Three key officials at the Department of Correction resigned Friday, just months after several prisoners held religious parties and a jailed female rapper posed for a magazine photo shoot.
Chief of Department Carolyn Thomas and Frank Squillante, assistant chief of special operations, both turned in their resignations effective Oct. 31, sources said.
George Okada's resignation as warden of the Manhattan detention complex is effective… Continue
Hollywood's latest fashion craze is slashing the red carpet competition. Starlets are showing off spots of skin in these sizzling, cut-out styles.
Halle Berry makes our collective jaws drop in this sparkly number that makes the mother of one look like a million bucks
This isn't a rock - it's a boulder.
An auction at Christie's next week will feature the Annenberg Diamond, a 32-carat dazzler that could fetch between $3 million and $5 million.
"The Annenberg outshines any other," said Rahul Kadakia, head of the jewelry department at Christie's, which is putting the gem on the block Wednesday morning.
"You have to consider how many there are in the world. Out of 100 million [rough diamonds]… Continue
Jermaine Jackson's baby mama claims the singer has left her so dirt poor ... that she's been forced to accept supermarket gift cards from Jermaine's mom just so she can feed the kids.
Alejandra Jackson filed legal documents in L.A. County Superior Court claiming Jermaine is a deadbeat dad who hasn't paid $35,550 in court-ordered child support payments for their two kids, Jermajesty and Jaffar.
In the docs Alejandra says Jermaine's own… Continue
It's not quite the "happily ever after" Disney would have imagined for its original fairytale princess.
A new advertisement for an Australian beer shows Snow White in a decidedly unladylike boudoir scene with her seven dwarfs - and Disney is anything but pleased, reports Sydney's Daily Telegraph.
The illustration for Jamieson's Raspberry Ale reinvents the fair-skinned cartoon ingénue as "Ho White."
"Hey, man, P got a lot of songs," Gates told us exclusively on the BET red carpet.
"He actually records a lot of songs he don't put out," Gates continued. "Going through that whole process of all them songs — just about all of them are hits anyway — it was a hard process. But I think I got it pretty much nailed to the T."
Any favorites?
"All of them," Gates added. "My whole purpose was to pick 18 classic songs. I wanted to… Continue
For his first stab at directing a movie, video game programmer Oren Peli used $15,000 of his own money to shoot "Paranormal Activity," with a handful of unknown actors, over seven days in 2006.
The set for the horror movie was his house, a suburban Southern California tract home whose noisy setting provided the inspiration for the tale of a demonic haunting.
There was no omen the movie would become a grass-roots Internet marketing… Continue
Marriage was just too complicated for Avril Lavigne and Deryck Whibley.
The Canadian pop-punk princess has filed for divorce from her Deryck Whibley, citing “irreconcilable difference” in court paperwork, TMZ.com reports.
Lavigne, 24, whose No. 1 hits include "Complicated," "I'm With You" and "My Happy Ending," is not requesting alimony, and has asked the court to deny spousal support to Whibley.
This steamy soup could give you a real lift.
A chain of three Spanish-American restaurants in Brooklyn and Queens is selling "Viagra soup" to its friskiest patrons.
The seafood-packed stew is supposed to put customers of El Rey Restaurant I, II and III in a loving mood - without a pricey prescription.
"We named it Viagra soup because of the ingredients it has to make you feel stronger, energetic ...and ready when the right… Continue
Despite pulling in about $20 million a year, actor Nicolas Cage is in serious money trouble.
The actor is suing his former business manager, Samuel Levin, for leading him "down a path toward financial ruin," according to TMZ.com. Cage asked for $20 million in damages in the lawsuit.
Cage alleges that his manager was reckless with his money, including doing such things as not paying taxes, which is the reason Cage now owes more than $6… Continue
WASHINGTON - All the hatred aimed at President Obama these days didn't make much sense to a fourth-grader in New Orleans Thursday, but it does to Obama.
Taking a question from a crowd-pleasing grade-schooler named Terrence Scott, Obama told him it just comes with the job of being President.
"I have to say, why people hate you and, and why, they supposed to love you and - God is love," the boy said to some laughter from the… Continue
Turns out the Falcon never left the nest.
A 6-year-old Colorado boy, believed lost aboard a UFO-shaped homemade balloon designed by his dad, was found hiding inside his family's garage after a dizzying day of highs and lows.
Falcon Heene was as terrified as the national television audience riveted by the modern-day Dennis the Menace's escapade.
"I thought I would get in trouble," the 40-pound boy told reporters outside the… Continue
Whitney Houston won't be sitting down for a chat on the "Wendy Williams Show" anytime soon: A source says she's still steamed about the infamous on-air confrontation she had with Williams back when the host was a radio shock jock.
Houston isn't the only one holding a grudge. In what talent bookers for the talk show are calling the "Wendy BLACK-lash," a slew of A-list African-Americans — including Mariah Carey, Usher, Tyler Perry and Diddy — have… Continue
A Louisiana justice of peace refused to issue a marriage license because the couple trying to wed was interracial.
Keith Bardwell, a justice of peace in Tangipahoa Parish, cited concern for children that the couple might have as one of his reasons.
Bardwell, who claims most interracial marriages do not last long, came to the conclusion that offspring from those relationships are discriminated against.
Kanye West has lived up to the mantra that in fashion, one day you're in, the next day you're out.
Just two days after pieces from the rapper's clothing line Pastelle appeared online, the plug was unceremoniously yanked on the fashion project, according to EOnline.com.
West, a self-admitted clotheshorse, had reportedly been working on the clothes for years and had even given sneak peeks of a few pieces at various award… Continue
The live from the 305 album release party went down the other night and T Pain arrived driving a hearse bumping Death Of Autotune. He also lets us get a lil sneak peak in the coffin to see the BIG ASS CHAIN a grill and some… Continue
At the beginning of the show, Diddy and members of his new hip-hop group, Dirty Money, could be seen prancing around the stage tossing wads of fake $100 bills.
But once the crowd saw there was real cash mixed in, a free-for-all erupted.
"The audience went wild," said BET spokeswoman Marcy Polanco. "We were like, 'Oh, my God!' "
Sources said there were about $25 to $100 in singles mixed in with the funny money.