Hollywood Scandals and Hollywood Gossip

It has been officially confirmed that the Owen Wilson suicide attempt was no rumor and that the troubled actor did in fact try to take his own life on Sunday. According to the Calls for Service report of Santa Monica County, California, a 911 call was made from Owen Wilson’s residence at 12:08 pm. The official categorization that the call was classified under was “attempted suicide.” According to multiple reports, Wilson was found by his brother in a “semi-conscious state” and was immediately transported to St. John’s hospital in Santa Monica, California. After receiving initial treatment for his condition, Wilson was transferred to the popular and seemingly celeb-friendly Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Beverly Hills

Sending a public statement to the press on Monday, the day after he was initially hospitalized, Owen Wilson said, “I respectfully ask that the media allow me to receive care and heal in private during this difficult time.”

In the past few days, there have been new developments in Owen Wilson’s attempted suicide scandal that support the claim that Wilson may suffer from an alleged major drug addiction problem. As of now, reports are saying that Owen Wilson cut both of his wrists and took a potentially lethal cocktail of prescription and possibly illegal drugs. According to gossip blogger Perez Hilton, Wilson may have taken a deadly combination of OxyContin and crystal meth. The Daily Mail reports that Owen Wilson is fighting a very serious addiction to heroin and cocaine.
katehudsonbig2808_468×459.jpgIn fact, there is much speculation that this addiction was the source of his highly publicized break up with actress Kate Hudson near the very end of last year. Could the painful break up be the trigger for his attempted suicide? It certainly seems possible. Since the break up, it has been rumored that Owen Wilson has been battling a serious depression and the very recent publication of Kate Hudson with her new boyfriend Dax Shepherd may have been the thing that completely pushed Wilson to the very edge.

It has also been rumored that a very serious argument with a close friend may have been an additional factor which caused Wilson to attempt to kill himself. However, as of yet, these rumors have remained unaddressed by Owen Wilson, his brothers, and their representation.

Once again, the scandals of drug-addiction, depression, and fame have taken their toll on a talented and well-loved actor. We wish him luck in his recovery.

Amy Winehouse, the huge-haired singer of this summer’s hit “Rehab,” was photographed with her new husband Blake Fielder-Civil at approximately 3:00 am last Thursday morning with blood and bruises covering her emaciated frame. Earliest reports stated that Winehouse and her husband, both notorious drug users, had gotten into a fight which resulted in Winehouse running out of her swanky hotel room. Guests in neighboring rooms had heard screaming and large crashes of furniture before Amy was seen running to the elevator, and later out into the street with Blake chasing closely after her. The pictures which have been published show the couple walking together and can’t quite convey the chaos which seems to have taken place that night.

amy_beat10_xposure_full.jpgLater on Thursday, Amy personally sent text messages to celebrity gossip blogger Perez Hilton who reported that Amy admitted that the fight was her own fault and that her husband Blake had saved her life. She stated, “I was cutting myself after he found me in our room about to do drugs with a call girl and rightly said I wasn’t good enough for him. I lost it…” Amy has also maintained that Blake has never hurt her, but has actually saved her life many times. Apparently the drug-fueled fight ended with the parents of both Amy and Blake traveling to the hotel the next day after the couple had made up in order to sort out what actually happened and probably to try to convince the couple to return to rehab as well. Though Amy claims Blake is a positive influence in her life, there are many reports from her long-time friends who state that since meeting Blake, Amy has only spiraled further out of control in her addictions.

amy_beat15_xposure_full.jpgThe couple is no stranger to controversy as they have continuously checked in and out of rehab several times over the summer. Amy Winehouse has also raised eyebrows due to the now common knowledge that she is addicted to both heroin and crack, but has also admitted to abusing other drugs such as marijuana and alcohol. In fact, some of Amy’s earliest appearances shown in the United States featured her drunk and slurring her words as she sang. Due to these troubles, Amy Winehouse has recently been forced to cancel her upcoming U.S. tour schedule.

The most interesting aspects of this case are the accusations of the driver of the car that Lohan apparently chased while intoxicated which ended at a police station and officers approached the women with their guns drawn. As disgusting and pitiful as Lohan’s behavior is, there is still something grossly comical about her participating in a high speed chase that ended with police officers pointing their guns at her. I’d love to hear the story of the officers when they realized who they were aiming toward.

It appears now that Lohan’s lawyers (including the notably famous attorney Blair Berk) have formulated a plea bargain deal that will allow Lohan to serve a mere one day in jail by pleading no contest to the two counts of DUI that she would have faced at trial. So how does one get only one day in jail for two DUIs? Well, Lindsay’s lawyers managed to convince the judge to cut the minimum sentence of four days to two by requiring her to complete ten days of community service. The sentence was cut to one day because Lindsay was given credit for the time she had already spent in jail. When you hear about other celebs like Nicole Richie spending a mere 82 minutes in jail for a four day sentence due to overcrowding, you wonder whether Lindsay will even have time to be booked into jail before being released.

I think that many of you will agree with my view that Lohan deserves a lot more punishment than she’s getting. If not because no regular citizen could get away with this small amount of punishment for similar actions, then because I think it’s going to take a little more than this to penetrate Lohan’s ignorance and addiction to persuade her to get the help she obviously needs.

Only a few weeks after falling down stairs on stage during one of her live performances in Orlando, Beyonce has unintentionally received a little more additional publicity for an accident that occurred at her show in Toronto at the Air Canada Center earlier in August. As the bootylicious singer was bouncing up and down to the beat of one of her songs during a dance, an unexpected breeze blew the singers gold shirt up, possibly revealing her uncovered breasts. The supposed Beyonce exposure lasted only a mere fraction of a second, making it hard to determine whether Beyonce truly was naked under her top, or if she was wearing a skin-tight flesh-toned bra under her ensemble for the show.

As the second incident in a month, Beyonce seemed pretty prepared to deal with the issue and moved on quickly without lingering over the embarrassment. She did not stop the show and managed to regain her focus on the show very professionally. She did, however, ask members of her audience to refrain from posting videos of the incident online; a request which was ignored by many of her fans.

Soon after the assumed flashing, Beyonce’s public relations team sprung into action sending out the word that Beyonce had in fact been clothed under her costume. They stated that she was actually wearing a flesh-toned bra, as had been theorized, and questioned media outlets by exclaiming, “Do you really think Beyonce would go on stage like that?” We’re skeptical but do agree that the singer, who is not known for any excessively sexual behavior probably was covered with some sort camouflaged under-garment.

Add these facts to the common knowledge that Beyonce’s mother, Tina Knowles, is her wardrobe supervisor, and it becomes hard to believe that the singer would leave herself open to an accidental flashing by not wearing proper underwear. Well, that is, unless she is a closet exhibitionist.

Unfortunately, high quality pictures from Beyonce’s flashing accident have not been posted online, so you will have to be your own judge over whether you think she truly is wearing a flesh-toned bra under her elaborate loose top of her performance costume, or whether she was going bare-breasted. Video footage of the incident has also been posted at various media sites online as well.

On last Friday, August 17, Uncle Kracker was arrested for a second-degree forcible sex offense in Raleigh, North Carolina. He was held at the Wake County Jail. Uncle Kracker, or Matthew Shafer, is most famous for his former position as Kid Rock’s DJ, his hit “Follow Me” from the year 2000, and his famous duet with Kenny Chesney titled “When the Sun Goes Down”.

uncle-kracker.jpgShortly after he was released on $75,000 bail, Uncle Kracker made a statement to PEOPLE which suggests that he views the accusation from a women who was present at a club he also attended as nothing more than an attempt to ruin his reputation simply because he is famous. The statement reads, “It’s regrettable that someone would make this kind of allegation, not only because it’s not the kind of thing I’d do, as the father of three girls, it’s the kind of thing that I wouldn’t stand for. Anyone can say anything about anybody but it doesn’t make it true or correct. This is one of those cases. I’m saddened that anyone might think I’m capable of this sort of thing.” It is currently unknown whether the accusations of his 26-year old accuser are not credible, but as with any accusation of this nature, the accusations have been taken very seriously and will be investigated further by police. According to numerous reports, the woman approached an off-duty police officer stating that Uncle Kracker had committed a sexual act against her while she was inside the club. It is unknown what the exact offense he allegedly committed actually is because police have yet to release that specific information regarding the incident.

The accusing woman’s name was not released but the incident allegedly took place at the Ess Lounge, a nightclub where he had performed on the same night in downtown Raleigh, on Thursday night. However, Uncle Kracker was not arrested until hours later on early Friday morning, at approximately 4:45 a.m. according to TMZ.com, at the hotel he was staying in which was the Embassy Suites hotel. TMZ also reported that police officers had viewed Uncle Kracker as a flight risk because he had stated that he would fly immediately back to his home state of Michigan in order to escape the woman’s accusations and charges.

You may remember a few months ago when there was a huge rumor pervading the celeb gossip world that pictures of Nick Lachey and his girlfriend Vanessa Minnillo had been taken by freelance paparazzi through Fame Pictures which depicted the two lovebirds in some quite compromising positions during their vacation in Mexico. The most shocking of the Lachey/Minnillo sex pictures is a photo of the couple having sex in an outdoor hot tub at their private villa in Mexico as well as a few completely nude Vanessa Minnillo photos. Luckily, the savvy couple managed to wheel and deal with OK! Magazine by accepting to do an exclusive interview about their relationship as long as OK! Could provide the capital to purchase the more raunchy pictures of Nick and Vanessa and keep them under wraps for good. Well, at least that was the original plan. However, anyone knows that once celebrity sex photos are known to exist, they won’t remain a secret for very long.

Some of the terms of the interview with OK! Magazine were that the couple had to address the issue of the scandalous sex pictures. When being interviewed about their lack of privacy by OK!, Nick claimed that he and Vanessa had done no wrongdoing by having sex in a visible public location. He also made the following point during the same interview: “I was in Mexico with my girlfriend celebrating our first anniversary together on a private vacation. It’s not like I was caught with a Mexican hooker. We’ve all gone out and had a few too many and done something stupid. We’ve all made mistakes.” This mistake is turning out to have been a colossal one for the couple.

Unfortunately for Nick and Vanessa, their cover over this mistake has been blown and the pictures have been leaked for all to see. First, Life &Style and Australian magazine Famous, printed the risqué, but not the worst of the sex pics. However, Spanish publication Toxic Magazine has printed uncensored pictures of the couple which depict Vanessa Minnillo fully naked and probably a lot hairier than you would expect for a former beauty queen. Maybe from now on she has learned not to take such long breaks from getting waxed… and oh yeah, and not to have sex in view of cameras outdoors when you’re a celebrity!

Anna Nicole Smith’s death was shrouded in mystery and reeked of a scandal, but it seems that now, things are beginning to straighten out for those who know her the best. Howard K. Stern, Anna’s lawyer and later, unofficial husband, has decided to spend as much time in the Bahamas as possible in order to be near the remains of Anna and her son Daniel who died only a few short months before his mother.

While many fans have drawn parallels between the lives of Anna Nicole and another famous blonde, Marilyn Monroe, Stern points out that Anna Nicole felt that way as well. Stern said that Daniel was Anna Nicole’s entire reason for living, which was the one thing she thought separated herself from Monroe, and thought would ultimately save her from an early death. Unfortunately, her plans failed after Daniel died and her reason for living was gone. Anna Nicole would die a short time later of complications which resulted from drug interactions.

The baby daughter named Danielynn who Anna Nicole gave birth to shortly before her own untimely death is now living with paternal father Larry Birkhead. The paternity battle between Birkhead and Stern was finally settled upon the use of a DNA test to establish true paternity. Despite losing the paternity case, Stern was congenial about Birkhead’s new role as father to baby Danielynn whom Stern had been treating as his own child.

It seems that there are only two scandals left in this story. The first is the still unanswered question of the money and who will get it. Anna Nicole was in litigation with the son of her billionaire ex-husband, whom she says promised her a hefty inheritance of millions of dollars after his death. A complex case, it will likely be several years before any significant gains are made in establishing the true heir to the money at stake in the inheritance battle.

The other controversial scandal relates to a South Carolina businessman named G. Ben Thompson who Stern states, broke into Anna Nicole’s home in the Bahamas on the day after her death. Thompson, a friend of Anna Nicole’s and some say legal owner of the house there, maintains that he was collecting objects for safe-keeping and the hearing date is set for August 28, 2007.

Recently, Pamela Anderson jokingly said that Tommy Lee had tricked her into doing the now legendary and granddaddy of all celebrity sex tapes. It’s titled “Pam and Tommy Lee: Stolen Honeymoon” and features Pamela Anderson of Baywatch fame and Tommy Lee of the rock band Motley Crue. It was allegedly stolen from their home in 1997 and released by the Internet Entertainment Group of Seattle. Like many other celebrities, the couple decided to settle out of the courtroom in exchange for a percentage of the tape’s profits.

The tape has easily sold over 600,000 copies and has become the sex tape of mythic proportions for many adolescents around the world. If you haven’t seen it, part of the tape is shot on their honeymoon, in a car, on a private boat, and in a trailer.

The sex scenes are fairly brief but the size of the star is one of the main draws to this classic sex tape. The cinematography is lacking, obviously for a homemade tape, but it provides a deep look into the love of two intriguing celebrities. However, unlike your stereotypical porno, this celebrity sex tape is more like a home video than a sex marathon.

Some critics of the Pam and Tommy sex tape have stated that the sex is bland and boring, but don’t forget it wasn’t made for public viewing so the angles and zooms are not quite up to par with what you may be used to as a porn-watcher.

Just a few weeks ago, Pamela Anderson reasserted her claim that she had been tricked into performing on the explicit sex tape while being interviewed on the Tom Green internet talk show. She stated that the best way to break into the porn business was to “date a rock star” and that “when they say there’s no film in the camera, there really is.”

She also stated that her 9 and 11 year old sons were told about the sex tape recently because they wanted to see her latest movie: “Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.” Clips of the video are played in the film and Pam had to explain the fact that the tape was famous to her young adolescent children. Not a fun task, for sure.

Paris Hilton’s sex tape was one of those things that you always knew was coming; it was just a matter of when. The hard-partying heiress unwittingly played part in what would become an award winning sex tape. It has been distributed as “1 Night in Paris” and won multiple recognitions through the AVN Awards. It took home the top prizes for the following categories: “Best Selling Title of the Year,” “Best Overall Marketing Campaign: Individual Project,” and “Best Renting Title of the Year.” So far it has sold a whopping 600,000 copies and been downloaded countless times.

That said, the Paris Hilton sex tape is often ridiculed for the simple fact that during the shooting, Paris is well… acting like Paris. She answers her phone during the recording and also poses constantly for the camera with dark almost kohl-rimmed eyes. The quality of the initial sex tape was very grainy due to the poor quality night vision camera recording technique and was off-putting to some viewers who wanted to see a little more. For that reason Rick Salomon, the boyfriend featured in the tape, signed a distribution deal with Red Light District Video which led to the development of a much better quality edited dvd which would come to be known as “1 Night in Paris.” Initially, Salomon claimed that his roommate had stole the Paris sex tape to sell, but as he became more and more invested in the business aspect of the sex tape, it became apparent that perhaps that was not quite true. Saloman also claims to own online casinos and the peddling of sex tapes is a popular side job for entrepreneurs in the gambling business.

Paris sued Red Light Video in an attempt to halt distribution of the video; an attempt which was unsuccessful. It is rumored that she received a fairly large settlement of $400,000 in addition to a percentage of the sales for each copy of “1 Night in Paris.” It’s never been officially proven, but it does seem that something kept Paris from pursuing further legal action against Red Light Video. It might have even been the right choice. Since then, her career has continued to expand and she’s easily known worldwide, despite her numerous poor choices which have landed her in trouble prior to and since the sex tape incident.