A staggering trove of powerful prescription medications was recovered from Brittany Murphy's bedroom after her untimely death, investigative notes obtained by TMZ.com reveal.
The notes from a Los Angeles County coroner investigator say Murphy, 32, had been complaining of shortness of breath and severe abdominal pain for seven to 10 days before she went to the bathroom about 7:30 a.m. Sunday and collapsed.
As a singer, Mary J. Blige has never been big on structure or discipline. She prefers to throw her voice around a tune like a lasso, surrounding it with so many whoops and wails, grunts and bellows that, by the time she's through, every possible emotion from the song has been wrung dry.
For all Blige's talk about wanting "no more drama" in her life, she makes high theater of her music, boring into an emotion so full and cathartic it borders on… Continue
Tom Cruise has mastered the art of espionage on screen, and now, he's being sued for spying in real life.
Court documents obtained by TMZ.com reveal that magazine editor Michael Davis Sapir is suing Cruise for $5 million dollars, accusing the actor, attorney Bert Fields and private investigator Anthony Pellicano of wiretapping his phone.
It is not the first lawsuit between Cruise and Sapir.
LOS ANGELES – Alaina Reed-Amini, the Broadway star and TV actress best known for her long-running roles on "Sesame Street" and "227," has died. She was 63.
Publicist Billy Laurence says Reed-Amini died Thursday at St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica after a two-year battle with breast cancer.
Previously known as Alaina Reed-Hall, she recently remarried. Her stage credits include "Chicago" and "Hair." She appeared in several… Continue
In a shocking tragedy in New Jersey, a five-year-old boy is dead after he was accidentally shot in the back of the head by a six-year-old relative.
An apartment inside a house on Kearney Street in Paterson became the scene of an unimaginable tragedy on Sunday night. Prosecutors say a child accidentally shot and killed a relative while playing with a gun they found in a bedroom.
A man who walked out of the house says the two boys are… Continue
(Philadelphia, PA- Dec. 20, 2009) Saturday, December 19th rapper Beanie Sigel was leaving a Baltimore studio and was side swiped by a tractor trailer on I-95 that fled the scene. The vehicle that Sigel was traveling in was totaled and he escaped with several injuries to his face, arms and legs.
Bruised, battered, scared but hard, Sigel declined hospital treatment and miraculously performed the next day in Norfolk, VA and is tentatively scheduled… Continue
Fans know that Asher Roth loves college, parties and perhaps most of all, women. One thing he apparently doesn't love is Internet rumors about his sexuality.
The rapper was the subject of rumors in recent days that claimed he would be coming out of the closet during an E! News special to be broadcast over the holidays. Other rumors said that Roth would soon be dropped from his label, SRC Records, to which he's signed via a deal with… Continue
Short(er) shorts for men. It may be a runway image you see above, but even urban brands like CAVI and LRG have started slimming their shorts' fits and cutting them just above the knee. Are the days of drooping, wide shorts over?
DJ Kay Slay has been hit with a copyright infringement lawsuit in Manhattan Federal Court. The lawsuit was filed by a pair of songwriters named Raymond and Richard Grant. The Grant’s claim DJ Kay Slay illegally used a sample of their song "Angels Around Me" on his track "Angels Around Me" which featured cameo appearances by 50 Cent and G-Unit. The song was produced by DJ Twinz and is featured on DJ Kay Slay’s 2004 album The Streetsweeper Vol.2-The… Continue
"Avatar" beat the snowstorm to rake in a blizzard of bucks at the box office.
The $400 million sci-fi epic took the top spot in the snowbound box office with an estimated $73 million at home and an even bigger $159.2 million abroad.
"It was epic," says Rocalisa Kartzar, 18, of Manhattan. "It was cheesy in some parts, but you barely notice it."
It looks like Tila will have to lay off the tequila for the next nine months – the randy reality TV star is pregnant … with her brother's baby.
The 27-year-old (whose real name is Tila Ngyuen) tweeted her "big announcement" on Sunday, "I am going to become a SURROGATE MOTHER for my brother and his Wife!!...That is my xmas present to them."
Though Tila has not revealed any new details about the decision, she did recently receive a… Continue
After being arrested Friday on eight counts of child molestation, Eonline.com reports that the "America's Best Dance Crew" judge was able to post bail in the amount of $590,000.
Since Sparks' release from the slammer on Saturday, his attorney Steve Meister has delivered fiery messages proclaiming his client's innocence against one woman's accusations that Sparks molested her when she was… Continue
A Bronx beat cop who betrayed his badge and his long-time friend were busted Friday for their roles in a large-scale cocaine-peddling ring, the feds said.
Juan Acosta, a nine-year NYPD veteran, allegedly used a police car to rob a drug dealer of hundreds of thousands of dollars in mid-2005, authorities charged.
The 34-year-old cop, assigned to the 43rd Precinct in the Bronx, also delivered what he thought was 10 kilos of cocaine after boasting his NYPD ties would… Continue
An off-duty Washington D.C. police detective went berserk and began waving his gun around when his Hummer was pelted with snowballs during this weekend's storm.
"Yes I did (pull my gun), because I got hit with snowballs!" the cop said in a video of the confrontation posted to YouTube by a witness.
He identified himself as Det. Baylor or Det. Bailey - the video's sound is unclear.
D.C. Police, who say they are investigating the Saturday… Continue
A lawyer got his nose bent out of shape during an altercation over an occupied bathroom stall -- and retaliated by chomping off part of a man's schnoz.
Mark Lambert admitted during an interview with WMC-TV to biting off a portion of Greg Herbers' nose, according to a report on the TV station's Web site. The bite occurred during a fracas at Memphis-area hot spot Dish.
Herbers is now reportedly suing Lambert, claiming he needs plastic… Continue
Brittany Murphy died early this morning after she went into full cardiac arrest and could not be revived, multiple sources tell TMZ.
She was 32.
A 911 call was made at 8:00 AM from a home in Los Angeles that is listed as belonging to her husband, Simon Monjack, the Los Angeles City Fire Department tells TMZ.
We're told Murphy was taken to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center where she was pronounced dead on arrival.
Cudi hosted a party at LAVO in Vegas the other night with Jamie Baratta a Def Jam executive. GreenJAR.net is Founded by Island Def Jam’s Jamie Baratta, GreenJAR serves as a free marketplace for individuals to exchange ideas on how to change up common practices that harm the earth into beneficial ones. The goal of GreenJAR, is to…
Rapper Kid Cudi loves the earth and is helping spread the word. Check it… Continue