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A Mercedes Benz SUV belonging to Charlie Sheen has been found crashed in a steep ravine near his home in Sherman Oaks, Calif. Police received a 911 call around 4 a.m. reporting that the car was down a cliff off Mulholland Drive. Sheen, meanwhile, was home, blissfully unaware that his SUV was stolen until he was alerted by his Benz that things were amiss. “The Mercedes has some kind of system, and because an airbag went off it automatically called 911,” LAPD spokesman Richard French told E! News. Around the same time, Sheen, 44, called to report that his SUV had been stolen, the Associated Press reports.Meanwhile, Aspen Assistant District Attorney Arnold Mordkin tells UsMagazine.com that Sheen will be charged with a felony on Monday for allegedly putting a knife to his wife Brooke Mueller’s throat and threatening to kill her on Christmas Day. He is expected to be charged with menacing and misdemeanor assault.
Less than a day after the LA coroner released a statement claiming Brittany Murphy died primarily from pneumonia with multiple drug intoxication and iron defiency anemia, husband Simon Monjack released a statement: “Everything [surprised me and Brittany's mom about the report]. I expected [the cause of death] to be her heart. She wasn’t coughing up. I’ve had pneumonia and coughed up handfuls of spittle. So yeah, everything surprised us, everything.” When asked about the coroner’s claim that her death was completely preventable if she had properly seen a doctor, Monjack said, “I don’t know what he said so I don’t want to comment on what I haven’t seen. Case closed, as the coroner said, there’s no foul play.”
Nathan, Caleb and Jared Followill of Kings of Leon stepped up and staged an intervention for their father, a former Pentecostal evangelical preacher, who has had a serious drinking problem on and off for years. Their father Ivan was put in a California rehab center with the help of his sons in December as he was “literally close to death.” Ivan had been living in Oklahoma and working part-time as a house painter. He didn’t have the money for treatment and according to an insider “couldn’t bring himself to ask his boys for help.”
“American Idol” producers are eager to hire Howard Stern to replace Simon Cowell, sources tell Page Six. An insider said that producers of the hit Fox show say Stern is their top choice to take over from Cowell, who leaves at the end of this season. Stern is also believed to be reluctant to commit to a show that would require him to tour the US as a judge and spend much of the year in Los Angeles.He recently said, somewhat cryptically, “I was approached by a major TV network to take over a TV show and leave here and do that next year — and I did turn it down . . . I’m not even sure if I want to be working. I’m waiting to see what happens.”
Joe Simpson, the father of Jessica Simpson and Ashlee Simpson-Wentz will be producing a comedy for Nickelodeon, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The plot will be loosely based on his experience of raising two girls in Texas. One of the daughters begins to offer advice to her peers in school, mimicking her psychologist father. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the show has yet to be given a name. In the past, Joe has had a producing role in several of Jessica and Ashlee’s projects. He also contributed to the ABC drama “Women’s Murder Club.”
Pete Townshend wants parents to know the kids are alright. At a press conference today, The Who’s legendary guitarist addressed parents groups who believe his role in a 2003 child-pornography sting should automatically disqualify him from performing during this Sunday’s Super Bowl halftime show. “It’s an issue that’s difficult to deal with in sound bites,” said the 64-year-old Townshend. After working through “Behind Blue Eyes” and “Pinball Wizard,” Townshend was asked about his controversial 2003 arrest for accessing a child porn site. Although U.K. authorities determined he did not download any illegal images and he was only given a caution, child-welfare advocates in Florida pressed their objections with the NFL. But the league stood by its choice of entertainment.Townshend, who has a history of campaigning on behalf of various children’s charities, expressed solidarity with his critics. ”I kind of feel like we are on the same side. For a family that has suffered the issue of childhood abuse, or anything of that sort, vigilance is the right start, not vigilantism,” he said.
Tiger Woods has left sex rehab, RadarOnline.com is reporting. According to the site, his wife Elin, 30, joined him earlier this week at the Pine Grove Behavioral Health and Addiction Services clinic in Hattiesburg, Miss.Surrounded by heavy security, the two left together early Friday, according to Radar. The site claims that they are “planning on spending some time alone as they attempt to repair their marriage.” When will Woods return to golf? One venue where Woods might re-emerge is the Accenture Match Play Championship, a five-day competition in Marana, Ariz., that begins Wednesday, Feb. 17.
Actor Willie Garson is officially a father – after having begun the process of adopting his 8-year-old son, Nathen, a year ago. The adoption, fostered by The Alliance for Children’s Rights and Westside Children’s Center, was finalized in Los Angeles on Wednesday, the Sex and the City actor, who currently stars on the USA Network’s White Collar, tells PEOPLE exclusively.
On his Celebrity Fit Club: Boot Camp debut Monday, Kevin Federline grimaces after weighing in at 232 lbs. “I look like a pregnant man right now,” he tells Fit Club’s Dr. Ian Smith. With fellow contestant (and ex-wife) Shar Jackson looking on, Federline, 31, blames “a period of depression” — including a 2006 divorce from Britney Spears — for plumping up. Watch the premiere of VH1’s Celebrity Fit Club: Boot Camp Monday at 9 p.m. (ET).
Kirstie Alley is ready to shed some light — and pounds — on her life in her new reality show, officially announced by A&E Friday morning. Kirstie Alley’s Big Life premieres March 21 at 10 p.m. with back-to-back episodes, says the network in a statement. In addition to chronicling her weight loss battle on TV, the show will also feature her “producing a feature film, patenting multiple inventions, working hard to raise two normal Hollywood teenagers, True and Lillie [her adopted sons with ex Parker Stevenson], taking care of eight ringtail lemurs, and on top of everything, looking for love — nothing like a little pressure,” according to the release.
Britney Spears’ younger sister,Jamie Lynn, is reportedly seeing a new OLDER man she met about a year ago named James Watson who owns a communications company in Louisiana. James has 10 years on Jamie Lynn at 28, but a source says their relationship is going well. “They started dating last December,” the source says. “I don’t think James cares at all about who she is; they really seem to like each other.” But what about Casey, the father of 19-month-old Maddie? “Even when she [Jamie Lynn] was pregnant, she didn’t really see a future with him,” says a friend close to Spears. “She only gave the impression of staying with him so long because it looked better in the eyes of the public.”
Jared Leto and his band, 30 Seconds to Mars, had arrived for an appearance in West Hollywood when a man delivered a strange package and rather chilling message about having explosives. The authorities were contacted, but thankfully it was much ado about nothing. “The bomb squad was called on a suspicious package at 7700 Melrose Avenue and, when they went there, they just found money in the package,” a spokesperson for the LAPD told E! News. “No explosives were found.”
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