Brazil, home of topless beaches and wax, may have finally found something that offends its sexual sensibilities: Paris Hilton.
Brazil's in-house advertising regulatory agency Conar is conducting three separate inquiries into whether Hilton's ad for a new Brazilian beer, Grupo Schincariol's Devassa Bem Loura, violates the country's advertising codes by using sex to sell an alcoholic beverage and treating Hilton as a sex object.
Rapper Nas needs a wake-up call -- he's trying to win back his estranged baby mama Kelis (despite the fact she's suing him over child support) and now he owes the IRS a huge chunk of change.
We told you about the tax lien the IRS slapped on Nas back in October to the tune of $2,584,206.31. Now, according to court docs, Nas' bill has ballooned to a whopping $3,365,671.26. Not Joe Francis territory, but getting close.
Veteran actor and comedian Bill Cosby lost his temper with a publicist Thursday. Cosby, doing interviews to promote the Playboy Jazz festival, was being questioned by The Associated Press about parenting in the black… Continue
A killer whale grabbed and drowned a veteran trainer at Sea World in Orlando, Fla., during a routine show. As Kelly Cobiella reports, this is the third death of a person connected to this… Continue
LONDON (Reuters) – Petra Diamonds sold a 507-carat diamond for $35.3 million on Friday, breaking a record as the highest price ever paid for a rough diamond.
Analysts had estimated the value of the stone, one of the 20 biggest high-quality rough diamonds, at around $25 million.
"It is fitting that the Cullinan Heritage should achieve a sale price of $35.3 million, the highest sale price on record ever achieved for a rough diamond,… Continue
Charles Hamilton's camp yesterday and they are NOT happy with the direction CH is trying to go. He's currently in Atlanta working on a mixtape with B.O.B. or Bobby Ray (idk) tentatively titled "CHX and B.O.B: Freshman Friday" and he's recently decided he wants to become a female rapper. I'M DEAD SERIOUS!!! Charles has decided he would like to go by the name LADY DOOM from now on. Apparently the music he has been making is really MF Doomish and he'd… Continue
New Orleans rapper and former Hot Boys member Juvenile was arrested on Thursday after police found a small amount of marijuana in his home.
According to reports, a neighbor called police when they smelled the odor of marijuana emanating from a house on Livingston Avenue, in Arabi, St. Bernard Parish.
When police arrived at the house around 3:00 PM and knocked on the door, a producer for the rapper answered the door and a cloud of… Continue
The production credit at least. One of Lady GaGa's producers who also produced "Bootylicious" says he came up with the track but when he saw Beyonce take credit for the idea in a television interview he called and flipped on Matthew Knowles. Matthews explanation was that he was a nobody and you have to make people believe the "artist is everything" to sell records.
WIKI:
"Bootylicious" is a song by American R&B group Destiny's… Continue
The desperate search for missing "Growing Pains" star Andrew Koenig ended Thursday with the grisly discovery of his body in a densely wooded area of a Vancouver park.
"My son took his own life," devastated dad Walter Koenig, who played Chekov on the original "Star Trek" TV series, said during an afternoon press conference. "He was obviously in a lot of pain."
Walter Koenig said he and about 10 of Andrew's friends initiated a… Continue
The owner of the Acura that barreled over a young Bloomberg aide in a Brooklyn hit-and-run spoke out for the first time Thursday, blaming her institutionalized sister.
"I am the owner of the vehicle involved in the accident. My sister was the driver of the car involved in the accident," said Cindy Jasmin, 31, stoically reading from notes while her mom, dad and uncle looked on inside her attorney's lower… Continue
Eight people have been hit by subway trains over the last 13 days in a baffling spike of suicides, attempted suicides and accidents, the Daily News has learned.
There was as much carnage on the tracks between Feb. 13 and Wednesday as there typically is during an entire month, NYC Transit statistics reveal.
"It's the most I can recall, and I've been a train operator for 26 years," said Steve Downs, union chairman of the train… Continue
Lucian Grainge, Chairman and CEO of Universal Music Group International out in the UK, will replace Doug Morris as CEO of Universal Music Group (UMG) January 1, 2011. UMG is the parent company of Def Jam and as you may know L.A. Reid is the Chairman of The Island Def Jam Music Group. I'm hearing when he takes over there will be a lot of "re-structuring" at Universal and Mr. Reid's head may be on the chopping block. Apparently Lucian isn't happy with a string of disappointing… Continue