Foo Fighters' Bid To Get Noticed By Smoking Gun Finally Succeeds
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The Smoking Gun has court papers that document the monthly expenses of the newly money-less Suge Knight, who filed for bankruptcy last year. We're happy to see that Knight no longer has to pay that unfair hotel-dangling state tax, but come on—$800 for dry cleaning? Those Swisher Sweets stains must be really hard to get out.
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The Smoking Gun has just launched TSG TV, a new online-video service that will provide the world with yet another source for watching old-timey celebrities looking buzzed on talk shows. There are only a few music-related clips, though the one must-see is this "video invitation" for Puff Daddy's 1998 birthday party, featuring cameos from the likes of Mariah Carey, Ellen DeGeneres, Ben Stiller, Pat O'Brien, Oprah, Aerosmith and Chris Rock. It's five-and-half-minutes of painful "Oh hey, his name is so funny!" jokes over a non-stop loop of "Mo' Money, Mo' Problems," and while it's monumentally ego-addled, it's still not as horrific as that old "Come With Me" video, which we really urge you to watch all the way through again.
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The Smoking Gun has a copy of Amy Winehouse's May 2006 tour rider, which finds the singer doing little to live down her hard-drinking, hard-smoking, towel-absconding reputation. Among the singer's demands: Two bottles of red wine, a bottle of champagne, 40 "Marlborough" lights and bio-organic yogurt. She also asks for a "sober local crew," which is a lot like asking for an "STD-free roadie."
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The Smoking Gun has the details of a just-filed lawsuit against Keith Urban, a New Jersey oil painter whose keithurban.com website has spurred the similarly named country singer into legal action:
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The Smoking Gun has the details on Mariah Carey's efforts to thwart porn star Mary Carey from trademarking her stage name: Yesterday, Mariah's lawyers filed an opposition with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, claiming that consumers could potentially confuse Mariah with Mary, the star of such porn films as Double Air Bags 11 (you really have to see parts 7 through 9 to catch up on that one). Some of the highlights of the court papers include:
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In what will probably be Kevin Federline's best piece of press all week—and, we swear, our last mention of this ferret-eyed nincompoop forever—The Smoking Gun has published his tour rider. And we're pretty sure who helped him write it up:
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The Smoking Gun has updated its tour-riders section, and once again, the Rolling Stones prove that no one can top them when it comes to backstage bacchanalia. Check out these verbatim demands:More »
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