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Remember when Lindsay Lohan allegedly beat up Dawn Holland, a worker at the Betty Ford center? Well you can take that allegedly out of the sentence because it’s pretty much confirmed now. Apparently Lindsay tried to keep her mouth shut by paying her $25,000.
RadarOnline reports that Lindsay’s team reached a deal with Dawn that would see her being paid $25,000 as well as participating in a few photo ops and sit down interviews with Lindsay so they could all benefit from the situation. But the deal fell through yesterday afternoon and Dawn then fired her lawyer. A source says…
“Dawn agreed to a $25,000 payment from someone directly associated with Lohan’s camp, Dawn wanted the amount paid upfront. But Lohan’s camp wanted to spread it out over a period of a few months, paying her in installments. That didn’t suit Dawn, so the parties then agreed, in principle, for Lindsay to participate in a sit-down television interview with Dawn. When the deal didn’t materialize, Dawn became frustrated, fired her lawyer and engaged new legal counsel.”
I would sure love to know where Lindsay Lohan planned on getting $25,000 from since she is supposed to be flat out broke and can’t even get a bit of work. I always say innocent until proven guilty, but when you try to pay someone off it pretty much confirms that you are guilty.
source: Lindsay Lohan’s Accuser Cut Secret Deal For $25,000 After Declining To Press Charges; Dumps Lawyer [Radar Online]
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Toni Braxton filed for bankruptcy (for the second time in 12 years) last October so obviously she is in desperate need to raise some cash. What better way to get some money than posin for Playboy right? That’s exactly what she’s considering doing. Here is what she wrote on her Twitter account:
New Year, New opportunities. So I have been considering taking up Playboy’s offer to feature me on their cover this year. What you think? I would love to pose with Hugh Hefner though. He’s the sexiest guy I know over 30 ;-) Of course it will be tastefully done :-) There are NOT talking that kind of spread! No Susie!!!! Just a lil T and A. They have asked me about 3 times before.
I guess there is always a solution to raising some money, but since she is in debt of over $50 million this isn’t even going to put a dent in her money problems. But let’s be honest – we don’t really care about her money issues. We just want this Playboy spread to be done quickly.
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As we all know Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt are so broke they are on the verge of filing bankruptcy but there is hope for them because they have just received an offer for a whopping $100,000.
The only catch is they would have to leave the country and move to Costa Rica, where they would have to get a real job. Betting website YouWager.com have offered the couple the chance to move countries and “manage the odds and lines surrounding the entertainment sector, ranging from celebrity news and pop culture to music and movies.”
Sources tell TMZ that Spencer is of course considering the idea but only if he can legally own a gun there because of the recent political trouble going on between Costa Rica and Nicaragua.
Let’s all cross our fingers and pray that these two dimwits take this offer up and move away.
source: Heidi & Spencer — $100,000 to Stay Out of the U.S. [TMZ]
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Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt are apparently on the verge of filing for bankruptcy after they blew over $10 million they made from working on The Hills and other projects.
How did they spend all that money? Well they spent $3 million on Heidi’s flop of a music career, they rented out a $35,000 a month house in Malibu, they spent hundreds of thousands on Heidi’s surgeries, bought six cars, rented private jets and finally all of his healing crystals.
The couple, who claim that they owe $2 million in taxes, claim to be now living in Spencer’s parents guesthouse (which is a studio apartment) and that his parents are paying for their grocery’s. Spencer says…
“We were immature, worrying too much about the famous part instead of the actual business part, In hindsight, we shouldn’t have spent any of our money. We should have been low-key and saved. We spoke with a bankruptcy attorney and I’ve looked into unemployment checks.
We thought The Hills was going to be like 90210 and we’d have another five to 10 years, The ratings were consistent. But we never saw Jersey Shore coming. Before, TV audiences were fine with seeing us all argue, but now they want you to punch one another in the face and hook up with three different people. Our cast was a bit boring and snoozeworthy in comparison. No wonder we got canceled.”
I never know what to believe with these two, although they are so stupid I wouldn’t put it past them to spend that much money.
source: Heidi and Spencer bankrupt: How we blew 10 million [Life & Style]
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We all know that Lindsay Lohan is flat out broke and she is struggling to pay for her latest three month gig in rehab, the other day she was offered a job in porn but now PETA are offering to pay her bills….if she goes vegan.
A rep for PETA says they are willing to pay up to $50,000 if Lohan will give up meat and go vegan. They will give $20k if she gives up animal products, $10k if she remains vegan during her time in rehab and then an additional $10k if she remains a vegan for a whole year. They wrote her a letter saying…
“We understand that you’ve fallen on tough economic times, so we’re writing to you with an offer that we sincerely hope you’ll consider, PETA will help pay your $50,000 bill for substance addiction treatment if you’ll rid yourself of one more toxic substance: meat.”
A rep also says, “Lindsay Lohan is the most visible example of a real addict, and if she can conquer her addiction to meat and cheese, absolutely anyone can, If she does, she’ll not only save animals but save her own health, and she’ll be an example to the millions of people who watch her every step.”
She’s already given up dick and supposedly drugs so how hard can meat be for her?
source: PETA offers to sponsor Lindsay Lohan’s $50,000 rehab stint if she goes vegan [NY Daily News]
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Dustin Diamond better start getting ready to record and release another sex tape because his house in Wisconsin is facing foreclosure for the third time in five years.
Wells Fargo filed a lawsuit against Screech today saying that the former Saved by the Bell is in debt of over $278,000 and the haven’t received a payment since May.
Wells Fargo aren’t even waiting on money they just want immediate foreclosure on the house, so if you have a few spare pennies you will probably be able to buy Screech’s house in the next few months.
If he does decide to release a sex tape I don’t know how he can top giving a dirty sanchez.
source: Screech — 3rd Foreclosure’s the Charm [TMZ]
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I thought I was bad when it comes to saving and spending money but holy shit Toni Braxton out does me 50 million times because she has filed bankruptcy for the second time in 12 years and owes out between $10 million and $50 million.
The singer has sold over 40 million albums but she claims that she’s only worth between $1 million and $10 million, meaning she can’t afford to pay any of her debts so she decided to file for Chapter 7 bankruptcy.
TMZ got their hands on the documents and it says she pretty much owes money to everybody in the country, including the DMV in California and Nevada.
She also owes money to the following companies: AT&T, The Four Seasons Hotels, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, DirecTV, Neiman Marcus,The William Morris Agency, Tiffany & Co., Orkin Pest Control, The Internal Revenue Service, BMW Financial Services, ADT Security, American Express, Flamingo Las Vegas, Mesa Air Conditioning, Nevada Power Company, Screen Actors Guild, The Westin and Wells Fargo Bank.
Whoever has been handling her money needs to be shot, how the hell can someone get into so much debt in the space of 12 years? It’s too easy to make a joke about unbreaking her bank account instead of her heart.
source: Toni Braxton — Bankrupt Again, May Owe $50 Mil [TMZ]
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Before Brittany Murphy‘s husband Simon Monjack died he apparently spent 80% of the money she left behind when she died.
Murphy died in December and then Monjack died in May, both of the same causes, but in between that time he apparently spent most of his wife’s cash reserves according to her former business manager Jeffery Morgenroth. He says…
“There were huge amounts of money in [Brittany's] pension plan and bank account, and all of that’s gone, I would see it on the statements. There was money being withdrawn by Simon, hundreds of thousands.”
This leaves Murphy’s mother, Sharon, in financial uncertainty and she apparently got into a fight with Monjack’s mother, Linda, after he died because Linda told Sharon to leave the couple’s house in Hollywood and is now trying to claim everything.
If all of this is true then it seems that being a fraud and douchebag runs in the Monjack genes. I’m sure this is not the last we will be hearing about all this.
source: Did Simon Monjack Drain Brittany Murphy’s Finances? [People]
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It’s still unknown if Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt are actually still together or if they did indeed break up because with these two you just don’t know what publicity stunt they are going to pull. Well here’s some news that would make sense if they did break up, they completely ran out of money.
When the two of them were still on The Hills they were getting up to $90,000 per episode but as we all know Spencer got kicked off the show and which meant his paycheck was gone.
Apparently before the sixth season of The Hills started filming the pair were really counting their spare change because they spent nearly all their money but then they signed up for the sixth season of the show, then he got fired. A source says…
“They were definitely in the hole at the end of last season. Their business manager was calling the house every day. They were tripping over their funds. When they got paid, everything seemed to be ok, they started filming the new season of The Hills and then Spencer got kicked off the show. So now he is freaking out.â€
The two of them can drum up any publicity stunt and it usually works because they get a ton of publicity from it but they obviously can’t manager their money because he spent $500,000 on those crystals her keeps going on about. He even said that when he recently checked his bank account he had just $203 left.
I don’t even care about Heidi Montag or Spencer Pratt but I do think someone needs to step because they both seem legit crazy and just pretend crazy.
source: Lack Of Money Drove Heidi & Spencer To The Edge [Radar Online]
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It’s just a few weeks since reports that Lindsay Lohan is broke and running out of money started floating around, well here is more fuel to add to that fire – she is apparently $600,000 in credit card debt.
Lindsay has been getting photographed falling out of clubs a lot recently and hasn’t done a single days work, unless of course you consider getting paid to do club appearances but she is only getting between $5,000 to $10,000 at most for that.
A source said “Lindsay owes credit cards $600,000, one card cut her off last week and it’s only a matter of time before all her other credit cards cut her off too. One credit card company is going to discuss a payment plan for Lindsay. But if she doesn’t have the income and can’t make her payments, they are prepared to sue her.”
You know it’s really bad when credit card companies are cutting you off, Lindsay Lohan is in dire need of Suze Orman to get in her life and sort her out.
source: Cash-strapped Lindsay Lohan owes $600,000 in credit card debt: report [NY Daily News]
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Tabloid Prodigy linked with Freaks N’ Links
On Monday it was reported that friends are so worried about Lindsay Lohan they are thinking about getting her locked up on a 5150 evaluation, now it is reported that she is so broke she can’t pay her rent.
Apparently she hasn’t been able to pay her rent for the past 2 months so her landlord sent her a legal notice that if she didn’t cough up the money she could get the hell out, she somehow managed to get $23,000 together and has paid her rent.
How she is supposed to get money from now on is a problem because she can’t find employment and nobody wants to work with her because of her alcohol and drug abuse. TMZ say that the reason there is no problems with Lindsay’s alcohol education program is because she isn’t required to pas any drug or alcohol tests, she just has to show up and not drive.
In other Lohan news today, she went out last night and once again fell over of course this mean she took to her Twitter and blamed the paparazzi for pushing her over as well as spurting a ton of other stuff about being set up.
@ElectraAvellan see how embaressing it is when paps push you into a fall w/FENDIS ON! Again to me? And NOW YOU?sober sally’s take a timber
about 6 hours ago via UberTwitter
Security @Voyeur nightclub in LA just set me up&paid off paparazzi to not let me in the back door and come to take photos of me in the back
about 6 hours ago via UberTwitter
Just one thing-i came to PICK UP MY FRIEND @electraavellan from the back and NOT even go into the club! Yet- I get sold out by guys that
about 6 hours ago via UberTwitter
By guys that I treat with respect and kindness…… They got paid off to let paparazzi make me look like I was distraught and a mess, when
about 6 hours ago via UberTwitter
I was just waiting for my friend at the back door…… Worse part is, my friends who run the club were a part of the set-up as well. Why?
about 6 hours ago via UberTwitter
I just don’t even know what to say about Lindsay Lohan anymore, I follow her on Twitter and it’s just tragic to read what she has to say on there. She really is on the level of Tila Tequila.
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There has been some major movie flops in the past few years (I’m looking at you Gigli) but none of them compare to the biggest flops of all time, which is when I take you to the following list.
Nana (1934)
When Erich von Stroheim’s Foolish Wives (1922) went grossly over budget, Universal duly advertised it as “The first million-dollar film” and hoped for the best. When Samuel Goldwyn’s attempt to launch Russian actress Anna Sten as the new Greta Garbo—in Nana—had to be scrapped and restarted after three weeks, doubling the budget, Goldwyn similarly dubbed her his “million-dollar discovery.” Sten’s English was off without being charming, and Goldwyn had to tone down the sensational prostitution elements; the ensuing weak brew was roundly rejected. The first and, to date, only English-language attempt to film Zola without updating the time period was such a daunting flop that Nana only resurfaced (quasi-logically) in Euro-trash “erotic” versions in 1970 and 1984.
Cleopatra (1963)
A prototypical fiasco, Cleopatra brought the profitable cycle of 50s sword-and-sandal epics to a decisive close with a four-year production odyssey encompassing two Elizabeth Taylor illnesses, her affair with co-star Richard Burton, and one shooting location where the harbor was still riddled with mines from the Second World War. Despite the constant cuts in length and dismissive reviews (not to mention studio heads that rolled), Cleopatra is the 38th-highest grossing film of all time; in real money, it’s made more than any of the Pirates of the Caribbean or Lord of the Rings movies. An disastrous shoot it may have been, but it became profitable after three years
Doctor Dolittle (1967)
Before working with talking animals was just a matter of slapping CGI lips on a real creature (or conjuring the whole weird spectacle digitally), Rex Harrison had to lie down and be urinated on by sheep to get just one musical number done. Everything seemed to go wrong when Harrison tried to talk to the animals: a goat ate director Richard Fleischer’s script, squirrels chewed throug the set, and one of the disgruntled residents of a town the film was shooting in left a production-disrupting homemade bomb on the set. Still reeling from Elizabeth Taylor’s expensive Cleopatra fiasco, Fox was nearly bankrupted by the $18 million production, which made back only half of its budget initially and took 20 years to turn a profit.
Heaven’s Gate (1980)
Michael Cimino’s epic is largely considered to be the ultimate example of a hubristic flop, though the truth is a little more complicated. United Artists had been taking increasingly expensive gambles—the previous year’s Moonraker actually cost more, and Apocalypse Now had been an equally crazed, expensive experiment—and Cimino’s $46 million debacle pushed the studio over decisively. At first widely reviled, it’s inevitably come to be seen as a minor masterpiece, a movie of great flaws but also great accomplishments. But back then Cimino got blamed for killing not only United Artists, but the auteur-driven movies of Hollywood’s 70s golden age as well. (Martin Scorsese: “Heaven’s Gate undercut all of us. I knew at the time it was the end of something, that something had died.”) That isn’t quite fair—Spielberg, William Friedkin, and Coppola all had their expensive flops as well (1941, Sorcerer, and Apocalypse Now, respectively); Cimino just fell the hardest.
Inchon (1981)
In 1978, the Reverend Sun Myung Moon and Unification Church member Mitsu Haru Ishii decided to get into movies; they contemplated biopics of Jesus or Elvis, but Ishii then reportedly heard from God, who instructed him to make a film about General Douglas MacArthur (a choice validated by psychic Jeannie Dixon, who said MacArthur’s spirit endorsed the film; his endorsement was later quoted in the press kit). With an unlikely cast of Laurence Olivier (who cheerfully admitted he needed the money) as MacArthur, the story also threw in trashy romances featuring Jacqueline Bisset, Ben Gazzara, Toshiro Mifune, and Richard Roundtree. Moon kept his name off the credits for as long as possible; when it came out, the premiere at D.C.’s Kennedy Center for the Performing Acts was boycotted and only 15 congressmen (out of the 48 who accepted tickets) had the guts to show. Despite Reagan’s endorsement—he found the film refreshing for portraying the Americans as the “good guys” in the Korean War—the enterprise did not prosper, losing over $44 million.
Howard The Duck (1986)
If Heaven’s Gate was the ultimate auteurist failure, Howard the Duck became synonymous with cynical corporate miscalulation. Cult comic hero Howard the Duck had already been neutered a bit after Disney sued for copyright infringement upon Donald Duck and forced Howard wear pants, but that was nothing compared to the treatment he suffered at the hands of George Lucas. Needing an FX-blockuster for the summer, Howard went from rude and obnoxious to vaguely attitudinal and sassy; audiences, however, mainly complained that the costumes weren’t realistic enough for this talking duck narrative. Audiences and critics fled; Universal president Frank Price was forced to resign.
Toys (1992)
After a decade of making solid sleepers (Diner, Tin Men) and solid hits (The Natural, Good Morning, Vietnam), Barry Levinson finally got to helm the movie he wanted as his debut, a heavy-handed allegory about the power of whimsy and the imagination triumphing over the war-mongers and irresponsible capitalists. It’s defanged Terry Gilliam a decade too late, with Robin Williams leading the dreamers against his brother’s attempt to transform dad’s toy factory into a home for toy war machines. To anchor his flimsy screenplay, Levinson relied upon the madcap improv skills of Williams— then still a commercial monolith, but one whose fast-talking free-association reached annoying new lows here. The public and critical public responded with unnecessary venom, which is kind of a shame: production designer Ferdinando Scarfiotti designed the Magritte-inspired toy factory with the same opulence he brought to The Last Emperor, and LL Cool J’s acting debut is pretty creditable.
The Postman (1997)
After three consecutive flops (Wyatt Earp, Waterworld, and The War), Kevin Costner definitively struck himself from the A-list with The Postman, the three-hour saga of a post-apocalyptic postman who galvanizes a feudal population in rebellion against the evil General Bethlehem. The idea is that Costner delivers hope along with the mail (“You give out hope like it was candy in your pocket,” an admirer tells him); David Brin, author of the original novel, insists the movie would have done better post-9/11, now that “the nineties notion that patriotism is sappy” is dead. Regardless, audiences were in no mood to watch a movie which begins with Costner reciting “MacBeth” to his donkey before once more martyring himself for three hours. In the gallery of Costner’s 90s hubris, The Postman is merely the climax to a string of lunatic excesses reminiscent of the ’70s, only as a bad parody.
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (unreleased)
The patron saint of cinematic bad luck, Terry Gilliam was the subject of two books documenting his difficulties—1987′s The Battle of Brazil and 2000′s Losing the Light, a painful exhumation of The Adventures of Baron Munchausen—and eventually decided it’d be safer to always document his side of the story in case things finally went completely wrong. Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe chronicled 1995′s Twelve Monkeys and ended up with the relatively calm production diary The Hamster Factor. In 2002, they went from DVD supplement to the main event when Gilliam’s long-gestating Don Quixote project was attacked by monsoons, plagued by noise from NATO jet exercises, and finally derailed by the lead actor’s herniated disk and prostate infection. The resulting documentary, Lost In La Mancha, chronicles a catastrophic Job experience, with the long-suffering Gilliam bearing up heroically, far pluckier and less obnoxious than any of his heroes.
Elizabethtown (2005)
Elizabethtown wasn’t actually a commercial failure for the ages—it made back a little more than its budget worldwide—but the once-beloved Cameron Crowe got a vitriolic reception for his expressionistic rewrite of Jerry Maguire. Kirsten Dunst’s character talks about what it’s like to “fail big and stick around,” a self-prophesying line: like his protagonist Drew (Orlando Bloom) with his shoe designs, Crowe came up with an intensely personal project reviled by pretty much everyone. Mostly, the reviews and public seemed to want something straightforward and warm, like Almost Famous; instead, they got a series of set pieces strung together by nothing more than Crowe’s own veering interests and a Fellini-esque carnival vibe. To quote Drew’s narrative, it’s a “fiasco”: not just a failure, but a failure so spectacular it almost succeeds by sheer distinctiveness. To date, the dispirited Crowe has yet to get another feature into production.
Delgo (2008)
A decade in the making, this $40-million, would-be “adult” C.G.I. epic was supposed to teach us about the importance of world peace and avoiding war. By the time the movie was done, it was the late Anne Bancroft’s last part and the lowest-grossing opening for any film ever to release on more than 2,000 screens, averaging out at two viewers per screening. To add insult to injury, less than half a year after Delgo had come and gone, bored fanboys speculating about how much they hated the Avatar trailer began comparing what they saw as lackluster designs and silly C.G.I. to Delgo, which has become the worst possible insult for any sci-fi/fantasy movie boasting of outsize ambition.
I have never seen any of these movies, I guess I know why, because I never heard of the majority of them.
source: The 11 Biggest Movie Flops of All Time [Vanity Fair]
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The hateful war between Kate and Jon Gosselin has just took another dive because he has apparently emptied their joint bank account.
According to Radar Online , the same day that Jon appeared on Larry King saying how he wants things to go nicely with Kate … he went to the nearest bank and withdrew almost their entire balance.
Yes he didn’t take the whole balance, Jon took over $200,000 for himself and left Kate with only $1000. According to sources, Kate uses this money to pay bills and food for the kids. It is also said that Jon broke court rules by taking money out of the bank account because it was supposed to be untouched (other than the bills).
Kate’s lawyers immediately flipped their shit and sent Jon and his lawyers a letter telling him to put the money back straight away but they never got a response, so now her lawyer is expected to go to a court in Pennsylvania to ask Jon be held in contempt and also put the money back.
I’m not a fan of either of these people but somebody needs to get Jon Gosselin and hang him.
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Madonna and Guy Ritchie have reached agreement on their divorce – with the British film director refusing to take a penny of the pop star’s cash, it has emerged.
Their decree nisi is to be announced at 10am tomorrow in Court 10 of the Principal Registry of the High Court’s Family Division. Their case – Ciccone M L v Ritchie G S – is listed before District Judge Reid under the “quickie†divorce procedure, although it is not necessary for the couple to attend the proceedings in central London.
The couple have agreed a financial deal under which the singer will keep the bulk of her £300million fortune and they have resolved the big stumbling block concerning where the children should live.
The two sons, Rocco, 8, and the adopted David, three, will share their time between homes in Britain and America, it is understood.
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