A trial starts today in a battle between the classes -- the classes being the rich and the much richer.
The battleground is one of the most exclusive areas of Bev Hills, called Beverly Park, which is divided into Northern and Southern parts. The South Beverly Park Homeowners Association is suing the North BPHA -- the posher part where Barry Bonds, Rod Stewart, Sly Stallone and Denzel Washington reside -- because the hired help and others for the Southern masters have been blocked from entering on the North side.
Housekeepers and gardeners have been forced to take a seven-mile detour to enter on the South.
The judge is expected to instruct the jury, "Four score and seven years ago...."
Remy Ma wants her lawyers to exercise her get out of jail card ... just in time for the holidays. Remy's mouthpieces have filed for an appeal on her eight-year prison sentence for shooting a woman in the stomach outside of an NYC nightclub earlier this year. Her attorneys claim the trial was riddled with mistakes by the judge. They want the lil' felon sprung in time for Xmas.
Remy has always maintained that the shooting was an "accident," just like the Menendez bros.
Don't hit a man with glasses -- hit him for a good cause. A pile of Las Vegas club managers and promoters laced up their gloves and smashed each other's faces at the Hard Rock's Joint -- raising almost $20,000 for the cleft charity, Smile Train, and a nonprofit organization called Barry's Boxing.
Tony Hawk, Jason Giambi and Carey Hart were all there to watch the ass whoopings.
A bunch of Spears fans are pitching a Brit fit in Hollywood right now -- claiming they were screwed out of attending the popwreck's documentary screening because they weren't hot, blond and slutty enough to make the cut. The group was waiting in line for a bus to take them to the screening, but when it showed up, they say the most attractive and provocatively dressed fans were cherry-picked from the crowd -- instead of a first-come, first-serve scenario.
The frenetic fans say they were even told the bus was coming back for more ... which it never did.
A double-decker bus carrying The Roots crashed and flipped over in Paris last night -- and after their drummer crawled out of the rubble of cereal, broken glass and bathroom fluid, he immediately blogged about it. Fortunately, no one was seriously hurt when a van (pictured underneath the bus) crashed into the bus, forcing it to do a 360 on the highway and turn on its side. When the drummer, Ahmir "?uestlove" Thompson, emerged from the chaotic scene, he immediately sent a post-wreck email to Okayplayer.com that read: "well...since we are sitting on the side of the road. what better way to pass the time while the ambulance come then [sic] to....blog."
Love later wrote a detailed blow-by-blow of the crash and aftermath from a motel, where he described the moment he realized he wasn't dead, described the injuries ("some of us have cuts and neck braces on"), and declared, "we are so grateful for this outcome."
There's a buzz that Ed McMahon had a heart attack and was rushed to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in L.A.
Part is true and part isn't. We've learned over the weekend McMahon experienced shortness of breath and was taken to Cedars. Doctors were concerned enough to put Ed in the Cardiac Unit, where he was monitored. They determined he did not suffer heart problems.
Here's what happened. Ed, like many others in L.A., suffered from choking smoke -- the result of the multiple fires in the L.A. area. He had respiratory issues that had symptoms similar to a heart attack. But no heart attack for Ed.
Scottie Pippen is out to crush a couple of allegedly crooked businessmen who may have screwed the NBA legend out of a ton of cash -- and this time, he doesn't need Michael Jordan's help. Pippen -- a major stockholder of Learn.com (LDC) -- is leading a team of pissed off shareholders in a lawsuit against the site's head honchos, after Scottie says the bigshots pulled a bunch of shady financial maneuvers and couldn't produce a paper trail.
The suit is pretty technical, but it basically boils down to this: Team Pippen claims the honchos, James Riley and J.W. Ray, abused their authority, reducing share-prices and handing out millions of dollars in loans without getting the proper consent from their investors.
In the lawsuit, filed this month in Florida Circuit Court, the former baller and his team of stockholders are demanding Riley and Ray fork over a ton of cash for hurting the company -- and their pocketbooks.
FYI -- Scottie already has more than 6,000 career assists.
Russell Johnson became famous playing stranded castaway Roy Hinkley, aka the Professor, on the '60s classic TV series "Gilligan's Island." Guess what he looks like now!
Wearing Justin's '30s Dick Tracy fedora, Mary-Kate Olsen's '70s oversized owl shades, a sexy early 20th century Mennonite party/house dress, a '90s brown leather Gap belt and an '80s hair-band groupie's bag, Jessica Biel worked the timeless runway of Melrose Ave. on Wednesday.
It takes years and years and years to look as hot as Jessica!
See that drawing below with a bunch of squiggly colored lines and random cartoon faces? Some guy actually shelled out over $300,000 to get Michael Jackson to do one just like it ... and he wants his jack back. The Bahraini sheikh who's suing Michael Jackson for $7 mil allegedly shelled out the dough to mind-mapping guru Tony Buzan, who has his clients draw and color a mind-map that turns out to look like a little boy's third grade art project. For the record, MJ is a grown man.
BTW, after originally saying he was too sick to travel, Jackson's attorney said today Jacko will testify in London on Monday.
Jennifer Garner scored a permanent restraining order this morning against the man who has become a menace to her entire family -- judging from the video, it's obvious she's living in fear. Jen, who is pregnant with baby #2, exercised extreme caution yesterday -- and we're guessing it has something to do with Steven Burky, the man she says has been "stalking and harassing" her.
Rob Pattinson's been out with a mystery blonde girl two nights in a row -- but is she a secret GF or just another random fang banger? Both times we've seen 'em together, they've avoided being photographed together like a vampire avoids sunlight -- and probably for good reason -- if those rabid Twilight fangirls don't think they have a shot, think they'll still pay to see his movie?
UPDATE: The blond he was out with the first night (left inset) has been identified by Twilighters as Rob's sister, Lizzy -- but the chick whose hand he was allegedly holding in the video from last night still remains a mystery.
There's a buzz that Ed McMahon had a heart attack and was rushed to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in L.A.
Wearing Justin's '30s Dick Tracy fedora, Mary-Kate Olsen's '70s oversized owl shades, a sexy early 20th century Mennonite party/house dress, a '90s brown leather Gap belt and an '80s hair-band groupie's bag, Jessica Biel worked the timeless runway of Melrose Ave. on Wednesday.
