Richard Quest, 46, an openly-gay reporter and business travel specialist for CNN, was arrested at 3:40 a.m. Friday morning after a cop spotted him and another man inside the park near 64th Street.

A source says Quest was initially busted for loitering, but as he was being escorted out of the park, he told the arresting officer “I have meth in my pocket.” And he wonders why he works for CNN and not the CIA.

Upon further inspection, law-enforcement sources found a small bag of methamphetamine in his left jacket pocket, a rope around his neck that was tied to his genitals, and a sex toy in his boot. The criminal complaint against Quest said the park was closed at the time - something Quest should have known because of all the signs saying “Park Closed 1 a.m. to 6 a.m.”

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What do The Pope and Marilyn Monroe have in common? Sex, scandal, expensive tastes in gowns and they’re both the topic of today’s Gotham Report. Read on…

Lock up your Prada and call off the gay wedding, the Pope is in town! Pope Benedict XVI arrived in Washington D.C. today on his first papal visit to the U.S. He was greeted off the plane by Satan and his clan: President Bush, first lady Laura Bush and their daughter, Jenna.

On the flight to the United States from Rome, his royal Popeness addressed the issue of clergy sex abuse in the Roman Catholic Church.

“It is a great suffering for the Church in the United States and for the church in general and for me personally that this could happen,” Benedict said. “I am deeply ashamed and we will do what is possible so this cannot happen again in the future.” Ah hum…

Benedict pledged that pedophiles would not be tolerated in the Catholic Church. “We will absolutely exclude pedophiles from the sacred ministry,” he said. “It is more important to have good priests than many priests.”

Since 1950, the U.S. church has paid out over $2 billion in abuse costs, most of that in just the last six years.

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The New York Times has an article on Christopher Rocancourt, a con man who used his Continental charms to trick the well-to-do in East Hampton, Beverly Hills, Miami, San Francisco and Hong Kong, into believing he was a member of the Rockefeller family, prying nearly $900,000 from the hands of wealthy Hamptonites over the course of a single season alone.

Six High School wrestlers from Parker, South Dakota claim that a fellow classmate raped their butts with his finger during wrestling practice. 17 year old Jerome Hunt, was originally facing 21 counts of rape and attempted rape, but prosecutors have since dropped 11 of those charges. Each count could get him 25 years in prison if convicted.

One wrestler testified that Hunt “unsuccessfully tried to stick his finger in his butt”, other accusers say Hunts finger went into their rectums through their clothes. The wrestlers, who have since left the school, claim they didn’t tell anyone right away because they were scared of Hunt, who allegedly threatened to do worse to them. One alleged victim admits he thought Hunt was just playing around until his parents convinced him it was rape.

In a video shown in court, Hunt claimed the other wrestlers are “just trying to get him in trouble.” He admitted to messing around before practice, but says everybody does. “It’s all stuff that was done to me, it is a high school tradition,” he said.

Hunt went on to say the accusers are referring to a legal wrestling move he used on them called skinning, the maneuver involves applying pressure between a wrestler’s inner thighs to tail bone area. Senior wrestlers testified that they didn’t think Jerome Hunt was guilty and that he was using a legal wrestling move. They said “a finger could accidentally be inserted in an opponent’s rectum.”

Hunt says he never meant to offend anyone and asked “how he could penetrate a wrestler through his clothes.”

Sounds like a typical Abercromie photo shoot to me.

Source: MSNBC

TMZ is reporting officials from the Miss U.S.A. pageant will make an announcement today and may strip the current Miss U.S.A. 20 year old Miss Kentucky Tara Conner, of her title due to “inappropriate” behavior.

Sources say executives from the pageant met Tuesday to discuss Conner’s alleged antics which includes her questionable conduct at various New York City bars. If Connor is dethroned, first runner-up Miss California Tamiko Nash will most likely assume the title.

In my opinion, this is the best thing that could happen to Conner’s career, no one knew or remembered who she was before today, but now no one will forget. If she plays her cards right she could use this to her advatage and come out on top, scandal has been known to pave the way for many a lucrative career.

Source: TMZ

Update 12/17/06:
Reports are that officials are upset with Tara?¬¢‚Äö?ᬮ‚Äö?묢s behavior including hard partying, coke use and making out with Miss Teen USA at NYC night clubs. She?¬¢‚Äö?ᬮ‚Äö?묢s also being accused of being a “pass-around-patty” bringing home men to their apartment.

Update 12/19/06:
The Donald did not fire Tara. In an early morning news conference, Trump said Conner is “a good person and deserves a second chance.” Conner, who will be admitted to rehab, faced the media and tearfully apologized for her behavior.

Seems Broadway legend Carol Channing may not be as gay-friendly as she would have her gay fans believe. In a recent interview with The Gay People’s Chronicle, the 85-year-old Channing made some less than friendly comments in regards to her predominantly gay fan base.

When asked if she ever thought about why she had such a large gay following, Ms Channing stated “I don’t think about them. I’m grateful that they seem to like me. They’re terribly loyal to me. But I’m knee-deep in the Bible and you know what it says about that.”

Asked if she thought the things gay people are fighting for are important, she commented “I don’t think about it. If they can’t take care of their own problems, why should I bother. It’s not my problem.”

Channing’s publicist Harlan Boll later stated Ms. Channing did not know she was speaking with a gay publication, even though the interviewer identified himself as being from “The GAY People’s Chronicle”. he went on to say “she had gotten into another gay media fracas a month ago over things she said about gay marriage versus civil unions”.

It goes without saying Channing’s remarks have sent ripples through the gay community.

Source: The Gay People’s Chronicle

Radar Online has a fascinating and somewhat sad article on the Versace empire and it’s operatically tragic downfall since the death of Gianni.

Read the original article here: “Donatella’s Last Dance?”
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This might seem like a crazy story, but considering it involves Tom Cruise it might not be all that far fetched after all. Add to this persistent stories that Cruise is actually sterile and it makes a lot more sense. According to a story published on Janet Charlton’s website, a source is coming forward to claim Suri Cruise is not Tom’s baby, but actually Katie Holme’s exboyfriend Chris Klein’s. And why not, it’s Hollywood, stranger things have happened. Read on:

“When Katie Holmes split with her exboyfriend Chris Klein in March 2005, she may or may not have realized she was pregnant with his baby. She started dating Tom in April, 2005, and according to this tale, when Tom found out she was expecting, he not only didn’t MIND , but he insisted on taking credit for the pregnancy. They abruptly got engaged in June 2005. Since the baby was scheduled to be born too soon into their relationship, Tom and Katie faked the birth date. She actually gave birth months EARLIER than the announced birth. She wore padding for the last few months after the REAL birth, and made sure she was photographed. In case you don’t remember, Suri’s announced April 18 birth was oddly undocumented - there were no hospital records or specifics. Where WAS Suri born? Tom and Katie didn’t want their baby photographed because it would be apparent that Suri wasn’t newborn. After a few months it’s not so easy to recognize a baby’s exact age. Have you noticed that Suri has uniquely slanted eyes like Chris Klein? Keep in mind this is simply a rumor - form your own conclusions.”

Speaking of Chris Klein, strange that we haven’t heard much from him since the whole TomKat mess started…hmmmm.

Photo: x17online.com

Paris Hilton was arrested in Hollywood at 12:30am last night on suspicion of Driving Under the Influence. The arresting officer said “The officers observed that Hilton exhibited the symptoms of intoxication. A field sobriety test was conducted at the scene and the officers determined she was driving under the influence.” Hilton was booked then released and picked up by her sister Nick Hilton.

Photo: x17online.com

Paris later called into the On Air with Ryan Seacrest show on LA’s KIIS-FM and told him that she “may have been driving a little fast” in her Mercedes McLaren SLR, but “it was only because she wanted a burger.”

She went on to defend her actions by saying she had an “excruciatingly long day on Wednesday filming the video for her new single Nothing in This World” and when shooting wrapped she went to dinner with sister Nicky, attended a charity event hosted by Dave Navarro and had one margarita. Hilton says she drove home after and may have been going a bit fast because she was “starving” and just wanted “an In-N-Out Burger.”

Uhm, what did the bitch do during dinner with her sister, stare at the food? No, she probably did some lines and a couple of bus boys. As for that “charity event”, Paris was photographed last night partying at the Suicide Girls 5 year anniversary party. I guess in her world getting drunk at a party for a bunch of retro, goth, softporn hookers classifies as a charity event.

Source: TMZ

For video of this dumb ho after the arrest go here: x17online.com

First her album flops, now Paris Hilton is being denied entrance to A List clubs. could the F List be far behind? Paris and Fat Elvis look-a-like Brandon “Firecrotch” Davis, were denied entry to a VMAs after-party at Bungalow 8 last Thursday night. Pictures of a clearly distraught Paris along with davis and Diddy-Puffy-Sean Jean-Whoever ( who was also denied ) surfaced online today.

Davis apparently had a fit when his drunken, fat ass couldn’t find a McDonald’s near by to “comfort” his frustration and the cops had to be called in to control with a cattle prod. Just kidding about the McDonald’s part, there’s not enough junk food in the free world to fill up that greasy pig, the cops did have to be called in to calm things down though. Life must really be a bitch when everyone wakes up and realizes you’re a nobody. Yours truly wouldn’t know about such things of course.

Source: Dlisted

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ABC news has an in depth article recapping socialite Brooke Astor’s shocking elderly abuse scandal involving her son Anthony Marshall and the subsequent lawsuit filed against him by Miss Astor’s grandson Philip Marshall.

Source: TMZ.com

Nobody Puts Barbara In a Corner
Posted Jun 28th 2006 12:35PM by TMZ Staff
Filed under: TV, Celebrity Feuds

Star Jones has left “The View” — permanently, according to her now-former co-host and boss, Barbara Walters. The show aired this morning with just Walters, Joy Behar, and Elisabeth Hasselbeck taking their customary seats at the now oddly empty round table, and Jones’ name and picture has been removed from the opening credits.

After the ladies took their seats, Walters began the show, dryly, “And then there were three.”

Summoning as much patrician chill as she could, Barbara gave as good as she got: She told the audience that Star wouldn’t be coming back, and that though she had purposely given her a few months to find a new gig and had given her the chance to “leave with dignity,” her co-host had “made another choice” by talking to People magazine and making “other announcements” in the media yesterday.Walters also said that she and the producers had decided not to renew Star’s contract several months ago (which, she says, Star knew) though she didn’t go into the reasons why.

Jones, perhaps to try to take the offensive, appeared earlier this morning before “The View” on Ryan Seacrest’s KIIS-FM radio show and said that she wanted to leave when they told her contract wasn’t going to be renewed two months ago and that, until yesterday, Joy and Elisabeth didn’t even know she had gotten the boot.

Jones told Seacrest that “if anyone should feel betrayed, it should be me,” referring to comments Walters made yesterday that she had felt “betrayed” by Star’s jumping the gun. And she complained that she found out about how Rosie O’Donnell — who Star said had been “nasty and insulting and vicious” about her weight loss — was brought onto the show at the Emmy Awards, when Barbara announced it.

Star also acknowledged that she had made some missteps in commercializing her wedding planning to the hilt, saying “I want to take full responsibility for the audience thinking, ‘Star abandoned us.’”

Also, Gawker.com reports:

Our recaps don’t do justice to the measured, authoritative tones of Barbara Walters who, no matter what bullshit Star Jones may pull, will always be the boss around The View’s henhouse. As she explains the circumstances of Jones’ departure, Walters reminds us (and presumably Jones herself) that “The View helped make Star a star.” And don’t you forget it, snatchpants.

Also: a few readers report that Jones called in to Steve Harvey’s radio show this morning and said that yesterday ABC producers called her agents, informing them that Star was never to come back to The View, effective immediately. Burning bridges sure does make for a spectacular glow.