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The ex-boyfriend of Oscar-winning actress Anne Hathaway who was convicted of scamming investors by faking access to Vatican connections was released from prison in Pennsylvania on Friday. Raffaello Follieri is now headed back to his native Italy.In 2008, Follieri was sentenced to 4 1/2 years in prison by claiming he could buy discounted church property for investors thanks to connections with officials at the Vatican. He still owes $3.6 million to the victims of his scams.
Hathaway and Follieri dated for four years. She's now engaged to actor Adam Shulman.
Deportation is standard operating procedure, a prison official tells the Associated Press.
There's only so long you can keep pregnancy a secret. It looks like in the case of Megan Fox, the truth is becoming obvious.Photos have emerged of the "Transformers" star sporting what appears to be a baby bump while out and about in Los Angeles. The normally svelte 26-year-old is seen in pictures acquired by E! News resting her hands on an emerging belly.
While Fox and husband Brian Austin Green haven't formally announced whether they're expecting, a source tells the publication that it's true. The child will be Green's second and Fox's first.
Fox has expressed her interest in having children. In an April interview with Cosmopolitan, she says, "I want at least two, probably three kids...I've always been maternal."
It appears that one is already on the way.
Could there be a new man in Jennie Garth's life already?Just two months after the former "Beverly Hills, 90210" actress split from long-time husband Peter Facinelli, Garth was seen with HGTV's Antonio Ballatore, this according to Us Weekly. And apparently the two were getting very cozy.
A source tells the publication that Garth and Ballatore were "flirty and very touchy" while recently dining at First Food and Bar at the Palazzo on the Las Vegas strip. If the two are, in fact, and item, we probably could have seen this coming.
During a late-April Twitter exchange, Garth writes, "Saw a show today called 'The Antonio Treatment.' I think I need that."
This prompted Ballatore to respond, "On my way! ;) xo."
Garth and Facinelli broke off their 11-year marriage earlier in the year. They have three daughters together - Luca, 14, Lola, 9, and Fiona, 5.
In what has to be the best photo of a president since Richard Nixon posed alongside Elvis, Bill Clinton had his picture snapped with two porn stars.The photo, which was posted to Twitter on Wednesday (May 23), shows Clinton standing alongside XXX film veterans Tasha Reign (left) and Brooklyn Lee (right). The woman on the far left, Jennifer Taule, is not in the adult film industry. She reportedly runs a drug testing business.
The picture was taken at a charity event in Monte Carlo benefiting the William J. Clinton Foundation and the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation. Also attending the fund raiser were Hollywood stars Diane Kruger and Gwyneth Paltrow.
Clinton, of course, will forever be known for his extramarital dalliance with Monica Lewinsky while serving as Commander-in-Chief.
It began innocuously enough. Lady Gaga, headed to Bangkok for a stop on her "Born This Way" world tour, tweeted "I just landed in Bangkok baby! Ready for 50,000 screaming Thai monsters. I wanna get lost in a lady market and buy fake Rolex." That didn't go over too well with many of Gaga's Thai fans who, reports the Nation, labeled the remark offensive and insulting.
"We are more civilized than you think," tweeted DJ Suharit Siamwalla, who had a ticket to the Wednesday (March 23) evening show, but planned to boycott it after Gaga's comment.
Added another Twitter critic, who kind of has a point, "If Gaga supports fake Rolex in Thailand, I bet she also supports the illegal copies of her album. Such an ignorant comment!"
Still, Gaga was welcomed at the Bangkok airport by thousands of fans. The Nation also reports that since the show is one of the biggest ever put on in the city, "props and gear have been hauled in by three 747 aircraft and by sea in 23 shipping containers. One piece of equipment was so large that a gate at the stadium had to be removed to fit it in."
The performer heads to Singapore next. In Indonesia, Gaga was refused a concert permit after threats of violence from militant groups, reports AFP. Religious hardliners in South Korea and the Philippines have also accused her of espousing blasphemy and devil worship.
Good news for No Doubt fans. After a sizable hiatus, the group is getting back together to perform at the Teen Choice Awards.
The band writes on their Twitter page, "You may have heard the rumors... and yes, we will be performing on the Teen Choice Awards in July!!!" The show is slated for July 22 and will air on FOX.
No Doubt last toured together extensively in 2009. The band is currently working on their first studio album since 2001's "Rock Steady." The yet-untitled album is set for a Sept. 25, 2012 release. The first single is due out in July.
So Zappers, are you happy to see the return of Gwen, Tony and the gang?
The band writes on their Twitter page, "You may have heard the rumors... and yes, we will be performing on the Teen Choice Awards in July!!!" The show is slated for July 22 and will air on FOX.
No Doubt last toured together extensively in 2009. The band is currently working on their first studio album since 2001's "Rock Steady." The yet-untitled album is set for a Sept. 25, 2012 release. The first single is due out in July.
So Zappers, are you happy to see the return of Gwen, Tony and the gang?
Melissa Etheridge will pay ex-domestic partner Tammy Lynn Michaels more than the $23,000 a month she's currently getting in a new settlement that concludes a two-year court battle over child support payments.Etheridge and Michaels will share custody of five-year-old twins Johnnie Rose and Miller Steven with adjustments made for Etheridge's touring schedule, reports TMZ.
But as the result of a court-ordered mediation, Etheridge will up the amount of money she's giving to Michaels each month. Michaels protested that she was barely scraping by while Etheridge was pulling in $177,882 each month.
Charlie Sheen has spent his cash on a lot of interesting things in his day. But this latest item, if true, could be among the strangest. Sheen apparently purchased Lawrence Taylor's Super Bowl XXV ring for $230,000 when it went up for auction last week. FOX Sports Jay Glazer is reporting that Taylor and his agent Mark Lepselter were told on Wednesday (May 23) that the winning bidder for the jewelry was Sheen. Neither Sheen nor SCP Auctions have commented on the matter.
If Sheen turns out to be the buyer, it wouldn't be the first time the star of the upcoming FX series "Anger Management" has collected high-end sports memorabilia. Sheen has previously purchased Babe Ruth's 1927 World Series ring as well as the contract showing Ruth's infamous sale from the Boston Red Sox to the New York Yankees. And then there's the time he paid $5,000 to buy out the bleachers at an Angels game to try to catch a Cecil Fielder home run ball. Sadly, none ever came his way.
Just another day in the life of the self-proclaimed "Rock star from Mars."
"The Paperboy" is director Lee Daniels' follow-up to the Academy Award-winning "Precious" and he's got an all-star cast: Nicole Kidman, Zac Efron, Matthew McConaughey, John Cusack and even singer Macy Gray as narrator. It also has a scene in which one of these people urinates on another of these people and one of them is not Matthew McConaughey.It's -- surprise -- Kidman who unleashes her bladder method-acting prowess all over Efron. In the movie, Kidman plays a Tanning Mom doppleganger waitress who is in love -- or serious lust -- with a death row inmate played by Cusask. Efron and McConaughey co-star as two brothers investigating Cusack's case.
Here's the first-hand report from Vulture's Kyle Buchanan, who sat in on a screening of the movie at Cannes.
"Later in the movie, as Efron's romantic ardor for Kidman is at its peak, the two head to the beach, where he decides to cool down with a dip in the ocean. Naturally, he is attacked by CG jellyfish. (Only the sixteenth weirdest thing to happen in this movie.) Covered in sting marks, he barely manages to drag himself to shore, and when Kidman is alerted to the attack by some comely girls who surround Efron, she pushes them away, pops a squat, and out comes number-one. And yes, you get a close-up of the stream. This is a movie that often seems to be missing important transitional scenes or specific inserts, but you had better believe that when Nicole Kidman pees on Zac Efron, that camera is there."
Yikes. Here's hoping that the, ummm, shower is -- like the jellyfish -- CGI.
Here's the story of a former "Brady" who's still living the legacy of his classic sitcom ... and still loving it.Barry Williams, alias eldest son Greg on "The Brady Bunch," is showcasing his memories of the 1969-74 ABC series in a show he now performs regularly at comic Yakov Smirnoff's theater in Branson, Mo. He also folds in elements of his past work in touring companies of such musicals as "The Sound of Music" and "Grease," but a sizable chunk of the production relates directly to what's titled "Lunch with the Brady Bunch."
"I tried it out last year and the response was very good," Williams tells Zap2it, "so I have built it up and started my first full season, and we're running Thursdays through Saturdays. It is exactly what the title implies; it's a musical-variety show, and the audience has lunch with the 'Brady Bunch' kids circa 2012.
"I've cast singer-dancers who look very much like the original Greg, Marcia, Peter, Bobby, Jan and Cindy, and we incorporate songs of the day. And we have a really nice lunch with things like barbecued chicken, and during that portion, we're watching clips from the good old days and never-before-seen footage and home movies. Basically, we keep on keepin' on and have a sunshine day!"
"The Brady Bunch" has been in repeats constantly, these days on Nick at Nite and the nostalgic channel Me-TV, and Williams finds that a great equalizer for everyone in his current audiences in Branson (where he has become a resident).
"I don't find any difference between grandparents, parents and children" in familiarity with the show, says the actor who recently became a father for the second time. "'The Brady Bunch' is kind of unique, along with 'I Love Lucy,' in that it's never been off the air. Before we even finished filming the show, it was in syndication, and today's kids also have found it. Its values and morality and depiction of family seem to be timeless."
To a degree, nostalgia also is playing into another Williams project: He teams with "The Partridge Family" alum and current Seattle radio personality Danny Bonaduce as opponents over the fate of the title character in "Bigfoot," a Syfy movie debuting Saturday, June 30.
The film gives Williams, as with the live "Brady Bunch" staging he envisions doing for the next five years, "a platform from which I get to do exactly what I want to do. I'm giving the audience something they're enjoying, and that's enjoyable for me. The takeaway from my stage show really is the theme of family ... my 'Brady' family, my own family and now, my Branson family."
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