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Nicolas Cage's Ex Suing Him for $13 Million
4 hours ago
Nicolas Cage's financial and legal nightmare continues to grow. Christina Fulton, mother of Cage's eldest child Weston, 18, is suing the actor for fraud and breach of contract, alleging she's been caught in the web of his financial mismanagement and is now more than $1.2 million in debt herself, Los Angeles court papers show. Cage stated in an October lawsuit he faces financial ruin after allegedly being duped by a former accountant, Samuel Levin. The actor currently owes $6.3 million in back taxes, recently defaulted on a $2 million loan, and has begun a massive sell-off of homes, cars, yachts and other possessions to recoup his losses. »
- Ken Lee
Beyoncé Throws 40th Birthday Bash for Jay-z
5 hours ago
It's nothing but the best for Jay-z: The music mogul celebrated his 40th birthday in style last week - thanks to his wife, Beyoncé. The Grammy-nominated singer planned a star-studded surprise party for her hubby and invited 50 of his closest pals, including Diddy, Kate Hudson, A-Rod, Kanye West and Alicia Keys. DJ Cassidy spun tunes at the bash held at the Casa de Campo resort in the Dominican Republic. The party, which had a 1940s theme, included a fireworks show and two dance floors. At the fete, Jay-z and Keys sang an impromptu version of their hit song, "Empire State of Mind, »
- Danielle Dubin
Listen: Tiger Woods's Wife Makes Frantic 911 Call
5 hours ago
It's 2:35 a.m. and Elin Nordegren is in a panic. The children are crying. Her mother is on the floor in the bathroom of a Florida mansion. "Oh my God! My mom just collapsed," Nordegren tells the emergency operator in a 911 call. "She collapsed in the bathroom. What do I do?" According to a tape released Tuesday by fire officials, for the next 3 minutes and 21 seconds, a dispatcher calms down Tiger Woods's wife and then helps her cope with yet another family crisis. First, the dispatcher has Nordegren check on her mom to see if she's breathing and if she's conscious. »
- Nicole Weisensee Egan
Video: Michelle Duggar Thanks Fans from Hospital
5 hours ago
Michelle and Jim Bob Duggar have released a video thanking fans for their support as Michelle, expecting her 19th child this spring, undergoes treatment for a gallstone. "We'd like to thank everybody for praying for Michelle," Jim Bob Duggar says in the video, apparently taped at Michelle's bedside at the University of Arkansas for Health Sciences in Little Rock, where she was admitted over the weekend. "Thank you for all the well wishes we have been receiving," Michelle says. "I am feeling much better. The gallstone has kind of calmed down a little bit, [my] blood pressure is still kind of getting regulated, »
Photos: Taylor Lautner and His Alter-Ego - Max Steel
6 hours ago
Taylor Lautner's werewolf is pretty tough, but the Twilight star's likely next role is a guy who can really take care of himself. Paramount confirms that Lautner, 17, is attached to bring to life Max Steel, an animated superhero and action figure from Mattel. Lautner, who already bears a strong resemblance to the CGI version of Max, was very taken with the character, who gets his powers from - well, it's complicated (something about being infected with microscopic "nano-machines" and drinking "T-juice.") Although Lautner is "committed to the role," a source tells People, the movie still has no director and no timeline, »
- Mike Fleeman and Alexis Chiu
Tiger Woods's Mother-in-Law Released From Hospital
7 hours ago
Barbro Holmberg, mother-in-law to embattled golfer Tiger Woods, was released from a hospital Tuesday afternoon and is now recuperating at Woods's home in Windermere, Fla. According to Health Central Hospital spokesman Dan Yates, Holmberg, 57, left the facility around 2 p.m. in a wheelchair, which is standard procedure in most hospitals. He said she was back at Woods's home. Holmberg, a politician in Sweden, was taken to the Ocoee, Fla., hospital after a 911 call at 2:35 a.m. Tuesday, and was admitted after complaining of stomach pain. Around midday, her daughter and Tiger's wife, Elin Nordegren, arrived at the hospital with a bag. »
- Michael Y. Park
Celine Dion on Pregnancy: 'If It Happens, It Happens'
7 hours ago
Though her recent in vitro fertilization treatment was unsuccessful, Celine Dion and her family are upbeat and ready to try, try again for a second child. "I feel strong and honestly, we're very blessed," Dion, 41, tells Access Hollywood in a new interview. "We have a wonderful child, we're extremely happy." The singer says she's not daunted by the difficulties she's faced in having a second baby. "It's not like, 'Oh my god, she's not pregnant and she's depressed,' " she continues. "You know how it works. We are great. We hope for the best, we hope to get pregnant. If it happens, »
- Michael Y. Park
Victoria Principal Prepares to Blast into Space
8 hours ago
Beam her up, Scotty! Former Dallas star Victoria Principal has signed up to take a ride in the world's first commercial passenger spacecraft, the Vss Enterprise, which was unveiled Monday in the Mojave Desert by space pioneers Sir Richard Branson and Burt Rutan. "Going into space fulfills many desires I have of seeing the planet, going fast, going someplace very few people have been - and hopefully coming back down!" Principal tells People. The actress, who is also a skin-care magnate and an amateur race car driver, says space travel has always been her fantasy. She wrote a TV movie »
- Howard Breuer
As the World Turns to End Its 54-Year Spin
8 hours ago
The sun won't rise on the citizens of Oakdale, Ill., come 2011 - the soap opera As the World Turns will be end its 54-year-run in September 2010, CBS announced Tuesday. Bowed down by declining ratings among daytime soaps in general, the longrunning series, which is filmed in New York City, will draw the curtains for the final time on Sept. 17. Only three months ago - and almost exactly a year before that, on Sept. 18, 2009 - the 72-year-old soap Guiding Light broadcast its final episode. Many of the castmembers of As the World Turns have gone on to have notable careers in film, »
David Hasselhoff's Daughter on 911 Call: 'My Dad Just Collapsed'
8 hours ago
David Hasselhoff's health scare over Thanksgiving weekend was prompted after the actor fell over several times and could not stand up, a newly released 911 recording from the Nov. 27 incident reveals. "My dad just ... he's collapsed," says Hasselhoff's daughter Hayley, 17, who is heard crying. "He's standing up but he keeps falling back down ... But then he got back up and he's fine. It's kind of scaring me." Hasselhoff, 57, was hospitalized at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center that weekend and was released. Click here to listen to the call: The America's Got Talent host, who's struggled with alcoholism, has been hospitalized at least »
- Ken Lee
John Stamos: I Was Targeted By Extortionists
9 hours ago
Full House star John Stamos confirmed Tuesday that he was allegedly blackmailed for $680,000 by an a man and a woman threatening to sell to the tabloids pictures that the actor claims are merely photos of him "posing with fans." The alleged extortionists were arrested last week in an FBI sting operation after they met with an undercover agent posing as a Stamos representative for a money drop in a Michigan airport, authorities say. A raid on the home of Allison Coss, 23, and Scott Sippola, 30, of Marquette, Mich., turned up three photos of Stamos, a piece of paper with Stamos's personal cell phone number on it, »
- Mike Fleeman
Tiger Woods's Mother-in-Law Hospitalized
11 hours ago
The woman rushed to a hospital from Tiger Woods's Florida home was his mother-in-law, Barbro Holmberg, hospital spokesman Dan Yates confirmed. An ambulance took Holmberg, 57, a well-known politician in Sweden, to Health Central Hospital in Ocoee, Fla., early Tuesday morning. "Last evening Barbro Holmberg, mother of Elin Woods, was admitted to Health Central Hospital with stomach pain. She’s in stable condition and is currently undergoing evaluation," Yates said Tuesday. "Media reports other than this attributed to this matter have been erroneous and speculative, and we ask that her privacy be respected at this time." A family member also »
- Steve Helling and Nicole Weisensee Egan
Uma Thurman Calls Off Engagement
11 hours ago
Uma Thurman is single again. The actress broke off her year-long engagement to Swiss multimillionaire Arpad "Arki" Busson on Nov. 15. "The engagement ended awhile back - almost two months ago," says a source. "They remain friends." The couple began dating in the summer of 2007, and one year later, Busson proposed with an 8-plus carat engagement ring. Just don't expect to see that ring on Thurman's finger anytime soon. "She will probably give it back," says the source. "She wants to return everything that is his."A rep for the actress had no comment. Perhaps their long-distance love affair was a factor. »
- Liza Hamm
Bryant Gumbel Has Lung Cancer
12 hours ago
Bryant Gumbel is being treated for lung cancer, the former Former Today show anchor revealed on Live! With Regis & Kelly Tuesday morning. The sportscaster and TV host, 61, said that he had surgery last month to remove a malignant tumor in his chest, a revelation prompted when Kelly Ripa asked Gumbel, subbing for Regis Philbin, to dance - and he begged off. According to Gumbel, part of his lung was removed, and he will be seeing his surgeon next week. "We had told a few people, we told my family, obviously. I even kept it from my staff at Real Sports. »
Meet Best New Artist Grammy Nominee Keri Hilson
13 hours ago
Sure she's penned hits for Britney Spears and Usher and now has a best new artist Grammy nomination, but before taking the music scene by storm, Keri Hilson was involved in a little circus act. "I taught myself to juggle around [age] 11," the singer tells People with a giggle. "I've always been pretty coordinated, but I won't do it on stage. I'd get way too nervous." She may have to pull out her juggling chops to keep another Grammy nominee, Lady Gaga, on her toes. The two are set to perform at Dick Clark's Rocking New Year's Eve. "We played »
- Jessica Herndon
Like Foodie, Like Son for Tom Colicchio
14 hours ago
Like father, like son: Top Chef judge Tom Colicchio may already have a foodie on his hands with 4-month-old son Luka Bodhi. "He's definitely a big eater and loves to eat like me," Colicchio told People before joining Julia Roberts and John Krasinski on Monday for a game of celebrity charades at the Labyrinth Theater Company's gala benefit in New York City. "He's only on breast milk right now, and even at night time, when he wakes up, you just stick a bottle in his mouth or breastfeed him and he goes right back to sleep." Colicchio, 47, has already even »
- Paul Chi
Woman Rushed to Hospital from Tiger Woods's Home
15 hours ago
A person was taken from Tiger Woods's multimillion-dollar Florida home "on advanced life support" after firefighters received a call at 2:36 a.m. Tuesday, reports local station Wesh-tv. Witnesses told the NBC affiliate station, which aired footage of what appeared to be a blond woman receiving oxygen as she was carried on a stretcher, that an ambulance transported the patient to Health Central Hospital. The station speculated, but could not confirm, that the middle-aged woman seen in the video was the patient taken from Woods's house, based on the time that the ambulance arrived at the hospital in Ocoee, »
- Stephen M. Silverman
Zac & Vanessa Throw a Dinner Party
16 hours ago
• Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens, hosting a party for the actress's Sucker Punch castmates at Joe Fortes Seafood and Chop House in Vancouver, B.C. The casually dressed duo picked out platters of food to serve family style and also mingled with all their guests during the four-hour dinner. "They played musical chairs, going from table to table to speak with all their friends," a source tells us. The couple was also "very affectionate with each other" as they enjoyed their meal. Afterward, the group piled into a stretch limo and continued the party at Hudgens's hotel. »
Photo: Shakira Goes to Oxford University
7 December 2009 4:25 PM, PST
Grammy-winning musician Shakira took the stage in England on Monday - but not to sing. In a speech at Oxford University, she put out a call for universal access to education as a tool for world peace. "That is how I want the youth of 2060 to see us: That our mission for global peace consisted of sending 30,000 educators to Afghanistan, not 30,000 soldiers," said Shakira, who was invited by the Oxford Student Union. "That in 2010, world education became more important than world domination." »
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