Troyer’s Girlfriend Speaks Out
July 2, 2008 | Filed Under The Buzz | No Comments
HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — In the wake of Verne Troyer’s sex tape revelation, the girlfriend of the diminutive “Austin Powers” star has come forward to dispel rumors about him.
Chief among these rumors was the notion that the 2-foot-8-inch Troyer was disproportionately well endowed. Ranae Shrider, who shares an apartment with Troyer, dismissed such claims.
“The only thing I’m going to say,” she said while speaking on a morning radio talk show in Tampa, Fla., “This is all I’m going to say. As previously reported on interviews made by him, it is definitely not a tripod.”
Shrider also said that she and Troyer never authorized the release of the sex tape, which they claim was stolen from their apartment. Troyer also sued gossip website TMZ for their role in distributing the tape.
U.S. District Judge Philip Gutierrez has ruled in Troyer’s favor, writing that Troyer’s motion “demonstrated that he will suffer irreparable harm to his reputation” if the tape is distributed.
In response, TMZ removed a 25-second clip of the video. Another post describing the actor’s lawsuit remained active.
SugarDVD had offered Troyer $100,000 for the right to broadcast the 50-minute sex tape
Spears’ Ex Getting Death Threats Over Sex Tape Sale
June 4, 2008 | Filed Under The Buzz | No Comments
London- [ANI] Pop princess Britney Spears ex love rat Adnan Ghalib has been receiving death threats after it came to light that he is planning on selling a sex-tape featuring the singer.
The celebrity photographer said that he was the target of a fierce backlash among Spears loyal fans.
A fact which came to light when he was stabbed, once it was known that the 26-year-old singers video, performing a private striptease for him, wearing just a pink wig, was going to hit the web.
He has now had to go into hiding, and he has also taken a break from work to escape the fury of Spears fans.
I have had many calls about it from all over the world. In light of the constant calls about the sex tape and threats, Im taking a break from the industry and keeping a low profile, Daily Star quoted 35-year-old Adnan, as saying.
A very wise decision on his part, as he was stabbed in the arm in April by fans who were venting their fury at him and fearing that he was leading her astray.
Yes I was injured by an attacker. This is still being investigated, he said.
Even with the threats and attack on him, Ghalib still added his opinion about it.
I cant say much about the cowardly attack other than: a) you better come a lot stronger than that if you want to make a point and b) most will be surprised by those behind it, he stated.
The fury of the fans all started when the photographer planned to put a clip of Britney stripping onto the net, to attract potential buyers for the full two-hour video, which he would then sell to the highest bidder.
The video had been made on a weekend trip to Mexico when the couple were inseparable.
At the time Adnan was the most stable influence in Britneys life. But as soon as her dad Jamie was on the scene, it was the beginning of the end, a source added.
Gina Gershon Denies Romantic Ties to Bill Clinton
June 4, 2008 | Filed Under The Buzz | No Comments
Hollywood- Actress Gina Gershon is lashing out against Vanity Fair, calling a recent assertion romantically linking her to ex-president Bill Clinton “irresponsible journalism.”
Gershon’s rep Mara Buxbaum told E! News that the Vanity Fair article written by Todd Purdum hinting that Gershon and Clinton may be romantically involved “is a lie and is irresponsible journalism,” going on to say that Gershon and her lawyers “are demanding a retraction.”
In the Vanity Fair piece, Purdum, while listing other possible Clinton trysts, says that he’s heard through sources that “Clinton has been seen visiting with the actress Gina Gershon in California.” Clinton has responded to the article, calling it “dishonest” and “slimy” while calling Purdum a “scumbag.”
Scarlett Johansson and Penelope Cruz’s Lesbian Kiss
May 14, 2008 | Filed Under The Buzz | No Comments
There’s lots of kissing and sexiness in the trailer for Woody Allen’s new movie, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Starring Scarlett Johansson, Penelope Cruz, and Javier Bardem, but the kiss that’s got our attention is Scarlett Johansson and Penelope Cruz’s lesbian kiss, which is seen briefly in the trailer.
Noose Tightening on Ashley Massaro
May 7, 2008 | Filed Under The Buzz | No Comments
WWW- When Rolling Stone Magazine reported that World Wrestling Entertainment diva Ashley Massaro was a high-priced call girl for the Bella Models international escort service, the fetching star went into full spin mode.
“Just got buzzed on some BS that is going around,” Massaro wrote on her blog. “Don’t believe it for a second. Getting in touch with my lawyer as we speak. I’m beyond upset.”
Meanwhile, reports came out that a second Ashley Massaro, who is a bikini model from Las Vegas, may have been be the women in question.
But the noose is tightening around the WWE star. The FBI has e-mails between an Ashley Massaro and Bella Models, where the agency made arrangements for Massaro to meet with clients.
The asking price?…$25,000 per night. For comparison, madam Micelle “Nici” Braun even claimed she once brokered a deal with Paris Hilton, who offered to meet any client who paid $10,000 a night.
Meanwhile Rolling Stone contributing editor Michelle Grigoriadis, who penned the piece, stood by it.
“Obviously, I stand by my story,” Grigoriadis said. “Massaro is named in an FBI search warrant that was executed on Michelle Braun’s property in October, 2007. I have no knowledge of another woman by the same name.”
Now, an old ad for Ashley Massaro through Bella Models has been cached. The Web site is no longer operating (the links don’t work and the photos have been removed) but lists Massaro’s location as New York City.
The WWE star is from Long Island, while the bikini model has never lived on the East Coast.
Also, the escort service was made up almost exclusively of women recruited from the ranks of Playboy. Maxim and the porn industry.
Massaro was involved with Playboy before she joined WWE in 2005, doing a few pictorials in 2003 and early 2004 under the name Ryan Mackenzie.
Vince Neil comes to play golf for charity
May 6, 2008 | Filed Under The Buzz | No Comments
Porn Valley- Friday morning at Lost Canyons Golf Club in Simi Valley. There’s a charity tournament starting in a couple of hours, and the wood-paneled clubhouse is full of the usual pre-tournament bustle and chatter.
The first clue that all is not normal here is the Jägermeister bus parked outside. There also are an unusual number of tattooed arms peeking out from under golf shirts. And there are these women walking around, wearing tank tops and miniskirts that do violence to the idea of proper golf course attire.
About 9 a.m., the man everyone has been waiting for walks through the door: It’s Vince Neil, frontman for Mötley Crüe, the archetypal band of the 1980s heavy metal movement.
Yes, Vince Neil golfs. This is his tournament.
He arrives hours before tee-off. He has no entourage, and his entrance is so low-key that hardly anyone looks up.
I notice, though, and after a minute or two of nerve-gathering, I walk over.
Neil, 47, is shorter than you might expect, but then, he’s not wearing the platform boots from the “Wild Side” video. He keeps his shades on, so it’s hard to gauge the effects of that well-publicized plastic surgery he had a few years back.
Do you address a rock star as “Mr. Neil”? “Vince” seems awfully familiar.
I go with, “Hi.”
He greets me with a “Hey, man” and a handshake and proceeds to talk to me for, according to my digital recorder, one minute and 58 seconds.
When they invent a time machine, I will go back to 1988 and tell my 10-year-old self about this. I won’t have the heart to tell him what the future holds for Guns N’ Roses.
Back to 2008; a friendly and engaged Neil tells me about his passion for golf — “The very first time I played golf was on the Theatre of Pain tour” in the mid-1980s — and the album the reunited Crüe is about to release — “It sounds like Mötley Crüe. We could play the blues and it would sound like Mötley Crüe.”
I don’t bring up the reason we’re all here, because everyone at the tournament knows that story. In 1995, Neil’s 4-year-old daughter, Skylar, died of a rare form of cancer. The next year, he started the Skylar Neil Memorial Golf Tournament, and since then it’s raised close to $2 million for research on juvenile cancer, AIDS and other diseases.
This year’s take will probably be in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, between the tournament itself and the silent auction of sports, music, movie and celebrity memorabilia.
“How did it end up at Lost Canyons?” I ask.
“They’re cool about what we do on the course — the girls, the booze ” Neil says.
The United Way, for porn.
That’s right, the girls. Did I forget to mention the porn stars? Somewhere along the line, the tourney became one of the biggest events on the adult entertainment industry’s calendar.
Maybe it’s because Playboy was one of the first sponsors and, like a teenage boy’s magazine collection, it was a straight line from that to Hustler. Or maybe it’s because Neil started by inviting his friends, and a lot of them happen to make their living doing anatomically improbable things in front of a camera.
“People in the NFL all work with the United Way, and we have this,” said Evan Seinfeld, an adult actor and the former lead singer of the band Biohazard. He’s married to porn star Tera Patrick, and the couple have their own talent agency.
Patrick was a bit out of character Friday, wearing a tasteful print dress and huge sunglasses and demurely watching her husband play the course.
The girls who haven’t achieved Patrick’s level of fame were working harder to promote themselves. Some handed out free videos. Others struck suggestive poses to distract the golfers. A few spoke earnestly about the importance of giving back and helping the children. None passed up an opportunity to turn a golf term into a sophomoric double-entendre.
At least they bothered with wordplay; the scene as the golfers convened just before tee-off was rife with single-entendres. One foursome festooned its golf carts with blow-up dolls and sex toys, then took turns chugging beers through a funnel.
A few minutes later, Patrick took the mic to preside over a charity auction. Porn star Gina Lynn offered to join the highest bidder’s team, as both caddy and celebrity guest golfer. The winning bid was $3,500, by a guy whose golf buddy could be heard muttering, “I’d love to hear him explain that one to his wife.”
On the course
For a bunch of guys drinking and playing golf with porn stars, the golfers were more than a little concerned with appearance and propriety. The course was crawling with photographers from industry publications like Adult Video News, but people got nervous when they heard, “We’re from the Ventura County Star, the local newspaper here.”
“What are you writing about?” they would ask. “What’s your angle?”
“The story’s not about the sex stuff; that just gives it a little extra panache,” said Stuart Koenig, a software company executive in Florida and the brother of Vince Neil’s manager. Koenig has been playing the Skylar Neil Memorial for 10 years, and this year he brought a group of friends from Cincinnati.
“Every single player that plays this tournament wants to come back,” he said. “It’s just a really good time. This is the most fun you’ll ever have on a golf course.”
One of Koenig’s friends, Scott Baker, remembers saving his money as a teenager so he could see Mötley Crüe when they came through Cincinnati. Friday, there he was, rubbing elbows with Vince Neil.
“Vince is great,” Baker said. “He really cares about this foundation, of course, and he’s so cool to everybody. I just happened to be walking by him, and I’ve only met the guy a couple times before, and he stops me and says, Hey, how’s it going?’”
On the ninth hole, Baker tried to explain Mötley Crüe to some Hooters girls who probably weren’t born when “Girls, Girls, Girls” came out.
“Kickstart My Heart’ — you have to know that one,” he said. “It’s one of the greatest rock songs of all time.”
It was a bit rowdier than your average golf tournament, but the porn stars generally stayed within the PG-13 range of behavior. There was only one incident that can’t be described in a family newspaper.
If the porn stars didn’t offend, the same cannot be said of Kevin Federline. At the 10th hole, the former Mr. Britney Spears and his pals parked their golf carts side by side, completely blocking the path and triggering a minor traffic jam. At another hole, a pair of models poured shots of tequila and handed out apples and bottles of water, for the health-conscious golfers. Some people passed on the apples; others took them and ate them. Only Federline and his friends took them and threw them at each other.
This tale came from one of the models, who prefaced it by whispering, “If you don’t use our names, we’ll tell you who the biggest (jerk) was.” Then they said in unison: “K-Fed.”
WWE Diva Ashley Massaro A Call Girl ?
May 5, 2008 | Filed Under The Buzz | No Comments
TMZ.com]- A prominent female WWE star has been named as an employee of an L.A. escort service that the FBI is probing.
The FBI confirms to TMZ that there’s an investigation into the Bella Models escort service in California and Florida, but wouldn’t confirm the WWE star’s role. Rolling Stone says that, according to the Bureau, the WWE babe, Playboy and Maxim models, and porn stars were employed by Bella.
We’ve put in a call to the WWE, but haven’t heard back.
UPDATE 4:45 ET: Not for nothin’, but WWE Diva Ashley Massaro just put the following post on her MySpace page: “Just got buzzed on some BS that is going around. Dont [sic] believe it for a second. Getting in touch with my lawyer as we speak.”
Lindsay Lohan Has Confrontation with Ashley Olsen Over Lesbo DeeJay
April 23, 2008 | Filed Under The Buzz | No Comments
WWW- Lindsay Lohan warned Ashley Olsen to “get away” from her “girlfriend” — celebrity DJ Samantha Ronson — on Friday night, the New York Post’s Page Six gossip column reported.
“Ashley Olsen said hello to Sam at [the Beatrice Inn in New York City], and Lindsay screamed at her, ‘Get your 15-year-old ‘Full House’ a– away from my girlfriend,’” said a Page Six spy.
Lohan and Ronson [pictured together] have long been rumored to be more than pals. According to Page Six, Lohan has created a Facebook profile under the name “Lindsay Ronson.”
At New York’s Hawaiian Tropic Zone on Saturday, where Ronson was spinning, Lohan reportedly said Ronson “was ignoring her” and became upset.
“Samantha was really focused on her work and didn’t leave the booth for anything,” said the Page Six spy.
People magazine reported that the not-long-out-of-rehab Lohan was downing Grey Goose vodka.
Former Olympic ice dancer Pasha Grishuk Fed Date Rape Drug
April 23, 2008 | Filed Under The Buzz | No Comments
SANTA ANA, Calif.- Former Olympic ice dancer Pasha Grishuk was drugged with GHB, a common date rape drug, during a business meeting at a ritzy Orange County hotel, a sheriff’s spokesman said Tuesday.
Grishuk, who won Olympic gold medals for Russia in ice dancing in 1994 and 1998, was attending a business meeting at the St. Regis Monarch Beach on April 12 when she began to feel ill and numb, sheriff’s spokesman Jim Amormino said.
While eating dinner, she spotted a partially dissolved pill in the bottom of her drink. Investigators later found another dissolved pill in the bottom of a drink she ordered in the hotel’s lounge.
Amormino says toxicology tests that came back Tuesday were positive for GHB, but it wasn’t immediately clear how the pills got in Grishuk’s drinks or who put them there.
“How somebody was able to do that, I honestly don’t know, but it appears that somebody, for whatever reason, attempted to drug her,” he said.
GHB, or gamma hydroxy butyrate, can cause breathing problems, loss of consciousness, seizures, drowsiness, coma and death.
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration labels GHB a “predatory drug” that can be mixed with alcohol to reduce resistance from a victim before a sexual assault. It is also popular with teenagers at raves and is sometimes used by bodybuilders for its anabolic effects, the DEA said.
The 36-year-old Grishuk is a Ukrainian native who now lives in Los Angeles.
Radio’s Opie In the Middle of Sex Tape Scandal
April 23, 2008 | Filed Under The Buzz | No Comments
NY- THE sex-mad “Opie & Anthony” radio show is facing its own carnal comeuppance.
Gregg “Opie” Hughes [pictured] is said to be livid over an X-rated romp starring his stunning blond fiancée, known by her first name, Lindsay, and MTV wildman Bam Margera.
A disgruntled ex-employee of the radio duo recently acquired rights to the video from Margera and it’s soon to be released on a pay-for-play Web site, reports Steppin’ Out’s Chaunce Hayden.
“They’re doing the nasty - and I mean nasty,” Hayden says. “Hughes is taking legal action to prevent its distribution. Apparently, he’s so distraught, he’s banned the name ‘Bam’ from being mentioned on the show.”
Hayden says Lindsay was living in Philadelphia, Margera’s stomping grounds, when she met him and made the tape “to gain some exposure.” This was before Lindsay began dating Hughes. Calls to reps for Margera and Hughes were not returned.
