Quick name a song that Soulja Boy has out. Crank That, Superman – that’s it, right? That’s all you know. That’s all I know, but I never listen to the radio. (Kaiser pointed me to this other single, but said she’s never heard it or anything.) A quick glance at Wiki confirms that I’m probably right that he hasn’t had any other big hits. That Crank That song came out in 2007 and he’s had two albums out since but they haven’t done as well as his first album by a long shot. Well Soulja is pretty confident in his money situation despite the fact that his career never really took off after he made that crappy rap song about not cleaning up after he does his business on a girl’s back. He’s bought a $35 million private jet and had it customized to the tune of $20 million. Couldn’t he have just splurged a half million on some stupid bling and called it a day? (He already owns a ton of stupid bling so I’m sure the two things are not mutually exclusive.) That’s insane.

Soulja Boy doesn’t know the meaning of the word recession — because TMZ has learned, the 21-year-old rapper is dropping $55 MILLION on a new private jet.

A member of Soulja’s management team tells us … the kid bought himself a G5 jet as a birthday present to himself this week.

The jet cost $35 mil … but that’s just the beginning. We’re told the birthday boy is dropping an additional $20 million to pimp out his ride with all sorts of cool stuff … like 12 custom Italian leather seats, flat screen TVs, 4 liquor bars, a special travertine tiled floor, and Brazilian hardwood cabinets.

We’re told S.B. is also gutting the in-flight lavatory — and replacing it with a giant, LUXURIOUS bathroom. Oh, he’s also giving the jet a custom paint job … to include his logo.

And if that’s not enough for someone’s 21st — we’re told Soulja’s also spending $300,000 to throw himself a blowout birthday party at a Miami nightclub tonight … and Dwight Howard, Bow Wow, and Sean Kingston are all expected to attend.

[From TMZ]

Someone on TMZ posted a link to this site that claims Soulja Boy’s net worth is estimated at around $5.7 million, which would be awesome if he actually lived within his very considerable means. So he had one hit single four years ago and now he’s borrowing around $50 million to build a custom jet. It’s not like he has any talent to back it up. Ice-T even called Soulja Boy’s Superman song “garbage.”

Maybe Soulja made a little money from his tour this year, but I doubt it was even enough to pay for 1/4th of that jet.

We heard yesterday that Kat Von D pulled a Paris Hilton and walked out of the studio of Good Day L.A. just prior to a scheduled interview promoting the new season of her reality show, L.A. Ink. Reports differ as to why Kat took offense, but it seems to be the fact that Kat’s planned introduction included the news of her breakup from Jesse James. Good Day L.A. claims it got the go-ahead to ask about the breakup during their interview with Kat, but Kat claims she asked them not to open with that breakup and that they ignored her. She didn’t like that and marched off in a huff.

Kat Von D says she had a DAMN good reason for walking off “Good Day L.A.” this morning — telling TMZ, she made one reasonable request … and producers repeatedly BLEW HER OFF.

Kat tells us, she agreed to answer a question about her breakup from Jesse James on one condition — that the anchor didn’t mention the split in his introduction.

But according to Kat, that request was IGNORED — and as we previously reported, anchor Jeff Michael read out an introduction that highlighted Kat and Jesse’s breakup.

Kat says she saw what was on the teleprompter long before Jeff read it — and even pulled a producer aside to have someone change the script … but nothing happened.

According to Kat, she “very politely” informed them … if it wasn’t changed, she wouldn’t be able to go on. But no one changed squat, so Kat beat it.

Later, during the show, the executive producer went on the air — explaining Kat’s only prior request was not to bring up Sandra Bullock or Michelle McGee … a request “Good Day” honored.

Nevertheless, Kat adds, “I have no interest in going back on, but I wish them all the best.”

[From TMZ]

Kat and Good Day L.A. host Jillian Barberie then got into it over Twitter, with Kat calling the show “disrespectful.” You can read those details on People if you’re interested. Entertainment Tonight has video of Good Day L.A. anchors discussing the walk off. I really like what anchor Jillian Barberie said about Kat leaving like that. She said “You live a public life and were promoting your reality show, which includes him. We sympathize that you broke up, but of course we were going to ask about it. That’s the clip that you sent us.”

Kat later posted a long entry on Facebook in which she didn’t apologize for walking off the set, but seemed to say that she was overwhelmed and didn’t handle everything well. She wrote “this isn’t an apology for walking out on a silly morning show interview this morning- and this isn’t an attempt at justifying anything either. I don’t expect people to understand, just like I can’t expect myself to be able to please everyone at all times.” It was a lot of feeling sorry for herself. Again, she’s promoting a reality show based on her life and she needs to be able to answer questions or just say she’s not comfortable with them. Leaving like that only makes her look petty. She should have known what she was getting into with Jesse anyway, but maybe she thought she could “change” him or that he was different. Now she’s so disappointed and can’t stand it that people are focusing on her breakup.

Kat is shown on 7/16/11. Credit: WENN.com

Do you remember how Paris Hilton is pretty much irrelevant now? Yeah. Her reality show, The World According to Paris, bombed out, ratings-wise. Her photos rarely make the blogs and tabloids anymore. No one gives a crap that she dumped her meathead boyfriend, and we only barely care that she’s now dating a pretty successful director, Todd Phillips. But in Paris’s mind, she’s still hot stuff. She’s still the Grand Dame of Useless Famewhore Dumbasses. Paris does not realize that she’s been replaced. She’s mostly been replaced by an assortment of Snookis, OctoMoms and Kardashians, basically anyone with no shame, narcissism and a red carpet. Anyway, when Paris sat down for an interview with Good Morning America, Paris was asked about her irrelevance and she got all pissy and walked out of the interview. This is the question that set her off: “Do you ever worry about your moment having passed?” Here’s the video:

When she came back, Paris said: “I’ve been in this business for 15 years now, so it’s been a very long time. Just like any other business person or someone in the industry, it’s always important to reinvent yourself and come up with new projects.” LMAO at “I’ve been in this business for 15 years” - WTF? What business?!? Fifteen years ago she was what? 16 years old, and dancing on tables, drunk off her ass. That’s how she first got noticed too.

By the way, I think it’s official now that Paris Hilton and the Kardashians just flat-out hate each other now. Last year, there were several stories about Kim being a bitch to Paris and Paris bad-mouthing Kim. Now Paris is too stupid to even pretend that she’s not filled with rage and jealousy over the Kardashians’ success.

Photos courtesy of Fame & WENN.

When I first heard this story I saw the picture of this chick, squinted and realized she looked vaguely familiar but that I had no idea who she was. Then I read that she was in Planet of the Apes, which I’ve seen, so that must explain it. Warren is 32 and has been in some movies recently that I’ve never heard of. She just got in a heap of trouble with the law in a DUI incident that is so ridiculous it sounds like a scripted scene out of a sitcom – or a random day in Lindsay Lohan’s life. Warren drunkenly rammed her Prius into three parked cars and drove away. When the cops tried to nab her she resisted arrest and kicked an officer. Then when she was being booked at the station she somehow took her handcuffs off (I guess they were the plastic kind) and ran out the back door. They got her again and she’s in jail at this point, probably trying to sleep it off.

Actress/model Estella Warren is in jail right now, after allegedly slamming into three cars, kicking a cop and escaping from the police station … law enforcement sources tell TMZ.

The crazy incident occurred Monday night just before midnight. Cops say Warren was driving in L.A. when she struck 3 parked cars in her Toyota Prius. Warren drove away but cops spotted her and placed her under arrest for driving under the influence, though not before she resisted and kicked an officer.

Warren was taken to the police station in handcuffs, and during the booking process she managed to get out of her handcuffs and then run out the back door! Warren was quickly recaptured.

Warren is being booked for felony escape. We’re told she will also be booked for assault, hit and run and DUI.

As one law enforcement source told TMZ … “She was really hammered.”

[From TMZ]

This is one way to earn headlines again about ten years after you were supposed to be the next big thing. At least she didn’t hurt anyone. What’s next for her – Celebrity Rehab? She doesn’t have the name recognition to get her own reality show, although it doesn’t take much lately. We know she’s not above pulling stunts for ratings.

Warren is shown on 5/19, 5/1 and 2/22/11. Her nose job is awful. Credit: WENN.com

Have you heard the story about the stage mom who told the press that she gives her eight year old daughter Botox and waxes her daughter’s legs and pubic area monthly? The girl doesn’t have any hair down there or wrinkles, but this insane mom thinks that she’s somehow giving her daughter a competitive edge in the tween beauty pageant arena. She thought it would be a good idea to 1. do that to her poor daughter and 2. go public with the fact that she’s an abusive witch.

To ABC, this mom said she waxed her daughters’ “upper leg area,” and tried to act like it was a onetime thing, but to The Sun she admitted she does “monthly virgin waxes,” saying, “She also has her virgin wax monthly, which gets rid of her fluffy leg hair and makes sure she wont develop pubic hair in the future.” Having heard this cretin of a woman speak (video above) I doubt she’s capable of sounding that articulate. The good news is that the mom is now under investigation by Child Services (a division of Human Services). I doubt they’ll take her kid away from her but maybe they’ll force her to take some parenting classes, not that anything could help a person this stubborn and stupid. (Update: The child has been removed from the home, see below.)

The California mom who admitted to injecting her 8-year-old daughter with botox for a kiddie beauty pageant is now being investigated by the San Francisco Human Services Agency.

“It’s pretty unusual for a mom to be injecting an 8-year-old with botox and certainly is grounds for an investigation,” said Trent Rohrer of the San Francisco Human Services Agency.

Mom Kerry and daughter Britney, appeared on “Good Morning America” Thursday defending the 8-year-old pageant contestant’s use of botox.

“I just, like, don’t, like, think wrinkles are nice on little girls,” Britney said.

Britney admitted it hurt to get the injections on her face, but said she was used to the pain.

The admission sparked an uproar online, in the medical community and by child advocates.

Kerry told ABC News that she does not believe she’s endangering Britney’s health and that her daughter asked for the injections. Kerry, who asked that her family’s last name not be used, is a part-time aesthetician and no stranger to Botox herself, having done the treatment on her own face.

“Like I said, I do the botox myself. It’s safe,” Kerry said.

“She had watched me do it before,” said Kerry. “So when we first did it, she was fine with it.”

Kerry wouldn’t reveal who provides her with the Botox. Kerry typically administers the Botox to Britney through a total of five shots, in three different locations on her face.

[ABC News via Hollybaby]

As Good Morning America mentions, doctors sometimes give kids Botox as a legitimate treatment for neurological disorders or crossed eyes, but of course this is outrageous and abusive. At least it sheds light onto a really despicable abusive practice that some of these stage moms may be inflicting on their daughters. Hopefully this is an isolated case though.

Update: The child was removed from the home over the weekend.

Look at this sweet little girl. Who could do this to their kid?

Last week, I read an interesting report from gossip columnist Mike Walker at the National Enquirer. Walker claimed – or his sources claimed – that Jennifer Lopez is making $12 million this year just for her flat American Idol salary, but that Idol producers think J.Lo is worth every penny. They claimed that when it comes time to renegotiate her contract, Jennifer could easily be making $20 million a year (or more) if she wants to continue being an Idol judge. Walker’s insider source says, “The producers will do whatever it takes to keep her happy… her new contract’s their major priority.” They also claim Steven Tyler is only making about half of what Jennifer makes – but producers are convinced that Jennifer is the one driving viewership at this point.

So Jennifer find herself in-demand once again, and back on top, sort of. She’s relevant again, she’s People Magazine’s “Most Beautiful” and she’s restarting her own music career. How could she possibly go wrong? Oh, right. She might think she’s too good to do Idol now:

‘American Idol’ judge Jennifer Lopez is reportedly shopping around her own reality singing competition show, further fueling the rumors of her departure from the ‘Idol’ judges panel after just one season on the hit show.

Tentatively titled ‘Que Viva,’ Jennifer’s show would feature herself and hubby Marc Anthony talent scouting Latin American countries for future stars. The Puerto Rican couple are teaming up with ‘Idol’ creator and executive producer Simon Fuller to make the project happen. Apparently the show has been in the works for some time now.

Jenny has come a long way from “the block” — she recently snagged the coveted No.1 spot on People’s ‘World’s Most Beautiful’ list and her forthcoming studio album ‘Love?’ is generating a lot of buzz ahead of its April 29 release, following the success of her Pitbull-assisted club hit ‘On the Floor’. J.Lo’s seventh studio album will boast Lady Gaga-penned tracks and a collaboration with rapper Lil’ Wayne.

[From PopEater]

It could be that this is just some fancy way to renegotiate her contract, and this is all some kind of ploy for more money. It could also be that Jennifer intends to do both Idol and this other show. Or it could be that Jennifer is so self-absorbed that she thinks it’s all about HER and that now that she’s relevant again, she can walk away and do her own thing and everybody will follow her.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

You know how Paris Hilton is a genius? True story. She single-handedly changed the nature of celebrity. Is that giving her too much credit? Probably. Before Paris, there were lots of people who were “famous for being famous” and there were heiresses and reality stars and amateur porn stars and there were famewhores. Paris was all of that, and then some, all put in some weird, gross, coked-out stripper package, and she really did change it all. For the worst. But just as Paris changed the game, her predecessors came along and improved on the game. Look at Nicole Richie today – a mother of two, a wife of a rock star, head of a successful clothing and jewelry line, all of it completely legit. Then there are the Kardashians. Kim K. and Paris used to hang out. A lot. Circa 2005-06, they partied a lot together. Then Kim “stole” Paris’s famewhore game and improved upon it. And now Kim is much more “A-list” and legit than Paris.

As you can imagine, there has been drama between the two women. Last year, there were even some reports of Kim and Paris acting really bitchy towards each other at various events, basically fighting over who is the biggest (fame)whore. Paris seems to have a significant amount of resentment towards Kim, and being a petty, jealous moron, Paris’s jealousy occasionally comes bubbling up in interviews:

Paris Hilton says she has met all of her professional goals. The woman who perfected the art of being famous for being famous says she doesn’t fear being overshadowed by Kim Kardashian or any other reality show rival.

Hilton said in an interview Tuesday with The Associated Press that there are many people who try to imitate what she does. But she said, in her words, “I am the original so there is nothing like me.”

She added that she has “done everything that I wanted to do and I feel very blessed that I have been very successful on every area. So it’s very exciting. There is nothing else to do”.

Hilton was in Mexico to promote her new shoe line.

[From The Associated Press]

Wow, there really is nothing else to do, Paris. You’ve “done” it “all”. You should be so proud. “I am the original so there is nothing like me.” It’s like she’s challenging us. Like, scientists are working ‘round the clock to map her genomes because she’s so special. I wish she was a virus, so that we could develop some kind of vaccine.

God, I love photos of Kim’s original face.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Would you like to know how friggin’ dumb Chris Brown is? Robin Roberts and GMA producers got permission from Chris and his people BEFORE the interview to ask questions about Rihanna and how Chris beat the hell out of her. And Chris still punked out like a little bitch, like he hadn’t already given his permission to be asked those questions. Honestly, though, who should we be angrier with: Chris, for being such a dumb, violent, tantrumy child, or GMA for being so obsequious to a violent misogynist and chair/window-hater? I’m more pissed off at Chris, but I’m not happy with GMA:

Robin Roberts asked Chris Brown if she could question him about the Rihanna incident BEFORE the live interview began on “GMA” this morning … this according to sources connected to the production.

Sources tell TMZ … Roberts insists both she and other “GMA” staff members spoke with Chris before the interview and asked if it would be OK to fire off “a few questions” about the Rihanna incident … and Chris approved.

As TMZ first reported, Brown flipped out after the interview — and apparently smashed a window in his dressing room.

Robin is telling people at the show she did NOT try to set him up … and insists, “I’m pulling for the guy.”

As for the broken window, sources say no one in the studio saw Chris throw the chair into the window … but he was definitely in the dressing room when the window was smashed.

UPDATE 9:19 AM: After Roberts left the “GMA” building, she posted on her Twitter page, “Sure has been an interesting AM @GMA. Still sorting thru everything myself. Just my 2nd day on twitter, wonder what tomorrow will bring?”

[From TMZ]

I just feel like… everyone should just accept that Chris is over. His label should know that he’s over, the media outlets that give him air time and print space should accept that he’s over. I didn’t even want to give him any more space after the Rihanna junk, but he still gives interviews, he still gets major television appearances, and he still has fans – he has more than 2 million Twitter followers, for the love of God, and they follow his every oblivious tweet. When is this dumbass kid going to be over?

UPDATE: Radar reports that because GMA producers just called their in-house security and not the police, Chris Brown’s probation likely won’t be affected. Also: no one saw him break the window. But we all know the little psycho did it.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Chris Brown is a moron. There’s really no question about that, honestly. So, here’s the question: is it better to ignore him whenever he says something stupid and ignorant, or should we talk about it, pointing and laughing at the ridiculous idiot, just so he’ll learn not to speak, ever? I don’t know. Since he beat the hell out of Rihanna, Chris has talked about the events of that night several times in various interviews. I don’t care enough to actually look up his previous comments, I just remember that they made me roll my eyes. So Chris has a new interview, with Page Six Magazine, and Us Weekly has this preview. This boy is SO dumb.

Chris Brown is aware of his own infamy. The singer, 21, is frank with Page Six Magazine (in Thursday’s New York Post) about the ongoing fallout from his February 2009 assault of then-girlfriend Rihanna.

“People are always gonna talk. But I’m in a positive place. I consider myself a grown-ass man,” says the star, whose new album F.A.M.E. stands for “Forgiving All My Enemies.”

Speaking of forgiveness, Brown says he’s done apologizing for the brutal Rihanna attack.

“At the end of the day,” muses the “Forever” singer, “if I walk around apologizing to everybody, I’m gonna look like a damn fool.”

A judge recently downgraded a restraining order barring contact between Brown and Rihanna, 23. (Brown is serving five years probation for the crime, and completed court-mandated domestic violence classes plus 180 hours of hard labor last year.)

In the wake of that shocking scandal, Brown says “a handful of people stuck by me,” including fellow musicians Pitbull and producer Pharrell Williams.

Still, he complains that many folks “turn[ed] away. They don’t want to get involved with it because they don’t want their name attached to anything negative. Unknowingly, they kind of show their true colors when they do that.”

He doesn’t exactly fault those former friends for walking away after the assault — which he calls a “mishap.”

“You can’t blame people for how they want to be portrayed or if they don’t want to be associated with somebody who had a particular mishap.”

“The last two years, everybody dissed me,” Brown says. “But my fans were so dedicated. The way I look at it is, you can’t walk around mad, because then you just prove everybody right that you’re an angry person.”

Brown’s full interview in Page Six Magazine appears online and in print on Thursday.

[From Us Weekly]

Oh, so much stupidity. Shall we take it point by point?

* “If I walk around apologizing to everybody, I’m gonna look like a damn fool.” Aw, he’s concerned with looking foolish. And he thinks “apologizing” will make him look dumber. Dumbass.

* “They don’t want to get involved with it because they don’t want their name attached to anything negative. Unknowingly, they kind of show their true colors when they do that.” What “true colors”? That many people don’t want to associate themselves with a stupid, abusive prick? Why is Chris’s default position set to “everybody should be on my side, they should stand by me, forever, no matter what”? Chris, the world is not full of people who wanna be yo’ mama.

* “You can’t blame people for how they want to be portrayed or if they don’t want to be associated with somebody who had a particular mishap.” - A “mishap” is accidentally dropping a cake. Beating the hell out your girlfriend and nearly choking her to death is not a “mishap”. Semantics, I know.

… Anyway, this was supposed to be amusing, but it ended up depressing me. Hopefully some of those Team Breezy jackasses will come in and lighten the mood.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

You remember that Lindsay Lohan is headed to court today, correct? This is the deadline for her “plea or GTFO” (not a legal term, but it should be). Just keep that in mind. I’m not expecting crack tears, and I’m not expecting a crack plea either. I honestly think Lohan’s crack legal team is going to push for an honest-to-God trial. No joke. Anyway, you know how Entertainment Tonight and the Associated Press were able to get their hands on the security tape through some sort of financial arrangement with the jewelry store? And you know how Team Crackhead is all in a tizzy because they say the tape VINDICATES the crackhead because it shows her absentmindedly stealing a necklace, because if you steal something when your thoughts are somewhere else, it doesn’t count? Well, there’s a new layer to the crack denial/hilarity. Lindsay Lohan is SUING the jewelry store!!! Because they sold their surveillance tape of her crack heist!!! I can only imagine that this was cooked up by Mother Crackhead after a three day tequila-and-blow bender:

Lindsay Lohan is preparing to sue Kamofie & Company jewelry store — claiming they had no right to cash in from the sale of the infamous surveillance tape … because Lindsay never gave them the right to use her image for profit … TMZ has learned.

Sources connected to the surveillance video tell TMZ … Kamofie sold the rights to distribute the tape to the Associated Press for at least $40k. The AP has since struck a deal with “Entertainment Tonight” in which the show got exclusive rights to air the tape for one week.

We’re told Lohan met with her lawyers today … no word on when she plans to file the lawsuit.

UPDATE: A rep for Kamofie tells us, “We regret to hear there is trepidation by Miss Lohan in connection with the video. ”

The statement continues, “We hope that everyone understands that this is beyond our control, the flood of the requests to see this video were simply too overwhelming. It was truly necessary to put it out.”

[From TMZ]

I just don’t see how Lindsay has any case, other than a case of the crackhead crazies. The surveillance tape is the rightful property of the jewelry store, and they are taping people who come into their store willingly. And besides that, Lindsay STOLE from them, and if she’s looking for monetary compensation for the sale of her crack thievery, couldn’t that be in violation of whatever Son of Sam laws are in place? Does California have Son of Sam laws? Oh, here’s another question: if this tape vindicates Lindsay, wouldn’t she want everyone to see it? What does it mean if she doesn’t want people to see it?

Photos courtesy of Fame.