* TEEN actor Miley Cyrus is not a child anymore - the star of Hannah Montana has taken her coming of age into her own hands.
* THE Nine Network is fighting back against allegations of sex discrimination raised by veteran reporter Christine Spiteri.
* MEET Flocke - adorable baby polar bear rejected by its mother, is giving Knut a run as top bear.
* GIRLS Gone Wild footage of Eliot Spitzer call girl, Ashley Dupre, stripping in front of a crowd of cheering boys was filmed when she was 17, her lawyer warned.
* SADNESS has struck Mel Gibson and his family, with death marring what was meant to be a happy new home.
Builder suicides at Gibson home
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A BUILDER has apparently committed suicide while working on a construction project at Mel Gibson's house near Malibu.
Celebrity website TMZ is reporting the death occured at Gibson's Agoura Hills home, north-west of downtown Los Angeles, not far from where the star was infamously booked for driving under the influence.
The construction worker was 47-years-old.
Law enforcement sources have told TMZ the Sheriff's substation in Lost Hills took the call at 8:07am, just a 2am this morning Australian time.
Gibson was not at the house when the body was discovered.
A law enforcement source said no one from Gibson's family was living there as it is currently under heavy construction.
Spitzer hooker Dupre 'underage' in Girls Gone Wild
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ASHLEY Dupre, the call girl at the centre of the Eliot Spitzer sex scandal, watched the potential earnings from her new-found fame drop by $1 million on Tuesday as old nude videos of her emerged.
Adult DVD distributor "Girls Gone Wild" discovered videos of a semi-nude Dupre, now 22, in its archives and plans to sell them on its Web site, a company spokesman said.
But it has been revealed that Dupre was only 17 at the time the photos and sleazy video footage were taken.
Her lawyer, Don Buchwald, told TMZ Ashley's birthday was April 30, 1985, and the footage was shot between March 13 and March 20, 2003, making her 17.
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ReplyDeleteBut Girls Gone Wild founder Joe Francis said even if she was 17, Florida and Federal law permits her to be filmed in any state of undress, as long as she consents and there is no "sexual contact."
Girls Gone Wild had offered to pay Dupre $1 million to pose nude in a magazine it plans to launch but, after discovering the old footage, the company withdrew its offer.
Last week, Spitzer resigned as governor of New York after news surfaced he had paid for a sexual encounter in Washington, D.C. The New York Times revealed that Dupre was the prostitute he had hired.
A "Girls Gone Wild" video crew met Dupre in Miami in 2003 and she stayed with them for a week shooting videos, the spokesman said.
Miley Ray Cyrus changes her name to Miley Cyrus
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TEEN sensation Miley Cyrus has officially changed her name.
The Hannah Montana starlet was born Destiny Hope Cyrus but has dropped it to become Miley Ray Cyrus, reports Showbizspy.com She started using Miley after being nicknamed Smiley as a baby, and has stuck with it ever since.
Court documents were filed with the Superior Court of California on the 15-year-olds behalf by parents mum Leticia and singer dad Billy Ray Cyrus.
They say: Destiny Hope Cyrus has been commonly known as Miley Cyrus since she was young child.
The Change of Name is requested to make her commonly used name the same as her legal name.
The still has to publish a public notice of the name change before she can officially start signing checks as Miley Ray Cyrus.
Nine takes fight to Spiteri
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THE Nine Network is fighting back against allegations of sex discrimination raised by veteran reporter Christine Spiteri in a case before the Federal Court.
THE Nine Network is fighting back against allegations of sex discrimination raised by veteran reporter Christine Spiteri in a case before the Federal Court.
As the matter was mentioned for the first time yesterday, the court heard that Nine may seek to have the allegations struck out of her statement of claim.
Spiteri was told while on maternity leave that her contract - which expires this month - would not be renewed.
The Los Angeles correspondent launched an action, claiming breach of contract, and is pursuing damages of $565,375 - the equivalent of two years' salary.
In a statement of claim lodged last month, she alleged she was subjected to "a hostile work environment", in which she was judged "as unable to engage in serious journalism on the basis of her sex" and other female journalists were discussed "as sex objects".
But counsel for Nine, Tony Meagher SC, yesterday said the network was likely to apply for summary dismissal of aspects of the claim, and specifically referred to "that part which deals with the sex discrimination allegations".
Justice Richard Edmonds gave Nine the opportunity to seek further information about matters contained in Spiteri's statement.
Her counsel Kellie Edwards told the court that Nine had refused to participate in early mediation, but Mr Meagher said: "There's no conduct on my client's part that suggests it is not happy for a conciliation."
The matter returns to court on April 16.