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KIM Kardashian’s infamous sex tape hit the headlines again earlier this week – when it was valued at a whopping £18million.

In 2007, the newlywed socialite’s hotel room romp with then-boyfriend and R’n’B singer Ray J became a huge hit when it leaked on to the internet.

Despite her best efforts to keep the 39-minute clip private, Kim’s video has now been viewed millions of times worldwide.

And it has made her a pretty penny in the process. She’s grossed £3million from it after striking a deal with the current rights holders.

And in tribute to the saucy clip here are ten more celebs whose bedroom antics have been exposed on the internet.

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1) Paris Hilton

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Hotel heiress Paris Hilton filmed herself getting frisky in a hotel room with then-boyfriend Rick Salomon.

The blonde was just a small-time socialite before 1 Night in Paris emerged in 2004.

But afterwards she emerged as a reality TV star, singer, model, fashion designer and author.

As for Salomon, he subsequently tied the knot with another sex tape queen – Pamela Anderson. The union wasn’t successful though – lasting just ten weeks.

2) Pamela Anderson

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If anyone was ever likely to have a sex tape, it was always going to be pneumatic Baywatch star Pamela Anderson.

In fact, she has two.

Her debut was one of the first to kick-start the internet celebrity sex tape trend. Her clip featured then-hubby Tommy Lee and their saucy honeymoon antics following their 1998 wedding.

She followed that up with another clip in 2005, showing her and Bret Michaels from band Poison.

3) Jordan

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Attention-seeker Jordan and her former boyband lover Dane Bowers had their sizzling home video nabbed from the flat they shared and leaked on to the net during their two-year relationship in the late nineties.

The couple split in 2000, but while Another Level singer Dane has disappeared, Jordan – real name Katie Price – has redefined what it is to be a reality star.

4) Abi Titmuss

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Former nurse Abi was filmed getting down and dirty with ex-TV presenter boyfriend John Leslie and an unidentified woman in 2000.

The 16-minute raunchy recording was released online in 2003 and shot her into the lads’ mag stratosphere.

She has since attempted to redefine herself as a serious actress – once starring as Lady Macbeth in Lowestoft, Suffolk.

5) Jennifer Lopez

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Jennifer Lopez and her then-husband shot some steamy footage on their honeymoon in 1997.

But despite ex Ojani Noa’s best efforts it will never see the light of day.

While a few snippets of the romp have appeared on the net, a Los Angeles judge ordered the entire film to be handed over to the court and locked in a safe deposit box in June.

6) Kendra Wilkinson

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Playmate Kendra Wilkinson famously dated 85-year-old Playboy founder Hugh Hefner for five years.

But her sex tape was filmed before she hit the big time.

The clip was made in 2003, when she was 18 and released in May 2010.

7) Verne Troyer

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Better known as Mini-Me from the Austin Powers films, Verne filmed a dirty video with former live-in girlfriend Ranae Shrider in 2008.

But his full-sized lover leaked the 50-minute video to the public.

8) Colin Farrell

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The Irish bad-boy actor and ex-Playboy Playmate Nicole Narain documented 13 minutes of naughty nookie in 2006. Colin sued Nicole over the tape’s release, insisting the pair had agreed to keep the footage to themselves.

Colin won the case and successfully blocked the tape from distribution, but leaked copies found their way on to the internet nevertheless.

9) Fred Durst

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Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst made millions from his sex tape.

Footage of him and an unknown woman having sex was stolen from his computer.

He sued a number of websites who published it without his permission and bagged a whopping £43million in damages.

10) Dustin Diamond

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If ever there was a sex tape that never deserved to see the light of day it is American actor Dustin Diamond’s sordid 2007 romp.

The small-time actor hoped the release of Saved By The Smell in 2007 would resurrect his career a decade after sitcom Saved By The Bell, in which he played Screech, had ended.

But it did exactly the opposite.

Colleceted From- http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/3788626/10-Most-Shocking-br-Celebrity-sex-tape-scandals.html#ixzz2PElYFkQL

A letter from a “lost” Marilyn Monroe to mentor Lee Strasberg and one from an irritated John Lennon to Linda and Paul McCartney are among hundreds of historical objects set to be auctioned on May 30.

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It is part of the second in a series of auctions intended to sell about 3,000 artifacts from an anonymous collector.

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The first auction was a “blockbuster sale,” with a Vincent van Gogh letter selling for $336,000 and a Thomas Jefferson letter that sold for $300,000, according a news release announcing the latest auction. The auctions are being run by Profiles in History.

The upcoming auction includes letters and manuscripts from historical figures including George Washington, Dwight D. Eisenhower and Ernest Hemingway.

One of the letters already garnering buzz is a despair-filled letter on Hotel Bel-Air stationary from Marilyn Monroe to her mentor and legendary acting coach, Lee Strasberg.

The letter began, “Dear Lee, I’m embarrassed to start this, but thank you for understanding and having changed my life. Even though you changed it I still am lost. I mean I can’t get myself together.”

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“You once said the first time I heard you talk at the actors studio that ‘There is only concentration between the actor and suiside [sic],” she wrote.

“My will is weak but I can’t stand anything. I sound crazy but I think I’m going crazy,” she added. “It’s just that I get before a camera and my concentration and everything I’m trying to learn leaves me. Then I feel like I’m not existing in the human race at all.”

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Another letter on the block is an angry and sarcastic letter from John Lennon to Linda and Paul McCartney.

“I was reading your letter and wondering what middle aged cranky Beatle fan wrote it. I resisted looking at the last page to find out,” Lennon wrote. He ventured a few guesses and then wrote, “What the hell – it’s Linda?”

PHOTOS: Remembering John Lennon

The Lennon letterhead has a circular image of Lennon and Yoko Ono almost touching lips.

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The Lennon letter is expected to fetch between $40,000 and $60,000 and the Monroe letter is expected to take in between $30,000 and $50,000.

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Some of the items from the auction will be on display at Douglas Elliman’s Madison Avenue Gallery from April 8-16. The online auction will take place May 30.

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Collected from-http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2013/03/letters-from-a-lost-marilyn-monroe-angry-john-lennon-to-be-auctioned/

 

 

With five tweets, singer Justin Timberlake made several lucky fans’ dreams come true.

Fans didn’t walk –  they ran when the Grammy winning superstar tweeted on Friday that he was hiding signed copies of his new album “The 20-20 Experience” in various places around the U.S.

“It’s friday and I ain’t got $h*t to do! Sooo I placed 5 signed vinyls around the country! #staytuned#finderskeepers,” Timberlake tweeted.

The clues came in the form of Instagram photos with the first taken in New York City’s Central Park.

Skyler Green wasted no time.

“I ran from my house a few blocks away…saw the album…(I’m) very excited,” Green said.

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To prevent people from just snatching the albums, Timberlake’s record label representatives were nearby.

Whoever picked up the album had to confirm the hashtags Timberlake gave in the twitter clue.

Other albums were hidden in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago and Memphis near Timberlake’s hometown.

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Abby Rutgens found one on a park bench in Chicago.

“It’s more special because you know that it came from him,” Rutgens said.

There’s no doubt the 32-year-old is a music marketing megastar as well.

“Timberlake is no fool.  He grew up in this business,” said Joe Levy, editor of Billboard magazine.

Leading up to his album’s release, he performed at the Grammys, “Saturday Night Live” and even appeared on “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” for a whole week.

The strategy is now stirring-up sales through social media.

“When people are talking about your music and how much they love it and how they want to find copies of it, then other people are going to see that and they might go, well…buy a copy, ” Levy said.

On Friday, Timberlake congratulated the fans who found the signed albums.

“Congrats to my 5 winners! Maybe we’ll do something like this again soon… #youneverknow#staytuned #bestfansever,” he tweeted.

 

 

Lindsay Lohan may still have a 90-day rehab sentence to get out of the way, but not before she keeps her commitment to David Letterman.

E! News has exclusively learned that the actress is still scheduled to be on the Late Show on April 9.

Meanwhile, the 26-year-old is keeping herself busy in Brazil, where she is earningaround $100,000 to promote John John Denim.

As part of her gig, Lohan did an interview with TV Caras. But she didn’t just talk about the John John brand.

The Liz & Dick star recalled how she was invited to sit down for a meal with none other than, yep, Elizabeth Taylor.

“I got a call from her once before she passed, God rest her soul, and she sent me a diamond ring of hers,” Lohan said. “She said she wanted to have me for dinner, but I was too scared to go. I was too nervous.”

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Okay, so she was only 11 when Brad kissed her in Interview with the Vampire — but there have been plenty of other uncomfortable onscreen smooches!

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Who wouldn’t want to kissBrad Pitt? Answer: Kirsten Dunst — at least, when she was 11 years old. The actress, now 30, shared her first-ever kiss with Pitt in the 1994 filmInterview with the Vampire. It was “just a peck,” she now recalls, but she didn’t exactly enjoy it.

“Everyone at the time was like, ‘You’re so lucky you kissed Brad Pitt,’ but I thought it was disgusting,” she tells Bullett magazine. “I didn’t kiss anyone else until I was 16, I think. I was a late bloomer.”

It’s okay, Kirsten — lots of actors have to grit their teeth through kissing scenes! Below, five onscreen make-out sessions that apparently weren’t as fun as they looked.

Emma Watson and Rupert Grint in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2

Fans had to wait for the final Harry Potter film to see Hermione and Ron finally smooch. But the actors just wanted to get it over with! “The only good side to it was the fact that we were both in the same boat,” Watson told MTV News. “We were both just like, ‘Oh my God, I can’t believe we have to do this. This is so awkward. Really awkward.’ So I could take comfort in the fact that Rupert felt the same way. We were both giggling. We were like 12-year-olds. We were like giggling children where you just couldn’t keep it together.”

Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger in Brokeback Mountain

Jake and Heath’s cowboy romance heated up the screen, but on the set, it was a different story. “When it came to doing love scenes and stuff like that, the best metaphor I can give is that it felt like we were both like, ‘Are you ready? Yeah. Let’s go,’ and we dove off the boat into the deep end,” Gyllenhaal told About.com. “It’s like when you’re terrified of the water, you see a little kid thrown in the water and they’re trying to get back to the boat as fast as they can. That’s what it was like. But at the same time when we were there we really went for it.”

Blake Lively and Taylor Kitsch in Savages

TV veterans Kitsch and Lively didn’t have a lot of experience with R-rated love scenes when they shot one for their 2012 Oliver Stone film. “It’s very awkward to do, you know, and I was just glad it was over with, to be honest,” Kitsch told People. “God knows we had two weeks of rehearsal, so we talked until we were about to pass out, and then [we shot the sex scenes] on the day I think I knew Blake three days … four days maybe.”

Lea Michele and Cory Monteith on Glee

Considering that these two would be a real-life couple within a year, you’d think that their big “first time” scene on Glee would have inspired sparks. Apparently not. “I adore Cory. He’s like my brother and to have to do some of the stuff we did in front of our entire crew…it’s so less sexy than you think,” Michele told E! News. “Really, we were in a room with like 20 people around us, sitting by the fireplace. He was sweating so much. I was so grossed out!”

Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner in Twilight: Eclipse

Kissing Robert Pattinson was obviously not an issue for Stewart. Kissing Lautner, though — that was less romantic. “As soon as we finished, as soon as we pulled away and they called cut, she’d look at me and I’d look at her and there would be a moment of silence,” Lautner told Access Hollywood. “And she would go: We just kissed!”

Collected from-http://www.ivillage.com/kirsten-dunst-says-first-kiss-brad-pitt-was-disgusting/1-a-530978

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Taylor Swift’sRed‘ Tour: Her Amps Go Up to 22
Best fan sign at last night’s Taylor Swift show in Newark, New Jersey: “I Newark Were Trouble.” Second best: “Don’t Listen to Poehler & Fay [sic], You’re Great in Every Way!” Bonus points to the two girls shaking booty outside the venue, hoping for tickets, waving giant cardboard 2’s (because they’re feelin’ 22) and wearing homemade “Not a Lot Going On at the Moment” T-shirts, dancing around the parking lot to a boombox blasting Red. I hope they got in. Because what a massively excellent show.

Seeing Taylor Swift live in 2013 is seeing a maestro at the top of her or anyone’s game. No other pop auteur can touch her right now for emotional excess or musical reach – her punk is so punk, her disco is so disco. The red sequins on her guitar match the ones on her microphone, her shoes and 80 percent of the crowd. Her set is mostly new songs from Red, the slickest, smartest and just plain best mega-pop statement of our time. She’s a master of every rock-star move, except the one about dialing it down a notch. But who would ever want that? (Besides the whiny exes she keeps writing songs about?) “Hi, I’m Taylor,” she said by way of an introduction. “I write songs about my feelings. I’m told I have a lot of feelings.” You are told this accurately, Taylor.

Playlist: Rolling Stone Readers’ Favorite Taylor Swift Songs

Nobody can touch her for fan hysteria, either – when Taylor announced, “Thirteen thousand of you opted into hearing about my feelings for the next two hours!,” she set off the loudest screaming I’ve heard since the last time I saw her, at the end of her 2010 tour, reaching ungodly levels of girl-shriek saturation. The audience is part of the show, with their homemade red costumes, placards, Lite Brite codes and more glowsticks than an Inspiral Carpets reunion. For most of them, Taylor is the first girl they’ve seen play a guitar, a signifier that cannot be denied. When she said, “I look into this audience and I see a lot of creativity,” it got one of the loudest cheers of the night. She also explained to the younger fans what a 12-string guitar is. “It has twice as many strings as a regular guitar. So that’s your math for the night.” Educational!

On her last tour, she took the stage to Tom Petty‘s “American Girl”; this time it was Lenny Kravitz’s version of “American Woman,” a neat contrast. Right before she went on, her mom was escorted down the aisle near my section, causing a major fan commotion. (I haven’t seen so much love for a rock parent since Springsteen brought his mama onstage for “Dancing in the Dark.”) But the coolest pre-show moment was seeing the crowd go ballistic for Icona Pop‘s hipster-disco club hit “I Love It.” If you wondered how it would sound to hear several thousand tweens chant “You’re from the Seventies, but I’m a Nineties bitch,” now you know. Nineties bitches, consider yourselves warned.

Once the lights went out, the screaming never flagged, and neither did the star. Taylor came out belting “State of Grace” in the same kind of black hat the Edge wore on the Joshua Treetour (which makes sense, since Bono also had a red guitar). For “Holy Ground” she banged the drum solo on a giant glowing cylinder (“She’s rocking out!” the little kid behind me informed her mom. “She’s rocking ooouuut!”) “Mean” began with a rustic interlude, just Tay plucking her banjo center stage, and Ed Sheeran held his own in “Everything Has Changed,” while “22” got a breakdance and a snippet of the “Paid in Full” beat until everyone felt so 22 it hurt.

But the best moment was the double-shot of “I Knew You Were Trouble” into “All Too Well.” She turned “Trouble” into a blast of razzle-dazzle choreography in fancy-dress masquerade-ball mode. Then she sat alone to play “All Too Well,” her most majestic ballad, just a girl and her piano and several thousand other girls singing along. It was the highlight of a show that was nothing but highlights.

Seeing Taylor onstage now is just like seeing Morrissey in 1992 – that same level of total commitment, total fan fervor, total connection between audience and performer. I’ve compared Taylor to Morrissey many times, but no other performer really hits that same pitch of happy/free/confused/lonely hormonal anguish with so much wit and empathy. Moz sang “the sun shines out of our behinds,” Tay sings “people throw rocks at things that shine,” but they’re coming from the same place. (People said lovin’ you was like red, and they were half right.) They share the conviction that their moods are the universe and
expressing them is the reason the universe exists. This is a useful conviction for a singer to have, even if it’s more dangerous for the rest of us. But Taylor wears it like a true arena-rock goddess at an amazing peak.

Set list:

“State of Grace”
“Holy Ground”
“Red”
“You Belong With Me”
“The Lucky One”
“Mean”
Stay Stay Stay
“22”
“Starlight”
“Everything Has Changed”
“Begin Again”
“Sparks Fly”
“I Knew You Were Trouble”
“All Too Well”
“Love Story”
“Treacherous”
“We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together”

Collected from-http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/blogs/pop-life/taylor-swifts-red-tour-her-amps-go-up-to-22-20130328

  Ashley Judd announced Wednesday that she won't be running for Senate after all

Ashley Judd announced Wednesday that she won’t be running for Senate after all

Ashley Judd announced Wednesday that she would not be running for Senate next year against Minority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky).

“After serious and thorough contemplation, I realize that my responsibilities & energy at this time need to be focused on my family,” she said on Twitter as part of a series of tweets explaining her decision and thanking her supporters. “Regretfully, I am currently unable to consider a campaign for the Senate.”

In late January, Judd and husband Dario Franchitti announced their intent to end their marriage after more than 11 years. They have no children together. She’s daughter to singer Naomi Judd and half-sister to singer Wynonna, who is currently on “Dancing With the Stars.”

Rumors that she would run have been swirling for a while, and Judd as recently as last week was telling folks that her mother couldn’t wait to turn her Tennessee garage into campaign headquarters.

“I think that she can be an effective and formidable candidate if she chooses to run, and there may be others that fall into that category, too,” Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear said at a news conference earlier this month, noting that he’d talked to Judd and that she was considering a run.

The actress would have had to establish residency in Kentucky by November to be eligible as a candidate.

Judd on Wednesday thanked those who’d supported her as she pondered.

“I have spoken to so many Kentuckians over these last few months who expressed their desire for a fighter for the people & new leader,” she tweeted. “While that won’t be me at this time, I will continue to work as hard as I can to ensure the needs of Kentucky families are met by returning this Senate seat to whom it rightfully belongs: the people & their needs, dreams, and great potential. Thanks for even considering me as that person & know how much I love our Commonwealth. Thank you!”

Judd currently plays the first lady in “Olympus Has Fallen,” a movie about a terrorist takeover of the White House, with Aaron Eckhart playing the president.

news source – http://www.latimes.com