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I truthfully cannot imagine extra folks do not speak concerning the Katy Perry vs. nuns debacle. Primarily, Perry purchased a former convent in 2015 — solely the nuns of Most Holy and Immaculate Coronary heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary had already offered it to restaurateur Dana Hollister, who had moved in. The archdiocese, who offered the property to Perry, claimed the nuns hadn’t had the correct to promote the property, and a messy authorized battle started. In a single post-judgement listening to (after the decide dominated in opposition to the nuns), one of many nuns, 89-year-old Catherine Rose Holzman, collapsed and died.
Hours earlier than her loss of life, Holzman spoke to the press, saying she and the opposite nuns had requested the Vatican for assist. Holzman pleaded with Perry “to please cease” pursuing the acquisition, saying, “It isn’t doing anybody any good besides hurting lots of people.” The final surviving nun, Sister Mary Callinan, advised the New York Submit in 2019 that Perry has “blood on her fingers.” It is unclear if the sale even ever really went by means of, and it would not appear like Perry has ever lived there.
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Talking of Perry — I really feel like most individuals aren’t conscious of her sexual misconduct allegations, past the viral uncomfortable video of her kissing an American Idol contestant. She’s moreover been accused of touching and kissing a Russian TV host with out consent and exposing mannequin Josh Kloss’s genitals to others at a celebration. Oh, and bear in mind the time she squeezed 18-year-old Shawn Mendes’s butt?
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I additionally really feel like Jenny McCarthy did not get fairly sufficient flack for forcibly grabbing and kissing Justin Bieber onstage on the 2012 American Music Awards. Justin, who was 18 on the time, even stated immediately after the incident that he felt “violated.” McCarthy later stated, “I couldn’t assist it, he was simply so scrumptious, so little, and simply, ahhhk, I wished to tear his head off and eat it,” and that she “type of molested him.” She added, “I would like some Bieber fever — and I need a Bieber rash. It’d be like cougar rape.”
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I really feel just like the controversy folks speak about surrounding Nicki Minaj is normally associated to her vaccine-related tweets, however the one they need to be speaking about is way worse. Again in 2021, Minaj and her husband Kenneth Petty have been sued for intimidating a lady (Jennifer Hough) who had beforehand accused Petty of raping her at gunpoint. Actually, Petty had been convicted of tried rape again in 1994 and served 4 and a half years in jail. Within the lawsuit, Hough alleged Minaj had “immediately and not directly intimidated, harassed, and threatened [Jennifer Hough] to recant her professional declare that Defendant Petty raped her.”
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Shia LaBeouf garnered crucial approval for his movie Honey Boy, which was meant to be based mostly on his childhood. Notably, within the movie, the principle character’s father is abusive. Besides LaBeouf later admitted that the depiction of his father as abusive was “fucking nonsense” and that he’d “vilified [him] on a grand scale.” He continued, “My dad was so loving to me my complete life. Fractured, positive. Crooked, positive. Wonky, for positive. However by no means was not loving, by no means was not there. He was all the time there…and I’d completed a world press tour about how f***ed he was as a person. … My dad by no means hit me, by no means.”
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Kevin Hart admitted to home violence in his memoir I Cannot Make This Up: Life Classes, even saying he as soon as spent the night time in jail after an argument along with his then-partner Torrei turned bodily. He described pondering, “When it bought violent the place we’re combating — Am I actually combating? Am I holding my fingers up as if she’s a person proper now? Oh my God. That is…I’m out. I’ve actually bought my fingers as much as not defend, however counter. Like, I’m ready so that you can throw a punch. Cuz I’m about to counter the s*** out of you.”
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Jamie Dornan as soon as stalked a lady as a way to put together to play serial killer Paul Spector in The Fall. “It is a actually unhealthy reveal: I, like, adopted a lady off the practice someday to see what it felt wish to pursue somebody like that. I actually stored my distance,” he revealed to the LA Instances. “She bought off just a few stops sooner than I used to be planning so I stated proper, I’ve to decide to this. I adopted her round a few road corners after which was like: What are you doing?”
“It felt type of thrilling, in a extremely form of soiled approach. I’m form of not pleased with myself,” Dornan continued. “However I do truthfully assume I discovered one thing from it, as a result of I’ve clearly by no means completed any of that. It was intriguing and attention-grabbing to enter that strategy of ‘what are you following her for?’ and ‘what are you looking for out?’”
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Joe Jonas reportedly requested out Gigi Hadid when she was solely 13 years previous. “He requested me to a baseball recreation, and I stated no,” Hadid revealed. “I used to be so nervous; I actually did not even know what it meant to hang around with a boy.” If Hadid’s timeline is true, Jonas would’ve been 19 on the time, however since Hadid says this occurred on the Grammys, it was extra seemingly when Hadid was 14 and Jonas was 20 (as this was the primary time Hadid attended the Grammys). After Hadid advised Jonas “perhaps subsequent time,” she says Joe “wrote his quantity on a chunk of paper and gave it to my mother.” The 2 later dated in 2015, when Hadid was 20 and Jonas was 26.
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Am I the one one who did not know that Robert De Niro, together with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., as soon as supplied $100,000 to anybody who may show that vaccines are secure? This got here after taking part in a panel that flouted debunked vaccine claims, together with that they trigger autism. (De Niro’s son has autism.) Oh, and De Niro wished to place an anti-vax movie within the Tribeca Movie Pageant, calling it “very private” to him, although he later pulled it.
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We additionally clearly know concerning the Amber Heard and Johnny Depp defamation trial, however one half that persistently will get missed is Paul Bettany’s half. Bettany, a buddy of Depp’s, exchanged quite a few texts with Depp about Heard, a few of which involved burning and drowning her. “I’m unsure we should always burn Amber,” Bettany wrote after Depp advised it. “She is pleasant firm and pleasing on the attention. We may after all do the English plan of action and carry out a drowning take a look at. Ideas? You’ve gotten a swimming pool.”
Depp reportedly wrote again, “Let’s drown her earlier than we burn her!!! I’ll fuck her burnt corpse afterwards to ensure she’s useless.” Bettany reportedly replied, “My ideas completely. Let’s make sure earlier than we pronounce her a witch.”
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Talking of Depp — unsealed courtroom paperwork from the identical defamation trial recommend that Depp was investigated by the LAPD and the Division of Household Providers for permitting his then-15-year-old daughter, Lily-Rose, to reside along with her 23-year-old boyfriend subsequent door to him in his condominium. No costs have been filed, and Depp has by no means publicly responded to those allegations, although the witness within the paperwork testified that they felt Depp had made false statements to ensure that the fees to not be filed.
“I requested him afterwards, I stated, ‘It will need to have gone fairly nicely,’ and he stated, ‘Yeah,'” the witness, who seems to be his former agent Tracey Jacobs*, described. “I stated, ‘Nicely you could not have advised them the reality.’ And he simply smiled.”
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Whereas Halle Berry has by no means publicly named her attacker, she has claimed that certainly one of her exes, a well known star, as soon as “hit her so laborious, her left eardrum was punctured” inflicting her to flee so shortly “there have been skid marks.” Singer Christopher Williams, who dated Halle, later alleged that the attacker was Wesley Snipes. Ex-boyfriend David Justice later claimed the identical in a collection of now-deleted tweets that have been supported by Berry’s ex-husband Eric Benét.
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Sean Penn was additionally accused of attacking Madonna after they have been married. He allegedly tied her to a chair for 9 hours, till she was capable of escape and run to the police station. Initially, Penn was charged with battery and inflicting “corporal damage and traumatic situations,” however Madonna later pulled the complaints, although she did file for divorce.
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R&B singer Michel’le has publicly accused Dr. Dre (with whom she shares a baby) of beating her so badly that she needed to get cosmetic surgery on her nostril to restore the injury. Within the Season 1 reunion particular of R&B Divas: Los Angeles, when host Wendy Williams identified that she needed to be referring to Dr. Dre, Michel’le replied, “He is aware of it. That was very public,” and stated he usually gave her black eyes proper earlier than she’d shoot music movies. In line with Michel’le, in addition they began a relationship when she was solely 17.
Dr. Dre later publicly apologized for his previous habits towards girls (which Michel’le did not really feel was real as a result of it was public and never personally to her), and acknowledged that some allegations in opposition to him have been true, although he then denied having abused Michel’le.
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And at last, we’ll finish on the scandal surrounding the never-released Tobey Maguire and Leonardo DiCaprio film Don’s Plum. Principally, Maguire and DiCaprio starred in a film that was basically a few group of terrible folks speaking in a diner. The film was by no means launched within the US, and in actual fact shouldn’t be allowed to be launched within the US after a authorized battle the place Maguire and DiCaprio claimed that they had by no means been knowledgeable the movie was a function with a business launch. (Director R. D. Robb and producer Dale Wheatley later settled with Maguire and DiCaprio.) Years later, Wheatley made the movie out there through request on his website freedonsplum, writing “Leonardo DiCaprio has completed every thing in his energy to bury this movie and me together with it.”
Wheatley additionally alleged scary habits from Maguire, who he says screamed at him for 12 hours about releasing the movie. Oh, and he is additionally tweeted that “Leo is Tobey’s little bitch,” and that “there’s one thing unusual about their relationship — I do imagine Tobey has one thing on Leo.” One man’s opinion, positive, however I nonetheless assume this complete saga is fairly wild, and there is a lot we do not know.
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