French police have opened an investigation into the apparent suicide of Spider-Man 3 actress Lucy Gordon, who was found dead inside her Paris apartment Wednesday (20May09). Times of London reported that Gordon hanged herself. This happened just two days before her 29th birthday.
Nineteen-year-old Casey Aldridge – boyfriend of Jamie Lynn Spears and father to her 10-month-old daughter, Maddie – was involved in a car accident early Sunday morning, suffering mild brain trauma when the truck he was driving crashed and flipped on a Louisiana highway, ejecting Aldridge and two of his four passengers.
Following the tragic news of Natasha Richardson’s death, her family has decided to turn their tragedy into someone else’s joy by donating her organs to waiting transplant patients.
Richardson was left brain-dead after she took a fall while skiing last week, but her organs were perfectly healthy. After she was taken off life support at Manhattan’s Lenox Hill Hospital, her husband, Liam Neeson, her mother, Vanessa Redgrave, and other members of the family requested that her organs be donated to other patients whose lives they might save. “Doctors spent six hours harvesting all her organs,” a source told the New York Post.
Jade Goody, the British reality TV star whose battle against terminal cervical cancer had been followed around the world, has died. She passed away in her sleep, at home, on Sunday morning – Mother’s Day in the U.K. She was 27 years old.
The UK reality show star had lived out her final months quite publicly, with the hopes of raising awareness of cervical cancer screenings and prevention.
The devastating story of Natasha Richardson’s death following a tragic skiing accident has shocked the entire Hollywood community. A Tony Award-winning actress and member of the famed Redgrave acting family, she died Wednesday in a Manhattan hospital, where she had been flown suffering from serious head injuries after a skiing accident on Monday north of Montreal. She was 45.
Sir Paul McCartney and girlfriend Nancy Shevell have been on a road trip across the USA, driving an old 89 Ford Bronco and taking a cheap car vacation staying in campground and motels.
The former Beatle was cruising on the infamous Route 66 - which stretches from Chicago to LA - when the couple stopped at a Circle K to get gas and use the restrooms. A car full of local young guys on their way to St Louis for a Cardinals game yelled out “That looks like Paul McCartney!” One yelled “Hey, Paul!” and Paul answered in his distinctive Liverpool accent.
The fearless hero and star of Top Gear, Jeremy Clarkson admits he drove a car on a public road in London at 186 mph. The fact that he found a bit of open road in London to put the pedal to the metal is miraculous enough, but tell us, what was the CAR?
Was the it a Koenigsegg CCX? A Maserati Bora? A Jaguar XJ220? A Ferrari Enzo??
Nick Hogan is a mess behind bars and finding out that prison is not for widdle kids like himself. Audio of the 17-year-old’s conversations with mama Linda and daddy Hulk are on the internet and in them Nick is blubbering and complaining about stuff like how he can’t take 8 more months of sitting in a cell that is “like half the size of my bathroom”.
When the brakes failed on Jerry Seinfeld’s vintage 1967 Fiat BTM on Saturday in East Hampton, NY, the comedian swerved to keep the car from careening into an intersection. The maneuver caused the car to roll over and come to a stop just yards from a highway. Thankfully, the Master of His Domain walked away unhurt.