Gloria Allred

Crazy, '80s Scandalfest The Morton Downey, Jr. Show Chronicled in New Documentary

Years before reality TV and today's conservative political pundits, we had Morton Downey, Jr., whose The Morton Downey, Jr. Show in the late '80s was Jerry Springer, Geraldo, The O'Reilly Factor and Jersey Shore all wrapped up into one, giant hoagie. On May 21, Cinefamily screens a montage of the s ... More >>

5 Sexiest Waitress Spots in L.A. Challenge Legal Definition of Work Clothes

So Courtney Scaramella didn't want to wear a sexy schoolgirl skirt and now she's in the news, alleging in a lawsuit that the Westwood bar (O'Hara's) where she was waitressing fired her after she objected to the dress policy in writing? Well, Courtney, you might have a case (the bar says she doesn't ... More >>

Sarah Tressler, Nude Dancer Fired From Journalism Job, on USA 'Stripping Tour' (PHOTOS)

If you ever wanted to see the hottest journalist ever with a master's degree and a university teaching gig strip on-stage, now's your chance. Sarah Tressler, the onetime L.A. alternative weekly writer who was fired from her Houston Chronicle staff writing job after the paper found out she was moonl ... More >>

John & Ken's Whitney Houston 'Crack Ho' Remark Inspires L.A. Council to Act

Update at 11:39 p.m: According to Daily News columnist Doug McIntyre the council approved the resolution. First posted at 4:15 p.m. The rantings of conservative talk show hosts John & Ken and their colleagues at KFI 640 AM have caught the attention of the L.A. City Council, which is considering a r ... More >>

L.A.'s 5 Hottest Weather 'Girls' Prove Kyle Hunter's KCBS Lawsuit is All Haterade

A lawsuit by weatherman Kyle Hunter against CBS Los Angeles and KCAL claims that the sister stations have passed up experienced, thinking men like himself in favor of sexy-girl noobs. Ironically, he's being rep'd by Gloria Allred, the feminist attorney who would have otherwise taken the side agains ... More >>

Michael Lallana Gets Six Months Behind Bars for Jizzing in Hot Co-Worker's Water Bottle, Claims He Was Thinking About His Wife

KTLAJizzer, left; jizzee, right.​Update: "What I experienced was not rape, but I feel that it was a form of rape," says Tiffany G. (FYI: She drank from the water bottle.) Lindsay's not the only one in court this morning. He's back: The Guy Who Jizzed in His Co-Worker's Water Bottle! We were ... More >>

OJ Simpson Attorney F. Lee Bailey Says Defense Sat On More Evidence Proving Client's Innocence

baileyandelliott.comO.J. gets off.​While most of the world continues to think, yeah, O.J. did it, his former attorney, F. Lee Bailey, dredged up what he claims is evidence sat on by the defense that would have further proven his client's innocence. That would include, he claims, a witness who ... More >>

Top 10 Hot Chicks In The News 2010: No. 5, Rachel Uchitel

VH1Hot chick Uchitel.​What "Hot Chicks In The News 2010" list would be complete without the inclusion of at least one Tiger Woods girl? We know, that was so last year. But this hot-chick story has legs. In this case, we have Rachel Uchitel, the ground zero of Tiger Woods girls, the one who th ... More >>

West Hollywood City Councilmember Lindsey Horvath, Appointed By Friends On Council, Illegally Used City Stamp, Listserv To Beg 2011 Campaign Support

WeHo NewsSilly ethics laws don't apply to the WeHo City Council's golden girl​New: Horvath's campaign manager explains that the listserv was a private (albeit gigantic) one. Updated after the jump with Horvath's public Facebook profile pic and more juicy links from the over-zealous editor of ... More >>

Hector Villagra Appointed As First Latino To Head ACLU Of Southern California: Will He Take On The TSA?

ACLUHector Villagra will take over as the chief of the ACLU.​Updated after the jump with the ACLU stating the group has been against the x-ray scanners. The ACLU of Southern California announced Monday that it has appointed its first Latino executive director. The liberal group's legal dire ... More >>

Despite National Backlash, L.A. Mayor Villaraigosa Supports Airport Body Scanners

reason.comL.A.'s mayor wants to scan your body.​Update: Villaraigosa stepped through a scanner this morning afternoon to express his solidarity with unwarranted x-ray vision. The scan is said to have revealed free Lakers tickets in his pocket. See a correction regarding Gloria Allred after the ... More >>

Meg Whitman Has Plenty Of Company In Hiring Undocumented Help (Guinier, Baird, Feinstein): Here's Our Look At Foreign Domestics Throughout Modern Political History

​Revelations Wednesday that California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman employed an illegal immigrant as a maid (a multimillionaire in California with an undocumented housekeeper -- shocking!) had us thinking: Not all politicos have been derailed for hiring foreign domestics (Dianne Feinst ... More >>

Media Circus Expected For Conrad Murray Hearing

Conrad Murray.​The involuntary manslaughter trial against Conrad Murray, the doctor who was treating Michael Jackson the day he died in Los Angeles last summer, is not even underway and already a massive media circus is expected at Superior Court downtown. A hearing in the Murray case schedul ... More >>

Orange County Judge Sentences Serial Killer and Dating Game Winner Rodney Alcala to Death (UPDATED)

​ (UPDATED after jump): An Orange County judge this morning sentenced convicted serial killer Rodney Alcala to death. Judge Francisco Briseno said the former Los Angeles Times typesetter had an "abnormal interest in young girls." The judge also said Alcala's testimony in court was not credibl ... More >>

Tiger Mistress Asks, What About Me?

Joslyn James.​Tiger Woods' televised apology regarding his extramarital sporting events Friday wasn't good enough for a porn star who says she had an affair with the golf great for three years. No, she wanted her own, custom mea culpa. "I would be open to a telephone apology from Tiger, but I ... More >>

Tiger: I Did Have Sex With That Woman ... Or Something Like That

Jaimee Grubbs​As a Los Angeles reality show hopeful revealed voice-mail left by Tiger Woods as proof of their affair, the golf legend finally came clean Wednesday, stating on his site, "I have let my family down and I regret those transgressions with all of my heart." Jaimee Grubs told Us Wee ... More >>

Case Closed: Tiger Woods To Be Cited For 'Careless Driving'

​Tiger Woods will be cited for 'careless driving' in the bizarre Friday morning incident in which he mowed over a fire hydrant and ran into a tree driving his SUV just outside his Florida home, according to the Associated Press. The Florida Highway Patrol citation carries $164 fine and four p ... More >>

Tiger Skips Trip To The Land Of 'TMZ'

Tiger Woods Foundation​The big question on a lot of people's minds following Tiger Woods' bizarre accident over the holiday weekend was whether the golf legend would attend the annual tournament he hosts this week in Thousand Oaks. The answer came Monday in the form of a resounding 'no.' "I a ... More >>

Anand Jon Makes Last Stand

"Excuse me, can you please move down and make room?" the young woman asked her neighbors in the packed courtroom. "We have a very famous lawyer here." By that she meant Gloria Allred, who had just arrived at 9 a.m., the time scheduled for Superior Court Judge David Wesley to either sentence celebrit ... More >>

OctoMom-Allred Smackdown Looms

[Update: Associated Press reported Saturday that Suleman has signed a reality TV deal for each of her 14 children with Eyeworks worth $250,000 over three years. Eyeworks will contribute 15 percent of the gross compensation into a "Coogan account" for the children, who won't be able to access the mon ... More >>

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

E.L.A. Gold Line Fears City and MTA officials worry for the safety of jaywalkers and beat-the-train drivers once the new Gold Line extension's trains begin running through East Los Angeles. L.A. TimesLakers Parade Wednesday morning the championship L.A. Lakers team will parade from Staples Center to ... More >>

OctoBucks: More Needed by Nadya Suleman

It's official: OctoMom Nadya Suleman is "considering" asking for federal assistance under the Women, Infants and Children program. Suleman, who famously gave birth to octuplets in Bellflower last January, had shortly thereafter told her Today show interviewer that she was not on welfare -- a stateme ... More >>

OctoDrama: How the Octuplets Story Keeps Evolving

When we first heard about the birth of eight infants in Bellflower last January, there was no sign that the story of Nadya Suleman, now better known as OctoMom, would become a modern fable about fame and public disgust. Today pundits and late-night TV comics attribute our hunger for OctoMom news to ... More >>

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

Hope Doesn't Float "Don't bury me in Venice" might be the lesson to come away with after the state's Climate Action Team issued the results of computer modeling showing much of California's present coastline underwater by the end of the century. L.A. TimesPrint Bad, Twitter Good Ex-L.A. Times biz ed ... More >>

Octuplet Mom Update: The Circus Continues

Ever since octuplet mother Nadya Suleman was released February 6 from a Kaiser Permanente hospital in Bellflower, her public image has steadily plummeted  southward. Her early, somewhat-disparaging nickname, Octo-Mom, seems to have come from talk radio, probably KFI. By the time she checked ou ... More >>

Funny Stuff, Then Not So Much

What to do in L.A., January 9-15

Prolonged Battle over Proposition 8

It looks like the gay marriage ban won, but activists could upend the victory

Pellicano Briefs: Keith Carradine’s Blues

The Pellicano trial turns into divorce court Who’s that tapping, gently wiretapping, at my trailer door? actor Keith Carradine may well have wondered in April, 2001, as he and his girlfriend Hayley DuMond began noticing telephone problems and other odd events occur in Carradine’s Valencia RV pa ... More >>

Key Moments in the Struggle for Gay Marriage in the U.S.

Holy unions to Supreme Court battles

Hollywood's He-Man Woman Haters Club

Charter member Jeff Robinov to get rewarded

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Arnold's Campaign Facing Libel Suit over Rhonda Miller Smear

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Conan the Governor

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Behind Enemy Lines

Joe Scarborough goes to the trenches of Hollywood

Bring it On — The Recall, That Is

Voters should turn out Davis and turn away the pathetic Simon

Stripes 4 Ever

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L.A.'s Low-Definition TV Journalism

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