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How much would you spend to be in with a chance to play James Bond? If you’re Diddy, you are willing to spend $750,000 in hopes to be the first black James Bond.
Diddy apparently flew by private jet to the South of France to film an audition tape, right beside the Casino Royale. In one of the scenes, Diddy is wearing a tuxedo and surrounded by his very own Bond girls … in a helicopter.
Speaking about the tape, he says “this is my audition tape for the next James Bond. There is a black President and it’s time for there to be a black Bond. God bless.”
He has already sent the tape to James Bond executives, but he apparently has competition from rapper Akon and Jamie Foxx who both want to be the new Bond once Daniel Craig leaves his role.
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Diddy didn’t completely waste $750,000 on his James Bond audition though, he is also going to use the footage as part of the promotion for his new fragrance, I Am King.
It must be nice, but it sucks for upcoming actors who dreamed of being James Bond.
Madonna has just earned herself a nice £6.5m, for a single modeling job with Louis Vuitton, which tops supermodel Kate Moss’s total earnings in one year.
Obviously she snagged a Louis Vuitton bag as well.
The 50-year-old singer is set to be the face for the LV spring/summer campaign and the ads could be very racy because Steven Meisel shot the pictures.
If you don’t know who that is, he took the photographers for her 1992 controversial book, “Sex”.
In other news she has apparently told Britney Spears to “forget about marriage” after Britney asked Madonna if she plans to remarry.
Madge told Britney that marriage just “doesn’t work for girls like them.”
Girls like them?
Paris Hilton shouldn’t be surprised that men only see her as a jizz bank and an ATM.
Hilton cried real tears and told the News of the World:
“Every other guy I’ve been out with has used me for money or sex - but in most cases they just want fame. It made it hard to trust people. After a while I had to start questioning exactly why somebody wanted to be with me.”
The sex can’t be too good, it comes complete with STD’s.
According to The Sun Heather Mills is stupid for many reasons, blowing through $20 million over $50 million divorce settlement is one of them.
Mills was awarded the money in her divorce with Paul McCartney back in March but so far she has spent $19 million on her home which includes a $5 million apartment in New York City, $6 million on other homes and $2 million “that her boyfriend Jamie Walker, 36, is building at her request, although he is recovering from a broken leg.”
On top of this she has paid her staff about $500,000 and donated $1 million in vegetarian food to children in the Bronx.
A source said “Heather’s been moaning her money isn’t going as far as she thought, but she’s just burning her way through it. She reckons she has spent £10million since the divorce and still doesn’t have a finished house to live in. She hasn’t changed. In her eyes the whole world is against her.”
What the hell? I can’t even conceive the idea of spending that much money in such a little time and what kids want vegetarian food donated to them?
Oprah sure does get a lot of lawsuits thrown at her doesn’t she? Today is no exception, it seems an ex employee of the talk show queen is suing her for a whopping $180 million.
The Associated Press reports that Keifer Bonvillain, a man from Louisiana is suing Oprah because she and her attorney allegedly made false statements that lead the FBI to arrest him on extortion charges.
In 2006, Keifer Bonvillain recorded telephone converstions with an employee of Harpo, Winfrey’s production company, and threatened to publish a book based on the recordings. Police nabbed Bonvillain after another Harpo employee agreed to pay him $1.5 million and wired $3,000 as a down payment.
Bonvillain told the FBI that he had publishing offers for the supposed tell-all that ranged from $500,000 to $3 million and insisted in the lawsuit that he had deliberately avoided doing anything against the law. Despite what seemed to be a solid case against him, the Feds agreed to drop the charges on the condition that Bonvillain undergo drug testing, perform 50 hours of community service and pay back the $3,000 in restitution.
In the lawsuit, which he is also suing the FBI, he says “there was substantial damage done to my name and reputation on a world level, the extent of my damages is vast.”
Chip Babcock, attorney for Harpo Productions, denies the allegations and says he welcomes the challenge to prove Bonvillain wrong. “And we know that this whole episode started when the plaintiff wiretapped a Harpo employee in California,” he said. “We advised [Bonvillain] that we believe that wiretapping was illegal, and this case will give us an opportunity to determine whether we were right about that.”
I really doubt anything will come from this lawsuit, she will hire a team and make this disappear within a matter of weeks.
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Steven Spielberg is the latest high-profile donor giving money to fight California’s Proposition 8, the ballot initiative that would ban gay marriage in the state.
The director and his wife, Kate Capshaw, donated $100,000 to the No-on-8 campaign, the couple announced Tuesday.
“By writing discrimination into our state constitution, Proposition 8 seeks to eliminate the right of each and every citizen in our state to marry regardless of sexual orientation. Such discrimination has NO place in California’s constitution, or any other,” the couple said in a statement.
Brad Pitt gave the same amount last week to Californians Against Eliminating Basic Rights. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sen. Barack Obama are also on record against Proposition 8.
source: Steven Spielberg Donates $100,000 to Support Gay Marriage [people]
Parade magazine has released its Most Generous Stars list. Here are the top 10 (out of 30):
1. Oprah Winfrey — $50,200,000: The Oprah Winfrey Foundation and Oprah’s Angel Network - education, health care, and advocacy for women and children worldwide.
2. Herb Alpert — $13,000,000: The Herb Alpert Foundation - music education, including the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music.
3. Barbra Streisand — $11,000,000: The Streisand Foundation - the environment, women’s issues, civil rights, AIDS research and advocacy.
4. Paul Newman — $10,005,000: Scholarship for Kenyon College, his alma mater, in Gambier, Ohio.
5. Mel Gibson — $9,899,654: Holy Family Church in Malibu, Calif.
6. Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt — $8,400,000: The Jolie-Pitt Foundation - New Orleans reconstruction, refugee aid, cross-cultural understanding.
7. (tie) Lance Armstrong — $5,000,000: The Lance Armstrong Foundation - cancer research, education and advocacy.
7. (tie) Michael Jordan — $5,000,000: Hales Franciscan High School, a historically black all-boys school in Chicago.
7. (tie) Eric Lindros — $5,000,000: London Health Sciences Centre, a Canadian hospital where the former hockey player was treated.
10. Rush Limbaugh — $4,200,000: Financial assistance to the children of Marines and law-enforcement officers killed in the line of duty.
source: [examiner]
Would you like to buy a pair of Michael Jackson’s notorious tighty whities? Well you can if you would like to pay over $1 million.
A pair of size-28 Calvin Klein white briefs once belonging to Wacko Jacko will be auctioned on eBay tomorrow, with a reserve price of $1 million.
The unwashed underpants have a sensational past, they were part of the evidence confiscated in 2003 by then-Santa Barbara DA Tom Sneddon, who wanted a DNA sample for his unsuccessful child-molestation case against the washed-up King of Pop.
The briefs are part of a stash of Jacko artifacts offered by New Jersey businessman Henry Vacarro, who obtained them in a bankruptcy case. For extra authenticity, the briefs come sealed in an evidence bag and wrapped with police tape.
Also being sold are the Gloved One’s handwritten note explaining why he wants an annulment from Lisa Marie Presley and a used half-ounce tube of skin-bleaching cream.
source: IN BRIEF: JACKO’S UNDIES FOR SALE [pagesix]
Will Smith was the highest earning actor of 2007 according to Forbes.
Smith brought in $80 million last year. Cameron Diaz was the top earning actress with $50 million. I love reporting on celebrity paychecks, it’s absolutely ridiculous how much they earn.
The top 5 earning celebrity men in Hollywood are:
1. Will Smith - $80 million
2. Johnny Depp - $72 million
3. Eddie Murphy - $55 million
4. Mike Myers - $55 million
5. Leonardo DiCaprio - $45 million
The top 5 earning celebrity women in Hollywood are:
1. Cameron Diaz - $50 million
2. Keira Knightley - $32 million
3. Jennifer Aniston - $27 million
4. Reese Witherspoon - $25 million
5. Gwenyth Paltrow - $25 million
How is it possible that Eddie Murphy earned that much, when we have the likes of “Meet Dave” as our most recent example of his work. The same goes for “The Love Guru” and Mike Myers.
See the entire list at Forbes.
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