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Charlie Sheen is on a Manic Mystery Tour! He hasn't shut up in weeks and I don't see any end in sight. With his show officially canceled for the season (there were 8 more episodes to tape) and any contractual obligation to keep his trap shut out the window, Charlie is opening up to ANYONE who will listen to his insanity.

Shortly after this his publicist quit too. Stan Rosenfield announced he was resigning as Charlie Sheen's publicist in an effort to save his own reputation, Charlie felt pissed about this betrayal. His words were "Pussy. He's not allowed to quit, so you’re fired."

The crazy just keeps coming too. Earlier today, it was learned that Charlie is planning on suing CBS, WB, and Executive Producer Lorre for $320 million for "mental anguish."

Now, Charlie has had lawyer Marty Singer send WB and CBS a letter demanding that Sheen be compensated approximately $16 million for this season's eight canceled episodes of Two and a Half Men.

Get a load of his interview on Good Morning America. Somebody is on the denial train and it's coming off the tracks!

Grant Storms, the former pastor who has led charges against the annual Southern Decadence festival in the French Quarter, has been arrested in Lafreniere Park by the Jefferson Parish sheriff's department on obscenity charges.

On the afternoon of Feb. 25, a mother unloading her children from a car to take them to a nearby playground alerted authorities to a man in a Ford Windstar van parked near the playground. The man, she told sheriffs' deputies, was masturbating. Storms told officers on the scene he wasn't masturbating, but instead attempting to urinate in a bottle in the van. This afternoon, he admitted concocting that story — "I was ashamed" — but did not admit to masturbating. "I'm confessing to having my hand in my pants," Storms said. "That's all I'm going to say," adding the truth "will come out in court."

Speaking in the parking lot of a motel on the I-10 Service Road in Metairie, where he had been staying since his arrest, Storms struggled for composure, at times breaking down in tears as he described the effect his arrest had on his wife and four children, the youngest of whom are nine and six years old. "I'll have to tell them, 'Daddy has a problem,'" he said, weeping.

Storms wanted to clear the record on one issue in particular: that he was parked in the vicinity of the Lafreniere playspot to watch children. "I am not a pedophile," he said. "I am not a child molester."

This is the same guy that filmed lewd acts at Southern Decadence in an effort to get cops to just shut it down completely.

The recent marriage of Katy Perry and Russell Brand got me thinking... no pre-nup is a wonderful way to start a marriage, but in this day and age of fair weather marriages of people in the limelight, that could be costly! When two high profile and wealthy people do wed, it seems a more practical and smart move to see the business side that it is also a "merger", not just a marriage.

When a marriage goes sour, the process of divorce becomes increasingly more complicated when the couple's net worth is in the stratosphere. The absence of an official prenuptial agreement, differences in international law and the circumstances surrounding of the breakup can result in large sums being paid out in the divorce settlement.

Although most settlements don't get finalized until well after the divorce takes place, there was speculation that the divorce between Tiger Woods and his wife could cost the world's No. 1 golfer up to $300 million , among the costliest in history. Other breakups that could enter the top rankings include Mel Gibson and Robyn Gibson, whose split has the potential to be the most expensive in Hollywood history, with speculation it could hit $500 million.

Read on to hear the movers and shakers who don't even make the headlines...

India’s richest man, and the fourth-richest man in the world, Mukesh Ambani, has built a 27-story Mumbai skyscraper, as Forbes reported this morning. Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani plans to move into 570-foot building, called Antila, this month. But in addition to being an imposing postmodern edifice, it likely sets a record as the world’s most expensive residential home at $1,008,645,533.00!

The last time Forbes ranked the world’s most expensive homes was November 2009, when The Manor, Candy Spelling’s Beverly Hills mansion, won out- it was priced at $150 million. That home is still for sale, and its price hasn’t budged, qualifying it for the number one spot on our recent list of America’s most expensive homes.

Plus, that ranking is a year old – new mansions may have come on the market since. But even given those facts, at $1 billion the Antila outprices any home on the market, anywhere in the world, by an order of magnitude.

Ambani, his wife and three children have moved into the building which is named Antilia, after a mythical Island. It contains a health club with a gym and dance studio, at least one studio, a ballroom, guestrooms and a range of lounges and a 50 seat movie theater. There is even an elevated garden with ceiling space to accommodate small trees.

The roof has three helicopter pads and there is also underground parking for 160 cars, which will come in handy for guests at Ambani's forthcoming housewarming party. From the top floors of the 173m high property are spectacular views of Mumbai and of the Arabian Sea.

The 53 year-old tycoon is not only the richest man in India but the fourth richest man in the world. In total there is reported to be 37,000 square metres of space, which is more than the Palace of Versailles. To keep it running smoothly requires 600 staff.

According to Forbes magazine Ambani, who owns much of Reliance Industries, the oil, retail and biotechnologies conglomerate, is worth £18bn. He used to help run the company before falling out with his brother.

AP

Came across this and thought I'd share his valid point:

As a nation that was founded by men and women who were being persecuted for their particular faith, we should know that the best path to finding freedom is finding freedom for others. We were formed as a pluralistic society and this means we welcome all religions. Islam did not attack the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, sick and twisted men did, who not only hijacked four airplanes but also hijacked a religion. Let us not stereotype the over one billion Muslims around the world because of the evil acts of a few.

~Russell Simmons

Cairo's embassy in Nigeria said on Thursday a 13-year-old girl at the centre of claims that a Nigerian senator had taken the minor as his fourth wife is still at school in Egypt. The senator, Ahmed Sani Yerima, 49, meanwhile denied in an interview with the BBC that the girl was 13 and said that as a Muslim he had not broken any law by marrying the teenager claiming Sharia law allows this.

"The girl is still in school in Egypt and nobody has complained to the embassy in respect of the girl," Egyptian embassy spokesman Mohammed Saber told AFP.
He said however that the embassy "will follow the issue" because it is illegal in Egypt to marry an underage girl. The Nigerian senate on Wednesday ordered an inquiry after claims by rights groups that Yerima had paid a dowry of $US100,000 to marry the girl.

Women's groups protested outside parliament on Tuesday to urge the senate to investigate the claims.

In a telephone interview from Egypt with the BBC's Hausa service on Thursday, Yerima defended himself. "I don't care about the issue of age since I have not violated any rule as far as Islam is concerned," he said, describing those complaining as "detractors". "History tells us that Prophet Mohammed did marry a young girl as well. Therefore I have not contravened any law. Even if she is 13, as it is being falsely peddled around."

Read more here.

This kid is amazing, and at just 10 years old, seems so well-adjusted and bright. He gets it. His name is Will Phillips of Arkansas and he is speaking up for gay rights! Kudos to his open-minded parents. I now have a different view of Arkansas for sure.

Here he is again being asked a simple question at the 21st Annual GLAAD Awards:

A hot new social-networking service dubbed Bubbly, which is essentially a voice-based Twitter, is quickly gaining popularity among Indians. And thanks to Bollywood celebs being early adopters, Bubbly is growing virally and with virtually zero marketing spend.

For more on the new trend and application, read here!

Another hypocrite bites the dust! Prop 8-Supporting State Senator Arrested After Leaving Gay Club!