Britney Spears' jury is doing its best to make up for lost time.
While it took 14 months—a very long 14 months—for the singer's trial on misdemeanor driving without a license to reach a courtroom, it took barely two days of testimony before jurors entered deliberations.
The eight-woman, four-man panel is currently pondering the pop star's fate.
At stake is whether the 26-year-old will be slapped with a criminal charge as a result of her August 2007 ding-and-run, at which time she was in possession of a Louisiana, though not California, driver's license.
Spears, who has been MIA throughout the proceedings, might have to put in face time in the court if she's convicted.
"Her lawyer can stand in for the sentencing hearing, but the judge might want it all done on the record," Alec Rose, a Santa Monica criminal defense attorney, tells E! News.
The maximum sentence is six months in jail and a $1,000 fine—not to mention the knowledge that a much less costly solution, which included zero time behind bars, without the embarrassment of a public trial could have been, had Spears accepted prosecutors' plea deal earlier this month.
Rose, who's not involved in the case, doesn't expect much of a penalty even if the singer is found guilty.
"No one gets sentenced jail time" in these kind of cases, says Rose. "She would probably only have to pay a fine of a few hundred dollars and be on one to three years of summary probation."
Three witnesses, including Spears' father, Jamie, testified before Friday morning's closing statements.
For his part, Jamie did his best to justify her out-of-state license and play down the fact that his daughter had tied the knot and twice given birth in the Golden State, saying her real home was and will again be Louisiana.
Britney's ex-boyfriend could find himself behind bars
Britney Spears' ex-boyfriend Adnan Ghalib could find himself behind bars if he tried to sell the s*x tape featuring him and the singer.
The paparazzi photographer, who dated Britney during her public meltdown, had offered the tape for sale inviting the highest bid and was trying to sell it to Internet's pay-per-view po rn websites for 5.6million pounds.
Meanwhile, the singer has decided to fight back and her lawyers have filed a lawsuit claiming that Britney was mentally instable when the video was shot.
The 2-hour long tape was allegedly shot while the duo was holidaying in Mexico earlier this year - around the same time when Britney was struggling with depression, drug addiction and nervous breakdowns.
The singer had landed in hospital psychiatric wards twice after a string of public meltdowns and had also lost custody of her children control of her finances before being filmed with Ghalib.
"Brit's attorneys will argue that she was coerced into being filmed having s*x with Ghalib while the balance of her mind was disturbed," the Daily Star quoted a family source as saying.
The source said: "Every shred of evidence supports this.
"The whole world watched earlier this year as she was strapped on to a gurney and carted off to a mental ward."
The 35-year old Brummie, who, according to pals, has been struggling financially since being ditched by Britney, could face up to ten years behind bars if he were to break the injunction.
Miley Cyrus Dead Rumor
The Miley Cyrus is dead rumor is not true. The rumor has spread like wild fire all over the internet, but the source is very questionable. Read about it below and enjoy some photos of Miley and a video below.
Rumors that Miley Cyrus was killed in a tragic automobile accident on Friday, September 5th are not true. The rumors were started on sites like digg.com and wikipedia by a someone who apparently hasn’t spent a lot of time in school. The Miley Cyrus dead rumor took off from there and took on a life of its own - so to speak.
The problem is that regardless of how many times its reported that the car accident didn’t happen and the 15 year old Hannah Montana star is still alive and well, people are still believing that it happened.
Another problem is, that the perpetrators of the hoax can’t spell worth a lick. They reported that the “Rueters” [sic] story is as follows:
Actress Miley Cyrus Died in Terrible Car Accident
Teen star of the hit Disney television series “Hannah Montana” Miley Cyrus appears to have died in a tragic car accident in the early hours of Friday morning. The young starlet was on her way to the filiming [sic] of the upcoming “Hannah Montanna” [sic] Series when her vehicle was reportedly hit by a large truck. Witnesses estimate that the colliding vehicle was travelling [sic] at “At least 55mph” and had “Run a stop sign.” Although rushed in a [sic] critical condition to Pacific Alliance Medical Centre [sic], the news broke quickly amongst reporters that the teen had succumbed to her injuries during surgery.
I’m hoping that the punks that started the rumor are from Europe, since they spelled ‘center’ the European way, ‘centre’. But that’s hard to tell considering that so many other words are misspelled. I’m pretty sure that Reuters doesn’t really hire people who can’t spell any better than the example above would make it seem.
It doesn’t matter where they come from, it just says a lot about the state of our educational system. If nothing else, you’d think they could turn on their spell check.
German Olympic women pose nude for Playboy
Topless photos of hockey player Katharina Scholz, sailor Petra Niemann, judo competitor Romy Tarangul and canoeist Nicole Reinhardt are published on four alternative front covers of the latest German edition of the adult magazine.
Reinhardt poses with only a canoe paddle to protect her modesty,
while Niemann is shown tugging on a sailing rope over her head.
Scholz defended her decision to pose nude but said that she had no plans for a future in modeling.
"For me it was a good opportunity, and maybe when I look back after a few years I will be proud of it,” the 25-year-old said.
“Not everybody can go on the cover of Playboy. I did it because I am conf
ident of my body and myself."
She added: "It wasn't a group decision, we haven't seen each other. The shooting was separate. Everyone decided it for themselves.”
The four Germans are not the first Olympic athletes to strip off for extra publicity.
US Olympic swimming champion Amanda Beard posed naked in Playboy last year, and three British athletes including triple jumper Phillips Idowu bared all as part of an advertising campaign ahead of this year’s Games.
German Olympic Playboy Nicole Reinhardt Wants Playboy Spread Wearing Only a Gold Medal
Olympic Nudes Baring All for Playboy and Beijing Gold
The latest edition of German Playboy has four Olympians in it -- nude. But, then, we would expect nothing less of Playboy magazine. And with hockey player Katharina Scholz, sailor Petra Niemann, judoka Romy Tarangul, and canoeist Nicole Reinhardt, you will not see anything less in September's issue of German Playboy."For me it was a good opportunity, and maybe when I look back after a few years I will be proud of it," the 25-year-old Katharina Scholz said about the spread, according to the Telegraph out of the UK. "Not everybody can go on the cover of Playboy. I did it because I am confident of my body and myself."
Nicole Reinhardt says they're "beautiful pictures," and that the next spread she does, she wants her only accessory to be a gold medal. "Not every girl or woman has a chance to come into this magazine.
The women appear on four alternate covers of the Olympic edition.
They Aren't The First To Pose For Playboy
The four German Olympic Playboy posers aren't the first Olympic athletes to pose nude for Playboy, though. Team USA's Amanda Beard, who made headlines earlier in the Games by unveiling her nude PETA poster in Beijing, posed for Playboy last year.
Back in 2004, the September issue of Playboy featured eight Olympic hopefuls for the Athens Games. Among them were Amy Acruff, a high jumper for the United States; Ineta Radevica, triple jumper from Latvia; and Katie Vermuellen, a 1500 m runner from Canada.
And Katarina Witt posed for Playboy in 1998. Of course, she posed a decade after winning her second gold medal (1988) for East Germany in Calgary, Canada.
They Won't Be The Last Olympic Athletes To Pose For Playboy
But s*x sells. And the Olympics are sexy. Athletes at the top of their game and form are sexy. Those skimpy outfits athletes wear are not just designed for less wind and water resistance; they're also designed for aesthetic effect.
Will Smith reveals that he has an open marriage with wife, Jada Pinkett-Smith in a UK Magazine interview.
Will Smith, 39, actor and singer, says the secret to his happy 11-year marriage to Jada Pinkett-Smith is maintaining a healthy and “open” sex life.
“Lots of sex. All the time, every day. Just lots of sex keeps me going good!” said Smith, who realized three months into their relationship that his wife was the one for him. “I was very interested that first night, but I was in a bizarre mental space. Three months into it, we were at her mom’s house and it just hit me. I looked at her and just knew this was it.”
Another important part of their relationship is honesty. Both Will and Jada are open about their attractions to other people.
“Our perspective is, you don’t avoid what’s natural and you’re going to be attracted to people. So sometimes we have the discussion: ‘Wow, this or that girl is freaking gorgeous.’ I’m not going to say anything to my buddies that’s any different than what I say to my wife,” said Smith.
Though they have yet to take lovers outside of their marriage, the couple will tell each other if the occasion ever arises.
“I don’t know how I’d feel. But I know I would react better than if I found out about it afterwards,” said Smith, in regards to the possibility of his wife asking to take a lover.
The couple has two children together, 10-year-old son Jayden and eight-year-old daughter, Willow. Smith also has another son, 15-year-old Willard, from his first marriage.
This revelation from Will Smith about his marriage is a bit surprising? What do you guys think about their “open relationship”?
Jesse & Jason Find out which one of these handsome fellas wants to make an honest woman out of former Bachelor castoff DeAnna Pappas...
Oh, wait, they both did. Find out which one she said yes to after the jump.
None of the above wasn't an option for DeAnna Pappas this time around.
The once-scorned Bachelor beauty picked Jesse Csincsak to call her own Monday on the season finale of The Bachelorette, accepting the 26-year-old pro snowboarder's proposal with a big ol' teary smile on her face.
Meaning, after visits with each other's families, some "alone time" in the Bahamas and weeks of soul-searching, Deanna Pappas, 26, picked Jesse Csincsak over 31-year-old account executive Jason Mesnick, both of whom asked her pop's permission for her hand in marriage.
"Jesse, would you accept this final rose?" Pappas asked her new fiancé. "I cannot believe that I'm going to marry this guy with the pink shoelaces!" she added, referring to his Day-Glo premiere-episode ensemble.
It may have seemed at first like Mesnick was the obvious choice, what with his tall-dark-and-handsomeness and his fearless declarations of love, established dependability and vows of forever.
But when did any red-blooded twenty something automatically go with what feels the safest?
"I was so ready to be in love again," Jason Mesnick said during the limo ride that carried him away from that oh-so-crappy moment in which he got down on one knee and she said, "No, I can't."
But "she wanted something I couldn't give her," he said.
And even though Jesse Csincsak wasn't exactly sure that he could give Pappas the world just yet, as he picked out a ring, he mused, "She's the one and that's all that matters."
The Colorado resident's initial visit with Deanna Pappas' family left a little to be desired in the minds of her dad, sister and brother, but some other relatives thought that Jason Mesnick's single-dad status might "fast-forward her life five years," whereas Jesse Csincsak was more of a "free spirit," like her.
The Atlanta native maintained that she was still hashing it out in her mind until the 11th hour.
"I still have the piece of paper where I was doing my pros and cons, because it was never an easy decision," the already-engaged Pappas told reporters last week during a conference call, per Reality TV World. "It was always a very, very hard decision for me."
"How are you supposed to look at someone and tell them that you care about them so much but you can't choose them because you care about the other guy more? That definitely does not make you feel good about yourself. I can promise you that."
She managed, though.
"When you see the final episode, it's so good—you're going to laugh and you're going to cry. It's just a beautiful episode," Pappas said, describing herself as "very happy, in love and engaged."
Deanna Pappas & Jesse Csincsak Not that Pappas and Csincsak's picture-perfect moment wasn't without its share of controversy, as countless fans couldn't quite get their minds around why she booted attorney Jeremy Anderson during the penultimate rose ceremony.
"I've never had my heart broken like this," Anderson, who was apparently too "perfect" for his own good, told her following the very unprivate farewell. "Today could potentially be one of the worst days I've ever had."
"I knew I didn't feel the same," Pappas explained.
"You always second-guess and wish you had said something or not said something. Me being in Jeremy's position before, of course it was hard to see him at [the Bachelorette special] The Men Tell All, of course it was hard to know that I broke his heart and he felt led on. That doesn't make anyone feel good."
Pappas did give Anderson, who also showed up on tonight's finale to plead his case, a plug as far as his eligibility is concerned: "Jeremy would make a great [Bachelor star] because he has everything to offer a woman," she said. "If he wanted to be the next Bachelor, I would totally support him."
But it was Csincsak whose Tacori diamond ring shined the brightest in Pappas' eyes, and now she's got a wedding to plan…for sometime.
"We're definitely taking it day by day," Pappas said when asked whether they'd set the date.
But "it's going to be big," she added. "I have a huge family, there's no way I could cut down my list. We've already thought about it, and it's just ridiculous. It's going to be a big wedding, and I'm kind of a traditional kind of girl. I want lots of white."
And, like Trista Rehn, she might want cameras, too.
"I can't say I put a lot of thought into it, but I'm not really opposed to letting those fans into that part of my life," Pappas said.
A newly betrothed Bachelorette wouldn't have it any other way.
This whole sordid affair is going to get uglier (is that possible?) once the two Rodriguezes file for divorce today in Miami. Over the weekend, Cynthia accused Alex of being "brainwashed" by Madonna and her kooky kabbalah ways. One of Cynthia's lawyers, Maurice Kutner, told the Post that the grounds for divorce are a "long period of infidelity on the part of Mr. Rodriguez" and "emotional abandonment." Alex's grounds for divorce are that Cynthia doesn't want to reconcile. The Daily News delves further into the new players in this saga with a rundown of the career highlights and lowlights of both Alex's and Cynthia's divorce attorneys. A-Rod's attorney, Ira Elegant, usually avoids divorce cases, but Elegant did handle Shaquille O'Neal's split from his wife last year. Heading up C-Rod's legal team is Earle Lilly, who represented boxer George Foreman in a paternity suit last year.
"My husband and I are not planning on getting a divorce. I know Alex Rodriguez through Guy Oseary, who manages both of us. I brought my kids to a Yankee game. I am not romantically involved in any way with Alex Rodriguez. I have nothing to do with the state of his marriage or what spiritual path he may choose to study."
Despite the denials, Cynthia Rodriguez is still hopping mad at the Material Girl. C-Rod is also on the verge of a nervous breakdown, which is why she fled to Paris with Alex's blessing, A-Rod's former trainer Dodd Romero tells the Post.
And finally, in what may be the weirdest tidbit in the coverage of the War of the Rodriguezes, the News tells us that (bolding mine):
"Last night, Cynthia Rodriguez was back in Miami. After working out at a gym, she joined her trainer, Dodd Romero, and his daughter for dinner at an Outback Steakhouse. Adhering to her postpregnancy diet, Cynthia Rodriguez ate tilapia, sweet potatoes and brown rice brought from home."
If that doesn't illustrate in a nutshell how dish-y this story is going to get, nothing will.
Oh, and the best A-Rod-related headline of the day? The Post wins with the truck hed "A-ROD'S WIFE HURLS SPLITTER" on pages 2 and 3. The News came in a close second with its puntastic truck, "BITTER UP! A-ROD & MRS. GOING TO WAR."
Jessica Simpson has topped a new poll to find the best boobs in Hollywood. The singer/actress’ “perfect” breasts gave her top marks in a new In Touch magazine poll.
Her creepy proud manager/dad Joe says, “She has got double-Ds! You can not cover those suckers up.”
Simpson beat Tyra Banks and Scarlett Johansson to win the booby prize.
The top 10
1. Jessica Simpson
2. Tyra Banks
3. Scarlett Johansson
4. Carmen Electra
5. Lindsay Lohan
6. Katherine Heigl
7. Audrina Patridge
8. Jennifer Aniston
9. Megan Fox
10. Beyonce Knowles
AirHogs Dismiss Jessica Simpson Bad Omen
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- Jessica Simpson backstage during CMT Giants honoring Hank Williams
- Jr. at the Gibson Amphitheater on October 25, 2007 in Los Angeles.
The minor league AirHogs baseball team is hosting "Jessica Simpson Night" and will reward fans who show up dressed like the singer/actress -- or in a pink Dallas Cowboys jersey -- with free admission to the game.
The team guarantees a win during the 2 p.m. game -- or every fan gets a free ticket to a future game.
AirHogs' general manager said he wants to prove Simpson isn't bad luck – despite what some Cowboys fans think.
This undated image obtained from a MySpace Web page shows Ashley Dupre, the former call girl for ex-Gov. Eliot Spitzer of New York. Dupre dropped a $10 million lawsuit claiming "Girls Gone Wild" founder Joe Francis exploited her image and name on the Internet.
The call girl involved in a scandal that brought down New York's former governor has dropped a lawsuit claiming "Girls Gone Wild" founder Joe Francis exploited her image and name on the Internet.
Ashley Dupre voluntarily dismissed the $10 million federal lawsuit, according to court documents filed Thursday. She said she was only 17 when she signed a binding contract giving permission to appear in the "Girls Gone Wild" video.
Telephone calls and e-mails to Dupre's lawyer and publicist were not immediately returned Friday.
Francis said in a statement issued late Friday night that "the truth invariably comes out, as I knew it would in this case. I am happy to, once again, be completely vindicated."
In her lawsuit, Dupre said she was on spring break in Miami Beach in 2003 when she was approached by "Girls Gone Wild" producers, given alcoholic drinks and then signed a release agreeing to appear. The series depicts women in provocative poses or topless, often in such party locations as Mardi Gras or spring break beach towns.
Francis has said Dupre was on the "Girls Gone Wild" bus for a week and made seven full-length videos.
Shortly after the lawsuit was filed, Francis released a video where Dupre appears covered by a terry cloth towel and gives her name as Amber Arpaio. An unseen questioner asks if she is 18 and if the footage can be used on "Girls Gone Wild." She says yes to both questions.
The video also displays a New Jersey driver's license with the Amber Arpaio name and a birth date that would have made her appear to be in her 20s.
Dupre rocketed to fame in March when she surfaced as a high-priced call girl in the Emperors Club VIP prostitution ring that involved then-New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, who resigned soon after the scandal broke. Dupre, going by the name "Kristen," met "Client 9" — later identified as Spitzer — at least once at a swanky Washington hotel, according to court documents.
After the Spitzer scandal, Francis made a public $1 million offer for Dupre to appear in one of his videos and go on a promotional tour. But he rescinded the offer after realizing he already had footage of her.
Francis has other legal problems, including federal tax evasion charges pending in California and lawsuits by filed by women in Panama City, Fla., claiming they were victims of underage exploitation. Francis spent a year in jail and was released in March after pleading no contest to child abuse and prostitution charges for filming underage girls in that Panhandle beach town.
Watch the Brooke Hogan Maxim shoot video - Hulk did
Hogan,daughter of much famous wrestler Hulk Hogan has decided to drive boys wild with her arousing photos on Maxim Magazine this month.She does it in style and does it in front of her father.Enjoy the pictures of the Sexy lady!!.
The latest season of her reality dating show “A Shot at Love” has come to an end and Tila Tequila stopped by MTV’s Total Request Live yesterday to talk about the finale.
The MySpace queen hammed it up at the Times Square studios, along with this season’s winner Kristy Morgan. But the season finale didn’t go the way everyone was expecting.
When everything was said and done, Tila had to choose between the studly Bo and the sexy Kristy. And when she eliminated her male suitor, there was only one thing left to ask Kristy - “You still have a shot at love- are you interested?”
Unbeknownst to Miss Tequila, Kristy wasn’t quite ready for a relationship, hence she declined the invitation. That’s why it’s called reality TV… anything can happen.
Kristy Morgan Breaks the Heart of Tila Tequila
Kristy Morgan should date Brad Womack.As millions of shocked women know, the latter reality TV star actually turned down both finalists on The Bachelor a couple seasons ago, making him the scorn of all female existence.
Last night, meanwhile, Morgan pulled a Womack.
She was chosen as the winner of A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila… only to reject the show’s star because the script called for it in order to ensure a third season of this dating competition she was confused.
Kristy Morgan once posed nude for Playboy. She really did seem like the perfect mate for Tila Tequila.
One might wonder why Morgan remained on the series given her feelings, or lackthereof.
But that would only be apt if one first accepted the premise that a woman (Tila Tequila) who was famous for posing naked a lot and having a lot of MySpace friends was actually on reality television to find true love (in either a man or a woman!) and not to simply garner as much publicity for herself as possible.
Tila Tequila felt confident going into the finale that she had found someone that she “wanted to spend the rest of her life with.” That “someone” was Kristy. After Tila eliminated Bo, she offered Kristy the key to her heart. But Kristy wasn’t interested in unlocking it. “I’m not ready for this,” said Kristy, who had been privately questioning whether she wanted to be with a man or a woman after a whole season of practically begging to get inside Tila’s pants.
Should Tila get ready for A Shot At Love 3? Or just try a bar?
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