Angelina Jolie has left the French hospital where she gave birth to twins last week, the hospital said on Saturday. “Mrs Angelina Jolie left the clinic Santa Maria of Foundation Lenval early in the morning, on July 19. The mother and her babies are doing very well,” the Lenval hospital in the southern French city of Nice said in a statement on its Web site.
Actor Verne Troyer has settled a lawsuit he filed against a porn broker after the defendant agreed not to distribute a sex tape depicting Troyer and a former girlfriend, court documents filed Friday show.
Troyer filed a US$20 million lawsuit against porn broker Kevin Blatt, distributor SugarDVD and celebrity gossip Web site TMZ after snippets of the 50-minute tape were released last month.
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Records show Blatt and SugarDVD have signed agreements requiring that they get Troyer’s approval before selling or distributing the tape or any images from it.
Edwin McPherson, one of Troyer’s attorneys, said the actor has no intention of ever granting approval.
McPherson said he planned to amend the lawsuit today to try to prevent Ranae Shrider, Troyer’s former girlfriend, from releasing the tape.
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Shrider leaked snippets of the tape to TMZ, according to a statement filed in federal court by the site. Shrider indicated the tape was recorded on her video equipment and that she was a partial owner.
Troyer, who is best-known for his role as Mini Me in two of the Austin Powers movies, has been seeking the return of the tape.
McPherson said other people or companies may also be sued to prevent the tape from being released.
Records do not indicate whether US District Judge Philip Gutierrez, who has presided over the case, signed off on the agreements Friday afternoon. But since all parties agreed to them, McPherson said he saw no reason why they wouldn’t be granted.
Khloe Kardashian’s stay in jail Friday may have been brief, but it did include a bit of drama: a jailhouse lockdown.
The reality TV starlet spent roughly three hours in a Los Angeles area jail for violating probation stemming from a drunk driving arrest last year. Shortly before her arrival, someone called in a bomb threat and the entire facility had to be locked down, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s spokesman Steve Whitmore said.
The threat was not related to Kardashian’s arrival and she was placed in a holding cell for her safety, Whitmore said. The call turned out to be a hoax, he said.
Kardashian is the youngest daughter of late attorney Robert Kardashian and is featured on E! Entertainment Television’s Keeping Up With the Kardashians reality show.
A judge earlier this month sentenced the 24-year-old to up to 30 days in jail after she admitted violating her probation by failing to enroll in an alcohol education class and clean up roadside trash.
Jail overcrowding forced officials to release her early, just as they have with inmates, including other well-known personalities such as Nicole Richie and Lindsay Lohan.
“We treated Ms Kardashian as we would any other inmate with similar charges and circumstances,’’ Whitmore said.
Comedian Andy Dick has been arrested for investigation of drug use and sexual battery.
The Sheriff’s Department says Dick, 42, was arrested shortly before 2am Wednesday in the parking lot near the Buffalo Wild Wings Grill & Bar in Murrieta in Riverside County. Details were not released.
The former co-star of the TV sitcom NewsRadio is being held on US$5,000 bail.
In 1999, Dick was arrested for possession of cocaine and marijuana after driving his car into a telephone pole in Hollywood.
He went into a diversion program.
Last year, he was cited in Columbus, Ohio, for urinating in public.
One reason Jessica Alba named her baby daughter Honor was that she felt her own was pretty bland.
“I was always irritated that my name was Jessica,’’ the 27-year-old actress tells OK! magazine. “Come on, it’s a very 1980s name, because there were tonnes of Jessicas in every school I went to.
There’s something great about having a unique name. It’s a part of your identity.’’ She and husband Cash Warren welcomed Honor Marie Warren last month.
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