Lily Allen has split from her boyfriend, Chemical Brothers musician Ed Simons.
Reports first surfaced in the British papers early Saturday – with some saying that Allen had been “dumped.” But a friend of the singer says the couple actually spent some time together Saturday, suggesting that the parting might not be as acrimonious as first thought.
The split comes after news that Allen miscarried the baby the couple had been expecting.
“She is feeling fine,” Allen’s friend says. “She is throwing herself into her work on her new album and TV show.”
Only two days ago, she excitedly joined her family to watch her thespian brother Alfie take the stage in the lead role of Equus in Chichester, southern England.
Michelle Williams has broken her silence following the death of Heath Ledger, saying in a statement, “My heart is broken.”
“Please respect our need to grieve privately,” Williams says in the statement released by her rep Friday. “My heart is broken.”
Adds Williams, mother of Ledger’s 2-year-old daughter Matilda: “I am the mother of the most tender-hearted, high-spirited, beautiful little girl who is the spitting image of her father. All that I can cling to is his presence inside her that reveals itself every day.
“His family and I watch Matilda as she whispers to trees, hugs animals, and takes steps two at a time, and we know that he is with us still. She will be brought up in the best memories of him.”
Eva Mendes checked into Utah’s Cirque Lodge and has been in the facility, which deals with substance-abuse problems, for several weeks.
“Eva has been working hard for the past year and made a positive decision to take some much-needed time off to proactively attend to some personal issues that, while not critical, she felt deserved some outside professional support. Out of respect for Eva’s privacy, we do not wish to discuss further details,” her rep said Friday.
Cirque Lodge became a familiar name last year, when Lindsay Lohan checked in for treatment. The substance for which Mendes is being treated has not been reported.
The news was first reported on TMZ.com.
At last year’s Cannes Film Festival, Mendes told reporters that to feel comfortable doing a sex scene with Joaquin Phoenix in We Own the Night, which also starred Mark Wahlberg and Robert Duvall, she required a drink.
The Miami-born Mendes, 33, is of Cuban-American background and first made a name for herself when she starred with Denzel Washington in 2001’s Training Day. She played Will Smith’s love interest in the 2005 comedy Hitch, as well as in the screen version of the Marvel Comic Ghost Rider, with Nicolas Cage.
Come fall 2008, Mendes will be seen in an all-star remake of the stage and screen comedy The Women, costarring Meg Ryan, Annette Bening, Debra Messing, Jada Pinkett-Smith and Bette Midler. For 2009, she has already finished the thriller The Spirit, directed by Sin City and 300 creator Frank Miller.
The same day news broke about her being in rehab, CNN Money also reported that Mendes, a previous spokesperson for Revlon, is the new face of Calvin Klein Fragrances, in an ad campaign that is slated to launch this fall.
Previous actresses and models who have been affiliated with Calvin Klein fragrances, the company said in a press release, include Kate Moss, Scarlett Johansson, Christy Turlington and Natalia Vodianova.
Jamie Spears, accompanied by ex-wife Lynne, was granted temporary legal control over their daughter in an emergency court hearing Friday – a move that gives her dad new power over her hospital visitors and could keep her close pal Sam Lutfi at bay.
Commissioner Reva Goetz stated that she found Jamie’s petition for conservatorship to be in the singer’s “best interest,” and that Jamie was a “suitable and qualified person.”
The court also granted Jamie the authority to “prosecute any civil harassment restraining orders.” Court rep Allan Parachini confirmed “there was a civil harassment restraining order issued against (Britney’s pal) Sam Lutfi, but the specifics of that order are unknown.” The status of that restraining order will be heard in court on Feb. 22, he said.
The powers granted to Jamie Spears, which last until a Monday hearing, allow him to restrict and limit visitors to his daughter (who remains hospitalized at UCLA Medical Center), as well as to employ security guards to protect her.
Jamie Spears also gets access to Spears’s medical records, and he can communicate with her doctors, Commissioner Goetz said in court. (However, legal experts say her father will have no authority regarding her psychiatric treatment for now.)
Goetz also allowed temporary control over Spears’s finances, in addition to securing her residence, changing its locks, and vacating any people living there.
Jamie and Lynne Spears, who appeared solemn throughout the hearing, seemed relieved by the ruling. The former couple left the courtroom without commenting to reporters.
Earlier in the day, Lutfi, who had been locked in a battle with the singer’s parents, spoke out against Britney’s parents and their arrival in court. “I object to this. Britney is fully capable of handling her own finances. Her doctors are capable of handling her health care,” he said. “You’d think in a time like this, the family would be at the hospital taking care of their daughter, rather than fighting for her money. How sad.”
Britney Spears' father Jamie Spears is granted temporary conservatorship over Britney Spears' estate, according to TMZ:
That means her financial assets and other holdings will be managed by a conservator -- the conservators are Jamie Spears and attorney Andrew Wallet.
The judge did not appoint a conservator to make medical decisions on behalf of Brit because the necessary paperwork was not filed.
In a surprise twist, TMZ reports Sam Lutfucki is now being handed his fourth restraining order - to stay away from Britney:
Although the judge didn't say specifically who that someone was -- it's clear that person is Sam Lutfi.
The judge found, in effect, that Lutfi has been harassing Britney. Thus the civil harassment restraining order.
Finally some sanity in this ordeal. At least her dad's in control for now. He seems to be the only one not after Britney's money. Although I was looking forward to an extra special chapter in Lynne's parenting book entitled "My Night with Adnan on Top a Pile of Cash in Britney's Mansion." No doubt it would've been rife with lust and boner pills.
While the mentally unstable Spears continues to recuperate at the UCLA psych ward, her parents sought an emergency court hearing - and won.
Jamie Spears and a lawyer have been named conservators of Britney's estate. What they say goes.
Osama Lutfi is out of the picture. Legally! Britney's parents got a restraining order against him and he can not get anywhere near Spears.
Pops Jamie and the attorney have temporary power over Spears's finances, in addition to securing her residence, changing its locks, and vacating any persons living there. They also are allowed to restrict and limit visitors to Britney, as well as employ security guards to protect her.
Wesley Snipes was acquitted of tax fraud but was convicted of failure to file taxes, in a Florida courtroom Friday.
Snipes, 45, who was convicted of three misdemeanor counts of failing to file a tax return, faces up to three years in federal prison. His income over the period of time in which he failed to file amounted to millions of dollars.
He was acquitted of two felonies, including conspiracy to commit tax fraud. He was also acquitted of three misdemeanor counts of willful failure to file a tax return.
The actor, who is currently free on bond, said after the ruling: “I’m feeling great – a little confused, but great.” Asked if he is worried about going to prison, he said, “I don’t know. It’s nice to be out here with you right now. We live in the moment.”
A Florida jury of seven women and five men announced the verdict Friday afternoon, after beginning deliberations Wednesday.
During the course of the trial, attorneys for the actor admitted he was “dead wrong” not to have paid taxes and that he would make restitution. In so arguing, they also claimed that no fraud was perpetrated and that no trial was even necessary.
“Disagreement with the IRS is not fraud of the IRS, is not deception,” argued defense attorney Robert Barnes.
When the day’s session concluded on Tuesday, Snipes said outside the courthouse, “Of course you would be nervous,. You’re on trial. Anybody would have a certain amount of anxiety about that. But I have a great deal of faith in the Most High and the Good Lord and the truth shall set you free. So, I’m looking forward to being free, going back to what I do best.”
Snipes, who starred in the Blade vampire trilogy, as a cross-dresser in To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar and as a fugitive in U.S. Marshals, is due to be seen later this year in Gallowwalker, which was shot in the African nation of Namibia.
Snipes was convicted along with his accountant and the founder of a tax-protest outfit called American Rights Litigators.
“The defendants know what the law is, they just don’t like the law,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Scotland Morris told the jury members before they went to verdict. “The defendants are tax protesters.”
Osama Lutfi is continuing his misguided war of words against the Spears family.
While Lynne and crew have remained tight-lipped about him, Britney's "manager" won't stop talking trash.
Once again, Osama has gone on the record trash-talking.
He tells People:
"[Britney's family] came into the house with an agenda and are trying to look like the heroes after all the dirty work has been done. Their main worry is being financially cut off."
You're not making yourself look like a saint, buddy!
"[Britney's family are] incapable of telling the truth and incapable of sympathizing. They're more concerned about money and their own image than Britney's condition. [I have] no more respect for the family."
Here's a surprisingly hilarious clip Sarah Silverman made for last night's episode of Jimmy Kimmel. It's by far the funniest thing I've seen Matt Damon do. Or Sarah Silverman for that matter. Though, I gotta admit, I hope it's just a joke because Jimmy and Sarah seem like such a nice gay couple. You know, because they're both dudes.
Lynne and Jamie Spears are in court today request the judge create a conservatorship which would allow Jamie and Lynne to be in control of Britney's medical care, according to TMZ:
The conservatorship would also allow them to control Britney's financial affairs. Both parents have made it clear: they believe Lutfi and Adnan Ghalib are squandering Brit's assets.
The main issue seems to be money which Sam Lutfi says Lynne is after and Lynne says Sam is after. However a family source provided People with some interesting info:
"As the money came in, the family began to fight more. If Britney was aggravated with Lynne, maybe Bryan would side with Britney because he was on the payroll." Now, "It doesn't seem like there's much of a payroll, I guess they might have to get jobs like the rest of us." Sources confirm Lynne's Kentwood mansion Serenity is still paid for by her eldest daughter.
Then again a source in the Federline camp paints an interesting picture of Sam that explains the rants Britney made about Lynne and her boyfriend:
The source also says Lutfi has been "telling Britney that Adnan [Ghalib] and her mother have been conspiring to do this so he looks like a savior. It's really sick and crazy."
On the other end of the spectrum, The Superficial Writer blames Mayor McCheese and his delicious Quarter Pounders. You want to know where Britney's money went, my friends. Look no further than the Golden Arches. I rest my case. Has anyone seen my gavel?
Lily Allen has split from her boyfriend, Chemical Brothers musician Ed Simons.
Michelle Williams has broken her silence following the death of Heath Ledger, saying in a statement, “My heart is broken.”
Eva Mendes checked into Utah’s Cirque Lodge and has been in the facility, which deals with substance-abuse problems, for several weeks.
Wesley Snipes was acquitted of tax fraud but was convicted of failure to file taxes, in a Florida courtroom Friday.
