Sean, Robin Wright Penn Split

Actor opens up about his work in Haiti

(NEWSER) - For the past five months—with only brief breaks for fundraising, testifying on Capitol Hill, and of course attending the Oscars—Sean Penn has lived in a tent camp in Haiti. Douglas Brinkley, who volunteered with Penn in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, talks to him about his experience for Vanity Fair :

• On Robin Wright: “She is a ghost to me now.”

Actor not pleased with critics of his Haiti relief efforts

(NEWSER) - Don’t get on Sean Penn’s bad side, or he might wish a very unpleasant death upon you. The actor responded to detractors who say his relief work in Haiti is just his attempt to take attention away from his divorce with the usual grace, the New York Daily News reports. “Do I hope that those people die screaming of rectal cancer? Yeah,” says Penn in an interview airing on CBS this weekend. “But I'm not going to spend a lot of energy on it.” More»

Meg Ryan, Natalie Portman, Claire Danes? Say it ain't so!

(NEWSER) - Susan Sarandon's 23-year relationship with Tim Robbins may have been broken up by her affair with a much younger ping-pong player…or it may have been broken up by Meg Ryan. Yes, that Meg Ryan: "America's sweetheart." But she's not the only unlikely celebrity homewrecker. The Frisky found seven more:

• Alicia Keys: The seemingly sweet singer who found fame as a teen allegedly broke up fellow singer Mashonda's marriage to Swizz Beatz.

But Hopper may have been kicked out of another school for drugs

(NEWSER) - Sean Penn’s son, arrested last week at his Malibu high school, is not facing drug charges. Sources close to the investigation say he was picked up for drug possession, but tell Radar that the drugs—no names given—were medications prescribed to Hopper, and that the district attorney's office has shut the book on the case. Even so, Perez Hilton adds that the 16-year-old was rumored to have been kicked out of his San Francisco high school last year for drug offenses. More»

Teen son of Sean, Robin Wright Penn busted at school

(NEWSER) - Looks like the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. Bad boy Sean Penn’s 16-year-old son was arrested last week, sources close to the investigation tell Radar . He was taken into custody at school in Malibu, but since he’s a minor, no word on whether charges have been filed. It hasn’t been a great time for the family—mom Robin Wright Penn filed for divorce in August. More»