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Stepping out for a good cause, Justin Timberlake dropped by Keep a Child Alive’s 5th Annual Black Ball in New York City last night (November 13).
Joining a star studded guest list including Jessica Alba and John Mayer, the “Sexy Back” singer posed for photographers at the Hammerstein Ballroom before moving along to join his fellow attendees.
She’s always a fan of helping out the less fortunate, and new mommy Jessica Alba was looking fine at the Keep a Child Alive 5th Annual Black Ball last night (November 13).
Joining celebs including John Mayer and Justin Timberlake, the “Good Luck Chuck” actress was the center of attention as she arrived at New York City’s Hammerstein Ballroom sporting a sexy grey floor-length halter-style dress.
With the new 90210 spinoff gaining momentum, Jennie Garth has once again found notoriety as her character Kelly Taylor. And yesterday she was spotted doing a promotional photo shoot for the new show.
The 36-year-old actress looked simple-yet-sexy in a conservative blue dress with a yellow belt and a pair of neutral-colored heels as she posed for the camera.
If you're a teen father thrust into the spotlight because your fiancée's mom is suddenly a vice-presidential candidate, how to cope with the stress? For 18-year-old Levi Johnston, the answer is to chew gum obnoxiously on the stage at the Republican National Convention, even while meeting presidential candidate John McCain. Maybe the father to Bristol Palin's baby was just trying to prove that he really is a "fuckin' redneck" as stated on his MySpace profile. Palin's mom Sarah, who had just finished a well-received speech slamming Barack Obama, would not have appreciated further insolence from the young man who has still not publicly confirmed he will, in fact, marry her daughter as the McCain campaign claims. There's always an outside chance Johnston was merely following orders, the Republicans having gambled that a little cud chewing might play well among the "bitter" working-class whites Hillary Clinton once courted. Click the video icon to watch Levi's jaw in action.
Somehow wiggling his way out of a conviction, a Cook County jury acquitted R&B superstar R. Kelly of child pornography charges on Friday afternoon (June 13).
The verdict marks the end of what has been a high-profile trial full of twists and turns - finally coming to what’s a fortunate close for the Freaky In the Club singer.
Note to the kids: I know you are not gonna stop sending each other naked photos of yourselves, but when your hot girlfriend becomes your ex, do not post those photos on MySpace with the caption "Yo tell me this bitch desurves this!!!!!!! This is HLK yall! Yo, U see how big her hole is! Its from me! TF gets my leftover's to bad she fucked." That's what Alex Phillips did to his 16-year-old ex, and now the 17-year-old boy is facing charges of sexual exploitation of a child and possession of child pornography. Obviously he's a twat and deserving of the defamation charge that he's also getting. But is this really a child porn case?
Phillips isn't even two years older than his ex; they're both in high school. She took the photos herself, apparently under no duress, and e-mailed them to him. As awful as his behavior is (a report says that when cops warned him about possible jail time, he replied "fuck that, I am keeping them up"), it's an interaction between two minors.
After all, this case provides plenty of evidence that Phillips and his girlfriend had sex, which in their state of Wisconsin is illegal under the age of 18. So should he be strung up on statutory rape charges too? Do we just use laws in any case they technically apply regardless of the point, which is to protect children from sexual exploitation by adults?
Or are the laws even reasonable in an age when teenagers are sexually active and have access to cheap communication? Do we need new anti-defamation laws for spreading humiliating photos of anyone, regardless of age? Or is it only minors who will get protection when an ex spreads their dirty naked pics?
Sorry if I'm the only one worked up about this; some of us have a history of raunchy photo-taking and a few crazy exes.
It’s been a month since his DUI arrest, and earlier today Richie Sambora was formally charged by the Orange County, California District Attorney’s office.
Back on March 25th, Sambora was observed swerving around Laguna Beach in his Hummer H2 by the Laguna Beach Police. And when they pulled him over, he was discovered to be driving under the influence of alcohol.
Gap, a clothing company that seems cheaper than it actually is, just announced the winners of its Gap kids model contest. The winners were announced on the Rachel Ray Show, a show that has come to represent blind consumerism, brash and abrasive cheer and the privileging of ease over quality in matters both culinary and philosophical. Anyway, on to the kids! There are four of them. Only one has a name that is rather common (Samantha). Of the other three, Parker is the cutest, Jaron sounds the most annoying and Kenadi is only 3 but also fucking cute. Samantha, and this is just a gloss, but she's also annoying. She's seven and of the sixteen words used to express her, nine are used to say, "She wants to be famous when she grows up."
Though the families of the four children are rejoicing and surely so are the children, one might wonder if the families of the winners haven't condemned the children to a life of downhill tumbling. After all, if you were the cutest kid in the world (or at least the one that conformed most closely to the Gap aesthetic) at age three, it really only descends from there. Also, the winners get a year of free clothing from Baby or Kids Gap which will be of use to them for approximately one year before they outgrow their garments. And then they'll be five and squeezing into too small cardigans in a vain attempt to recapture the past and their fleeting infant moment in the sun.
Believe it or not, the courtroom saga of Britney Spears’ custody battle isn’t even close to being over. This time, child welfare investigators are stepping in.
The Department of Children and Family Services is looking into “multiple child abuse and neglect allegations” against the “Toxic” singer. Yesterday, court documents were released that confirmed the investigatory status.
Some celebrity mothers would rather concentrate on their parenting role than an acting gig. But Amanda Peet says she’s not one of them.
The “Igby Goes Down” actress says that despite the birth of her 8-month-old daughter, she still plans to pursue her acting career.
Our story so far: Kurt Eichenwald wrote some stories for the Times a while back (then he left the paper and went to Portfolio then left that mag!) about all the pedophiles on the internet and their multi-zillion-dollar-a-year business selling child porn and exploiting kids. And, well, beyond feeding the current "your children are at risk!" hysteria, some of his methods were kinda creepy and weird? Like donating money to his source before he was a source (a pornographer that he helped "free" from the kid's own porn ring) than he revealed to the Times, and, uh, also signing up for "an illegal porn website as a member and administrator." When asked why he didn't disclose any of this, he claimed to not remember the PayPal payments. Sketchy! Except that Kurt's finally going on NPR today to make everything about this story even more uncomfortable and terrible. Because his epilepsy has become so severe that, "according to his neurologist, he suffers from 'significant memory disruptions.'"
Great! One more reason to not want to write about this! It's just much more comfortable leave this story to Daniel Radosh and anti-Eichenwald crusader Debbie Nathan.
Did Eichenwald's editors know how much his memory had deteriorated? The New York Times' own stories on the story don't seem to indicate that anyone was too sympathetic to his "I forgot" defense before these revelations.
But yeah, now Eichenwald's credibility and reporting methods are at the heart of the cases against two child pornographers currently on trial—so we all get to take sides between a reporter who can only remember what he documents at the moment he's doing it and people who may or may not have had sex with children. Ugh.
Former 'Times' Reporter Reveals Secret [NPR]