Paris Stripped of Income

After getting stripped of her $60m inheritance, her reality TV career over and her singing and acting never quite launching off she is back to making money her old way - getting paid just for showing up to events.

Hilton and (sister) Nicky are shopping their partying ways to Las Vegas at the price of around $600,000 for a multiple-day New Year's Eve bash.

The New York Post reports Paris will 'party' at a few spots and Nicky will bless the lucky host with a fashion show of her wares and model herself for the fee.

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Emma Watson in Ballet Shoes

"This is a captivating cast, worthy in every way of Streatfeild's gorgeous book. Emma Watson is a magical young actress, we are thrilled to have her on board."

Emma Watson is to join the cast of a new BBC drama, called "Ballet Shoes".

She plays the role of Pauline, one of three orphans to be adopted by an eccentric explorer, Great Uncle Matthew, according to The Sun.

The series include: Dame Eileen Atkins, Emilia Fox , Gemma Jones , Robert Hardy, Lucy Cohu ,Harriet Walter, Lucy Boynton, Yasmin Paige, Victoria Wood, Richard Griffiths, and Marc Warren.

The cast of the film based on the novel by Noel Streatfeild is "close to perfection," as Patrick Spence, Head of Drama, BBC Northern Ireland said.

Emma also expresses her optimistic side towards working, saying: Let's be honest, I have enough money never to have to work again, but I would never want that. I have a really secure network of family and friends. My parents are both lawyers and have no interest in being part of this industry."

50 Cent Will Quit if Kanye Outsells Him

50 Cent believes that his new album will outsell Kanye West's upcoming disc and he is so positive on this that he's betting his career on it.

�If Kanye West sells more records than 50 Cent on September 11, I'll no longer write music. I'll write music and work with my other artists, but I won't put out any more solo albums.�

The two artists have colaborated in studio previously but their work is not scheduled to appear on any music CDs anytime soon.

50 Cent�s last full-length solo album, �The Massacre,� was the best-selling disc of 2005 and sold more than 1.14 million copies in its first week of release. The same year, West�s �Late Registration� opened by selling more than 860,000 copies in its first week.

Anne Hathaway Making Out On A Yacht

Anne Hathaway and her boyfriend were photographed making out on a yacht in Porto Cervo, Sardinia, Italy. Shame they kept their clothes on ;).

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Lawyers: You never paid us back, Jacko!

Once again, Michael Jackson is accused of not paying his lawyers. This follows the Delaware-based law firm crisis which sued Jacko earlier this year as he refused to pay the $109,994.48 bill allegedly owed to them for acting as "general counsel" in a case against a concert promoter who accused the singer of backing out of two New Year's Eve concerts back in 2000.

Today, a lawsuit was filed in L.A. County Superior Court by the lawyers Lavely & Singer which accused Jacko of owing them $113,750 in legal fees.

No rep for Jackson was available for comment so far.

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Entertainer, Business Man Merv Griffin Dies at 82

Merv Griffin, the worldwide renowned entertainer who turned into an impresario and parlayed his "Jeopardy" and "Wheel of Fortune" game shows into a multimillion dollar empire, has died at the age of 82.
He died of prostate cancer, according to a spokeswoman.

"From his beginning as a $100-a-week San Francisco, California, radio singer, Griffin moved on as vocalist for Freddy Martin's band, sometime film actor and TV game and talk show host. His "The Merv Griffin Show" lasted more than 20 years, and Griffin said his capacity to listen contributed to his success."

After he invented the famous "Jeopardy" and "Wheel of Fortune", he sold the rights to the Columbia Pictures Television Unit for $250m which is where his fortune started from.

He also made it into Forbes' list of richest Americans and later on went into real estate business as "I was never bored of life" - he says.

Top 5 Most Outrageous Celebrity Purchases

I'll go straight to the point- here I found a list of the top most weird, unjustified and arguably silly purchases.

Tom Cruise's new Mansion: After welcoming baby Suri into the beautiful, albeit unusual world of Tom and Katie, the movie star legend decided that his rented LA pad wasn�t fit for Hollywood royalty. Earlier this spring, TomKat purchased a seven-bedroom mansion in Beverly Hills for a whopping $30.5 million.


David and Victoria Beckham's New Beverly Hills Mansion: For neighbours, they have the newly wed Tom and Katie. The soccer star acquisitioned a six-bedroom Italian estate in Beverly Hills. The mansion has 6 fireplaces, 9 bathrooms and a swimming pool.


Beyonce's Expensive Leggings: When she performed a rousing rendition of "Get Me Bodied" at the 2007 BET Awards, the singer arrived in a gold space outfit, with letters spelling Beyonce on the background. As you can see in the photos, she then stripped off her space gear, revealing her $100,000 gold Balenciaga leggings and a matching bra top ! One hundred thousand dollars, wow, some people seriously lack inspiration as to what to do with their money.
But spend them on a pair of leggings..

Victoria Beckham�s New Bentley: This was a gift from Tom Cruise, the Beckham's new neighbour. It arrived at their LA home complete with monogrammed rims, elegantly scripted in Mrs. Beckham's famous initials "VB". The Bentley reportedly costed Tom Cruise $250,000 and is what a welcome gift; it would make anyone's day anyday.

Elizabeth Hurley�s cancelled wedding reception: The British Supermodel and Actress, Elizabeth Hurley expected to be welcomed into her new Hindu Family after marrying her Indian boyfriend, Arun Nayar. However, once everyone's champagne has cleared up their heads, the new in-laws decided to disown their son and his new bride for ostentatious displays of tacky commercialism, and thus cancelled their final wedding reception, which cost nearly $60,000. What a wedding !

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