Pete Wentz: Only One Bun in Ashlee’s Oven
Is Ashlee Simpson-Wentz joining or bucking the latest Hollywood trend?
While calling in to a Phoenix radio show Thursday morning, hubby Pete Wentz was discussing impending fatherhood and talked about how he and the missus “have been keeping a journal for them.”
Them? As in, more than one?!
Hold up. Before you go ringing up Jack Black to tell him the big news, Perez Hilton reports he was told exclusively by the Fall Out Boy frontman today that we won’t be seeing double in a few months.
“That was waaaaay wrong,” says Wentz, regarding his slip of the tongue. “I meant to say ’the baby’ and said ’them’ ’cause it was 7 a.m. Not in a BS way: I can tell you we are absolutely not having twins. I totally misspoke ’cause we dunno if it’s a boy or girl. I try to speak vaguely, and I totally blew it on this one.”
We want to believe you, Pete. Really we do. But you can’t blame us for being a little skeptical.
We’re still feeling the sting from your honeymoon deception.
Britney Spears’ Label Sues Perez Hilton
Britney Spears’ Label Sues Perez Hilton
If controversy is a good thing in the music industry, Britney Spears’ new album just may be set to live a charmed life on the charts.
The “Gimme More” singer’s record label, Jive Records, is suing PerezHilton.com for copyright infringement, according to charges filed yesterday. Apparently the gossip columnist posted unauthorized recordings from the new album, and execs at Jive are none too pleased.
The “Baby One More Time” singer is planning on releasing her new opus in a matter of weeks, with a street date of October 30th here in the States. But apparently that wasn’t soon enough for Hilton.
He is being charged with posting at least 10 completed songs and unfinished demos over the past three months. And that could spell disaster for the VH-1 show host.
His lawyer told press, “It seems to me that when you single out PerezHilton and put out a press release, that maybe what you’re looking for is publicity. He will be vigorously defended in any action that is filed against him.”
Perez Wins Round Two Over Ronson
The one tabloid rumor Lindsay Lohan’s joined-at-the-hip gal-pal actually wants to clear up is the one she won’t be allowed to.
For the second time in seven months, a judge has thrown out Samantha Ronson’s libel lawsuit against blogger Perez Hilton, claiming she waited too long to file her do-over motion and that the suit failed to present any new information this time around.
Ronson first filed a defamation complaint against Hilton, whose real name is Mario Lavandeira, last July, over a report he repeated from the site Celebrity Babylon alleging Ronson planted the drugs found in Lohan’s car in the latter’s much-publicized May 2007 crash.
As he did last November, Los Angeles Superior Judge Elihu M. Berle again tossed out the DJ’s suit. Ronson was seeking to reinstate the case on the basis that former lawyer Martin Garbus, whom she is also suing, did not handle the case properly.
Today’s hearing lasted slightly more than a half hour, and Berle claimed that whether or not Garbus mishandled the case, Ronson was equally represented by a second lawyer, who was present in the courtroom for all of the proceedings.
“Samantha Ronson tried to point the finger at Perez Hilton and now tries to point the finger at her own former lawyer,” said Hilton’s attorney, Bryan J. Freedman. “It’s time for her to look in the mirror when she is looking for someone else to blame for her predicament.”
Ronson has a separate negligence, breach-of-contract and breach-of-fiduciary-duty suit still pending against Garbus.
She claims the attorney abandoned his representation before several key benchmarks in the case, including deposing Hilton. She also alleges that a conflict of interest stemming from a dispute over attorneys fees prevented him from properly representing her.
Garbus’ attorneys, naturally, dispute the claims and say Ronson’s case does not warrant her seeking punitive damages. A hearing on that matter is set for July 16.
John Mayer, Please Accept Our Crush Request
Yo John,
We don’t have your email address (but thank you for the lovely restraining orderwe had it framed), so this post will have to do. We think that you’re funny as hell and we’d read your take on the phone book if you felt the itch to blog about it.
We especially love your love letter to Pete Wentz (with a sly nod to Perez Hilton, no less!). It takes a cool cat to comment so lovingly about your ex-girlfriend’s sister’s baby daddy, and you did it with class.
We have much more love to send your way, but we’d rather do it in an email. So, um, mind sending us your address?
EOL