Celebrities in rehab. Amy Winehouse is the latest celeb to head to rehab. She's not alone – read about other famous folks who sought treatment, and see what they said about their addictions. Do you have a friend or family member who's dealing with addiction? Find out what you can do to help him or her

Worst celeb custody cases. The custody battle between Charlie Sheen and ex-wife Denise Richards is heating up over visiting rights with their two daughters. When the fairytale romance is over, let the custody battle for the children begin. See which couples have battled it out in the courtroom, and in the press, over their children.


Charlie Sheen and Brooke Mueller
Troubled actor Charlie Sheen faced off in court with his ex, Brooke Mueller, in April. The judge awarded primary custody of their twin boys, Bob and Max, to Mueller. That same month, she entered a treatment center for the second time
Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz
This rock couple looks to head into battle over their 2-year-old son. Their divorce filings detail their custody desires
Courtney Love
The troubled rocker and actress’ constant battle with drug and alcohol addiction caused her to lose custody of her 17-year-old daughter, Frances Bean, in 2009
Sara Evans and Craig Schelske
Country singer Sara Evans filed for divorce from her husband, Craig Schelske, four years ago; however, their custody battle continues with nasty allegations of drugs and alcohol from both sides
Kate and Jon Gosselin
The happy family was shaken up in 2009 with their divorce. Kate Gosselin was granted custody but Jondragged her into court, alleging neglect of their children while she appeared on a reality show
Mel Gibson and Oksana Grigorieva
Outspoken veteran actor/director Mel Gibson was taken to court by his ex, Oksana Grigorieva, over custody of their daughter, Lucia, and the battle rages on. Alleged abuse, taped rants, and restraining orders have made this case an all-out war
Britney Spears and Kevin Federline
When pop princess Britney Spears and Kevin Federline split in 2006, it set off a two-year battle for custody of their two sons, Sean Preston and Jayden James
Christie Brinkley and Peter Cook
Former supermodel Christie Brinkley may have been a woman scorned by her ex-husband, architect Peter Cook, when they went to court for an ugly battle over their two children, Sailor and Jack, in 2006. They settled out of court for a big sum.
Howard K. Stern and Larry Birkhead
After model/actress Anna Nicole Smith’s untimely death, her lawyer, Howard K. Stern, and former boyfriend, Larry Birkhead, went to court over the custody of her daughter, Dannielynn. Both claimed to be the father and a paternity test was needed to solve the dispute.
Paul McCartney and Heather Mills
Former “Beatle” Paul McCartney and former model Heather Mills battled for two years in their divorce proceedings and fought over custody of their daughter, Beatrice.
Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger
Hollywood power couple Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger battled for years over custody of their daughter, Ireland. However, a leaked voicemail from an irate Baldwin turned up the heat on the case.
Halle Berry and Gabriel Aubry
Academy Award-winning actress Halle Berry and her ex-boyfriend, model Gabriel Aubry, spilt amicably, but when it came to custody of their daughter, Nahla, allegations started flying in January
Woody Allen and Mia Farrow
Noted director Woody Allen and actress Mia Farrow went to battle in 1993 over their two adopted children and one biological child after reports that Allen was having an affair with Farrow’s adopted child.

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Sure, it's a long way to the top, but sometimes it's even a longer drop to the bottom. Celebrity self-destruction is not for the faint of heart. Ask Lindsay Lohan about jewelry shopping or Charlie Sheen about doing stand-up. But not even Casey Jones could have averted the carnage of some of the more recent Hollywood train wrecks. Let's count down the top 10.

No. 10 David Arquette
David Arquette is best known for these movies, but until recently he's mostly been known as the brother of “Medium” star Patricia Arquette and Rosanna Arquette and Courteney Cox's husband.

Why he’s a train wreck: The announcement that he and Cox were divorcing sent Arquette on a TMI tabloid rampage, spilling major quantities of embarrassing personal info – including this one about his drinking and pot problems. He checked into rehab in January and then got into a head-on car accident in Hollywood on March 4
No.9 Randy Quaid
He's best known for his quirky roles, including Cousin Eddie in the National Lampoon Vacation movies and the redneck rancher in "Brokeback Mountain."

Why he’s a train wreck: Randy Quaid received a lifetime ban from Actors Equity for allegedly terrorizing his fellow cast members in a theater production. More recently, he and his wife have been in court for allegedly skipping out on a large hotel bill and seeking asylum in Canada
No. 8 Tara Reid
Tara Reid had a small but memorable part in "The Big Lebowski" and a key role in a major hit "American Pie" before age 25.

Why she’s a train wreck: Heavy partying and botched cosmetic surgery obscured her thespian efforts, she exposed herself on the red carpet at Diddy's birthday party, and early this year, she announced that a "Big Lebowski 2" was in the works; news that surprised everyone, including the Coens
No.7 Tom Sizemore
Tom Sizemore seemed to be on the road to a solid career as a supporting player following his performance as the sergeant in "Saving Private Ryan".

Why he’s a train wreck: His rap sheet includes a conviction for assaulting girlfriend Heidi Fleiss and a bust for meth possession that landed him in jail. Other embarrassments on his résumé: a sex tape, an appearance on "Celebrity Rehab," and the use of a device called a "Whizzinator" in an attempt to beat a drug test.
No.6 Britney Spears
The teen pop queen debuted with the single "Baby One More Time" and went on to sell millions.

Why she’s a train wreck: Her wild child days started with an impulsive Vegas marriage. But after a short, tumultuous marriage to Kevin Federline , she went off the deep end: shaving her head, attacking cars with an umbrella, rehab, tanking at the VMAs, losing custody of her children.
No.5 Whitney Houston
Whitney Houston's cover of a Dolly Parton song became one of the biggest hit singles in pop history.

Why she’s a train wreck: By the time she joined her husband Bobby Brown on his reality show, the disheveled and foul-mouthed Houston was unrecognizable as the girl who was once "Saving All My Love for You". She has since divorced Brown and admitted to past drug use, but her most recent CD and tour revealed an artist who is a shell of her former self.
No. 4 Andy Dick
Bizarre behavior is part of Andy Dick's comedy repertoire, but in the time since his stint on "NewsRadio," most of his craziness hasn't been an act.

Why he’s a train wreck: He's been arrested for drug possession, DUI, urinating on a building and groping women. He's been thrown off the set of "Jimmy Kimmel Live" for repeatedly touching fellow guest Ivanka Trump, licked the faces of female celebrities , and gotten in a fistfight with former co-star Jon Lovitz. Most recently, he got himself thrown out of an adult film awards show for harassing a porn star.
No. 3 Lindsay Lohan
She's only 24, but Lindsay Lohan has already accomplished enough to merit a train wreck lifetime achievement award. Remember when a teenage Lindsay supposedly feuding with Hilary Duff was considered hot copy?

Why she’s a train wreck: In just the last five years, Lohan's career has imploded amidst drunken driving arrests, constant clubbing and six separate visits to rehab. The charge that she stole a $2,500 necklace from a jewelry store could be her biggest crisis yet, with the prospect of more time behind bars. Of course she could always just change her name.
No. 2 Charlie Sheen
Charlie Sheen has appeared in quite a few hit films, including "Platoon," "Wall Street", "Young Guns" and "Major League."

Why he’s a train wreck: He was expelled from high school and first went to rehab in 1990. He spent the '90s dating porn stars and appearing on the Heidi Fleiss client roll. His near-overdose in 1998 seemed to briefly set him until his Christmas Eve 2009 arrest after an altercation with then-wife Brooke Mueller. Encores followed quickly: hotel room trashing, tiger blood, the goddesses and his Twitter explosion. The freak show has no end in sight, and now he's taken it on the road.
No. 1 Mel Gibson
Why is Mel Gibson No. 1? Because the fall has been so steep. He stormed the beaches in "Gallipoli," tore up the outback in "Mad Max," almost singlehandedly won the American Revolution – and now he's talking to a hand puppet?

Why he’s a train wreck: There was his 2006 arrest for DUI and the anti-Semitic remarks he made to the arresting officer. His breakup with girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva included charges of violence and the release of several tapes on which someone believed to be Gibson spews more ugly rants. He reportedly has offered his support to Charlie Sheen -- reason enough to earn him in the top spot.
The runners-up
Retired train wrecks: They've stayed out of trouble long enough to make us forget their former issues. Drew Barrymore and Robert Downey Jr. are the official poster children here. Special mention goes to Keith Richards, who clearly will never die.

Web wrecks: Tila Tequila, obviously. Courtney Love transitioned from public crazy to Twitter crazy. If we see any more nude pictures of Chris Brown, we'll put him on the list, too.
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The mother of Charlie Sheen is taking serious issue with Donald Trump. Because that possible, moronic Presidential candidate recently revealed himself as a Birther? No.

Because he claimed to have warned Brooke Mueller's parents against their daughter marrying the former Two and a Half Men star.

In an email somehow obtained by Rupert Murdoch's The Daily, Janet Templeton Sheen - who has been married to Martin Sheen for nearly 50 years - goes off on Trump for referring to Charlie a "disaster."
"THE DONALD IS SPREADING SUCH VICIOUS LIES ABOUT CHARLIE. IS THERE ANY WAY TO STOP HIM?" Janet raged, going on about how Trump reportedly blames Sheen for Mueller's downfall:

"BROOKE...HAD BEEN TO 13 REHABS BEFORE MEETING CHARLIE. SHE DRANK AND DRUGGED DURING PREGNANCY AND HAD SUCH A PARTY GIRL REP BEFORE SHE MET HIM."


Earlier this month, Trump told ABC News that he ran into Mueller's mother, Moira Fiore, in Florida a couple years ago and did, indeed, have a conversation about Brooke getting together with Sheen.

"I know Charlie Sheen," he told the network. "And I told the parents: 'Don't let your daughter marry him. I think he's wonderful, but he's a disaster. Don't let your daughter marry him!"

Wrote Tiger Mom Sheen:

"DONALD HAS GONE ON NATIONAL TV TWICE TO SAY CHARLIE BROUGHT HER INTO THIS SCENE. ACTUALLY, HE HAD BEEN SOBER FOR SOME TIME BEFORE HE HAD MET HER AND WE WERE CONVINCED THAT SHE WOULD BE HIS DOWNFALL. SHE IS ONLY HAPPY WHEN SHE KNOWS HE IS IN TROUBLE OR MISERABLE. SHE IS SO VERY SICK."

Naturally, Fiore has a problem with Janet's rant. She wrote in to The Daily: "That's just despicable how she can think her daughter-in-law can force her son to drink or do drugs. How outrageous!"

The Donald has since referred to Brooke as "lovely" and Charlie as "wonderful," but if this is the way he inserts himself into already-explosive situations, do we really want him dealing with Muammar Gaddafi?!?

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Charlie Sheen's ex Brooke Mueller leaves sober house to take twins to Kathy Hilton's birthday lunch

Charlie Sheen's ex-wife Brooke Mueller took some time out from her sober living facility to attend Kathy Hilton's birthday lunch today.

The 32-year-old was accompanied by her adventurous twin sons Bob and Max, two, who wore matching Burberry shorts and brown chinos.

The family are close friends of the Hiltons, with Brooke starring in a new reality show with Kathy's daughter Paris.


Paris and sister Nicky were also at the lunch, at the exclusive Il Cileo restaurant in Beverly Hills, California.

Paris, wearing a short blue skirt and black top, posed with Brooke outside the restaurant.

Brooke is currently undergoing voluntary treatement at a sober living facility, but is not an inpatient.

Despite reports that Brooke was planning on staying out of the spotlight to shelter her son's from the publicity surrounding Charlie Sheen, she seemed happy to have her picture taken.

Earlier this week it was her boys' turn to celebrate as they turned two.

One person not invited, however, was their father Charlie Sheen.

After a fraught two weeks, in which police removed the twins from Sheen's home, Brooke and Sheen, 45, have now agreed a custody deal.


Brooke and Charlie have reached an agreement that resolves their differences,' their lawyers said in a joint statement after two weeks of intense negotiations.

'For the benefit of the children, the terms of their agreement will not be disclosed. They ask the public for privacy on this matter.'

While the details of the deal are private, it is thought Mueller will have physical custody of the children, as initially agreed following her separation from Sheen last year.

As part of the new agreement both she and Sheen will undergo regular drug testing.








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Actor Charlie Sheen has filed a $100m (£62m) legal action against the makers of Two and a Half Men after being fired from the US sitcom.

In court papers filed on Thursday, Sheen claims producer Chuck Lorre spent years "harassing and disparaging" him.

Mr Lorre, the action alleges, "believes himself so wealthy and powerful that he can unilaterally decide to take money away from the dedicated cast and crew".

Mr Lorre's attorney called the claims "recklessly false and unwarranted".

A spokesman for Warner Bros, also cited in the papers filed at Los Angeles Superior Court, declined to comment on the action.

Prior to his sacking, Sheen had a contract with the studio that ran to the end of the 2012 TV season, earning him $2m (£1.2m) per episode.


In his 30-page submission to the court, the 45-year-old claims he was only fired after he began publicly criticising Warner Bros and Mr Lorre.

The studio, he alleges, was "quite happy to line its coffers" while he received treatment for substance abuse and only acted because of Mr Lorre's "egotistical desire to punish" him.

"Charlie Sheen is not only seeking payment of his own compensation for the series, he is also pursuing claims for the benefit of the entire cast and crew [of Two and a Half Men]," court papers also stated.

On Thursday, police searched Sheen's home for guns that might be in violation of a temporary restraining order obtained last week by his estranged wife, Brooke Mueller.

A police spokeswoman said an antique gun had been retrieved and that the actor co-operated with the search.



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He's currently unemployed after being fired from Two And A Half Men on Monday, but it looks like Charlie Sheen may have found a new vocation.

Taking his media blitz one step further, the father-of-five has hosted a spoof cookery show for the FunnyOrDie.com website.

Playing up to his new 'winning' catchphrase, the troubled actor wears a tiger-patterned chef's hat as he presents 'Charlie Sheen's Winning Recipes'.

Despite his erratic behaviour in recent weeks, the 45-year-old was praised for being 'very professional' during the filming at his Beverly Hills home.


Mike Farah, President of Production for FunnyOrDie.com, said the company had approached the actor on Sunday with ideas for a collaboration and he had been very forthcoming.

Farah told TMZ.com that Sheen was full of ideas and even suggested the tiger-patterned hat - playing up to his recent claim to drinking 'tiger blood'.

As Sheen was filming at home, a porn star was outside with a 'special delivery' from adult entertainment company Brazzers.

Actress Britney Amber turned up with a large box addressed to Sheen while wearing a T-shirt reading 'Charlie's Goddess'.
She was declined entry to the property, but she did manage to successfully deliver whatever was in the box.

After Sheen claimed he had tiger blood running through his veins, he's also been spotted drinking a bottle of red liquid with the words 'tiger blood' written across it.

But it turns out the source of 'Sheen's power' is actually Xango mangosteen juice.

A source close to Sheen he actually refers to it as 'mango juice' privately, despite hamming it up and claiming its tiger blood for the media.
However, one company has been inspired to launch a new energy drink called Bi-Winning Tiger Blood.

Sheen's impassioned outbursts about his strength and mental prowess have inspired the red drink, which is described on Harcos Laboratories's website as: 'Made from 100 per cent passion specifically to make your brain fire in a way that's not from this particular terrestrial realm.'

The website continues: "Tiger Blood allows you to use household items, you're welcome to take more drugs than anyone can survive.

'Be different, have a different brain, and a different heart. When you feel Tiger Blood in your veins, you'll realise dying's for fools and that can't is the cancer of happen.

'Period. The end.'

While the world is still reeling from the stream of garbled 'Sheenisms', Harcos is selling pouches of the drink for $4 each through the website.

The firm behind Sheen's on-screen shirts in the sitcom aren't so positive about the future after he complained about the 'silly shirts'.

Clothing company Da Vinci's pannelled shirts were inspired by one worn by his character Charlie Harper and endorsed by the actor.

But they're concerned about their business after he declared he was happy he didn't have to 'put on those silly shirts for as long as this warlock exists in the terrestrial dimension'.

Chief designer Christopher Wicks told TMZ.com: 'Charlie's frustration is based on his current position in life, rather than the actual shirts. I wish him good health and happiness in his new found terrestrial dimension.'
Meanwhile, the actor revealed yesterday that over 74,000 people have applied to be his social media intern.

He only joined Twitter last week and has so far accrued 2.45million followers and is hoping to employ someone to spread his own brand of 'winning'.

Yesterday, Sheen appeared on a California radio station while running on a treadmill from his LA home.

The actor talked about his possible replacements to play his Two And A Half Men character Charlie Harper - and wished them good luck.

He also offered a 'half apology' to his former co-star Jon Cryer for calling him a 'turncoat and a troll' but later told the hosts of K-EARTH 101 that Cryer was awful at fluffing his lines.

During his breathless interview, Sheen also challenged Celebrity Rehab's Dr. Drew Pinsky to a boxing match.

Speaking about the experts who have branded him unstable, he said: 'I have to scoff at their silliness ... they never met the man.'

Sheen said he had been talking to Rob Lowe, who has been touted as his possible replacement.

'He's a buddy of mine, he's a beautiful man, he's a brilliant actor and I hope he does it and kicks its a** - because I still get paid.'

But asked if he had any advice for his possible replacement he joked: 'I recommend making it their own. Don't look at the 177 brilliant episodes I did, ignore the 400 re-runs every week that you can't avoid, cancel your Sheen ap.'

Asked about his former co-star Cryer, who he hit out at yesterday, Charlie said: 'I will apologise to Jon right now. I was kind of in a mood and I threw it out there to someone.'

When one of the presenters Lisa Stanley asked him he was formally apologising to Cryer, he back tracked, saying: 'A little bit, it's a half apology, it's an apol.'

He said that he was upset because Cryer hadn't been in touch following his sacking to say he 'had his back' which promoted him to make the comments to a U.S. celebrity website.

Later, when asked by host Gary Bryan about a reel of footage which Warner Bros. is said to have put together showing Sheen in a bad light, the actor appeared shocked at first.

The host explained that the reel supposedly showed Sheen forgetting his lines and being unable to perform his duties which Warner Bros. could use to justify sacking Sheen if the matter is the subject of a civil lawsuit.

But Sheen put on a strong front, blasting: ' I say poppycock. Is that the best they've got. Wow. Burial, losing, sizzle, bye.'

He claimed that Cryer was the one who always fluffed his lines: 'Jon's the bubble popper, but it's OK because it makes it fun for the [studio] audience.'

Sheen rounded off by saying that his TV days are 'probably behind' him, but said he was looking forward to going and making some movies.











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Mariah Carey isn't really one for subtly, so it's no surprise her baby shower was a lavish over-the-top affair.

The 41-year-old star, who is currently expecting twins with Nick Cannon, 31, has released photographs from the celebration, which was held at the Montage Beverly Hills Hotel on Sunday.

The singer, who wore a Roberto Cavalli dress for the occasion, is seen taking pride of place in a plush chair while her doting husband caresses her growing baby bump.
The venue was decked out in blue and pink balloons - she is set to give birth to a boy and a girl - and no expense was spared in food and decoration.


Guests, included American Idol judge Randy Jackson and CNN's Piers Morgan, were treated to gourmet pizzas, appetizers and banana, chocolate and red velvet cupcakes.

Napkins, servers' aprons and other items were emblazoned with the couples' names and pictures of baby carriages.

The pair received many gifts, included a huge stuffed giraffe from Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne, but her favourite present came from her fans.

'Nick and I were so grateful to everyone who came with us to celebrate,' she told America's Life & Style magazine.

'There was a lot of love in the room, and to top it off, fans from more than 50 countries sent well-wishes in a book they made for our twins titled Always Be My Babies.

'It was a night I will never forget.'

Cannon is said to have also enjoyed the shower, with a close friend of the couple, describing him as 'very loving'.

'Seeing them together as a couple they’re very loving with each other and you can just feel the excitement between them over the babies,' Stefano Zagni told Radar online.

'During the baby shower Nick was running around with his camera taking lots of pictures but every two or three minutes he would go over to check on Mariah and see if she was okay.

'He dotes on her. They completely adore each other and are so much in love.

'I just think they’re going to be the perfect family. I really do. I think they’re going to make great parents. They’re going to be very loving and hands-on.'

Mariah is expected to give birth in at the end of April.







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Say what you will about Charlie Sheen — that he is a raving lunatic, an egomaniac, a train wreck, an anti-Semite, a drug-addled cautionary tale — he has also actually made some sense this past week by offering up a reasonably astute analysis of the relationship between the public and its celebrities. In fact, Sheen seems to have decided to liberate himself by liberating us from the illusions we harbor about the stars.

Most of us want to think of celebrities as ordinary folks who, by dint of talent, hard work and a bit of luck, ascended to the heights. We want to think of them that way, one suspects, because it binds them more closely to us and because it allows us to indulge the fantasy that it could be us up there on the screen.

Unlike Europeans, Americans have never much tolerated Sarah Bernhardts, the sort of grands artistes who exist in a different and higher realm from the hoi polloi. We take our democracy seriously, right into entertainment. We like a star who is modest, self-effacing, self-deprecating — in effect, one of us. That's why the fan magazines in the 1930s and 1940s featured Clark Gable and Carol Lombard lolling in their backyard just like any old married couple, or Joan Crawford tending to her brood just like any old mother.

This was the basic contract: Entertain us, and we'll grant you fame, riches and adoration — so long as you remain one of us. Violate that contract at the peril of your career. Abide by it, like, say, Tom Hanks, and you will be rewarded with longevity. All we ask is that you be, or at least appear to be, normal.

Bruce Willis once described the basic trajectory of celebrity in America as having four stages: You arrive, you peak, you bomb and you come back. Whether he realized it or not, Willis was also describing the phases that anthropologist Joseph Campbell had discerned for the hero across cultures — save for one thing. Heroes don't bomb. That is a distinctly American interpolation, one designed to ensure that our demigods never confuse themselves with gods. As our stars rose into the heavens, we reserved the right to humble them, to bring them back to Earth. Think of Eddie Murphy or John Travolta or Tom Cruise, all of whom seemed to get too big for their britches and were brought down a peg for it.

So Charlie Sheen's verboten media blitz flaunting a lifestyle that is decidedly not shared by the vast majority of his fans (how many of us have two live-in porn star "goddesses" or can profess to have consumed an amount of cocaine that would have killed a mortal?) explicitly violates the contract, which seems to have been Sheen's point.

He says he isn't off the rails like Mel Gibson or Lindsay Lohan. He insists he is the engineer. He is doing exactly what he wants to do, what his riches and fame allow and entitle him to do. As he puts it, he is embracing his "rock star" life.

The irony is that living large and doing exactly as he pleases has long been a central ingredient in Sheen's appeal. His role on "Two and a Half Men" as a womanizing, footloose bachelor seems lifted out of his real life, which is one of the reasons it is funny. We think we are seeing Sheen spoofing himself. When Sheen reminded us that his life is even more extreme than his character's, the media turned censorious — an example of trying to have your comedy and revile it too. Sheen is absolutely right to call this hypocrisy. He has never pretended to be a Boy Scout. He has always purported to be precisely the opposite.

More broadly, even as Sheen blows the whistle on the idea that celebrities are just like us (or that he has ever been anything other than a loose cannon), he also reveals the cracks in the "humble star-grateful audience" contract. When Willis was making his observations on celebrity some 15 years ago, he explained that Americans everywhere, having seen the benefits of fame, desired it. Increasingly, he noted, it isn't what we have in common with stars that binds us to them; it's exactly the opposite. Privilege and arrogance once repulsed us. Now, in our amped-up, success-obsessed culture, it attracts us.

And if Sheen isn't the first celebrity to be overtly imperial, he may be the first to tell us just how imperial he is. Think "Adonis DNA," and "winning, duh."

And that may be Sheen's real infraction to his detractors: In letting us know that he is nothing like us — that his life is the American dream on steroids and that many of us, as he says, are jealous of him for it — he has shown us that envy is at least as potent a force as identification. With his firing this week, one might even say that he sacrificed his career for the cause.







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If Christina Aguilera's hit "Ain't No Other Man" sounds like a classic, that's because its infectious beat comes from a 43-year-old song -- and a new lawsuit claims Sony Music hasn't paid the rightful owner for the sample.
Take a listen ... Christina's song clearly samples from a 1968 latin soul tune called "Hippy Skippy Moon Strut" (aka "I'll Be a Lucky Man) by Dave Cortez and the Moon People. Gotta love that name.

According to the federal lawsuit, filed in New York, TufAmerica purchased exclusive rights to 'Hippy Skippy' in 2004 ... however Sony Music -- Christina's label -- made a deal with Codigo Music and the Clyde Otis Music Group to use the song.

TufAmerica is asking the court to declare it the rightful owner of the groovy '60s hit ... and to void the other publishers' claims on the song. The company also wants damages -- as in money.





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Kamofie & Co., the "victim" in the alleged Lindsay Lohan jewelry store scandal just cashed in on a very important tape.

The store reportedly just sold the surveillance tape of Lindsay to Entertainment Tonight for $35,000!

"The tape was sold in the U.S. and abroad," a source told Radaronline. "The jewelry store wanted a bidding war to maximize profits. They chopped up the sale to different outlets to make as much money as possible," the source told us.


The tape is a key piece of evidence in the felony grand theft case against Lindsay, so they basically f**ked up the prosecutor's case.

Lindsay's defense was that the store let her loan the necklace, but the store says she flat out stole it.

Lindsay's lawyer Shawn Holley is trying to work Lindsay a plea deal that will involve about 3 months in the pokey, but Lindsay refuses to go back to jail.






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