Celebrity Scandals

The Bling Ring Book Chronicles the Calabasas Teens Who Stole From Celebrities

"It seemed like something somebody would make up," author Nancy Jo Sales says on the phone from her New York home. "If you had pitched this as a movie, nobody would've bought it. It would've been too unbelievable." But the story of a bunch of young suburbanites who burglarized a string of celebrity ... More >>

Sex Offenders, Narcotics Convicts Working As California Drug Counselors?

A look at California's substance abuse counselors found that at least 23 of them were convicted sex offenders, with many having rape or child molestation on their records. That's according to a California Senate Rules Committee study of our lack of oversight for drug counselors in the Golden State:

Farrah Abraham's Sex Tape Hits The Internet May 6

The onetime star of MTV's Teen Mom is now the headliner of Backdoor Teen Mom, a sex tape coming to a laptop near you May 6. Farrah Abraham, set to turn 22 in May, is said to have been inspired to close out her 21st year "by making a personal tape that would forever capture her beauty and sensuality ... More >>

Drinking Too Much Makes You Stupid, But SoCal Researcher Has A Cure

We all know that drinking a lot makes you stupid. What we don't really know is if there's an antidote to this mental decline. Now a Southern California professor and her research partner from the University of Colorado at Boulder claim there just might be:

Man Alleges Lil Wayne Entourage Member Smashed His Head With Skateboard

Last year Downey, California-based bill poster Alfredo Marino saw Lil Wayne on Fairfax Avenue. He approached him hoping to get a photo, but says the encounter ended with a member of the rapper's entourage smashing him in the back of the head with a skateboard and sending him to the hospital. Marino ... More >>

What 10 Celebs Would Look Like As Old-Timey Criminals

Drug possession, driving under the influence, vandalism and theft are just a few of the crimes celebrities commit to earn them a mugshot that lives on forever on the world wide web. Celebrity mugshots have become a part of pop culture due to the poses or distraught looks they have. But in the 1920s, ... More >>

Linda Hogan's DUI Arrest Comes in Midst of Hulk Hogan's Sex-Tape Scandal

Hulk Hogan's ex-wife Linda Bollea, a.k.a. Linda Hogan, was arrested yesterday on suspicion of driving her Mercedes under the influence of alcohol on the 101 freeway in Calabasas, the L.A. County Sheriff's Department announced today. It happened shortly after 1:30 a.m. on the 101 at Kanan Road, depu ... More >>

Oh, Look Out You Rock & Rollers

Amanda Bynes DUI: Nickelodeon Star Clips L.A. Sheriff's Vehicle While Allegedly Wasted

Is Amanda Bynes the new Lindsay Lohan? Her hair is looking extra fried and face extra puffy these days. But more importantly, the former child star (and up-and-coming West Hollywood party girl) was arrested last night for drunk driving, according to Sergeant Arthur Famble at the West Hollywood Sher ... More >>

Conrad Murray Guilty of Involuntary Manslaughter of Michael Jackson

Conrad Murray.​With Jackson family members Joe, Katherine, La Toya and Germaine inside the courtroom and hundreds of fans outside the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center in downtown Los Angeles, a court clerk announced that jurors have concluded Dr. Conrad Murray is guilty of involu ... More >>

Cop's Book Says Sean Combs, Suge Knight Ordered Tupac and Biggie Killings

Top detective on rap murders says LAPD pulled the plug despite confessions

Marijuana Could be Used to Treat Cocaine Addiction, According to Federal Research

A joint will fix you right up.​Are you one of those partiers who gets caught in this cycle: You're a little plastered, so you reach for the nearest line of cocaine. Then you're a little too up, so you reach for the nearest joint. And so on. (Coughs -- Lindsay Lohan. Joking). Maybe you're onto ... More >>

Mercedes To Open Teen Driving School in Los Angeles For The Rich And The Furious

MBUSASL65 AMG: Educational.​Not so sure that if we had a teen daughter we'd want her to learn how to drive behind the wheel of the same kind of car Lindsay Lohan ditched on the side of a local road en route to a DUI conviction and her much publicized legal woes. But if there's anyplace in Ame ... More >>

Play Busty for Me

Britney Spears, Jennifer Hudson, Nick Nolte Invoked For Movie Investment Scam, Feds Allege

Britney was used.​In a town for where handshakes and words often suffice for written contracts, it's easy to see how an alleged scam like this could go down. Two L.A. area men were arrested today on suspicion of running a "boiler room" operation that raised $300,000 for films that weren't pro ... More >>

Somebody Stole Guy Fieri's Lamborghini

Food Network/Alan PoulinGuy Fieri​ Ah, the perils of fame, money and expensive cars. And no, sorry, this is not a Charlie Sheen story. Food Network star Guy Fieri (Minute to Win It, Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives) had his $200,000-plus Lamborghini sports car stolen, and not just ripped off by an ... More >>

Better Watch the Paris Hilton Sex Tape on the Internet Now, While it's Still Free

​The homemade sex tape of Paris Hilton, "1 Night in Paris," has reportedly made millions for her co-star, Rick Salomon, and presumably satisfied untold hordes of Internet voyeurs. But all that may come to an end. XPays, the company that owns the Internet rights to the movie, has filed a lawsuit ... More >>

Leonardo DiCaprio Flick 'Shutter Island' Was Backdrop For Lancaster Stabbing That Will Send Landry Boullard to Prison For 40 Years

Leonardo DiCaprio did not inspire this attack.​We know, sometimes all of us would like to commit a capital crime whenever we actually pay to see a movie featuring Ben Affleck (as if). But this guy actually lost it during a screening of Leonardo DiCaprio flick Shutter Island in Lancaster near ... More >>

Top 10 LA Weekly News Stories Of 2010: Sex, Drugs, One Absurdly Long Tongue And The 'Attempted Lynching' That Shook Los Angeles

Swam2dayWe get it: You like your news with a side of sexy​How better to determine the Top 10 news items of the year in our wonderfully fucked-up, always aggravating but certainly never boring City of Angels than by raw click count? The following stories may not be the most important of the y ... More >>

L.A. Porn-Maker Releasing Brittney Jones Sex Tape Despite Threats From Aston Kutcher's Attorney

VividHomewrecker (allegedly).​Porn maker Vivid Entertainment is being more careful about marketing a video featuring a woman who claims to have been Aston Kutcher's f-buddy. But it's still releasing the tape. In a statement this week, Vivid alluded to Brittney Jones' claimed rendezvous with A ... More >>

Top 10 Hot Chicks In The News 2010: No. 6, Rachel Lee

whereisfei.blogspot.comNo. 6: Rachel Lee​The alleged "bling ring" of mostly rich, young punks that prosecutors say targeted the homes of the even richer and more famous is an endless source of talent for our "Top 10 Hot Chicks In The News 2010" list. Example No. 6: One Rachel Lee. Oh so pouty ... More >>

Top 10 Hot Chicks In The News 2010: No. 7, Alexis Neiers

E!Kids these days.​We like 'em innocent on the outside, bad on the inside. And thus, we bring you No. 7 on our list of Hot Chicks In The News 2010: Alexis Neiers, convicted member of the "bling ring" of burglars that targeted the homes of the rich-and-famous. Except that Neiers is rich and f ... More >>

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 >>

LAPD Has A DUI Checkpoint Waiting For You In South L.A. Tonight

daytondui.comDon't be that girl.​Dear party people: This is where you don't want to be Friday night: On Florence Avenue between South Broadway and South Main Street in South Los Angeles from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. Because that's the site of another wonderful edition of the LAPD DUI checkpoint. And ... More >>

Oops: Jerry Brown's Office F'd Up, Wrongly Implicated Owners Of Koi Restaurant In Alleged Worker Exploitation At Car Washes

Koi had nothing to do with alleged worker exploitation at car washes.​Bad week for Jerry Brown? First one of his associates called Republican rival Meg Whitman a "whore," an utterance caught on-tape. Now the owners of celeb-centric Koi restaurants say they had nothing to do with a group of car ... More >>

Robert Rizzo, Bell's Former $1.5 Million City Manager, Released From L.A. County Jail On $2 Million Bail

​In the most highly anticipated jail release since Lindsay Lohan walked out of a Lynwood lockup for women, former Bell city manager Robert Rizzo, who some say was the most egregious earner in that city's salary scandal, waddled out of the Twin Towers Correctional Facility downtown early Thursd ... More >>

Jerry Brown Sues Sikder Family, Owners Of Koi Restaurant, For 'Worker Exploitation' At Car Washes

​California Attorney General and gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown is pulling out all the stops in his quest for the Latino vote. After outing challenger Meg Whitman as a former employer of an undocumented housekeeper, on Monday he slapped the owners of TMZ hot-spot restaurant Koi for "worke ... More >>

Wynn Resorts Bans Paris Hilton Following Arrest For Alleged Cocaine Possession

​Wynn Resorts banned Paris Hilton from its two hotels on the Las Vegas strip Wednesday, while her boyfriend Cy Waits has been released as managing partner for the properties' Tryst and XS nightclubs, the Associated Press reports. Wynn spokeswoman Jennifer Dunne told the paper that Hilton is b ... More >>

RV Dealer Wants To Settle Lawsuit with 'Twilight' Star Taylor Lautner With Push-Up Contest

​"Twilight" star Taylor Lautner could once again flex his muscles, though not in a movie, but, rather, in a push-up contest. Brian McMahon, owner of an RV dealership, has challenged actor Taylor Lautner to a push-up challenge in an attempt to settle a lawsuit by the action star, the Los Angel ... More >>

Paris Hilton Arrested In Vegas After Cocaine Allegedly Found In Her Possession

​Is anyone surprised? Party girl Paris Hilton was arrested Friday night in Las Vegas after police said they found cocaine in her purse. Hilton has already hired a top Vegas lawyer, David Chesnoff, who asks us "not to rush to judgment until all of the facts have been dealt with in a court of la ... More >>

Reality TV Teen Alexis Neiers Reports For Jail For 'Bling Ring' Burglary

​Alexis Christine Neiers, who had previously said she was innocent in connection with the "bling ring" series of celebrity-home break-ins in the Hollywood Hills and beyond, surrendered to authorities Thursday and was scheduled to begin an six-month sentence for her role in one break-in. Neier ... More >>

Conrad Murray Allowed To Continue Practicing Medicine In California

​Conrad Murray, the doctor accused in the manslaughter death of Michael Jackson, can continue to practice medicine in the state of California under a Los Angeles Superior Court ruling issued Monday. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Michael E. Pastor said fellow Judge Keith Schwartz already gav ... More >>

Tiger's Texts To Be Played Out In Adult Video

Vivid​If you ever wondered how Tiger Woods really got down during his alleged affair with porn star Joslyn James, she's going to show you: James parlayed her Woods-affair spotlight into a deal with the world's largest porn producer, Los Angeles-based Vivid, for The Eleventh Hole, "a movie that ... More >>

Brittany Murphy, the Japanese Sideways and a Psychedelic Hospital at the Japan Film Festival 2010

The Ramen Girl (C) Digitalsite Corp./Media 8 Entertainment. Ramen Girl​ Shrinking from ten days to two, eighteen feature films to nine, and migrating east from last year's Santa Monica location to the New Beverly Cinema, the 2010 Japan Film Festival offered large crowds a taste of the past y ... More >>

Faux Hookers, Bartending Kids at Banksy Premiere

​ Exit Through the Gift Shop, the documentary starring (and apparently detourned by) street artist Banksy, had its LA premiere last night at the grand old Los Angeles Theater in Downtown LA. In our cover story this week, Banksy himself claimed that "the plan for the American premiere is to sur ... More >>

This Week In Nightranger: Perez Hilton's Three Bling Circus at Paramount Studios

In this week's column (out Thursday) we rejoice over The Hills' cancellation and survey LA's newest upscale hotspots: Drai's, Trousdale and Industry. But the circus of celebs at Perez Hilton's Saturday night Carn-Evil birthday party at Paramount Studio almost outshined 'em all. If the notion that ... More >>

Failure To Tweet Puts Singer Justin Bieber's Manager Under Arrest

Justin Bieber.​The manager of teen pop sensation Justin Bieber turned himself in to authorities Wednesday after he was arrested for refusing a cop's order to tweet that an out-of-control appearance in Long Island, New York by the singer was called off. Scott "Scooter" Braun pleaded not guilty ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Liverpool, Dreamkiller, Brooklyn's Finest, Alice in Wonderland

Home Invaders Hit Possible Rap-Label House In The Hills

​A strange home-invasion robbery unfolded over the weekend in a tony part of Woodland hills, on Mulholland Drive, at a home that might or might not be connected to Sean "P. Diddy" Combs. It was reported about 2 a.m. Sunday at 22146 Mulholland Dr., said Los Angeles police Sgt. Pablo Monterrosa ... More >>

Sean Penn Charged In Clash With Paparazzo

FoxSean Penn was depicted on 'Family Guy' as a camera-attacking weatherman.​Sean Penn never met a camera he didn't like ... to smash. The notoriously paparazzi-unfriendly star was charged Friday with misdemeanor battery and vandalism stemming from a run in with a photog at Brentwood Country Ma ... More >>

Jackson Doc Facing Involuntary Manslaughter, According To Report

​The Associated Press is reporting that the doctor who was with Michael Jackson when he apparently went into cardiac arrest shortly before his June death will be charged with involuntary manslaughter by the Los Angeles County District Attorney's office. Conrad Murray, who reportedly admits t ... More >>

Movie Reviews: When in Rome, Edge of Darkness, Legion

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Rocky Delgadillo's Flameout

Once a rising star, the city attorney muffs it with endless screwups

The Fuhrman Factor

Thirteen years later former LAPD detective is still haunted by one that got away. Was justice in the Dawn Gamez murder case another casualty of the O.J. Simpson debacle?

Mickey Avalon’s True Hollywood Stories

Death, drugs, rap and redemption

Hollywood Lawyers in Love

How two arch-enemies went from killing each other to kissing up

Does Mr. Middle-of-the-Road Lean Left?

Jay Leno talks about the tragedy and comedy of politics

Curb Your SUV

Laurie David put celebrity activism in the driver's seat

The Devil and Aphrodite Jones

What’s she doing in a world of murderers, rapists, torturers, sadists, blood drinkers, decapitators and pimps? Making a killing.