Gossip Cop e-mailed us this story, and my mouth is still hanging open. Tot Mom Casey Anthony, 25, is currently on probation in an undisclosed location in Florida for a check fraud case that’s not related to the murder of her two year-old daughter, Caylee. Casey was of course acquitted of all charges during that highly publicized six week trial, and was only convicted of four misdemeanor counts of providing false information to police, for which she got out with time served. Casey was thought to be in hiding for good reason, and there was a random sighting of her in Ohio before she was ordered to report to Florida for probation on that other case. Well now Casey wants us all to know how she’s doing, since we’re so concerned about her welfare, and has posted a video diary saying that she’s adopted a dog and bought a computer, of which she’s very proud. The video was recorded in October and just posted recently. Casey is sporting a blonde bob and glasses, and Gossip Cop reports that NBC has confirmed that it’s really her. Here’s more on the video, from TMZ:
Casey Anthony has taped a video diary entry that has surfaced on the Internet … and in the clip, she says she’s become a mother … to a brand new dog.
The 4.5 minute video is bizarre … with Casey sporting a short haircut and glasses … and rambling about various topics, including how happy she is to be out of jail.
In the clip — which Anthony says was taped on October 13, 2011 — she says, “I’m extremely excited … that I’ll be able to Skype and obviously keep a video log … and that I have something that I can finally call mine.”
She adds, “It’s been a long time since I’ve been able to call something mine.”
Anthony was released on July 17 after she was found not guilty of murdering her daughter Caylee. However she is on probation in Florida for check fraud.
In the clip, Anthony — who does not disclose her location — says, “I’ll be here for many many months … even if i get off probation early.”
Anthony continues, “Now I … in some ways … have someone to talk to even when I am by myself so I am not bothering the poor dog … who I have adopted and I love.”
It’s unclear why the video is finally surfacing now. Attempts to reach a rep for Anthony have been unsuccessful.
So did Casey just put out this video for her friends and did it somehow get released to the public now? I guess I’m not surprised to learn that she’s a self-pitying narcissistic person who has no clue or appreciation for how lucky she is to be out of prison. All she does is whine and appeal to people for their sympathy in this video. I feel sorry for her dog. She shouldn’t even be allowed to have plants. That’s about all I have to say. This video is f’ing ridiculous and this woman should be ashamed to show her face, much less put out a video blog.
For those who are still raging over the Casey Anthony “not guilty” verdict that was delivered last month by a Floridian jury, a slight bit of catharsis (albeit no further justice) can be had in the news that Anthony has been voted to the top of a “Top 10 Most Hated People” poll. Of course this news will do nothing to settle the unrest aimed at the Anthony jurors, who fortunately have been spared the same dubious honor. C’mon, they were really only doing their jobs. Anyway and because I don’t want to freshly stir that pot, let’s get on with the rest of the list, shall we?
What do Casey Anthony, Spencer Pratt and Jon Gosselin have in common? A new poll suggests they’re the most hated people in America!
These public figures top findings by Nielsen subsidiary E-Poll Market Research, the New York Post reports. Joining them are famous names such as O.J. Simpson, Paris Hilton and ‘Octomom’ Nadya Suleman, all making way on the following top 10 list:
1. Casey Anthony
2. Spencer Pratt
3. Octomom
4. O.J. Simpson
5. Jon Gosselin
6. Levi Johnston
7. Jesse James
8. Paris Hilton
9. Heidi Fleiss
10. Howard Stern
“A lot of the folks on this list are people who are constantly in the news and have nonredeeming qualities,” Mary Ann Farrell, Senior Vice President of Research at E-Poll, says.
Okay, I completely understand why Anthony and Simpson are on this list because they’re basically cut out of the same legally-scandalous grain. Also truly reprehensible are Spencer Pratt (and his extremely expensive crystals) and Nadya “Octomom” Suleman because she’s a drain on the taxpayers and acts like such an entitled bitch concerning her own womb. People don’t like Levi Johnston because he’s a reprehensible, deadbeat famewhore and Jesse James because he cheated on and humiliated Sandra Bullock. Naturally, Paris Hilton’s entrance on this list is rather self-explanatory. As to Howard Stern, he loves to be hated, so he’ll probably feel like he accomplished something today. However, do people still care at all about Jon Gosselin or Heidi Fleiss? Their inclusion makes me wonder whether or not the company presented people with a list and asked them to pick which ones they hated the most instead of asking people to name their own suggestions. Pollsters can be so shady like that.
A few weeks ago, there was a rumor going around that Hollywood would end up making a movie about Casey Anthony, and that the leading contender to play Casey would and should be Kristen Stewart. None of this was definite – it was all tabloids and entertainment shows playing a “What if…” game and K-Stew’s people had nothing to do with it. Unfortunately for Kristen, the overwhelming majority of people were like “Hey, that lip-biting eye-roller would make a great Casey Anthony!” And now, according to Us Weekly, Kristen’s people are trying to shut it down.
Casey Anthony: The Movie, starring…not Kristen Stewart. Kristen Stewart is none too pleased with chatter linking her and Casey Anthony, the 25-year-old Florida woman acquitted this week in the 2008 death of her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee.
“Her people are really annoyed about the Casey Anthony comparisons,” a source tells Us Weekly of the Twilight actress, 21, who shares the same brunette locks and brooding eyes as Anthony, who is expected to go free within weeks.
“Kristen wants that talk to blow over soon, because it looks really bad.”
Don’t expect Stewart to portray Anthony in a flick anytime soon. “She would never for no amount of money portray that girl,” the source says. “It’s grossing her out. All those entertainment shows are doing polls and what not and her people just want it to stop!”
On one side, I completely understand why Kristen is upset and peeved by the comparison – true, Kristen is, in my mind, a lip-biting, unprofessional troll, but she hasn’t killed anyone, and she doesn’t deserve to be associated with or compared to Casey Anthony. Another part of me thinks this Us Weekly story is hilarious on so many levels. Isn’t part of being an actress “playing characters that are not like you”? Look at someone like Charlize Theron, and her Oscar-winning role as Aileen Wuornos. If Kristen was smart – or if she had people working for her who were thinking about her career, long-term – she would embrace the rumors and acknowledge that, as an actress, it would be a remarkable career achievement to play a sociopath like Casey. It would also help Kristen break out of the “Bella” type-casting, wouldn’t it? But if that happened, what would Kristen complain about then? I still think that Kristen should be actively seeking out roles like this – like, Casey Anthony – instead of some kind of lip-biting, eye-rolling, hunched-over, monotone Snow White.
The first juror in the Casey Anthony trial has spoken to the press. Jennifer Ford, a 32 year-old nursing student, spoke with ABC’s Terry Moran to explain how the jury reached a “not guilty” verdict in this very controversial case. (Video of her interview is above.) I found her very convincing, logical and well spoken. Ford explained that the prosecution simply didn’t come up with a scenario of how Caylee was murdered and that was why they couldn’t reach a guilty verdict. She said that they carefully weighed the evidence, that the 10 hours of deliberation does not mean that they all agreed right away, and that many jurors were upset and crying after delivering the verdict. Here’s more, from ABC, and the source has more details that you might want to read if you’re interested.
Casey Anthony juror Jennifer Ford said that she and the other jurors cried and were “sick to our stomachs” after voting to acquit Casey Anthony of charges that she killed her 2-year-old daughter Caylee.
“I did not say she was innocent,” said Ford, who had previously only been identified as juror No. 3. “I just said there was not enough evidence. If you cannot prove what the crime was, you cannot determine what the punishment should be.”
Ford, a 32-year-old nursing student at St. Petersburg College, praised the jurors, but said when deliberations began there were “a lot of conflicting ideas.” At first, people came down on both sides of whether Casey Anthony killed her daughter, Ford said, and the first vote was 10-2 for “not guilty.”
“I toggled on manslaughter and not guilty,” Ford told “Nightline” anchor Terry Moran in an exclusive TV interview. “It doesn’t feel good. It was a horrible decision to have to make.”
The jury’s jaw-dropping not guilty verdict shocked court observers, but it was also a difficult moment for the panel, Ford said in her exclusive interviews with ABC News. No one from the jury was willing to come out and talk to the media in the hours after the verdict.
“Everyone wonders why we didn’t speak to the media right away,” Ford said. “It was because we were sick to our stomach to get that verdict. We were crying, and not just the women. It was emotional and we weren’t ready. We wanted to do it with integrity and not contribute to the sensationalism of the trial.”
Ford told Moran she thought Casey Anthony’s claim that her 2-year-old daughter accidentally drowned and she lied for three years was more believable than the evidence the prosecution presented.
“I’m not saying I believe the defense,” she said. “Obviously, it wasn’t proven so I’m not taking that and speculating at all. But it’s easier for me logically to get from point A to point B” via the defense argument.
Ford said that she couldn’t make out “logically” the prosecution’s argument because there were too many unanswered questions about how Caylee died, including how Casey Anthony would have used chloroform to smother her 2-year-old daughter, then put her in the trunk of her car without anyone seeing her.
“If there was a dead child in that trunk, does that prove how she died? No idea, still no idea.” Ford told Moran. “If you’re going to charge someone with murder, don’t you have to know how they killed someone or why they might have killed someone, or have something where, when, why, how? Those are important questions. They were not answered.”
Some other telling quotes from Ford include “It doesn’t feel good, it’s a horrible decision to have to make, but I had to do it based on the law,” and “If they want to take someone’s life they have to prove it, or else I’m a murderer too, I’m not any better.” Maybe if the prosecution wasn’t going for the death penalty it would have been easier to convict.
The prosecutor Jeff Ashton, spoke with Matt Lauer on the Today Show yesterday morning, and he said that he was shocked by the not guitly verdict after less than 11 hours deliberation. He felt that they presented a clear case to the jury and that “One of the strongest pieces of evidence that we had in the case was that her actions, we felt … [were] just so completely inconsistent with just some accidental explanation for the death.”
As for whether he would go after Casey’s mom Cindy for perjuring herself by trying to take the blame for the Internet searches, he said he had no idea. Ashton is retiring after this case.
I’ve been overseas this summer so I have not been as exposed to this case as many of you. It looks extremely bad in that Casey lied to the police repeatedly, fabricated entire scenarios about what happened to her poor daughter and went out partying in the month after her daughter’s death. In this case I don’t think it’s fair to blame the jury for doing their job, though I know many of you will disagree. Given Casey’s behavior, she’s the one who should be blamed for this, and she will be for the rest of her life. Like Ford said, “Not guilty doesn’t mean innocent.” It’s just a shame that Casey won’t have to rot in jail for the rest of her days.
After I wrote all that, People came out with a new story with details from a letter from Casey to another inmate. She wrote that she dreamt she was pregnant, has considered adopting, and that she misses mani pedis and wearing nice underwear. It made me a little sick. The Enquirer is also reporting that Casey is telling people she’s pregnant. I hope that’s a lie like so many other things that come out of this bitch’s mouth. It’s possible that Casey, who has only been convicted of four counts of lying to police, could walk free today. I guess we know how she’ll celebrate.
Update: Casey was sentenced to four years in prison and fined $4,000 for her four misdemeanor charges of lying to police. She’s already served three years and her calculated release date with time off for good behavior is now July 13, next Wednesday.
