Entertainment News 12/19-12/25/05
AP
© Iglesias senior, father of crooner Julio, dies at 90
Julio Iglesias Puga, father of crooner Julio Iglesias and grandfather of pop heartthrob Enrique Iglesias, died on Monday aged 90, a Spanish hospital said.
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©Weezer Singer Continues Vow of Celibacy
Weezer lead singer Rivers Cuomo is continuing his celibacy past his self-declared deadline.
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©Ashlee Comes Home to Heal
The I Am Me singer has returned to the United States from Japan to be with her family, publicist Rob Shuter confirmed Monday to E! News. Simpson was hospitalized in Tokyo on Thursday after she collapsed in an elevator following a performance at MTV Japan.
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©You do not need to read an analysis of the 2005 charts to know that Mariah Carey made an impressive comeback, but a closer look at Billboard's year-end surveys suggests this may be her most successful year to date.
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©Elton John said forming a civil partnership with his longtime lover David Furnish in England this week will be "the happiest day of my life
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© Folk singer Arlo Guthrie and Willie Nelson gave a sold-out crowd something they've needed since Hurricane Katrina — good music, a good time and a reminder of what they love most about this city.
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Billboard
© +U2, Eagles, Diamond lead 2005 touring lineup
U2's Vertigo tour started out with demand so huge that it overloaded the ticketing system, forcing the band to apologize to its infuriated fans, and it will end as one of the top-grossing treks of all time.
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© The power of the "American Idol" franchise is clearly evident at the peak of this year's Christian and gospel music charts. "Idol" winner Ruben Studdard took the No. 1 spot on the Top Gospel Albums chart with "I Need an Angel" and also reached the summit of the Top Gospel Artists recap.
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© It is no surprise that the Pussycat Dolls' "Don't Cha" sits atop Billboard's year-end Hot Dance Club Play Singles chart: Dancefloors young and old, gay and straight, metropolitan and suburban adopted the catty kiss-off track -- and its unshakable lyrical hook -- as their own.
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MTV
© R. Kelly appeared in a Chicago court Friday (December 16) to once again try to get the child-pornography charges against him dismissed. His attorneys argued that the prosecutors' phrasing that the singer "knew or should have known" that the girl was underage was contradictory, vague and unconstitutional. They'll get to make the argument about the wording, which, the state attorney's office said, is used in "all kinds of statutes," during a hearing scheduled for February 10.
© With barely enough time to recover after being voted world's worst dog owner by readers of New York Dog and Hollywood Dog magazines, Paris Hilton has topped PETA's worst-dressed list, thanks to her fondness for wearing fur. "Now we know what happens to all of Paris Hilton's cast-off pets," PETA writes. Also on the animal-rights activists' list are Kimberly Stewart, Victoria Gotti, Lisa Gastineau and Tara Reid, who are all castigated ("Gotti's fur coats make her an accessory to murder, and it's a look that goes well with cement shoes") for their furry wardrobes ...
© Talk about father of the year. Master P has agreed to fill in for his son, Romeo, in the upcoming second season of the hit reality show "Dancing With the Stars." With Romeo reportedly sidelined by a basketball injury, P will team up with professional dancer Ashly DelGrosso, the bubbly stepper who paired with ex-New Kids on the Block member Joey McIntyre last season. P will be battling against actresses Tia Carrere, Tatum O'Neal and Lisa Rinna, journalist Giselle Fernandez, actor George Hamilton, WWE personality Stacy Keibler, ex-98 Degrees member Drew Lachey, ESPN host Kenny Mayne and legendary wide receiver Jerry Rice.
© A whole mess of A-listers are featured in David LaChapelle's forthcoming photo book "Artists and Prostitutes" — from Madonna (as a Hindu goddess), Paris Hilton (wearing a bikini reading "Eat the Rich") and Diddy (about to lick a gold-painted woman) to Jennifer Lopez (in a "Flashdance" pose), Alicia Keys (with piano aflame), Pink (setting her bedroom on fire with a flame thrower), Eminem (with a stick of dynamite strategically placed) and Outkast (climbing through a window into a room with naked women on all fours). The limited-edition book, due in March, also includes iconic shots of Britney Spears, Cameron Diaz, Sarah Jessica Parker and others. ...
© Mya, Jill Scott and Stevie Wonder are on the lineup to pay tribute to Dionne Warwick for her 45th anniversary show, to be held at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles on January 26. Also on the bill are Gloria Estefan, Olivia Newton-John, Gladys Knight, Smokey Robinson, Angie Stone and Nancy Wilson, among others. Warwick will perform for the first time with all of her composers, including Burt Bacharach and Isaac Hayes. The gala will be taped for a broadcast to be announced at a later date. ...
©Former "American Idol" contestant Julia DeMato, 26, appeared in Connecticut's Danbury Superior Court on Friday morning and pleaded not guilty to drug-possession charges stemming from an incident on December 4. The singer, who was arrested in the parking lot of Brookfield, Connecticut's Pancho and Gringos and charged with possession of narcotics, two counts of possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of less than four ounces of marijuana, is due back in court on January 12. ...
© Before Story of the Year join the Deftones, Thrice and As I Lay Dying on the Taste of Chaos Tour in mid-February, they'll be taking Every Time I Die and From First to Last on the road with them for a 15-date run that'll kick off in Salt Lake City on January 5. The tour will traverse the Midwest, dart over to the East Coast for two dates, and then make two stops in Canada before winding down on January 31 in Columbia, Missouri. ...
© Rilo Kiley's Jenny Lewis is stepping out in February with her first solo shows in support of her forthcoming album, Rabbit Fur Coat. She'll perform with the Watson Twins February 2 in Los Angeles, February 3 in San Francisco and February 5 in New York. Metric have announced dates for the second leg of their tour in support of Live It Out: The 20-date trek will kick off March 7 in Boston and end five weeks later in Detroit. The Toronto synth-rockers have also scored an opening slot for the Rolling Stones, on January 18 and 20 at Madison Square Garden in New York. Meanwhile, their single "Monster Hospital" was recently remixed by MSTRKRFT, a Death From Above 1979 side project.
© Bombastic Scottish noisemakers Mogwai will release their new album, Mr. Beast, in March, according to Matador Records. The band will launch a U.S. tour in support of the LP in early 2006.
New York Post
"TRUTH or Dare?" Madonna's got nothing on the cast and crew of "Rescue Me," the New York-set F/X channel firefighter dramedy starring Denis Leary.
Late last Tuesday night, following the show's Christmas party at the SoHo Grand Hotel, a band of merrymakers led by Leary swarmed the downstairs bar of Ono at the Hotel Gansevoort and immediately decided to play Truth or Dare with shots of vodka as truth serum. But the actors — including Leary, hunky co-firefighter Daniel Sunjata and fetching fire vixen Callie Thorne — preferred "dare" and instantly turned the game into a flagrant exhibitionism session.
MARIAH Carey likes it in London, and the folks in Aspen are happy for her. Last week, sales people in a "high-end sporting-goods shop" in Aspen were overheard talking about how sweet Renée Zellweger was compared to Carey. "She's always with a huge entourage . . . She demands the store be shut down for her," they were griping. At that point, our source reports, "an older gentleman purchasing an orange ski jacket unexpectedly chimed with, 'Yeah . . . that girl will really make your head spin!' " One staffer did a double take and recognized the man as Carey's ex, Tommy Mottola.
MORGAN Spurlock — who slung arrows at McDonald's with his Oscar-nominated documentary, "Super Size Me" — is taking a whack at the right wing's disavowal of science. Spurlock is making a documentary version of the best-selling book "The Republican War on Science," by Chris Mooney, which shows how the extreme right's positions often clash with overwhelming scientific consensus. "It'll be me going on a journey to investigate issues ranging from stem-cell research to evolution," Spurlock tells us. "I want to talk to people on both sides of the issue."
SIGHTINGS --CHELSEA Clinton and her new beau, Marc Mezvinsky, Sunday brunching at Nolita House while listening to live bluegrass music . . . BETTE Midler and Joe Armstrong emerging from the men's room at Michael's in hysterical laughter . . . ROSIE Perez at Arlene's Grocery rocking out to Lisa Jackson and Girl Friday, and sneaking out of the rock club just as the show ended . . . TIM and Nina Zagat noshing with chef Paul Liebrandt in the kitchen of Gilt, Liebrandt's new restaurant in the old Le Cirque space at the New York Palace . . . FORMER Yankee star and former Tampa manager Lou Piniella at Gallagher's for steaks prior to the final performance of the Broadway hit "Movin' Out."
IT looks like Billy Joel is waiting a while before retiring to Miami. The Piano Man, who's gearing up for another concert tour, just put his never-occupied Miami Beach bungalow on the market for $3.95 million, reports The Post's Braden Keil. The modest three-bedroom waterfront home on fashionable North Bay Road, where neighbors have included Jennifer Lopez and Calvin Klein, features a 60-foot pool and an extra-large dock where Joel was planning to keep a few of his boats. "He's actually looking for something a little bigger," said his listing broker, Nelson Gonzalez of EWM Realtors.
SEAN Combs likes to surprise his mother each year when he takes her on a win ter vacation. "I don't know where we are going this year for Christmas, but I know it is somewhere warm. My son and I love the heat and hot weather," Janice Combs said the other night. "Like all my family trips, I never know where we are going. I just get to Teter boro."
WATCH out, Jessica Simpson — we hear your estranged soon to be ex-hubby, Nick Lachey, may be trying to sell his side of the story to your former friends at OK! magazine for a whopping $300,000. Spies say Lachey's pal A.J. DiScala — who got dumped by his client/wife, Jamie-Lynn Sigler, after she reportedly caught him cheating — has approached the mag on behalf of the pop singer. Another venture that Lachey and DiScala are said to be in on together is as investors in the skeevy new club Pacha where scantily clad women writhe in a shower. This has lead some to speculate that DiScala is co-managing Lachey along with his brother Drew. Our spy added: "[Lachey] wants to keep it quiet. But it's genius — it's like Donald Trump owning a modeling agency!" A rep for the club said: "We don't disclose our investors." Shawn Sachs, who is acting as a rep for Lachey said, "Drew Lachey — Nick's manager — has not spoken to OK! magazine about any interview deal. Any report to the contrary is false. A.J. is Nick's good friend. And Nick is not involved in Pacha." DiScala also denies any involvement with Lachey. We shall see.
AS if Kate Moss needed another reason not to re-unite with junkie rocker Pete Doherty — consider that the British bad boy's HIV-infected former drug dealer is urging Doherty to get an AIDS test. Owen O'Dwyer started selling heroin to Doherty three years ago, and says he used to do drugs with his famous client. "I'm terrified Pete might have HIV," O'Dwyer tells the Sun in London. "I had no idea I had the disease when we were doing drugs — I want him to know this was not intentional. We didn't share needles but we kept our needles in the same glass. I'm worried blood on the needles may have mixed."
NY DAILY NEWS
Federal agents in Las Vegas want to meet celebrities — but they aren't looking for autographs. Investigators probing alleged racketeering at the Crazy Horse Too strip club have questioned several of its star patrons, including George Clooney, Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci, sources tell us. The feds have wanted to talk with all of them about Rick Rizzolo, Crazy Horse Too's owner. Rizzolo's lawyer, Tony Sgro, confirmed the FBI "has interviewed some of Mr. Rizzolo's celebrity friends," to pressure him into cooperating.
ROLLING STONE
© BON JOVI are asking fans who have purchased tickets to the sold-out New Jersey shows of their Have A Nice Day tour at Continental Airlines Arena in East Rutherford to bring food donations for local charities. On December 19th, the food will benefit the Lunchbreak program in Red Bank; on the 21st, food will go to the St. Mark's Soup Kitchen in Keensburg; and on the 22nd, donations go to the St. John's Soup Kitchen in Newark. The New Jersey rockers will wrap the North American leg of their trek on March 11th in Las Vegas.
© FANTASIA, INDIA.ARIE, KEM, TONI BRAXTON, SMOKEY ROBINSON, YOLANDA ADAMS, LOU RAWLS and QUINCY JONES will be on hand at the United Negro College Fund's An Evening of Stars in a tribute to STEVIE WONDER. Former American Idol Fantasia is set to perform Wonder's "Superstition," as well as "Summertime" off her 2004 debut Free Yourself. The show is set to air on a number of networks, still to be announced, on January 6th through 8th.
© The next annual New Orleans roots music festival, Ponderosa Stomp 2006, heads to Memphis' Gibson Factory, for May 9th and 10th. This year's festival will feature New Orleans musicians JOE CLAY, CLARENCE "FROGMAN" HENRY, REBIRTH BRASS BAND, TAMMY LYNN and ARCHIE BELL, as well as Memphis-based artists such as SCOTTY MOORE, DJ FONTANA, SONNY BURGESS and HAYDEN THOMPSON. The event will benefit New Orleans musicians affected by Hurricane Katrina.
©Eclectic R&B singer KELIS will release her fourth album, The Puppeteer, this spring. The follow-up to 2003's Tasty (best known for the hit single "Milkshake") will sport the first single "Bossy," at radio in January. Kelis married rapper -- and fellow New York native -- NAS in early 2005, and the couple currently resides in Atlanta.
© RICKY MARTIN will kick off the 8th Wonder Global Concert Series on February 25th at the Taj Mahal in Agra, India. Martin's performance will be the first of ten shows to benefit UNICEF's "Unite for Children, Unite Against AIDS" program, YouthAids and the Ricky Martin Foundation. The following shows will roll out biannually over a five-year period, at venues such as Beijing's Forbidden City, the Parthenon in Greece, and the Great Pyramid in Cairo.
© SLIPKNOT, MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE, LINKIN PARK's CHESTER BENNINGTON, HAWTHORNE HEIGHTS and ALKALINE TRIO are all featured on the soundtrack for Underworld: Evolution, the sequel to 2003's Underworld, due in theaters on January 20th. The CD, which hits shelves January 10th, includes Bennington's "Morning After," the frontman's debut solo recording, as well as exclusive remixes like LEGION OF DOOM's take on SENSES FAIL's "Bite to Break Skin."
Allhiphop.com
©Police Investigating Canceled Paul Wall/Mike Jones/Chamillionaire Concert
Prosecutors in two counties are investigating a canceled rap concert in Dothan, Alabama, that was to feature Paul Wall, Mike Jones and Chamillionaire on Dec. 9.
Attorneys in Coffee and Houston Counties were contacted by local businesses who sold over $4,000 worth of tickets.
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© Iglesias senior, father of crooner Julio, dies at 90
Julio Iglesias Puga, father of crooner Julio Iglesias and grandfather of pop heartthrob Enrique Iglesias, died on Monday aged 90, a Spanish hospital said.
http://news.yahoo.com/
©Weezer Singer Continues Vow of Celibacy
Weezer lead singer Rivers Cuomo is continuing his celibacy past his self-declared deadline.
http://news.yahoo.com/
©Ashlee Comes Home to Heal
The I Am Me singer has returned to the United States from Japan to be with her family, publicist Rob Shuter confirmed Monday to E! News. Simpson was hospitalized in Tokyo on Thursday after she collapsed in an elevator following a performance at MTV Japan.
http://news.yahoo.com/
©You do not need to read an analysis of the 2005 charts to know that Mariah Carey made an impressive comeback, but a closer look at Billboard's year-end surveys suggests this may be her most successful year to date.
http://news.yahoo.com/
©Elton John said forming a civil partnership with his longtime lover David Furnish in England this week will be "the happiest day of my life
http://news.yahoo.com/
© Folk singer Arlo Guthrie and Willie Nelson gave a sold-out crowd something they've needed since Hurricane Katrina — good music, a good time and a reminder of what they love most about this city.
http://news.yahoo.com/
Billboard
© +U2, Eagles, Diamond lead 2005 touring lineup
U2's Vertigo tour started out with demand so huge that it overloaded the ticketing system, forcing the band to apologize to its infuriated fans, and it will end as one of the top-grossing treks of all time.
http://news.yahoo.com/
© The power of the "American Idol" franchise is clearly evident at the peak of this year's Christian and gospel music charts. "Idol" winner Ruben Studdard took the No. 1 spot on the Top Gospel Albums chart with "I Need an Angel" and also reached the summit of the Top Gospel Artists recap.
http://news.yahoo.com/
© It is no surprise that the Pussycat Dolls' "Don't Cha" sits atop Billboard's year-end Hot Dance Club Play Singles chart: Dancefloors young and old, gay and straight, metropolitan and suburban adopted the catty kiss-off track -- and its unshakable lyrical hook -- as their own.
http://news.yahoo.com/
MTV
© R. Kelly appeared in a Chicago court Friday (December 16) to once again try to get the child-pornography charges against him dismissed. His attorneys argued that the prosecutors' phrasing that the singer "knew or should have known" that the girl was underage was contradictory, vague and unconstitutional. They'll get to make the argument about the wording, which, the state attorney's office said, is used in "all kinds of statutes," during a hearing scheduled for February 10.
© With barely enough time to recover after being voted world's worst dog owner by readers of New York Dog and Hollywood Dog magazines, Paris Hilton has topped PETA's worst-dressed list, thanks to her fondness for wearing fur. "Now we know what happens to all of Paris Hilton's cast-off pets," PETA writes. Also on the animal-rights activists' list are Kimberly Stewart, Victoria Gotti, Lisa Gastineau and Tara Reid, who are all castigated ("Gotti's fur coats make her an accessory to murder, and it's a look that goes well with cement shoes") for their furry wardrobes ...
© Talk about father of the year. Master P has agreed to fill in for his son, Romeo, in the upcoming second season of the hit reality show "Dancing With the Stars." With Romeo reportedly sidelined by a basketball injury, P will team up with professional dancer Ashly DelGrosso, the bubbly stepper who paired with ex-New Kids on the Block member Joey McIntyre last season. P will be battling against actresses Tia Carrere, Tatum O'Neal and Lisa Rinna, journalist Giselle Fernandez, actor George Hamilton, WWE personality Stacy Keibler, ex-98 Degrees member Drew Lachey, ESPN host Kenny Mayne and legendary wide receiver Jerry Rice.
© A whole mess of A-listers are featured in David LaChapelle's forthcoming photo book "Artists and Prostitutes" — from Madonna (as a Hindu goddess), Paris Hilton (wearing a bikini reading "Eat the Rich") and Diddy (about to lick a gold-painted woman) to Jennifer Lopez (in a "Flashdance" pose), Alicia Keys (with piano aflame), Pink (setting her bedroom on fire with a flame thrower), Eminem (with a stick of dynamite strategically placed) and Outkast (climbing through a window into a room with naked women on all fours). The limited-edition book, due in March, also includes iconic shots of Britney Spears, Cameron Diaz, Sarah Jessica Parker and others. ...
© Mya, Jill Scott and Stevie Wonder are on the lineup to pay tribute to Dionne Warwick for her 45th anniversary show, to be held at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles on January 26. Also on the bill are Gloria Estefan, Olivia Newton-John, Gladys Knight, Smokey Robinson, Angie Stone and Nancy Wilson, among others. Warwick will perform for the first time with all of her composers, including Burt Bacharach and Isaac Hayes. The gala will be taped for a broadcast to be announced at a later date. ...
©Former "American Idol" contestant Julia DeMato, 26, appeared in Connecticut's Danbury Superior Court on Friday morning and pleaded not guilty to drug-possession charges stemming from an incident on December 4. The singer, who was arrested in the parking lot of Brookfield, Connecticut's Pancho and Gringos and charged with possession of narcotics, two counts of possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of less than four ounces of marijuana, is due back in court on January 12. ...
© Before Story of the Year join the Deftones, Thrice and As I Lay Dying on the Taste of Chaos Tour in mid-February, they'll be taking Every Time I Die and From First to Last on the road with them for a 15-date run that'll kick off in Salt Lake City on January 5. The tour will traverse the Midwest, dart over to the East Coast for two dates, and then make two stops in Canada before winding down on January 31 in Columbia, Missouri. ...
© Rilo Kiley's Jenny Lewis is stepping out in February with her first solo shows in support of her forthcoming album, Rabbit Fur Coat. She'll perform with the Watson Twins February 2 in Los Angeles, February 3 in San Francisco and February 5 in New York. Metric have announced dates for the second leg of their tour in support of Live It Out: The 20-date trek will kick off March 7 in Boston and end five weeks later in Detroit. The Toronto synth-rockers have also scored an opening slot for the Rolling Stones, on January 18 and 20 at Madison Square Garden in New York. Meanwhile, their single "Monster Hospital" was recently remixed by MSTRKRFT, a Death From Above 1979 side project.
© Bombastic Scottish noisemakers Mogwai will release their new album, Mr. Beast, in March, according to Matador Records. The band will launch a U.S. tour in support of the LP in early 2006.
New York Post
"TRUTH or Dare?" Madonna's got nothing on the cast and crew of "Rescue Me," the New York-set F/X channel firefighter dramedy starring Denis Leary.
Late last Tuesday night, following the show's Christmas party at the SoHo Grand Hotel, a band of merrymakers led by Leary swarmed the downstairs bar of Ono at the Hotel Gansevoort and immediately decided to play Truth or Dare with shots of vodka as truth serum. But the actors — including Leary, hunky co-firefighter Daniel Sunjata and fetching fire vixen Callie Thorne — preferred "dare" and instantly turned the game into a flagrant exhibitionism session.
MARIAH Carey likes it in London, and the folks in Aspen are happy for her. Last week, sales people in a "high-end sporting-goods shop" in Aspen were overheard talking about how sweet Renée Zellweger was compared to Carey. "She's always with a huge entourage . . . She demands the store be shut down for her," they were griping. At that point, our source reports, "an older gentleman purchasing an orange ski jacket unexpectedly chimed with, 'Yeah . . . that girl will really make your head spin!' " One staffer did a double take and recognized the man as Carey's ex, Tommy Mottola.
MORGAN Spurlock — who slung arrows at McDonald's with his Oscar-nominated documentary, "Super Size Me" — is taking a whack at the right wing's disavowal of science. Spurlock is making a documentary version of the best-selling book "The Republican War on Science," by Chris Mooney, which shows how the extreme right's positions often clash with overwhelming scientific consensus. "It'll be me going on a journey to investigate issues ranging from stem-cell research to evolution," Spurlock tells us. "I want to talk to people on both sides of the issue."
SIGHTINGS --CHELSEA Clinton and her new beau, Marc Mezvinsky, Sunday brunching at Nolita House while listening to live bluegrass music . . . BETTE Midler and Joe Armstrong emerging from the men's room at Michael's in hysterical laughter . . . ROSIE Perez at Arlene's Grocery rocking out to Lisa Jackson and Girl Friday, and sneaking out of the rock club just as the show ended . . . TIM and Nina Zagat noshing with chef Paul Liebrandt in the kitchen of Gilt, Liebrandt's new restaurant in the old Le Cirque space at the New York Palace . . . FORMER Yankee star and former Tampa manager Lou Piniella at Gallagher's for steaks prior to the final performance of the Broadway hit "Movin' Out."
IT looks like Billy Joel is waiting a while before retiring to Miami. The Piano Man, who's gearing up for another concert tour, just put his never-occupied Miami Beach bungalow on the market for $3.95 million, reports The Post's Braden Keil. The modest three-bedroom waterfront home on fashionable North Bay Road, where neighbors have included Jennifer Lopez and Calvin Klein, features a 60-foot pool and an extra-large dock where Joel was planning to keep a few of his boats. "He's actually looking for something a little bigger," said his listing broker, Nelson Gonzalez of EWM Realtors.
SEAN Combs likes to surprise his mother each year when he takes her on a win ter vacation. "I don't know where we are going this year for Christmas, but I know it is somewhere warm. My son and I love the heat and hot weather," Janice Combs said the other night. "Like all my family trips, I never know where we are going. I just get to Teter boro."
WATCH out, Jessica Simpson — we hear your estranged soon to be ex-hubby, Nick Lachey, may be trying to sell his side of the story to your former friends at OK! magazine for a whopping $300,000. Spies say Lachey's pal A.J. DiScala — who got dumped by his client/wife, Jamie-Lynn Sigler, after she reportedly caught him cheating — has approached the mag on behalf of the pop singer. Another venture that Lachey and DiScala are said to be in on together is as investors in the skeevy new club Pacha where scantily clad women writhe in a shower. This has lead some to speculate that DiScala is co-managing Lachey along with his brother Drew. Our spy added: "[Lachey] wants to keep it quiet. But it's genius — it's like Donald Trump owning a modeling agency!" A rep for the club said: "We don't disclose our investors." Shawn Sachs, who is acting as a rep for Lachey said, "Drew Lachey — Nick's manager — has not spoken to OK! magazine about any interview deal. Any report to the contrary is false. A.J. is Nick's good friend. And Nick is not involved in Pacha." DiScala also denies any involvement with Lachey. We shall see.
AS if Kate Moss needed another reason not to re-unite with junkie rocker Pete Doherty — consider that the British bad boy's HIV-infected former drug dealer is urging Doherty to get an AIDS test. Owen O'Dwyer started selling heroin to Doherty three years ago, and says he used to do drugs with his famous client. "I'm terrified Pete might have HIV," O'Dwyer tells the Sun in London. "I had no idea I had the disease when we were doing drugs — I want him to know this was not intentional. We didn't share needles but we kept our needles in the same glass. I'm worried blood on the needles may have mixed."
NY DAILY NEWS
Federal agents in Las Vegas want to meet celebrities — but they aren't looking for autographs. Investigators probing alleged racketeering at the Crazy Horse Too strip club have questioned several of its star patrons, including George Clooney, Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci, sources tell us. The feds have wanted to talk with all of them about Rick Rizzolo, Crazy Horse Too's owner. Rizzolo's lawyer, Tony Sgro, confirmed the FBI "has interviewed some of Mr. Rizzolo's celebrity friends," to pressure him into cooperating.
ROLLING STONE
© BON JOVI are asking fans who have purchased tickets to the sold-out New Jersey shows of their Have A Nice Day tour at Continental Airlines Arena in East Rutherford to bring food donations for local charities. On December 19th, the food will benefit the Lunchbreak program in Red Bank; on the 21st, food will go to the St. Mark's Soup Kitchen in Keensburg; and on the 22nd, donations go to the St. John's Soup Kitchen in Newark. The New Jersey rockers will wrap the North American leg of their trek on March 11th in Las Vegas.
© FANTASIA, INDIA.ARIE, KEM, TONI BRAXTON, SMOKEY ROBINSON, YOLANDA ADAMS, LOU RAWLS and QUINCY JONES will be on hand at the United Negro College Fund's An Evening of Stars in a tribute to STEVIE WONDER. Former American Idol Fantasia is set to perform Wonder's "Superstition," as well as "Summertime" off her 2004 debut Free Yourself. The show is set to air on a number of networks, still to be announced, on January 6th through 8th.
© The next annual New Orleans roots music festival, Ponderosa Stomp 2006, heads to Memphis' Gibson Factory, for May 9th and 10th. This year's festival will feature New Orleans musicians JOE CLAY, CLARENCE "FROGMAN" HENRY, REBIRTH BRASS BAND, TAMMY LYNN and ARCHIE BELL, as well as Memphis-based artists such as SCOTTY MOORE, DJ FONTANA, SONNY BURGESS and HAYDEN THOMPSON. The event will benefit New Orleans musicians affected by Hurricane Katrina.
©Eclectic R&B singer KELIS will release her fourth album, The Puppeteer, this spring. The follow-up to 2003's Tasty (best known for the hit single "Milkshake") will sport the first single "Bossy," at radio in January. Kelis married rapper -- and fellow New York native -- NAS in early 2005, and the couple currently resides in Atlanta.
© RICKY MARTIN will kick off the 8th Wonder Global Concert Series on February 25th at the Taj Mahal in Agra, India. Martin's performance will be the first of ten shows to benefit UNICEF's "Unite for Children, Unite Against AIDS" program, YouthAids and the Ricky Martin Foundation. The following shows will roll out biannually over a five-year period, at venues such as Beijing's Forbidden City, the Parthenon in Greece, and the Great Pyramid in Cairo.
© SLIPKNOT, MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE, LINKIN PARK's CHESTER BENNINGTON, HAWTHORNE HEIGHTS and ALKALINE TRIO are all featured on the soundtrack for Underworld: Evolution, the sequel to 2003's Underworld, due in theaters on January 20th. The CD, which hits shelves January 10th, includes Bennington's "Morning After," the frontman's debut solo recording, as well as exclusive remixes like LEGION OF DOOM's take on SENSES FAIL's "Bite to Break Skin."
Allhiphop.com
©Police Investigating Canceled Paul Wall/Mike Jones/Chamillionaire Concert
Prosecutors in two counties are investigating a canceled rap concert in Dothan, Alabama, that was to feature Paul Wall, Mike Jones and Chamillionaire on Dec. 9.
Attorneys in Coffee and Houston Counties were contacted by local businesses who sold over $4,000 worth of tickets.
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