Celebrity Gossip

TMZ has confirmed with Miami police that O.J. Simpson’s girlfriend, Christy Prody, suffered bruises and head injuries on Monday — but it was because of a fall — and not at the hand of the Juice.

The National Enquirer reported that O.J. was being investigated after Prody was taken to a Miami hospital with head trauma and bruising.

But cops tell TMZ that her injuries are “consistent” with a fall she took at a gas station, that they don’t consider this a criminal case, and that O.J. was never a suspect.

O.J. is due in Las Vegas for his robbery case in April.

Amy Winehouse is giving one of her Grammy Awards to her imprisoned husband.

The troubled singer - who won five prizes at the prestigious US music ceremony on Sunday - wants Blake Fielder-Civil to display the trophy in his prison cell as a symbol of their love.

A source said: “Amy is planning to give Blake one of her beloved Grammy Awards to prove how much she loves him.”

Prison guards at London’s Pentonville Prison will check the golden gramophone-shaped prize thoroughly to make sure there is nothing hidden inside.

Security must also declare the statue can’t be used as an offensive weapon.

Amy dedicated one of her five awards to Blake - who is currently awaiting trial on charges of grievous bodily harm (GBH) and conspiracy to pervert the course of justice - on Sunday.

The ‘Rehab’ star - who performed at the ceremony from London via a satellite link due to problems with her getting a US visa - said: “This is for my mum, my dad and my Blake, my Blake incarcerated.”

This chick is crazy but super cool! She obviously is very talented as well, but she seems to be destined to follow in the footsteps of a Janis Joplin or Jimi Hendrix.   I wonder how long this grammy will last in prison, I hope her Blake is a real bad ass because otherwise someone is going to take that grammy.  Don’t drop the soap Blake.

IT looks like Britney Spears’ family will do anything to get her away from her “friends” Sam Lutfi and Adnan Ghalib — including putting the pill-popping poptard on tour. The buzz at the Grammys was that Spears’ newfound focus on her dancing is preparation for a world tour. Britney “will be leaving the country in the next few weeks,” a source confided to Page Six. “She’ll train in privacy for a month, then go on a global tour.”

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Amy Winehouse’s mother has spoken of her pride at her daughter’s Grammy success and her hopes that the troubled star is on “the road to recovery”.

Winehouse won five Grammy awards, including Record of the Year and Song of the Year for her autobiographical hit ‘Rehab’, but could not attend the ceremony because of visa problems, performing instead via satellite from London.

Her mother Janis Winehouse told GMTV today: “Well, as you saw, she looks good and it’s a case of she’s on the road, and that’s what it’s about, she’s on the road to recovery.”

She said it was probably best that her daughter did not end up going to the LA ceremony.

“I think it would have been too much for her because all of the travelling and flying there, I mean seeing what the Grammys was like … we could see it live from there and I thought if Amy were there, she’d be lost in it, she’d be a little girl lost in it.”

Mrs Winehouse said of her performance: “Well, it’s Amy coming back, she’s definitely on the way back.”

She spoke of the family’s fears for the singer’s health before she entered a London rehab clinic, saying: “She was sort of with it but not with it, and that’s the thing where I think fortunately, thank goodness in our family, she’s got a solid family and we’re all there for her.”
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Roy Scheider, a two-time Oscar nominee best known for his role as a police chief in the blockbuster movie “Jaws,” died Sunday. He was 75.

Scheider died at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences hospital in Little Rock, hospital spokesman David Robinson said. The hospital did not release a cause of death.

However, hospital spokeswoman Leslie Taylor said Scheider had been treated for multiple myeloma at the hospital’s Myeloma Institute for Research and Therapy for the past two years.

He was nominated for a best-supporting actor Oscar in 1971’s “The French Connection” in which he played the police partner of Oscar winner Gene Hackman and for best-actor for 1979’s “All That Jazz,” the autobiographical Bob Fosse film.

However, he was best known for his role in Steven Spielberg’s 1975 film, “Jaws,” the enduring classic about a killer shark terrorizing beachgoers and well as millions of moviegoers.

Widely hailed as the film that launched the era of the Hollywood blockbuster, it was also the first movie to earn $100 million at the box office. Scheider starred with Richard Dreyfuss, who played an oceanographer.

“He was a wonderful guy. He was what I call ’a knockaround actor,”’ Dreyfuss told The Associated Press on Sunday.
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Amy Winehouse and Kanye West were the big winners at Sunday’s 50th annual Grammy Awards, each scoring multiple trophies — but in the surprise of the night, Album of the Year honors went to Herbie Hancock’s River: The Joni Letters, the legendary jazz pianist’s collection of Joni Mitchell covers (featuring guest artists like Norah Jones, Tina Turner, and Corrine Bailey Rae).

Winehouse, who performed ”I’m No Good” and ”Rehab” via satellite from London, came close to sweeping every category in which she was nominated. By the end of the night, she’d won five Grammys, including Best New Artist, Best Pop Vocal Album (for Back to Black), and Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best Pop Vocal Performance (all for ”Rehab”). In her acceptance speech for Record of the Year, an ecstatic Winehouse thanked, among others, her label, her parents, and ”my Blake, incarcerated” (referring to her husband, Blake Fielder-Civil); she dedicated the award to London, as the crowd cheered.

West, who went into the night with the most nominations (eight), picked up four trophies: Best Rap Solo Performance (for ”Stronger”), Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group (”Southside,” with Common), Best Rap Song (for ”Good Life”), and Best Rap Album (for Graduation). After ripping through his hit ”Stronger” with Daft Punk, the rapper paid tribute to his late mother, Donda, with an emotional performance of ”Hey Mama.” He again recognized her in his acceptance speech for Best Rap Album, and admonished the band for attempting to play him off.

As for the Album of the Year winner? ”Unbelievable!” said presenter Quincy Jones after announcing a clearly shocked Hancock as the winner.

Other winners include Carrie Underwood (two country-category trophies for ”Before He Cheats”); Rihanna and Jay-Z (Best Rap/Sung Collaboration for the ubiquitous ”Umbrella”); Justin Timberlake (Best Male Pop Vocal Performance for ”What Goes Around…Comes Around” and Best Dance Recording for ”LoveStoned/I Think She Knows”); Bruce Springsteen and Foo Fighters, who split most of the trophies in the rock categories; and even Barack Obama, who beat Bill Clinton for Best Spoken Word Album.

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Eva Longoria Parker not only reveals what’s in her closet – 200 pairs of shoes and 50 pairs of jeans, and that’s not including her San Antonio closet, just her L.A. one – but what’s in her head. “I love my new name,” the new Mrs. Tony Parker, 32, tells InStyle for its March issue. “In Texas people are so formal, so it’s ‘Mrs. Parker.’ I feel old! But I love it.”

As for what Tony likes, it’s “the way Eva dresses – she’s always elegant. She’s a stylish girl who likes to wear hats, sunglasses and have all the latest looks,” he tells the magazine.

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Although Larry Birkhead, former lover of Anna Nicole Smith, has not updated his Web site since November – when Smith would have turned 40 – the home page underwent a moving makeover on Friday, the first anniversary of her death:

“Anna Nicole Smith I LOVE YOU AND HOPE YOU ARE PROUD OF OUR BEAUTIFUL BABY GIRL. PLEASE WATCH OVER US AND GUIDE US ON OUR JOURNEY THROUGH LIFE. WE MISS YOU.

2-8-07

LOVE,

LARRY AND DANNIELYNN”

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BAGHDAD - Angelina Jolie brought her star power to Baghdad on Thursday on a mission as a U.N. goodwill ambassador to highlight the plight of Iraqi refugees.

The actress said there needs to be a more coherent plan as the more than 2 million internally displaced Iraqis begin to trickle back to their homes amid a recent lull in violence that had threatened to spark a civil war in the country.

“There’s lots of goodwill and lots of discussion, but there seems to be just a lot of talk at the moment,” Jolie said in excerpts of an interview aired on CNN.

“What happens in Iraq and how Iraq settles in the years to come is going to affect the entire Middle East,” she added. “And a big part of what it’s going to affect, how it settles, is how these people are returned and settled into their homes and their community and brought back together and whether they can live together and what their communities look like.”

Jolie’s itinerary included meetings with the top U.S. commander in Iraq Gen. David Petraeus, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and Iraqi migration officials during her visit, according to the American Embassy.

AP Television News footage also showed the Academy Award-winning actress mingling with American troops during lunch at a dining facility in the heavily guarded Green Zone, which houses the embassy and Iraqi government offices in central Baghdad.

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