Friday, February 20, 2009

Photo: Rihanna Photo After Chris Brown Beating Shown On TMZ

We don't know how they do it, but they did it.

TMZ has acquired the police photo of singer Rihanna taken just moments after her beating by Chris Brown.

The LAPD, seeming to run for cover, also released a statement:

"The LAPD does not and will not release any victim's photos. It's that simple. We have not."

Brown, 19, was arrested for the beating, while the Grammy Awards Ceremony he was supposed to appear at went on - without him. He was released from jail on $50,000 bail.

Rihanna , who turns 21 today, is cooperating with police.

Brown issued a statement last week apologizing, and said he was seeking counseling. He is due in court on March 5.
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Monday, February 16, 2009

Salma Hayek Marries Billionaire Francois-Henri Pinault

Salma Hayek is a romantic one.

She just got married to Frenchman Francois-Henri Pinault Saturday in Paris.

It was Valentines Day.

The wedding was a small one, and followed a troublesome romance. The two met in Italy in 2006, announced their engagement and had a baby, Valentina Paloma. Last year they ended the engagement, but reconciled a few months later.

Mexican born Hayek, 42, was nominated for an Oscar in 2003 for the film "Frida," the biography of the painter Frida Kahlo, and is one of the executive producers of the television series "Ugly Betty". She has recently been seen in a recurring role with Tina Fey and Alec Baldwin on "30 Rock".

Pinault, 46, is chief executive of the French retail group PPR SA, which owns high-end brands like Gucci, Yves Saint Laurent and Puma.

Salma will next be seen this August in the action thriller "Cirque du Freak", starring John C. Reilly, Willem Dafoe, Jane Krakowski and young Josh Hutcherson.

The film tells the story of a young boy named Darren Shan (Chris Massoglia), who meets a mystifying man at a freak show who turns out to be a Vampire. After his encounter, Darren must leave his normal life and go on the road with the Cirque Du Freak and become a Vampire.
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Friday, February 13, 2009

Nude Photo Of Madonna Sells For $37,500

We know times are tough and people will do anything to raise the rent money, but Madonna seems to have it all figured out.

On Thursday, a naked photograph of the singer, taken when she was only twenty years old, sold at a New York auction for over $37,000. Not bad work, if you can get it.

The singer, at that time known as Madonna Louise Ciccone, was a struggling dancer when she answered a newspaper advertisement looking for a nude model.

The photo was first seen in Playboy Magazine in 1979, and was one of six from the photo shoot that appeared in the magazine; the other five were sold in an auction in 2003 bringing in more than $7,000.

Another photograph sold Thursday for $18,750. In the photo, also seen in Playboy in the 1980s, the singer is wearing sports lingerie, has curly blond hair and a sexy facial expression.

Her last music project was heard in the smash hit movie "The Wrestler" starring Mickey Rourke, Marisa Tomei and Evan Rachel Wood. She wrote and performed the song "Jump" on the film's soundtrack.
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