JT Leroy – Laura Albert Nude Playboy Photos

Laura Albert, aka “JT Leroy,” would pose for Playboy if they actually, you know, offered her some money.

“JT Leroy” is ready to get naked. Laura Albert – the curvy literary hoaxer who wrote best-selling books under the fictional guise of Leroy, the supposed son of a truck-stop hooker – says she’d be willing to bare it all for a spread in Playboy. “I would really dig it,” she told Page Six. Playboy had no immediate comment on whether it will make an offer to Albert, 41, who just lost a $116,500 court battle with a film company that accused her of fraud.

Somehow, I can’t imagine this ugly skank is going to wind up in Playboy.

I know I wouldn’t buy it. Not that I buy Playboy or anything. Not with the Internet making plenty of nude pics of hot women available for free. But I wouldn’t download it, either. I wouldn’t even Google for “JT Leroy – Laura Albert Nude Playboy Photos” out of curiosity.

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Brittany Murphy – Stalked?

Brittany Murphy fears she is being stalked by a “high-powered Hollywood player.” She even claims that Simon Monjack, now her hubby, disappeared for 10 days in April because he had been kidnapped by agents of the player.

Although “he had head injuries … was pale and sometimes had trouble standing” when he got back, the strange “disappearance” magically coincides with dates the National Enquirer says Monjack was jailed by U.S. immigration for overstaying his visa. Still, the source says Brittany couldn’t pay him because she had paid ransom.

If true, that would be scary. But what kind of “high-powered Hollywood player” needs to kidnap for ransom money? I’m calling BS on the stalker story, mostly because Monjack sounds a little shady.

Remember when Us Weekly told us that he has two warrants for his arrest in Virginia for alleged credit-card theft and fraud, an unpaid $6,087 legal bill, and a $502,910 judgment against him by a British investment firm? And he bought a cubic zirconia engagement ring for his last fiancee, but told her it was real. Will the real slim shady please stand up? Um, Simon, that’s you.

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Herman Munster Has His Identity Stolen

Did Internet thieves steal Herman Munster‘s MasterCard number? Those silly little fools!

Crooks in an underground chat room for selling stolen credit card numbers and personal consumer information offered pilfered data purportedly about Herman Munster, the 1960s Frankenstein-like character from “The Munsters” TV sitcom.

The thieves apparently didn’t realize Munster was a fictional TV character and dutifully offered to sell Munster’s personal details – accurately listing his home address from the television series as 1313 Mocking Bird Lane – and what appeared to be his MasterCard number. Munster’s birth date was listed as Aug. 15, 1964, suspiciously close to the TV series’ original air date in September 1964.

CardCops Inc., the Malibu, Calif., Internet security company that quietly recorded details of the illicit but wayward transaction, surmised that a Munsters fan knowledgeable about the show deliberately provided the bogus data.

“The identity thief thought it was good data,” said Dan Clements, the company’s president.

Clements said evidence indicates the thief, known online as “Supra,” was operating overseas. “They really stumble over our culture. He’s probably not watching any reruns of `The Munsters’ on TV Land.”

Herman Munster was portrayed by Fred Gwynne, who died in July 1993.

“Phishing” thieves often trick consumers into revealing financial secrets by sending e-mail requests that appear to originate from banks. A consumer’s financial details can be worth $4 and $40 among online thieves, who can use the information to open fraudulent credit accounts.

CardCops eavesdrops on conversations among thieves in underground Internet chat rooms to monitor for stolen credit card numbers being sold or traded. It offers monitoring services to alert consumers whose information is compromised by hackers.

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Lou Pearlman, Numerous Lawsuits Force Auction

Was your daughter an ‘N Sync fan? Could you use some new office supplies? How about 80,000 microphones? What about a human-sized “Felix the Cat” statue?

Thousands of items that once belonged to Lou Pearlman — the one-time Orlando-based music mogul who’s now the target of numerous lawsuits — are going on the auction block Tuesday as officials work to liquidate the remaining assets he left behind.

Framed posters of teen heartthrobs such as the Backstreet Boys are among the items on the auction block as creditors liquidate the assets of boy-band impresario Lou Pearlman.

Pearlman, a New York native who moved to Orlando in 1990, conjured multi-platinum success by piecing together boy bands such as the Backstreet Boys and ‘N Sync in the 1990s. He claims to have made nearly $2 billion in retail music sales.

His belongings were set to be sold Tuesday to compensate banks he allegedly owes more than $130 million, and about 1,000 investors he allegedly defrauded of $317 million.

Items to be sold also include a key to the city of Orlando, gold and platinum records, artwork, high-end furniture, office supplies and restaurant equipment.

The auction was to be held at Pearlman’s downtown Orlando office and two warehouses he once owned.

Authorities say they don’t know Pearlman’s whereabouts, and a blizzard of lawsuits has risen against him from banks and individual investors.

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Jordin Sparks, Your New American Idol!

Some people are calling “Fraud”, what do you think?

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American Idol Winner – Jordin Sparks or Blake Lewis? Singing or Style?

After yet another season of “American Idol,” it all comes down to tonight’s show. Will Jordin Sparks or Blake Lewis take home the trophy? It depends on whether the voters prefer the best singer or the best performer.

The “American Idol” season finale is tonight with Jordin Sparks and Blake Lewis the last contestants standing.

Before the third and last song of last night, the “American Idol” judges were of a mind that the title still was up for grabs — and then Jordin Sparks, all of 17, blew everyone away.

Simon Cowell and Co. — who have no vote in deciding whether Sparks or rival Blake Lewis, 25, ends up the winner — couldn’t contain themselves. “You were the best singer tonight. You deserve it all, baby!” Randy Jackson gushed Tuesday. “You just wiped the floor with Blake,” added Cowell, who then told Sparks he was wrong for initially thinking she wasn’t good enough to win the Fox talent show. “I would say the best individual performance of the night was Blake on the first song,” Cowell said. “But, based on overall singing — Jordin.”

After the two “Idol” finalists took their last turns on stage, the choice facing viewer voters was crystallized: the most talented singer or the better entertainer. Sparks, the voice, and Lewis, the stylist, had their legions of fans in a frenzy all night at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood.

Lewis, of Bothell, Wash., opened the show with a reprisal of his infectious interpretation of Bon Jovi’s “You Give Love a Bad Name.” The crowd was delirious but the judges were less impressed by Lewis’ voice than his performance as a whole. “Blake, you’re not the best singer in this competition. But you’re the best entertainer I think we’ve had,” Cowell said.

Usually, that’s what wins. That’s what sells, too. There are better singers in church and high choirs all over the country than on the Top 40.

Source: American Idol winner to be named tonight (AP/YahooNews)

UPDATE (Allie): American Idol Watchers are screaming FRAUD, as you can see in the video… and in the comments section below.

What do you think, … fraud?

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Olivia Mojica Sex Tape Video and Photos – ‘Hardcore Idol’

Former “American Idol” contestant Olivia Mojica made a sex tape a month ago and it’ll soon be coming to a video store near you.

TMZ has the details:

It’s official: The sex tape featuring an “American Idol” castoff is real … real dirty.

TMZ has obtained the exclusive first images of the shocking video, featuring Season Two contestant Olivia Mojica. Here’s one pair of lungs Simon won’t dis!

The video, which Mojica made with her boyfriend a month ago in her New York City apartment, is set to hit shelves on May 3, courtesy of Vivid Entertainment, the adult entertainment company behind Kim Kardashian’s X-rated romp. Vivid is currently hosting the uncut trailer at hardcoreidol.com.

Reps for Vivid, who claim they obtained the footage through an unidentified third party, are currently trying to contact Mojica to see if she will help promote the video and share in revenue from its sale.

Click here for the video. Egotastic has saved a copy, too, in case that one goes away.

Derek Hail is very enthusiastic: “The Olivia Mojica sex tape is real and is as raunchy as all the hype suggested. In what seems like the dirtiest sex tape I have ever viewed the preview of, Olivia puts Kim Kardashian’s sex tape and Keeley Hazell’s sex tape to shame. It’s much dirtier and probably a lot more entertaining.”

Vivid Video agrees!

OLIVIA MOJICA MAKES HISTORY AS FIRST “AMERICAN IDOL” CONTESTANT TO GO HARDCORE

Beautiful brunette singer Olivia Mojica just missed becoming a finalist on “American Idol” but she will now show she can go all the way in another field – the first contestant on the show to make a hardcore sex video.

A Texas native, the vivacious, green-eyed Mojica is the latest celebrity to see a video she recently made with her boyfriend find its way into the public arena and get broad distribution from Vivid Entertainment, the world’s leading adult film company. The DVD is titled “Hardcore Idol” and preview footage is available to view at www.hardcoreidol.com. The DVD will be in stores across the country on May 3rd. Vivid is the same firm that is currently distributing the blockbuster sex video made by sultry socialite Kim Kardashian and R&B artist Ray J.

“We have a great combination here.” ‘American Idol’ may be the most popular show in the history of television. Olivia is really cute, the sex is really hot and there is much controversy surrounding the show.” said Steven Hirsch, co-chairman of Vivid. “If she was in the adult business, she would be an instant superstar.”

Mojica was ranked as one of the “best of the rest” in the second season of the wildly popular Fox TV show “American Idol,” when she was just 18. She performed last on March 3, 2003, singing “Because You Loved Me” made popular by Celine Dion, but lost out to a field that included Ruben Studdard, Corey Clark and Clay Aiken. She is currently singing at clubs and other venues across the country as well as working on a full length album which is expected to be in stores nationwide in the first quarter of 2008.

The video, which Mojica made with her boyfriend Adam Roberts, a month ago in her New York City apartment, was obtained by Vivid from an unidentified third party. Vivid is currently trying to contact Mojica to see if she will help promote the video and share in revenue from its sale.

A bit of scandal seems to surround the “American Idol” show each season. This year it to revolves around Sanjaya Malakar who may be getting votes generated by Howard Stern, despite of his lack of singing ability. Olivia Mojica’s role in the show’s history is bound to be noted as well.

Thank God this isn’t a Ruben Studdard sex tape! I’ll wait for the Kelly Clarkson sex tape.

UPDATE: The Olivia Mojica Sex Tape Video Capture Photo was temporarily removed after someone claiming to be Olivia Mojica filed a fraudulent Digital Millennium Copyright Act notice threatening to sue if her copyrighted image was not removed. OTB Media counter-claim disputing the authenticity of the copyright as well as the fair use right to use a single image from the video as part of our news reporting on the controversy. It has been restored as of this writing.

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Swiss Newspaper Falls for Prankster’s Fake GUCCI Ad

Some people will do anything to appear in the papers. But few have the audacity of a man in Switzerland, who conned one of the country’s biggest media companies into publishing a two-page ad he created of himself posing semi-naked beside a bottle of Gucci perfume. Now this is funny!

The man, who claimed to represent the Italian fashion giant, called up the Swiss weekly SonntagsZeitung last week to book the expensive color spread in Sunday’s edition, a spokesman for the paper said.

Christoph Zimmer told The Associated Press on Tuesday that the man asked for the 60,000-Swiss-franc (about $50,000) bill to be sent to Gucci.

“We’ve spoken to Gucci and apologized for the mistake,” Zimmer said. “We’re going to try and get the money back from this guy, but we don’t rate our chances.”

The Milan, Italy-based Gucci could not be reached for comment.

Zimmer said the paper fell for the scam because the call arrived too late for the advertising department to check whether it was genuine.

It wasn’t the first time that the mysterious model — a dark, handsome man appearing to be in his late 20s — tried to sneak his way into the limelight.

According to the Zurich-based daily Blick, the man attempted to book concert venues by passing himself off as Puerto Rican singer Chayanne. The paper said it narrowly avoided also being conned, but was tipped of the hoax by record company Sony BMG, which represents Chayanne.

The man is under investigation for alleged fraud, said Meinrad Stoecklin, a spokesman for police in the canton (state) of Basel.

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Dr. Gillian McKeith Barred from Calling Self ‘Doctor’

Scottish diet book guru Gillian McKeith has agreed to stop calling herself “Dr.” after being sued for misrepresentation.

Ben Goldacre explains:

Call her the Awful Poo Lady, call her Dr Gillian McKeith PhD: she is an empire, a multi-millionaire, a phenomenon, a prime-time TV celebrity, a bestselling author. She has her own range of foods and mysterious powders, she has pills to give you an erection, and her face is in every health food store in the country. Scottish Conservative politicians want her to advise the government. The Soil Association gave her a prize for educating the public. And yet, to anyone who knows the slightest bit about science, this woman is a bad joke.

One of those angry nerds took her down this week. A regular from my website badscience.net – I can barely contain my pride – took McKeith to the Advertising Standards Authority, complaining about her using the title “doctor” on the basis of a qualification gained by correspondence course from a non-accredited American college. He won. She may have sidestepped the publication of a damning ASA draft adjudication at the last minute by accepting – “voluntarily” – not to call herself “doctor” in her advertising any more. But would you know it, a copy of that draft adjudication has fallen into our laps, and it concludes that “the claim ‘Dr’ was likely to mislead”. The advert allegedly breached two clauses of the Committee of Advertising Practice code: “substantiation” and “truthfulness”.

Is it petty to take pleasure in this? No. McKeith is a menace to the public understanding of science. She seems to misunderstand not nuances, but the most basic aspects of biology – things that a 14-year-old could put her straight on.

She talks endlessly about chlorophyll, for example: how it’s “high in oxygen” and will “oxygenate your blood” – but chlorophyll will only make oxygen in the presence of light. It’s dark in your intestines, and even if you stuck a searchlight up your bum to prove a point, you probably wouldn’t absorb much oxygen in there, because you don’t have gills in your gut. In fact, neither do fish. In fact, forgive me, but I don’t think you really want oxygen up there, because methane fart gas mixed with oxygen is a potentially explosive combination.

Future generations will look back on this phenomenon with astonishment. Channel 4, let’s not forget, branded her very strongly, from the start, as a “clinical nutritionist”. She was Dr Gillian McKeith PhD, appearing on television every week, interpreting blood tests, and examining patients who had earlier had irrigation equipment stuck right up into their rectums. She was “Dr McKeith”, “the diet doctor”, giving diagnoses, talking knowledgeably about treatment, with complex scientific terminology, and all the authority her white coat and laboratory setting could muster.

As a general rule, anyone who simultaneously uses the prefix “Dr.” and puts their degree (PhD, MD) after their name is a fraud.

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Jay-Z Accused of “Faux Fur” Fraud

Seriously… do you think Jay-Z even knew that dog fur was being used?

A jacket from Jigga’s clothing line, Rocawear, allegedly has dog fur in its collar, even though it’s advertised as having fake fur. According to an investigation by The Humane Society of the United States, the Hunter jacket on Rocawear.com contains real fur from a raccoon dog, a dog indigenous to Asia that The Humane Society claims are skinned alive for the coats, hence the uproar.

As of today, the $265 coat was still a “featured” item on the Rocawear website. Late last year, a similar investigation found that raccoon dog fur was being used in a coat in rap mogul P. Diddy’s “Sean John” collection; that item was removed from stores within a few days.

Reps for Jay-Z and Rocawear could not immediately be reached for comment. The Humane Society said that it informed the company of the issue a week ago, but that they’ve taken no action.

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Director Tim Burton’s Ex Sues Him for Fraud

Director Tim Burton has been sued for fraud by his former lover, Lisa Marie, according to court documents.

In a suit filed Wednesday in Los Angeles Superior Court, Marie, who describes herself as an actress, model, artist, writer and photographer, claims that Burton owes her palimony from their 10-year relationship, and that after their split she’d settled for a lesser amount under false pretenses. TMZ.com was first to report the suit.

She says she and the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory director, 48, began dating beginning around December 1991, and that when they began living together they agreed to combine their earnings, with Marie serving as Burton’s personal manager. She also says Burton promised to support her for the rest of her life.

In August 2001, Burton abruptly ended their relationship, news that the court papers call “totally unexpected” and which made Marie “extremely depressed and emotionally unstable for months thereafter.”

Around the same time, Burton began dating actress Helena Bonham Carter, 40, whom he met while directing her in 2001′s Planet of the Apes. They now have a son together, Billy-Ray Burton, 3.

Marie claims that after Burton left her, his associates, claiming they were acting on her behalf, conspired with Burton to fraudulently convince her that she had little chance of winning a palimony claim. Burton even held secret talks with one of her close friends, a woman named Cherry Vanilla, in a plot to convince Marie to settle.

As a result, she accepted a settlement of their Fifth Avenue apartment in New York City and a Jaguar. She now wants to rescind the settlement agreement and is seeking unspecified damages.

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Wesley Snipes Pleads Not Guilty in Tax Case

Wesley Snipes was released on $1 million bond after pleading not guilty to federal charges including falsely claiming millions of dollars in tax refunds, two months after he was indicted in central Florida.

The actor, known for films such as the “Blade” trilogy, didn’t speak at a court appearance in Ocala on Friday. He went there after arriving in Orlando on a private jet from the African nation of Namibia, where he was filming “Gallow Walker,” his publicist said.

“I look forward to clearing my name and resolving this issue posthaste,” Snipes, wearing blue tinted glasses and a suit, said after the hearing. He didn’t comment further.

Snipes, 44, was charged in October with fraudulently claiming refunds totaling nearly $12 million in 1996 and 1997 on income taxes already paid. He was also charged with failure to file returns from 1999 through 2004. If convicted, he faces up to 16 years in prison.

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Wesley Snipes is a Very Bad Boy!

It’s not bad enough that Wesley Snipes got nailed for a forged passport back in 2005; Now the dude is skipping tax returns for the past six years! WOW! This one is gonna hurt!

Off the record…One of my favorite movies that he was in was “Too Wong Foo”. [heh]

Actor Wesley Snipes has been indicted on eight counts of tax fraud after allegedly failing to pay nearly $12 million in taxes and failing to file tax returns for six years.

Federal prosecutors in Tampa said Snipes’ fraudulently claimed refunds in 1996 and 1997 on taxes already paid and then failed to file returns between 1999 and 2004.

Each count carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison.
In 2002, the Justice Department sued a Florida tax preparer who it said filed bogus tax refund claims, including a $7 million demand for Snipes.

Snipes is the star of the “Blade” trilogy as well as films such as Spike Lee’s “Jungle Fever” and the 1992 blockbuster, “White Men Can’t Jump.”

In 2005, South Africa refused to admit him after officials said he tried to enter the country with a forged passport. source

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American Idol Ruben Studdard Wins $2 Million Lawsuit

American Idol winner Ruben Studdard won a $2 million lawsuit against his ex-manager.

American Idol winner Ruben Studdard has been awarded $2 million in his lawsuit against his ex-manager for misappropriating the singer’s money and credit cards. Studdard, 26, of Birmingham, won the television talent show in 2003 and filed suit last year against ex-manager Ronald W. Edwards and Edwards’ promotions company, Sez Inc.

Jefferson County Circuit Judge Scott Vowell on Thursday awarded Studdard $500,000 for his actual losses and another $1.5 million in punitive damages, The Birmingham News reported Thursday on its Web site. Vowell dismissed Edwards’ promotions company from the suit because it was bankrupt and had no assets. Edwards filed a petition for Chapter 7 bankruptcy on June 17, 2005.

The suit claimed Edwards misused more than $246,000 of the singer’s money. According to the judge’s ruling, Edwards took money from Studdard’s checking and other bank accounts, improperly used his credit cards and even used Studdard’s money to repay a $10,000 bank loan. Studdard has sold more than 2.2 million records, but the damage to his credit because of the fraud made it hard to obtain financing to buy a home, Vowell’s order said.

The bizarre thing is that Studdard would have probably been glad to loan the guy some money. And you’d sure think a piece of Ruben Studdard’s contracts would be enough to get by on.

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