Michael Jackson’s legal bills may get a tad higher.
A New Orleans law firm is suing the singer for failing to pay nearly $47,000 in legal bills, thesmokinggun.com reported. Schonekas, Winsberg, Evans & McGoey claims it defended Jackson in a “repressed memory” lawsuit filed last November by Joseph Bartucci. Bartucci’s federal complaint claimed he was molested by Jackson over a nine-day period in 1984. The firm represented Jackson for six months then withdrew, citing reasons “sensitive in nature.” Translation?: Where’s our money, Jacko?
Inside TV magazine reports actress Denise Richards let her actor husband Charlie Sheen return to their Agoura Hills, Calif., mansion two weeks ago.
Richards, due to give birth to the couple’s second child this month, filed for divorce on March 2. A close family friend told Inside TV, Sheen’s father “Martin (has) been working overtime trying to persuade his daughter-in-law to give Charlie one more chance.”
Scarlett Johansson won’t stop those jokes about blond actresses after she discussed stem-cell research.
According to the Australian website moviehole.com, Johansson said: “I mean, if they could eliminate diseases like Alzheimer’s and polio, that would be incredible.”
Got to forgive Scarlett for not knowing the polio vaccine was discovered 50 years ago.
Last week, Bob Geldof confirmed the Spice Girls would reunite at the Live 8 benefit concert, but when acts were announced Tuesday the all-girl band was not on the roster.
The group is “furious and embarrassed” by the omission, the Daily Mirror reported. Five concerts in London, Paris, Philadelphia, Rome and Berlin on July 2 will include U2, Sting, Oasis, Mariah Carey, OutKast, Mary J. Blige and Linkin Park among the entertainers.
Live 8 organizers said the Spice Girls were axed because they didn’t “fit the bill” with their pop music style. When questioned about the group’s absence, Geldof said the girls still may appear. “I spoke to them this morning and it’s looking very good,” he said Tuesday.
The Backstreet Boys reunion tour got off to a bad start Tuesday when their tour bus ran over a fan in Dusseldorf, Germany, TeenHollywood.com reported. Julia Wagner, 19, fractured a leg when she was struck by the band’s bus as it drove through a huge crowd at the airport. Two of the band’s members, Nick Carter and Kevin Richardson, visited Wagner in the hospital and promised to make her a VIP guest at Wednesday night’s concert in Cologne.
Alec Baldwin has been cast in a concert version of the Rodgers & Hammerstein musical, “South Pacific,” Variety reported. Baldwin will portray Luther Billis, a womanizing entrepreneur, for the Carnegie Hall benefit June 9.
Tobey Maguire wanted to watch “Star Wars: Episode III – Return of the Sith” so bad he gave three ticket holders $1,500 for their $12 tickets at a Los Angeles theater May 18, Star magazine reported. No word on what Maguire paid for his popcorn and drinks.
– Compiled by Greg Henry from wire and Internet reports
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David Alan Grier will replace Billy Dee Williams in “The Mambo Kings,” headed to Broadway on Aug. 18, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Williams withdrew because of a hip injury.
