Here’s a photo of Courtney Love trashed out of her mind while exiting the Chateau Marmont on 1/13 because she always keeps it classy. That’s just a precursor for this warning to brace yourselves, for there’s a new “tell all” book about Courtney (aptly titled Courtney Comes Clean) that has been penned by The Fix and is based upon a year’s worth of in-person, phone, and e-mail correspondence with Love, most of which she probably doesn’t even remember.

The book goes into depth about Courtney’s struggles with addiction, her issues with men, and more on the money troubles that we’ve heard so much about already. Below, I’ve included some excerpts wherein Courtney blames a lot of her own crap on other people, including such celebrities as Winona Ryder and Andy Dick, but the book also apparently includes call-outs aimed towards Tom Cruise, Sean Penn, Scarlett Johansson, Kirstie Alley, Harvey Weinstein, Madonna, Oliver Stone, Brett Ratner, and Clive Owen. What could she possibly have against Clive Owen? Obviously, Courtney has tried (and possibly succeeded) to smash with both Stone and Ratner, but Clive wouldn’t give her the time of day. Maybe that’s what she’s upset about, but who knows? Only Courtney, and she’s probably already forgotten. Here are those excerpts:

On her “sobriety”: “I think of myself as sober,” she says, although she admits that her daily regimen of pills wouldn’t pass muster at an AA meeting. “When you’re used to heroin and cocaine, a few pills doesn’t seem like the end of the world. As they say in AA, it’s about progress, not perfection. I mean, abstinence is a nice idea, but I don’t know if it’s right for everyone. Especially for someone who was nursed on a steady diet of Valium and Ritalin from the time I was seven, thanks to my fine mother. I don’t do street drugs anymore. My medications are all legally prescribed by prominent physicians. I’m entirely legal. But the truth is, I’ve never claimed to be anyone’s role model. I’m not Mother Theresa. All I’m trying to do is stay alive.”

On losing it at Pam Anderson’s roast: “That Roast wasn’t a great moment for me. I was doped and dazed, and had lipstick smeared all over my face. I may have even been drooling. But it was all Andy Dick’s fault. He handed me a fat pill right before the show and said, ‘Courtney, here, take this–it’s like Vicodin without the aspirin.’ Winona Ryder slipped me a similar pill a few years ago. I’m such an addict that I just swallowed them both, without asking what they were. So thanks to Andy Dick, I ended up getting addicted to benzos again, which went on to plague my life.”

She’s tight with Sam Lufti:
 Love has dismissed many loyal staffers in recent years, including Marie Walsh Dixon, a veteran associate who decamped to work for Frances Bean. Other employees are suing her for unpaid wages. In their place, she has turned increasingly to Sam “Osama” Lutfi, a 37-year-old sober coach who has played an increasingly prominent role in her day-to-day affairs. A swarthy Svengali who once allegedly worked as a private investigator, Lutfi first rose to prominence in 2007 while representing Britney Spears during her much-publicized breakdown. Lutfi insists he has no formal relationship with Love, whom he describes as a friend.

She’s not a Chelsea Handler fan: “I may not like what you stand for, but I do believe in sisterhood,” she [told] Handler, who had recently taken up with Love’s ex-boyfriend, hotelier Andre Balazs. “You don’t want to put gratitude in the hands of a man who doesn’t accept you for who you are and never, ever will…No one in New York City, not even Trump, is despised more! I’m here to serve! Get help and work on your addiction/trauma, Chelsea! The kids call what you’re doing fame-whoring. [Y]ou’re too dumb to get it! Yes I know he’s telling you to take the high road and I’m telling you to take the f&#@ing high road you low-life. GO 2 REHAB!”

Inspector Courtney on fraud: In 2008, Courtney complained to the press that various corrupt lawyers and accountants had cheated her out of $250 million. By 2010, the figure had ballooned to $1 billion. In her quest to unmask the alleged thefts, she engaged a “twitter army” of volunteers who took to the Internet and examined property records to track down suspicious leads. But while some of those volunteers have backed up her claims of fraud, her distractions and failure to pay her employees have stood in the way of real progress.

The crack really helped too: “The strange thing is, while the crack screwed me up in a lot of ways, it improved me in certain others. I’ve never been good with numbers, but when I was on crack I could do math really, really well. I became a f&#@king whiz at calculus.”

Oh wait, Courtney screwed herself: “Shortly after Kurt’s death, the lawyer who was representing me called and said, ‘Courtney, you have over $7 million coming to you, but you need to give me your Social Security number.’ [I couldn't] remember my Social Security Number, so I had to lie and make one up. My mother, saint that she is, had a million husbands. My brothers and sisters were adopted by one stepfather, then by another. Thank God I was emancipated when I was 15, but ever since then I’ve wandered through life wondering who the fuck I am: Courtney Michelle Rodriguez? Courtney Michelle Menelli? Courtney Love? Courtney Cobain? It’s like, I don’t even know my f&#@ing name! How am I expected to know my Social Security number?”

[From The Fix]

That part about the social security number is particularly interesting because it illustrates that Courtney has dug her own financial hole from the very moment that Kurt Cobain died, and if she’s hanging with Sam Lufti, Courtney is just begging to get ripped off in the future. Of course, Courtney probably thinks that Sam is just “misunderstood” just like she is, but I find it amusing that he is the one trying to downplay their relationship. When Sam Lufti doesn’t want to be professionally associated with you, well, you catch my drift.

The Fix also includes a lot of excerpts on its website about Francis Bean’s deposition that resulted in her emancipation from Courtney. Francis alleges that Courtney took drugs “for as long as I can remember” and often fell asleep while smoking, which lead to her nearly burning the house down on three separate occasions. Francis also claimed that her cat was killed by Courtney’s hoarding habit and that her dog died after ingesting some of Courtney’s pill stash. At one point, Francis also had to deal with talking her mother out of jumping from a balcony, and she grew understandably weary of listening to Courtney rage about fraud on a consistent basis. For us, it was exhausting just to read Courtney’s fraud-related rants on Twitter, but Francis was apparently dealing with a bunch of screaming and paranoia about it in real life. Poor Francis — thank goodness she got away from that mess of a mother.

Courtney Comes Clean is available for download here.

Here’s photos from Courtney with tweaked lips last July at a Valentino-associated museum launch party.

Photos courtesy of Pacific Coast News and WENN

Mark my words — the speculation over the demise of Katy Perry and Russell Brand’s marriage will last longer than the 14-month marriage itself. We’ve already heard many theories about the divorce, which range from Katy’s refusal to start a family to Russell’s overwhelming demand for wheelchair pr0n, and it’s all a bit exhausting. If only half of the stories that’ve come out are true, well, it’s rather unbelievable that Katy and Russell ever got married in the first place. This week, we’ve got a story from Star that claims to have “the real reason” for the split, which relies heavily upon the Hawaiian beach vacation that ruined Christmas. Star alleges that when Russell found out what occurred in Hawaii, he was finished with Katy for good:

Russell Brand may be the recovering addict, but it’s Katy Perry’s exposure to hard drugs and all-night partying that doomed their marriage. Amid reports of cheating, fighting and a fading romance, Star has discovered the shocking reason that [the couple] split a little more than a year after their wedding in India.

Russell, a recovering drug addict, “hit the roof,” says a source, when he found out exactly what was going on in Hawaii. “Katy runs with a really wild crowd,” an insider tells Star. Some of her acquaintances love to do cocaine. “They will party all night till the sun comes up, doing line after line of coke.”

According to pals, Russell felt he had no choice but to instruct his lawyers to put a swift end to the marriage. “How is Russell supposed to feel when he hears that his wife is out till all hours of the night,” says the insider. “He can only assume the worst.” And even though the singer wasn’t doing drugs herself, the source feels it showed really bad judgment. “Ruseell was a truly horrible addict. It’s a day-by-day struggle for him to stay sober and walk the right path now,” says the insider. “He’s really turned his life around, and he couldn’t let it be destroyed.”

Katy apepars to have had a long and complicated history with drugs. Although her parents [are] strict evangelical Christians, she revealed in 2009 that even they weren’t always on the straight and narrow. In fact her mom was, in Katy’s words, a “wild child rock ‘n’ roller, pot-smoking debutante,” and her dad was an “acid dealer with long hair.”

There’s no doubt that Katy was exposed to it all, even then. Her Gym Class Heroes singer ex, Travie McCoy, acknowledged his own addiciton and blogged about being in rehab. And a source claims he was a really bad influence on her. “Katy was really struggling when she was with him.” But “she promised her dad she would stay clean.”

Accordng to another insider, Russell saw changes in his wife over the past year. “She went from this sweet, adorable woman that he was madly in love with” to a needy person who surrounded herself with hangers-on who were using her, says an insider. And her behavior was getting increasingly erratic. “She’d throw back tequila shots, chain smoke… and have mood swings. He gave her an ultimatum: ‘Get rid of your hard-partying friends or lose me forever!’” It looks as if Katy made her choice.

[From Star, print edition, February 6. 2012]

Out of all of the tales thus far, this one speaks loudest about what we already knew was a problem in the marriage. That is, Katy really didn’t see the big deal in bragging about being wasted while her husband struggles daily with sobriety. It really speaks to her insensitivity and immaturity, and it sounds like Russell needed to get away for his own good.

Meanwhile, Us Weekly has a new story about Russell’s new single life in L.A., which is turning out to be quite the opposite of his “Lonely in London” routine. Apparently, Russell is already scoring all of the fly tail, but Us wants us to also believe that he’s spilling everything about his marriage to these random chicks:

Less than one month after filing to divorce wife of 14 months Katy Perry, Russell Brand has moved on.

The latest issue of Us Weekly (out Friday) has new details about the Brit comic’s bevy of new beauties, who have incensed his soon-to-be ex-wife Perry, 27.

“She discovered through her friends,” an insider tells Us of how Perry found out about 36-year-old Brand’s wandering eye. “One of the women told a friend of hers and it got back to Katy.”

And the Rock of Ages actor’s new ladies aren’t the only ones doing the talking. Brand — who blindsided Perry by filing for divorce December 30 — has been trashing her to his conquests.

“He’s spoken terribly about Katy to them,” the source says of Brand, who has sought out one particular woman to “explore a relationship” with. “[Russell] told her he wanted her to move in with him after the divorce is final,” confirmed the insider.

[From Us Weekly]

I don’t believe for a moment that Russell is already asking some chick to move in with him when the divorce finally goes through. Naturally, he’s probably shagging like crazy, and maybe he’s handing out some good lines to these chicks, but Russell clearly has no intentions of shacking up and getting serious with anyone in the near future. That would totally ruin the “lonely” image he’s worked so hard to project over the past month or so. The Mail has a bird’s eye and interior views of Russell’s new $1.9 million house, and it is a true “bachelor pad” with all of the trimmings. I doubt he will tie himself down while living there.

Now is Russell actually talking smack about Katy to his latest sexual conquests? The Us story really provides no details of what these women allegedly heard, and I really don’t think he’d be that insensitive to gossip about her at this stage while everything is still so raw. Sure, he might end up revealing certain tidbits in an upcoming book, but at this point, Russell is probably just getting laid, and I doubt he’s doing much talking about anything in the process.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet and WENN

I’d like to express some surprise at this story, but that would be a disingenuous tactic even though I, like many of you along with Kaiser and CB as well, would love to see Demi rise from the ashes of her divorce like a gloriously unaffected phoenix. However and instead of taking Kaiser’s suggestion to fire her publicist and position herself differently after shedding the douche that is her ex-husband Ashton Kutcher, Demi has eagerly taken up a “party girl” reputation. She’s been boning random young singer and model types. She’s gone in for some post-split tweaking. And she’s rambled on about how she believes that she’s not worthy of being loved.

Then, there’s the somewhat sympathetic portrait of Demi as a woman who is drowning her sorrows in alcohol. Last October, In Touch printed a story that Demi has a drinking problem and is a complete mess. Then in December, Demi’s alleged AA sponsor passed away, and her friends reportedly worried that she’d start boozing again. Well, those worries are apparently not unfounded, for TMZ is now reporting that Demi was taken to hospital late Monday evening for “substance abuse” issues:

Demi Moore was rushed to the hospital last night … and we’re told the issue is substance abuse.

Law enforcement tells us a 911 call was placed at 10:45 PM Monday night. Paramedics responded to Demi’s L.A. home and after assessing her for a half hour, she was transported to a local hospital.

Sources tell us she is being placed in a facility to “seek further professional assistance.” Our sources say the treatment is for substance abuse.

Demi’s rep tells TMZ, “Because of the stresses in her life right now, Demi has chosen to seek professional assistance to treat her exhaustion and improve her overall health. She looks forward to getting well and is grateful for the support of her family and friends.”

[From TMZ]

So if Demi has now been placed in a facility, does that mean she’s in rehab, or is her rep truly going to go with the “exhaustion” excuse? They really should ban that word in publicist circles because no one ever buys it. As for Demi, I hope she gets it together soon not only for her sake but for her daughters as well. She’s not the first woman to go through a terrible split with a cheating douchebag, and she won’t be the last.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet and WENN

Tracy Morgan has had his share of health issues, including diabetes and renal disease, over the past few years. About a year ago, the comedian underwent a kidney transplant and had to miss the tapings for a few “30 Rock” episodes, but he has since continued his career unabated. That is, he’s done so until very early this morning when Tracy passed out after a Sundance award ceremony where he gave a very slurred speech. Hopefully, he wasn’t just drunk:

Tracy Morgan was rushed to a hospital moments ago at the Sundance Film Festival — after the actor fell unconscious at an award ceremony … TMZ has learned.

Tracy was being honored at the Creative Coalition Spotlight Awards in Park City, Utah — and sources tell TMZ, he appeared extremely intoxicated during his award acceptance speech.

We’re told Tracy was escorted out of the building soon after his speech — and fell unconscious outside the building.

Law enforcement sources tell us, an ambulance was then dispatched to Tracy’s location.

We’re told Tracy was picked up and rushed to a nearby hospital for treatment. Calls to Tracy’s rep were not immediately returned.

Amy Roberts, a spokeswoman for Park City Medical Center, tells TMZ no drugs or alcohol were found in Tracy’s system upon medical evaluation.

Morgan’s rep, Lewis Kay, also released a statement saying, “From a combination of exhaustion and altitude, Tracy is seeking medical attention.”

Kay adds, “He is with his fiancée and grateful to the Park City Medical Center for their care. Any reports of Tracy consuming alcohol are 100% false.”

[From TMZ]

Well, it is entirely possible that Tracy really was suffering from altitude sickness and exhaustion, but he might have also had a drink or two before his speech. Perhaps it’s a combination of all three, but I do hope he wasn’t drinking at all because of the dangers associated with diabetic drinking. Luckily, he seems to be on the mend and has the best people possible working to get him there.

Here are Tracy with his fiancé, Megan Wollover, last October outside the Ed Sullivan theater before Tracy’s appearance on Letterman.

Photos courtesy of WENN

Here are some new photos of a “lonely” (according to Fame Pictures) Russell Brand popping around London all by himself earlier today. Of course, I don’t necessarily buy that he’s lonesome in the conventional sense because all he’d have to do is snap his fingers, and (at least) a couple of girls would instantly flank his sides. He’s probably just enjoying (or enduring) some requisite solitude as much as possible in the wake of a major, traumatic split. Like anyone else in a divorce, Russell’s just trying to get his bearings back after filing for divorce after fourteen months of being married to Katy Perry. Yes, he’s probably a bit shell-shocked after a massive fight that ruined Christmas after things already were going terribly. No doubt, Russell will bounce back in due time after a suitable (or maybe in his case, not-so-suitable) waiting period.

Naturally, the rumors are still swirling over which party is most to blame for the split. Certainly, both bear some responsibility, but I don’t buy that Russell only filed because Katy didn’t want to offend her parents for religious reasons. C’mon, this is a girl whose parents already told her that she’s going to hell after her breakout single about kissing a girl volleyed her to stardom. If she wasn’t that worried about upsetting them then, a divorce certainly wouldn’t change matters from a logical standpoint. Not that logic has anything to do with this at all.

Russell Brand’s marriage to Katy Perry collapsed as he became exasperated over her refusal to put her career on hold to start a family, it was revealed yesterday.

Last night sources close to Brand, who has carved out a successful Hollywood career starring in films such as the 2011 remake of Arthur, blamed the marriage breakdown on the fact his 27-year-old wife was not prepared to put motherhood ahead of fame.

One said: “I don’t think Katy really understood what marriage was about. I don’t think she was prepared to give up her career. This wasn’t one of those occasions when Russell was mucking about, he wanted to settle down and have a family.

“I don’t think that’s what Katy wants. I think she’s very confused. They’ve been speaking a lot. There have been a lot of phone calls this week. Katy is 27. That’s not too young to get married. But professionally she is in a very powerful position.

She’s just done a year-long tour, she’s incredibly successful and she wasn’t ready to give up her career. I don’t think she was prepared to give that up and give time to the marriage.

“It was reported she was taking a year off, but I don’t think she’s doing that. It’s very sad. Russell is very cut up about it all. It’s not great news. It is very raw and very recent. I don’t know what will come from this.”

So far Miss Perry, who is understood to be in Hawaii, has not commented on the end of the marriage.

Yesterday, Brand was seen leaving the Savoy Hotel in Central London where he is believed to be staying.

On Friday, Katy’s father, Keith Hudson, 64, a born-again evangelical Christian who tours American churches with his wife Mary, was visibly upset as he spoke outside his home in Irvine, California.

He said: “I can’t talk, I’m sorry about that. I’ve had 1,500 people calling me today. I’m really sorry.”

[From Daily Mail]

Surely, both Katy and Russell were both at least partially to blame for their failed marriage. However, I do honestly get the picture that Russell has matured quite a bit in recent years, and he probably thought that he and Katy were on the same page for starting a family. Turns out he was wrong, and that doesn’t make him any more “correct” than she, but it does forecast serious incompatibility. Meanwhile, Hollywood Life seems to believe that Katy is absolutely torn up over Russell’s decision to file:

Katy Perry can’t believe that her marriage to Russell Brand is over! A source close to the singer tells HollywoodLife.com that Katy, 27, is “absolutely devastated” that her marriage didn’t work out and she still loves Russell.

“Katy still can’t believe that it’s over,” a source tells us. “She knew things were bad but she figured they’d work through it. Katy has been going through a bunch of emotions and she’s really leaning on her friends right now. She’s not herself. Katy never thought in a million years that she would get divorced, she really planned to spend her life with Russell,” our source continues. “She is grieving her marriage and is at a point in her life where she doesn’t know what’s next.”

[From Hollywood Life]

There are also reports that Katy is leaning on Rihanna for support and might soon jump on a plane for an impromptu girls’ vacation in Barbados. These rumors arrive after Rihanna didn’t even bother to attend her supposed BFF’s wedding, which resulted in tabloid talk that Russell and Katy were alternately fighting over the friendship and urging Rihanna to get some therapy. So who knows? I wouldn’t be surprised if Katy decided to actually catch up with her old friend by way of some beach time and a hundred bottles of beer though.

On the opposite end of the alcohol spectrum, Russell was also spotted “alone” on 12/31 as he departed an AA meeting in London. At least we know he’s very committed to his sobriety, but I find it rather bizarre that paps realize that an AA meeting is taking place. While Russell’s made no secret about attending such gatherings, it still creeps me out a bit that the press will analyze meeting times and locations in order to place a celebrity. So much for the anonymity of other members, right?

Photos courtesy of Fame

This week’s issue of The Enquirer sees Demi Moore “hit[ting] rock bottom” after ending her marriage to Ashton Kutcher and then seeing the photos of him looking down Lea Michele’s dress that quickly hit the internet. You know the ones of which I speak, right?

Of course, Ashton was just being his douchey self on the New Year’s Eve carpet and really had no intention of bedding Lea, but that doesn’t mean that Demi would be any less upset about it. Obviously, Demi hasn’t yet let go of their marriage if she refuses to do something as simple as changing her Twitter handle.

To make matters more difficult for Demi during this awkward time, it seems that her long-time Alcoholics Anonymous sponsor has just died as well. Did you know that she’s been a recovering alcoholic for quite some time? Not many people are aware of that, but The Enquirer has pieced together these two dramatic events and decided that Demi will probably start hitting the bottle again:

Plagued by a devastating string of personal tragedies, a distraught Demi Moore has hit rock bottom and is spinning wildly out of control, friends fear. They’re worried sick she may return to her old vice, alcohol, to ease her mental anguish. “Demi’s life is a mess,” an alarmed pal told The ENQUIRER. “What she’s been through is more than enough to drive anyone back to booze.”

The 49-year-old star recently suffered a painful one-two punch. Her good friend and former Alcoholics Anonymous sponsor Pattsy Rugg died, and just days later photos of Demi’s estranged husband Ashton Kutcher leering at the exposed bosom of “Glee” star Lea Michele explosed onto the scene.

The pictures hit her hard as a lurid reminder of the cheating scandal that changed her life forever.

Meanwhile, a gaunt, hollow-cheeked Demi was in tears as she clutched a male friend’s arm for support while leaving Christ the King Church in Cape Cod, Mass., following the emotional Dec. 3 funeral service for her beloved friend.

“Demi was beside herself with grief and bawling her eyes out,” divulged a close source. Demi met Rugg — who succumbed to complications of pneumonia Nov 25 at age 70 — when she was appointed as the actress’ Alcoholics Anonymous sponsor years ago.

“She was so close to Pattsy that Demi even used to introduce her to friends as her mother,” divulged the pal.

Then just two days after the funeral, Demi was rocked by photos of Ashton flirting with 25-year-old Lea on the red carpet at the hollywood premiere of their film New Year’s Eve.

“Thoughtless Ashton was salivating all over Lea,” said the pal. “He snuck behind her while she was having pictures taken and kissed her behind the ear.

“Lea also had a little ‘wardrobe malfunction,’ as her left nipple slipped out of her skimpy dress…and photos snapped a leering Ashton staring at it!

“Of course, he knew the shots would get out and be like a dagger in the chest to Demi. What a heartless boob!”

[From The Enquirer, print edition, December 26, 2011]

Indeed, Ashton has almost always been a “heartless boob” to Demi and has likely been cheating on her since one month after they were married. Still, it’s probably gotta sting quite a bit to watch one’s ex-husband flirting with a fellow famewhore on the red carpet. And make no mistake, Ashton knew that he was being a douche and that Demi would feel terrible that he was shamelessly flirting with Lea so soon after divorce papers were filed. Now, will Demi actually resort to boozing again? At his point, I think her thin frame would indicate that very little food or drink is making their way into Demi’s system.

Photos courtesy of Fame and WENN

Nick Nolte appears in the January issue of GQ with a long, rambling interview that discusses all matter of drug-related subjects and his run-ins with the law. The man just might be flat out insane after his many years of “liquid ecstasy” (which he habitually mixed with cranberry juice) use, but he’s winning much praise as a possible Oscar contender for Warrior, which sees him portray an alcoholic father and a man who’s a thousand days sober. Here are a few excerpts from the interview (which might be worth pursuing in full), within which Nolte reveals his life experiences and drops a few details of what we didn’t know about his wild-man “mug shot” that is proudly displayed on his own website, NickNolte.com:

On Aging: “When you start thinking about death more than sex, you know you’re getting old. At 70, you crest that hill. In the sixties you’re still thinking you could do something about this slow disintegration of the body. As Katharine Hepburn used to say to me: ‘Aging, Nick, is boring.’ Now I know what she means.”

On His Big “Return” In Warrior: “All of a sudden, it’s this rediscovery thing.” Nolte says this quite amiably, in the accepting tone of a man who has watched such tides go in and out long enough to know what little influence he has over their motions. “I never went away, you know,” he shrugs.

On The Value Of Not Winning “You don’t learn anything from success. You know, it’s comfortable, it’s nice, it’s warm, but success just leaves you kind of feeling a little bloated.”

On Whether He’d Like An Oscar “I can’t say it doesn’t matter to me…,” he says, and leaves this hanging there for a moment. “But it doesn’t matter to me. I can’t say that, but that’s what I’m going to say. Because it doesn’t really matter in the final end. Especially as you get closer to death, it really doesn’t matter. If I do have a chance to get it, I’d like it to be before I’m ten days to death. Because that’s going to be an ugly picture.”

On His Infamous Wild Man Photo: The common misconception about the freak-haired-wild-man photo taken that day is that it was Nolte’s police mug shot. It was not. (He did pose for a mug shot, but that has never leaked.) At the hospital where Nolte was taken for a blood test, a young officer asked him if he could take a Polaroid. “I said, ‘Come on, you don’t really want to ask that, do you?’ ” Nolte recalls. But he did. Nolte figured that the officer had been talking to the others about how this might be worth having, and so Nolte made him agree that, if he posed, the young officer would share any proceeds with his colleagues. “And I let him shoot the Polaroid.”

On Becoming A Father Again At Age 66: “You’re just so much more aware, so much more present. Your time is precious now. I’m basically overall healthy, but at this age you just don’t know, so it’s really been a treat. A real joy.” Sophia was born in a water pool in the bedroom right here, three midwives in attendance, and spent her first forty minutes resting on top of her mother before the umbilical cord was cut. “If you can let her stay attached for a long time, those stem cells build up,” Nolte explains. “We didn’t see a doctor until the next day. It was a great experience.”

[From GQ]

The guy is as nutty as a pot-laced fruitcake, right? He’s got a known history of studying his own blood under a microscope and readily admits that he’ll one day take GHB again (but only if it’s “medically supervised“), and that thing about the umbilical cord stem cells building up, well, it sounds wacky, to be honest. Does anyone know if there’s something to that theory?

Here are some recent photos of Nolte on the set of Gangster Squad. You thought it was just some Ryan Gosling movie, right?

Photos courtesy of GQ and Fame

Here’s another entry for the “Miley Cyrus, degenerate,” file. Although I’m not sure how much truth exists witin this story or whether this week’s Star has merely grasped onto a kernal of possibility and twisted it into something believable. Apparently, Star has spoken to a bystander who was present at Miley’s 19th birthday party, which arrived complete with a Bob Marley cake purchased by Kelly Osbourne as an alleged joke that riffed upon Miley’s infamous salvia video. According to Star‘s source, Miley has decided that her career should take a backseat to partying and boozing:

Miley Cyrus’ life is spiraling out of conrol as she continues to make partying her No. 1 priority. “Miley has not been motivated with her career,” a sources tells Star.

“Instead, she’s been partying hard and boozing a lot. She’s been missing business meetings and hasn’t been writing any new music.” At her 19th birthday party at Beacher’s Madhouse at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, Miley was spotted downing drink after drink. “She had a Corona Light in her hand almost the entire night,” an eyewitness recalls. “She was doing shots of tequila and buying cocktails for strangers. She was drinking a ton and encouraging everyone else to drink!”

And the former Disney star sparked outrage among her young fans for referring to herself as a “stoner” after pal Kelly Osbourne presented her with a Bob Marley cake. “She should’ve called herself a lush instead,” says the source. “That would’ve been more fitting.”

[From Star, print edition, December 19, 2011]

Once again, I’m left to wonder why bartenders would risk their livelihoods by serving alcohol to a minor, no matter whether the minor is famous or not. In addition, Miley’s parents were also present at the party, so one would hope that they’d step in and tell their daughter to put down the booze for at least another two birthdays, right? Maybe not.

While I could believe that Miley could be looking to drown her sorrows after a failed attempt to sex up her image, I’m not sure whether or not she’d do so in such a public venue. Or at least, she might not do so when so many witnesses could easily run to a tabloid and sell a story. This just sounds like too easy of a story to make up given the circumstances, but I could be wrong.

Photos courtesy of Fame

A few days ago, my favorite chronic mess, Paz de la Huerta (who considers herself one of the true artists who are left), happened to salute a random passerby that happened to be holding a Blackberry, and the above photo was the result. She looks rather … sober, right?

This relatively well-groomed appearance (and absence of obscene gestures) comes in sharp contrast to the Paz who suggestively crosses and uncrosses her legs during a public reading of Madame Bovary and who heads to a bathhouse with a journalist from NY Mag only to strip naked, rub honey onto her breasts and casually declare, “I needed this. This construction worker I’ve been f*&king has really been keeping me up late.” So where has the usual Paz disappeared to? Behind a mask of sobriety, according to Radar Online:

Paz de la Huerta was sober as a judge hosting the opening of New York’s Hotel on Rivington bar Viktor & Spoils last week, and RadarOnline.com has learned it’s because her camp wouldn’t let her drink!

The hotel management was given “explicit instructions” by the Boardwalk Empire beauty’s handlers not to serve to her any booze in light of her involvement in a number of alcohol-related incidents in the past, the New York Post reported.

Instead, mixologist Steve Olson was brought in to create a special virgin concoction for the model/actress, who plays Lucy Danziger on HBO’s critically-acclaimed series.

Her rep told the paper, while “it’s true Paz was not drinking alcohol … [she] does not have handlers.”

[From Radar]

Well, this is certainly productive. However will Paz explain her crazy behavior if not for the alcohol and without a conveniently placed wasted friend upon which she can blame her drama? Without alcohol, will she still dress like a sleazy ballerina and flap her arms like a crazed bird for Agent Provocateur? I sure hope so.

If I were Paz and truly wanted to give up alcohol, I’d still pretend to drink. You know, pull a reverse Lohan by carrying around a bottle of Grey Goose that’s secretly filled with Evian water just as an excuse for saying or doing strange things. Because I am convinced that while much of Paz’s behavior goes to excessive lengths because of one drink too many, she’s still a complete (albeit somewhat lovable) whackjob underneath it all. Long term, she won’t be able to keep herself from letting the crazy come out, and I wouldn’t have it any other way. That’s my Paz!

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Last night, Kate Moss went on a bit of a bender and looked completely wasted in public both on the way to and from the 20th anniversary party for Dazed and Confused magazine, which was held at the W hotel in London. She was spotted leaving the event at 3am; earlier, Kate was photographed leaving St. Johns restaurant while still carting around her own glass of wine because … perhaps she was afraid there wouldn’t be enough liquor at the party?

Most high-brow parties don’t usually ask guests to bring their own wine. But that’s exactly what Kate Moss appeared to do last night when she arrived at the Dazed & Confused 20th birthday party in London.

Arriving at the plush W London Hotel in a sexy black mini-dress, the 37-year-old was carrying a glass of wine… presumably a souvenir from her dinner. Looking slightly worse for wear as she entered the W through the back door, she was accosted by a homeless man, who she was happy to talk to.

The supermodel had started off the night at an exhibition at Somerset House to mark the 20th anniversary of the hip publication. Then she popped on to a nearby restaurant before ending the evening at the W bar for the main Dazed & Confused 20th celebrations.

Moss was at the event to support ex-boyfriend and father of her child, Jefferson Hack, who founded the publication.

[From Daily Mail]

Quite often, I marvel at the genuinely friendly relationship that Kate continues to maintain with Jefferson Hack. Even though he is the father of her child, I can attest (probably along with many of you) that it’s exceedingly difficult to “like” one’s ex other than to fake it for the sake of the children. My guess is that Kate was the one who broke off the relationship, and (to an extent) Jefferson continues to worship La Moss. They hooked up after she first appeared in his magazine in the early aughts; after their split, Jefferson continued to support Kate’s career and even gave her the cover of Dazed in 2007 when she was preparing to launch her first Topshop high-street fashion line.

As for Kate’s drunken state last night, that’s merely how she rolls. The Mail tried to make a huge deal of her recent Jamaican vacation with friend Sadie Frost. That article described the getaway as necessary in terms of “marriage shock” (to Kills guitarist Jamie Hince) because Kate was supposedly sighted downing three beers for breakfast, but I doubt that’s the case. The Kills recently released their fourth album, so Jamie’s been touring like crazy for the past few months and shows no signs of letting up anytime soon.

In the meantime, Kate just likes her booze. She doesn’t eat much, and it doesn’t take much to get drunk on an empty stomach. I’d even be willing to wager that most of her daily caloric intake comes from wine, beer, and the regular gin and tonic. Somehow, Kate still ends up looking fabulous even in a very disheveled state. Kaiser, CB, and I are all crushing on her very 1990s outfit here. She’s wearing head-to-toe black while showing off her roots, unpolished nails, and very minimal makeup. Still, bitch looks good:

At a certain point between stops, Kate paused to talk to a homeless man (according to Fame), who asked her for money. Before Kate could comply, her friends dragged the supermodel away by yanking on her dress. I bet she’d have handed over a lot of cash in her inebriated state.

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