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Angelina Jolie, in her first U.S. interview since daughter Shiloh Nouvel was born last month, says she will adopt another child. "Next, we'll adopt," the actress says in an interview to air Tuesday on CNN's Anderson Cooper 360, the New York Post reports. Jolie's two other children, 4-year-old Maddox and 16-month-old Zahara, were adopted from Cambodia and Ethiopia, respectively. Her next child will be from another country, she says, although she hasn't decided which one or whether she's hoping to adopt a boy or a girl. "It's going to be the balance of what would be the best for Mad and for Z right now," she tells Cooper.
Jolie also admits she was terrified during Shiloh's birth, praises her medical team in Namibia and says Brad Pitt was by her side. "He was in the operating room. And we had amazing doctors. And everybody was so lovely." Jolie, 31, and Pitt, 42, are back in the United States with their three children. Pitt is in the process of adopting Maddox and Zahara. According to the Post, Jolie tells Cooper she's inspired by the people she helps in her role as UN Goodwill Ambassador. "You think, 'Jesus, the things these people go through,' " she says. "I owe it to all of them to get myself together and stop whining about being tired and get there and get focused because, God, it's the least I can do with what they live with."
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Britney Namibia-Birth Report a Hoax?
Britney Spears and her son Sean Preston.
A Namibian official who said Britney Spears was considering giving birth in the country has backed off after a rep for the singer denied the claim to PEOPLE.
On Friday, the African nation's Deputy Environment and Tourism Minister, Leon Jooste, said officials had gotten an inquiry on behalf of Spears, who is pregnant with her second child. "She has shown interest to come over to Namibia," Jooste told the Associated Press. "Nothing has been confirmed yet, but there is a definite possibility of that happening." That day, a rep for Spears told PEOPLE there was "no truth" to the claim.
On Saturday, Jooste admitted he might have been misled. "Somebody told me that she is interested in coming to Namibia and that they would contact me in the next two weeks," he told the AP, but said the phone connection was so bad, he never got the person's name or contact information. Asked if the call might have been a hoax, he said, "It is really possible." Jooste, who is vacationing in South Africa, said he plans to look into the matter when he returns to Namibia this week – and he hasn't given up hope: "I am actually going to call and invite them to see if they would like to come." Spears, 24, and husband Kevin Federline, 28, are parents to 9-month-old son Sean Preston.
Their second child is due in September, Spears told Matt Lauer in a Dateline interview that aired Thursday night. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie recently boosted Namibia's appeal to privacy-seeking parents-to-be: After their daughter, Shiloh Nouvel, was born in the country on May 27, Pitt said the baby's birth was "truly peaceful" and that they "had top-notch medical care." Added Jolie, "We want to tell the world how magnificent this country and the people are."
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Depp Says He Just Likes Living in France
Johnny Depp
Johnny Depp says the media's perception of him as a European wannabe has been exaggerated, and that he just likes the anonymity of living in France.
In this week's issue of Newsweek, the 43-year-old actor says life is simpler there.
"I've always loved it there," he said. "The phones don't ring as much. Movies are never brought up in conversation. I'll take the kids and we'll go out to the trampoline and the swing set, and we'll stop by the garden and see how our tomatoes are doing. You know, old-fart stuff. Good stuff."
It's a sharp contrast to his early acting days when he became a teen idol starring on the TV series "21 Jump Street."
"Suddenly, you go into restaurants and people are pointing at you and whispering," he said. "You feel spooked by it because that freedom of anonymity is gone. You never get used to that. You'd leave the hotel to go to dinner and there'd be tons of cameras and flashbulbs."
In 2003, Depp gave an interview to the German magazine Stern in which he was quoted as criticizing Washington's confrontation with France over the war in Iraq.
Depp was quoted as saying that "America is dumb, is something like a dumb puppy that has big teeth that can bite and hurt you, aggressive."
He later said he intended no anti-American sentiment and called it an "inaccurate and out of context misquote." The magazine stood by its story.
Depp, French actress-singer Vanessa Paradis and their two children split their time between homes in France and Los Angeles.
Depp says his life changed dramatically when daughter Lily-Rose was born in 1999. His son, Jack, was born three years later.
"I was never horribly self-obsessed or wrapped up in my own weirdness, but when my daughter was born, suddenly there was clarity," he said. "I wasn't angry anymore. It was the first purely selfless moment that I had ever experienced. And it was liberating. In that moment, it's like you become something else. The real you is revealed."
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Michael Jackson, Stalker?
Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson sent discouraging song dedications as part of an orchestrated, wiretap-assisted plot to harass and stalk a fan.
So go the allegations in a $100 million lawsuit brought against the Bahrain-based entertainer.
The complaint by Helen M. Harris-Scott was filed Apr. 28 in Santa Monica, online court records show. It came to light Thursday in a report on TMZ.com.
Per the lawsuit, posted in its entirety on TMZ.com, Harris-Scott says her Jackson saga began in 1985 when she moved to Los Angeles, and began sending the then Thriller superstar cards and letters "declaring my love and admiration." Because Jackson was shy, Harris-Scott writes in her court declaration, he chose to communicate with her through "others who would call me and hint, and ask questions."
One of the "others" instructed Harris-Scott to listen to a radio station, "where Michael would dedicate songs, and communicate through music," the woman writes.
And that, according to Harris-Scott, is when Jackson revealed his true self.
Instead of declaring, say, his love to Harris-Scott, Jackson sent " 'you're not good enough' type messages," she writes. In order to distance herself from the "expressive put-downs," Harris-Scott moved to San Francisco.
There, according to the woman, the harassment from Jackson and his presumed henchmen only increased. There was the doorbell ringing, and the flat tires, and the car keying, and the Jackson impersonators who "represent[ed] him in public on several occasions, sometimes showing up with the family." And that wasn't the half of it.
"From 1990 to the present, Michael Jackson tracked my every move," Harris-Scott writes, noting her home was wiretapped and her car tracked with a global-positioning device.Harris-Scott's declaration indicates the
FBI' "know[s] the truth." An FBI spokeswoman in Los Angeles said Friday that the agency did not confirm or deny its investigations, but noted that it did not sound as if the allegations in the Harris-Scott lawsuit amounted to federal violations. Jackson attorney Thomas Mesereau Jr. did not return a call for comment. To TMZ.com, Jackson spokeswoman Raymone Bain simply said, "Wonders never cease to amaze me."
Per court records, a status conference on the lawsuit is set for Aug. 16--the day Elvis died. It was not known if this is a coincidence, or a message.
As for Harris-Scott, or as she says she was known for the purposes of her business, Helena Bail Bonds, she is seeking the whole shebang: $50 million in compensatory damages; $50 million in punitive damages.
"Michael Jackson feels he's above the love," Harris-Scott writes, "and has been deceptive to his family, friends and his adoring public."
In 2005, an Ohio woman filed court papers alleging
Janet Jackson, Michael's famed younger sister, hacked her computer, vandalized her 1992 Honda Civic, bugged her telephone, vandalized her 1992 Honda Accord, and generally acted like a "tyrant" because she (the Ohio woman) rejected her (Janet Jackson's) romantic advances. The court denied the woman's emergency request for protection.
In April, a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit by a New Orleans man who alleged Michael Jackson sexually assaulted him when he was 18.Though the incident was alleged to have occurred in 1984, the man didn't file the lawsuit until 20 years later, saying he'd pushed the reputed assault out of his mind until a TV special on Jackson jarred his memory.
Elsewhere, the courtroom fun continues for the Jackson family. A long-brewing legal battle between Michael Jackson and Frederic Marc Schaffel, a former insider in the pop star's camp, is scheduled to head to trial Monday in Los Angeles.
Schaffel, named an unindicted coconspirator in Jackson's molestation and conspiracy trial last year, is suing the entertainer for $3 million, alleging breach of contract.
One pretrial tidbit picked up by FoxNews.com had Jackson, in a recent deposition, revealing that he didn't intend to turn over the royalties of his never released 9/11-inspired charity single, "What More Can I Give?" to charity.
"To give the royalty rights, that's a lot of money to give away," Jackson said, per FoxNews.com which acknowledged it was paraphrasing the comment.
Jackson, 47, has lived in the Middle East since being acquitted on Jun. 13, 2005, of the molestation and conspiracy charges.
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'Screech' Actor Turns to Fans for Help
Dustin Diamond, who played Screech on the television series "Saved by the Bell," holds a t-shirt in this Wednesday, June 14, 2006, file photo taken in Port Washington, Wis. Diamond is selling the shirts to try to raise $250,000 so he doesn't lose his house under a foreclosure order.
More than a bell is needed to save Dustin Diamond this time around. Diamond, best known as geeky Screech Powers on the 1989-1993 teen comedy series "Saved by the Bell," is selling T-shirts with his photo on them to try to raise $250,000 so he doesn't lose his gray two-story house under a foreclosure order.
"If the public didn't care, I as an entertainer wouldn't have been a success," he said.
Diamond, 29, is trying to sell nearly 30,000 shirts at $15 or $20 (autographed) each to supplement the income he makes as a standup comic so he doesn't have to move from his Port Washington home, about 25 miles north of Milwaukee.
The T-shirt has a photo of Diamond holding a sign that says, "Save My House." The back of the shirt reads, "I paid $15.00 to save Screeech's house." The third "e" was added to get around copyright laws, he said.
He's selling the shirts on his Web site: http://www.getdshirts.com.
The foreclosure order was filed last month in Ozaukee County Circuit Court.
Diamond appeared on Howard Stern's satellite radio show Tuesday to plead his case. "I'm doing great with my comedy, but this is definitely a low point," he said. "Real life comes in and affects you."
Diamond doesn't have a listed phone number, and e-mails to the address on his Web site and at an alternative address were not immediately returned Thursday.
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