11 posts tagged “model”

LOS ANGELES - Eve, Heidi Klum and Nicky Hilton were among the beautiful people who turned out for US Weekly magazine's Hot Hollywood party.The annual celebration of young Hollywood style, held Thursday at Eva Longoria's new Beso restaurant in Hollywood, also drew famous faces from MTV's "The Hills" and ABC's "Dancing With the Stars."Lauren Conrad chatted up the press on the red carpet outside as Ian Ziering shimmied across the dance floor under crystal chandeliers. Klum shared a table with friends as Cheryl Burke stole a smoke outside.Meanwhile, Marlee Matlin and Cristian de la Fuente commanded a corner in the upstairs VIP room, which was all red vinyl booths and velvet wallpaper.Though will.i.am disappeared into the crowd shortly after his arrival, his presence was loudly felt as DJ Steve Aoki spun his tunes over the club's bass-heavy system.Despite a capacity crowd, Eve talked her way into the VIP area: "I'm sure it will be OK," she assured a security guard. Rumer Willis, wearing long hair extensions, didn't have the same success and fled with pals when the doorman turned her away.Source: AP

LAS VEGAS - A 26-year-old entrepreneur from Texas was named Miss USA on Friday, besting 50 other beauty queens for the coveted crown.Crystle Stewart, of Missouri City, Texas, runs a party-planning and motivational speaking company, as well as modeling professionally. She says she wants to dedicate her life to international philanthropy."I want to talk to people about how to set a goal and achieve it," she told The Associated Press after the show. "Because I just achieved my goal."Stewart edged out first runner-up Leah Laviano of Mississippi and Tiffany Andrade of New Jersey.Miss USA 2007 Rachel Smith relinquished the crown — and the posh New York apartment that comes with it — in a show aired live by NBC with hosts Donny and Marie Osmond from the Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino on the Las Vegas Strip. The network co-owns the parent Miss Universe Organization with Donald Trump.Smith, a former Miss Tennessee USA, said she was headed to Hollywood.Stewart was headed for the publicity circuit. She said she was eager to travel and spread her message of self-improvement to young women. She noted she was one of only a handful of black woman crowned Miss USA in the pageant's 57-year history."I think the United States is coming together," she said, citing the historic presidential candidacies of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. She declined to name her preference."I don't know, we'll see. Fundamentally, I'm a Democrat," she said.Contestants from all 50 states and the District of Columbia have been in Las Vegas for nearly three weeks, rehearsing and hyping the 57th annual pageant. After stints in Baltimore and Los Angeles, organizers billed the new venue as a city beloved by the event's international audience.The pageant tried to showed off its edge, featuring a grinding live rock performance by the band Finger Eleven, music from Rihanna, and contestants in barely there black bikinis and faux-fur coats.Donny and Marie kept up a steady stream of sibling banter even while s...

LONDON (AFP) - Princess Diana's death in a 1997 Paris car crash, which an inquest ruled Monday was unlawful killing, cut short the life of the woman who injected Britain's royal family with celebrity glitz.Born into the aristocratic Spencer family, the shy kindergarten teacher was catapulted to superstardom in 1981 when, at 19, her engagement to Prince Charles, heir to the British throne and 12 years her senior, was announced.They married in July 1981 in London, a ceremony watched by 750 million on television around the world and billed as a "fairytale wedding."With her fashionable clothes and common touch, Diana became a firm favourite with the public even before she gave birth to Prince William in June 1982.But by the birth of her second son Harry in September 1984, her biographer Andrew Morton in "Diana: Her True Story" records that she was already suffering from bulimia and had attempted suicide five times.From 1986, press stories began appearing of cracks in the royal marriage, and Morton later wrote that Charles had resumed his relationship with married former girlfriend Camilla Parker Bowles at this time.At the same time, Diana began a relationship with cavalry officer James Hewitt, whom she is said to have "adored." The affair ended after four years and Diana later said she had been deeply hurt by Hewitt.It was during this time that Diana was photographed alone in front of the Taj Mahal while on a visit to India with Charles, in what was seen as a clear signal of the state of the couple's marriage.Finally, after more press revelations about other alleged boyfriends and Charles' affair with Parker Bowles, the couple separated in December 1992.Queen Elizabeth II, who had also seen Windsor Castle razed by fire and the separation of her second son Prince Andrew from his wife Sarah Ferguson in the same year, called it her "annus horribilis."Although separated, Diana insisted she did not want a divorce.But damaging press stories continued to appear -- despite a...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The life and times of Pamela Anderson, the thrice-married former Playboy model and "Baywatch" star, will be featured in a new documentary-style show on E! television, the network said on Monday.The half-hour series, now called "Pamela," is set to air on the U.S. cable TV network in the summer months and will be produced by the company behind the critically lauded documentary "The Eyes of Tammy Faye," about one-time TV evangelist Tammy Faye Baker Messner, who died last year.The show will be "in the style of a uniquely shot documentary film," Randy Barbato, managing director of World of Wonder Productions, said in a statement.Anderson's life has been fodder for tabloids and she is constantly followed by paparazzi. She rose to stardom as a nude model and actress on the hit TV comedy "Home Improvement," and later became a star on the 1990s TV series "Baywatch," playing a beach lifeguard.More recently, Anderson, 40, starred in her own crime series, "V.I.P."But she is perhaps best known for her off-screen affairs and three marriages, starting with rocker Tommy Lee, with whom she has two children. A sex video of Lee and Anderson was posted on the Internet in the late 1990s. The two are now divorced.Anderson wed singer Kid Rock in 2006 but they divorced after less than six months. In October she married Rick Salomon but that marriage ended in March.Source: Reuters

Kelly Clarkson says it "sucks" that four unfinished songs have leaked to the Internet. The new material recently surfaced on Los Angeles-based music blog Pretty Much Amazing. The four songs -- "Close Your Eyes," "Ready," "One Day," and "With a Little Bit of Luck" -- have varying sound quality, indicating that the tracks are in different stages of the recording process.

LONDON - Naomi Campbell was released on bail Friday after a spat with a police officer at Heathrow Airport's troubled new Terminal 5, where one of her bags was lost.Campbell, 37, left the airport police station just after midnight. London's Metropolitan Police said she was released pending further inquiries and told to report to a police station in late May.The London-born supermodel was arrested late Thursday on suspicion of assaulting an officer after police were called to a disturbance at the airport. Since Terminal 5 opened last week, more than 28,000 bags have been separated from their owners.Witnesses said Campbell was aboard a British Airways plane due to depart for Los Angeles when she became involved in a dispute because one of her bags had been lost. During the dispute, Campbell allegedly spit on the officer.Campbell's spokeswoman, Annabel Fox, said Campbell was traveling to the U.S. to attend a memorial service and had boarded the plane when she was told one of her two checked bags was missing.British Airways "decided to resolve this by insisting she leave the flight and then called the police to forcibly eject her," Fox said.Campbell has a history of assaulting assistants and employees.In 2000, she pleaded guilty in Toronto to an assault charge for beating an assistant while making a film in 1998. Under an agreement with prosecutors, Campbell expressed remorse and was released without punishment or a criminal record.In January 2007, Campbell pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault for throwing her cell phone at her maid in a dispute over a missing pair of jeans. She was ordered to do community service and attend a two-day anger-management program.Source: AP

LOS ANGELES - Jessica Simpson is feeling "much better" after being hospitalized with a kidney infection. Simpson was admitted to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center on Friday for a "minor kidney infection" and was released Monday, Simpson's representative Lauren Auslander told The Associated Press. In Touch magazine reported Simpson's hospitalization Monday.Auslander said the 27-year-old singer-actress is feeling "much better now."According to the In Touch report, Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo, Simpson's current squeeze, wanted to be by Simpson's side but had prior commitments in Dallas.Simpson is currently working on a country music album.Source: AP

LONDON - Flashing lights, swarming paparazzi, a mysterious second car at the crash site, and a multi-tentacled conspiracy allegedly directed by the husband of Queen Elizabeth II — jurors have much to sort through in reaching a judgment on the deaths of Princess Diana and her lover Dodi Fayed.Nearly 11 years after the tragedy that shook the world, testimony has ranged far and wide in an extraordinary coroner's inquest, without shedding much light on claims that they were victims of a plot. The coroner, Lord Justice Scott Baker, is expected to begin his summation Monday, which may take days before going to the jury.The key question for the jurors is whether the car crash in a Paris road tunnel on Aug. 31, 1997 was an accident.Mohamed Al Fayed has not budged from claiming that his son and the princess died at the hands of British security agents, acting at Prince Philip's behest.French police concluded it was an accident, caused in part by speeding and by the high alcohol level in driver Henri Paul's blood. A British police investigation concurred.More than 240 witnesses have testified since the inquest began on Oct. 2, including Diana's close friends and former butler, Philip's private secretary and a former head of the Secret Intelligence Service, MI6. Al Fayed's late bid to force the coroner to summon Philip to testify, and for written questions to be put to the queen, was summarily rejected by a higher court.There has been evidence that Diana feared dying in a car crash, but that she also had speculated about death in a helicopter or airplane crash; there was testimony that she feared Philip.The basic scene is familiar: the couple's car slammed into a concrete pillar in the Alma tunnel, after apparently having a glancing collision with a white Fiat Uno, as they were pursued from the Ritz Hotel by photographers. Some witnesses said they saw flashes of light in the instant before the crash; other witnesses didn't notice any. Al Fayed's claim is that flashing light...

LOS ANGELES - Kimora Lee Simmons has already moved on, but she took steps to make it official by filing for divorce from her husband of seven years, entertainment mogul Russell Simmons.Although the couple separated in March 2006, Kimora Lee Simmons just filed divorce papers Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Court. The 32-year-old Baby Phat fashion designer and reality TV star cited irreconcilable differences.She and Russell Simmons, 50, have two daughters: 8-year-old Ming Lee and 5-year-old Aoki Lee. Kimora Lee Simmons is seeking legal and physical custody of the children. She requested that Russell Simmons be granted "reasonable child visitation ... accompanied at all times by the children's nanny and security personnel."Russell Simmons co-founded Def Jam records and created Phat Farm clothing and HBO's "Def Comedy Jam."Kimora Lee Simmons has been dating actor Djimon Honsou.Source: AP

NEW YORK - A man charged with stalking Tyra Banks has been ordered to stay away from the talk-show host or face going to jail.Brady Green, according to a criminal complaint, has followed Banks from coast to coast since January, sent her letters and flowers, and tried to telephone her. Last week he was issued a court order requiring him to leave her alone.Green, of Dublin, Ga., was arrested when he showed up several times March 18 at the Manhattan building where "The Tyra Banks Show" is taped and asked to speak to her, a misdemeanor complaint filed in Criminal Court says.Banks also hosts the CW reality show "America's Next Top Model."The complaint says building custodian Edward Troiano told police Green also had appeared at Banks' Los Angeles studio "on multiple occasions" and asked to speak to her. He said Green had sent her letters and flowers there and had tried to reach her there by telephone at least five times, the complaint says.Banks, 34, told police that Green's actions had caused her to fear that she was in danger.Police charged Green, 37, with stalking, criminal trespass and harassment. After his arraignment last Wednesday on the charges, Criminal Court Judge Anthony Ferrara released him without bail and ordered him to return to court May 13.A telephone call to Green's attorney wasn't immediately returned Monday.The New York Post said the Chelsea studio staffers were worried about Green returning. The paper said they were handing out photos of Green on Friday with a warning to stay away from him.Prosecutors said they did not have an address for Green, who likely could face up to a year in jail if convicted.Source: AP