and a Half ... More >>

Amber Lyon and the Media's Paranoia Over Underage Sex Trafficking

​Last week's cover story focused on how Ashton Kutcher was using spurious data to claim there are "between 100,000 and 300,000 child sex slaves in the United States today," but he's not the only one causing panic with those numbers. There's also CNN reporter Amber Lyon, a member of the media y ... More >>

Underage Sex Trafficking: Don't Get Your Facts From Ashton Kutcher

True. But they also get their facts straight.​No one, save for sickos, thinks underage sex trafficking is a good thing. But contrary to what you might've heard from Ashton Kutcher's latest media blitz, there are not 100,000 to 300,000 children in America becoming prostitutes every year. How ... More >>

The Rapture Will be Good For Los Angeles: Here Are Five Reasons Why ...

dharma communications​Tomorrow will mark the end of the world, according to one famous interpretation of the bible that calls 6 p.m. on May 21 the time for rapture. (Wonder if it's East Coast time or what? What if we're waiting for this to happen at 6 but instead it happens at 3 while we're ... More >>

Ashton Kutcher, Demi Moore Criticized For Sex Trafficking PSA Campaign

Sofia Vergara promotes 'real men.'​The Demi and Ashton Foundation came under fire this week for, well, trying to do good. Because we all know Fox News hates do-gooders. Actually, what happened was that Norma Ramos, director of the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women, told the network that ... More >>

Time's 140 Best Twitter Feeds: Marion Nestle, Michael Pollan, Harry Reid Lord Voldemort

If you only have 140 characters, they should be worth reading, no? Depends on whose Twitter feed you read. Time Magazine has just published a list (of course they did) of the top 140 Twitter feeds around the country. No, sorry, neither Charlie Sheen nor Kim Kardashian made it -- Neil Gaiman is #1, S ... More >>

Schwarzenegger Nabs Outgoing Kudos From Celebs Praising His Pardon Of 16-Year-Old Sex-Trafficking Victim

Sarah Kruzan was just 13 years old when she was recruited into a prostitution ring​The Governator may be getting bashed for his last-minute pardon of a politician's student-stabbing son -- by the Weekly, the victim's family and karma, we can only hope -- but a second pardon on his last day in ... More >>

The Chiller Killer

Michael Gargiulo, accused of killing Ashton Kutcher's girlfriend and other L.A. beauties, got close as the helpful air-conditioning repairman

Ashton Kutcher Expected To Testify In Trial Of Alleged 'Chiller Killer' Michael Gargiulo

Ashley Ellerin, allegedly murdered by the "Chiller Killer."​Ashton Kutcher hasn't said much, if anything, about the murder of his onetime love interest Ashley Ellerin in 2001. Now, LA Weekly reports, he'll probably have to testify in open court. Prosecutors claim she was the victim of a frien ... More >>

Outfest: Movie Honchos Still Think Americans Can't Handle a Gay Superhero

​At an Outfest panel on Sunday, gay and lesbian filmmakers gave an inside look at the continuing struggle to get Hollywood studio honchos to green-light big budget films with gay central characters, fearing Americans can't handle homosexuality and those movies will turn into box office losers ... More >>

Movie Reviews: The A-Team, Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky, The Karate Kid and Killers

Also, Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work, Whiz Kids and Winter's Bone

Kosher Website Launches: MyKosherLA on Local Eats

Shopping at Elat Market or Pico Glatt on a Friday afternoon can be stressful--maneuvering your cart through crowded aisles, fighting the neighborhood yenta for the last challah. But MyKosherLA, a website breaking down all things kosher into categories such as eating out, groceries, catering and kash ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Bandslam, Flame & Citron, The Time Traveler's Wife

Also, The Goods, It Might Get Loud and more

Advertising Now: Why Buy the Milk When You're Following the Cow on Twitter?

When death of your industry becomes default small talk in the conference lobby and every media related conversation devolves into something along the lines of "how do we save the Los Angeles Times?" you know things are not boding well. Perhaps this is why media buyers (the typically underpaid twenty ... More >>

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

Gang Bank a Slush Fund? Angry words flew back and forth at a Montebello City Council meeting as one councilman accused another of using the city's Gang Diversion Task Force as his political ATM. The San Gabriel Valley Tribune reports that the allegations included one that  Bill Molinari used th ... More >>

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