We hit Perez Hilton with a multi-million million dollar copyright lawsuit yesterday. Five celebrity photo agencies - Splash, Bauer-Griffin, Flynet, INF and London Entertainment Pictures warned Perez last December that we could no longer accept his unlawful use of copyright pictures without payment or credit. He and his lawyers have refused to pay up and refused to take down unlawfully obtained photos. They don’t even have the decency to respond. Most bloggers out there are decent, honest business people who understand the photographers need to earn an income and we thank all of you who do pay and credit and we are happy to supply you so you can entertain your readers. But the time has come to show Perez he can no longer get rich off the back of other peoples’ work. News reports and some boasting from Perez put his income at over $800,000 a year from advertising revenue and his appearances on TV shows, TV programs etc. He says he gets up to 4 million unique visitors a day. Yet he doesn’t pay a cent to anyone whose material he uses to get fame and fortune.$800,000 a year? Honestly, I think that's a pretty gross underestimate. Even his cheapest Blogads go for $1200/week. His most expensive go for $9000/week. He has at least 10 running at a time. Let's assume they are all priced at $1200. That's $624,000 right there. That is not counting what he's charging for advertising on his background (probably over $2000/day, although he doesn't have one running each day), for ads in his feeds, and for personal appearances. He's paying hosting costs and maybe some modest web design costs, but his overhead is negligible. He's easily clearing a million annually in pre-tax earnings. Check out the rest of the details after the jump. Read More />Apparently the photo agencies are tired of this shit. From SplashNews: We hit Perez Hilton with a multi-million million dollar copyright lawsuit yesterday. Five celebrity photo agencies - Splash, Bauer-Griffin, Flynet, INF and London Entertainment Pictures warned Perez last December that we could no longer accept his unlawful use of copyright pictures without payment or credit. He and his lawyers have refused to pay up and refused to take down unlawfully obtained photos. They don’...
Apparently the photo agencies are tired of this shit. From SplashNews:
Ashlee Simpson got a ton of work done. It's just a fact. And it's not the type of work where you say "Hey, has this chick changed something?"
No, it's the type of work you'd get done in Tijuana whorehouse if you'd lost your family fortune in a cockfight and were on the run from La Migra. So, no, it's not great work. But now she's spoken, to People, and she's got a lot to say.
while (Ashlee) doesn't talk specifically about how she's changed her appearance, she emphasizes that any little fixe...
Because I can't even begin to imagine why Mel Brown (aka Sporty Spice) would give her daughter the surname of ex-boyfriend Eddie Murphy, especially after Murphy publicly questioned both his paternity of the baby and Mel's fidelity to him, and showed up at the Oscars with another woman while Mel was still pregnant. But whatever. At least now the kid has Murphy Brown in her name. That's kind of cool. Maybe Ginger Spice could change her kid's name from Bluebell Madonna Halliwell to, like, Cyndi...
Or contempt of court. Whatever.
Crybaby Joey had to wipe away tears and blow his sniffly little nose yesterday as he pleaded guilty to contempt of court. "I am sorry for my behavior. It was wrong. I had heard about appeals and things and I was confused. I am sorry, I really am," he said. Poor little Joe was sentenced to 35 days in jail for the crime, which should be extra stressful for him, as they took away all his Lorazepam and sleeping pills. And I can only imagine how hard it is for a ...
If anyone knows what it feels like to have an entire country gang up on you, it's Heather Mills. So perhaps it's no surprise that she came to Alec Baldwin's defense on Ryan Seacrest's radio show this morning. Seacrest asked the Dancing with the Stars contestant what her thoughts were on Baldwin's most regrettable voicemail ever. "It is wrong to speak to your daughter like that," she said, "but I am not someone to go, 'Ooh, that is terrible, and we are all perfect, it's all wonderful.'"
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Wait, what? This is the Spiderman 3 premiere? Huh. Could've fooled me.
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Remember back in early February, when both Britney Spears and Paris Hilton bailed on the Heatherette show? Paris flaked in order to get trashed with Brandon Davis, but it was rumored that Britney didn't get the memo, and bailed because she didn't want to see Paris. Now, former publicist-turned-blogger Jonathan Jaxson tells the story from the inside.
I was at the Heatherette Fashion Show with two of my former clients and we were all located backstage, during all the mayhem, prior to the sh...