I know we’ve heard this one before, on multiple occasions and involving at least three different guys. (Not at the same time, just to clarify.) But this week’s National Enquirer, my favorite trashy gossip rag, says that paparazzo Adnan Ghalib indeed has a sex tape he made with Britney, and is just waiting for the most lucrative moment to release it. And they have enough specific details about the date the tape was made, where it was shot, and what it contains that this comes off as plausible:

The source, who talked exclusively to the Enquirer, claims that the videtape was made in a $235-a-night junior suite at the Rosarito Beach Hotel. [during their Mexican vacation in January]

“Word is that the video starts with Britney undressing,” said an insider. “She was wearing some cheap clothes that she bought down there in Rosarito.”

The sex wasn’t “particularly kinky,” says the insider, but Britney allegedly wears a pink wig throughout the video.

“Adnan tells her to take it off at one point, and she says coyly, ‘Take what off? There’s nothing left to take off.’”

According to the insider, Adnan, 35 had no intention of keeping the tape locked away, and someone is willing to pay millions for it.

The insider adds they may be waiting for the perfect time before releasing the tape.

[From The National Enquirer, print edition, May 26, 2008]

For Britney’s sake I hope this isn’t true, because if it does exist you known Adnan is trying to get paid for it. They say that the best moment to release the tape may be when Britney is back on top again, if that happens, and when her long-anticipated comeback is in full force.

According to Mike Walker’s column in the same edition of the National Enquirer, Adnan has gone crawling back to his wife after two all-too-public affairs, one with Britney and another with a 20 year-old model who had a boyfriend at the time.

Britney is now on vacation in Costa Rica with her neighbor Mel Gibson and her dad, Jamie. She is also rumored to be pregnant for the third time.

Britney and Adnan are shown on 1/30/08 and 1/28/08, thanks to WENN.

Adnan with Kathy Griffin on Friday. Thanks to WENN
According to Adnan Ghalib’s photo agency, JFX, Britney’s probably ex boyfriend was stabbed in the arm and got a black eye and cuts on his face on Saturday night. The guy is a paparazzo who cheated on Britney and used to work the door at a strip club. He’s not the most innocent character and he probably has all sorts of enemies among the thugs who stalk celebrities, but on his company’s blog they mention negative online comments as somehow inciting violence against him.

It’s not clear to me whether they’re talking about mean commenters, other blogs or both, but they say that the online hatred spilled out into the real world. If he has been receiving death threats online that’s serious, but the way they phrase this also makes it sound as if anyone who ever wrote an unfavorable line against the guy is also to blame.

Adnan was attacked and stabbed last night but he is doing OK after receiving medical attention for his wounds. He received a stab wound to his arm, facial lacerations as well as a nice shiner. I’m not sure what to make of this considering that he’s received more and more death threats in recent weeks. Is it coincidence? I don’t know. But in the ever growing Adnan hating world that some blogs live in, the repeated venom spewed at him could have finally boiled over to the real world. We all know there are some crazies out there, I mean, I screen out at least a dozen death threats on our comments every week.

[From JFXOnline]

Adnan took a ride down Robertson Boulevard with comedian Kathy Griffin on Friday and stopped to go shopping at Victoria’s Secret with her. It was filmed as part of Griffin’s Bravo reality show, “My Life On The D-List.”

OK! Magazine covers this, and their only source is the report on JFX’s site. They note that there is no hospital or doctor named where Adnan was supposedly treated and say that “the Adnan and Britney duo were notorious for attempting to fake-out the media.” Given the fact that Adnan’s agency was so quick to point fingers at people talking crap online, you do wonder how accurate this story is.

If this did happen, maybe someone is annoyed that he’s elevated himself beyond the mire of the swarming paparazzi or if he could have made enemies another way, like by sleeping with someone’s girlfriend. Get well soon Adnan.

Britney’s probably-ex boyfriend, paparazzo Adnan Ghalib, and comedian Kathy Griffin took a ride down Robertson Boulevard in a convertible and then held hands as they walked down the street, stopping to shop at Victoria’s Secret together. It was surely a staged photo op, but it was a scene for Kathy’s show, not Ashton’s. Kathy is filming her reality show “My Life on the D List,” for Bravo and it seems she came up with the clever way to create a scene. The Daily Mail reports that photographers initially thought she was Britney in a wig, and they also point out that Griffin regularly skewers Britney in her comedy act, making it all the more interesting that she appropriated Britney’s ex boyfriend to cause a stir:

The couple were followed by a host of photographers and videographers, who originally mistook Griffin for Spears in a red wig.

Having moved from behind the camera to be a paparazzo target, Ghalib happily introduced the funny girl to the crowd of photographers.

When asked by the herd of paparazzi what the Toxic singer would think of Ghalib’s association with a woman who has publicly mocked her, he refused to answer.

The surprising meeting of Griffin and Ghalib has left gossips wondering if the pair are dating or plotting a TV stunt together.

Redhead comedienne Griffin, currently starring in reality show Life On The D-List, regularly targets the troubled singer in her stand-up routines and TV shows.

Griffin regularly uses Spears’ shambolic performance at the MTV Video Music Awards last year as a focal point of her stand-up routine.

[From The Daily Mail]

Kathy has a billionaire fiance so it’s not like she’s going to throw that away for a romp in the sack with Adnan, but the guy oozes slimy charm and he’s got a cute accent. You know Kathy was thinking about it - I am.

Thanks to WENN and Splash for these photos.

Adnan’s “other woman” has an interview with In Touch this week and says that the handsome British paparazzo betrayed her, just as he betrayed Britney. Adnan told his now-estranged wife that he was helping Britney and that there was no hanky-panky going on, and he fed the same line to 21 year-old model Amanda Pagel. Pagel was cheating on her then-boyfriend, Perry, who was away filming the Bravo reality show “Make Me a Supermodel.” She called him in a segment that aired on the show to say that he shouldn’t believe the media reports without elaborating what it was about, but those of you who watched it told me she had a flat affect and seemed like a real bitch. It looks like Amanda got hers too, because she whined to In Touch about the way that sexy Adnan seduced and tricked her.

Amanda claims she was split up with her boyfriend at the time, but that doesn’t seem to be true considering that she had to call him and explain. She also feigns like she didn’t know what was going on between Adnan and Britney.

How did you meet Adnan?
A friend introduced us at an event in January. I didn’t want a relationship - I’d just split up with my boyfriend - but I was lonely and wanted to make new friends. A few days later I texted him to say how nice it was to meet him. He responded immediately, asking if he could come to my house and see me. We saw each other pretty much every day.

What’s Adnan like?
He’s really gentle and sweet with a great sense of humor. We’d sit and talk until 4 a.m. about family, friends, life - everything. I felt like I’d known him all my life. He’s a fantastic kisser, too. He used to compliment me and tell me how sexy I was. I fell for him because I was feeling vulnerable after my breakup, like Britney, and he made me feel amazing about myself. He used to call me “Bebe” but I found out recently that’s his pet name for Britney, too, which hurts.

Did you ever ask him if he was dating Britney?
The first time he came over to my house, I asked about Britney. He swore they were just good friends. He promised they weren’t having sex and he kept reminding me what a hard time Britney had been through. “We’re close and I’m supporting her through difficult times,” he told me. We never went out in public - I thought he was protecting Britney’s feelings. He kept saying, “As soon as she’s back on her own feet, we can go out in public. ” I suspected he might be lying, but I wanted to believe him.

What else did he tell you about Britney?
He told me he felt really sorry for her. He used to say he was the only one she trusted. That’s why he spent time with her. But he also said he was sick of being Mr. Spears. He said the stress was taking its toll. He told me, “Let’s leave Hollywood and live in Italy and start a family.” Britney used to call all the time when he was over. He’d answer it immediately and walk into another room to speak - he always whispered into his cell phone and shut the door. She sends him hundreds of texts a day, some just seconds apart.

When did you realize that he was lying?
When I woke up to find a story about Britney having a huge fight with Adnan after finding texts on his phone. I felt sick. I knew the texts were ones we’d sent to each other. He promised the story was untrue, but a few days later another story broke claiming Britney was pregnant with Adnan’s child.

[From In Touch, print edition, March 31, 2008]

Amanda says Adnan told her “If Britney was pregnant, I wouldn’t be with you right now,” and that “it’s just timeshare.” She doesn’t make it clear whether she broke up with him or if they just fell apart once she finally woke up from her sex stupor and realized he was a user. She says he’s still texting her and recently told her “I miss your heart.”

As for Britney, Amanda is speaking out in the pages of In Touch to “tell her we’ve both suffered.” She swears that if “he’d been honest, I’d never have gone near him. I’m not the sort of girl who dates other girl’s boyfriends.” Mmmhmm. Get your 5 minutes of associated fame while you can Amanda.

Header image is a scan from In Touch thanks to Sammie.

When I first read a blurb about this yesterday on OK! Magazine I was so confused by the details I didn’t report it. Britney’s boyfriend Adnan, who she maybe broke up with after reading sexy texts on his phone from another woman, (although he was seen at her house a couple of days ago) supposedly had an affair. He was said to be cheating on Britney with the girlfriend of a guy who is a contestant on the Bravo Reality show “Make Me a Supermodel.” The news came out after he was photographed with the 20 year-old woman, who was suspiciously wearing one of the black “Ed Hardy” t-shirts that Adnan favors.

If that’s not bizarre enough, Adnan’s new squeeze called her boyfriend to tell him that there’s false media reports about her that are about to blow up, and their exchange was caught on tape for that “Make Me a Supermodel” show. It supposedly aired last night, so let me know if you saw it and if Adnan was specifically mentioned.

Britney’s dad Jamie is the first one to learn about the pictures of Adnan with this other woman. He was just starting to trust the guy and really blew up when he saw the photos, showing them to Britney. They just show Adnan smiling and standing with this woman, there’s no touching or kissing or anything from what’s in the Enquirer. Adnan looks like the cat who ate the canary, but he often looks like that. He is said to have slept over at this woman’s house five nights in a row, and that’s the damning part, not the photos:

Adnan - who has recently separated from his wife of four years - had just gained the trust of Britney’s father Jamie. But it was Jamie who heard about the cheating photos and instructed a personal assistant to track them down.

“Jamie told the assistant to tell Britney about Adnan. When Britney saw the pictures, she was furious,” said the insider. “She called calling Adnan ‘that cheating f-!’”

Amanda has been dating Perry Ullman, who’s in NY City competing in the Bravo TV reality show “Make Me a Supermodel.”

But Adnan slept at her house for five consecutive nights, according to an insider, who added: “They were hold up inside except for when he came outside for smoking breaks.”

[From The National Enquirer, print edition, March 17, 2008]

On Tuesday we ran a story about Adnan’s past as the doorman at a strip club in 2001. He used to take kickbacks and sexual favors from the strippers regularly, according to someone who worked with him at the time.

K-Fed’s then-girlfriend Shar Jackson was pregnant when Britney hooked up with him, so it’s not like she has halfway decent taste in men. Still, I thought Adnan was a cad but he seemed like he did care about Britney in his way. Maybe I was blinded by my attraction to him. He has this magnetism about him.

Fingers crossed that Britney is just gaining weight from having her medication and condition stabilized and that she’s not pregnant with this guy’s baby. She does have a suspicious-looking stomach, but it’s only from some angles. It seems like it’s from too much fast food and not a new life she’s bringing into the world.

Britney is shown shopping on 3/5/08. Adnan is shown with the other woman in a scan from The National Enquirer.

Britney and Adnan on January 15
Britney’s paparazzo boyfriend Adnan Ghalib worked as a doorman and lap dance supervisor at a strip club in San Francisco in 2000, and one of the strippers who used to work with him told the National Enquirer that he was pocketing cash behind his employer’s backs and would sleep with anything that moved. Adnan would watch the girls give lap dances and worked out a deal with them so that they didn’t report their earnings to the club in return for giving him cash. What’s more is that he would sneak quickies with the strippers and supposedly slept with more than 10 women in a week. He was also supposedly addicted to crystal meth:

Ghalib worked as both a doorman and a “lap dance counter” at the Roaring 20’s club around the year 2000.

“Adnan was a shifty character. You needed to watch him 24/7, because he’d cheat you blind,” an ex-stripper at the club, who went by the stage name Trinity, told The Enquirer in an exclusive interview.

Ghalib, now 35, started out earning $9 an hour as the club doorman, but quickly worked his way up to “lap dance counter,” keeping track of strippers’ private lap dances for the club, according to Trinity.

Adnan found a way to make the job more lucrative for himself, said Trinity.

“Typically, the stripper and the club split the lap dance fee, which is usually $40. The more lap dances a stripper can do privately, the more money she and the club earn.

“And when Adnan saw how much money was changing hands, he wanted a piece of the action. He pressured girls into giving him cash kickbacks in return for not reporting some of their private dances.”

At other times, Ghalib demanded sexual favors instead of cash, according to Trinity and another source…

“His favorite place to have sex with the girls was the general manager’s office.

“The manager made a nightly money drop at the local bank - and Adnan knew the trip took about 15 minutes. Hed’ pull a girl in to the manager’s office and be out before the guy got back.

“As far as I know, Adnan still holds the club record for sleeping with 10 different strippers in a single week.”

[From The National Enquirer, print edition, March 10, 2008]

In an inset story underneath this article they state that Adnan quit his job in February, 2001, after he pistol-whipped a patron who was arguing with him. Adnan beat the shit out of the guy, and when he looked like he was reaching for something Adnan pulled out the gun and started smashing him in the face with it. It accidentally fired, and although no one was hurt or charged with anything, Adnan was questioned by police and that was enough to scare him into quitting the job.

It sounds like Britney found a real winner, although somehow Adnan is less creepy than that Sam Lutfi character who bragged about drugging her food. If Adnan is the type of person to work in a strip club, steal from his employers and demand sexual favors you know he’s plotting ways to get a hold of some of Britney’s fortune. He was even married when he hooked up with her.

Britney supposedly broke up with Adnan after discovering sexy text messages sent by another woman. She is said to have thrown his iPhone into the pool after demanding to know who sent the messages. Since this story originated in the British tabloid press, chances are high that it’s completely made up, but hopefully it’s true. Britney is also rumored to be pregnant with Adnan’s baby, but that seems like little more than speculation based on her recent weight gain.

Britney is shown on 2/29 outside Millenium Dance studio below and with Adnan on 1/15 in the header image, thanks to Splash.

So Britney has been showing a little pudge lately, like a very little, and most everyone attributed it to the positive effects of having her medication stabilized and having access to food that’s not chock full of pharmaceuticals. She has been dancing for exercise, and it’s thought that she’s been doing better and just gained some weight as a result of having things settle down for her.

Now Star Magazine is reporting that her boyfriend, paparazzo Adnan Ghalib, is telling friends she’s pregnant with his baby. This would be the last thing Britney needs right now, and since the source is Star let’s hope they’re making this up based on moderate weight gain. This is Britney, though, and she’s not likely to take precautions or to even mind if she’s pregnant again despite the fact that she just got back visitation rights with her two boys. By some accounts she wants more children and has said that if she can’t see her kids she’ll just have another baby anyway:

Only weeks after Britney Spears drove to Rosarita Beach, Mexico to exchange marriage vows with Adnan Ghalib, the paparazzo is bragging to friends that she is going to have his baby, Star has learned exclusively.

And what do you know! The fallen pop princess’ belly is starting to show a little bulge, in spite of hours of classes at the Millennium Dance Complex.

“Britney is Adnan’s dream come true. He knows that if he has a child with Brit, he’ll be made for life,” one friend of Adnan’s tells Star.

But while Adnan, 35, may be happy, Britney’s family is not. Dad Jamie has stabilized her life and the last thing he and her mom Lynne wants is another grandchild. “Her parents know she can’t handle more children,” says a Spears family source.

[From Star Magazine’s website]

Please don’t let this be true! We’ll have to wait it out, but if Britney is really pregnant she’ll need to go off some of her meds. It would also make her life much more complicated. This story is originating with Star Magazine, so take it for what it is.

A judge has rejected Britney’s civil rights challenge of her father’s conservatorship and sent it back to state court. The judge ruled that there’s no reason for it to be under federal jurisdiction and said that attorney hasn’t even proved that Britney hired him.

Here are photos of Britney out jeans shopping yesterday, thanks to Splash News. You can see her stomach and she doesn’t look pregnant.

On January 28, Britney was photographed in her boyfriend, paparazzo Adnan Ghalib’s car, with an Ed Hardy designed air freshener and an Ed Hardy energy drink sitting in the cup holder. Adnan is usually seen out in Hardy’s distinctively designed clothing, featuring big old skulls and roses in swirly patterns reminisicent of tattoos. I’m not a fan of Hardy’s clothing, partially because I find it garish, but also since he seems to stick his name all over everything in big scrawling letters as if his style isn’t recognizable enough on it’s own. Hardy is also a large contributor to the Kabbalah cult, which many people say could explain why Madonna was often seen wearing his scary-looking creations.

In Touch suggests in this week’s magazine that Adnan is getting free swag from the Ed Hardy company, and offer a photo of his phone showing a text message from an employee at the company. They quote a supposed insider who says “Adnan is a total freeloader. He doesn’t pay for most of the clothes he wears. They’re given to him on the provision that he wears them when he’s with her [Britney].”

It sounds like a cheap price to pay for free advertising. Lohan was also said to have struck a deal with the Arriva tabacco cessation company to carry their product around and get photographed with it, although she hasn’t been seen out with it lately that I can tell. You wonder what other kind of backroom deals celebrities and their hangers-on are making for product placement in paparazzi photos. It seems like Adnan must be getting some kind of cash for wearing those clothes, but maybe I’m too influenced by the fact that I wouldn’t be caught out in it unless someone paid me. I’d rather wear a $15 plain t-shirt from Target.

Thanks to WENN for these photos from 1/28/08.

Star magazine is reporting that Britney Spears secretly wed paparazzi boyfriend Adnan Ghalib last month during their brief trip to Mexico. Star claims the couple had the ceremony at Rosarito Beach, and have a source who has seen the wedding documents. While it sounds impossibly crazy, that doesn’t mean jack in the world of Britney Spears. In fact, the more impossibly crazy/totally ridiculous something sounds, the higher the likelihood that Britney Spears actually did it. Walked around a clothing store naked? Sounded crazy, turned out to be true. Held her own kid hostage? Sounded crazy, turned out to be true. Killed a turtle so she could wear its shell as a hat? Sounds crazy, but I bet we find out she’s done that too. So while it sounds totally and completely crazy to run off to Mexico and secretly get married, you never know.

Really, the only logical explanation for Britney Spears’ wild jaunt to Mexico last month was that she was going to get married, but it took Star magazine to connect the dots.

The glossy says she “secretly wed” lens-lizard Adnan Ghalib during the visit - which is legally meaningless, as he has not yet divorced his previous wife, AzLynn Berry.

Star ed Candace Trunzo tells me: “Our source on this was not in Rosarito Beach at the ceremony, but is very familiar with the fact that [wedding] documents exist.”

More interestingly, the mag says Spears gave Ghalib $250,000 to grease AzLynn’s exit. She allegedly told her lawyers, who had imposed a grand-a-day spending limit, that she needed the cash for a new Mercedes.

[From Gatecrasher]

Britney does have a bit of a history of getting married impulsively. There was the 55 hour marriage to childhood friend Jason Alexander. Oh, and the wedding to K-Fed, when all the guests thought they were coming over for an engagement party. So running off to Mexico in a not-quite-entirely-thought-though plan to get married doesn’t seem beyond the realm of possibility for Britney Spears. AzLynn Ghalib finally filed for divorce from Adnan on January 18th, so there might be some truth to this story. Since the marriage isn’t legally binding, it wouldn’t matter a whole heck of a lot either way. But Britney Spears being in a marrying state of mind is never a good thing. Run, men, run and lock your doors!

Header photo thanks to Popbytes.

Late yesterday afternoon Britney was released from the UCLA hospital psychiatric ward after a hospital hearing which determined that the stay was not justified. Both her parents and a psychiatrist at the hospital were advocating that she stay for the remainder of her 14 day hold, but they were overruled by a court representative, who interviewed everyone and recommended that she be released. People reports that this is standard procedure in this type of case.

So Britney got out, the paparazzi were thick on her tail and she was driving very erratically, changing lanes dangerously while the paparazzi followed her. (There was a video of the ensuing car chase on TMZ, but it is no longer available.) She did was she’s accustomed to doing, she went to a hotel. She arrived at the Beverly Hills Hotel around 3:30 in the afternoon. TMZ reports that the cops were there shortly afterward to try and disperse the hoard of paparazzi, and according to other accounts they remained at the hotel. Adnan arrived at about 4:40, according to OK! Magazine.

Then Adnan snuck Britney out of the hotel and they arrived at the office of Britney’s new lawyer, Adam Streisand around 5:20. At 7:00, Britney was somehow secreted out of the building under a blanket by one of Adnan’s paparazzo friends and she returned to the Beverly Hills Hotel. The police were still at the hotel at that time.

Britney’s father showed up at around 9:00 and he was seen talking to the hotel staff. About 20 minutes later, according to OK!’s timeline, more police came while Adnan and Britney remained up in her room.

At 9:30, Britney’s father entered her room with paperwork in his hand and the police still standing around. There were guards standing around her car, and that’s where OK!’s story ends. It’s a cliffhanger.

TMZ maybe provides some closure for Britney’s eventful day by saying that Britney’s father, Jamie, who is currently the conservator of her estate, will likely be in court today to make specific requests about his daughter. Since he has legal control over her estate, finances and all contracts she signs, he can say that she’s not authorized to stay in a hotel and has the authority to restrict her visitors.

Britney’s parents have released a statement conveying their disappointment in this whole situation, saying that she was released against their wishes and the wishes of the attending physician in the hospital:

“As parents of an adult child in the throws of a mental health crisis, we were extremely disappointed this morning to learn that over the recommendation of her treating psychiatrist, our daughter Britney was released from the hospital that could best care for her and keep her safe. We are deeply concerned about our daughter’s safety and vulnerability and we believe her life is presently at risk. There are conservatorship orders in place created to protect our daughter that are being blatantly disregarded. We ask only that the court’s orders be enforced so that a tragedy may be averted.”

[From TMZ]

What’s the future for Britney now? It seems that if she’s not hospitalized she’s just going to keep driving around, shopping, and staying at hotels with swarms of paparazzi making the situation incredibly dangerous for her and innocent bystanders. If nothing changes, it seems like it’s just a matter of time before there’s a car accident or someone gets hurt. Maybe this will bring awareness to the need for some legal restrictions on the paparazzi. There are plans for a new ordinance in LA that would create a “personal safety zone” around celebrities and others who are in the media. Is it too little too late?

Here is Britney arriving at the Beverly Hills Hotel. I’m trying to use pictures that convey the amount of people surrounding her. Thanks to WENN.

Update: Britney was said to be back at her home that evening at around 11:00 pm PST after having dinner out with Adnan. When she returned her mother and father were waiting for her. At first Brit was said to have been nervous and wanted to leave, but she eventually went in with Adnan. It is thought that her parents are staging an intervention and trying to convince her to go back into treatment.