(No Ratings Yet)Since Paris Jackson's cry-for-help suicide attempt late last week, all eyes have been on both her and the Jackson family. After she swallowed in excess of 20 ibuprofen pills in her home in California, her sad story has pervaded media outlets like the plague. Now, however, the story is taking a serious turn. The probate court judge who appointed the late King of Pop's mother, Katherine, and cousin TJ Jackson as co-guardians has ordered an official investigation into the 15-year-old's suicide attempt. Judge Mitchell Beckloff ordered a "written report" along with any recommendations to bolster the teen's "health, education and welfare." The order was issued on Thursday, the day after the suicide attempt. Miss Jackson remains under psychiatric evaluation after cutting her wrists and swallowing an unhealthy amount of painkillers. She also had called a suicide counseling hotline the same day.
(No Ratings Yet)From an objective standpoint, Justin Bieber's week could not have been better. On Sunday night, he raked in the "Milestone Award" at the Billboard Music Awards. He also was nominated for a slew of Teen Choice Awards, topping the nominations within the teen music segment. Two significant accomplishments within a relatively short-lived young career, if you ask me. But while reigning supreme in professional merits, the more personal side of his career was not quite as rosy. To start, when Bieber accepted his Milestone Award, he was greeted with resounding boos from the audience. Not the reception he had likely hoped for. To add insult to injury in a less-than-complimentary week, consummate musician Jon Bon Jovi publicly slammed Bieber. Earlier this spring, 19-year-old Bieber showed up tardy to a slew of his concerts, forcing fans who had paid to see him perform to wait significantly longer than necessary for the show to commence.
Read More (No Ratings Yet)Angelina Jolie revealed in a New York Times op-ed piece titled "My Medical Choice" Tuesday that she underwent a preventive double mastectomy after learning she was at high risk of developing breast and/or ovarian cancer. Doctors found that she carries a mutation of the BRCA1 gene, a mutation responsible for high risk of those two cancers. "Once I knew that this was my reality," Jolie shared. "I decided to be proactive and to minimize the risk as much I could. I made a decision to have a preventive double mastectomy." She went on. "I wanted to write this to tell other women that the decision to have a mastectomy was not easy, but it is one I am very happy that I made." Jolie had the surgery in February, followed by months of follow-up procedures, one of which includes receiving breast implants. The actress says emotionally, she feels "no less of a woman"
Read More (No Ratings Yet)Things just won't settle down for Michael Jackson... even in death. On top of the current civil trial taking place between AEG and the late King of Pop's family, Wade Robson, a former dancer/choreographer, is filing a claim for alleged child molestation against Jackson. Robson, now 30 years old, claims Jackson molested him when he was a small child, luring him to drink alcohol and take showers together. Funny timing for Robson to bring it up now, however, given that he vehemently denied any allegations of abuse back in the 2005 molestation trial. Eight years later? The legal deadline to file claims against the Jackson estate has long passed, but Robson's lawyers are requesting a deadline for him to file a late creditor's claim. Maybe if they ask nicely? The timing seems oddly ironic — Robson is quiet for eight years yet when the multi-million-dollar civil trial comes to light, out comes
Read More (No Ratings Yet)On Monday, Washington Wizards NBA center Jason Collins publicly came out to the world as gay. His admission makes him the first openly gay athlete on a major U.S. professional team sport. Collins had already been out to his friends and family, and although he had never stated outright in public that he was straight, he felt he wasn't being totally honest. With a simply stated sentence on Sports Illustrated's website yesterday, he changed that. He commenced his first-person article with a straight-to-the-point utterance: "I'm a 34-year-old NBA center. I'm black. And I'm gay." Just like that, he became a trailblazer, altering the long-held straight-only stereotype of professional athletes. Throughout the bulk of the article, Collins described his reasons for coming out now, his journey of self discovery, family reactions and how it felt to be the first athlete to come out. "I didn't set out to be the first openly gay athlete
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(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)Roughly four years after the death of the incomparable King of Pop, a wrongful death lawsuit against concert promoter/powerhouse AEG is set to begin. The late Jackson's mother, Katherine, and his three children accuse AEG of threatening to end Jackson's career if he failed to deliver on a series of comeback concerts in London. The case also concerns the hiring of Dr. Conrad Murray, who was later convicted of giving the singer a lethal dose of the anesthetic propofol. Both in life and death, matters around the polarizing Michael Jackson were anything but straight-forward. The seeming plastic surgery addiction countered by his unwavering claims he "only had my nose done." The child molestation charges that went away nearly as quickly as they came (well, perhaps not quite as quickly). And, at the heart of it all, his absolute dichotomy: Was he an innocent child-man or a deranged, drug-addicted abuser? His actions
Read More (No Ratings Yet)For most of us, the celebrity we would last imagine with a mug shot under her belt would be the typically squeaky clean Oscar-winning Southern mother of two, Reese Witherspoon. On Friday, though, she proved us wrong, when she was arrested and sent to jail for disorderly conduct toward a police officer. After not staying in his lane while driving, Witherspoon's husband, James Toth, was pulled over and charged with a DUI. State troopers began to give him a field sobriety test to assess the extent of intoxication. Before the test commenced, Reese exited the car in what she non-soberly saw as a "helpful defensive act" for her husband and was promptly told by officers to get back in the vehicle. She cooperated once, but as the test ensued, "Mrs. Witherspoon began to hang out the window and say that she did not believe that I was a real police officer. I
Read More (7 votes, average: 3.14 out of 5)During a stop in Amsterdam this past weekend while on his European tour, 19-year-old Justin Bieber caused quite a ruckus. This is just another rung on his ladder of socially inappropriate public behavior. While in Amsterdam, Bieber visited the Anne Frank Museum… which would have been a kind, positive gesture if left at that. Before exiting the museum, however, he wrote a message in the public guestbook reading, “Anne was a great girl. Hopefully she would have been a Belieber.” Not surprisingly, since then, the bubble-gum-turned-punky teen idol has received a fair share of criticism in the social sphere and the public at large. Anne Frank spent her last years starved and tortured in a Nazi concentration camp, ultimately dying at the hands of Nazis for her Jewish faith. Pop music was nowhere in the realm of her tragic life at any point, and Bieber’s suggestion that she would have “been
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Roger Ebert in May 2011 at the Illinois Broadcasters Association’s Hall of Fame.
Famed film critic for the Chicago-Sun Times Roger Ebert died Thursday after a battle with cancer. He was 70 years old. Ebert is perhaps best known for the “thumbs up” move to display his appreciation for a movie. Read More
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Katherine Jackson speaks in January 2012 as her late son, Michael Jackson, is immortalized outside the famous Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.
In another round of courtroom drama four years after Michael Jackson’s untimely death, the Jackson family won’t back down. Katherine Jackson, 82, is the plaintiff in a new wrongful death case that centers on Michael Jackson’s concert promotion company, AEG Live, for his This Is It tour. Read More
