E! has just released their World’s Sexiest Woman in the World List and they’ve placed Victoria’s Secret supermodel Karolina Kurkova as the number one sexiest woman.
The list breaks down like this:
1. Karolina Kurkova
2. Bar Rafaeli
3. Angelina Jolie
4. Gisele Bundchen
5. Scarlett Johansson
6. Adriana Lima
7. Heidi Klum
8. Penelope Cruz
9. Manuela Arcuri
10. Shakira
Out of the whole list only two women from the United States ranked in the top 10.
Miley Cyrus at the tender age of 15 earned $18.2 million last year, according to Parade magazine’s annual “What People Earn” issue.
Oprah is the biggest bread winner in the celebrity realm. She took in $260 million last year.
And the most humorous goes to, Jessica Alba. Even Leona Helmsley’s dog made more than her!
• Miley Cyrus: $18.2 million
• Katherine Heigl: $11 million
• Jessica Alba: $9 million
• Dr. Phil McGraw: $90 million
• Steven Spielberg: $110 million
• Ryan Seacrest: $12 million
• Mariska Hargitay: $7 million
• Trouble (Leona Helmsley’s dog): $12 million
• Tiger Woods: $115 million
• Jeff Foxworthy: $10 million
• Oprah Winfrey: $260 million
• Mary-Kate Olsen: $17 million
• Gisele Bundchen: $33 million
• Scarlett Johansson: $5 million
• Eli Manning: $11.5 million
• 50 Cent: $33 million
• Carrie Underwood: $7 million
How much did you make?
source: How Much Money Did Singer Miley Cyrus Earn Last Year? [us magazine]
A photograph of former model and current First Lady of France, Carla Bruni, sold for $91,000 at Christie’s auction house yesterday.
A topless photo of willowy model-turned-French First Lady Carla Bruni sold for almost six figures Thursday after a furious bidding war erupted at Christie’s auction house.
“There was a protracted bidding battle, on the phone, on the Internet and in the room,” said Rik Pike of Christie’s.
Still, the bare-breasted Bruni pic by photographer Michel Comte couldn’t compete with Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bundchen - or even old-school starlet Brigitte Bardot.
A famed prewardrobe-malfunction shot of Janet Jackson that graced the cover of Rolling Stone sold for just $10,000.
The highest price of the day was $241,000 for a photo of four models titled “Naked and Dressed.”
The 135 pix on the block came from the collection of Gert Elfering, who voraciously bought up iconic images of gorgeous women, especially in their birthday suits.
The 1993 glamour shot of a pert Bruni was taken in her supermodel prime. The shot, in which she covers only her most private part, was expected to draw a measly $3,000.
source: Nude photo of French first lady sells in New York for $91,000 [ny daily news]
There just might be footage of the former Victoria Secret queen and the Patriots golden boy in the throws of passion. Philippe on East 60th street, a Chinese cuisine restaurant, has allegedly caught the couple on tape.
Security cameras in the wine cellar have reportedly caught Tom and Gielse along with Puff Daddy and Sienna Miller chatting in the VIP area.
“They get a kick out of it, they laugh and comment on people,” said our source. “Only a small circle of staffers there [knows] what’s going on.” A rep for Philippe confirmed there are cameras in the private rooms, especially where expensive wine is stored, “for security purposes,” but claimed that “all tapes are deleted.”
I don’t understand why people tape themselves having sex. Unless it will later be used to aid one’s partner in what they are doing wrong….I don’t see the point. Then again….a sex tapeis always a great PR move. Old Gisele must be hurting after her desire to return the Victoria Secret Angel team was denied.
Gisele Bundchen will think twice, before she bets on the New England Patriots and boyfriend Tom Brady again.
Gisele made a bet saying, “If the Pats lose, I’ll run naked though Mid-Town Manhattan.”
Can I get a “Booyah”?
Of course, Gisele has had second thoughts,
It was a mistake and I’m sorry I said it. I don’t know what I could have been thinking — Midtown Manhattan is a parking lot any time of day or night. It’d take 30 minutes just to make it from the Theater District to 34th Street. And what if I ran into the Naked Cowboy and had to pose for pictures with every out-of-town Tom, Dick and Harry? Tack on another 30 minutes, easily.
How ’bout I simply flashed my breasts from a billboard in Times Square and call it a day … will that work?
Let the conspiracy theory begin… THE PATRIOTS THREW THE GAME!!
Even Patriots coach, Bill Belicheck was torn over the thought that winning the Superbowl would mean not getting to see Gisele in the buff saying,
“I’ve seen Gisele in a thong, and trust me, that butt’s tighter than a fine-tuned snare drum.”
source: Bundchen: ‘If the Pats Lose, I’ll Run Naked Through Mid-Town Manhattan’ [cbs sports]
UPDATE: One of the photos in the original was deemed too provocative by one of our advertising partners. It’s now below the fold. Apparently, NSFW.
E! presents the beautiful women who catwalked their way into the big time — and the big bucks, and look at some of the All-Stars- famous faces from another era who still make bank.
Gisele Bündchen is willing to get her pictures taken here and have babies with our quarterbacks, but she won’t take our currency.
The world’s richest model has reportedly reacted in her own way to the sliding value of the US dollar - by refusing to be paid in the currency. Gisele Bündchen is said to be keen to avoid the US currency because of uncertainty over its strength. The Brazilian, thought to have earned about $30m in the year to June, prefers to be paid in euros, her sister and manager told the Bloomberg news agency. However, Ms Bündchen, 27, declined to comment on her pay arrangements.
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According to Brazil’s weekly magazine Veja, when Ms Bündchen signed a deal to represent Pantene hair products, she demanded that the brand owner, Procter & Gamble (P&G), paid her in euros. P&G was reported as saying that it could not comment on details of the contract. There are also reports that she will be paid in euros for a deal with Dolce & Gabanna to promote its The One fragrance.
“Contracts starting now are more attractive in euros because we don’t know what will happen to the dollar,” Patricia Bündchen told Bloomberg.
To be fair, Gisele Bündchen isn’t the only one nervous about the dollar.
Last month, billionaire investor Warren Buffett said that he was not confident about the strength of the dollar. “We are still negative on the dollar relative to most other currencies so we bought stocks in companies that earn their money in other currencies,” he said of his Berkshire Hathaway investment vehicle.
And Jim Rogers, a former investor partner of George Soros, told the BBC that if he was buying currency now it would be the Chinese renminbi, the Japanese yen and the Swiss franc and not the US dollar.
The dollar has slipped amid US interest rate cuts which have been trimmed to 4.5% after standing at 5.25% in September. This means that investors are looking to buy other currencies that will give a higher rate of return.
Sources: “Supermodel ‘rejects dollar pay’” (BBC) and “Supermodel Bundchen Joins Hedge Funds Dumping Dollars” (Bloomberg)
A topless photo of willowy model-turned-French First Lady Carla Bruni sold for almost six figures Thursday after a furious bidding war erupted at Christie’s auction house.
“They get a kick out of it, they laugh and comment on people,” said our source. “Only a small circle of staffers there [knows] what’s going on.” A rep for Philippe confirmed there are cameras in the private rooms, especially where expensive wine is stored, “for security purposes,” but claimed that “all tapes are deleted.”
It was a mistake and I’m sorry I said it. I don’t know what I could have been thinking — Midtown Manhattan is a parking lot any time of day or night. It’d take 30 minutes just to make it from the Theater District to 34th Street. And what if I ran into the Naked Cowboy and had to pose for pictures with every out-of-town Tom, Dick and Harry? Tack on another 30 minutes, easily. 
The world’s richest model has reportedly reacted in her own way to the sliding value of the US dollar - by refusing to be paid in the currency. Gisele Bündchen is said to be keen to avoid the US currency because of uncertainty over its strength. The Brazilian, thought to have earned about $30m in the year to June, prefers to be paid in euros, her sister and manager told the Bloomberg news agency. However, Ms Bündchen, 27, declined to comment on her pay arrangements.
