Prosecutors cleared JonBenet Ramsey’s parents and brother Wednesday in the 1996 killing of the 6-year-old beauty queen, saying they were “deeply sorry” for putting the family under a cloud of suspicion that hung heavy for more than a decade.
New DNA tests, which focus on skin cells left behind from a mere touch, point to a mysterious outsider. They came too late to clear the name of JonBenet’s mother, Patsy, who died of cancer in 2006.
“To the extent that we may have contributed in any way to the public perception that you might have been involved in this crime, I am deeply sorry,” Boulder County District Attorney Mary Lacy wrote in a letter to the little girl’s father, John Ramsey. “No innocent person should have to endure such an extensive trial in the court of public opinion.”
Lacy said new “touch DNA” tests on skin cells that were left behind on JonBenet’s long underwear point to an “unexplained third party” and not a member of the family.
John Ramsey, a software entrepreneur who now lives in Michigan, said Wednesday he is hopeful the killer will be found based on the DNA evidence.
“I think the people that are in charge of the investigation are focused on that, and that gives me a lot of comfort,” he told KUSA-TV in Denver. He added: “Certainly we are grateful that they acknowledged that we, based on that, certainly could not have been involved.”
For years after the slaying, tabloids and crime shows went after the couple, and Lacy’s predecessor as district attorney, Alex Hunter, said in 1997 that the parents were under an “umbrella of suspicion.” News reports also cast suspicion on JonBenet’s older brother, Burke, who was 9 when his sister was killed.
The suspicions outlived Patsy, who died at age 49 in Atlanta, where the family moved after JonBenet’s death.
“My first thought was obviously I wish Patsy Ramsey was here with us to be able to at least share vindication of her family,” said L. Lin Wood, an attorney for the Ramsey family. “There are many people in this country, if not around the world, that also owe John and Patsy Ramsey and Burke Ramsey an apology.”
Early in the investigation, police found male DNA in a drop of blood on JonBenet’s underwear and determined it was not from anyone in her family. But Lacy said investigators were unable to say who it came from and whether that person was the killer.
Then, late last year, prosecutors turned over long underwear JonBenet was wearing to the Bode Technology Group near Washington, which looked for “touch DNA,” or cells left behind where someone has touched something.
The lab has only been using this technology for about three years.
The laboratory found previously undiscovered genetic material on the sides of the girl’s long underwear, where an attacker would have grasped the clothing to pull it down, authorities said. The DNA matched the genetic material found earlier.
Lacy said the presence of the same male DNA in three places on the girl’s clothing convinced investigators it belonged to JonBenet’s killer and had not been left accidentally by an innocent party.
“It is therefore the position of the Boulder District Attorney’s Office that this profile belongs to the perpetrator of the homicide,” she said in a statement. In her letter to the Ramseys, she said the DNA evidence “has vindicated your family.”
She said investigators hope someday to find a DNA match in the ever-expanding national DNA databank.
Through a spokeswoman, Lacy declined to comment any further.
John Ramsey found his daughter’s strangled and bludgeoned body in the basement of the family’s home in Boulder on Dec. 26, 1996. Patsy Ramsey said she found a ransom note demanding $118,000 for her daughter.
In all honesty, I don’t think they’ll ever figure out who killed this poor little girl.
source: JonBenet’s family cleared by DNA [chicago sun]
Matthew McConaughey has sold the rights to his son, Levi Alves McConaughey’s first photos to OK! Magazine, who outbid People.
OK! will reportedly pay 3 million for the set of photographs, which is to include Levi’s first Christmas. I wonder if McConaughey will buy a bigger motor home now?
What others said [mickael k never disappoints]:
Dlisted says, “He Would’ve Settled For Half A Joint And A Bag Of Funions.”
source: McConaughspawn — Three Million Dollar Baby [tmz]
If you were married to Christie Brinkley and had $3000 in extra cash every month, would you spend it on porn?
Christie Brinkley’s estranged husband spent about $3,000 a month on pornographic Web sites, the model’s lawyer said at the start of the couple’s nasty divorce trial.
“That is the man who’s come before this court and asked for custody of his 13-year-old son and 10-year-old daughter,” attorney Robert Stephan Cohen said of Peter Cook. The couple’s daughter, Sailor, had her birthday on Wednesday.
“It was wrong and he said it was wrong,” Cook’s lawyer, Norman Sheresky, said of the porn.
But the main focus of the trial is Cook’s affair with an 18-year-old, which set off a frenzy in the tabloids. Cohen said Brinkley found out about it from the teenager’s stepfather; the fashion model got the bad news moments before she was to speak at the Southampton High School graduation.
The teenager, Diana Bianchi, is expected to testify. She claims Cook seduced her shortly after hiring her to work at his Hamptons architectural firm.
“He did it and it was wrong. And we said so. And there is no way to make that right,” Sheresky said. “Peter has apologized. He’s cried his eyes out. He’s lost his marriage.”
The lawyer said Brinkley is partly to blame for the public spectacle.
“For goodness sake: She’s on her fourth husband,” Sheresky told the court. “Your honor, we’re here because of the self-indulgent wrath of a woman scorned.”
Oh, snap!
Look, Christie isn’t as hot as she was in the days when teenage boys had posters of her on their walls and using her for the same purposes Peter Cook presumably employed his porn to. But, dude, she’s still pretty hot!
And, to add insult to injury, he was also screwing some 18-year-old. I don’t have any pictures of her but if he was willing to risk losing Christie Brinkley to sleep with her, she had to be at least halfway decent looking.
So, he’s having sex with Christie Brinkley, shagging a hot teenager on the side, and still needs $3000 a month for porn?! The greedy bastard! You have to admire the dude’s stamina, if nothing else.
Source: Brinkley’s lawyer: Husband spent money on porn [AP]
Angelina Jolie’s obstetrician, Dr. Michel Sussmann, assured the press at a news conference in the South of France today, that all is well with the expectant mom – something that she and Brad Pitt want the world to know. That’s right, she’s still pregnant!
“Everything is normal,” the obstetrician said in French, as he also said in English, “She is very well, and she’s okay. … Brad and Angelina want everyone to know that everything is going well. It is simply a visit of surveillance, no birth.”
The babies, he said, will arrive “in the weeks to come.”
Angelina was probably resting up in the hospital, watching TV and laughing her ass off — forced to set the record straight.
Pitt arriving at hospital with Zahara and Shiloh
Jolie, who is expecting twins, checked into the medical center this weekend. Since that time, the media has been on a frenzy — with two tabloids even reporting two different gender combinations. By the way, both of those mags are just now hitting the stands — they’ll have to live with the shame for a whole week.
Sussmann added about his patient,
“Angelina is very, very nice, she will stay in the hospital until the birth. I will stay with her.”
No wonder she’s having the babies in France — can you imagine the frenzy that would have ensued at a hospital in say… Hollywood?
source: Angelina Jolie’s Doctor: ‘Everything Is Normal’ [people]
Feds probing the alleged sale of cancer-stricken Farrah Fawcett’s medical records to The National Enquirer could find a long mole tunnel between the hospitals and the tabloids.
Former UCLA Medical Center staffer Lawanda Jackson was indicted on April 9 after allegedly leaking private info about Fawcett, Maria Shriver and 60 other patients. Now vets at the ‘bloids are wondering how long it will be before other health professionals and reporters are drawn into the investigation.
Staffers at L.A. hospitals favored by celebs have been on the payroll of the supermarket weeklies for years, based on transcripts we’ve obtained of taped conversations among dirt-diggers at Globe magazine.
The recordings, made by former Globe managing editor Jim Mitteager, capture him talking with his reporters and sources about stars who allegedly have undergone cosmetic surgery and abortions, as well as been treated for mental illness, bulimia and AIDS.
Among the celebs mentioned in the conversations are Tom Cruise, Jessica Lange, Liz Taylor, Billy Crystal, Kelsey Grammer, Magic Johnson, Roseanne Barr, Al Pacino, Paula Abdul, Frank Zappa and Vanna White.
Recorded between 1992 and 1993, the tapes suggest the impunity with which hospital workers trafficked in sensitive information.
One reporter is heard telling Mitteager that, “If Liz (Taylor) is in St. John’s Hospital,” his source there will know it. “She takes a special delight on getting s? on Liz,” says the reporter. “She has access to the computer and talks to orderlies.”
On another tape, Mitteager contends that a now-deceased TV actor “has got AIDS. The people who want to sell the story have physical proof. They want $4,000. ? They want to move fast because it’s Christmastime and they want to get paid.”
Equally impatient is the husband of a nurse, who asks if he can get “some good-faith money” for his tip. Mitteager says he’ll pay only “if we run the story.”
Mitteager bequeathed the tapes to private investigator Paul Barresi, who has offered to cooperate with prosecutors and hospital officials.
“I remember the gleeful reaction from a Globe senior editor to the news that Dinah Shore had been diagnosed with cancer,” Barresi tells us. “It made my skin crawl. Nothing has changed inside the tabs.”
A spokesman for American Media Inc., which bought The Globe in 2000, said the legality of the dealings before then “are not our responsibility.” The rep declined to comment on the current Enquirer case.
A lawyer for several celebs mentioned on the recordings told us he would ask his clients if they want to pursue legal action. “The question is whether you can sue on something that happened 15 years ago,” the attorney added. “Also, how reliable is the information the reporters are talking about.”
Publicist Stan Rosenfield, whose clients include Grammer, Robert De Niro and George Clooney, said: “It’s alarming that this criminal activity could go on so long without being detected.”
Man that’s horrible, a hospital selling private medical records — I would be so pissed off!
See the parts bolded above? How much do you want to bet, the mental patient was Tom Cruise?
There are many ways to measure talent in Hollywood. But for the authors of “Hollywood Babylon: It’s Back,” size is everything.
Borrowing the title of filmmaker Kenneth Anger’s classic scandal bible, authors Danforth Prince and Darwin Porter have dared to publish the pictures and stories too explicit and actionable for even the pulpiest supermarket tabloids.
Among those featured in full-frontal shots are Mick Jagger, Daniel Radcliffe, Ewan McGregor, John Malkovich, James Woods, Richard Gere and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. We leave it to you to decide whether all the snaps are authentic.
The authors also write about the reputed size of many other stars in the book, due June 1. Johnny Depp was known as “donkey d-”, they say. Sean Connery posed nude for art studies, and one student said:”It was the biggest I’ve ever seen. It made me drop my charcoal pencil.”
Dishing with abandon, the authors spare no one - especially not the dead, who can’t sue. Lack of sources don’t stop them from claiming:
Marilyn Monroe had an affair with Ronald Reagan. The authors also claim Monroe had a tryst with Joan Crawford but refused to make it an ongoing affair. “She had bad breath,” Monroe allegedly told roommate Shelly Winters. “Besides, she wanted to do things to me that no woman should do to another woman.”
James Dean showed a disconcerting interest in a 12-year-old boy in the early 1950s. Director Elia Kazan believed the tale: “I’ve known many actors who have been twisted up in their sex lives, but never anybody as sick and unhealthy as Dean was.”
Elvis Presley had a gay old time with Nick Adams, who played Johnny Yuma in the hit TV series “The Rebel.”
Lucille Ball launched herself into show business as a hooker, and her husband Desi Arnaz had a fling with Cesar Romero.
Cary Grant had an incestuous relationship with his stepson, Lance Reventlow.
Sir Winston Churchill got “musical” with actor and songwriter Ivor Novello.
Strange things happened to Judy Garland’s body (this in the chapter on “Fan Worship and Necrophilia”).
Police believed Bette Davis killed her second husband, Arthur Farnsworth, by hitting him on the head and causing a hemorrhage that lead to his death two weeks later. But a grand jury - six men who confessed to being ardent fans - found her innocent.
Angelina Jolie forgoes the sex tape phenomenon. We all know that is amature compared to the freaky kink she has been privy to. A “source” has gotten a hold of video of Jolie doing drugs. To be specific she is partaking in some heroin and coke.
The owner of the drug party tape is currently shopping it to tabloids and media outlets. The going price for the Jolie free-basing tape is $70,000. The retail price isn’t as high as it could be (pun intended). The incubator of Brad Pitt’s babies has admitted to past drug use and it isn’t that shocking coming from her past.
“I’ve done coke, heroin, ecstasy, LSD everything.
I hate heroin because I’ve been fascinated with it. I’m not immune, but I won’t do it now, at all.”
However, the moment of interest on the tape is when Angie shows her education on street drugs.
“The key part of the tape is Angelina doing heroin. She says, ‘Wow, this is really good smack - not that cheap crap that’s been stepped on.’ Angelina is seen sniffing white lines from a plate, and then as the drug cooks on tinfoil, she deeply sucks in its smoke through a tube.”
This is the Angie I miss. The crunked out and crazy girl that wasn’t trying to be an anorexic She-ra and save the world from famine and ugly shoes.
Source: Alleged Angelina Jolie Drug Tape? [Starpulse]
Teen pop sensation THE JONAS BROTHERS wear silver “purity rings” on their ring fingers symbolizing their vows to stay chaste until marriage — and they’re not the only ones! A new abstinence is sweeping Hollywood’s youth, despite what you might read in the tabloids.
“Dancing with the Stars” cutie JULIANNE HOUGH, 19, appeared on a recent cover of CosmoGIRL! declaring her virginity. “I want to be with that special person,” she told the mag. She also doesn’t drink or smoke.
Disney star MILEY CYRUS has also declared her wishes to remain pure, along with “American Idol” JORDIN SPARKS, and believe it or not, Victoria’s Secret model ADRIANA LIMA, who recently posed semi-nude with a palm frond on the cover of GQ magazine. “Sex is just for after marriage,” the gorgeous brunette told the mag. Sorry, guys!
I say… Give Miley time… just give her time.
Are you a celebrity virgin who was left off the list? Just give us a shout!
Too many actresses are believing the line that you can’t be too thin. Please, ladies, eat a sandwich or something at the craft services cart. Here are a special shout-out to ten skinny-ass celebs that used to really turn heads
Thandie Newton
Most recently seen in: Run Fat Boy Run
Last time she was hot: Mission: Impossible II
There was a time that Thandie Newton was the next Hollywood hottie. Then someone must have suggested that she had some jelly rolls, because she lost more weight than a cancer patient on Atkins. Now she looks more like a zero-body-fat lizard than a celebrity beauty.
Victoria Beckham
Most recently seen in: Ugly Betty
Last time she was hot: when the Spice Girls were
Not that I was a fan of the Spice Girls, but I will admit that they covered all the bases in terms of fantasy girls. But the former Posh Spice has lost so much weight that her once sultry figure makes her look like a lollipop - a wobbly head on a stick. I’m afraid her neck is going to snap and her hubby will kick her head around their flat like a soccer ball.
Jennifer Connelly
Most recently seen in: Reservation Road
Last time she was hot: Requiem for a Dream
Can you believe this was the girl from The Rocketeer? Or Dark City? This buxom brunette starts getting some Hollywood credibility and drops down to a size zero. There’s nothing wrong with losing a little pudge, but when you look like one of the starving children from Sierra Leone in Blood Diamond, something’s wrong.
Rachel Taylor
Most recently seen in: Shutter
Last time she was hot: Transformers
Okay, I really loved her debut in Transformers. Very few ladies in Hollywood could give Megan Fox a run for the money, especially in a two-hour Michael Bay beer commercial. But in Shutter, this girl looked like she hadn’t eaten since working with Bay. She could make it as an up-and-coming hottie, if she actually ate a sandwich.
Kate Bosworth
Most recently seen in: 21
Last time she was hot: Blue Crush
She just beat the house last weekend in 21, and she banged Superman without being mortally wounded, but I just can’t get over the fact she looks like a 12-year-old boy. It wasn’t hard to hide her nipples in the 21 sex scene, considering she’s about as anorexically flat-chested as Jim Sturgess was.
Ashlee Simpson
Most recently seen in: 2008 Kids Choice Awards
Last time she was hot: 2008 Kids Choice Awards, but still doesn’t look healthy
She was the less-cute sister of Jessica Simpsons, but thanks to silicone, collagen, rhinoplasty and crash diets, she now looks like a supermodel. But that’s not a good thing. It might work for a bulimic supermodel, but for a girl who could have been America’s sweetheart, she looks less like her former self than Michael Jackson does.
Angelina Jolie
Most recently seen in: Beowulf
Last time she was hot: Beowulf (hell, they can do a lot with CGI)
Not too long ago, I saw a tabloid compare photos of Jolie’s scrawny, veiny arm to that of geriatric Clint Eastwood. And you know what? Sometimes tabloids are right. This once hot chick has gotten way too thin. Have you seen the trailers for Wanted? Give me back the Gia days, baby!
Lindsay Lohan
Most recently seen in: I Know Who Killed Me
Last time she was hot: Herbie Fully Loaded
Granted, she’s up and down more often than Oprah lately, but let’s blame this on her lack of focus. I saw her nudie shots from New York Magazine. And while I’m impressed with her huge (but obviously fake) knockers, I just can’t get excited about the freckly femme’s whisper-thin frame. She was chubby-cheerleader cute for a while, but just a year or so ago, her weight plummeted, making her scary-thin for a while.
Saffron Burrows
Most recently seen in: The Bank Job
Last time she was hot: Deep Blue Sea
It’s arguable that former model Saffron Burrows ever really looked healthy. But watching this scrawny, lanky lady tower over Jason Statham in The Bank Job was enough to get her on this list. She made his evil co-star from Transporter 2 look fat. Still, that underwear shot in Deep Blue Sea was pretty nice.
Gwyneth Paltrow
Most recently seen in: The Good Night
Last time she was hot: Se7en
Anyone who is familiar with me as a film critic knows that I have been highly critical of Paltrow for years. But aside from her inability to act (and so many people’s inability to see that she can’t act), I detest how she is physically wasting away as she gets older. She’s one of those girls that went overboard to lose the baby weight. Now, as she enters her late 30s, that too-thin look is not working for her.
Amanda Overmyer nude photos are being shopped according to a breaking report from the National Enquirer.
The American Idol hopeful would not be the first Idol to be exposed online in a photos scandal, but it appears that she has someone from her home state of Indiana shopping the pictures to the tabloids and they are reportedly asking for serious cash for the alleged pictures of the the would be rocker.
It has not been confirmed that there are any photos out there just yet.
I’m guessing she’s one of those people you would just rather not see naked.
“The key part of the tape is Angelina doing heroin. She says, ‘Wow, this is really good smack - not that cheap crap that’s been stepped on.’ Angelina is seen sniffing white lines from a plate, and then as the drug cooks on tinfoil, she deeply sucks in its smoke through a tube.”
Amanda Overmyer nude photos are being shopped according to a breaking report from the National Enquirer. 
