A grab-bag of troubling developments in the celebrity world this week: Kudos for bad behaviour; Paris Hilton’s new CD. Ugh.
The New York Post reports (April 11): "Bronx bombshell Jennifer Lopez filed a lawsuit in L.A. yesterday to stop a salacious tell-all by her hunky first hubby - claiming Cuban stud Ojani Noa broke a no-tell pact and tried to shake her down for $5 million. J. Lo claims he's using the racy manuscript to make a buck off their brief 1997 marriage. Among other tidbits, Noa claims J. Lo cheated on Sean "P. Diddy" Combs in 1999 with her current husband - but then-married-to-someone-else - Marc Anthony."
The Associated Press reports: "Kate Moss, who first appeared as the face of Calvin Klein in 1992, will star in a new ad campaign this fall, the company said Monday. The 32-year-old British model signed a contract reported to be worth $900,000.
The ads, which include British male model Jamie Dornan, will be shot this week. Fashion houses canceled contracts with Moss last year after a British tabloid published a picture of her allegedly using cocaine. But she has secured a number of new contracts after she apologized and attended a rehab clinic." A sure sign, if ever you needed one, that bad behaviour is always rewarded.
The Los Angeles Times writes: "A bestseller. Nightclubs. TV. Reality porn. Paris Hilton, the ubiquitous heiress-as-brand, conquers genre after genre. Next up on her radar? Song." Yuck, yuck, yuck. Even yuckier, the respected paper says the heir-head's sound isn't bad. She's working with Oscar winners, Three 6 Mafia, who mixed a track for her. Troubling developments, these, in troubled times. DJ Paul Oakenfold, who remixed her song "Turn It Up", told the Times, "I think a lot of people were expecting it to be a lot worse than it is." And Kara DioGuardi, who co-wrote three songs with Hilton said, "She has a very sweet voice, very breathy. It sounds exactly like what you would want Paris to be doing." Nah, what we want Paris to do is disappear into a mountain of money.
