A creepy Dracula vampire mask was found near the body parts prosecutors say were expertly dismembered by a Brooklyn man charged with identity theft.
The ghoulish face with blood-red lips lay on a carpet of leaves where three garbage bags containing the remains of jewelry importer Viktor Alekseyev were dumped in a New Jersey woods.
A man who allegedly broke onto the set of a Lil Wayne music video and stole items admitted to cops his plan was just a cheap trick to score some face time with Weezy. We're told after 20-year-old Marcus Negrete was arrested for allegedly swiping some swag -- he told officers he took the items hoping he could return the stuff back to Weezy in person -- and maybe get a little… Continue
Gwen Stefani takes her sons with her when she gets a manicure – because they each get one too.
"They're so young it's just all about spending time together," the rock star and L.A.M.B designer told Elle.com. "So if I have to get my nails done, I drag them with me and they get theirs done too."
Stefani, who recently took on the role of L'Oreal spokesmodel,… Continue
Carmelo Anthony is a one man economic stimulus package - for ticket sellers.
He sent the price of Knicks tickets skyrocketing Tuesday.
Nosebleed seats for Wednesday night's game against the lowly Milwaukee Bucks are selling for up to $170 each on StubHub.com. - a 600% hike from the weekend prices.
From there, the ducats only go higher. Much… Continue
Jamaican reggae star Buju Banton, who won a Grammy Award a week ago, was convicted Tuesday of brokering a cocaine deal with an undercover drug informant. A Tampa, Fla., federal jury found Banton guilty of conspiracy to distribute cocaine after deliberating 11 hours over two days.
Banton, born Mark Myrie, reached the zenith of his singing career… Continue
Award shows just got a little less awkward for Chris Brown and Rihanna ... because a judge just lifted the restraining order prohibiting him from going near her.
Brown appeared in court moments ago in downtown L.A., where a judge replaced Rihanna's restraining order with a level one order -- meaning Chris and Rihanna can have contact as long as he does not harass,… Continue
More than 600,000 people were stopped and questioned by police last year - the highest number since the NYPD began releasing the data in 2002.
Police stopped 601,055 people in 2010, an increase of about 4.3% from the 575,304 stopped the year before. Of those stopped, about 14% were given summonses or arrested. The remaining 86% were questioned, but not charged or… Continue
Donald Trump probably won’t be asking Rihanna to perform at any more of his charity events. The pop star was reportedly paid 500-thousand-dollars to take the stage last Saturday at a fundraiser for South Florida’s Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, but canceled at the last minute claiming she was sick. The next day, however, Rihanna performed at the NBA All-Star… Continue
Former "Jersey Shore" cast member Angelina Pivarnick's red-carpet proposal last week may have been more show than substance.
Only hours after David Kovacs popped the question on bended knee, he reportedly lashed out at Pivarnick via text message calling her "a bad evil person!" according to RadarOnline.com.
The harsh words don't fit the bill for a couple… Continue
One man's attempt to watch "Black Swan" in peace and quiet ended tragically this weekend when he was killed for complaining about a fellow moviegoer's noise.
The 43-year-old man was attacked in a movie theater in Latvia on Saturday when he asked a particularly loud popcorn-munching member of the audience to keep it down.
They cannot tell a lie - they often wonder why they were named George Washington.
As the country marked the 279th birthday yesterday of the first President, black New Yorkers who share his name marveled at how common it is among African-Americans.
"I know a lot of Washingtons," said George Washington, 53, a retired welder from the Bronx. "I don't know no… Continue
She came from Ireland half a life ago, a blue-eyed 17-year-old determined to make a splash in New York's art scene with her colorful portraits and vivid landscapes.
On Sunday morning - years after her life started to go bad in a haze of alcohol and a lousy marriage - Grace Farrell, 35, was found dead on the sidewalk in front of St. Brigid's Church on Avenue B in the… Continue
So say researchers who note that oral cancer stemming from the human papilloma virus is more common in the U.S. than oral cancer caused by abusing tobacco.
Researchers found a 225% increase in oral cancer cases in the U.S. from 1974 to 2007, mainly among white men, said Maura Gillison, a cancer researcher at Ohio… Continue
The Denver Nuggets have finally completed their long-awaited trade to send Carmelo Anthony to the New York Knicks, a league source told Yahoo! Sports.
The Knicks are expected to send Danilo Gallinari, Raymond Felton, Wilson Chandler, the Knicks’ 2014 first-round pick, two second-round picks and $3 million. The Knicks will also trade Anthony Randolph and Eddy Curry’s… Continue
Kanye West released his All Of The Lights music video at the end of last week. Along with potential legal news about this video from the weekend, I’m posting this now rather than overlooking it altogether. It’s being alleged by some, who noticed the similarities, that sections of the above video rip-off the opening sequence of the 2010 film Enter the Void,… Continue
Halle Berry black side of the family is trying to blast her for cutting them off. Her estranged half-sister has now come forward to say the Oscar winner has cut herself off from her father’s side of the family.
Renee Berry, 51, is the 44-year-old daughter of Halle’s late African-American father Jerome Berry and Edwina Taylor – who broke up with him shortly before he… Continue