Fashion legend Karl Lagerfeld is defending the use of rail-thin models to sell clothes.
Indeed, the 76-year-old German designer says no one wants to look at plus-size women on the runway, according to the New Zealand Herald.
"Fat mummies sit there in front of the television with their chip packets and say skinny models are ugly," Lagerfeld said in an interview with Focus… Continue
PITTSBURGH — A suburban Pittsburgh man slept soundly as his home caught on fire and partially collapsed.
It wasn't until firefighters did a walk-through of the home more than two hours later that he woke up.
Ross Township Fire Marshal John Reubi says he was "flabbergasted" that anyone survived the blaze. It broke out around 2:40 a.m. Sunday and was reported by a passer-by.
Firefighters were initially unable to search for… Continue
Mike Tyson doesn't want to know how his little "angel" died.
The former heavyweight champ said "my first instinct was a lot of rage" after his 4-year-old daughter Exodus was killed in a freak accident.
"If I know, then there might be a blame for it," Tyson said Monday in an emotional interview on "The Oprah Winfrey Show." "If somebody's to blame for it, there will be a problem."
Tyson said he's tried to not dwell on the… Continue
Recent DNA tests prove that Jude Law is the baby daddy of a 24-year-old model's daughter.
After the test results were revealed, the 36-year-old actor apologized to his family for a brief fling with brunette beauty Samantha Burke, reports London’s Daily Mail.
Upon receiving favorable reviews highlighting his Broadway debut as Hamlet last week, Law admitted to his ex-wife Sadie Frost that Sophia, who was born on Sept. 22, is his… Continue
Lady Gaga had an unusual opening act over the weekend: President Barack Obama.
The songstress performed at the Human Rights Campaign dinner in Washington D.C. on Saturday Night, but not before the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Prez could get a laugh from the crowd.
"It is a privilege to be here tonight to open for Lady Gaga. I've made it," the President told the crowd, according to E! Online.
And for this performance the 23-year-old Gaga left her usual… Continue
Talk show queen Oprah Winfrey is being sued more than $316,000 by a former flight attendant on her private jet.
Corrine Gehrls, 39, claims she was fired after false allegations that she had sex on board with chief pilot Terry Pansing, 57, back in June while the star and other passengers slept, reports London’s Daily Mail.
The recently-filed lawsuit alleges that Myron Gooch, a flight attendant, and Kirby Bumpus, the daughter of… Continue
R&B singer Chris Brown's about to be hit with some bad news.
You'll recall that shortly after the Rihanna incident, Wrigley's Gum canceled their multi-million dollar Doublemint campaign with Chris.
Well now according to reports, Wrigley's is looking to their recoup losses from the campaign - by suing Brown.
And get this - those losses, which included tv and print ads amount to MANY MILLIONS of… Continue
On Saturday night, NY rapper JR Writer was shot. Reports are still sketchy but word is that he was ambushed by a group of goons and was lucky to escape with his life.
We have confirmed that JR is in good shape and he’s expected to make a full recovery from the shooting.
No word yet on who did it, or whether the streets (or police) have any suspects.
BET picked up a second season of the Tiny & Toya's show and they're looking to start shooting immediately.
According to our snitches, the producers want to film as many episodes of the show before T.I. gets let out of prison.
Why? Well because MediaTakeOut.com has been told that T.I. hates the way the show makes his fiance Tiny look. And that once he's out, he's going to do everything in his power to end production of the… Continue
A "disaster" of an experiment to streamline the Bronx courts has led to a log jam that's delaying justice in hundreds of cases.
The backlog is so severe that the number of felony cases brought to trial annually has plunged by half over the last five years.
A 2004 merger of the criminal courts has crippled the system with delays, scheduling conflicts and overburdened judges, lawyers on all sides say.
Check out this Tim Westwood interview with Lil Wayne which they did last Wednesday while Weezy is in the UK touring. They talk about his new tattoo, baby mommas, retiring, his cup, Death of Autotune, MTVs Hottest MC list, Omarion, Jay Sean, No Ceilings mixtape, Drake, Tha Carter IV, Young Money, Rebirth, and… Continue
T.I. didn't need to attend the BET Hip-Hop Awards to win two trophies on Saturday.
The rapper, who is locked up in an Arkansas penitentiary on a federal weapons conviction, won the best collaboration award with Rhianna for the song "Live Your Life" and the album of the year award for "Paper Trail." His fiancee Tameka "Tiny" Cottle accepted his awards at the ceremony in Atlanta and read a letter by the rapper, who began serving a yearlong sentence… Continue
Kourtney Kardashian is seeing blue!
The pregnant reality star is expecting a baby boy with on-again boyfriend Scott Disick, Eonline.com reports.
"A boy is definitely needed in this family!" Kardashian, 30, gushed. "Scott and I are thrilled to add a little boy to the bunch. Bruce [Jenner] and Rob [Kardashian] told me it would be a boy the whole time!"
Now that she knows the sex of the baby, the mom-to-be is ready to begin… Continue
ATLANTA — At the Atlanta Civic Center, Young Jeezy — who often has high-profile guests to join him onstage — pulled off a huge move during the BET Hip-Hop Awards, kicking off the show by bringing out surprise guest Jay-Z. Hov and Young opened the show with "As Real As It Gets," with the two hip-hop heavyweights going back and forth on verses. With the… Continue
Members of a brazen Brooklyn crack gang raked in more than $500,000 in taxpayer money by repeatedly suing the city for civil rights violations, records show.
Accused drug dealers from the East 21st St. Crew and associates sued the city more than 20 times - and the city settled every time, even though many of the same people sued again and again.
The reason: The city's policy of aggressively settling cases rather than risk a big… Continue
The Game is in a serious feud with the wrong gang of homies -- the lawyers who saved him from 5 years of hard time.
The legal team who repped the rapper in the wake of his 2007 arrest on gun charges claims Game never forked over $34,683.90 in bills for the work they did.
In the suit, filed in L.A. County Superior Court, the firm, Kinsella Weitzman Iser Kump & Aldisert, claims they even got the guy "a successful… Continue
The toy company that created the Barack Obama action figure has done the same for his wife, Michelle - but don't even think about calling her a sidekick.
Jason Feinberg of Jailbreak Toys says he thinks the First Lady doll will outdo the President's version, which has already racked up 200,000 sales.
"Batman has nothing on Michelle Obama," agreed Manhattan mom Eileen Ramos, 38, who said her three kids love the First… Continue