A Georgia woman is suingTyra Banks for $3 million after she said her 15-year-old daughter appeared without her permission on an episode of Banks’ talk show about teen sex addicts.
In a lawsuit filed Oct. 8th in federal court in Atlanta, Beverly McClendon claims the show contacted the teen on her cell phone after she responded to a request on the show’s website seeking “sex addicts.”
[Tyra Banks interviews "teenage" sex addicts]
The girl was then picked up from her home in Georgia in a limo and flown to New York, where she was put up in a hotel, all without her mother’s knowledge, the lawsuit says.
McClendon filed a missing person report with local police when she realized her daughter was gone. The teen has never been diagnosed as a sex addict, the lawsuit says. The lawsuit also names Warner Bros. Entertainment and the executive producers of the show as defendants.
McClendon says her daughter suffered damages because the 2009 show “was undoubtedly watched by sexual deviants, perverts and pedophiles.” The lawsuit seeks a jury trial and asks for $1 million in compensatory damages and $2 million in punitive damages. It also asks the court to bar the episode from ever being aired again on television or online.
The show violated McClendon’s right to privacy by putting her daughter, who was a minor, on television without McClendon’s permission, the lawsuit claims.
The lawsuit also claims negligence, saying the teen was paid for her appearance but that the show didn’t get permission from the labor commissioner to employ her and didn’t get McClendon’s permission before paying the girl to fly to New York, stay in a hotel alone and appear on the show.
Is Kate Gosselin finally “single and ready to mingle”? Well, the mom of eight children is confident she will find Mr. Right … very soon. After all, what’s not to like about Kate?
“Kate’s confidence is amazing,” an insider tells me. “She thinks she is a fantastic catch. Not only does she think she has never looked better, Kate also now has a ton of money. As far as she’s concerned, there is nothing not to like. She’s beautiful, rich and thinks of herself as very easy to get along with.”
Between looking after her eight children and taping her two shows, Kate doesn’t have the time to go out and meet guys. Even if she did, sources tell me Kate has no girlfriends with whom she could hit up the local bars and clubs. Instead the only place Kate does meets new men is when she’s doing media interviews to promote her show.
“Kate is constantly flirting with all the hot male reporters she meets,” a producer tells me. “She has a sparkle in her eye and gets all giddy when she’s bossing reporters around. At first, we thought she was happy because she was talking about herself. Then we realized she was looking for a date.”
Beth Feldman, founder of RoleMommy.com and the author of ‘See Mom Run’ explains, “Some single moms are so busy taking care of their kids’ schedules and juggling work that the prospect of dating just doesn’t fit into their hectic lives. Plus, if you haven’t taken time for yourself in a long while then you might be feeling self-conscious about getting back into the dating scene in the first place. However, Kate Gosselin has the benefit of childcare and an income that affords her the luxury of taking time for herself. Plus, since Jon is still in the picture, he can take the kids while she heads out on a hot date.”
Note to all single male reporters. Be careful. You have been warned.
In other news, a Pennsylvania state lawmaker is questioning the legality of work permits issued to Kate Gosselin’s sextuplets for the reality show “Kate Plus 8.”
Rep. Thomas Murt says state law allows children under 7 to work in movies, but not television. Gosselin’s sextuplets are 6.
Murt asked for an explanation in letters sent Tuesday to the state attorney general and labor secretary.
State labor officials said previously that TV producers should have obtained child work permits for the TLC show’s predecessor, “Jon & Kate Plus 8.” But no penalties were imposed.
Spokesmen for the attorney general’s office and labor secretary did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
source: Kate Gosselin Believes She’s a ‘Fantastic Catch’ [popeater]
Lawrence Taylor was arrested for rape in New York last week after he was accused of raping a 16-year-old prostitute but his defense is that he touched himself and didn’t go near her.
Sources say that his defense team are going to admit he took the prostitute to a hotel room in Rockland County but they are insisting that he only engaged in a “masturbatory act” and did not have sexual intercourse with her.
The reason he could be saying this is because under New York law, “A person is guilty of rape in the third degree when … he or she engages in sexual intercourse with another person less than seventeen years old.” Meaning if he just masturbated he can’t be charged with third-degree rape.
As we all know there was a condom found in the hotel room and the prostitute is insisting she did have intercourse with him and he paid her $300 in cash when they finished up. She also said the condom got stuck insider her and he had to put his fingers in to get it out.
Lawrence Taylor‘s lawyers say that the condom was not his and was left behind by someone else who stayed in the hotel room.
source: Lawrence Taylor rape defense: I didn’t touch teen hooker, I touched myself [NY Daily News]
The International Olympic Committee stripped China of a bronze medal in the women’s team event at the 2000 Olympic Games, after finding one of the team’s athletes was underage.
You think?!?
The United States will be awarded the bronze medal instead, the IOC said in a news release.
“The FIG conducted an inquiry which showed that the athlete was only 14 years old during the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games,” the IOC said. Under FIG qualification rules, athletes must be 16 in the year of the Games in order to compete.
The IOC’s executive board on Wednesday decided to reallocate the results of the events that Dong participated in. She had placed sixth in the women’s individual floor exercises and seventh in the women’s individual vault.
Dong has been disqualified from all the events she participated in, which also included the women’s individual uneven bars, the women’s individual all-around and the women’s individual balance beam.
source: China stripped of medal; gymnast found to be underage [CNN]
Apparently Miley Cyrus showed up to LA Fashion Week Wednesday to catch her 20-year-old boyfriend, Justin Gaston, walking in the Christian Audigier show – and eyebrows rose at the pair’s behavior.
According to an eyewitness, Gaston and Cyrus – who was there with her mother, Leticia, and her manager – “were all over each other backstage.” The heat extended to the runway where, every time Gaston walked, he would blow a kiss and wink at his teenage girlfriend, who in turn, “licked her lips seductively as he passed her.”
The source also overheard a conversation in which Cyrus told a friend that “she was probably staying at Justin’s tonight and that they were going to skip the after-party and have a party of their own.”
A rep for Cyrus said, “Miley had a great time at the show, but the whole sleeping-over thing never happened. Miley went home with her mom and manager. Leticia is very strict with her.”
Cyrus – who posed semi-nude for Vanity Fair and posted a photo on the Web of herself pulling her shirt down to reveal a bra – was surrounded at all times by five bodyguards who “banned anyone from getting near her and formed a barrier so she wouldn’t be touched or bothered by anyone. With all the chaos she generated, other celebrities such as Heidi Klum and Billy Zane went virtually unnoticed and were completely ignored by the press,” our source said.
But those who broke through, including West Coast socialites Alan McCune and Darren Bettencourt, were treated very well. When Bettencourt told Cyrus his niece was a fan, the “Hannah Montana” star offered to call the girl, our spy said.
“It’s so funny,” said our source. “Everyone in LA knows that if you want Miley to show up at your event, all you have to do is hire her boyfriend as a model.”
I’m not even going to comment on heir relationship, but if that is her definition of being sexy then I give up.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) confirmed today that it has asked the International Gymnastics Federation to investigate the Chinese gymnastics underage fiasco, following new evidence that at least two gymnasts competed under the legal age in the Olympics.
A hacker by the handle of “stryde.hax†(every time I read that I think to myself “Does he use Stridex?â€) tracked down some evidence of the real birth dates of He Kexin and Yang Yilin that shows that they are actually 14 years old.
Basically, the Chinese government had any traces of their actual birth dates deleted from everywhere — even Google’s cache — but this hacker tracked it down in the document translation cache of Chinese search giant Baidu. Which isn’t really hacking so much as it is, ya know, good old-fashioned American ingenuity. You can check out the documents here and here, but they’re in Chinese so good luck with that. You can also check out stryde.hax’s blog on the issue here.
Emmanuelle Moreau, IOC’s Media Relations Manager in Beijing, said in an email that, “the IOC has therefore asked the International Gymnastics Federation to endeavor to find out more. We understand they are doing so immediately.â€
Although I commend the Chinese and their efforts in the Olympics — those young gals are tremendously good, they should follow the rules like everyone else. If the rules say, “you must be 16 years of age”, then they need to be 16 years of age.
source: Investigating the Chinese Gymnasts — FINALLY! [evil beet gossip]
We all knew it was just a matter of time, before Hulk Hogan had something to say about Linda Hogan’s new boytoy.
Aside from dating a boy who is younger than her own daughter, Linda’s allowing the teen to drive uninsured vehicles and ransack Nick’s room.
Hogan told radio host Bubba the Love Sponge that Linda Hogan’s younger-than-Brooke boyfriend, Charley Hill, is causing him all sorts of trouble — driving Hulk’s uninsured motorcycle, going through Nick’s stuff and being the cause for Linda to call the cops on him.
Alex Phillips, a a 17 year-old Wisconsin teenager, has been arrested on felony charges of child pornography. He also faces charges of defamation and sexual exploitation of a child.
Phillips posted naked photos of his ex-girlfriend on his MySpace account. When contacted by by police about the two cell phone camera images of his 16 year-old ex, Phillips refused to take them down.
When he was threatened with facing jail time for displaying naked photos of an underage girl, he responded with, “F#ck that, I am keeping them up.”
Phillips told cops that he posted the photos last week “because he was venting.” The cell phone camera photos had been taken by the girl, who provided them to Phillips.
Along with posting the photos, Phillips added explicit captions like, “Yo, U see how big her hole is! Its from me!”
While claiming that his goal was not to harm the girl, Phillips acknowledged that, “he probably should not have done this,” according to the May 20 court filing.
Along with the child porn count, Phillips was charged with defamation and sexual exploitation of a child.
Joe Francis was “very surprised and in fact amazed” when he was told about the suit filed by Ashley Dupre, ex-New York Governor Eliot Spitzer’s former call girl.
Dupre, 22, filed suit Monday seeking $10 million from Francis and his company, Girls Gone Wild, for misuse of her name and image for profit.
Francis had publicly offered Dupre a $1 million deal for a Girls Gone Wild photo shoot and tour but while he was haggling with her lawyers, the GGW tapes of Dupre from 2003 surfaced and the deal was called off.
“She refused this offer and in fact if she’d like to reconsider, we’d be happy to discuss. She should keep in mind, it’s considerably more than the Governor of New York paid her, and our activities aren’t illegal.â€
Asked in March about reports Dupre was underage during the GGW shoot, Francis said, “It doesn’t matter.”
Well… obviously it did matter… that will be the ace in her pocket in court.
source: Joe Francis “Amazed” That Ashley Dupre’s Suing Him [us weekly]
What is it with Donald Trumpattracting sluts who are always eager to show off their naughty bits? I guess that is just part of being a ho. At an event that was pimping Trump’s vodka, one his models was topless while representing his booze. At the time the aforementioned model was only 17.
“MARC LOTENBERG’S 944 MAGAZINE HELD AN EVENT AT THE 944 SUPER VILLAGE WHERE THEY PROMOTED TRUMP VODKA AS WELL AS PROMOTING IT ALL OVER THE MAGAZINE. FOR THE EVENT 944 MAGAZINE HIRED AND BODY PAINTED A FEW MODELS. AS YOU CAN SEE ABOVE ONE OF THE MODELS WAS ONLY WAS ONLY 17 YEARS OLD (CHANELL). SHE WAS WALKING AROUND NAKED , PASSING OUT DRINKS AND DRINKING DURING THE WHOLE EVENT AND PROMOTING TRUMP’S VODKA!”
Judging by the photos I can see where they didn’t question her age. She looks like she is about 38. I am guessing all the time put in at her local tanning bed combined with being a bit of a crotch jockey is taking its toll.
“GIRLS Gone Wild” creator Joe Francis is a free man after 11 months behind bars.
Unlike previous years, where he spent time overseeing spring break filming, Francis retreated to his office to prepare for the launch of his new “Girls Gone Wild” magazine, set to hit newsstands on April 15th.
Francis headed straight to his office yesterday to get back to work. “We’re filming at every spring break location, 14 cities right now. We’ve got 50 or 60 camera guys out there,” Francis told Page Six from Florida, where he pleaded no contest to charges of videotaping underage girls and was released for time served.
His lawyer, Roy Black, said, “It’s a big victory for Joe. He’s such a high-energy guy. He couldn’t stand being in jail.” Francis planned to fly back to LA immediately.
Unlike past years, when he’d hit beach resorts in Florida, Texas and Mexico to oversee the spring break filming, he’ll be in his office. “I’ve got a magazine to put out,” he explained.
The first Girls Gone Wild magazine is due to hit newsstands April 15 at $9.99 a copy, poly-bagged with a full-length CD featuring drunken exhibitionist co-eds. Francis said Curtis Circulation had already lined up 50,000 retail outlets.
Let’s just hope that Francis has learned and is making sure that all those girls being filmed are over the age of 18.
Vanessa Hudgens maybe spreading nude photos of herself around the net, but she isn’t in the clink as reported by CosmoGirl. The site had gotten their info another site called Back Seat Cuddler, who got the story from WHYfame, who had apparently was misinformed of the supposed arrest.
It might be hard to believe, but Vanessa Hudgens was arrested for underage drinking, according to Back Seat Cuddler. The Disney starlet was hanging out at a Hollywood club when an undercover cop entered and began a random search for minors who were drinking. Even Vanessa’s mom called her daughter’s actions “stupid.†I just hope Vanessa doesn’t end up going down the same road as some other Hollywood starlets. Get it together, girl!
The mythical arrest for under age drinking took place on Sunday. Hudgens was actually Texas while she supposedly out drinking and being hauled to jail. She is filming a new flick called “Will†in the lone star state.
Eh, that is why it is called gossip. While most of the reported celebrity shenanigans are indeed true, one or two false reports slip in. Really it is only a matter of time. It isn’t so much a false report as jumping the gun on the story.
Source: CosmoGIRL Yanks ‘Vanessa Hudgens Arrested’ Story [Portable Planet]
Rumer Willis arrives at LA’s trendy Villa Lounge on Monday night, only to be kicked out minutes later when the manager realized she was only 19-years-old!
The minor child of Bruce Willis and Demi Moore walked back to her car whilst trying to cover her face. The walk of shame is never pretty.
Victoria Schattauer, a 19-year old cheerleading coach, has been fired after some nude photos of her and an underaged cheerleader were posted on the Internet.
A small town is rocked by scandal. This after a racy picture of a Goshen [Ohio] cheerleader and her coach turns up. Both young ladies are topless, and they have some explaining to do.
The school says one of their cheerleading coaches took the nude picture at a recent party. It circulated through e-mail, and that’s when the school asked police to get involved.
It’s playoff night at Goshen High School, but both the football team and cheerleaders are each without assistant coaches tonight. “They have to be the right role models, and that is exactly what we expect from our employees,” Goshen Superintendent Charlene Thomas said.
Thomas says the school board today fired 19-year-old assistant coach Andrew Emerson for hosting a party and 19-year-old freshman cheerleader coach Victoria Schattauer for allegedly providing alcohol to a freshman at the party.
The school says Schattauer took the partially nude picture with the freshman. “This is a little bit early in the investigation, but whatever measures are taken that is appropriate with eligiblity, discipline, that will be taken with our administration,” Thomas said.
The cheerleader coach’s stepfather tells me he did not know about the incident, but tells me he’s very disappointed with his daughter’s actions. The mother of the freshman in the picture told me she had no comment tonight.
Meanwhile, parents with kids in the school are shocked. “I would hope that parents would talk to their kids; it’s not something that should be going around and not something that should be happening at a high school at all,” parent Sarah Clift said.
That party apparently happened in Blanchester, so police there would determine whether to pursue any criminal charges. As far as the school goes, again, both assistant coaches were fired today. That freshman could also be disciplined.
The uncensored photos are available elsewhere but GHW is a PG-13 site, so we won’t post them here since the cheerleader is under-age. We’ll gladly post non-nude photos of Victoria Schattauer here, though, since she’s 19 and legal.
The custody battle between Denise Richards and Charlie Sheen is heating up after Denise asked a judge yesterday to protect their children from Charlie.
“She believes that Charlie has significant personal issues which he has failed to address and which require her to take action to protect her children,” says lawyer Neal Raymond Hersh. “This is not a vindictive action. Any responsible parent in Denise’s shoes would go to the ends of the Earth to protect her children.”
Denise accuses Charlie of “inappropriate behavior … and conduct,” including “his attraction to underage women and his sexual explicitness on the Internet, including revealing his private parts.” Because of this behavior, Denise is asking the court to suspend Charlie’s overnight visits with their daughters.
Charlie fought back, saying:
“Clearly the mother of my children has no interest in responsible co-parenting when it comes to my relationship with our girls. She behaves as though she OWNS our children. She does not. A day of legal reckoning for her is fast approaching. The truth will prevail. It always does.”
This new battle comes only a month after Charlie went to court requesting that he be allowed to select his own child care providers and that Denise cease her “unnecessary phone calls.”
This one is going to get ugly.
What others are saying:
TMZ says, “It just keeps getting uglier in the Sheen-Richards custody tussle.”
Star says, “Charlie Sheen isn’t keeping quiet about his anger toward ex Denise Richards.”
dlisted says, “They need to learn a thing or two from Brit and KFed about how to put together a truly theatrical and dramatic custody battle. This shit is boring.”
Celebrity Dirty Laundry says, “Richards also alleges her children don’t enjoy their time with their father and don’t want to spend the night at his house.”
celebitchy says, “Sheen is happily engaged to a new woman, and that’s got to get under Richards’ skin. She has yet to be tied a new man after Richie Sambora and there was a rumor that she was using an incredibly expensive dating service to try and land a rich guy. I’m not saying a woman needs a man to be happy or to behave cordially, just that someone who is already a super bitch is probably much worse when she doesn’t have a man doting on her.”
Source: “Charlie & Denise Custody Battle Over Daughters Heats Up” [People]
Image courtesy of Picture Perfect, for use on Gone Hollywood
“It is incomprehensible that Ms. Dupré could claim she did not give her consent to be filmed by Girls Gone Wild, when in fact we have videotape of her giving consent, while showing her identification”
Francis headed straight to his office yesterday to get back to work. “We’re filming at every spring break location, 14 cities right now. We’ve got 50 or 60 camera guys out there,” Francis told Page Six from Florida, where he pleaded no contest to charges of videotaping underage girls and was released for time served. 
