Blackmailing the Stars
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Cindy Crawford and Rande Gerber are the alleged victims of a $100,000 extortion scheme. From Oprah and Elvis to J. Lo and Letterman, threats and legal troubles are just another byproduct of fame. VIEW OUR GALLERY of celebrity shakedowns.
Broadway's Fall Preview
Rachel Syme is culture editor of The Daily Beast.
The new Broadway season has arrived, and Jude Law, Daniel Craig, Hugh Jackman, and Catherine Zeta-Jones take the stage. Rachel Syme on 17 new shows to watch.
Jackson of Arabia
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
Criminal investigations and probate court hearings this week underscore the medical and financial disaster that Michael Jackson became. And many of those roads lead to the pop superstar's bizarre year in the kingdom of Bahrain.
Craziest Concert Costumes
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From Grace Jones' daring performance attire last week to Lady Gaga's fiery cone bra and Katy Perry's extra lucky dress, VIEW OUR GALLERY of music's wildest getups and wackiest wardrobes.
The Ultimate Thriller
Pat O'Brien has been a broadcaster for more than three decades, including many years as the co-host of Access Hollywood and The Insider. A former anchor for CBS Sports, he is also the author of Talkin' Sports: A B.S.-er's Guide. He divides his time among Los Angeles, New York, and Nantucket.
Forget all the scandals and the weirdness, Pat O'Brien says. In the end, what we will remember about the Michael Jackson he knew is the music.
My Friend Iron Mike
Ice-T is a Grammy-award winning rapper, actor, and author, who is credited with pioneering gansta-rap in the late 1980s. He currently plays Detective Odafin Tutuola on NBC’s Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.
I've known Mike Tyson for 15 years. Or at least I thought I did. James Toback's mindbending documentary reveals the vulnerability and madness that nobody's ever seen.
Star Models The Next Generation
Alisa Gould-Simon is a Brooklyn-based freelance writer. She also covers fashion and culture for BlackBook, New York magazine, and PAPER among other publications.
What do you get when you combine a legendary last name (Hemingway, Jagger, Hearst) with an especially fortunate genetic makeup? An instant modeling career. VIEW OUR GALLERY.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Martin Jacques is the cofounder of the UK think tank Demos, writes a regular column for The Guardian, and is a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre. His new book, When China Rules the World, is available now.
Christopher Buckley's books include Supreme Courtship, The White House Mess, Thank You for Smoking, Little Green Men, and Florence of Arabia. He was chief speechwriter for Vice President George H.W. Bush, and is editor-at-large of ForbesLife magazine. His new book is Losing Mum and Pup, a memoir. Buckley's Daily Beast column is the winner of an Online Journalism Award in the category of Online Commentary.
Jeffrey Koterba is an acclaimed syndicated political cartoonist. Since joining the Omaha World-Herald in 1989, he has been a finalist for Editorial Cartoonist of the Year from the National Cartoonists Society and has placed second in the National Headliner Awards. His work is distributed through King Features Syndicate to 400 newspapers nationwide, and has appeared in such publications as the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and the Washington Post, among others.
Leslie H. Gelb, a former New York Times columnist and senior government official, is author of Power Rules: How Common Sense Can Rescue American Foreign Policy (HarperCollins 2009), a book that shows how to think about and use power in the 21st century. He is president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Jacob Bernstein is a senior reporter at The Daily Beast. Previously, he was a features writer at WWD and W Magazine. He has also written for New York magazine, Paper, and The Huffington Post.
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