Lindsay Lohan
Lindsay Lohan wants to visit the troops in Iraq – accompanied by New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. "I've been trying to go to Iraq with Hillary Clinton for so long," Lohan, 20, tells Elle magazine in its September issue, after she was asked if she had any big plans for next year.
"Hillary was trying to work it out, but it seemed too dangerous." She continues, "I wanted to do what Marilyn Monroe did (during the Korean War), when she went and just set up a stage and did a concert for the troops all by herself. It's so amazing seeing that one woman just going somewhere, this beautiful sex kitten, who's basically a pinup, which is what I've always aspired to be."
Even without Sen. Clinton, Lohan is confident she can handle an Iraq trip on her own. "I'm not afraid of going," she says. "My security guard is going to take me to a gun range when I get back to L.A., and I'm going to start taking shooting lessons." On her desire to handle a gun, she says, "Yeah, I have a dark side.
I watched all those videos on Charles Manson for a while." Elsewhere in the Elle interview Lohan says she's never had plastic surgery ("I've never done anything") and isn't using cocaine ("I'm not. There you have it. It's not true").
But she does like to fool with the press – she was 40 minutes late to the Elle interview – and tell reporters "things that aren't true … just because it's fun." Then, too, she admits, when it comes to tabloid attention she "still sort of" loves it.
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Pam Anderson & Kid Rock's Secret Wedding
Anderson and Rock in London on July 31
Pamela Anderson and Kid Rock got married – although not when Anderson said they did. On Aug. 2, Anderson posted this message on her Web site: "Just Married! It's official.
Just left the courthouse!!!! Mr. and Mrs. Ritchie have left the building." However, a source tells PEOPLE that Anderson and Rock (real name: Robert Ritchie) in fact wed the next day in California.
According to the source, Anderson, 39, and Ritchie, 35, quietly made their union legal at the Beverly Hills Courthouse on Thursday morning. The only guest at the top-secret ceremony was a friend who served as witness.
Anderson's sons with ex-husband Tommy Lee, Brandon, 10, and Dylan, 8, did not attend. The ceremony took place at the courthouse's on-site wedding chapel, which features two rows of white-linen covered chairs before an altar area – a white podium beneath a synthetic ivy-covered trellis.
The walls of the room are swathed in white gauze, with a few strings of white Christmas lights lining the ceiling's perimeter.
Reps for Anderson declined to comment. The wedding was the couple's second ceremony. Last weekend in Saint-Tropez, they held an elaborate wedding aboard a yacht, but the marriage was not considered legal under French law because in that country couples must first have a civil wedding at the mayor's office.
The second ceremony comes as no surprise: During a July 26 press conference in Las Vegas, Anderson repeatedly declared her intentions to marry her rocker beau – serial-style.
"I'm going to get married a few times this month to the same guy," she said. "We had to do Malibu, we've got to do Detroit, and we've got to do Nashville." Anderson and Rock began dating in spring 2001.
The following April 11 they became engaged in the Las Vegas desert, only to split the following year.
Still, when they ran into each other in Saint-Tropez on a mutual friend's yacht in early July, the feelings were still there. "It was like we'd never been apart," Rock told PEOPLE on July 11. "(I) love her to death."
Anderson announced their engagement on her Web site on July 18. This is the second marriage for Anderson, who was wed to Lee from 1995 until 1998; the Detroit-born Rock has a 16-year-old son, Robert James Ritchie Jr., with Kelly South Russell, a Detroit autoworker.
• Reporting by MICHAEL FLEEMAN
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Spelling Feud Holds Up Tori’s Tribute to Dad
Tori Spelling
A special tribute to the late TV producer Aaron Spelling to be hosted by daughter Tori will not air on ABC this fall as planned – after Spelling's widow and Tori's mother, Candy Spelling, blocked the project, a source confirms to PEOPLE.
Spelling, the legendarily prolific creator of such shows as Love Boat, Charlie's Angels, Dynasty and Beverly Hills, 90210, died June 23 after a lengthy illness. He was 83.
His wife and daughter have maintained a highly strained relationship over the past few years, aspects of which have been coming to light in the days after the patriarch's death.
Tori was to have served both as host and executive producer of the ABC tribute, according to the source, who said: "All of his (Aaron's) stars had signed on and some interviews had already been taped. … But Candy wouldn't release the clips of his shows because Tori was involved in the project. She had it killed."
Candy Spelling's representative, Kevin Sasaki, confirmed to PEOPLE that she had "talked to ABC about releasing the clips for the tribute," but denies that Candy stopped the show.
Instead, he says, "she didn't feel the timing was right … since the Emmys were doing a big tribute to her husband around the same time." He added, "She had nothing to do with this except that she was asked to release the clips and she didn't think it was the right time, so she turned them down."
ABC, which was long associated with Aaron Spelling's shows, has issued "no comment" about the proposed Spelling special.
Meanwhile, the source tells PEOPLE, Candy has agreed to provide clips to rival network NBC for a tribute to Aaron on its Aug. 27 Emmycast. The source confirms that she will attend the Emmy ceremony with son Randy Spelling but that Tori has yet to be invited as part of the family.
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Clay Aiken Sued by Book Author
Clay Aiken
Clay Aiken is being sued for more than a quarter of a million dollars by the author of an "unauthorized tribute" to the American Idol runner-up.
Jeannie Holleman, 50, of Raleigh, N.C., claims that Aiken defamed her and conspired to hinder sales of her 2005 book, Out of the Blue – 'Clay' it Forward, the Associated Press reports.
Holleman describes herself as a lifelong friend and neighbor of the McGhees, a Raleigh family that was close to Aiken's mother, Faye Parker, and took in Parker and a young Aiken after Parker left her abusive husband.
Holleman's book is a compilation of interviews with the McGhees, along with the author's personal recollections and anecdotes from Aiken's fans.
In her lawsuit, filed Friday in Wake County Superior Court, Holleman alleges that Aiken, his mother and others denied they knew her, said her stories were lies and belittled the book on Aiken fan sites in an effort to defame Holleman and depress her book sales.
She also claims that one of Aiken's bodyguards manhandled her at a Hawaii fundraiser.
Holleman is seeking at least $260,000 in damages. She also asks that the court order Aiken to retract his critical comments or to endorse Out of the Blue on his official Web site, write an introduction for the book and sell it at his concerts for at least five years.
On Monday, Aiken, 27, issued a statement through his record company, RCA (which will release his new album, A Thousand Different Ways, on Sept. 19), saying that he'd "instructed my attorneys to not only vigorously dispute the claims that have been made but to also pursue all possible remedies against those involved in the perpetration of these untruths."
The statement continues, "As a so-called 'celebrity' I have become used to scurrilous allegations and untruths being made about me and my work.
I have always taken the path of not reacting to these matters and have accepted them as, somehow, coming with the 'job.' However, I cannot, and will not, stand by when these attacks are made on my family."
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Janet Jackson Says She Prefers Younger Men
Janet Jackson
Janet Jackson doesn't have a problem with dating younger men: In fact, she prefers it, the singer says in a new interview.
"I came to realize that younger men had less of a problem with who I am than older men," Jackson, 40, whose boyfriend is 33-year-old music producer Jermaine Dupri, tells Vibe magazine. "With the younger guys, there was less ego.
Things were less competitive. They weren't threatened by who made more and who made less." Dupri, she says, gives her self-esteem "a little boost." "When I look at Jermaine, I see myself," Jackson tells the magazine in its September issue, on newsstands Aug. 15.
"I feel as if I'm looking in the mirror. The connection I feel with him I have never felt with anybody else." The couple, who have been together for five years, recently made headlines by hinting that they're planning to get married – possibly on Sept. 26, the date Jackson's new album, 20 Years Old, hits stores.
On the rumored wedding, Jackson told a British radio DJ, "Everyone's been asking me about it. And if it's meant to happen, it'll happen." One thing she tells Vibe will happen: motherhood. Asked if she wants to have kids, Jackson says, "I do and I will. I didn't before, but with Jermaine I do."
Whether she becomes Mrs. Dupri or not, Jackson doesn't plan to change her risqué image. The singer, who recently dropped more than 60 lbs., appears on the Vibe cover wearing nothing but bikini bottoms and a large shell necklace. Will she ever stop posing for sexy pictures? "Of course," Jackson says. "When I'm 80. That's when I'll call it quits."
As for her famous Super Bowl performance, during which her nipple was exposed during the game's live halftime show with Justin Timberlake, Jackson has put the incident behind her.
"It's just over and done with. It's old. It's the past. It's history. I'm onto something new," she says. "Everybody got their licks in – those who wanted to – and it's done."
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