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Dr. Phil is being sued by the memorabilia dealer involved in O.J. Simpson’s hotel-room robbery.
In a lawsuit filed Tuesday against the “Dr. Phil” show, Philip McGraw himself and Stage 29 Media, Thomas Riccio claims that his comments on the show were edited to twist their meaning. Riccio filmed an interview Oct. 6 explaining his involvement with the holdup, three days after a Las Vegas jury found Simpson guilty of 12 charges.
While Riccio admits he led Simpson to the hotel room where the robbery took place, he insists that the “Dr. Phil” show spliced his comments to make him appear to be the one who orchestrated the robbery.
The suit alleges fraud, defamation, portrayal in a false light and emotional distress, claiming he was referred to on the show as the “ringleader of this crime,” “the shady dealmaker” and “a puppetmaster who would sell his soul for a coin.”
Riccio says that McGraw also tried to paint him as the one who “set O.J. Simpson up and told people to bring guns into the room” but then edited out Riccio’s denial of the statement and replaced it with a shot of him nodding his head, supposedly in agreement.
Well if you go on the Dr.Phil show you should expect editing like that.
source: Dr. Phil slapped with suit connected to O.J. Simpson case [ny daily news]
O.J. Simpson has made lots of mistakes in his life … some allegedly and some actually quantifiable within a court of law.
The latest “real” mistake though, is just an example of Juice messing with the karma that has been so kind to him (lost Heisman trophies or no, he still got off on the Brown - Goldman thing).
That’s because, while heading towards the conclusion of his Las Vegas armed robbery trial, O.J. planned an acquittal party. I wish I was joking.
Simpson associate Thomas Riccio, after an in-studio interview Friday with radio talk-show host Anthony Crivello and retired Las Vegas police detective Phil Ramos, invited them to join O.J.’s entourage at an undisclosed location.
“That’s how certain he was,” Crivello said during an interview on Saturday, a day after Simpson and co-defendant Clarence “C.J.” Stewart were found guilty on all counts, including armed robbery and kidnapping with a deadly weapon.
“He’s been predicting a hung jury,” said Ramos, who attended the trial and provided expert commentary on Crivello’s show, “The Sicilians” on Fox Sports Radio KBAD-AM, 920.
Maybe that prediction just stemmed from prior experience? Who knows.
What I do know is that you never plan a party like that so early, because it always comes back to bite you, like Simpson now.
It’s pretty phenomenal though, and a testament to the type of person that Juice really is, that he actually went this far. In other words, we see (I think) O.J. as some bungling murderer in the Naked Gun fashion, but in reality, he’s an incredibly cocky criminal who is finally getting his come uppin’s.
source: O.J. Simpson found guilty, faces life sentence [ctv]
Here’s the Top 10 Hollywood Heir Heads.
How often do a brother and a sister make the top 10 of the same list?
10. Ally Hilfiger - Before “Laguna Beach,” in 2003 “Rich Girls” ruled the MTV privileged kid reality slot. Ally and her then friend, Jaime Gleicher, had every aspect of their Manhattan lives featured. During its only season, the daughter of famed designer Tommy claimed her father invented Cargo pants. Since the show wrapped, she’s visited rehab, but also recently had an art exhibit at the Chelsea Art Museum.
9. Stavros Niarchos III - The grandson of shipping tycoon Stavros Niarchos, who was a rival of Aristotle Onassis, is best known for dating Paris Hilton, Mary-Kate Olsen (also both further down this list) and Lindsay Lohan. But he’s made the news on his own merit too — he once paid a homeless man to pour a drink over his head (just for fun).
8. Fabian Basabe - Son of an Ecuadorian businessman, in 2005 he married Martina Borgomanero, heir to La Perla lingerie. During his time in the limelight as being famous for doing nothing (he appeared in E!’s 2005 “Filthy Rich: Cattle Ranch”), he’s had a knack for making the gossip sites for negative news. He sued trendy NYC nightspot Bungalow 8 for not letting him in, called the doorman of a Hamptons hot spot the N word and has received a DUI. Never shy, he recently accused Tyra Banks of having an unfortunate accident in her pants on his blog.
7. Barron Hilton - The younger brother of Paris and Nicky recently initiated himself as the newest member of the celebutante lot by getting arrested for DUI. Is it cynical to ask if this was his ‘first’ DUI? Unlike role model sis, Paris, parents Rick and Kathy didn’t pay his bail.
6. The Olsen Twins - The super rich sisters are heirs to their own fortune. They make our list because even though they’ve made their money by actually working, they had to wait until their 18th birthday to collect it. Fixtures in the club scene, these fashionistas now rub elbows with society’s elite. Mary-Kate might be considered the breakout star partly because of her role on the critically acclaimed Showtime series, ‘Weeds.’ But, more likely, it’s because she’s allegedly been hospitalized for anorexia and reportedly was having a relationship with Heath Ledger during the time of his death.
5. Cisco Adler - Son of the son of music producer and director Lou Adler, Cisco is the front man for his own band, Whitestar. Famous for dating Hollywood starlets like Lauren Conrad and Mischa Barton, he’s most famous for a nude photo that circled the Internet in 2006 in which his nether regions seem stretched (Note: not the region that would be flattering). His band starred in 2007’s VH1 Reality show, ‘The Rock Life.’
4. Kim Kardashian - This curvy daughter of the late O.J. Simpson lawyer Robert Kardashian and current wife of Bruce Jenner, Kris Jenner, currently stars in E!’s “Keeping Up With The Kardashians.” Following the footsteps of heiresses before her, she gained notoriety for a sex tape scandal with R&B singer Ray J (Brandy’s brother). She has recently been accused of stealing her co-star’s mother’s credit cards to purchase clothes, when she was working as Brandy’s stylist.
3. Brandon Davis - Born Brandon Zarif, Brandon is a grandson of oil magnate Marvin Davis. He’s been to rehab twice, but if there is truth to famous photos, he should be there more often. He famously went on a caught-on-tape rant with famous fellow socialite friend, Paris Hilton, where he continuously called Lindsay Lohan ‘Fire C#$%*’ in 2006.
2. Nicole Richie - Lionel’s daughter’s first arrest was in 2003 for heroin possession. Later that year, “The Simple Life” debuted on Fox and the reality show co-star “frienemy” Paris Hilton gained instant notoriety. In 2006, the nickname “Wrong Way Richie” emerged after the star was pulled over driving the wrong direction on the 134 freeway in Los Angeles. She served about 82 minutes of jail time for the crime. However, recently she’s cleaned up her act — she has since had a baby and started a charity with her boyfriend, Good Charlotte rocker Joel Madden.
1. Paris Hilton - If you look up the word ‘celebutante’ in the dictionary, her name is likely listed. This uber-famous ’singer,’ ‘actress,’ ‘model’ and ‘writer’ is an heiress to the Hilton Hotels franchise. Already famous in society pages, Hilton skyrocketed to super stardom when a sex tape with Rick Salomon went public. This former LA County Jail resident (she spent 22 days there in June 2007 for charges stemming for violating probation over a DUI) makes an impressive income for ‘doing nothing.’ Forbes estimates she made $7 million in 2007 combined through all of her ventures.
source: [access hollywood]
O.J. Simpson’s girlfriend, Christine Prody, is in the hospital after she claims she fell down while drunk. Christie suffered major bruising all over her body. Sources also claim she had internal bleeding from her brain.
 O.J. Simpson’s long-time girlfriend Christie Prody has been hospitalized, the apparent victim of a brutal beating, Miami police are investigating.
Prody suffered a severe head injury and massive bruises all over her body, sources told The ENQUIRER.
 While O.J. says that Prody’s injuries are self-inflicted and explained that the 32-year-old woman went on a drunken binge and fell down, cops aren’t convinced, insiders say.
Investigators said from the damage to Prody’s body, they believe she was beaten. One detective said he has never seen such severe bruises on a woman before.
Police detectives are questioning Simpson at his home today, and are conducting an ongoing investigation into what happened to Prody.
Prody, 32, was rushed to a Baptist Memorial Hospital in Miami Feb 11 after she collapsed at a local gas station.
Police were alerted by hospital authorities after doctors found she was bleeding from her brain — and also had numerous large bruises and abrasions on her face, arms, legs and buttocks.
Prody had spent ten days with O.J.’s friends in San Antonio until she returned to Miami on Feb. 11. Simpson was with her until Feb. 4 when he returned to his Kendall home.
Simpson told police Prody’s wounds were self inflicted and that she had been on a drinking binge.
When Prody was brought into the hospital, there was no trace of alcohol in her blood.
TMZ reports that O.J. is not a suspect and her bruises are consistent with her fall at a gas station.
Maybe he should be?
source: ENQUIRER EXCLUSIVE: COPS QUESTION O.J. AFTER HIS BATTERED GIRLFRIEND IS HOSPITALIZED [national enquirer]
Paris Hilton:
Video is NSFW!!
It was rumored that Paris Hilton was a bit peeved when her former best friend stole the sex tape spotlight, despite the overwhelming fame she got from her video with ex-boyfriend Rick Salomon. Red Light District reportedly sold over 600,000 of “1 Night in Paris.” Although Paris claims she never received any money for the video, she’s clearly benefitted from its success and paved the way for other celebs to follow.
Kate Moss and Pete Doherty:
Supermodel Kate Moss finally said goodbye to druggie boyfriend Pete Doherty this summer, but her past is still coming back to haunt her. Moss is trying to stop Doherty from selling personal videos of the two during the span of their relationship, according to The New York Post. The paper reports that Moss would be “horrified” if the tapes surfaced, specifically because of some “raunchy” footage that Moss thought would be for their eyes only.
Moss’ alleged on-screen exploits remind us off other stars who engaged in extracurricular activities in front of the camera.
Kim Kardashian:
Kim Kardashian shot to fame as soon as she confirmed the existance of a sex tape of her with actor/ singer, and little brother of songstress Brandy, Ray J. Kardashian, who is the daughter of O.J. Simpson’s late attorney and best friend, Robert Kardashian and a fashion consultant, was mostly known for tagging along her best friend Paris. Perhaps inspired by Paris, Kardashian apparently gets a little more experimental than her best friend, including a “golden shower.” According to TMZ, SugarDVD.com offered Kardashian $2 million for exclusive rights. She reportedly sold it for $5 million.
Click ‘Continued‘ below to see the rest!
Vivica A. Fox:
Actress Vivica A. Fox is the latest Hollywood celebrity to be reportedly caught up in a sex-tape scandal. In the reported video, which was taped using a cell phone, the actress is supposedly inebriated and unaware that she is being taped.
Joanie “Chyna Doll” Laurie:
Before former wrestling star Joanie “Chyna Doll” Laurie moved from the mat to VH1’s “The Surreal Life,” she did a little bedroom wrestling of her own for the cameras. Laurie and her husband sought out distributor Red Light District — famous for distributing the Paris Hilton tape — and sold over 100,000 copies of their amateur sex tape.
Colin Farrell:
Of course, Hollywood’s biggest bad boy Colin Farrell wouldn’t live up to his reputation without a sex tape of his very own. Alas, Farell thought that the tape would be harmful to his career, seeking legal action to prevent the 15-minute tape with ex-girlfriend Playboy Playmate Nicole Narain from being distributed. Hopeful to sell the tape herself for a reported $3 million, Narain joined the fight when a web site — dirtycolin.com — attempted to distribute the video, exposing both to the perusing public.
Tonya Harding [low budget-LOL a water bed]:
About the time it came out that Tonya Harding may have helped her ex-husband Jim Gilloly in the attack on Nancy Kerrigan, another collaboration became public: “Wedding Night.” Gillooly released a sex tape of the couple, in which Harding dons a wedding dress as a Halloween costume. After the tape became available, the two decided to distribute it themselves. Although the tape did little for her ice skating career, it may have helped her move on to other contact sports, such as a small bout as a professional boxer and domestic assault on former boyfriends, for which she was arrested and charged.
Pamela Anderson:
With the new proliferation of sex tapes, it’s easy to pass over perhaps two of the more notorious sex tape stars, ex-Baywatch and Playmate babe Pamela Anderson and ex-husband rocker Tommy Lee. Both fought its release, but couldn’t keep it off the internet. Anderson has since been to court a couple more times to prevent another video — this time with ex-lover and Poison singer Bret Michaels, from surfacing on the internet. Trends would point to a future internet film with Kid Rock perhaps?
Kelsey Grammer:
Despite the millions to be made off of flaunting his sexual escapades, Kelsey Grammer payed dearly to keep them away from the public eye. After hearing rumors that his ex-girlfriend Cerlette Lamme was selling their very private tape to Internet Entertainment Group (IEG), Grammer sued IEG. However, IEG apparently didn’t purchase the tape, but Grammer ended up shelling out $1 million to his ex to keep the tape out of other potential buyers’ hands.
Honorable Mentions:
Amy Fisher
Jessica Sierra
Luciana Salazar
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Ronald Goldman’s father is taking legal action to stop “The Pirate Bay“, a file-sharing Web site, from posting O.J. Simpson’s book, “If I Did It.”
NY Daily News reports,
 Fred Goldman, who has the rights to the best-selling book, claims he has lost at least $150,000 since the popular Swedish site The Pirate Bay made the book available for free downloads, according to the lawsuit filed Thursday in Los Angeles County Superior Court.
 Although Goldman’s attorneys have sent a letter demanding the Web site’s operators stop posting the book, the defendants have indicated “they are not subject to the laws of the United States,” the lawsuit said.
The lawsuit seeks to recover profits from the “illegal publication” and suggests The Pirate Bay receive advertising money from such American companies as Wal-Mart, Target, Jamster and The Wall Street Journal.
“It’s the wealth through the advertising” that allows the site to remain, said Goldman’s attorney, David Cook.
“Ron Goldman LLC will never be able to stop these pirates from posting that book online but they can do that in the poorhouse,” Cook said.
A call to The Pirate Bay was answered by a recording and the Web site was temporarily offline Thursday.
Goldman won the rights to the book in his ongoing legal fight with Simpson, who was acquitted in a criminal trial of the 1994 murders of his son and friend Nicole Brown Simpson. After their families sued for wrongful death, a civil court jury found Simpson liable and ordered him to pay $33.5 million.
Simpson has paid little of the judgment, which has risen to about $39 million with interest, so Fred Goldman has been going after some of the former football star’s assets.
He recently won the rights to the book, which was retitled “If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer” and became a New York Times best-seller.
With a court having earmarked 90 percent of the book’s royalties for Goldman, he could eventually win a substantial sum.
More than a decade after his acquittal on murder charges, O.J. Simpson will again stand trial and faces the possibility of life in prison.
The Associated Press reports,
 The former football star said he wasn’t surprised when a justice of the peace ordered him on Wednesday to defend himself against charges including kidnapping and armed robbery in a suspected sports memorabilia heist. He also said he trusted jurors to do what’s right.
“If I have any disappointment it’s that I wish a jury was here,” Simpson told The Associated Press before he left the courtroom. “As always, I rely on the jury system.”
Justice of the Peace Joe M. Bonaventure refused to dismiss any charges in a 12-count complaint against Simpson and co-defendants Clarence “C.J.” Stewart and Charles “Charlie” Ehrlich, which stem from a Sept. 13 confrontation in a casino hotel room. Prosecutors accuse Simpson of leading the suspected armed robbery of two sports memorabilia dealers.
The defendants are to enter their pleas on Nov. 28.
Maybe we will get it right this time and put this sucker behind bars. Can you imagine? He gets away with murder, but gets life in prison for stealing his own sports memorabilia.
Because of two non-conformists, Phil Spector, the person that I believe murdered a woman, is as free as O.J. Simpson so he can threaten to kill other people.
 The jury deliberated for 12 days, taking six ballots, but was unable to reach a unanimous verdict.
Jurors told Superior Court Judge Larry Paul Fidler they were split 10-2, without indicating which way they were leaning. They added there was nothing Fidler could do to help them arrive at a unanimous verdict.
Fidler discharged the nine men and three women, thanking them for their service.
Spector went on trial in April, charged with second-degree murder in the shooting death of B-movie queen Lana Clarkson after a night out in the clubs of Hollywood.
The judge told attorneys to return to his Los Angeles, California, courtroom on October 3 to discuss the next legal move.
Spector, 67, did not take the witness stand at the trial.
Deliberations were arduous, entering the third week on Monday. Last week, jurors received new instructions on the law and were told to start over after the foreman declared the panel was deadlocked 7-5.
The jury’s inability to reach a verdict capped a five-month trial that played like a Hollywood film noir classic — with a twist of the bizarre.
Normally reclusive, Spector had spent a rare night out on the town, found Clarkson at the House of Blues at closing time and invited her home for a drink in the wee hours of February 3, 2003.
After initially turning him down, she agreed to accompany him, according to testimony.
Hours later, police were summoned to Spector’s mansion in Alhambra, a suburb of Los Angeles. The diminutive music producer had wandered into the driveway in the predawn and told his Brazilian-born chauffeur, “I think I killed somebody,” according to the driver’s testimony.
Clarkson was found inside, slumped in a chair in the foyer. She had been shot in the mouth. A .38-caliber Colt Special revolver lay at her feet. It appeared someone had attempted to clean up the blood with a diaper found in the guest bathroom.
Spector’s attorneys argued that Clarkson was depressed over a recent breakup, grabbed the gun and took her own life.
But prosecution witnesses painted Spector as a gun-toting menace, with five women telling harrowing tales on the witness stand of the music producer threatening them with firearms. Spector’s driver testified he heard a loud noise and saw the producer leave the home, pistol in hand, saying, “I think I killed somebody.”
What other’s said:
- Defamer says, “We’re not sure what we’re supposed to be feeling right now; we’re mulling outrage, but then we start picturing that adorable Great Dane and that parade of fun wigs and we just can’t seem to muster it–which could very likely be the same thought process going through the minds of those stubborn holdouts.”
- Felt Up says, “Phil, O.J., and Robert Blake should do a reality show called, oh I don’t know, “Killas In Da House!” or something. Every week, a middle-aged blonde lady would move in and they could compete to see who can kill her the fastest.”
source: Mistrial declared as Spector jury hangs 10-2 [cnn]
NSFW picture of Lana Clarkson at the crime scene, after the jump.
A few weeks ago O.J. Simpson’s girlfriend cheated on him with a handyman. O.J. confronted the guy and threatened to kill him. Now why does this sound familiar?
The New York Post reports:
With his gal pal, Nicole look-alike Christie Prody, next to him, Simpson peeled his Lexus sedan into the driveway in the late evening as Marlene Gonzalez was parking her brawny hubby’s pickup truck.
Simpson made a beeline for her, shouting, “I need to f- - -ing talk to you,” Marlene Gonzalez said. He told her that her husband had sex with Prody earlier that day, she said. “I told him he had to solve that problem with his girlfriend,” she said.
Janos Gonzalez, who had been inside, emerged and told Simpson to leave. But Simpson told the lantern-jawed lothario: “Come over here. I’m going to f- - -ing kill you,” Marlene Gonzalez said. Simpson then placed his hand behind him as if drawing a gun, she said.
Okay, stop for a minute. If you’ve had sex with O.J. Simpson’s girlfriend and he shows up at your house threatening to kill you, it’s a safe bet that HE F—ING WILL!
source: O.J. ‘LOVE FURY’ IS DEJA JUICE [ny post]
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And you thought O.J. Simpson couldn’t get any weirder. You’re wrong.
James Woods is saying that O.J. and Nicole Brown Simpson once invited him to have a threesome. And that Nicole wanted some James-lovin’ all to herself without O.J. knowing. James met O.J. and Nicole in Palm Springs a couple years before the murder.
Apparently, one night after dinner, Nicole and O.J. invited him back to their room for a “night cap”, but they wanted much more. James turned them down, but later got a letter from Nicole asking him to get together on the sly.
He said,
 “About four days later, I get at my house a letter from her, ‘Dear Jimmy,’ with a little heart where the ‘i” is, [saying] ‘O.J. is out of town, maybe you would like to get together.’ [I thought], this can’t be possible.”
Are you kidding? This is the strangest Hollywood sex hook up I’ve ever heard. I never pictured O.J. as a guy to include a man in the threesome action.
Source: “James Woods Is Nasty” [dlisted]
Image courtesy of Picture Perfect, for use on Gone Hollywood
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