Porn legend Jenna Jameson has officially been charged with DUI after smashing her car into a light pole last month in Orange County.
TMZ broke the story that Jameson was arrested after the single-car accident early in the morning on May 25. The site says she showed signs of intoxication, took a field sobriety test, and was subsequently busted on suspicion of DUI.
According to law enforcement officials, Jameson had a blood alcohol percent of .13 and had two prescription drugs in her system at the time of her arrest. The drugs have been identified as zolpidem (Ambien) and buprenorphine (Suboxone).
Jameson has been charged with two counts of DUI and one count of driving without a valid license. She’s also been charged with making some really bad movies toward the end of her career. Not that we would know anything about that …
Er. anyway, if convicted on all counts, Jameson faces up to a year in jail.
ALEX TREBEK HAS HEART ATTACK: Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek suffered a mild heart attack over the weekend.
Taken to Los Angeles’s Cedars-Sinai Medical Center on Saturday, “Trebek is in good spirits and is currently under observation and undergoing further testing,” reads a statement from Sony Pictures Television, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
“He is expected to fully recover and be back at Jeopardy! when production begins taping in July for the new season, the show’s 29th.”
Trebek, 71, who has hosted the show since 1984, previously suffered a minor heart attack in December 2007. His contract was recently extended to 2014, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
MADONNA DOESN’T WANT YOU CLONING HER: Madonna apparently wants strict control over her DNA. Which is sort of ironic, considering her, um, lengthy dating history.
The pop star apparently uses a “DNA Sterilization Team” on her concert tour, according to Britain’s Daily Mail. Because you never know when someone might try to clone a Madonna army.
The “team” goes into her concert dressing room and thoroughly cleans the facility to remove all traces of her DNA.
“We have to take extreme care, like I have never seen for any other artist,” said Alvaro Ramos, the promoter handling the Portugal dates on Madonna’s tour. “We cannot even look at the dressing room after it is ready, or even open the door,” he says. “We can only enter after her sterilization team has left the room. There will not be any of Madonna’s DNA, any hair, or anything. They will clean up everything. In the end it is all to protect her and make her feel comfortable. I do understand it, but it is taken to extremes.
OCTOMOM HAS A BOYFRIEND: Octomom has a boyfriend, and TMZ has the footage to prove it.
No, not that footage.
Nadya Suleman arrived at LAX on Sunday and was picked up by new boyfriend Frankie G, a 23-year-old amateur bodybuilder who apparently kissed her in public and everything.
You’re right: Life has to offer more than writing this stuff.
Anyway, sources told TMZ the couple’s been dating about two months and it’s getting serious. Apparently Suleman told the site they met “through church.”
What a cute couple. Maybe they could settle down and have a couple or 20 kids.
Suleman has said that she’s been celibate for 13 years — which makes perfect sense for someone with 14 children — and planned to stay that way until her kids reached 18. So much for that.
COURTNEY LOVE GETS SUED BY HER OWN LAWYERS: Courtney Love is being sued by her former lawyers Keith A. Fink & Associates, who say Love failed to pay more than $400,000 in legal bills stemming from 14 legal matters over 10 months.
Maybe she forgot.
According to TMZ, Fink says the firm worked with Love from Jan. 2009 to Oct. 2009, a period in which she was feeling rather litigious, racking up $518,640.66 in attorney’s fees.
By the way, that may be the greatest name for a lawyer in history.
Fink says Love expressed her gratitude for the firm by sending gifts, thank-you notes, flowers, and concert tickets. But the checks she sent bounced like racquetballs.
Fink says Love’s business manager tried to stall the bill collectors by assuring him Love would pay up as soon as she received money from her deceased husband Kurt Cobain’s estate, but the money never showed up.
Fink says Love is completely irresponsible with the cash she does have, spending a fortune on personal assistants who “charged her hundreds of dollars for measly tasks such as tidying up hotel suite and picking up coffee for her at a nearby Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf.”
Well, to be fair, cleaning up a hotel room after Courtney Love could require hundreds of workers and the renting of expensive heavy equipment.
Fink wants $466,029.41 in back payments and late fees, plus punitive damages.
R. KELLY WENT TO THE MALL WITH MICHAEL JACKSON: On the third anniversary of Michael Jackson’s death. R. Kelly shared a story with People.com about the first day they met — and how they ended up at a Chicago mall.
Kelly details in his upcoming book “Soulacoaster: The Diary of Me” about how he wrote “You Are Not Alone” for Jackson, and met him when Jackson began recording the song.
“He looked at least eight feet tall,” Kelly wrote. “He looked like an avatar. He was wearing a black mask over his face. Only his eyes were showing.
Finally, Mike walked over to me. He looked in my eyes, opened his arms, and gave me the hug of my life, whispering to me in his lighter-than-air, soft, high voice. “The world’s gonna be singing this song.”
I blurted out something silly like, ‘Congratulations on everything you’ve done, Mike. Congratulations on being Michael Jackson.’
Just about then, Bubbles the chimp pranced into the room. In my mind, I called Bubbles ‘Trouble.’ The chimp made me nervous.
‘He’s friendly, isn’t he, Mike?’
‘Oh, yes, he’s not going to hurt you.’
‘Anyway,’ I said, ‘I’m just glad you like the song.’
‘I don’t like it, Rob. I love it. I don’t want to change one thing. I want to sing it just the way you wrote it. You captured me beautifully. That’s the reason I came here. We can get started just as soon as I do my vocal warm-ups.’
‘If you excuse me for a minute,’ I said, ‘I’ll be right back.’
I walked to the bathroom and just fell out on the floor. I broke down and cried. It wasn’t that Michael Jackson was singing my song; it was that Michael had felt how I’d caught his spirit. Michael Jackson had come to Chicago to work with me!
‘Rob,” he said in that high, sing-song voice, “would you mind coming in here and singing backgrounds with me?’
Mind? Are you kidding? Michael Jackson was asking me to sing with him!
I had to practically stop myself from running to the vocal booth. I paced myself so I could walk slowly, but in my heart I felt like a little girl.
When we started to sing, the blend was perfect. We were butter and toast. He did that some rocking motion I’d seen him do on ‘We Are the World.’ Sitting there next to me — my voice over his, his voice over mine — I tasted heaven. Heaven on earth. Brother, this is as good as it gets.
‘You know, Rob,” he said later that afternoon, “sometimes it can take me a month to get a song where I want it.’
‘Me, too, Mike,’ I agreed. ‘Sometimes it takes me more than a month.’
‘I’m glad you understand. You’ll be patient with me, won’t you?’
“I’ll be whatever you want me to be, Mike. It’s still like a dream for me.”
Then, the King of Pop made an unexpected request
‘Can I ask you something else?’
‘Sure.’
‘Is there a mall around here, Rob?’
‘Just a couple of blocks away.’
‘Would you go there with me? I love malls.’
‘I love ’em too, Mike. Let’s roll.’
This is where, out of respect for the anniversary of Jackson’s death, we don’t make a “What happens when Michael Jackson goes to the
mall with R. Kelly” joke. Back to the story:
“With Bubbles and the security team in place, we went to Water Tower Place, one of the nicest malls in Chicago. Michael headed straight for the Disney store where he was fascinated by a larger-than-life statue of Donald Duck hung above the entrance.
‘That’s beautiful,’ said Michael. ‘Do you think they’d sell it to me? I’d love to have Donald Duck for Neverland.’
‘Couldn’t hurt to ask,’ I said.
Of course Michael Jackson walking into the Disney store caused a near-riot. When the manager appeared, Michael couldn’t have been sweeter: ‘Is there any way I could buy that Donald Duck?’ he asked.
‘I’m afraid not, Mr. Jackson. It’s permanently built into the front of the store.’
‘Oh, that’s a shame,’ Michael said politely. ‘But thank you anyway, sir.’
I’d never met anyone with better manners.
The pair worked on perfecting the song over the next three weeks and spent time chatting together in the studio.
The experience of working with Mike was drama-free. Every night after he left the studio and got in his van, people were hanging out the windows of office buildings and hotels, stretching their necks to get a glimpse of him. He’d always stop and wave.
When the job was done and it was time for him to leave Chicago, he gave me another hug and said, ‘You’re my brother.’
I was too choked up to say anything.”
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JUNE 26 IN HISTORY
Tuesday is June 26, the 178th day of 2012. There are 188 days left in the year.
1483: Richard III began his reign as King of England (he was crowned the following month at Westminster Abbey).
1870: The first section of Atlantic City, N.J.’s Boardwalk was opened to the public.
1911: John J. McDermott became the first American-born golf player to win the U.S. Open, played in Chicago.
1936: President Franklin D. Roosevelt was nominated for a second term of office by delegates to the Democratic national convention in Philadelphia. 1945: The charter of the United Nations was signed by 50 countries in San Francisco.
1948: The Berlin Airlift began in earnest after the Soviet Union cut off land and water routes to the isolated western sector of Berlin.
1950: President Harry S. Truman authorized the Air Force and Navy to enter the Korean conflict.
1963: President John F. Kennedy visited West Berlin, where he famously declared, “Ich bin ein Berliner” (I am a Berliner).
1973: Former White House counsel John W. Dean told the Senate Watergate Committee about an “enemies list” kept by the Nixon White House.
1987: Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr. announced his retirement, leaving a vacancy that was filled by Anthony M. Kennedy.
1988: Three people were killed when a new Airbus A320 jetliner carrying more than 130 people crashed into a forest during a demonstration at an air show in Mulhouse, France.
1990: President George H.W. Bush went back on his “no-new-taxes” campaign pledge, conceding that tax increases would have to be included in any deficit-reduction package worked out with congressional negotiators.
2002: The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that reciting the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools was unconstitutional because the words “under God” had been inserted by Congress in 1954. (The U.S. Supreme Court overturned the decision in 2004 on a technicality.) The Group of Eight nations, meeting in Canada, announced that Russia would be made a full-fledged member of the elite group. Chinese basketball star Yao Ming was selected first overall by the Houston Rockets in the NBA draft.
2007: Conservative commentator Ann Coulter, appearing on MSNBC’s “Hardball,” got into a verbal fracas with Elizabeth Edwards, who had called into the program to ask Coulter to stop making personal attacks on her husband, Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards. Paris Hilton left the Los Angeles County jail after a bizarre, three-week stay for a probation violation.
2011: New York City’s gay pride parade turned into a carnival-like celebration of same-sex marriage as hundreds of thousands of revelers rejoiced at the state’s new law giving gay couples the same marital rights as everyone else. In Senegal, hundreds of Muslim protesters descended on a Jehovah’s Witness temple and a bar in Dakar, setting the buildings on fire in a rare instance of religious extremism in the normally moderate Islamic republic. Top-ranked Yani Tseng won the LPGA Championship at Locust Hill Country Club in Pittsford, N.Y., by 10 strokes.
BIRTHDAYS
Singer-musician Mick Jones (57), rock singer Chris Isaak (56), rock singer Patty Smyth (55), singer Terri Nunn (Berlin) (51), rock singer Harriet Wheeler (The Sundays) (49), rock musician Colin Greenwood (Radiohead) (43), writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson (42), actor Sean Hayes (42), actor Chris O’Donnell (42), MLB All-Star player Derek Jeter (38), country singer Gretchen Wilson (38), rock musician Nathan Followill (Kings of Leon) (33), actor-musician Jason Schwartzman (32).
Associated Press.
