Jennifer Lopez is richer than just about everyone, but the NY Post claims she still had the gall to demand 50% off at a boutique store in Long Island. She also tried to get the place shut down so she could try on whichever items she wanted to buy at a deep discount. The staff balked at her request, and she left a pile of clothing on the floor in the dressing room and didn’t buy a single thing. What’s more is that she had eight people with her including bodyguards with guns showing:

JENNIFER Lopez was a diva with a capital D shopping last week at the Catherine Malandrino boutique on Manhasset’s Miracle Mile, near where she lives with hubby Marc Anthony. “She demanded the store be shut down for her to shop alone, but they said, ‘Absolutely not,’ ” said our spy. “Then one of her eight-person entourage, including two bodyguards with their guns showing, was yelling at the clerk that Jennifer gets a 50 percent discount. Jennifer also tried on about a million outfits, then just threw it all in a pile in the dressing room and didn’t buy one thing.” J.Lo’s rep did not return a call.

[From NY Post]

It’s a good thing her mom is home to watch her four months old twins or J.Lo wouldn’t have the opportunity to terrorize small stores. She scared away her last nanny and has to rely on her mother to take care of her newborns, even though her husband Marc won’t acknowledge that his mother in law is staying with them and taking care of the twins.

This isn’t the first time Lopez has been known to be demanding. She regularly sends lists of items to hotels and recording studios so that they may better prepare for her arrival. Some of J.Lo’s food preferences include Skittles, Dentyne Ice Spearmint gum, and sour cream and onion potato chips. She also likes soft lighting and white roses.

Lopez performed a surprise concert at the graduation of a group of 10-12 year-old autistic children last week in Staten Island. The class wrote her a letter that they loved her hit “Let’s Get Loud,” so she showed up in person and performed it at her insistence. That makes up for trashing one boutique, but she doesn’t get a pass for any future diva behavior. Maybe if she did more charity work she would get enough good press to balance out all the stories about her sense of entitlement.

Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony are shown at the Christian Dior Cruise 2009 Collection on 5/12/08, thanks to WENN.

Like the Mark Wahlberg quote about the Beckhams we just reported, this story is from the Daily Star and may be based on a tabloid report or it could be completely fabricated. Since it’s Cameron Diaz we’re talking about and she doesn’t have a reputation for being gracious, kind or understanding, I’ll repeat it and not feel guilty about it.

Supposedly Diaz was at an Abercrombie & Fitch when she tried to buy a t-shirt that said “Jesus Goat,” and was told that it was unavailable because it was the last one. She got super pissed and came up with one of the most original insults I’ve ever heard. She supposedly called uncooperative staff “dick fiends.” That’s incredibly inventive of her and adds an element of truth to this story:

Cameron Diaz rowed with staff at an Abercrombie & Fitch store, say reports.

The Charlie’s Angels actress got angry when she was told that she couldn’t purchase a specific T-shirt, which was the last of its kind in the shop.

According to the Daily Star, Diaz, 35, shrieked and stamped her feet in protest. When leaving, the actress allegedly called the staff “d**k fiends”.

The T-shirt apparently had the words “Jesus Goat” printed on the front.

[From Digital Spy via Gossip Rocks]

I might get pissed off that I couldn’t have an item that was right there in the store but was somehow forbidden to me. Maybe I wouldn’t yell and curse them out, but I would probably ask to see the manager and wonder why the thing was off limits even though it was on display. It’s possible the shirt was on a mannequin or something. Stores usually let you have buy off the mannequins though if you ask. You wonder if someone thought they would just give Cameron a hard time. In that case there’s a retail employee with an attitude that deserves a raise.

Major points to anyone who can find a photo of this “Jesus Goat” t-shirt. I looked for a while and it proved elusive. (I’m technically on vacation, so if you find the shirt it may take me a little while to post it.)

Here’s Cameron leaving Madeo restauarant on 5/30/08, thanks to WENN.

The judge in Heather Mills’ divorce case mentioned in his ruling multiple times that she was less than believable, and called her “distasteful,” “explosive,” and “volatile,” explaining how she failed to make a case that she was owed hundreds of millions. According to Heather it was Paul’s lawyer who wronged her, and she tried to make her point by dumping a jug of water over her on the last day in hearings. Outside of court that day, after having doused Paul’s lawyer Fiona Shakelton, Mills said “she has called me many, many names before meeting me when I was in a wheelchair.”

Now Mills is explaining her childish antics, and bragging about how great it was on an interview with Britain’s GMTV this morning. She even took a dig at Shakelton’s age:
“I cleansed and baptized her. I thought she looked fantastic - I thought it did her the world of good and now I’m getting lots of offers to restyle the hair of women of her age.” [via The Huffington Post]

And Mills couldn’t resist talking about her ex husband’s love life. McCartney was most recently spotted vacationing with his new girlfriend, American Nancy Shevell, in Antigua. He has also been linked with American actress Rosanna Arquette:
“I think he’s got three different girlfriends so I wish all the girls the best of luck. Better them than me.”

Mills is also fighting for transcripts of the court hearings to be released, hoping that it will air her grievances against Paul in a more efficient manner. She calls the coverage of her divorce “one sided.”

Just when you thought this woman couldn’t get any more annoying, someone gives her a platform and she takes it, flailing around and yelling at the top of her lungs. She’s like the paranoid village idiot of the media age. Everyone is out to get her, she’s always right, and she’ll tell you about it ad nauseum, creating general amusement for all.

It looks like all those anger management classes, community service, and postponed jail time didn’t do a whole lot of good in curbing Naomi Campbell’s crazy temper. Back in the day, it was mere assistants that had to fear the model’s wrath. Heaven forbid a pair of jeans goes missing, you should expect a Blackberry upside the head in two seconds flat. But it seemed like the general population was probably safe. Turns out, that’s not the case, as Miss Campbell was arrested today after she was taken off a British Airlines flight to Los Angeles. It seems the fashion maven had not one, not two, but three carry-on bags, and one went missing. She threw an absolute shit fit and was removed from the flight. But of course things didn’t end there, as Campbell continued ranting and raving in the British Airlines first class lounge. Police were called, and a fracas ensued. Campbell was arrested for assaulting a police officer, supposedly by spitting on him. What class.

TMZ has learned Naomi Campbell has been arrested at Heathrow Airport after she allegedly assaulted a police officer. Why? Bitch lost her bag!!

Campbell was pulled off a British Airlines flight to L.A. this morning after reportedly causing a huge stink when she says one of her — count ‘em — three carry-on bags was missing. The Sun says after she was yanked off the plane, cops had to be called because the supermodel was told she was unfit to fly. The anger management class superstar was hauled away “ranting and raving” from BA’s first class lounge after allegedly assaulting an officer. Where’s an assistant when you need one?!

Witnesses say they heard the model scream “get off me, leave me alone” as she was taken to the Heathrow police station. Hide your Blackberries!

[From TMZ]

Sky News reported that Campbell spit on a police officer. She is one of those people that you actually want bad things to happen to. I often sit at my desk, dreaming of small, petty problems that could befall Naomi Campbell and cause her to completely snap. Who assaults a police officer over a lost bag? Who beats an assistant over jeans? Let’s be real, how many pairs of jeans do we really think Naomi Campbell actually owns? Not that it’s any big surprise, but clearly anger management doesn’t do much for those that really need it. There are just some people who walk through life with a feeling of entitlement, and they rage at any and everyone when the rest of us don’t understand just how much better they are. Really, I’m sure Naomi will explain that it was the airline’s fault, the cop’s fault… pretty much everyone’s fault but her own. Let’s wait for a perfectly written statement of remorse from her publicist tomorrow.

Here’s some old shots from a photo shoot of Naomi looking all sorry for herself.

The May issue of Elle UK features Madonna on the cover in yet another shot of her with her with her crotch thrust forward. Madonna, 50, talks about her marriage of over seven years to struggling director Guy Ritchie, 39. She calls him a “challenge” and says that she would be bored if he was any other way. Madonna says “you have to work hard to make it work.” As for their sex life, she claims “sex with Guy is incredible” when asked if her song “Incredible” is a tribute to him.

Madonna also says she would never “stay home and get fat,” and makes a face, again repeating “I would never get fat.”

And in the bittersweet love song, “Incredible,” the 49-year-old croons, “sex with you is incredible.” Is that also a tribute to her husband-of-seven-years? “Absolutely,” she tells the magazine. “Sex with Guy is incredible … And surprise, surprise, it’s his favorite song on the album. Actually, maybe it’s not his favorite song, but it’s definitely his favorite line.”

As her August birthday approaches, she shows no sign of slowing down. “I’m not going to be defined by my age. Why would any woman?,” she asks. “I’m not going to slow down, get off this ride, stay home and get fat. No way!” Then, making a face, she adds, “I would never get fat.”

[From People.com]

It sounds like being fat is almost as distasteful to Madonna as being ignored. She claims that she’s “not against plastic surgery,” but is “against discussing it,” and says that she achieves her masculine look through “diet and exercise and being constantly careful.”

Every time I read or hear something about Madonna she manages to come up with another way to annoy me. She refused to talk about the plastic surgery she obviously had but was all too willing to say her sex life is incredible.

I don’t know why I’m surprised by how arrogant this woman is. She built her entire career on shameless self promotion and it’s not like she’s going to stop now and enjoy her millions, doing pilates obsessively until the wee hours of the night. She is a good performer though, I’ll give her that. I would gladly watch an occasional Madonna show if only I never had to see her haughty face in a magazine or read another interview with her again.

Madonna is shown walking from the gym she built next door back to her house with her trainer on Sunday and yesterday, thanks to WENN.

Paris Hilton serves as an example that despite a lack of education, talent, personality or any discernible skill, you too can become filthy rich by showing up to stuff and slapping your name on the right cheap merchandise.

Paris gave some statements while in Istanbul to judge the Miss Turkey beauty pageant that she’s a self made woman and doesn’t pay attention to her detractors. She sees herself as an inspiration to girls and says she’s “built this empire on my own.”

In Istanbul, Turkey, to judge the annual Miss Turkey beauty pageant, the celebutante defended herself against claims that she is the superficial simpleton the media would have you believe she is.

“I don’t pay attention to lies because I am a good person,” says the hotel heiress. “I work very hard and I’ve built this empire on my own. I think this is an inspiration for a lot of girls out there.”

Speaking of her rich grandpa, the older Hilton sister shrugged off the bad news that she and her siblings have been all but completely written out of their portion of Conrad Hilton’s $2.3 billion fortune, saying, “It won’t affect me anyway.”

[From OK! Magazine]

Maybe she’s right and that’s what’s sad. There are plenty of girls who want to be starved and stupid just like Paris. She inspires them to go shopping, act clueless, and back stab their friends.

OK! Magazine points out the obvious facts that Paris went to jail for violating probation on a DUI and that she rose to fame following the release of a sex tape, but even if you assume she’s moved past that and is a different person now, what has she done that’s so inspirational? She’s made money from appearances, she released a perfume and some ugly handbags, she endorses champagne in a can, and she showed up at an orphanage once when it was convenient for her.

Disney characters that have their lives saved by whatever man comes along are much more inspirational than Paris. I’d rather have my future daughter aspiring to marry well than trying to become infamous like Paris, not that either is preferable to a good education.

Paris is shown in Turkey yesterday, thanks to WENN.

The family of permanently disabled John Graziano, the now comatose passenger in Nick Bollea’s car accident last year, has finally filed suit against Nick and his parents. The civil suit names Nick, Linda and Terry Bollea (aka Hulk Hogan) as co-defendants, as well as the man who was street racing against Nick in the minutes leading up to the wreck that left Graziano, 22, in a permanent vegetative state.

Clearwater, Florida - The attorney for John Graziano’s family announced details of a 6-count complaint civil lawsuit filed in Pinellas County on Monday.

The lawsuit cites three counts of negligence against Terry Bollea (Hulk Hogan and Nick’s father), one against Linda Bollea (Nick’s mother), one against Nick Bollea, and a final count against Daniel Jacobs, the driver of the Dodge Viper that Nick was racing.

The Graziano family is claiming in the lawsuit that Terry and Linda Bollea should have known that their son was a reckless driver, and were also aware that their son was drinking on the day of the crash.

Hogan’s son, Nick Bollea, was allegedly speeding when Clearwater police say he lost control of his car and crashed last summer. Graziano was a passenger in the car and suffered serious head wounds. Graziano’s family says he will require medical care for the rest of his life.

Bollea faces a felony charge of reckless driving with serious bodily injury.

[From Tampa Bay News 10]

If you recall, Nick and his parents went on the offensive in the weeks after the horrific crash, deflecting blame instead of owning up to their roles in this young man’s injury, stating that if John had been wearing a seat belt he would have been fine, even though the photos of the car after the crash suggest otherwise. It looks like John’s family will finally get their day in court after all. This will be one in a long line of court appearances for Nick, who was arrested in the days after the crash on three charges, including third degree felony reckless driving.

Charlize Theron bores the shit out of me. I know she’s gorgeous and scandal-free except for her childhood in South Africa, but she just seems like an uninteresting person. I watched her entire David Letterman interview from last night hoping there would be some tidbit that I could report on, because it’s all Elliot Spitzer today, but no, she just droned on in a flat voice about how she worked hard to earn her US Citizenship and how she got wasted with the Hasty Pudding guys dressed in drag. She managed to make even that incident sound completely matter of fact. Maybe she’s depressed or just having an off day, but the title for her latest movie, Sleepwalking, sounds like it describes her to a T.

OK! Magazine has some quotes Charlize gave while doing the press for her film. She talks about people who lose weight and gain it back because they still have underlying issues they haven’t addressed or whatever, but it doesn’t come off as a nice statement the way I’m reading it. They say she’s making a parallel between her character wanting a boyfriend to make her whole and heavy people thinking their life will be complete once they lose weight.

But while her ups and downs have been purely career-driven, the Oscar winner, 32, empathizes with friends whose battles have been more personal. “I’ve been fascinated by people who lose a lot of weight,” she told OK! at a junket promoting her movie, drawing a link between her character’s belief that having a boyfriend will remove her woes and long-term dieters’ similar expectations about their bodies.

“There’s this excitement and joy when they have gastric bypass surgery, and they actually truly believe that once they lose the weight all their problems will be solved,” said the actress. She continued, “That’s just not how life works. Once they lose the weight, they realize that, and that’s why they go and gain the weight back.”

[From OK! Magazine]

I don’t understand why she would even bring that up. Why not talk about women who are told by society that they’re sad sacks unless they have a man? It just sounds kind of catty and judgmental to me, but maybe I’m in a bad mood and Charlize Theron is easy to target, since she’s so bland and perfect and all. Maybe she’s saying that no one’s life is perfect, including hers, and that somehow she can relate to those gastric surgery people from up on her high horse looking down.

It strikes me that the reason Theron is such a good actress is because she’s a blank slate. She doesn’t have a lot of her own personality to get in the way of whatever character she needs to be, and can just sort of absorb any role like a sponge.

Here’s Theron’s David Letterman interview. It’s only worth watching to look at her. She’s shown at the premiere of Sleepwalking on 3/6/08, thanks to PRPhotos.

Charlize Theron on Letterman part 1

Charlize Theron on Letterman part 2

Clay Aiken was rude and dismissive in an interview with Newsweek recently. Considering how many of his fellow AI stars have been dropped from their record labels, he should adjust his attitude and take a dose of humility. Acting like a spoiled brat is not going to win him any fans. He talked about his new role in the musical “Spamalot,” and when the interviewer asked him if women throw their panties on stage for him, he said they do and that he’s had Depends thrown on stage that said “Your older fans love you, too.”

When the interviewer asks him about the infamous foot incident on the plane, in which the FBI were called after he had an altercation with a woman who objected to his feet being on her armrest, the tone of the interview changed and he said he wasn’t going to address that again. To be fair, he did talk about it before in a dismissive statement in which he seemed to suggest that he didn’t do anything wrong. Then he gets all nasty and doesn’t even bother to give bland noncommittal responses, which is an essential skill that anyone who talks to the press as part of their job should learn.

Do women throw their underwear on stage?
In Minneapolis, we had a lady throw her panties in the middle of “Silent Night.” I’m like, Are you kidding me? We’ve had ladies throw Depends that say, “Your older fans love you, too.”

How did you get into a fight with that lady on a plane?
I’m not going to talk about it.

I was just curious because you’ve never talked about it.
I did talk about it.

What about the Kelly Ripa thing?
I’m not going to discuss it.

Did you think it was homophobic?
I’m not going to discuss it.

What do you want to talk about?
I think we’re done.

Can we talk about something fun?
No, we’re done. I thought NEWSWEEK would be more reputable. I’m surprised.

But I think people are curious about it.
It was a year ago. This is NEWSWEEK. It’s not the National Enquirer. I’d hate to have a job where I had to be rude to people.

We’re just having a conversation.
Change the subject! I’d never take a job where I had to do something that I didn’t want to do.

What about all those Ford commercials on “American Idol”?
That wasn’t a job.

It was part of your job.
It wasn’t a Ford commercial. It was a music video. It was a completely different thing.

I’ll change the subject. What do you do for fun?
I watch the news. I read news magazines, but I’m reconsidering that now.

Are you going to watch “Idol”?
I haven’t watched since season four. I compare it to high-school football–if it weren’t for high school, we wouldn’t be successful, but I don’t need to keep going to the football games.

[From Newsweek.com via The Huffington Post]

I love how the interviewer shoots right back at him by bringing up those Ford Commercials when Aiken says “I’d never take a job where I had to do something that I didn’t want to do.”

So do you think Clay was thrilled to sing at a church Christmas concert in Wichita, Kansas? According to him he only does what he wants to do for his career, and who doesn’t want to sing at a church where they consider homosexuality a sin? Not that their belief system would have anything to do with Clay.

Image via Newsweek.

Update: This article is based on a story in Star Magazine that incorrectly stated that Avril Lavigne played just two songs at a free concert. That article was incorrect and Avril did play a full free concert at that show.

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Avril Lavigne needs to get that smug look and raccoon makeup wiped off her face with a dirty rough rag. She seems to be sleepwalking through her soulless performances, getting by with a sneer and a modicum of singing ability. In a field that continues giving a psychologically challenged woman (Britney) and an addict (also Britney, but Lindsay could fall in both categories too) chances, it’s hardly likely that anyone is going to call Avril on her arrogance though.

There was a story about two months ago that Avril Lavigne refused to pose for a photo with a little eight year-old girl who was attending the same wedding reception Avril was at, reducing the little girl to tears. Avril recently screwed thousands of fans at once by making them wait over an hour for her in the bitter cold and then playing just two songs to jet off to a Spice Girls show. It was a free concert, but it sounds like she got paid for it and she could have made more of an effort for fans:

[Avril Lavigne] arrived more than an hour late to her free outdoor concert in honor of the grand opening of the Best Buy in Burnaby, British Columbia, on December 2, and never apologized for leaving her fans to wait in the freezing, snowy weather. The 23-year-old performed just two songs, then darted off to the Spice Girls concert at GM Place in Vancouver. “It’s so unfair!” 14-year-old Avril fan Hannah Bryla said in reaction to her idol’s behavior. “It seems like her fans aren’t important to her.”

[From Star Magazine, print edition, December 24, 2007]

Avril was probably contractually obligated to Best Buy to play at least two songs, so she did the minimum and got the hell out of there, but what kind of message does that send to her fans? Little girls idolize her and she continues to act like a punk ass little bitch, refusing to acknowledge her fans and spitting at paparazzi and then blaming them for it.

In an April, 2007 interview with Salon Magazine, Avril basically said that her fans love her despite the fact that she treats them like shit. She also said she’s not strictly punk and that being an asshole is part of her brand:

Well, first of all, I don’t give a fuck what anyone says. I totally do my own thing and that’s always been my message. I do what I do. I have a ton of fans and they love me. I was put here … it was a purpose. I’ve touched people. I’m some people’s role model. So what I’m trying to say is — some people love me, some people hate me. That’s fine. That’s what it’s like with anything. Chocolate bars: People love Mars bars, they hate them. The color black: Some people love it, some people don’t like it at all. That’s the way it is.

As far as the whole punk thing, I think people just pick up on my attitude and my character. Obviously my clothing style, my fashion sense, in some ways nowadays is referred to as kind of, maybe, sort of, punk fashion. By no means do I walk around saying I’m punk. I listen to punk music, I appreciate punk music. A lot of my favorite bands are in punk. Do I think I’m punk? No. What is punk? Punk is anti-everything. A way of life. Anti-establishment. I don’t go by that.

Your question was why do people tie that to me. I guess it’s just the whole fashion thing. And it’s my attitude. It’s my I-don’t-give-a-fuck attitude. It’s the way I talk and some people can put that label on me and because it’s such a strong label, other people will go, “Oh no she’s not.” Everyone knows I’m this girl who speaks my mind, I have a strong personality. I am a certain style, a certain brand, a certain thing. I’m a strong image whereas some other girls are just singers. I’m like this person, I have a character.

[From Salon.com]

So Avril is saying she can act and treat people however she wants because that’s part of her character and they’re still going to worship her anyway.

Avril is shown at the American Music Awards on 11/18/07, thanks to PRPhotos.

Update: Avril did at least 9 songs at that show, according to video results on YouTube after searching for Avril Lavigne Best Buy Burnaby. Star’s story that she ditched after two songs was incorrect.