Lindsay Lohan has been calling retailers and designers who have successfully lent her clothes and jewelry in the past (that means she returned the items without a fight) and asking them to vouch for her in court. Needless to say the idea of validating Lindsay’s honesty and good intentions in a courtroom simply isn’t all that appealing to most of them, and they are avoiding her calls.
Naomi Campbell’s arrogance and self-interest seems to have no bounds. The gorgeous supermodel is already disliked for her petulant temper tantrums – now she’s been caught lying in court. She whined about how “inconvenient” it was because she was forced to testify at the war crimes trial of Charles Taylor, the former president of Liberia accused of atrocious war crimes. Prosecutors are trying to prove Taylor’s connection to “blood diamonds” that funded the civil war that left 100,000 dead. In 1997 Naomi was seated next to Taylor at a dinner hosted by Nelson Mandela and Taylor became smitten with the model. Later that night a pouch of diamonds was delivered to Naomi’s room. Campbell swore she didn’t know WHO sent them – and didn’t ASK the delivery people. Naomi bragged in court “ It’s not unusual for me to get gifts – I get them all the time, sometimes in the middle of the night.” Unfortunately for HER, two other people at that dinner remember things differently. Campbell’s former agent is set to testify that she heard Taylor tell Naomi that he was going to send her diamonds “and she seemed excited about it.” Another guest, Mia Farrow remembers Naomi telling her at breakfast the next day that Charles Taylor had sent her a huge diamond. The prosecution hopes their testimony will link Taylor to the diamonds in question. It certainly looks like Naomi Campbell lied under oath.
We were SHOCKED to learn that Scientologist John Travolta has admitted in court at his extortion trial in the Bahamas, that his son Jett was autistic and suffered from a seizure disorder common to the disease. This is a very big turnaround! John always insisted that Jett had something called Kawasaki disease caused by toxins in his carpet. Scientology doesn’t believe autism is a real disorder so Jett was never treated for autism. Travolta’s courtroom confession is a huge SLAP IN THE FACE to Scientology. Has John finally realized that Scientology doesn’t know it ALL? In recent weeks John has supposedly been deep in despair and contemplation, depressed over Jett’s death. (Feeling guilty perhaps, for not acknowledging and treating his son’s autism?) Maybe, just maybe, he is coming to his senses about Scientology. And not a minute too soon.
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The countdown begins. Rihanna is scheduled to testify in court against her (ex? we’re not so sure…) boyfriend Chris Brown next Monday on June 22. Chris’s lawyer failed to get the date postponed so the show must go on, and it will be QUITE a drama. Meanwhile Rihanna is still in New York – she’s pictured here leaving her hotel with considerable fanfare. Judging by those red pointed nails, she’s sharpening her claws for SOMETHING.