Controversies

Troubled actor-director Mel Gibson walked away unharmed after crashing his Maserati into a rocky hillside in Malibu on Sunday (US time). The accident involved no other vehicle and the Oscar winner was neither drunk nor under the influence of drugs at the wheel, police said in a statement.
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Even though the Oprah Winfrey Network may not be officially launching until next year, the company is already looking at an unfortunate lawsuit. According to a new report from TMZ, Catherine Dunn — a former assistant at the network — was put under intense pressure in the workplace thanks in part to her Multiple...
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Mel Gibson was interviewed by detectives from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department on Sunday, concerning extortion claims by his ex-girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva’s extortion.
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The wait is over, but the controversy is just getting started over the highly anticipated new music video by Eminem and Rihanna over their hugely popular duet on  "I Love the Way You Lie" (off Eminem’s "Recovery" album). The video, released today, features Megan Fox and Dominic Monaghan as a sexy couple caught up...
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Charlie Sheen arrived at Pitkin County courthouse in Aspento to admit assault US actor Charlie Sheen has been sentenced to 30 days in rehabilitation after he pleaded guilty to assault in a domestic violence case.
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A Canadian woman accused of attacking Inception star Leonardo DiCaprio with a broken beer bottle in 2005 has been given a restraining order. Aretha Wilson, 40, attacked the star at a private party in Hollywood, resulting in him needing about a dozen stitches to his face and neck.
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The daughter of Rudy Giuliani, the former federal prosecutor and one time presidential candidate, was arrested today when she allegedly tried to shoplift cosmetics, according to police.
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With his ex-fiancee in jail and his team knocked out of the NBA play-offs, basketball star Dirk Nowitzki thought it couldn’t get much worse. But now Cristal Taylor has claimed she is pregnant with his baby! She has been in jail in Texas on charges of forgery, fraud and breaking her probation, and her...
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It’s not that Mary-Louise Parker isn’t comfortable with nude scenes. She’s all for physical and emotionally revealing roles. But her recent nude scene in her hit Showtime series “Weeds” went too far: “I didn’t think I needed to be naked,” she tells MORE magazine. “I fought with the director about it, and now I...
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Oprah Winfrey has apologized to author James Frey for shaming him on her TV chat show amid revelations he had fabricated parts of his memoir, her spokeswoman said on Wednesday. Winfrey’s apology was first reported on the Web site of Vanity Fair, with the author saying he felt “grateful” for Winfrey’s gesture. The two...
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