Katherine Heigl want to get out of her contract on ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ to pursue a movie career. After starring in ‘Knocked Up’ and ‘27 Dresses’ which did well at the box office, Katherine believes she has outgrown the small screen.
“Katherine has even suggested to ‘Grey’s’ producers that they kill her character Dr. Izzie Stevens in dramatic fashion so her exit could bring in huge ratings,†a friend told The National Enquirer.
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Lindsay Lohan fears becoming an out-of-work, has-been of an actress and for good reason: that’s where her career is heading.
Offers of acting roles have stopped coming in after the 21-year-old was arrested for driving under the influence twice, spent time in rehab and jail and was chastized by a studio boss for her wild party girl ways.
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Ashlee Simpson says she’s gotten a diamond ring, a “promise ring”, from her boyfriend Pete Wentz. Yes, you read that right - a PROMISE ring. Remember those? You got like seven of them back in the 7th grade. Which describes the emotional age of Ashlee and Pete. Ah, young love…
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Whatever Michael Jackson is paying his lawyers must be worth it, because it’s coming out that he might be able to keep kiddie-bait Neverland Ranch after all:
“Michael Jackson’s ranch is not going to be auctioned off at the courthouse,” the Jackson insider said. “The financing is all being worked out.”
“There are plenty of lenders willing to work with him. The real estate market is very bad right now and Jackson is being affected just like many other Americans,” the source said. […]
The real estate source said other options are available to Jackson, including selling the ranch directly to another party or making a payment on his $24.5 million Neverland debt that would satisfy the trustee.
The recorder’s Web site also reveals there was a release of lien on Jackson on February 4, showing he paid off all or part of delinquent taxes to the state of California.
“It seems unlikely that someone would pay off back taxes, only to let the ranch go up for auction a few weeks later,” said the real estate source.
Jackson has not lived at Neverland since June 2005, after a Santa Barbara County jury found him not guilty of child molestation charges.
News is that he is also missing payments on his family’s Los Angeles home:
Public documents show Michael Jackson has repeatedly failed to make mortgage payments on a Los Angeles home that has been used for years by his family.
Documents filed with the Los Angeles County Recorder’s Office indicate the reclusive pop star was most recently in default last month on the property in Encino, an area in the San Fernando Valley.
The singer had $153,910 in missed payments as of Jan. 17 on a $4 million loan serviced by Pasadena-based mortgage lender IndyMac Bancorp. Documents dated Feb. 7 show the notice of default was withdrawn.
Documents also show Jackson previously faced possible default over missed payments on the home in April and August.
And even if he does find a way out of this, he’s still in deep doody:
According to experts, Jackson could be very much on the hook with the Internal Revenue Service for around $5 million in capital gains taxes. In other words: His home would be gone, but he’d still be significantly in debt.
The reason for this is: Jackson bought Neverland for between $12 million and $14 million back in 1988. If it sells for the full amount owed, $24.5 million, there’s a conceivable difference of $10 million.
According to California law, Jackson would then be taxed on that money as if he’d sold the property and it was income. According to a California state-sponsored Web site, www.ftb.ca.gov, Jackson would be liable for this money. A ballpark figure could be as much as $5 million.
To add insult to injury, the Neverland auction, as it stands, will take place on the steps of the Santa Barbara County courthouse. The auctioneer likely will be a representative from Financial Title Company of San Francisco.
Bidders will have to come with cashier’s checks for the amount they want to offer. Once the bidding begins, Fortress Investments — the original lender and beneficiary of the bid — can’t stop it. Someone will win Neverland.
The good news is that once a bid is accepted, Jackson is no longer the debtor. If Fortress accepts a lower bid than $24.5 million, Jackson is not liable for the balance. The debt is cleared.Â
Neverland has been in default since October 19. He had ninety days to fix this, but did not.Â
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So let me get this straight. MJ doesn’t work, doesn’t want to work (among others, he recently turned down a series of concerts at London’s Millennium Dome for a reported $1M each), sales of his re-release of Thriller are off, he lives off the kindness of friends, and he has people lined up to loan him money?
Where can I get these people? Because where I come from (hereafter to be known as “The Real World”), if you refuse to work and have no money, people do not stand in line to give you more money. If you do not have money to pay off your bills, then you don’t go shopping for new things until the bills are paid off. I need a vehicle to drive out-of-state, so do I now march down to the bank and ask for more money, borrow more than I can reasonably make payments on, conveniently forget to pay it back, and when they turn up wanting their money I just go to a different bank and take out more, starting the whole cycle over again? If I did that for long, I’d be homeless, broke, and probably in jail.
Let’s face it…all Michael has his lawyers do is shuffle papers around. There’s no real money, just papers with figures. I mean, there are decent, hardworking people all over America losing their homes to foreclosure through no fault of their own, but rather to a sagging economy or layoffs or illness…if they could work to pay off their debts, they would. And then you have this guy. Let’s let Joe Schmoe try showing up at the local credit union with some papers detailing his “financial assets,” or let him go to the local bank and tell them he doesn’t have a job, he doesn’t want to have a job, he is living in a house loaned to him, but he wants the bank to give him a bunch of money, and see what happens. Fun for the whole family!
I still say he should sell it to Britney Spears. Two problems solved with one fell swoop!
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Two doctors are being investigated in the death of actor Heath Ledger. Federal drug authorities are looking into the drugs prescribed, because Heath’s death was blamed on an accidental mixture of prescriptions:
The doctors - one in California, one in Texas - are believed to have supplied the “Brokeback Mountain” star with the powerful painkillers Oxycontin and Vicodin, law enforcement sources said. Authorities want to know if the drugs were prescribed illegally. “It’s an ongoing investigation,” a law enforcement source told The News Tuesday. “It’s not clear if there was any wrongdoing.”
The revelation came more than a month after the 28-year-old Australian heartthrob’s naked body was found in his SoHo loft.
The city’s medical examiner ruled Ledger died on Jan. 22 of an accidental overdose of six prescription drugs, including the two painkillers, sleeping pills and anti-anxiety medication. The federal Drug Enforcement Administration has subpoenaed the medical examiner’s findings as part of its probe into the doctors, the sources said.
Do they always have to say he was found naked? Like that in and of itself is some sort of crime or weirdness. Lots of people sleep naked.
It may or may not be that these doctors are guilty of any wrongdoing. However, it is only prudent of physicians to check what prescription or OTC medications a patient is already taking, and writing new prescriptions accordingly or advising patients on the safety of taking one medication with another. Heath may or may not have told his doctors of any other medications he was taking. It may come out that he purposefully obtained the prescriptions without the doctors knowing of each other. Or, it might be as simple as he just didn’t realize the dangers of taking one with the other.
Heath had fought a long battle with drug use, but by all accounts he was trying to get clean when he died, and illegal drugs played no part in his death. He also suffered from severe insomnia, which led him to take a prescription sleep aid that turned out to be not much help to him. Plus, at the time of his death, he was suffering from pneumonia, which undoubtedly weakened his immune system.
Always check with your doctor before mixing any sorts of medications, and make sure you know what you’re taking and what it does to your body.
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