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06
May

Jenna Jameson’s Anti-Leather Campaign Lasted About as Long as Her Serious “Acting” Career

pleather.jpgIt seems like just about 8 weeks ago that porn star Jenna Jameson was promoting fake leather (called “pleather” — I’m not making that up) for the animal rights group PETA. Oh, wait … it was just 8 weeks ago. So here’s a question: What the heck was she doing on May 1 at London’s Amika nightclub wearing a leather bomber jacket?

jenna-jameson-in-leather.jpgAnd here’s the answer: She was being a big fat slutty phony. PETA bragged in March that Jenna is “a woman of her word and practices what she preaches.” Uh-huh.

What is it with these PETA spokes-drones? They show up and front for some nutty facet of the overall nutty save-the-cows cause, and then go back to their ordinary life (like the rest of us — you know, the massive majority who don’t worship at the altar of tofu and vinyl). Don’t they think someone’s going to notice?

And lest you think it’s a “pleather” jacket she’s wearing, note the “Members Only” tag on the front. No, it’s not retro. The brand is making a comeback. Here’s the very same leather jacket from the Members Only spring 2008 collection.

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Still not sure it’s real leather? Here’s a snippet from the press release:

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If Jenna announces she’s anti-fur next week, just hold your breath and count to twenty. She’ll turn out to be full of it. They all do.

Hat tip: Deceiver reader Katherine, who pointed us to the photo. Nice going!

01
May

Shawty Got Lowe, Lowe, Lowe, Lowe, Lowe, Lowe, Lowe, Lowe

rob_sheryl_lowe.jpgRob Lowe’s nanny legal mess just became even more of a headache.

Knowing a storm was a-brewin’, he and his wife Sheryl went on the offensive and sued three former employees for extortion, but that didn’t prevent one of the nannies and a chef from suing him for sexual and verbal harassment, wrongful termination, and nonpayment of wages.

Now the other nanny has filed a lawsuit against Sheryl Lowe for the same.

But wait, is this 1988? Sex scandals are so “been there, done that” for him, after seeing his career ruined by the release of a raunchy tape of him with some teenage girls. He’s acknowledged it was a “mistake” and said he’s moved on. I thought we were all past that, no?

30
Apr

Ashley Dupré Is So Not Getting That $10-Million

ashley_dupre_ggw.jpgJoe Francis has released a bit of the Girls Gone Wild footage that Ashley Alexandra Dupré filmed for them and is suing them over.

No, not the naked bits — the part where she gave her consent to be filmed:

In the new release, Dupre appears covered by a terrycloth towel and gives her name as Amber Arpaio. An unseen questioner asks if she is 18.

“Yes I am,” Dupre answers in a strong Southern accent.

“Do you know what ’Girls Gone Wild’ is?” the questioner asks.

“Yes I do,” she replies with a laugh.

“Can I use this on ’Girls Gone Wild’?” she is asked.

“Of course you can,” Dupre answers.

The video also displays a New Jersey driver’s license with the Amber Arpaio name and a birth date that would have made her appear to be in her 20s.

This pretty much nullifies her whole argument that they filmed her even though they knew she was underage. The defense rests in time for happy hour.

30
Apr

The House of Mouse Shows Another Child Unbloused

Apparently I am the only person in North America who doesn’t care what Miley Cyrus did or did not wear in some dumb magazine, or anything she does anywhere else for that matter. But Disney is outraged, Bill O’Reilly is outraged, everybody’s outraged about the supposed sexualization of a 15-year-old girl. Even Deceiver is a little bit outraged! Disney has sent lil’ Miley into hiding to try to protect their franchise from the media storm.

But that’s just in the West. In China, apparently Disney is a lot more nonchalant about kids showing too much skin. Daniel Brooks, writing in Slate, brings news of a creepy Chinese ad campaign for Disney underwear, featuring an even younger girl in bra and panties. When he asked Disney about it, in light of their reaction to this Miley Cyrus debacle, a Disney spokesman said the Chinese ad (which is months old) was an oversight on their part and would be discontinued immediately. That’s great, but if Disney is so concerned with their kid-friendly image, why are they letting this stuff happen in the first place?

29
Apr

Spitzer’s Hooker Sues Girls Gone Wild for $10-Mil

dupre.jpgGov. Eliot Spitzer’s downfall Ashley Alexandra DuprĂ© has filed a $10-million lawsuit against Girls Gone Wild because, she alleges, they coerced her with booze into signing away the rights to her breasts when she was 17 years old.

Far be it from me to defend Joe Francis — talk about a Class-A douchebag — but seriously, an admitted hooker claiming that she had to be plied with alcohol to pull out the funbags for the camera? A bit hard to, um, swallow.

Francis tells TMZ:

“We were very surprised and in fact amazed today that Ms. Dupree filed a lawsuit against Girls Gone Wild. We have not publicly released any new video of Ms. Dupree, due to corporate policy of not using footage of individuals younger than 18. It is incomprehensible that Ms. Dupree could claim she did not give her consent to be filmed by Girls Gone Wild, when in fact we have videotape of her giving consent, while showing her identification.”

That would be her fake ID that said she was 21 at the time. How fast will this be tossed out of the courts? Before lunch, perhaps?

28
Apr

Miley Cyrus Photo Scandal, Take Eleventy

miley_cyrus_vf.jpgMiley “I Do Everything For Jesus” Cyrus has admitted that it was indeed her (and not a lookalike) in those bra-baring photos we talked about last week.

And for all you pervs out in the interwebs, there are evidently more to come in the June issue of Vanity Fair.

Photos of the Disney star wearing just red lipstick and a bed sheet — shot by legendary photographer Annie Leibovitz — have popped up online. For which Miley is already apologizing (again):

“I took part in a photo shoot that was supposed to be ‘artistic’ and now, seeing the photographs and reading the story, I feel so embarrassed,” Miley said in a statement. “I never intended for any of this to happen and I apologize to my fans who I care so deeply about.”

Disney seems to be afraid that their little girl is going the Britney path a little too soon, but Vanity Fair stands by the shoot:

“Unfortunately, as the article suggests, a situation was created to deliberately manipulate a 15-year-old in order to sell magazines,” Disney spokeswoman Patti McTeague asserts to the Times.

Not surprisingly, Vanity Fair has a different take on how the photo shoot went down, with a rep insisting, “Miley’s parents and/or minders were on the set all day. Since the photo was taken digitally, they saw it on the shoot and everyone thought it was a beautiful and natural portrait of Miley.”

This is pretty much why it’s never a good idea to try to make money off your morals: Someone always notices when you slip up.

21
Apr

Yale Takes a Stand (Sort Of)

Today brought a development in the Aliza Shvarts abortion art controversy.

Yale is so over the ambiguity surrounding the art major’s senior thesis and wants a clear answer about what she did and whether her art project contains real human blood:

yale.jpgIn the normal course of events, Ms. Shvarts’s project would be installed at the School of Art for critique and discussion with a committee of faculty. In this case, we will not permit her to install the project unless she submits a clear and unambiguous written statement that her installation is a work of fiction: that she did not try to inseminate herself and induce miscarriages, and that no human blood will be physically displayed in her installation.

I’m assuming she’s not going to be happy about this, especially as she defended the shocking work by explaining “the nature of the piece is that it did not consist of certainties.”

And I doubt she’ll call Yale’s bluff, because despite her protestations that she didn’t think people would react so strongly to it, she must be enjoying the national attention of which most established artists can only dream.

Still, getting her to be explicit about her actions will go a long way toward discrediting it as a hoax (which I think most people are hoping, regardless of their opinions on abortion) or proving that she is certifiably crazy.

18
Apr

Yale Student Says Abortion Art Piece Was Not for ‘Shock Value’

aliza_shvarts.jpgI originally wasn’t going to post this but it’s spun so far out of control that I feel like I have to comment on it.

Yale art major Aliza Shvarts just finished her senior thesis on performance art. Her medium? Abortion.

Over the course of nine months, she says she artificially inseminated herself with donated sperm and then induced miscarriages by taking herbal drugs. She videotaped each miscarriage and preserved the blood for display.

However, she says she didn’t believe it would shake anyone up.

The goal in creating the art exhibition, Shvarts said, was to spark conversation and debate on the relationship between art and the human body. But her project has already provoked more than just debate, inciting, for instance, outcry at a forum for fellow senior art majors held last week. And when told about Shvarts’ project, students on both ends of the abortion debate have expressed shock, saying the project does everything from violate moral code to trivialize abortion.

But Shvarts insists her concept was not designed for “shock value.”

“I hope it inspires some sort of discourse,” Shvarts said. “Sure, some people will be upset with the message and will not agree with it, but it’s not the intention of the piece to scandalize anyone.”

Yeah effing right. The when this story hit the fan, Yale was compelled to say something about it, calling the project “a creative fiction” and reporting the whole project was a hoax.

Not so, says the art major herself:

Shvarts stood by her project, calling the university’s statement “ultimately inaccurate.”

But Shvarts reiterated Thursday that she repeatedly use a needleless syringe to insert semen into herself. At the end of her menstrual cycle, she took abortifacient herbs to induce bleeding, she said. She said she does not know whether or not she was ever pregnant.

“No one can say with 100-percent certainty that anything in the piece did or did not happen,” Shvarts said, “because the nature of the piece is that it did not consist of certainties.”

I honestly don’t know what to think, other than that it’s safe to say that people on both sides of the reproductive-rights debate are definitely scandalized.

16
Apr

Marilyn Monroe Sex Tape May Not Really Exist

marilyn_monroe.jpgThere seems to be a lot of mounting evidence (heh) that the alleged Marilyn Monroe sex tape — which sold this week to an unnamed businessman for $1.5-million — doesn’t actually exist.

The story behind the film, which shows Monroe performing oral sex on an anonymous man, is that memorabilia collector Keya Morgan discovered the tape’s existence while researching the star for an upcoming documentary.

The original belonged to an FBI informant who provided the bureau with a copy, which J. Edgar Hoover tried to use to prove that Monroe was involved with either John or Robert Kennedy.

However, it’s becoming increasingly clear that Keya Morgan is a bit of an opportunist who enjoys the spotlight himself. Namely that his documentary will push conspiracy theories about the star’s death, and even a bizarre name drop where he claimed to have dated both Mariah Carey and RenĂ©e Zellweger.

I’m not sure that I’d want to be connected to either of those two crazy broads, even if it meant I could be famous.

The most obvious hypocrisy is this, however:

Last month, he brokered its sale, leading the informant’s son to a wealthy New York businessman who wants to keep this unseemly part of Monroe’s past buried.

“He said he’s just going to lock it up,” Morgan said.

“He said, ‘I’m not going to make a Paris Hilton out of her. I’m not going to sell it, out of respect.’ “

Good intentions on the part of the buyer, which were totally ruined when Morgan told everyone about a sex tape that no one’s ever heard about. How is that respect?

15
Apr

Chaste Stars Just Marketing the Madonna-Whore Complex

miley_cyrus_schoolgirl.jpgTony Sclafani over at MSNBC has a great commentary on how stars who push abstinence are really just making you think about all the sex they’re not having.

First there was Jessica Simpson (whose former chastity I mentioned yesterday) and Britney Spears (who also turned out so well), and now there’s the new guard of chaste musicians like Miley Cyrus, Jordan Sparks, and the Jonas Brothers.

I’m tempted to quote the article wholesale but for now I’ll limit myself to this tidbit:

On the surface, the reason why these performers are taking virginity pledges has to do with religion. But why advertise this particular aspect of religion? Because by talking about how they’re not having sex, they’ve discovered a sly way to market their sexuality. There’s an unsettling exhibitionism in all of this. Since these artists are putting issues about their sexuality front-and-center, it’s hard to see them and not immediately think about their sex lives. Do we really need to know Joe Jonas isn’t getting any?

He’s like 18 years old. I don’t care if it’s legal, it’s still pervy.




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