A spa visit is meant to make clients feel refreshed - but a Florida woman left one spa brain dead.
Rohie Kah, a 37-year-old mother of three, visited the Weston MedSpa in Weston, Fla., Sept. 25 for a procedure to remove cellulite and stretch marks, ABC news reports. But things somehow went horribly wrong.
Kah, a registered nurse, is now on life support. "It's just a matter of time before she's dead," Michael Freedland, one of her… Continue
We've learned Robert "Joe" Halderman was arrested yesterday outside the CBS headquarters in NYC, and it was news to the people inside who make the news.
Our sources say the Manhattan D.A. played the investigation close to the vest and people inside the building were baffled when the highly-respected producer was cuffed and hauled off in the David Letterman extortion case.
As we already reported Halderman had a relationship with Stephanie Birkitt and… Continue
A Long Island doctor who doled out phony prescriptions for painkillers later sold on city streets was sentenced to three years behind bars Thursday.
Dr. Michael Chait, dubbed a "doctor-turned-dealer" by Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, allegedly charged Medicaid patients from the five boroughs $200 cash for Oxycontin and other narcotic prescriptions.
The patients, up to 50 a day often bused in to his Amangansett office from the city,… Continue
Is New York the greatest city in the world? Without a doubt, it is for some. Although for hundreds of thousands of its residents, who seem to survive only by the grace of God in the most expensive city in the country, it may be difficult to give their hometown the thumbs up.
New York is a place of startling contrasts and deep disparities.
It has the richest mayor in the country (who is also the city's richest citizen) presiding over a… Continue
50 Cent has apologized for comments he made about Kanye West and Lady Gaga's planned Fame Kills Tour during a Wednesday interview with Angie Martinez on New York radio station Hot 97.
In the interview, 50 referred to West and Gaga's just-canceled jaunt as "the gay tour" (making light of an interview Gaga had done with Out magazine earlier this year), took jabs at West's sexuality and said the rapper was "cool with the gay folk."
Suri Cruise has a wardrobe that would make even Anna Wintour jealous: A source claims Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes' 3-year-old has a closetful of clothes worth a whopping $3 million. Apparently, TomKat have top designers create outfits especially for Suri - and their fashionable pal Victoria Beckham even commissioned Roberto Cavalli to design her a one-of-a-kind… Continue
Good news Taylor Swift fans -- Kanye West's "Fame Kills" tour with Lady Gaga has been canceled.
Despite the fact that a rep from Live Nation told us YESTERDAY that the concert was still a go ... Nation announced they were pulling the plug on the tour today, which was scheduled to kick off in November.
No reason was given -- but the VMA backlash and Kanye's upcoming criminal court date could have been… Continue
NEW YORK — One of the great comeback artists of 2008 hit his hometown's biggest stage on Monday night when Brooklyn native Maxwell wowed the crowd at Madison Square Garden. Chrisette Michele and Chicago-native-turned-Brooklynite Common were the opening acts.
Taking the stage after a brief set from Chrisette Michele, Common laced his performance with hip-hop cap-tipping as he started doing a piece of… Continue
Thank goodness, Lil Mama was nowhere in sight on Wednesday, when Jay-Z and Alicia Keys shot the video for "Empire State of Mind" in New York. But there were plenty of other onlookers feeling the vibe and blowing up Twitter with talk about the two New York giants filming in Tribeca and around Ground Zero for the clip, directed by Hype Williams.
Before performing the song at the VMAs last month, Keys told us how the collaboration for the Blueprint… Continue
After years of enduring personal and professional struggles, Mariah Carey finally feels at peace with herself.
"I have always been grateful for everything I had, but my personal life was a mess," the singer reveals in the new issue of In Touch Weekly. "So many artists just exist for their careers and then burn out quickly."
And that's exactly what happened to the Grammy Award winning songbird, who famously had a public meltdown in 2001… Continue
Rihanna made a style boob at Paris Fashion Week yesterday, after stepping out wearing a see-through dress with no underwear. The singer wore the daring outfit to Gareth Pugh's catwalk show, held in a darkened hall at the Palais de Tokyo museum.
However, when she left the event, Rihanna’s apparent lack of lingerie was lit up by photographers’ flashes.
Luckily, the 21-year-old’s modesty was just… Continue
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A newborn snatched from a Nashville home was missing and his mother recovering from stab wounds she said she suffered in a struggle with the woman kidnapper posing as an immigration agent, authorities said Wednesday.
Maria Gurrolla told reporters she had never seen the woman before she showed up at her door Tuesday evening. She said the woman got a knife from the home and stabbed her several times.
Mayor Bloomberg says he's pushing ahead with a controversial plan to ban smoking at city parks and beaches, after earlier saying it needed more study.
"The public is overwhelmingly in favor of banning it in parks as well," Bloomberg told the Bay Terrace Community Alliance at a campaign forum in northeast Queens on Wednesday night. "So, you know, we'll get that done."
The mayor initially hedged when Health Commissioner Thomas Farley… Continue
Authorities uncovered 35 bags of marijuana - in a baby's crib!
The Lookout Mountain Drug Task Force in Tennessee told News Channel 9 that a couple was operating a massive marijuana ring out of their home and hiding the bags of drugs in their child's crib.
"To hide your drugs where your baby's lying is just one of the worst things a parent should do," Walker County Sheriff Steve Wilson told the station.
NEW YORK - Lee Daniels had so much faith in Mariah Carey's acting that when the director's first choice to play a dowdy, no-nonsense social worker -- Oscar-winner Helen Mirren -- backed out, he quickly asked Carey to step in.
But Daniels was well aware that in hiring Mariah Carey , the actress, he was also likely to get Mariah Carey , the diva -- a high-maintenance sideshow that would include an entourage of makeup artists, assistants, publicists and other… Continue