Britney Spears was just named the worst celebrity dog owner of 2006 after she abandoned her accessory chihuahuas after she had children. Considering that the world has yet to get a glimpse of her newest child, neglecting her pets seems to be the least of Britney’s worries. Paris Hilton came in a close second to Britney for similarly using animals as props.

Being a dimbat dog owner is much less damning than wearing fur, which kind of shows that you advocate killing animals needlessly. Using fur in a celebrity clothing line takes that arrogance one step further.

Now comes news that Puffy might be in hot water for using - get this - dog hair in his coat line. Best Week Ever reports that The Humane Society warns people that the “real raccoon” in Sean Jean winter coats might be made from raccoon dogs!

if you happen to be the proud owner of a Sean John puffy coat with “fur” trim, there’s a slight chance that fur is actually made from the skin of a dog. Or so says the Humane Society of the United States, who is claiming that Macy’s is selling the coats under the guise that it’s “imitation rabbit fur”, when the label inside the coat claims it to be “real raccoon” — and not the adorable rabid raccoons that scour your trash for last night’s dinner, but raccoon dogs… DOG FUR COATS!

So is Puff Daddy, who claims to be the designer behind Sean Jean, the Cruella Deville of the new century? The jury is still out, test results are not back yet, and we won’t know for sure for a few days. So we’re going to ask you, the readers, what you think. Go to the coat closet, reach your hand in, close your eyes, and feel that fur trim on the hood of your Sean John jacket… does it remind you a little bit of Sparky, your childhood Yorkie who went to “live on a farm” when you were 11? Because we smell a big controversy here, and it’s got wet dog stink smeared all over it.

I love how they tell you to feel the “fur,” because that gave me a little chill of disgust. I try not to sneer at old ladies in fur coats, but it’s hard not to judge.

If Puffy’s line is using actual dog hair, look for an “I didn’t know about it” statement soon. We’ll have to wait and see what those test results show.

Jennifer Lopez also uses real fur in her clothing line. Ashley Olsen, Madonna, and Beyonce have been spotted out in fur coats recently, which Nicole Richie topped PETAs worst-dressed list.

Going topless while on vacation is way cooler than flashing your vag on an average night out in LA. Moss has bared it for magazines before, so she probably won’t care that these pictures are out. The agency whose photographer snapped the picture, Flynet, claims that Moss has now broken up with troubled bad boy Pete Doherty.

Doherty is a suspicious figure in the death of a fellow party-goer last week. Doherty was seen arguing with the man, who fell from his death at some point from a second story balcony at the party. He avoided talking to the police that night and left the scene of the accident before they arrived. Doherty later went apeshit out at a pub and threw glasses and tables around. Police say he is not a suspect and that they have questioned him, but the man’s family say that they want to know the truth and do not consider the matter settled.

Maybe Kate has moved on with her life after this latest scandal, but that’s doubtful. She is staying in Jamaica at James Bond writer Ian Fleming’s former estate.

Update: photos removed on request.

Media Take Out, an African-American entertainment site that has a lot of exclusives saying celebrities are gay, cheating, and/or involved in various scandals, claims to have official evidence proving that Beyonce is 32 years old. (Their current cover story involves a risque photo of what looks like Eve getting oral from another woman. It was supposedly taken qhile she was an exotic dancer. The picture is covered in the right places, but is still NSFW.)

Two months ago I ran an old video by Destiny’s Child in which Beyonce was supposedly 16. She didn’t look 16 to me, although commentors were kind of split as to whether she was older. Some people said it was the makeup that made her look more mature but others claimed it was a common practice in the entertainment industry and would not surprise them.

The evidence from Media Take Out is a blurry list of births from the Texas Department of Health dated 1974, which would make Beyonce 32, not 25. They say it’s an official birth record sent to them by a government worker in Texas. It’s labeled a statistics list and isn’t a birth certificate, but it could still be accurate:

December 5. Over the past few weeks, MediaTakeOut.com has received hundreds of emails from people asking us to confirm Beyonce’s true age. In an attempt to find the truth, we spoke with dozens of insiders - all of whom believed that Beyonce was being truthful about her age.

But yesterday MediaTakeOut.com received a tip that proved to be explosive. The tipster, who claimed to work for the Texas Department of Health, faxed over what appears to be Beyonce’s official birth records. The document (a portion of which is below) shows that a Beyonce Giselle Knowles was born to a Mathew Knowles and Celestine Ann Beyonce on September 4th, 1974. If this document is accurate, that would mean that Beyonce is actually 32 years old.

Beyonce’s official biography claims that she was born on September 4th, 1981. It also claims that her mothers maiden name is “Beyince”, and not “Beyonce” as the below document shows.

Beyonce’s parents are named Matthew and Tina Knowles, so if this is real it could be the proof that she’s older than 25.

Update: Thanks to commentor Betsy for pointing out that these documents are Photoshopped:

The Texas birth index also lists that Benjamin Wade knowles…the name above beyonce’s…was born in 1981, so the commenter above is correct that the year 1974 has been altered. everyone on that list…including the not famous ones, was born in 1981. nice try by MediaTakeOut. I assume their sounrce altered the document, but shame on them for not checking in out using the free resources easily available to anyone.

Madonna has made no secret of the fact that she wants to snatch a baby girl as soon as she can mail order one to “redress the balance” in her family. She had little Davie Banda shipped to her after just a couple of weeks, flouting the laws of Malawai which require adoptive parents to stay in the country for at least 18 months.

An Australian Missionary family who has lived in Malawai for seven years is going through the lengthy, frustrating adoption process to gain custody of a little 18 month-old girl who happened to catch Madonna’s eye during her brief visit. The family has two biological sons and four adoptive children and are close to being approved to adopt Jessica Kondanani. Officials claim Madonna wants to add Jessica to her family, and the Australians are worried that she’ll get her first.

Malawian officials revealed the singer had been planning to adopt 18-month-old Jessica Kondanani before choosing David Banda after discovering how ill he was.

They still expect her to return to the impoverished African country to formalise her adoption of Jessica, who was found abandoned under a bush.

However her plans are likely to be thwarted because an Australian couple are already in the middle of adopting the youngster.

Australian missionaries Angela and John Wilmot spoke of their fears that their plans could be put in jeopardy by the 48-year-old pop queen.

Madonna recently revealed that she plans to adopt a baby girl as soon as possible, and they have been told she was referring to Jessica.

In an interview with Closer magazine Mrs Wilmot, 34, said: ‘We heard that Madonna was interested in a child, who we now hear is Jessica - but we are quite far down the line with our adoption’.

The couple, who moved to Malawi seven years ago with their two sons and have already adopted four children there, already had the adoption process underway when the singer lodged her intention to give Jessica a home.

Madonna spent two hours with the little girl at the Kondanani Orphan Care Centre at Blantyre earlier this year.

Penstone Kilembe, Malawi’s Minister of Child Welfare, said: ‘Her first choice, before David, was Jessica Kondanani. We suspect she was abandoned by her mother - possibly a schoolgirl’.

Mrs Wilmot said: ‘We knew Madonna was at the orphanage and she had met all the kids but we were already in the process of adopting Jessica and we hope we will be successful’.

David’s father, Yohane Banda, plays with his three year-old stepbrother

Rumor had it that a Canadian woman wanted to adopt David Banda first, and that Madonna was told of those plans and still had the infant overnighted to her in London. That rumor didn’t seem substantial to me, but Madonna was definitely told Davie had a father. (David’s father recently married his 3-months pregnant wife, a woman he met on one of his regular bike rides to see his son at the orphanage. He says he now gives Madonna his blessing.)

If Madonna does want to adopt Jessica, I hope she rethinks her choice considering that a caring Australian family is going through all the proper channels to gain custody of her - at least according to the dubious magazine source, Closer. Given Madonna’s history, it’s doubtful she’ll give it more than a moment’s thought.

A Malawian judge has postponed a hearing requested by multiple human rights groups that seek to challenge Madonna’s adoption of Davie Banda. He says he doesn’t want to deal with that shit right now and will do it next week once the Americans are busy with the holidays.

Header picture of Madonna in her favorite sweater published in The Sunday Mirror and found at Madonnalicious. Inset picture of Yohane Banda from Canada.com

Hoards of people watched from the Gateway of India as Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, little Zahara and Maddox enjoyed a boat ride in Mumbai on Saturday morning. Maddox sported a new multi-colored tail while Brad wore an unflattering printed bandana around his head.

Brad Pitt was spotted enjoying some rare alone time along the river Ganges in the Indian town of Varanasi later on Saturday. He seems to have been relatively undisturbed after travelling there by private plane.

While it was reported that Brad and Angelina were planning to return to the US, but I have not been able to confirm that. Life and Style reports that they are not thought to be returning to the states for Thanksgiving and that Brad Pitt’s mom has invited Jennifer Aniston to spend the holiday with the Pitts in Missouri!

Pitt also gave an interview in response to the allegations that children were roughed up outside a school where “A Mighty Heart” was filming. He said he was “horrified” by the accusations of racial slurs by his security team and called it a “terrible misunderstanding.” He also repeated Angelina’s sentiment that he has a multi-racial family and would never hire bigoted staff.

Brad also said that he loved India, enjoyed the food and would “definitely” come back.

We know who the gracious one is in that family.

Thanks to Just Jared for these pictures.

Update: The Brangelinas are indeed leaving India, and several news agencies have reported that “A Mighty Heart” has finished filming.

Amid reports that Angelina Jolie’s bodyguards roughed up young children and their parents at a school and used the epithet “bloody Indians,” the Jolie-Pitts are returning to America. Jolie’s haughty denial of the incident blames the paparazzi and claims that her bodyguards can’t be racist because her family is of “mixed race.” Isn’t that like using the “I have black friends” excuse?

“It is not surprising that the press involved failed to mention their share of the responsibility in the chaos,” Jolie said.

“As for this horrible rumor that someone referred to a local man as a ‘bloody Indian,’ let me say this: I would never work with anyone that was derogatory towards another man’s race. My family is of mixed race.”

Three of the bodyguards were arrested by Indian police and released on bail. Brad Pitt and Angelina’s co-star Irfan Khan personally apologized to Indian authorities after the incident. The bodyguards, including notorious murder suspect Mickey Brett, must meet with police every day for a week until they go to court on November 23rd.

If Brad Pitt can apologize to the police chief, why can’t Angelina say she’s “sorry for the confusion” and take a more contrite stance? Maybe it’s true that the paparazzi caused the chaos and that it’s just a rumor that someone used the Muslim religion as a slur, but Angelina could have sidestepped the blame and still said she was sorry for the hurt that was caused. She sounds bitchy in that statement, and even if she feels targeted she should have backed down.

This is not the first time her bodyguards have been accused of brutality. Brett was videotaped choking a photographer, and another photographer says he was threatened with a gun after trying to hand Angelina his business card. In Namibia journalists claimed that Brett and his thugs followed them and threatened their life, and he was said to have beat a man to a pulp while little Maddox watched.

IndiaGlitz reports that Brad and Angelina and their family are flying back to the US today, and most of India probably says “good riddance.” This is the first I’ve read that they’re leaving, and we’ll have to see what happens to production of “A Mighty Heart,” which was said to be delayed by this latest scandal.

Pictures from Socialite’s Life and Splash News Online.

A porn bigwig who put the Colin Farrel sex tape online says that he was contacted by a believable individual (*cough* K-Fed *cough) about distributing a digital tape of K-Fed and Britney going at it. He claims that the person who called him knew enough details and insider information to make it seem like a legitimate offer.

He also says that the footage of Britney doing the nasty is worth about four times as much as Paris Hilton’s night-vision atrocity:

“Two days after Britney filed for divorce I was contacted by an individual [who] indicated that he had a digital video of Britney Spears and Kevin Federline having sex,” David Hans Schmidt — the man who’s brokered deals over compromising photos and footage of such stars as Collin Farrell and Jamie Foxx — tells the Star. “This gentleman knew enough names and identified enough parties involved to indicate that the tape could exist!” According to Schmidt, the tape was supposedly shot before Spears and Federline were married in 2004.

If the tape does exist, it would be a hit in the porn world. Schmidt says it could make $200 million and “would smash Paris Hilton’s sex tape sales [upward of $50 million] like an Oreo cookie!”

That video of a Britney lookalike giving a way too professional BJ is said to be fake, and it doesn’t seem like it’s her since she had black hair in the video and this sex tape was supposedly made when she was on her honeymoon. It could be a red herring, though, and just because that one is fake doesn’t mean there’s not a real sex tape that rivals Pam and Tommy’s video.

If this is true K-Fed is sure to sell that tape soon. He’s writing shit on the walls about Britney, and will relish releasing that crap to the world. We too will relish downloading it and talking smack about it for weeks.

There are new candids of Britney in her hometown in the deep south available at Celebrity Baby Scoop.

There’s this suspicious blog with random stories from a guy who claims to be a gay billionaire dating a closeted Hollywood star. He doesn’t accept comments, and just started the blog in October. There are a total of 14 posts about stuff like losing comped cars from Casinos and buying sheets at Walmart because he doesn’t like the ultra high thread count at the luxury hotels he frequents. He says he bought a Porsche at 2:00 in the morning after this Hollywood hottie dumped him, but that he’s back together with him now and started the blog as therapy for his stressful life of privilege:

Ok, I started this blog when I broke up with this boyfriend.

I thought it would serve as a release. It has been fun to post about random topics.

Here is the deal, the boyfriend is back. And the same problem is back.

I am not going to tell all about him. However, I am going to tell you the problem. I am just going to put it out there. I haven’t really been able to talk to anyone about this.

I can only talk about this here because I am sure that I have complete annoymity.

He is a major Hollywood Actor. He will not come out. I would never force him to.

I would never out him either. However, the constant sneaking around really bites.

I just left from our secret hideout. It was a nice evening. But, the problem remains.

I am in love with this guy! But he will not come out!

For a long time, I convinced myself that it didn’t matter if anyone knew that we were in love. However, that is just crazy. It is just fear. I shouldn’t have to hide my love! It makes me feel like his stardom is more important than our love.

I don’t love this guy because of his fame and celebrity. Just like he doesn’t love me because of my wealth. I think we are attracted to each, drawn to each other, because of who we are deep down. It has always been an instant attraction. (I will write about our first meeting later.)

I think he loves me, but I am not really sure.

Oh, and he doesn’t know that I think it’s a problem…

Thanks for listening!

Does it sound like another LonelyGirl stunt to you? Personally I’m not buying it, it doesn’t sound sincere to me, and I think the other posts were just a build up to this titillating one. Someone’s trying an online experiment for a class or a lark. What do you think? It could be anyone. I guess I’ll keep checking to see if he drops some more clues.

I found this post through Digg, and it had just two Diggs yesterday, so maybe it will become more popular as time goes on. It smells like bullshit to me.

Also, the header image is just filler, and is not the actual guy.

Madonna has upset the people who run the Malawian orphanage where she snatched little half-orphan Davie Banda by claiming that he had an “horrendous” diaper rash and was living in poor conditions. Officials there fear that Madonna’s snide remarks about the care they give their children could screw them out of the small donations they rely on to run the orphanage. They also say that Madonna is lying through her teeth, and that no one told her that the baby was not visited by his father. They also say that despite all the media attention they’re still working with a shoestring budget and that Madonna’s criticisms could really hurt the orphans that were left behind:

One of the orphanage’s founders has written to the BBC, protesting at the pop singer’s comments in an interview with Newsnight, which is to be broadcast in full for the first time this weekend.

The British charity which raises funds for Home of Hope orphanage in Malawi said it feared he remarks would lead to a drop off in donations.

In the letter to Newsnight, the charity’s secretary Rosemary Lowdon wrote: “We have been very disturbed that the Home of Hope appears to have been described as a place where children are not cared for properly.”

“We must stress that no money has come to the Home as a result of this adoption, and the financial resources at the Home are very limited.”

“We are desperately worried that people will cease donating as a result of Madonna’s comments, and that this will make a difference between life and death for some of the most vulnerable children at the Home.”

Mrs Lowdon, who helped set up the orphanage with her husband Martin in 1998 and who raised £20,000 to help run it last year, is in Malawi visiting the institution where David Banda, the 13-month-old baby Madonna has adopted, was cared for.

Mrs Lowdon took a copy of the abbreviated Newsnight interview to show to the Reverend Thomson Chipeta, the 77-year old Presbyterian minister who runs the orphanage.

“He was very shaken, he was very upset,” said Mrs Lowdon, 41.

“He said to me, ‘Why is she saying this?’”

Madonna has claimed David was in an appalling state when she first saw the toddler last month.

The boy, she claimed, was suffering “the most horrendous diaper rash I’ve ever seen.”

The singer, 48, who is adopting David with film director husband Guy Ritchie, also claimed she had been told by the Rev Chipeta that the boy was no longer visited by his father.

Kids get diaper rashes, and it’s often not anyone’s fault. Even the best cared-for babies can get thrush. Madonna is just a bitch.

Meanwhile Madonna called Gwen Stefani to tell her that Davie wouldn’t wear the L.A.M.B. baby clothes that Stefani thoughtfully sent her. Madonna is said to have told Gwen she doesn’t want to promote her clothing line and wouldn’t dress Davie in the clothes. Couldn’t she have just sent a thank you letter? People gave me some ugly clothes for my son and I just wrote thank you letters or took a picture of him in them and sent it. She didn’t have to get into a whole debate about it!

Madonna also supposedly called up Angelina Jolie all upset about the fact that her baby-snatching was such a focus of the media while Angelina got away scott free with Maddox and Zahara.

I don’t know if all that is true, but Madonna is surely a bitch for disparaging the orphanage that so gratefully opened their doors for her and let her take home Davie without going through proper channels. I hope that people help that orphanage out and that it’s not too distressing for them to have to deal with all the criticisms that Madonna heaps on them whenever she opens her mouth. Talk about an ungrateful bitch. Maybe if they all had red strings on their hands and gave the babies Kabbalah water instead of breastmilk Madonna would say what a great place it was.

Madonna had a bruise on her cheek after a supposed accident with a paparrazo. The people at Splash News suggest that Madonna is not telling the truth about the incident. Pictures from People.com and SplashNews.

All that frantic PR work by Tom and Katie seems to have paid off, because Tom has just been named head of United Artists film studio. He inked a deal that will gives him and partner Paul Wagner complete control over production at UA, along with giving him the freedom to star in films put out by other studios if they’ll have him:

The sweet deal gives the pair — whose film productions include the Mission:Impossible movies, War of the Worlds, and The Last Samurai — complete control of the studio’s production slate, expected to be about four films a year, and allows Cruise to appear in films from other studios. Wagner will rule the roost as chief executive of the storied company, owned since 1981 by MGM but founded in 1919 as a haven for artistes by D.W. Griffith and actors Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, and Douglas Fairbanks.

Cruise and Wagner Cruise hit biz-bottom in August when his and Wagner’s 14-year producing deal with Paramount was not renewed by the studio. Sumner Redstone, chairman of Paramount parent company Viacom Inc., publicly blamed Cruise’s bizarre behavior — his unhinged love declarations for Katie Holmes on Oprah and elsewhere, his dogmatic defense of the more contentious aspects of Scientology, in particular the wholesale rejection of psychiatry and medication — for suppressing public enthusiasm for their Mission:Impossible III film, a “disappointment” at the box office, even though it generated over $390 million worldwide.

“As much as we like him personally, we thought it was wrong to renew his deal,” Redstone told the Wall Street Journal. “His recent conduct has not been acceptable to Paramount.”

Putting it even more bluntly, Hollywood legend Lauren Bacall slammed Cruise’s behavior in an ‘05 Time magazine interview. “His whole behavior is so shocking. It’s inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially, but I think it’s kind of a sickness,” she said.

Cruise and Wagner 2 Apparently UA/MGM felt otherwise. “There is a complete alignment of interests in this deal,” MGM chief operating officer Rick Sands told the AP today. “They are equity owners in the company and they share with us in the upside.”

Good for him I guess. I’m going to mention this as an aside instead of running a separate story about it, but I spent a week e-mailing with a guy who claims to be “Big Red,” the male hooker that supposedly had a rather tame gay wrestling romp with Tom in the late 90s. The guy didn’t tell me his story and I kept e-mailing with him back and forth, hoping that he would write something I could publish.

He claimed that the story told by another guy, Barresi that we published here was inaccurate, and that it didn’t go down like it was claimed, but the guy wasted my time and didn’t give any details. Here’s the relevant part of our e-mail exchange. Again, I cannot verify that this is the person he claims to be or that this is anything more than a person who strung me along via e-mail for a week, but here’s what he said:

Segment of one e-mail toward the end of our exchange: I just do not think the story I have to tell is what you are looking for but I will think about it.

Another e-mail: I am actually looking to build Tom Cruise up not break him down

Last one I received: I’m not getting a good vibe from this at the moment - - I think I will wait and I may neveer publish the real story - - afterall, I believe in Karma and Barresi will have to deal with his.

It sounds like whatever happened, it was even less sensational than was claimed, at least according to this person who contacted me and got my hopes up about running this big exclusive. (I even contacted a lawyer and a cult expert about how to proceed, which may be why he got a bad vibe. You can’t be too careful with the c0s.) This guy claims to live in Europe now. The book by Barresi says that he left the states after the news of his supposed romp with Cruise got out, but I can’t be certain what’s true at this point. Tom Cruise is weird and is involved in a harmful freaky cult, but whether he actually had a gay wrestling session is up to question.

Gee, guess that absolves him of all the gay rumors so he’s definitely fit enough to run a studio. Look - he even reproduced and he’s getting married! There are photos of his baby in Vanity Fair and everything.

Here are Tom and Kate at Connor’s soccer game on 11/5. That’s what the photo credit says but it looks like they were taken on two separate days as Tom is wearing a different shirt and got a much-needed haircut in the interim. Katie is wearing the same outfit though so maybe it’s just the angle and Tom changed his shirt. Thanks to KatieHolmes.com for these pictures.