Actress Tatum O’Neal, who was arrested last month for attempting to buy crack, pled guilty to disorderly conduct yesterday in New York.
The 44-year-old actress paid a $95 fee and walked out of Manhattan Criminal Court with a smile and a renewed pledge to stay away from the drugs that have plagued her career.
“I’m going back to my meetings and back to my life,” O’Neal said.
She didn’t comment on her vacillating stories about how she turned back to drugs because her dog died or alternatively because she was researching an upcoming role as an addict.
But here’s hoping her newest pledge to stay clean sticks.
Verne Troyer, the little guy who’s best known for his work with Mike Myers in the Austin Powers franchise and now the steaming pile known as The Love Guru, has sued gossipmonger TMZ.com for posting a sex tape starring the actor.
In the lawsuit (view PDF here), Troyer says he sent multiple cease-and-desist orders to the website both before and after they shared the video, which features the dwarf performer with his ex-girlfriend Ranae Shrider. The tape was allegedly stolen sometime in the past year.
The suit also names One Night in Paris porn peddler Kevin Blatt as a defendant for trying to broker a deal for the video’s sale through an online porn distributor. Blatt reportedly has received offers as high as $100,000 for the footage.
Troyer is seeking ONE MEEELLION DOLLARS in damages.*
And sorry, sickos: TMZ pulled the post after the lawsuit hit. You’ll just have to wait for someone else to leak it to satisfy your pervy intentions.
*Sorry, couldn’t resist. Multiply that by twenty.
The ever-spiritual Michael Lohan, father but not really dad to Lindsay, has a 13-year-old illegitimate daughter, OK! reports.
Linds’ father, Michael Lohan, has admitted to OK! that, while married — but at the time separated — to now-ex-wife Dina Lohan, he had a relationship with another woman which resulted in a pregnancy.
Evidently they’ve been in contact for years. He even sent the little girl letters from prison, signed “Love, Daddy” — which is likely more than Lindsay, Ali, or Cody can say.
You may recall that Michael is a born-again Christian who frequently offers parenting advice to his ex-family. Granted, they need help, just not from him.
Turns out he doesn’t so much pay child support or return phone calls from his illegitimate baby mama either. Or as she anonymously told OK!:
“It’s time for Michael to take responsibility.”
Get in line, sister.
Anne Hathaway’s ex-boyfriend Raffaello Follieri has been arrested in New York on charges of wire-fraud conspiracy and money laundering.
He reportedly conned an investor into thinking Follieri was the chief financial officer of the Vatican, and could get the investor good deals on properties in the United States that are owned by the Catholic Church.
Right now, he’s sitting in jail in Manhattan awaiting arraignment. It’s probably a far cry from his penthouse apartment on Fifth.
We mentioned last week that Anne dumped his thieving ass because she was afraid he was going to ruin her good reputation.
Sounds like she had good reason to worry.
Remember when Heath Ledger’s family swore that they would provide for Matilda, his daughter with Michelle Williams, even though his will had been written before she was born? Back in March:
“Matilda is our absolute priority and Michelle is an integral part of our family,” Heath’s father Kim Ledger says in a statement. “They will be taken care of and that’s how Heath would want it to be.”
Ledger’s rep quickly squashed any speculation that Williams and 2-year-old Matilda would not be provided for. “The story is getting taken out of context and media is speculating that this means Matilda and Michelle will not be taken care of. I want to make it very clear nothing could be farther from the truth.”
I’m sure Michelle Williams remembers this very clearly. But fast forward to now and apparently she and her daughter haven’t seen a dime of that inheritance. Michelle is reportedly planning to boycott the premiere of The Dark Knight next month over the dispute.
Not that I blame her. Kim Ledger made news a while back for his financial incompetence, so it wouldn’t be entirely surprising if he’s already spent it all on boomerangs and dingoes.
Anne Hathaway heeded some very good advice and dumped Raffaello Follieri, her boyfriend of forever, now that he’s being investigated for shady financial deals involving his charity.
An insider tells the Mail Online that Hathaway made the painful decision to end their relationship because of the effects his controversial business dealings could have on her career.
Hathaway served as a director on the charity’s board until some time last year, with her rep saying: “Since she is no longer associated with the foundation, why would you expect her to be familiar with all of this,” when asked about the investigation.
A source said: “It’s heartbreaking for her to dump him, and she’s devastated that it’s come to this, but she really didn’t have a choice. His scandals were hurting her reputation.”
See what happens when you deceive? Your pretty, pretty girlfriend leaves your sorry butt curbside! Well played, Anne.
A charity headed by Anne Hathaway’s Zach Braff-lookalike boyfriend is under investigation by the New York Attorney General’s office for what looks to be tax fraud.
Italian businessman Raffaello Follieri is kind of a sketchy dude to begin with, what with the writing bad checks and the lavish spending paid for by his company, but stealing from charity would be a new low.
Now investigators are demanding that he provide financial records for the Follieri Foundation, which has never filed the required forms with the IRS.
Hathaway’s hands might not entirely be clean here. Until very recently, she was a board member for the foundation and it’s unclear why she stepped down from her post.
Two years ago, the pair went on a philanthropic mission to Nicaragua and gave some sound bytes about how important the foundation was in providing vaccines to children:
“The Follieri Foundation is dedicated to creating and funding programs that will make a difference in peoples’ lives. Each program is designed to meet the needs of the local communities,” said Raffaello Follieri, Founder and Chairman of The Follieri Foundation.
It would be sad if the foundation were also dedicated to the couple’s private jet travel and penthouse apartment in Trump Tower.
Denise Richards went on Larry King to talk about how she was forced to do her reality show because she needed the money.
Not so much, say friends of her ex Charlie Sheen, who tried to block the program because he was afraid she would exploit their children.
A source tells Page Six:
“Denise gets $52,000 a month tax-free in child support,” a Sheen insider fumed. “Most people in America can figure out how to live on that, but Denise can’t?”
In addition to the child support, Richards got $60,000 a month (also tax-free) for two years in alimony — adding up to a whopping $1.44 million. Richards also gets a chunk of Sheen’s hot sitcom, “Two and a Half Men,” which “eventually will net her up to $25 million,” the source said.
That is some crazy cash right there for someone who does nothing other than bone her best friend’s husband and complain endlessly about her ex’s sperm.
No, not Saddam Hussein, silly, he’s dead. Even worse: Michael Lohan!
Earlier this week Dina was honored as a “top mom” by something called the Mingling Moms Organization (which is admittedly ridiculous), and Page Six quotes him as saying:
“Are you kidding! Top celebrity mom? Look at her off-screen antics, her lack of morals and how she conducts herself. I guess they forgot to mention how this top super-mom leaves her kids alone at night and even parties in their presence. Just wait until we go back to court. She comes stumbling out of Butter at 3:15 a.m. with bloodshot eyes and a red runny nose, yelling ‘Oh, [bleep],’ when she saw the paparazzi.”
I’m not sure why they bleeped out “pshaw,” but I do know that Michael Lohan needs to shut up about partying too much. Being a good tipper up in the strip club does not count as good parenting skills. Even if the stripper is your daughter…
Michael Bloomberg, in 2001 (before he was mayor of New York), when asked if he’d ever tried marijuana:
“You bet I did. And I enjoyed it.”
These days, Mayor Bloomberg better watch his back before smoking spliffs on his Upper East Side terrace. He now oversees what the New York Civil Liberties Union describes as a “marijuana arrest crusade,” as the NYPD locks up more than 35,000 people each year for marijuana possession.
Arrests are up elevenfold since the 1990s, even though most people who are arrested aren’t even smoking up at the time. Why would cops do that? According to researchers:
[B]usting pot smokers is a relatively safe and easy way to pad arrest figures, which creates the illusion of productivity, and generate overtime pay, a practice known as “collars for dollars.”
Additionally, studies have shown white kids ages 18 to 25 are the most likely to light up a fat one, but black and Hispanic New Yorkers are arrested three to five times as often for possession. Which might explain why Mayor Bloomberg himself escaped his youth unscathed, hmm?
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