TV pitchman Donald Lapre dies in apparent suicide in federal custody

A U.S. Marshals Service spokesman says a Phoenix-based TV pitchman charged with running a nationwide scheme to sell essentially worthless Internet-based businesses has died in an apparent suicide while in federal custody. Spokesman Matt Hershey says Donald Lapre was found dead in his cell at a Florence facility Sunday morning. His trial was scheduled to begin Tuesday. Hershey says the death remains under investigation. A grand jury indicted Lapre in June on 41 counts of conspiracy, mail fraud, wire fraud and promotional money laundering. He was accused of overseeing and promoting the opportunity through his company called "The Greatest Vitamin in the World." The government says at least 220,000 victims in the scheme were defrauded of nearly $52 million.

Tupac Shakur Sex Tape Comes Up For Sale

A five minute explicit sex tape featuring Tupac Shakur will be coming to the market. An unnamed individual is taking offers for the tape, which was shot in 1991. The scene features a bunch of groupies in the living room of a house, went to Tupac walks into the room with his pants down. One of the women in the room begins to perform oral sex on Tupac, as he dances around to an unreleased song, while being pleasured. During the explicit scene, Digital Underground group member Money B. walks over to Tupac, who puts his arm around Money B., while he receives oral sex, smoking a blunt.


Madonna Booked for Super Bowl
Madonna just may burn the Super Bowl up with her love, as the rumored halftime performer at the February 2012 NFL championship game. Though unconfirmed by the NFL, sources as saying that Madonna has been booked as the halftime act for Super Bowl XLVI. As such, she follows in the footsteps of, most recently, the Black Eyed Peas, The Who, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty and Prince.




Thomas Jane Says He Turned Gay Tricks as a Homeless Teen Actor
Thomas Jane's fictional character in HBO's Hung moonlights as a male prostitute, and now the actor has revealed that he experimented in the sex industry too when he was a struggling teenage actor. "When I was a kid out here in L.A., I was homeless, I didn't have any money and I was living in my car. I was 18. I wasn't averse to going down to Santa Monica Boulevard and letting a guy buy me a sandwich. Know what I mean?" said Jane in an interview with the L.A. Times, referring to the predominately homosexual Los Angeles enclave of West Hollywood. "Hey, you grow up as an artist in a big city, as James Dean said, you're going to have one arm tied behind your back if you don't accept people's sexual flavors," Jane explained, comparing his pre-fame money making attempts to that of another Hollywood heart throb. "You're a lot more open to experimentation as a young man. And for me, being a young artist and broke in Los Angeles, I was exploring my sexual identity," Jane went on to say. "And probably because of my middle-class, white blue-collar upbringing, I would have never had the opportunity to confront some of my own fears and prejudices had I not been hungry enough to be forced to challenge myself in that way." The remarkably candid confession from the actor came in response to backlash he had gotten from the gay media over a previous interview. "I think they took my comment that it would be the last year of the show when I ended up with a (penis) in my mouth, think they took that comment to be anti-gay. And then I got a chance to explain myself a little further, and I think people respected the explanation that I gave," he told the L.A. Times. "And then you actually have a choice, and I chose to be a heterosexual guy because that's what my DNA dictates and my nurture dictates that I am," said Jane, whose divorce from actress Patricia Arquette was finalized in June despite the couple's attempts at reconciliation.

Seth Rogen Weds

The 50/50 star tied the knot with his longtime girlfriend, writer Lauren Miller, in Sonoma County, Calif. The wedding took place in front of family and friends overlooking a vineyard. Guests included Rogen's frequent costars Jonah Hill Adam Sandler, Paul Rudd, among others. Rogen, 29, and Miller, 30, have been a couple since meeting in 2004, when he was a staff writer on The Ali G Show. They have been engaged since September of last year.

Jenna Fischer Welcomes a Son

Fischer, 37, and husband Lee Kirk welcomed son Weston Lee. Fischer, whose character Pam has a daughter and is expecting a son with TV husband Jim Halpert on the show, first revealed she was pregnant in May. Fischer and Kirk were engaged in 2009 while both were vacationing in Europe and got married in July 2010, with Survivor's Jeff Probst officiating the ceremony.

ESPN pulls 'Monday Night Football' intro

ESPN pulled Hank Williams Jr.'s classic intro song from its broadcast of Monday night's NFL game after the country singer famous for the line ''Are you ready for some football?'' used an analogy to Adolf Hitler in discussing President Barack Obama. In an interview Monday morning on Fox News' ''Fox & Friends,'' Williams, unprompted, said of Obama's outing on the links with House Speaker John Boehner: ''It'd be like Hitler playing golf with (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu.'' Asked to clarify, Williams said, ''They're the enemy,'' adding that by ''they'' he meant Obama and Vice President Joe Biden. Anchor Gretchen Carlson later said to him, ''You used the name of one of the most hated people in all of the world to describe, I think, the president.'' Williams replied, ''Well, that is true. But I'm telling you like it is.'' ''While Hank Williams Jr. is not an ESPN employee, we recognize that he is closely linked to our company through the open to 'Monday Night Football,''' the network said in a statement. ''We are extremely disappointed with his comments, and as a result we have decided to pull the open from tonight's telecast.'' Williams released a statement through his publicist, saying: ''Some of us have strong opinions and are often misunderstood. My analogy was extreme — but it was to make a point. I was simply trying to explain how stupid it seemed to me — how ludicrous that pairing was. They're polar opposites and it made no sense. They don't see eye-to-eye and never will. I have always respected the office of the president.'' ESPN did not say whether the intro, synonymous with ''Monday Night Football'' since 1989, would be used again after this week's Colts- Buccaneers game. ''Every time the media brings up the tea party it's painted as racist and extremists — but there's never a backlash — no outrage to those comparisons,'' Williams' statement continued. ''Working-class people are hurting — and it doesn't seem like anybody cares. When both sides are high-fiving it on the ninth hole when everybody else is without a job — it makes a whole lot of us angry. Something has to change. The policies have to change.'' ESPN covered the story during ''SportsCenter'' and the pregame show but did not mention the song's absence at the start of the game telecast when fans would normally be hearing ''Are you ready for some football?'' Instead of a music video, viewers just saw clips of both teams and heard a voice-over about the matchup. The song ''All My Rowdy Friends Are Here on Monday Night'' is a remixed version of his 1984 hit ''All My Rowdy Friends are Coming Over Tonight.'' The version won Williams four Emmy Awards in the early 1990s as the opening theme to ''Monday Night Football,'' then on ABC.
 Donald Trump, Jr. and wife Vanessa welcomed son Tristan Milos at 2:59 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 2, the proud dad announced via Twitter. Weighing in at 8 lbs., 4 oz, Tristan joins siblings Donnie John III, 2½, and Kai Madison, 4.

Tone Loc Pleads No Contest To Gun/Domestic Violence Charges

Rapper Tone Loc has pleaded no contest to domestic violence and assault weapons charges related to an arrest on June 18. Los Angeles County prosecutors revealed that the rapper would serve a day in the county jail coupled with three years of probation, 30 days community service and 52 weeks of anger management counseling. The rapper was initially arrested for domestic violence, but an investigation turned up an illegal, unregistered firearm. Tone Loc experienced great success in the 80's as a rap star that performed hits like "Wild Thing" and "Funky Cold Medina." His unique, gravely voice also has allowed him to do some acting work.


Olivia Wilde Divorce Finalized
Olivia Wilde is officially a single woman after a judge signed papers ending her eight-year marriage to an Italian prince. The actress, 27, filed for divorce from Tao Ruspoli in March in Los Angeles Superior Court and got a final judgment on Sept. 29. The pair eloped in 2003 when Wilde was a teen-ager. The star of Tron did not seek spousal support and the former couple reached a private agreement on dividing property.

Third drug arrest for Packers' Jolly

Suspended Green Bay Packers defensive lineman Johnny Jolly was jailed after his third drug arrest in three years. Jolly was charged Saturday with possession of a compound containing codeine. He also was charged with tampering with evidence for attempting to conceal the substance from investigators, according to records. In April, Jolly pleaded guilty to a drug possession charge and was sentenced to probation after striking the deal with prosecutors that wiped out a similar charge from March and spared him any time in prison unless he stumbled again. Jolly had faced up to 20 years in prison if he had been convicted of possessing at least 200 grams of codeine, a controlled substance. That arrest came outside a Houston club three years ago. The plea agreement called for five years of deferred adjudication, a form of probation that allowed the conviction to be removed from his record if he stayed out of trouble. State District Judge Denise Bradley also ordered Jolly to undergo drug treatment at an inpatient facility for 90 days, barred him from going to bars or nightclubs and ordered him not to drink or use drugs while on probation. She also warned Jolly that if he violated any terms of his probation, she'd send him to prison.



TV NEWS
Kevin Hart (Little Fockers) has signed on for a guest-starring role on Modern Family. He’ll play Andre, a new neighbor of Phil Dunphy who happens to be a physician. The 32-year-old comedian will see a familiar face when he begins production on the ABC comedy: He co-starred opposite Sofia Vergara in the 2004 movie Soul Plane. Recently, Hart and his Hartbeat Productions notched an unexpected victory at the box office with his debut standup film Laugh at My Pain, which follows his recent national tour run and a stop in his hometown of Philadelphia. It debuted inside of the box office top 10 ranking and pulled in nearly $2 million, in just 97 theaters, for an impressive per-location gross of $20,619. The film only cost $750,000 to make.



Terra Nova will not get a full season (Fox executives have confirmed that’s out of the cards); the question now is whether the show will get a second season. Expect Fox to air all 12 weeks no matter what.


Will Arnett will perform double duty for the Peacock this TV season. Already the male lead of the freshman NBC comedy Up All Night, Arnett is now officially booked to reprise his 30 Rock character of Devon Banks.



The artist formerly known as Mos Def (he’s just Mos now) makes his Dexter debut next week as an ex-con who claims to have found God.


Perfect Couples star David Walton has booked a guest spot on ABC's Happy Endings. Walton, who co-stars opposite Amanda Peet in NBC's midseason entry Bent, will appear in the Halloween episode, appropriately titled "Spooky Endings." In the fifth episode of the season, set to air Oct. 26, he will play a potential love interest, Harry, for Alex (Elisha Cuthbert). His character is a fellow partygoer the gang meets at a warehouse Halloween party.