Nicole Richie Doing Well in Hospital

Actress Nicole Richie is responding well to treatment for pneumonia in a US hospital, her publicist has announced.

The 28-year-old admitted herself to the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles on Wednesday.

Earlier this week, a judge granted her request for a restraining order against two celebrity photographers.

Richie, Paris Hilton’s co-star in TV show The Simple Life and the daughter of singer Lionel Richie, gave birth to a son in September.

She and her partner Joel Madden, a member of rock band Good Charlotte, already have a daughter, who will be two in January.

BBC

Tom Sparks really wipesout, and dies

The death of Tom Sparks, a 33-year-old former TV host from California who was participating as a third-season contestant on ABC’s reality show “Wipeout,” likely was caused by a pre-existing condition, but the Los Angeles County coroner’s office is still examining all possibilities.

Sparks died on November 5 of an apparent stroke that his doctors believe was triggered by a pre-existing disease that causes unnatural blood clotting, according to a statement his father released to the Idaho Mountain Express. Sparks previously had worked in radio in Idaho, according to his résumé.

An autopsy was conducted on November 8, but test results are still pending.

“There’s nothing we can confirm until we look at everything,” the coroner’s office told CNN. “We don’t want to jump to any conclusions yet.”

A source close to the production company that produces “Wipeout” for ABC said that Sparks began to complain of knee pain while running through the first part of an obstacle course challenge during taping on October 19.

Although Sparks was in good spirits, the spokesperson said, producers pulled him from the course. Medics realized he was also experiencing shortness of breath and sent Sparks to a hospital close to “Wipeout’s” set.

CNN

Lisa Niemi speaks of losing Patrick Swayze

The widow of actor Patrick Swayze has spoken about her grief at her first public appearance since his death.

Speaking at the Women’s Conference in Long Beach, California, Lisa Niemi said Swayze’s passing last month left her feeling sadness “on a cellular level”.

“I thought during the 22 months of my husband’s illness that it gave me all this time to get used to the idea of losing him,” she said on Tuesday.

“It wasn’t the same at all. The actual loss is an animal of its own.”

Her husband’s death, she continued, “made all the sadness and grief previous to that look like an intellectual concept”

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MJ’s Kids in Hit & Run

Michael Jackson’s kids are okay after one of the Jackson cars was rear-ended by a paparazzo. The King of Pop’s children were feared to be in the car a pap allegedly rear-ended Wednesday.

Police have confirmed that a photographer and a vehicle owned by the “Thriller” hitmaker’s family were involved in a minor car accident in Los Angeles around 2:20 p.m. Wednesday.

The cars collided while the unnamed paparazzo was trailing the kids - Prince, Paris, and Blanket. According to TMZ, the car that was hit was their security car, which was following the vehicle carrying the kids.

Witnesses said that the driver who stuck the car fled the scene after the accident. Cops have taken a hit-and-run report on the scene.

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Anna Nicole’s Final Days

Anna Nicole Smith was ill, confused and isolated in a hotel room with a cornucopia of prescription drugs in the days before her death, an investigator testified Tuesday in a criminal case stemming from the celebrity model’s overdose death.

California Department of Justice investigator Danny Santiago testified that witnesses said Smith was unable to walk unassisted into the Florida hotel, and she was so weak she could not sit up to drink liquids.

The testimony was presented in a preliminary hearing involving charges that Smith’s former lawyer-boyfriend Howard K. Stern and two California doctors conspired to illegally provide Smith with controlled substances before her drug-overdose death at age 39.

Superior Court Judge Robert J. Perry, who will decide if there is enough evidence to send the case to trial, noted the defendants have not been accused of killing Smith and questioned the relevance when prosecutor Renee Rose asked Santiago about Smith’s cause of death.

“There is not a murder charge,” Perry said. “The cause of death is not an issue.”

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Michael Jackson Doctor Threatened With Warrant Over Child-Support Issue

A Nevada court has recommended that a bench warrant be issued for Dr. Conrad Murray — the cardiologist at the center of the Michael Jackson murder investigation — over more than $13,000 in unpaid child support.

According to the assistant for Clark County Family Court District Attorney David Roger, Murray has until Wednesday to appear in Las Vegas court to answer the charges; if he does not appear before that date, a bench warrant will be issued for his arrest. If Murray does appear and objects to the warrant, a new date will be put on the calendar for the hearing on the child-support matter. As of September 17, Murray was reported to be $13,311.47 in arrears in support payments to former girlfriend Nenita Malibiran, who now lives in California with the couple’s 10-year-old son.

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Suspect Held in ‘Housewives’ Slaying

A strip club worker is being held without bond in the death of a “Real Housewives of Atlanta” cast member’s ex-fiance.

Ashley “A.J.” Jewell died at a hospital after a scuffle with Frederick Richardson outside Body Tap Friday night. Until August, he was engaged to newest cast member Kandi Burruss. He appeared in several episodes of the hit reality show, which follows metro Atlanta socialites.

Richardson faces a voluntary manslaughter charge. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that Richardson’s attorney tried to have the charges dismissed because no cause of death has been determined.

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Why is this news? The guy was an EX.

Report: Atlanta Housewife Kandi Burruss’s Fiancé Killed in Fight

Ashley Jewell, the fiancé of Kandi Burruss, a castmember of Bravo’s Real Housewives of Atlanta, has died from an injury sustained during a brawl outside an Atlanta strip club, TV station WBSTV reports.

“It appears he was involved in an altercation in the parking lot and he received a severe blow to the head,” Atlanta Police Lt. Keith Meadows told the TV station. Jewell was taken to a hospital where he later died.

Jewell, known as A.J., appeared regularly on the hit reality show, often clashing with Burruss’s mother, who disapproved of her daughter’s relationship.

Burruss’s publicist Lisa Nelson confirmed to the Atlanta station that Burruss, a singer-songwriter who recorded with the band Xscape and worked with TLC and Mariah Carey, has been informed of the incident and was “stunned and speechless.”

Police said they have not determined a motive for the brawl, but the investigation is still under way.

“We have developed a person of interest and we’ve made contact with him to question him about the incident,” said Lt. Meadows.

PEOPLE

John Travolta Back in Court

John Travolta returned to the witness stand today and testified that the Bahamian medic accused of trying to blackmail him was allegedly threatening to say that Travolta was at fault in his son Jett’s death.

The actor was called back to the stand to confirm that on Jan. 16, two weeks after Jett died, he had been notified by his bodyguard and his attorney that someone was demanding $25 million and, if it wasn’t paid, a document Travolta signed to refuse transporting Jett to a local hospital would be “sold to the press.”

Showing no emotion, Travolta told the court in Nassau that paramedic Tarino Lightbourne allegedly threatened that the leaked document would result in “stories that would imply that the death of my son was intentional … that I was culpable in some way.”

On cross-examination, Travolta admitted that he was never called or threatened personally by either of the defendants — Lightbourne or Bahamian lawmaker Pleasant Bridgewater, who is also charged with blackmailing Travolta.

The case against the pair has always alleged that the threats were made through Travolta’s bodyguards and attorney.

Travolta was released by the judge and is not expected to reappear in court. He left with wife Kelly Preston, holding hands and surrounded by security.

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Jackson Autopsy Info

The coroners report came out today announcing that Michael Jackson’s shouldn’t have died of any complications due to his health directly. He went on to say that his death was contributed by an overdose and that overall Jackson was healthy.

He did state that Jackson has scars on his arms and neck from needles and that his eyebrows and lip color was tattooed on.

BBC

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