Malibu Calls On Ken Starr to Fight Paparazzi

Top rental fetches $150K per month

(NEWSER) - US real estate is hurting, but the top price for a beachfront summer rental in Malibu hit $150,000 this year. The area is flush with homes valued at or above $10 million—a bracket unaffected by the housing slump. And Tinseltown's elite is happy to pay. "Recession? What recession?" one Malibu real estate agent asked the Los Angeles Times. More»

Starlet can't stop partying even when it gets ugly

(NEWSER) - Less than 48 hours after being hit with DUI charges, Lindsay Lohan went on a paparazzi-documented bender. The "Mean Girls" star and recent rehab patient stumbled out of an LA nightclub at 4:30 AM, nearly collapsed, and was helped into the back of her car. Paparazzi snapped pictures of the starlet in a deep sleep. More»

Mildred Baena lives outside LA with Arnold Schwarzenegger's son

(NEWSER) - The mother of Arnold Schwarzenegger's love child has been identified as long-time family housekeeper Mildred "Patty" Baena. Baena, now 50, had the former California governor's son some 10 years ago and lives as a single mom divorcée with the boy and her three other children outside Los Angeles, according to several publications. She quit working for Schwarzenegger and now-estranged wife Maria Shriver in January after close to 20 years with the couple. Her son is the spitting image of his dad, and looks like a young Conan, reports TMZ . She didn't tell Schwarzenegger he was her son's father until the boy was a toddler, say friends. More»

They reportedly go PDA crazy at correspondents dinner

(NEWSER) - The May-November romance of sexy celebs Scarlett Johansson and Sean Penn is heating up. The two reportedly engaged in a slightly disconcerting super-hot make-out session smack dab in the middle of the White House Correspondents Dinner over the weekend. Scarlett, 26, couldn't keep her paws off 50-year-old Sean, even when he ducked out for a smoke, say tattletale witnesses. "She plopped down in his lap, and they were kissing. It happened right as the main course of the dinner was being put on the table," says one. More»

Wyclef Jean will be in good company if he loses

(NEWSER) - Wyclef Jean is running for president of Haiti , but already things aren’t going well for the controversy-plagued singer. If he loses, he won’t be the first celebrity to suffer a failed political campaign: Time lists 10 others:

• Norman Mailer: Despite being a literary giant, the Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author ran for mayor of New York and lost—9 years after he first attempted to run for the position, telling a journalist he wanted to “bring back the Middle Ages,” complete with jousting tournaments.