Everyone was shocked to see rapper Akon dry-humping a hapless 14 year-old girl (some reports list her age as 15, not that it’s any more excusable) at a concert in Trinidad in mid April. The video quickly hit the net, and Akon is shown aggressively simulating sex with the girl on stage, who was let into the concert underage and was led to believe she won a dance contest for a free trip to Africa. It turns out the prize was public humiliation.

The girl is the daughter of a minister, and she says she’s sorry that she went to the concert and that she was hurt by the rapper:

I got carried away, I started to dance as well, but I never thought it was going to be like that,” Danah Alleyne told the Trinidad Express. “I was shocked. My head was hitting the floor.

Akon’s corporate sponsors Verizon, who are sponsoring the tour he opens with Gwen Stefani, have severed all ties with the show and refuse to be associated with such controversy.

They have also pulled ads for Akon off their mobile phone service.

Representatives for Verizon would not explain why they stopped sponsoring the Stefani/Akon tour, but it’s not that much of a stretch to assume it’s because of Akon’s simulated rape.

Akon is a Senagalese American, and his father back in the west African nation of Senegal has four wives, all of which he considered his mother. He said in an interview with a radio station that he also has multiple women in his Atlanta household, but he took that back in an interview with Vibe magazine, and said that he just has several girlfriends and they don’t all live with him. Akon has spent a total of five years in jail on various convictions, and was once a drug dealer.

According to Wikipedia, Akon owns a diamond mine in South Africa. When asked about conflict diamonds, he said “I don’t even believe in conflict diamonds. That’s just a movie. Think about it. Ain’t nobody thought about nothing about no conflict diamonds until the movie came out.”

Maybe if this happened in the states this guy would be slapped with a huge civil and criminal lawsuit and would have to pay millions to that girl’s family as well as attend sexual harrassment education classes and therapy. As it is, he’s living large and has so far just lost a sponsorship for such a despicable act. Hopefully his entire career will be affected.

Here’s the video of Akon violating that girl:

Bobby Brown and Whitney Houston announced that they were separated last September and both have since moved on. A drug-free poised for comeback Whitney has been stepping out with celebrity sex tape star and significantly younger R & B singer Ray J while Bobby has been living with music executive Alicia Etheridge.

Etheridge is an old friend of Whitney’s, but the star cut ties with her when she moved in with her ex. People are saying that Bobby is ready to propose to Etheridge and that it won’t be long the troubled singer remarries:

Bobby is ready to propose to his live-in girlfriend, Alicia Etheridge. “He’s telling everyone that Alicia is his new ‘tender Roni’ and that she knows a good man when she sees one,” says a pal of Bobby’s. Alicia was a friend of Whitney’s for 12 years, but the pop star ended their friendship when Bobby moved in with her following their separation last September.

“Whitney believes that Alicia must have always wanted her man, and now she doesn’t trust her,” the insider explains. Bobby, 38, has been shopping for expensive rings because he plans to propose over Memorial Day weekend.

[From In Touch print edition, May 7, 2007 via Sammie's Effluvia]

The article claims that Bobby wants to be married by the end of the year, according to an insider. Bobby’s people have denied that there’s an engagement in the works.

Bobby Brown and Whitney Houston are determined to have an amicable divorce. They say that they’re trying to remain friends for the sake of their daughter:

“We’re trying to work everything out so the divorce goes right - not like a Hollywood divorce. We’re friends.

“I’m really looking forward to her doing her thing, and me doing my thing. And that’s raising a child. It’s beautiful. Our child is beautiful.

“We just appreciate each other now that we know the direction that we both want to go.”

Their daughter, Bobbi Kristina, turned 14 in March.

America Ferrera was gorgeous at the world premiere of her new film, Hacia La Oscuridad or “Towards Darkness” at the Tribeca Film Festival last night. She wore a simple black empire waist tank dress accented by gold hoop earrings and bangle bracelets. I love her loose, natural looking hair. It’s not overdone or too messy and her entire look is carefree and elegant.

America wanted to get out of revising her part in a sequel to the chic flick Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants. She’s now in a hit TV series and would like to move on with her career, but producers are trying to force Ferrera along with co-stars Amber Tamblyn and Alexis Bledel, to adhere to their contract requirements and make the sequel:

Ferrera is reported to be obligated by contract to wear the “Pants” role once again, and Access Hollywood reports “she’s apparently not very happy about it.”

Forced negotiations are on the table for Ferrera to reprise her role in “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2,” according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The film’s producers are exercising a clause in the contract to bring Ferrera back for a sequel, along with co-stars Alexis Bledel, Amber Tamblyn and Blake Lively.

Ferrera’s new film Hacia La Oscuridad is a serious one about a kidnapped hostage and his family’s fight to save him. It’s a world away from Sisterhood. The 2005 film was well received, though, and if the follow-up is written and executed well it should only boost Ferrera’s career.

Thanks to Photorazzi for these pics.

WENN photo has pictures of Maaggie Gyllenhaal breastfeeding at a park on NY’s West Side Highway. I breastfed my son and I think it’s awesome that Maggie does too, but I also think it’s wrong of WENN to publish the photos. Maggie is seen hanging out with two friends with their babies, and stopping to have something to eat on the grass while breastfeeding seven month old Ramona. She doesn’t cover up or anything, not that she should have to. I know my son would always pull the blanket off when he got to be that age, so after a while I gave up.

I’m not sure if this link will last as it seems to be unique to my session, but here’s the link to the photos. You can also go to photo.wenn.com and a thumbnail link is currently on the front page. I can’t publish them here as I haven’t signed up with WENN for photo licensing, although I’m considering it.

Maggie Gyllenhaal and her fiance and father of her child, Peter Sarsgaard, are shown in the header image at a Golden Globes after party.

Update: Celebrity Baby Blog has the picture.

Everyone is saying Paris will get out of jail within a day or two, as Michelle Rodriguez was released from the same facility after just over 4 hours of a longer 60 day sentence due to prison overcrowding. Unfortunately for Paris, overcrowding is no longer a problem at the LA county women’s prison, and she may serve much more time than expected:

Until late last year, overcrowded jail facilities in the county had led Sheriff Lee Baca to release most inmates early, including immediately processing out anyone sentenced to less than 90 days in jail. That is no longer true, and Baca’s spokesman, Steve Whitmore, said Friday that his understanding of the judge’s order meant Hilton was likely to serve the full 45 days.

[From LATimes.com, registration required. Thanks to commentor Kathy for the tip]

Other details include Paris making the sign of the cross before the sentencing was announced, and claiming that she didn’t understand her probation requirements, using the excuse “I just sign what people tell me to sign…. I’m a very busy person.”

Surely she understood that she wasn’t able to drive after she was pulled over and cited for driving with a suspended license the first time. Add another bust for driving with a suspended license and it just sounds like she’s lying.

Paris won’t be busy for long. Starting June 5th she’ll have plenty of time to read and think, and just one hour a day to watch TV, talk on the phone, and shower.

While some news sources had Paris 10 minutes late for her court hearing, which is what we reported here, others say she was actually 18 minutes late. I wonder if that cost her extra time in jail.

Pictures from LATimes.com.

It’s like all my tabloid Christmases came at once this weekend. First the Lord heard my prayer on Friday and sent Paris to jail. I must have been an extra good girl as he’s thrown me a bonus by having Lindsay Lohan caught on tape getting higher than a kite.

A “friend” of Lindsay’s has gone to the press and confirmed to them what we all knew: that she is a drug addicted, sex addicted, attention whore. It’s still good to have the photographic evidence, though.

The News of the World reports:

Lindsay’s friend says: “Lindsay does not care who sees her do coke and where she does it.” And she has not managed to stay off the booze either.

“She carries round a water bottle to try to fool everyone into thinking she is clean but she tips the water out and refills it with vodka and soda.”

But she was caught out by a secret film made as she snorted the Class A drug at the exclusive Teddy’s nightclub in Hollywood’s Roosevelt Hotel.

The video shows her arriving at 11pm and skulking round the toilets before creeping inside a cubicle.

Wedged inside the loo with two friends, Lohan pulls a small bag of white powder from her jeans pocket.

She dips her finger in and shoves the substance up one friend’s nose before snorting some up her own.

And this was filmed just 20 days after she proudly emerged from therapy.

Lindsay, who starred with Jamie Lee Curtis in Freaky Friday, booked herself into the £20,000-a-month Wonderland treatment centre in Los Angeles earlier this year saying she wanted to get off booze.

She checked out after a month and was back doing drugs at a Hollywood party within a week.

Her friend said: “That night I saw her do more than 20 big lines of cocaine. She was still up doing drugs at 11am even though she had started about 8pm the night before.

“She wasn’t even trying to hide it and was blatantly doing it off table tops, keys, books and in the wardrobe, where she was hunched over with her legs crossed almost bent in half doing it off some magazine on the floor.

“When she is on coke, which is most of the time, all the attention has to be on her.

“I have lost count of the number of times I have watched as she stripped naked in front of everyone.

“Then she loves to check herself out in the mirror as she parades around with her boobs hanging out.

“One night we had gone back to her place and, as always, as soon as she walked through the door she stripped down to her thong, bent down and snorted cocaine off her coffee table and then off her toilet seat.”

But Lindsay is not only addicted to booze and drugs, she is also hooked on sex with some of Hollywood’s hottest men, says our insider.

“She has told me that she has slept with James Blunt, Jude Law, Calum Best, Joaquin Phoenix, Benicio Del Toro, Jared Leto and James Franco,” admitted the friend.

“She loves Brits and has told me she has slept with the singer James Blunt a few times over the past month.

“The last time was on April 15 after another house party. I think they went back to a hotel together afterwards. She is very protective over him and when she heard I had met him she sent me a text saying, ‘Stay away from him Bitch, he is mine.’

“Lindsay told me she has messed around with Leonardo DiCaprio a while ago too but claimed that she didn’t sleep with him.

“She also flew to New York about two months ago to go to bed with Jude Law.

Last November she slept with Calum Best. She didn’t tell me if he was any good but she is usually too wasted to know what is going on anyway.”

Lindsay was living it up with old pal Paris Hilton at the Coachella music festival in Palm Springs last week and almost falling out of her dingy grey bra top.

She said: “Going to rehab was all for publicity. She wanted people to see her seeking help but it hasn’t got her off the drugs at all.

“In an average night Lindsay will do two and half grams of coke on her own.

“She doesn’t buy it—she is given it by friends and acquaintances, and it turns her into an angry monster. I have watched many a time Lindsay treating her staff like cr*p.”

Before I go on, I just wanted to ask: James Freaking Blunt? What kind of mojo is that man carrying? And what kind of girl would want to sleep with Paris Hilton’s sloppy seconds?

Back to the subject at hand: Reading this article reminds me of that bit in the movie Cruel Intentions, where Sarah Michelle Gellar’s character Katherine gets caught out after they read Sebastian’s diary and make her empty her shallow crucifix to find her secret stash of coke. On one hand, I want to shout “Ha-Ha!” like Nelson Muntz, and on the other I feel sorry for her because this means her life as she knows it is officially OVER.

Had Lindsay actually shown genuine contrition (like Paris should have done), she might be spared the embarassment of being ousted out of the Hollywood A-list on her ear. As she only went to rehab because she was forced and then continued showing no remorse for her actions, she is going to find it incredibly hard to get anyone to take her seriously now.

Recent exes Justin Timberlake and Cameron Diaz reportedly did not make eye contact when they both arrived minutes apart at the premiere of their new animated movie, Shrek The Third in L.A. They were just a few feet away while talking to press on the red carpet but refused to look at each other.

A little later during the cast photo they were seen smiling for the camera and giving each other a hello hug and kiss, though. Justin has defended Cameron to the press, saying in an interview with GQ magazine, “It’s hard for me to talk about because we’re talking about a person that I love and respect… If I hear anyone say anything bad about Cameron then I’ll have something to say to them.”

Given his public stance post-breakup, it’s not surprising that these two were friendly to each other. While Cameron has been linked to a number of hot guys since things ended with Justin, she doesn’t seem to have settled down yet. Justin’s relationship with buff Jessica Biel is said to be getting serious, and reports have them happy together with Justin watching Biel’s puppy while she was away.

Stars of the new film were questioned about Paris Hilton’s high-profile jail sentence, with most everyone demurring except for Larry King and Cheri Oteri, the voice of Sleeping Beauty in the film:

Many reporters attempted, and failed, to get reactions to Friday’s sentencing of celebutante Paris Hilton to 45 days in jail for violating her probation on an alcohol-related reckless-driving charge.

“I think it’s sad,” CNN interviewer Larry King told AP Television. “But there’s no excuse for drunk driving. None. You can’t give me one good reason to drunk drive. Inexcusable,” King continued.

“Saturday Night Live” alum Cheri Oteri, the voice of Sleeping Beauty in “Shrek,” managed to tie some of the film’s fairy tale themes to Hilton and her troubles. “You can be a princess in the positive sense of the word,” she said. “Just don’t keep going out to clubs all night. Stay home once in a while. Learn to cook. Read some books. Take a class.”

[AP Article from CantonRep.com]

There’s concern over Shrek competing with the third installment of Spider Man, which kicked ass at the box office this weekend, bringing in $148 million in the US and $375 million worldwide. The third Pirates movie is also coming out soon, on May 25th.

A producer dismissed concerns that so many blockbusters out at once would hurt Shrek’s revenue, saying “It means people are dying to get to the movies.”

At Sunday’s Shrek premiere Cameron Diaz sported a lighter hair color that seemed more suited to her coloring. She looked cute in an pink empire waist dress with a pleated front. The pockets on her dress were a little goofy, though, especially when she stuck her hands in them.

Timberlake looked decidely dorky and ready for the golf course in a blue cardigan with just the top button closed, a tan wide-collared shirt and a plaid tie with tan khakis.

Also shown are Melanie Griffith and Antonia Banderas clinging to each other, Ashley Tisdale, Mary J. Blige, Teri Hatcher, Mike Myers, Rupert Everett, and Eddie Murphy.

Thanks to Photorazzi for these pics. US Weekly has a picture of Justin and Cameron’s hello kiss.

Lapdog spindoctor Elliott Mintz has broken up with Paris Hilton, with Elliott taking personal responsibility for not drumming it into Paris’ vapid head that she’s not allowed to drive. The way I read into this was that he’s pissed off that that Paris blamed him for not telling her she’s not supposed to drive, and is leaving her because of it. It sounds like he told her in a carefully worded e-mail that he could no longer represent her. He gives this kind of vague statement that he’s sorry for the misunderstanding, but if he’s severing ties with her, it’s probably because he clearly told her that she can’t drive and refuses to let her lie and try to blame him for her mistake:

According to Mintz’s message, “The day after the hearing, I sent Paris an e-mail expressing my sadness over the ruling of the judge and the irrational sentence he imposed.”

At her hearing Friday, Hilton told Superior Court Judge Michael Sauer that Mintz had repeatedly informed her that her license had been suspended for only 30 days and that she could still drive for work-related matters.

“In that e-mail [to Paris],” Mintz said in his message to PEOPLE, “I also offered my sincerest apology for any misunderstanding she received from me regarding the terms of her probation. To the extent that I have miscommunicated information I received from her attorneys … I am deeply and profoundly sorry.”

He added, “I told her that I assume personal responsibility for my part in this matter.”

The message continues: “I believe when Paris stated in court that she believed it was o.k. for her to drive under certain circumstances she was being absolutely truthful.

“Due to this misunderstanding, I am no longer representing Paris.”

[From People]

Everyone is talking about the hardships Paris will have to endure in the clink. The NY Daily News reports that Paris is lucky to be given a single cell and separation from the rest of the prison, because there’s some mean women in there who prey on girls like Paris. They only get two pairs of underwear that have to last the whole week so most inmates wash them in the showers, and their bedding is minimal with a “scratchy” wool blanket. The food is described as “disgusting”:

A woman who gave her name only as Melanie and whose mother is in the jail on a narcotics charge said Hilton better thank her lucky stars for the extra security.

She said the general population showers together and that a large group of “very masculine lesbians” prey on them.

“This is bad,” she said. “She’s not going to make it.”

Hilton will have to say “goodbye” to dye jobs and cosmetics and “hello” to five-minute showers once a day.

Her friends and family will only be able to talk to her through glass and her phone calls will be made on the jail’s closely monitored pay phones…

In the big house, Paris will have to make two pairs of socks, one bra, two pairs of panties and two blue jumpsuits last for a week.

“You have to take your underwear and wash them out in the shower,” said Chavis, whose sister has been in the jail for the past month on a stolen car charge. “The only thing you’re allowed for makeup is a lipliner…”

She’ll get a stainless steel cot topped by a thin mattress, one thin sheet and one scratchy wool blanket.

“The bedding is very minimal,” said Debbie Day, whose 25-year-old daughter is locked up on a counterfeit bill charge. “And my daughter says the food is disgusting.”

Paris would start her days in jail with a hard-boiled egg, a bowl of cold cereal and a small carton of milk.

And for lunch?

“They get baloney and bread with either mustard or mayonnaise, sometimes an apple and some watered down juice,” said Chavis. “For dinner, they do get a hot meal.”

Madam Heidi Fleiss has some advice to help Paris cope with prison. She tells her that lesbianism is rampant in jail and that she might end up liking it. Fleiss says she had two different girlfriends during the 21 months she served for tax evasion.

Header picture of Nicky, Elliott Mintz and Paris from NYTimes. Thanks to Gallery of the Absurd for the art of Paris Hilton as a jailbird below.

Bundchen might not be coming back as a Victoria’s Secret angel next year, but that doesn’t mean you won’t see the statuesque model in lingerie again soon. She’s reportedly in talks to start her own line of underthings with retailer H&M:

GISELE Bundchen is counting down the seconds until her contract with Victoria’s Secret runs out so she can cash in on her new deal with H&M. Page Six sources tell us the bronzed beauty - who is always on the arm of boyfriend Tom Brady - is “negotiating a lingerie line” with the label. “Gisele has been in talks with H&M for a long time, but for legal issues she has to wait for her Victoria’s Secret contract to end to start the project.” Reps for Bundchen did not comment.

That could explain why Bundchen was unable to reach a contract agreement with Victoria’s Secret - she may have wanted out anyway. Among the reasons blamed for a breakdown in talks with the lingerie giant include the rumor that Bundchen have refused to walk the runway with her ex Leonardo DiCaprio’s new girlfriend, Bar Refeali, along with the fact that she gained a smidgeon of weight after quitting smoking. The most likely reason of all was an increase to her $5 million paycheck.

Bundchen and her new beau, Tom Brady, are doing well. Brady recently bought the Brazilian supermodel a $3,000 Cartier love bracelet. And Gisele is reportedly selling her LA home to move to NY to be closer to Tom. [From In Touch print edition, May 7, 2007 via Sammie's Effluvia]

The National Enquirer claims in a new cover story that Britney Spears was sexually attacked by someone who knew her in mid February, which prompted her to shave her head and spiral downwards. She is off her meds, talking in strange voices, and refuses to wear clothes in the house, they say.

Their mention of Britney’s attack is vague, and could be entirely based on a rumor that originated on popular aggregate celebrity news site Oh No They Didn’t.

Here’s how The Enquirer explains the incident:

Despite months of hard partying and substance abuse that ultimately landed her in rehab, The Enquirer has learned that Britney’s downward decline accelerated in mid-February when she was attacked in Miami by someone she knew who wanted to have sex with her.

Although her rep denies this incident took place, sources say she hasn’t been the same since.

Just three days after the assault, Britney… [shaved] her head.

[From National Enqurier print edition, May 14, 2007]

We reported this rape rumor back in mid February. Supposedly Britney went into Cedars Sinai Medical Center, which is in LA, not Miami, after she shaved her head, and was there for unknown reasons. (Not a toothache.) Britney was in Miami alone with her two children in mid February, and she did leave earlier than planned. She originally planned to spend a full week at the Four Seasons resort there with her kids, but left after just a few days. As we reported at the time, a source told Us Weekly that “something happened” that made her want to hightail it out of there.

It could be that The Enquirer received confirmation of this attack, or that they’re connecting the dots based on conjecture and already-known facts about Britney.

The rest of the story focuses on the leaked flower boob pictures, and the weird video rant Britney gave to X17 in which she sarchastically said the world is so nice and talked about how her manager totally knew what he was doing by sending her go to rehab. She’s off her medication, they say, and is having mood swings and blaming everyone else for her breakdown.

We already knew this about Britney, but the part I found interesting is the fact that she plans to make sure her father, who spoke out in support of her ex-manager, Larry Rudolph, is not going to see a dime of her future earnings.

Her ex, K-Fed, is also said to think she’s got a split personality and not to trust her:

She’s currently in the process of trying to negotiate an end to her contract with Rudolph - which she only recently signed. And sources say that Britney will also cut off some of her family members financially, including her father Jamie, who has recently gone public with criticism of her conduct…

“Kevin feels like he’s been watching someone with a split personality,” said the source.

“Kevin said he feels like he is talking to different people when he speaks to her.

“One minute Britney is fine, and the next she is blowing up at him and the rest of the world. She’ll tell Kevin she is moving out of L.A. and quitting the business, and then in the next sentence say she is going on tour soon, so he better get his act together so he will be able to keep the kids full time.”

[From National Enqurier print edition, May 14, 2007]

Britney may be whacked out of her mind, but she’s still able to lipsynch and gyrate for 10-15 minutes at a time. She performed at the Las Vegas House of Blues this weekend for more of the same in her “comeback” tour.

Thanks to FlyNet Online for these pictures of Britney in Vegas. Hey she changed her boots! The new ones are just as ugly, but at least she’s wearing sandals with that shirt she seems to think is a dress.