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Alicia Estrada: Stop Staring! Fashionista

One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2013 issue. Check out our entire People 2013 issue here. When an acquaintance delivered Alicia Estrada a message from God in late 2011, it wasn't the first time that a man she hardly knew told her something that would change her life ... More >>

Vivid Porn Building Catches Fire

Flames erupted on the rooftop of a building famous for housing the offices of one of the world's largest porn studios, Vivid Entertainment in the Cahuenga Pass. Hot stuff, indeed: Luckily, no one was hurt in the making of this blaze. The fire at 3599 Cahuenga Boulevard near Universal City was repo ... More >>

Kim Kardashian & Kanye's New Bel Air Home Has A Real Housewives Connection

As if the prospect of Kim Kardashian wooing East Coast rapper Kanye West to L.A. for an explosive super-coupling not seen since Beyonce and Jay-Z first hid their love, they're buying a house from another celebrity crush. The $11 million, 10,000-square-foot Bel Air abode (with plenty of room in the ... More >>

Carl's Jr. Boycotted in 1989, Fast Food Protests Nothing New

Picketers and protesters outside a Hollywood fast food restaurant, shouting slogans and attempting to dissuade customers from going inside. A scene from Chick-fil-A in the last week? No, it happened at a Carl's Jr. a short distance to the east...in 1989. The protest, on August 30 of that year, wa ... More >>

Prince Just Turned 54: Some Required Reading

By Reed Fischer If Prince was sticking to his Jehovah's Witness faith, he didn't celebrate his 54th birthday last week. (The religion considers birthdays pagan.) And, giving him gifts is pointless anyhow, because he's probably at the point where he has everything -- purple, anyhow -- already. Not ... More >>

Beyond Wonderland Rave Could Get Snow This Weekend. No, Really.

See also: Beyond Wonderland Rave in SoCal Hosts Politicians, Paris Hilton, Alleged Drug Offenders, and Maybe Even a Good Vibe Insomniac's third annual electronic music festival Beyond Wonderland takes over San Bernardino this weekend. The event's website says it's sold out and will happen "rain or ... More >>

Porn Industry Says Ex-Performers (Stacie Halas, Shawn Loftis) Shouldn't be Banned From Teaching

So you did a little performing in your younger days -- like Paris Hilton or Kim Kardashian. And? Should that mean you can't be a successful reality show star or even a teacher? The case of Stacie Halas, the Oxnard school teacher accused of having performed in adult video, has set the porn industry ... More >>

Kim Kardashian Reportedly Paid $600K to Party in Vegas on NYE

You know you've done something right, in life, when you find yourself sorting through half-million dollar offers just to show up and do a little V.I.P. shimmy at some cush Vegas hotspot on New Year's Eve, while the rest of the world panics over which miserable laser pit is worth a week's wages. The ... More >>

James Desborough, Hollywood Editor for News of the World, Is Arrest No. 13 in Phone-Hacking Scandal: His Possible Victims

Desborough, left, accepts an award for exceptional (and possibly illegal) Hollywood scooping, circa 2009.​News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks really did infiltrate her Satanic hacking malpractices into every corner of this Earth. In Hollywood, turns out, where ace "showbiz" reporter James ... More >>

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Will Wright, Wannabe Hollywood Drug Kingpin in 'Six Degrees of Paris Hilton,' Gets His Wish: Cops Hunt Him for L.A.-to-NY Cocaine Ring

33-year-old Will Wright​Will Wright, one of the most outlandish characters in "Six Degrees of Paris Hilton" -- long-form journalist Mark Ebner's 2009 expose on the nasty, druggy innards of young Hollywood -- is finally seeing the spotlight he craved. "He's always wanted to be a drug kingpin, ... More >>

Nude Photos, Video Taken of About One of Every Four Americans, Says Playboy Sex Survey

Christopher Lee.​We watch too much TV. Because Americans continually seem to have this distance between fantasy and reality. No, you're not a porn star. And "fit" doesn't mean 40 pounds overweight (although it could mean relatively fit in this country). But, damn, we love ourselves. Even nak ... More >>

Day 3: Coachella's GOODs, BADs and UGLYs (feat. Kanye West, Duran Duran, PJ Harvey and the Hilton Sisters)

Timothy Norris​ We came, we saw, we sweated off four pounds of water. Kudos to the Coachella organizers for turning the Empire Polo Grounds into a people-organizing machine. Lines were long, but everything kept moving. Let's look at Sunday's GOODs, BADs and UGLYs...

FREAKS R US

Ray-J To Follow Kim Kardashian Sex Tape With Bid For Mayor Of Carson?

Now that's the kind of mug we want to see on the City of Carson website​Stick to what you're good at, man. "Singer" and "actor" Ray-J -- most famous for his grainy romp with Valley sex symbol Kim Kardashian -- told AllHipHop.com on Dec. 8 that he wants to be mayor of Carson, California. It's ... More >>

Did Christina Aguilera Leak Her Own Sexy Pictures? (NSFW)

​Today Gawker confirms that the naked nude semi-naked sexy pictures purporting to show Christina Aguilera scantily-clad in burlesque gear are indeed semi-naked sexy pictures of Christina Aguilera. Do you think Christina Aguilera, or someone close to her, despite the usual vocal outrage, leaked ... More >>

Surprise: Six Of 10 Highest-Earning Reality-TV Stars Are Based In Los Angeles

The $6 million talent​Not that we didn't know this already. Or that we're very proud of it, in the end. But for better or worse, the Daily Beast has compiled a list the top 10 reality-TV earners, and over half are living (at least part-time) right here in the entertainment capital of the worl ... More >>

WHO ORDERED THE MOO GOO GAI PAN?

Anand Jon Trial: A Postscript

Hina/WikipediaAnand Jon: The Long Goodbye?​In the end, nothing came as a surprise. Yesterday, well past the court's normal 4 p.m. closing time and following an all-day hearing, Judge David Wesley tersely rejected fashion designer Anand Jon Alexander's motion for a new trial. Wesley then sentenced ... More >>

Anand Jon Tries to Fire Lawyers; Sister Plans Protest

Update: Judge David Wesley has granted a defense motion for a Monday hearing to permit Anand Jon to dismiss his attorneys and represent himself. Wesley indicated that he will allow Jon's request to act as his own attorney. See motion here: 582106569 (2).pdfAnand Jon, the Indian-born fashion designer ... More >>

Tense Moments in Today's Anand Jon Courtroom

For 100 intense minutes this morning the defense and prosecutors involved in the Anand Jon trial argued to persuade Judge David Wesley on the motion to set aside Jon's first trial and order a new one. The defense motion has kept the fashion designer, who was convicted of 16 sex-related charges last ... More >>

New Trial Hearing for Anand Jon Under Way

Today was the day convicted fashion designer Anand Jon Alexander's defense presented to Judge David Wesley its case for a new trial. There is much at stake: The original proceedings resulted in Anand Jon, as the designer is known professionally, being convicted of 15 sexual assault charges and one ... More >>

Endgame: Anand Jon's Lawyers Fight for New Trial

One never knows what to expect when entering the madhouse that is the Anand Jon courtroom - known more formally in Superior Court directories as Department 102. Jon, the Indian-born fashion designer, was convicted of 15 counts of sexual assault and one rape charge last November. He was to be senten ... More >>

Judge Denies Anand Jon Recusal Bid, Sets New Trial Hearing

This morning Judge David Wesley heard arguments from Anand Jon defense lawyer Leonard Levine as to why the entire District Attorney's office should be recused from prosecuting a new trial that the fashion designer's attorneys are seeking -- as well as from investigating why a juror in Jon's trial ha ... More >>

Anand Jon's Post-Verdict Twilight Zone

The court afterlife of the Anand Jon trial -- a post-verdict twilight filled with sentencing hearings and new trial motions -- has now stretched out longer than the trial itself. That proceeding ran a mere two months before the Beverly Hills fashion designer was convicted of one count of rape and 15 ... More >>

Full Court Press: Dominick Dunne's Cameo at Phil Spector Retrial; Anand Jon's Explosive Evidence of Juror Shenanigans

Goddesses & Doormats: Anand Jon’s Rape Trial Begins

“I am my own god and I get whatever I want,” fashion designer Anand Jon is quoted in court documents as telling one of his alleged rape victims. Another girl was a 16-year-old virgin and home-schooled Mormon who, in 2003, was taking her first tentative step into secular society. She claims Jon, ... More >>

Tabloid Takeover: L.A. Fashion Week's Celebrity Overdose

Is there a designer in the house?

Rocky Delgadillo's Flameout

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

Mickey Avalon’s True Hollywood Stories

Death, drugs, rap and redemption

Ebony and Ivory

Mary-Kate and Ashley�s, Temporarily

Louis Verdad's flirty 1950's-themed

Louis Verdad's flirty 1950's-themed show capped the opening night of LA Fashion Week, pulling in a healthy front row celebrity turnout, including Gina Gershon (she's the one in the newsboy cap in the background), and Paris Hilton, a slimline Jack Osbourne and Kimberley Stewart sitting all together. ... More >>

The Gayest Hoopla Ever!

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Paris at Wal-Mart

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