Britney Murphy Memoir

 

Brittany Anne Murphy (née Bertolotti; born November 10, 1977) is an American actress and recording artist. She has starred in the Hollywood films such as Clueless, Girl, Interrupted, 8 Mile, Sin City, The Dead Girl, and Happy Feet, among other films.

Actor Jonathan Brandis was Murphy’s high school prom date. She dated Ashton Kutcher; they met on the set of “Just Married”. Once engaged to talent manager Jeff Kwatinetz, in December 2005, Murphy became engaged to Joe Macaluso, a production assistant she met while working on her film, Little Black Book. In August 2006, they ended their engagement. In May 2007, Murphy married screenwriter Simon Monjack in a private Jewish ceremony officiated by a rabbi.

During 2005, Murphy was the spokesmodel for Jordache jeans.

In 2006, Brittany Murphy was voted 36th in FHM’s 100 Sexiest Women List, 29th in Celebrity Sleuth’s 25 Sexiest List and in May of the same year, Maxim magazine named Murphy #49 on its annual Hot 100 List.

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Brigitte Nielsen Memoir

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Brigitte Nielsen (born July 15, 1958) is a Danish actress who became popular in 1980s B-movies. She is also known for her marriage to actor Sylvester Stallone and her relationship with rapper Flavor Flav.

Nielsen was born Gitte Nielsen in Rødovre, Denmark, the daughter of Hanne, a librarian, and Svend Nielsen, an engineer. She has a brother, Jan. Nielsen is fluent in Danish, English, Italian and German.

Nielsen’s first marriage was to Danish musician Kasper Winding, with whom she has a son, Julian. She was then married to actor Sylvester Stallone, her co-star in Cobra. She later became engaged (but not married) to American football player Mark Gastineau, with whom she has a son, Killian. She then married Swiss racecar driver Raoul Meyer from December 17, 1993 to 2005, and they have two sons: Douglas Aaron and Raoul Jr. Ayrton (named after her friend Ayrton Senna). It is often claimed that she married photographer/director Sebastian Copeland, but she says that it was not a legal marriage.

Nielsen married for the fifth time in March 2005 to bartender Mattia Dessi, who appeared briefly on Strange Love. The marriage was not official, because her divorce from her previous husband was not finalized. On July 8, 2006 they married legally, following her divorce from her previous husband. Her maid of honor was Ivanka Trump.

On July 9, 2007, Nielsen checked herself into the Cri-Help rehabilitation facility in North Hollywood following what some reports claim was a family intervention. Her manager, Steven Tempone, confirmed on July 19, 2007 that she had checked into rehab and told the Associated Press “All I know is it’s something she did of her own free will and we’re proud of her and wish her very well… When she gets out we’ll have a big birthday party, and Coca-Cola only“.

As of July 22, 2007, Nielsen was out of rehab to attend the Comedy Central roast of Flavor Flav. She told People that she felt “like a new-born person… I made a choice about a new life. It’s not been easy but it was definitely time.” While People does not report the date that Nielsen checked into rehab, they state that she “had been in treatment for a few weeks“Source Wikipedia

Bridget Moynahan Memoir

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Kathryn Bridget Moynahan (born April 28, 1971) is an American model and actress of Irish descent. She is perhaps best known for her roles in the Hollywood films such as Coyote Ugly, I, Robot and Lord of War.

Moynahan studied acting at the Caymichael Patten Studio in New York City. In 1999 she had her first big role (in a guest appearance) as Natasha in the TV series Sex and the City. Her breakthrough role in a feature film was as Rachel in Coyote Ugly a year later. Since then she has appeared on a number of blockbuster movies, such as The Sum of All Fears, The Recruit, Lord of War, and I, Robot. She most recently starred in the now cancelled television series Six Degrees.

As a model she was on many magazine covers, including Elle, Vogue, Self, Fitness, New Woman and Glamour. However, she didn’t begin to pursue acting until after starting her modeling career. In May 2006, Maxim magazine named her #96 on their annual Hot 100 list. She ranked No. 67 on AskMen.com Top 99 women of 2007.

Moynahan dated NFL quarterback Tom Brady from 2004 until late 2006; Later, On February 18, 2007, Moynahan confirmed to People magazine that she was more than three months pregnant and that Brady was the father. She gave birth to a baby boy, John Edward Thomas Moynahan, at Saint John’s Health Center in Santa Monica on August 22, 2007. Tom Brady flew to the West Coast for the birth of his son . Moynahan introduced her son to the world in an OK! Magazine photo spread.

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Brandy Memoir

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Brandy Rayana Norwood (born February 11, 1979), known professionally as Brandy, is an American actress, R&B and pop singer, songwriter, and record producer. Discovered by Atlantic Records when she was a member of a youth singing group, she released her self-titled debut album in 1994 at the age of fifteen. Following a major success with “The Boy Is Mine,” a duet with singer Monica for which she won a Grammy Award, and her second album Never Say Never in 1998, a series of hit records established her position as one of the most successful of the new breed of urban R&B female vocalists to emerge in the mid-to late 1990s.

While maintaining a recording career Norwood also gained fame for starring in several film and television productions, including popular UPN sitcom Moesha (1996-2001), a 1997 version of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella and a supporting role in the 1998 horror sequel I Still Know What You Did Last Summer among others.

The RIAA ranks Norwood as one of the best-selling female artists in American music history having sold over 10.5 million albums in the United States.

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Brandon Davis Memoir

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Brandon Davis (born Brandon Zarif in 1979) is an American society figure.

A grandson of oil magnate Marvin Davis, he is best known for his friendship with hotel heiress Paris Hilton and for leveling derogatory remarks at celebrities like Lindsay Lohan and Paula Abdul. He dated actress Mischa Barton briefly.

Davis’ father, Nebil Zarif, is a wine importer, who was married to and divorced from Nancy Davis, a daughter of Marvin Davis. Whether his surname is legally Zarif or has been changed to Davis is unknown.

Davis checked into a rehab facility in 2001. In June 2006 he once more sought treatment for his alcohol and cocaine addictions by entering Passages, a $75,000-a-month center in Malibu.

His skin and hair are often shiny or oily in appearance and as a result, many people refer to him as the “oily oil heir” and “Greasy Bear.” His lesser-known brother, Jason Davis, is often referred to as “Gummi Bear”. Both brothers are often denied entry to nightclubs.

In 2007, Davis’s parents cut off his financial support until he went through treatment again and also due to embarrassment over his lewd public antics.

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Brande Roderick Memoir

Brande Nicole Roderick (born June 13, 1974) is an American model and actress. She is perhaps best known for her appearances in Baywatch and Playboy.

From 1998 to 1999, Roderick appeared in four erotic movies. In 2000, Roderick starred as “Leigh Dyer” in Baywatch. In April 2000, she appeared in Playboy magazine as Playmate of the Month. Brande was one of Hef’s girlfriends. In 2001, Roderick became the Playmate of the Year, the first Baywatch cast member to be so honored. In 2003, she starred in the Bollywood movie Out of Control as the American wife of an Indian man who, on a visit to India, gets pressured by his family into marrying an Indian girl. That role had been originally intended for Pamela Anderson.

In addition, she has guest-starred in Joey, The Parkers, Just Shoot Me! and Fear Factor.

Roderick is also a “Girl of RPS” for the USA Rock Paper Scissors League. In 2006, Roderick was one of six celebrity contestants on the CBS summer series Gameshow Marathon. She was the runner-up to Kathy Najimy.

She co-starred in the film adaptation of The Nanny Diaries.

She was born in Novato, California. Roderick lives in Los Angeles and plans to move to Hawaii. In August 2006, she became engaged to Glenn Cadrez, a former NFL linebacker who played for the New York Jets, Denver Broncos and Kansas City Chiefs. There are reports since then that they were married in Mexico.

She has two tattoos: a scorpion on her ankle and a rose on her belly.

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Brad Pitt Memoir

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William Bradley “Brad” Pitt (born December 18, 1963) is an American actor, film producer, and social activist. He became famous during the mid 1990s after starring in several major Hollywood films. Pitt was nominated for an Academy Award and won a Golden Globe Award, both of which were for his role in the 1995 film Twelve Monkeys.

Pitt is consistently cited by popular media as one of the most attractive men alive and is regarded as a Hollywood A-lister. His former marriage to actress Jennifer Aniston and current relationship with actress Angelina Jolie have been widely covered in the world media. He is the father of four children with Jolie, one biological, all of whom have also received media coverage. Since his connection with Jolie, he has become increasingly involved in social issues, both domestically and internationally.

Pitt met Friends actress Jennifer Aniston in 1998 and married her during an enclosed wedding ceremony in Malibu on July 29, 2000. The couple ensured that the ceremony would be a private affair by hiring hundreds of guards to block any attempts of invasion by the paparazzi; just one wedding picture was released to the media. Not long after the wedding, Pitt sued Damiani International, the company which had made the wedding ring he gave Aniston, for selling replica “Brad and Jennifer” rings. According to Pitt, the ring was his design and was to be exclusive. Under the settlement reached in January 2002, Pitt would design jewelry for Damiani that Aniston would model in ads, and the company would stop selling the copies.

Though their marriage was, for years, considered the rare Hollywood success, rumors of marital problems began circulating, and the Pitts announced their separation on January 7, 2005. As Pitt’s marriage to Aniston drew to a close, he and actress Angelina Jolie were involved in a well-publicized Hollywood scandal in which Jolie was often painted as the “other woman”, largely due to their chemistry during the filming of Mr. & Mrs. Smith. While Jolie and Pitt both denied any claims of adultery, speculations continued to mount throughout 2004 and early 2005. In an interview with Ann Curry in June 2005, Jolie explained, “To be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could forgive. I could not look at myself in the morning if I did that. I wouldn’t be attracted to a man who would cheat on his wife.”

In early 2005, the concept of a “troubled marriage” – and arguably his own – inspired Pitt to cooperate with photographer Steven Klein for a photoshoot entitled “Domestic Bliss” for W magazine. The spread showed Pitt and Jolie as a 1963 married couple with children. Pitt expressed the desire to tell a darker, truer tale, one that explored the “unidentifiable malaise” that often haunts a seemingly happy couple. “You don’t know what’s wrong”, he remarked, “because the marriage is everything you signed up for.” For her part, Aniston later cited the shoot as evidence that Pitt has “a sensitivity chip that’s missing.”

Aniston filed for divorce on March 25; the divorce was finalized on October 2, 2005.

One month after Aniston filed for divorce, in April 2005, a set of paparazzi photos emerged that seemed to confirm the rumors of a relationship between Pitt and actress Angelina Jolie. The photos, which were reportedly sold for $500,000, showed Pitt, Jolie and her son Maddox at a beach in Kenya. During the summer, the pair were seen together with increasing frequency, and the entertainment media dubbed the couple “Brangelina”. Two months later, the highly-anticipated July 2005 issue of W magazine hit newsstands, featuring Pitt and Jolie posed as a couple.

In July 2005, Pitt accompanied Jolie to Ethiopia, where Jolie adopted her second child, a six-month-old girl named Zahara; later Jolie indicated that she and Pitt made the decision to adopt the child together. In December 2005, it was confirmed that Pitt was seeking to legally adopt Jolie’s two children as his; per the legal requirements, classified advertisements in the Los Angeles paper Daily Commerce announced the name change request. On January 19, 2006, a judge in California approved this request, and the children’s legal surnames were formally changed to “Jolie-Pitt”.

During a charity trip to Haiti with Wyclef Jean, rumors began to circulate that Jolie was pregnant. On January 11, 2006, Jolie confirmed to People magazine that she was pregnant with Pitt’s child. On May 27, 2006, Jolie gave birth to a daughter, Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt, at the Cottage Medi-Clinic Hospital in Swakopmund, Namibia. Public interest in the child was immense, as evidenced by an August 2006 survey, in which 41 percent of participating 18-to-24-year-old American adults correctly identified that the couple had named their baby Shiloh.

Pitt and Jolie are not married. In 2006, Pitt said, “Angie and I will consider tying the knot when everyone else in the country who wants to be married is legally able.

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Boy George Memoir

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George Alan O’Dowd, better known as Boy George, (born 14 June 1961 in Eltham, London) is a singer-songwriter and club DJ. He grew up in a large, working-class Irish family who had originated from Thurles, County Tipperary, Ireland.

Boy George was part of the British New Romantic movement which emerged in the early 1980s. He, Marilyn, members of Spandau Ballet, and various other musicians were regulars at The Blitz, a London nightclub hosted by Steve Strange of the band Visage. This led to them being known as the Blitz Kids.

Boy George helped give this androgyny an international stage with the success of Culture Club during the 1980s. Musically speaking, he is often classified as blue-eyed soul, having been heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and reggae. Early recordings with Culture Club showed that Boy George’s vocals had an emotional quality reminiscent of American soul music of the 1960s and 1970s.

His later solo work touches on glam rock influences, particularly David Bowie and Iggy Pop.

When George was with Culture Club, much was made of his androgynous appearance, and there was speculation about his sexuality. When asked the question in interviews, George gave various answers. At times he suggested he was bisexual. He gave a famous, oft-quoted response to an interviewer that “I prefer a nice cup of tea to sex”.

In Take It Like A Man, George told his side of his secret relationship with Culture Club drummer Jon Moss (also Kirk Brandon, see legal problems). He stated many of the songs he wrote for Culture Club were directed at Moss. He also alleged that Moss had broken off his engagement to be with George, and that Moss was never comfortable in a same-sex relationship, although Moss was bisexual. During the Culture Club reunion, though, Moss did acknowledge that he had loved George deeply, although now he is married to a woman and has several children.

George’s striking looks inspired many Boy George look-alike contests around the world, and his face became the image of Culture Club. He became an alternative teen idol, as well as a gay icon.

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Bobby Brown Memoir

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Bobby Brown aka The Brown Bomber (born Robert Barisford Brown, on February 5, 1969 in Boston), is an American R&B singer, songwriter, and dancer. He began his solo career in 1986 and had a string of Top 10 Billboard hits, culminating in a Grammy Award. He was a pioneer of New Jack Swing music, a fusion of hip hop and R&B. His second album, Don’t Be Cruel, included popular songs such as “My Prerogative.” Brown is the ex-husband of R&B singer Whitney Houston and starred in the reality show Being Bobby Brown.

Brown married Whitney Houston in July 1992. Together they have one daughter, Bobbi Kristina Brown, born on March 4, 1993. Throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, Brown’s legal and substance abuse troubles threatened to overshadow his music. In late 2003, Brown was arrested for misdemeanor battery, allegedly for striking Houston while shouting epithets. In February 2004, Brown was arrested and jailed in Georgia on a parole violation related to a previous drunk driving conviction.

On October 9, 2007, he suffered a mild heart attack in Los Angeles, California. Brown complained of severe chest pains the night before and was taken to two different hospitals. Brown later announced that the story was not true and that he was actually in good health. On September 13, 2006, Houston’s publicist announced that after 14 years of marriage, Houston had filed for a legal separation from Brown. One month later, Houston officially filed for a divorce from Brown. It was ruled by a judge on April 4, 2007 that their marriage would be definitively dissolved on April 24, 2007 and that Whitney would receive custody of their 14-year-old daughter.

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Blackeyed Peas Memoir

The Black Eyed Peas are a Grammy award-winning American hip hop/pop group from Los Angeles, California, who blatantly sold out their original style to achieve worldwide success. The group is currently composed of will.i.am, apl.de.ap, Taboo, and Fergie. Since their breakout album Elephunk in 2003, they have seen international fame for their pop/dance-oriented style of hip hop music. The Black Eyed Peas have sold an estimated twenty-seven million albums and singles worldwide.

2007 tours

The Black Eyed Peas performed at the UK leg of Live Earth on July 7, 2007 at Wembley Stadium, London. will.i.am also performed a new song, “Help Us Out”, at the event, which is now on his album, Songs About Girls, as “S.O.S. (Mother Nature)”.

The Black Eyed Peas headlined the main Ocean Stage at the Summer Sonic Music Festival in Tokyo, Japan on August 11, and Osaka, Japan on August 12, 2007. The act comprised of the band performing their hits, as well as Fergie singing solo tracks from The Dutchess. Will.i.am also sang songs from his upcoming album.

Later in 2007, The Black Eyed Peas will embark on the Black Blue & You World Tour, visiting over 20 countries, including Macau, Sweden, Poland, Romania, Hungary, South Africa, South Korea, Malaysia, India, Indonesia, Israel, Singapore, China, Australia, Nigeria, Mexico, Thailand, Venezuela, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Argentina, El Salvador and Brazil. This tour will be presented by Pepsi, in conjunction with the new ‘Pepsi More’ advertising campaign, featuring The Black Eyed Peas. In fact, More is a promotional single made just for new Pepsi spot.

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