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Paris Hilton’s Bad Hair Day Could Cost Her $3.5 Million

August 19th, 2010. By LucyC

Photo: Hairtech

We’ve all had bad hair days—but Paris Hilton, in her usual fashion, has managed to take it to a whole new level. She is reportedly being sued (yes, hard to believe, I know) for wearing the wrong hair extensions. In fact, she’s being sued for breach of contract. And the company wants damages 10 times the amount of the contract…ummm

The suit, and I have not read it personally so caveat emptor, claims that Paris wore a competitor’s hair extensions in 2008, presumably out to an event, instead of those made by Hairtech International Inc. They apparently manufacture a line of hair extensions called “DreamCatchers,” (‘bad dream’-catchers might have been more appropriate) that Paris agreed to front beginning in 2007. The suit also claims that Paris missed a launch party for a new product in 2007 because she was in jail.

FYI, you can see Paris and the—er, her—DreamCatcher hair extensions on the DreamCatcher website. Yes, hard feelings aside, according to the website, it’s not just Paris lending her face to DreamCatchers—it’s “DreamCatchers by Paris Hilton”—which begs the question, Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: Breach of Contract, Dreamcatchers, Hair Extensions, Paris Hilton
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So Where are those Lilo Strip Search Pics?

July 27th, 2010. By LucyC

If it’s Tuesday, it must be time for a Lilo update! For those of you who do not follow TMZ on a regular basis—that would include me—Lilo is shorthand for Lindsay Lohan—God forbid we should use full names. (I wonder what birth certificates will read like in 10 years time or less). I digress.

So Lilo (which could read as Lie Low—a cryptic source of good advice that has clearly not met with success) is, as predicted in my blog last week, remaining front and center in mainstream media during her incarceration at the infamous Lynwood Correctional Facility.

The Lynwood facility has a couple of claims to fame, as it turns out, the first being that it’s housed celebutantes Paris Hilton, Nicole Ritchie and others, for similar convictions that basically involve too much alcohol, reckless driving, skipping rehab, blah, blah, blah…we all know the script.

But the jail’s second claim to fame is that it is involved in a class action lawsuit over allegations that prison staff illegally strip searched female inmates, strip and body cavity searches actually. Interestingly, a similar lawsuit was recently settled in favor of the plaintiffs, in Franklin County, MA.

According to TMZ, the Lynwood suit alleges that the “female inmates are strip searched in Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: Lindsay Lohan
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OMG Orange is SO not Lindsay’s color! Lohan off to jail…

July 20th, 2010. By LucyC

Girls behaving badly…and speaking of Miss Lohan, she’s off to jail today, a Los Angeles jail that’s attained a certain notoriety of late for having housed Nicole Richie, Paris Hilton and Michelle Ridriguez—role models all.

In fact, media reports indicate it was a mob scene outside the jail when Miss Lohan showed up—10 minutes late in a black stretch limo, family in tow—(they’re always around for the photo ops) to serve a 90-day stint resulting from a variety of charges which include violating probation by missing seven alcohol education classes in December 2009, which resulted from her pleading guilty to misdemeanor drug charges and no contest to three driving charges. Still with me?

I have to say, Lindsay was looking a little worse for wear this morning… but who wouldn’t be? It must be fairly harrowing to be recalled from Cannes to a Los Angeles courtroom to answer for violating probation, and then find yourself actually, really going to jail after all. That’s rather grown-up stuff. But then she is 24.

And the entire ordeal is taking place in mainstream media in real time. $Cha Ching$…TMZ was streaming live video from the jail entrance. Even her fans are prospering. One man outside the prison was wearing a pink T-shirt which read “Free Lindsay,” and the press lined up to interview him. So does this make it official—has Lindsay Lohan graduated from cause celeb to Cause?

Maybe there will be a telethon to raise awareness of the problems Lindsay and her Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: Lindsay Lohan
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