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One of the former contestants on Bravo’s second season of the hit reality show “Top Chef” fell victim to a hate crime which was prompted by her sexual orientation. Josie Smith-Malave, originally from Miami, is openly gay. She was the former sous chef for Marlow and Sons Restaurant and has also played football for the New York Sharks of the Independent Woman’s Football League.
She was with a small group of two other women in a fairly affluent area of Long Island, New York, when they were asked to leave from Partner’s Bar in Sea Cliff over the Labor Day weekend after two of the women began to dance. The response of the other patrons in the bar is what prompted employees to escort the women out one of the side doors of the establishment. The women left willingly. The group included Smith-Malave, her straight sister, and another companion. As they were leaving, a group of approximately ten to twelve people described as “young adults” followed them out and began to make anti-gay remarks, spitting at the women, throwing debris at them, and finally beating them. At this time there is no additional information about the identities of the attackers. All three women were bruised and slightly injured in the attack, a camera was stolen, and one of the women received minor head injuries from the blows sustained from the attackers punches.
The police force of Nassau County is investigating the incident, but has not released additional details of the attack to the media at this time. It is known that no arrests were made at the scene of the crime, even though some of the attackers are rumored to have remained inside the bar after police were summoned. This lack of action has already started to draw criticism. Smith-Malave’s attorney Yetta Kurland has already stated that she will have the incident investigated specifically as a hate crime. Hopefully, these attackers will be brought to justice as soon as a more thorough investigation can take place.
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Okay, so we really thought this story had died, but apparently we were wrong because there are new shocking allegations that surpass everything we’ve heard up until now. It all stems from the publication buzz for another book about Anna Nicole by journalist Rita Cosby. It’s titled Blonde Ambition: The Untold Story Behind Anna Nicole Smith’s Death. Rita Cosby was scheduled to speak with Matt Lauer on the Today Show this morning, but producers removed the interview after receiving legal threats from Howard Stern’s attorney.
Some of the suspicious facts uncovered in Rita Cosby’s book include:
1) What exactly was found in the hospital room where Anna Nicole’s son Daniel died.
2) The new story of Anna Nicole’s body guard and his wife regarding the sequence of events leading up to her death.
3) A detailed account of all of the prescriptions Anna Nicole had been prescribed.
4) The true number of emergency calls placed between occupants of Anna Nicole’s room and the hospital staff.
5) Hotel surveillance footage.
6) Conversations that Rita Cosby had with Larry Birkhead and his former attorney Debra Opri
However, the most shocking of all of the allegations to come to light thanks to this book is that it claims that…
Howard Stern and Larry Birkhead were GAY LOVERS!
According to reports, Cosby’s book details a situation which is said to have been witnessed by a reliable friend of Anna Nicole’s in which Howard and Larry were caught pants-down engaging with each other in oral sex. Apparently, Anna Nicole enjoyed watching video of the two, and the New York Daily News has confirmed that video proof of the sexual affair still exists. The reports also state that Anna Nicole only chose to have a baby with Larry Birkhead because she wanted a blonde-haired and blue-eyed baby.
These specifics are rumored to be the shocking pieces of evidence which caused OK! Magazine to cancel their exclusive deal with Larry Birkhead to cover stories related to Dannilynn.
The book also goes into Anna Nicole’s prescription drug abuse and blames both Howard Stern and Larry Birkhead for providing drugs to her. With accusations such as these, it becomes pretty likely that the book will also attempt to assign part of the blame of the death of Anna Nicole and her son Daniel to Howard Stern and Larry Birkhead.
Hopefully, for the sake of poor little Danilynn this mess will eventually get settled once and for all.
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This story is more humorous than scandalous, but definitely deserves a mention. Comedian and actor Bill Murray was stopped in Sweden a little over a week ago while driving a gold cart very slowly through downtown Stockholm. Police pulled him over and noticed a strong smell of alcohol and so requested to take his BAC (blood alcohol level) using a breathalyzer machine. Murray refused. Since he refused, Murray was forced to submit to a blood test and the results have yet to be released. He was allowed to skip the breath test in favor of the blood test because he cited the U.S. law which makes such an allowance. The results of the alcohol level blood test are expected to be obtained by the police in Stockholm within two weeks of the date of the incident.
After the incident, Murray returned to the United States, but was first required to sign a document which allows the Swedish police officer to enter a guilty plea for him if the blood test comes back high enough for the prosecution of a DUI in the Swedish court system. Unlike the stiff penalties which have been faced by many celebs within the United States for DUI offenses, Murray would likely only be required to pay a fine. The only way Murray would receive jail time would be if the blood test came back with extremely high blood alcohol content values which the attending officer believes will be quite unlikely. He stated to the media that Murray showed “no obvious signs, like when someone is really tipsy.”
As of yet, there have been no confirmations of where and how Murray obtained the golf cart. A few reports have stated that Murray took (or borrowed) the golf cart from a display at the hotel where he was staying during his trip. However, it is not illegal to drive golf carts on Stockholm’s public roads, but according to one of the police officers, it’s not really a very common thing to do. The strange situation has been featured on various news programming as an entertainment feature, including the vh1 show, Best Week Ever.
Murray is most famous for his stint on Saturday Night Live as well as his Oscar nomination for the critically acclaimed film with Scarlett Johansson, Lost in Translation.
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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.
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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.
