A jury has found R. Kelly not guilty of fourteen counts of child pornography.
Kelly – who has long been rumored to be sexually “into” young girls – has denied that it is him in the video with the 13-year-old girl, six years ago. The victim also denied it was her in the film even though numerous witnesses claim that both Kelly and the victim were indeed the ones in the footage.
Unbelievable.
Nick (Bollea) Hogan’s bitching and moaning about solitary confinement seems to have paid off for him.
Hogan’s legal team requested earlier in the week that he be let out of seclusion and into house arrest with his mother, but that request was denied by a judge.
Instead, Hogan has been moved into to a cell with three other juveniles. The sheriff’s office says it was a “result of routine and ongoing assessments of inmate population and classification,” not because of Nick couldn’t handle solitary confinement.
Uh-huh. Maybe money really can buy ‘happiness’.
Nick (Bollea) Hogan’s attorneys requested that the courts allow him to be released from solitary confinement in which he spends 16-17 hours a day.
They’re playing the cruel and unusual punishment card.
“Understandably, this situation creates an unbearable anxiety for a minor in solitary confinement,” his attorneys claim in court papers.
Nick’s legal team is trying to persuade the courts that Nick is being subjected to “substantial amounts to cruel and unusual punishment for a juvenile.” Court documents go on to say that Nick’s sentence, “is not warranted for a non-violent first offender serving a probation sentence.”
His attorneys want him to be transfered to either home confinement or to be released to the minimum security area in the jail, which apparently “is not equipped for juveniles.”
That sounds like one hell of a gamble to me. You can be assured that the legal team is trying to get him back home, but what if he gets minimum security instead? Wouldn’t he be at risk?
Probably not, now that I think about it. People in jail are generally morons, and they tend to get star struck too. Now if he was a sexual predator that would be out of the question. Instead, he merely caused his best friend’s head to get dented in like a dollar store Barbie. Apparently not worthy of solitary confinement.
UPDATE: TMZ just obtained court documents [PDF file] stating Bollea’s defenses in this case.
Nick’s family blame everyone under the sun, except Nick, for the accident. In Nick’s defense, attorneys claim that John, a legal adult, could have opted to not enter the vehicle if he thought Nick was driving unsafe. For the same reason they say he had multiple opportunities to exit the vehicle at one of many street lights they encountered. Also, John chose to not wear a seatbelt and that if he had, he wouldn’t have sustained injuries to the extent that he did.
Lastly, they go onto say that the driver of the other vehicle, also an adult, should have equal responsibility as Nick in this case.
The one thing they state over and over is that Nick is a minor and that any actions he may have taken should have been supervised by John and the other driver. So basically, it’s their faults for allowing him to drive like a moron.
Hardly shocking.
Hulk Hogan is all set to rescue his little boy after the spoiled sh*t gets out of jail.
You see, the Hogans are doing everything in their power to restore the family’s reputation, especially Nick’s. And they are doing it the only way they know how – with a new reality show, of course!
It seems daddy Hulk is working on a show starring his assh*le son that’s sole purpose is to create the impression that Nick is a changed man. Yeah, f*ck remorse! Let’s figure out a way to pretend like you’re a good guy!
In the video below, TMZ obtained a recorded phone call between Nick and Hulk that you have to take a listen to. You hear Nick tell his dad the basis of the show,
“It’ll be real-ality – how I’m recovering after this – celebrity outta jail.”
-Nick Hogan
Oh no he didn’t! How he is recovering? What about John?!
(Update: This is what John looks like today. If you didn’t already hate Nick enough, you will now.)
Hulk talks about producing the show and promises not to screw Nick over money-wise. He even tells Nick he will make him the owner of the show. Hulk suggests the title, “The New Nick”. Nick sounds anxious to start work the minute he steps out of the clink. Which isn’t surprising as he has a lot of cleanup work to do.
This family will stop at nothing! Sadly, Nick hasn’t learned a damn thing from all of this, thanks to his father, who refuses to teach him the rights and wrongs in life. Unfortunately jail can’t do that for him.
[Video courtesy of TMZ]
Adnan Ghalib, the photographer who leeched onto Britney Spears during the midst of her apparent breakdown, claims to have a sex tape with the pop star and is shopping around for the highest bidder.
Of course he is. Like this is some sort of surprise? We all knew he was using her, and Britney was just dumb, or ill, enough to let him.
The tape is reportedly over two hours long and contains about 20 minutes of actual sex, the rest is stripping and foreplay. Britney wears her infamous pink wig throughout the film and strips down to nothing. When Adnan asks her to remove the wig Britney says, “Take what off? There’s nothing left to take off.”
Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs!
The tape was supposedly filmed while the two ran off to Mexico back in January.
You know, it’s actually surprising that a Britney sex tape has never been leaked. Yeah, we have all seen her famous clamato, but not in action. I’m still surprised Federline never stooped to that level and leaked a tape. I guess he didn’t have to though, he just knocked her up instead. The ultimate meal ticket for the celebrity parasite. I hope this rumor isn’t true though, because just the thought of Brit and Adnan doing the nasty is enough for me to hurl…let alone watching it. And yes, if it is real, I’ll have to watch it. Dammit.
Heh.
Unbelievable, I know.
Dina Lohan received the Mother of the Year award from Mingling Moms, a Long Island organization who must have known the publicity they would garner from such a stunt. Not that anyone will ever take them seriously after this.
Check out this video of Dina graciously accepting the award that she will probably end up chalking up lines on later..
[TMZ]
The Olsen twins attended the wedding ceremony of stylist Estee Stanley this Saturday night in Los Angeles where Ashley Olsen was also a bridesmaid.
Mary-Kate and Ashley decided on wearing stark white masks to hide their identity from photographers.
Justin Timberlake, Jessica Biel, Tobey Maguire and wife, Eva Mendes, Kurt Russell, Goldie Hawn, and Rashida Jones also attended the nuptials but all were obviously overshadowed by the two monkeys running around in masks.
I love how they claim to want to be left alone but the attention they attract is tenfold when doing something ridiculous such as this.
It’s like the celebs who go to the convenience store and bring a big ass posse with them, or when they go anywhere for that matter. They raise such a stink about themselves, then are up in arms as to why everyone is hounding them.
Perez Hilton told Ryan Seacrest in a radio interview that he kissed John Mayer…with tongue!
(I guess this story is a couple days old, but somehow I missed it!)
Perez says that he thinks Mayer is struggling with his sexuality and insists that he is bisexual. “He is definitely bi,” Hilton said.
The make-out session took place at NYC nightclub Stereo last year.
Hilton describes the encounter, “He kissed me, and I kissed him back. It was on the mouth with tongue. I thought he was messing with me. Then he kept going and going.”
He added that Mayer’s girlfriend at the time, Jessica Simpson, didn’t mind that the two men were enjoying themselves. He adds, “While John Mayer and I are making out, she is rubbing his crotch.”
Mayer’s publicist is denying all allegations.
You knew this was going to happen, it’s only surprising it didn’t happen sooner.
A lawsuit has been filed in Pinellas County, Florida by the parents of John Graziano against Hulk Hogan after their son was left in a vegetative state following a crash in which Hulk’s son Nick Hogan had been street racing.
The suit says Hulk (Terry Bollea) knew his son liked to race and was aware that he had been drinking before the accident. It also names Hogan’s estranged wife, Linda Bollea, Nick Bollea and Daniel Jacobs, the driver of the car they were racing against, as defendants.
No monetary damages are mentioned but the family states that it may take millions of dollars to care for John for the remainder of his life.
George Tregos, attorney for Graziano’s parents said at a news conference, “He never will be fully the John he was before.”
Another attorney for the family adds that they were appalled after the Hogans, minus Hulk, visited John on Valentine’s Day. Sure they brought gifts, but they also brought photographers who snapped photos that were then published on celebrity gossip sites.
“We believe that it was a total PR stunt,” Kimberley Kohn told the St. Petersburg Times.
However, an attorney for the Hogans disputes those claims.
“The Bollea family has been visiting John for the last seven or eight months, and there’s been no PR about it whatsoever,” Morris “Sandy” Weinberg Jr., insisted. “It’s a bunch of nonsense to suggest their visits to John are a PR stunt. That’s crazy.”
Tell me, why else would they bring photographers? Is there any other reason besides PR?
And whatever happened to the reports that Hulk may have bought Nick and friends alcohol before the accident? I haven’t heard anything new about that, but hope if it’s true it comes out. It’s called accepting responsibilty for your actions, Mr. Hogan.
This might just be one mess this family can’t buy their way out of.
