Remember Nick Hogan, the most selfish and terrible of all the celebuspawns out there? Well he’s finally broken his silence about his drag racing car crash in which he caused his passenger, John Graziano, to be on life-support for the rest of his life. Experts say the most Graziano can ever hope for is to be able to open and shut his eyes once in a while. The Hogans have been nearly silent about the issue – I’m guessing because they know they’re going to get sued (crossing fingers). You’d think that – if for nothing else than the sake of their public image – they would have made some statements of remorse. Well now, we finally have a word from Nick, via his MySpace blog.

“omggggg its been forever since i blogged…hell i dont even know what blog means but i guess its where you write stuff for people to read

anyways my last one was before i even drove for mopar, if you check my pics youll see that i did end up driving for them for my amateur season and most of my pro rookie season. i recently left the mopar team tho…things didnt work out to well

but!….i picked up a new title sponsor…POLAROID! and started my own team with twin 350z’s pretty cool i know

anyways id like everyone to wish my luck for my 08 season and keep john graziano in your prayers”

[From TMZ]

Wow. I really hope Hulk and Linda Hogan are proud of the son they’ve raised. As much as everyone hates on Brooke Hogan, her singing has yet to permanently incapacitate someone, so I’m pretty sure she’s the lesser of two evils. I would be so humiliated to have given life to this creature. I can’t even call him a human. He’s clearly beyond just spoiled and narcissistic, and is instead a full-out sociopath. I hate to be a total jerk, but I’m not capable of writing about something like this and just staying neutral. I really hope Nick Hogan goes to prison (doubtful) and terrible, terrible things happen to him there.

Picture note by Jaybird: Here’s a picture of John Graziano, a US Marine who returned from his second tour of duty in Iraq last October. Header image of Hogan’s crash in August.

Remember a few months ago when moronic, spoiled, and irresponsible Nick Hogan (son of Hulk) got into a major car accident? Well Hogan pretty much walked away from the scene, but his passenger, John Graziano, is still on life-support, and will remain that way for the rest of his life. Experts say the most he can ever hope for is to be able to open and shut his eyes once in a while.

The Hogans should be ashamed of themselves and the terrible child they’ve raised. They’ve spoiled their kids rotten and given them no sense of values and responsibility. Nick had been pulled over for serious speeding violations, and I mentioned in a previous article, “In the last twelve months, Nick has been cited four times for extreme speeding and has four points on his license as a result. He was clocked at 115 mph in a 70 mph zone, 106 mph in a 70 mph zone, 57 mph in a 30 mph zone, the most recent, on August 10th, 16 days before his massive accident, Bollea was clocked doing 82 mph in a 45 mph construction zone while workers were present.” He was fined $1,000. He also got into a car crash with one of his dad’s fancy cars (I can’t even remember which one and I get too angry writing about this moron to look) and the Hogans just replaced with a less-fancy but equally fast Toyota Supra. So the kid didn’t learn his lesson, smashed into a tree and totaled the car, and now poor John Graziano will never be able to move again.

“The young Marine just back from Iraq who was critically injured in the Aug. 26 car crash that involved wrestler Hulk Hogan’s son Nick will require lifelong care, according to court documents. John Graziano’s mother, Debra Graziano, has legally petitioned a Florida court to permit her to assume guardianship of the 22-year-old, who remains in Bayfront Medical Center, the St. Petersburg Times reports. Citing court papers, the paper reports that the most Graziano can hope for is to open and shut his eyes periodically. He was a passenger in 17-year-old Nick Bollea’s car when it careened off the road and struck a 25-ft.-tall palm tree in downtown Clearwater, Fla., police said. The papers also state that Graziano was not wearing a seat belt. Police continue to investigate the accident, and no charges have been filed.

“A nurse hired by the court filed a report on Sept. 19 that described Graziano as comatose and on life support, and also said he may have suffered a seizure, says the Times.”

[From People]

Yeah Graziano should have been wearing a seat belt, but that in no way diminishes Hogan’s culpability. It’s just totally disgusting. The Hogans have been laying low lately, and don’t seem to have said much about this issue. I’m guessing they know a massive lawsuit is coming their way, and they’re doing whatever they can to avoid it. If they were decent people that cared about anything more than their money and their D-list status, they would be doing everything they could to support the Grazianos and publicly chastising their idiot son.

Picture note by Celebitchy: Here are pictures of Graziano, because who wants to see any more photos of the stupid Hogans? Graziano, a US Marine, returned from his second tour of duty in Iraq last October. Let’s hope for a miracle for this guy.

Praise Jeebus, one of the many lawsuits against Lindsay Lohan is going forward! This one is over the October 2005 crash in which Lohan hit a van that was making an illegal u-turn. Lohan was looking behind and over her shoulder at the time, but it was still ruled to be the van driver’s fault, since he was making an illegal turn. He’s sued Lohan for upwards of $200,000, and his lawyer has alleged that Lohan was drunk at the time of the crash. The lawyer’s logic is essentially that Lohan is drunk a lot, so she was likely drunk then. I’m not oversimplifying too much, that’s pretty much what the guy is saying, just in legalese. It didn’t seem like there was a good chance that the lawsuit would proceed to trial, given that it’s hard to prove Lohan was drunk at that specific time. Yeah we all know the burden of proof is much lower in a civil trial, but there’s still no evidence that Lohan had been drinking. She had just left the Ivy, and there are no witnesses that she drank during lunch there, and the California Highway Patrol said alcohol was not a factor in the crash. Still, Lindsay is a reckless person in general, both with her own body and with others. It seems likely that her own negligence had something to do with the crash – yeah the guy shouldn’t have been making an illegal u-turn, but Lohan shouldn’t have been driving forwards while looking backwards.

A lot of “accidents” have happened to Lindsay in the last couple years. Enough that it starts to look suspicious even before the DUIs and rehab and all that. Here’s a little timeline I put together of Lindsay’s last three years from Wikipedia, Hollywood.com, People, and Yahoo. Let’s recap, shall we?

2004
Car Crash – August 3. Studio City, CA. Lohan later sued.

Hospitalization – October 25th. “High fever” in Los Angeles, CA.

2005
Hospitalization – February. “Chest pains.”

Hospitalization – March 17th. Sprained ankle.

Car Crash – May 31. Fender bender.

Car Crash – June 1. “Innocent victim.” Led to a California law meant to control crazed paparazzi – holding them liable for triple damages whenever they cause a crash.

Car Crash – October 5. “Innocent victim.” Leaves the Ivy, slams into a truck that’s making an illegal u-turn. Lohan admitted she was looking behind her shoulder at the time. Lohan later sued.

2006
Hospitalization - January. Slipped on a staircase, broke a teacup and cut her leg in London.

Hospitalization - January. Asthma attack in Miami. 4 days in the hospital.

Hospitalization – July 25. Overheating and dehydration on the set of “Georgia Rule.”

Hospitalization – September. Broken wrist in New York City.

Car Crash – November 7. “Bumped” a paparazzo with her car in Los Angeles at 2am after leaving Hyde.

Car Crash – November 17 (approx). Vehicle rams into a police car in London with then-boyfriend Calum Best.

2007
Hospitalization - January 4. World’s briefest appendectomy. Seen partying until morning the day after alleged surgery.

Rehab - January 18. Checks into Wonderland Center.

Car Crash – March. Strikes a photographer with her BMW in Los Angeles.

Car Crash – March 13. Strikes a photographer in New York.

Car Crash – May 26. Loses control of her Mercedes and strikes a curb.

Hospitalization – May 26. Minor injuries related to car crash.

Arrest – DUI – alcohol. “Usable” amount of cocaine found in vehicle.

Rehab – May 28. Checks into Promises.

Car Chase – July 24. Commandeers white GMC and chases former assistant’s mother through Santa Monica. Fails field sobriety tests. Blood alcohol level tested at between 0.12 and 0.13 percent. Small amount of cocaine found in pocket of pants.

Arrest – July 24th. Arrested on felony charges of possession of cocaine, transportation of a narcotic, and misdemeanor DUI and driving with a suspended license.

Rehab – August. Checks into Cirque Lodge.

So that’s nine car crashes in three years. Three trips to rehab in less than one year. Nine trips to the hospital, all under rather dubious circumstances. At some point you realize she’s either the unluckiest girl in the world, or she has a lot to do with all these things that “happen” to her. It’s more that she’s happening to them. She’s not just some girl who accidentally has 9 trips to the hospital. Unless she has a serious and chronic disease we don’t know about, nine trips in three years is not normal. I’m guessing Lohan has probably been drunk since about 1995 onwards, and all the falling down the stairs, heat exhaustion, and broken teacups attacking her are the logical result of all the drunkenness.

On the upside, it appears that Lohan’s community service for said drunk driving, cocaine, and chasing people will include a few little activities we didn’t know about. According to MSNBC, Lohan “must complete a three-day county coroner program in which she’ll visit a morgue and talk to victims of drunken drivers.” I doubt the victims of drunken drivers will impact Lohan in the least, because that’s about other people. But maybe the morgue will give her a better idea of what’ll happen to her if she doesn’t shape up, and let’s face it, it’s all about Lindsay.

One of the numerous lawsuits currently going on against Lindsay Lohan is arguing that the actress was drunk when she hit a car almost two years ago, when the actress was 19. Remember how there was a time when it seemed like Lohan was getting into some type of car accident every other week? This was during that time, and didn’t seem to be a big deal in and of itself. I mean she once looked at her car and it made someone slam into it. It happened that often. Most of the accidents were considered the other driver’s fault, but at some point when you’ve gotten into 8 accidents in 4 months (or something like that) you’re doing something wrong, even if the insurance companies technically fault the other person. If nothing else, you’re not a good defensive driver. But more likely, if you’re Lindsay Lohan, you’re 19 and already driving drunk. At least according to the lawsuit filed by Raymundo Ortega, who Lohan slammed into on October 4, 2005 after leaving the Ivy. Ortega filed a negligence suit on June 14, 2007 against Lohan and the Ivy (who he says served her alcohol even though she was underage) for at least $200,000. After she hit Ortega, Lohan didn’t even bother to check on him to see if he was okay. Instead she hid in a retail store until police came. I’m guessing she was actually shopping.

“In a 10-page brief filed Friday in support of the actress’ move to dismiss all or part of a negligence suit leveled against her stemming from a 2005 car crash, attorney Alfred Gerisch called Raymundo Ortega’s claim that Lohan was drunk when she hit his van nothing but ‘a battering ram to force a settlement.’ Ortega sued Lohan and West Hollywood hotspot the Ivy on June 14 for at least $200,000 in damages, alleging in his complaint that the Georgia Rule star got tipsy during lunch at the celebrity watering hole and then, as she was looking over her shoulder and recklessly barreling north on Robertson Blvd., smashed into his vehicle with her Mercedes.

“Once again, Gerisch cites the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s report on the incident, which states that alcohol was not a factor in the crash and that Ortega was at fault for hooking an illegal U-turn right in front of Lohan, who was referred to as an ‘innocent victim’ at the time. Speaking of third-party opinions, Klein has also stated that the judge should take judicial notice of media reports about Lohan’s recent DUI-related troubles, including the fact that she’s checked into rehab twice this year, both times before she had even reached the legal drinking age.

“‘The fact that Ms. Lohan was admitted to rehab for alcohol abuse shortly after this accident raised a presumption that at the time of his accident she was under the influence,’ Klein’s filing reads.”

[From E! News]

There is nothing I’d like better than to make Lindsay Lohan pay a couple hundred thousand dollars to everyone she’s been in a car accident with (though I’m pretty sure that would bankrupt her). But I really doubt that Lohan having drinking problems now, or even six months ago, makes the case that she was drunk two years ago. I guess it’s technically possible, but pretty hard to prove. I mean in the last six months, you could probably bet that at any given moment, Lindsay Lohan was drunk and coked out of her mind. I mean it was 96% assured. But two years ago? Hard to know. Anything would be speculation, especially because the police ruled that alcohol was not a factor in the crash. Lohan got in so many accidents in such a short frame of time that I think it’s safe to bet she’s at fault in some way, if for nothing else than severely negligent driving. What are the odds you’d be that unlucky over and over again? There were also several reports of her hitting cars (in a minor, fender bender way) and leaving the scene, forcing the victims to file police reports. She also once gave a fake name to someone she hit, even though they obviously knew who she was. I really wish she’d get nailed for this, along with all the other stupid and selfish things she’s done. Someone really needs to bring the force of reality and responsibility to bear on Lohan. I just really doubt that this particular case will be the one to do it, but here’s hoping.

Picture note by JayBird: Here’s Lindsay a few weeks before the accident in question. Images thanks to PR Photos.

When I first wrote about Hulk Hogan’s son’s car crash the other day, I was sorta cranky and unsympathetic. Mostly because the kid seemed like a moron who reported missing jewelry as stolen to the police and had three tickets for extreme speeding in under a year. I was pretty sure I’d eat crow for it, but it turns out I was right, Nick Bollea (Hogan’s real last name) is a complete moron who’s seriously endangered other people’s lives on several occasions. Multiple witnesses report that – on the night of his fateful, massive car crash that left passenger John J. Graziano in critical condition at the hospital – Bollea was racing a silver Dodge Viper on State Route 60, a main drag through downtown Clearwater, Florida – early in the evening. I’m not saying racing is ever okay (it seems to often lead to injuries and death) but generally even the people moronic enough to race on public streets do it in the middle of the night, not 7:30 in the evening.

“A woman said Hulk Hogan’s son was racing another car moments before he lost control of his vehicle and crashed into a tree, critically injuring his passenger. Frances Vitalis, a registered nurse from Plant City, said she saw 17-year-old Nick Bollea’s Toyota Supra smash into a median and spin into a palm tree Sunday night. She said the Supra and a Dodge Viper were revving their engines and racing between traffic signals before the crash.

“‘We knew something was going to happen,’ said Vitalis, who was riding a motorcycle with a friend behind the cars. ‘You know that this is a bad situation and these guys are hotdogging.’ Bollea’s attorney, J. Kevin Hayslett, declined to comment. Clearwater police spokesman Wayne Shelor also declined to comment on the witness accounts, citing an ongoing investigation. He said detectives have talked to ‘a number of eyewitnesses.’ Police so far have said only that excessive speed contributed to the crash.

“Shelor issued a statement Wednesday afternoon saying Hulk Hogan ‘was not driving a car beside or near the one his son, Nick, was driving when it crashed.’ Shelor said Hogan arrived at the scene minutes after the crash. Meanwhile, Bollea’s passenger, 22-year-old John J. Graziano of Dunedin, remained in critical condition at Bayfront Medical Center, a hospital spokeswoman said.”

[From the Washington Post]

I always thought “hotdogging” was the term used for stuffing a billion hot dogs in your mouth at one of those competitive eating competitions, but it turns out it’s something much, much less funny. I really hope there will be severe legal repercussions for this Nick. He’s clearly one of those morons that doesn’t understand how dangerous a car can be, and nothing short of their own injury will teach them otherwise. In the last twelve months, Nick has been cited four times for extreme speeding and has four points on his license as a result. He was clocked at 115 mph in a 70 mph zone, 106 mph in a 70 mph zone, 57 mph in a 30 mph zone, the most recent, on August 10th, 16 days before his massive accident, Bollea was clocked doing 82 mph in a 45 mph construction zone while workers were present. If he’s getting caught doing this four times in twelve months, can you imagine how often he actually speeds? The guy probably does 45 mph through the Burger King drive through. Let’s pray his bonehead parents love him enough to take away his license and don’t get him another car. And maybe handcuff him to the bed for a few days, just to give him a feeling for how much his life could suck if he messes up again.

Note by Celebitchy The latest news on the passenger in the car with Nick is that he is still in the hospital in critical condition. Nick’s friend John Graziano was a marine who served two tours of duty in Iraq, having returned last October to the states. Nick Hogan could get up to 15 years in jail if his friend ends up mortally injured and he was found to have been drinking or drag racing at the time of the accident.

Nick Hogan is shown in the header image looking unshaven on 10/23/06. He is seen with his family on 12/2/06 at the VH1 Big in ’06 awards. Thanks to PRPhotos.

Remember a few days ago, when we wrote an article about Hulk Hogan’s home being looted of $100,000 worth of jewelry? It was Hogan’s son Nick, who apparently thought it was a good idea to wrap his watch and two necklaces in a t-shirt in his upstairs closet before the family moved. The items “disappeared” – but Nick, 17, has a history of less-than-brilliant decisions. Last November he was driving the family’s Lamborghini when it just somehow burst into flames and was burned “beyond recognition.” Considering the odds of that happening without cause are pretty slim, coupled with how dumb celebrity spawn are these days, makes it not all that surprising that Nick was in a major car crash this past weekend – he was supposedly driving at a “very high speed” though police have yet to release the actual number. They had to use the “Jaws of Life” to pry Nick and his passenger from the shockingly destroyed vehicle. Nick was released from the hospital today, less than twelve hours later, but his passenger remains there, critically injured.

“The son of professional wrestler Hulk Hogan was seriously injured in a car crash Sunday night, police said. A Toyota Supra driven by Nick Bollea [Hogan’s real last name] was traveling at a high rate of speed at approximately 7:30 p.m., Clearwater Police spokesman Wayne Shelor said. Bollea, which is Hogan’s real name, lost control and hit a raised median. The car flipped around, and the back end hit a palm tree.

“‘The car was destroyed,’ Shelor said. Bollea and an unidentified male passenger were extricated from the car by paramedics, Shelor said. Then they were airlifted to Bayfront Medical Center in St. Petersburg. Their official conditions were not immediately available, but Shelor described the injuries of both men as serious.

“The crash occurred on State Route 60, a main drag through downtown Clearwater. The road had to be shut down in both directions for several hours, Shelor said. Alcohol is not believed to have played a part in the crash. The crash seems to have been caused by excessive speed, Shelor said. Bollea appears on the reality TV show ‘Hogan Knows Best’ with his father, mother and sister.”

[From the Washington Post]

I really don’t mean this to sound as insensitive as it will, but this kid is a moron. Both of Hulk Hogan’s kids seem like they don’t have two IQ points to rub together. I know that seventeen year old boys probably aren’t going to make the best decisions in general, but when you have rich parents that always bail you out of your stupid mistakes, you’ll probably have less appreciation for the consequences of your actions. If Nick were the one critically hurt, I’d have a little more compassion, but since he’s critically injured another person (and already left the hospital) it’s hard to feel much sympathy for the person that did that to another human being.

Picture note by JayBird: Here’s a closeup of the front of Nick Hogan’s car. According to Splash, “Hulk showed up at the scene almost immediately and watched his son get flown out by a helicopter to hospital.” Image thanks to Splash Photos. Below is the Hogan Family, proving they’ll show up to the opening of an envelope – they’re at the Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas. Thanks to WENN for the photo.