It’s all falling apart for the Kardashians. According to the tabloid world, at least. With Kris Jenner divorce chatter heating up, In Touch Weekly now claims Khloe Kardashian and Lamar Odom are in more trouble than ever. And it all stems from the professional baller being spotted recently with two brunettes in Oklahoma City. “He went out the backdoor and it looked like he was about to leave with them,” club patron Teresa Witt tells the magazine. “I immediately wondered, ‘Why is Lamar in an alley in the middle of the night with two gorgeous girls? Did he and Khloé split up?’” They haven’t, but rumors continue to circulate surrounding the Khloe Kardashian and Lamar Odom marriage. Moreover, this wasn’t the first time in the past couple months that Odom has been spotted in the company of other females. “Khloé’s biggest fear is Lamar traveling,” her friend says, referencing Los Angeles Clippers’ road trips. “She knows how he gets with his buddies.” Odom, meanwhile, is only averaging 2.7 points and 4.3 rebounds per game this season.
Shots were fired and police found a 9mm shell casing at the scene . Luckily Jennifer Lacey, Holdsclaw’s ex, wasn’t physically injured. According to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution : An arrest warrant was issued for former basketball star Chamique Holdsclaw on Thursday after a dispute with a woman allegedly turned violent, Atlanta police said. Holdsclaw, 35, of Smyrna, was not in custody Thursday afternoon, according to jail records. The warrant is for aggravated assault, criminal damage to property and reckless conduct, police said. Jennifer Lacy, who described herself as Holdsclaw’s former girlfriend, told police she was working out at a church on Ponce de Leon Avenue on Tuesday when Holdsclaw approached her and said she wanted to put some items in Lacy’s car. According to an incident report obtained by Channel 2 Action News, as Lacy drove from the church she smelled gasoline inside her vehicle and noticed that Holdsclaw was following her. Lacy, who is also a professional basketball player, said she drove to a friend’s house on Hemphill Avenue, at which time Holdsclaw got out of her car with a baseball bat and began smashing the windows in Lacy’s Range Rover, the report said. After breaking the driver’s side window, a rear passenger’s window and the rear window, Holdsclaw produced a handgun, fired inside the SUV and fled the scene, the report said. Holdsclaw played 12 seasons in the WNBA, including one year with the Atlanta Dream, in 2009. She was the No. 1 selection in the 1999 draft, after a four-year career at the University of Tennessee, where she led the Lady Vols to three consecutive national championships. She last played for the San Antonio Silver Stars in 2010. In her autobiography, “Breaking Through: Beating The Odds Shot After Shot,” Holdsclaw describes her childhood in the housing projects of Queens, N.Y., and her battle with depression early in her professional career. She currently serves as a spokeswoman for Active Minds, an organization “dedicated to empowering students to speak openly about mental health in order to educate others and increase help seeking,” according to the group’s website. Lacy, 29, plays for the WNBA’s Tulsa Shock. She played for the Dream in 2008. Well damn…hopefully Chamique gets the anger management help she desperately needs after she turns herself in! Images via tumblr
Nobody saw this clusterf*ck coming!?!? In what may go down as one of Georgia’s dumbest laws, a new immigration check on medical licenses was meant to weed out ‘illegal’ health care workers in the industry. It’s backfired only a week after it was put in place. According to NPR : Hundreds of health care workers in Georgia are losing their licenses to practice because of a problem created by a new immigration law in the state. The law requires everyone — no matter where they were born — to prove their citizenship or legal residency to renew their professional licenses. With too few state workers to process the extra paperwork, licenses for doctors, nurses, pharmacists and other health professionals are expiring. Lisa Durden with the secretary of state’s office says renewing a license used to be a straightforward process and most applications whizzed through. Now, they crawl. Enactment of the law coincided with budget cuts that reduced the office staff by 40 percent. Kelly Farr, Georgia’s deputy secretary of state, says 600 nurses alone have fallen through the cracks. “There’s nothing more frustrating than getting that call from the desperate nurse, knowing … she’s being slowed down because we literally don’t have enough people to click the approve button,” Farr said. While the secretary of state handles licensing of nurses, pharmacists, and veterinarians, Georgia’s medical board is in charge of doctors, physician assistants and even acupuncturists. It’s the same story there. Director LaSharn Hughes says she sent 41,000 letters of notification out on a recent Thursday. “And by Monday, we’d burned up a fax machine,” Hughes said. “We didn’t have the staff. We didn’t have the equipment.” Phones go unanswered. Paperwork piles up. And processing delays, coupled with confusion over the new rules, mean lots of expired licenses. Hughes estimates about 1,300 doctors and other medical practitioners have lost their legal ability to work. Some didn’t submit the required paperwork. Others are stuck in the backlog of applications that haven’t been processed yet. Donald Palmisano Jr. executive director of the Medical Association of Georgia, says the law fixes a problem that never existed — at least not among doctors. “We’re not aware of any undocumented immigrants that are physicians,” Palmisano said. Even D.A. King, an outspoken activist and critic of illegal immigration who helped write the law, agrees. King says the law protects Georgia jobs, but even he believes some parts of the legislation need fixing. A bill that addressed some of the law’s shortcomings died in the last legislative session. “I am not only outraged, but sincerely disappointed and puzzled that our repair legislation was not allowed a vote,” King says. Legislative sponsors of the law didn’t respond to interview requests. Neither did Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal. For now, state licensing offices will keep plowing through the mail containing copies of passports and birth certificates, then checking them against a list of acceptable documents. But that’s where the vetting ends, confirms Kelly Farr and Lisa Durden of the secretary of state’s office. The law says nothing about making sure the documents are genuine. “We really don’t have a way to do that,” says Durden. State officials say the new document requirements haven’t uncovered any undocumented immigrants. Instead, officials say they hope the process itself may discourage people in the country illegally from trying to get licenses in the first place. Good to know all of the illegal practitioners and registered nurses will be caught now! Images via WABE
Demi Moore turns the big 5-0 today. The actress, of course, has been in the news a lot over the past year, though very little of the coverage has had to do with her professional life. Instead, her divorce from Ashton Kutcher continues to make headlines, even after the couple has gone its separate ways. But Moore appears to be moving on. She was recently linked to Martin Henderson and, come on, she can do a lot better than that cheating Two and a Half Men star. So submit your birthday wishes right now for Moore and also for the following celebrities who are turning a year older: Vinny Guadagnino (24), Mark Sanchez (25) and Leonardio DiCaprio (37).
Tom Hanks will make his Broadway debut in a play written by his friend, the late Sleepless in Seattle director Nora Ephron. Hanks will play the late tabloid columnist Mike McAlary in Lucky Guy , Ephron’s play about the charismatic and controversial newspaperman, who worked for both the New York Post and its rival the New York Daily News during the gritty 1980s. According to the New York Times , Ephron, who died in June, first developed Lucky Guy as a movie but later decided to adapt it to the stage. (She last worked on Broadway in 2002 when Imaginary Friend s, her play about the writers Mary McCarthy and Lillian Hellman, opened.) An announcement put out on Thursday by the play’s producers described Lucky Guy as the “rise, fall and rise again” of McAlary who, shortly before succumbing to colon cancer at the age of 41, won a Pultizer Prize in 1998 for his coverage of the Abner Louima police brutality case. Earlier that decade, McAlary came under fire for three columns he wrote questioning the story of a former Yale University student who claimed she’d been raped in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park. The 29-year-old woman hit McAlary with a $12 million libel suit claiming that he damaged her reputation by writing that she fabricated the rape claim to publicize a feminist rally. A judge cleared him of the charges in 1997. Lucky Guy will be directed by George C. Wolfe (Angels in America) and will open on April 1, 2013 at the Broadhurst Theater on West 44th Street for a limited engagement. (Previews will begin March 1.) The Times also reported that, although Hanks has never appeared on Broadway before, he made his professional theater debut as a servant in a Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival production of The Taming of the Shrew . The two-time Oscar winner worked with Ephron in Sleepless in Seattle and You’ve Got Mail. [ New York Times ] Follow Frank DiGiacomo on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.
This is the Jessica Simpson I grew to love. As long as she’s covering herself up from below the chest down, I couldn’t care less how much she weighed. Those puppies are gorgeous. I can’t believe I’m going to say this, but I hope she gains even more weight because in my professional opinion, those funbags haven’t reached their full potential yet.
One of the more talented, respected stars in all of Hollywood turns 31 years old today. And we send our very best wishes to Jennifer Hudson on this special occasion! The Oscar winner and former American Idol finalist has showed truly incredible strength in the face of incomprehensible personal pain over the last few years, following the murders of her mother, brother and nephew. She even said in an interview this week that she can’t totally blame William Balfour for committing the crime. Set to recur on Smash Season 2 in early 2013, the professional future is bright for this singer/actress. We wish her the absolute best. Other famous folks celebrating a birthday today include: Ruben Studdard (34), Benjamin McKenzie (34), Paul Walker (39) and George Jones (81).
As a dig at Kris Humphries, Kim Kardashian appears in a new Kanye West music video just as her current boyfriend is slamming her estranged husband. Following events today in court, however, the reality star may need to come up with more overt ways to bash the heck out of this professional baller. Attorneys for both sides of this failed marriage – Laura Wasser for Kim and Marshall Waller for Kris – appeared before Judge Stephen Moloney in L.A. Superior Court. The goal? To essentially figure out why the heck a 72-day marriage with a prenuptial agreement is taking so long to legally destroy. The answer, according to Waller, is that he simply needs time to collect the evidence that will supposedly prove Kardashian defrauded his client into marriage. And Kardashian’s lawyer isn’t really helping him gather what he needs to. “I don’t want to use the word uncooperative, but they are not making the process easier,” Waller told the judge, adding that he plans to depose 33 witnesses and has so far been unsuccessful in obtaining Kris Jenner’s business records. He said it could take four more months to collect all the discovery he desires. Wasser, meanwhile, has no clue what to make of all this. She says Humphries actually sent a process server with a Nordstrom box to Kardashian’s home. Inside was a deposition request for West. “To say I am frustrated is an understatement,” said Wasser, who has claimed in the past that Humphries is simply dragging out this battle for PR purposes and plans on making him pay the $250,000-plus in legal fees that Kim has accrues so far. She had a simple question for the judge today: “To what end does he want this annulment?” It’s unclear, and it may remain that way for a very long time: Judge Moloney set the next court date at November 28 for a status conference..
His personal life may be a ridiculous mess, but Kris Humphries just got his professional world in order: ESPN reports that the ex-husband of Kim Kardashian has signed a two-year, $24 million contract with the Brooklyn Nets. The 27-year-old power forward averaged career-highs of 13.8 points and 11.0 rebounds per game with that club last season. Does the rich new deal mean Humphries will finally relent in his divorce proceedings, signing his name on the dotted line and legally ending his relationship with Kardashian? It doesn’t seem likely. In the latest development surrounding that bizarre case, Myla Sinanaj has addressed Kim and told her to keep her out of the former couple’s beef. One thing is certain: Humphries will be crashing the boards in Brooklyn, and receiving many more boos on the road, throughout 2012-2013.
His personal life may be a ridiculous mess, but Kris Humphries just got his professional world in order: ESPN reports that the ex-husband of Kim Kardashian has signed a two-year, $24 million contract with the Brooklyn Nets. The 27-year-old power forward averaged career-highs of 13.8 points and 11.0 rebounds per game with that club last season. Does the rich new deal mean Humphries will finally relent in his divorce proceedings, signing his name on the dotted line and legally ending his relationship with Kardashian? It doesn’t seem likely. In the latest development surrounding that bizarre case, Myla Sinanaj has addressed Kim and told her to keep her out of the former couple’s beef. One thing is certain: Humphries will be crashing the boards in Brooklyn, and receiving many more boos on the road, throughout 2012-2013.
