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USC running back Anthony Brown quit the team this week after accusing head coach Steve Sarkisian of racism and treating him like a slave.  In an interview with TMZ, Brown said Sarkisian “was talking to me… like a slave master talking

Joan Rivers was rushed to a New York City hospital Thursday morning after she stopped breathing during a routine vocal chord surgery. According to the Daily Mail, Rivers is now in a medically-induced coma. The 81-year-old comedian ironically made light

On August 26, Discovery Channel’s Sons of Guns star William Hayden was arrested for the second time in less than three weeks. The charge against him is “aggravated rape of a 12-year-old.” WAFB Baton Rouge reports Hayden was first arrested on

Rap mogul Suge Knight got shot several times last night while attending a pre-party for today’s MTV VMAs, according to TMZ. Knight was one of three people struck by bullets during a melee at the 10AK nightclub in West Hollywood.

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 21 (UPI)–Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon are reportedly putting an end to their six year marriage. Sources told TMZ the couple separated in May and has been living apart ever since. The pair has even begun talking

After former Washington Wizards star Gilbert Arenas blasted Al Sharpton on Instagram this week for inserting himself into the Michael Brown controversy that has caused riots in Ferguson, Missouri, Sharpton blasted back when questioned by TMZ Sports. Sharpton, who had

Joan Rivers refuses to stay silent regarding the current Israeli-Hamas fighting. Now, a group claiming to represent Arab-Americans wants to silence her media voice via her employment ties, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee is asking NBC

Monday TMZ interviewed a young woman named “Satina: claiming she gave a friendly punch to first daughter Malia Obama at the Lollapalooza alternative music festival in Chicago this weekend. Satina told TMZ, “I was there with my friends and she

IBIZA, Spain, July 30 (UPI)–Orlando Bloom was not happy to run into Justin Bieber at Ibiza’s Cipriani restaurant on Wednesday. In a video unveiled by TMZ, the Pirates of The Caribbean actor can be seen walking up to the Canadian

It may have been the moment in court when Donald Sterling called his wife of more than a half century a “pig.” Or, perhaps it happened before the trial began when Donald Sterling wondered aloud what Magic Johnson had ever

(Language Warning) When TMZ caught up with comedian Joan Rivers Thursday outside of LAX she unleashed an emotional rant on the Israeli and Palestinian conflict, screaming, “You are all insane, they [Palestinians] started it!”  Rivers got animated at the paparazzi’s question about

Joan Rivers and Howard Stern make the strangest of bedfellows. Yet this week each is furiously defending Israel in ways most fellow celebrities won’t touch. Earlier this week, Stern railed against an anti-Israel caller. Now, Rivers is unleashing on both

Wednesday during TMZ’s segment on former Governor Sarah Palin (R-AK) getting a speeding ticket, they thought it would be entertaining television to, without provocation or explanation, have random staffers openly attack the Tea Party firebrand as a “bitch,” “dumb,” and

Rory McIlroy admitted that his stomach was churning on Sunday when he grinded out a final round 71 to win the 143rd British Open. Some speculate that his stomach was churning even worse on Monday after celebrating his win by

LOS ANGELES, July 15 (UPI)–Rihanna came under fire on Twitter after tweeting — and later deleting — “#FreePalestine” Tuesday Morning. While the singer has failed to explain the situation herself, a source told TMZ that, “She deleted it because it

KISS star Gene Simmons says sports reporters hold morally upright athletes like Tim Tebow to a different standard that those who find trouble wherever they go. “It’s interesting to me that media often picks on the good guys and lets

PHILADELPHIA, July 11 (UPI)–Glee actress Becca Tobin’s boyfriend Matt Bendik was reportedly found dead in a Philadelphia hotel room on Thursday. Bendik — a 35-year-old club owner — was in Philadelphia on a business trip and was seen out and

Davey Moore famously lost his life immediately after losing his featherweight title in 1963. Dale Earnhardt died in 2001 where he had won the Daytona 500 just three years earlier. In 1920, New York Yankees pitcher Carl Mays beaned Cleveland

First daughter Malia Obama, who is interning on the Los Angeles set of the Obama friend Halle Berry’s new movie “Extant,” was spotted at Gjelina in Venice, CA, a famous hot spot always filled with parting celebrities and therefore continuously

Comic actress Rosie O’Donnell, who famously shared her 9/11 Truther arguments on The View, is coming back to that beleaguered ABC franchise. The daytime series recently announced that regulars Jenny McCarthy and Sherri Shepherd would be departing. Now, the show

Evidently, Cleveland Browns quarterback and former Heisman Trophy winner Johnny Manziel didn’t get owner Jimmy Haslam’s message when he was told to tone it down while he’s off the playing field. Early this week, according to Sports Illustrated, Manziel was

Earlier this year, rapper Andre Johnson had an episode where he chopped off his own penis and then jumped from the second floor of his apartment. But now that he has undergone surgery to reattach his member, he is now

A black Mississippi pastor has emerged to claim Sen. Thad Cochran’s (R-MS) campaign paid “thousands” of Democrats $15 each to vote in the June 24 GOP runoff – and that he was part of the scheme. Rev. Stevie Fielder, an

After the BET Awards Sunday night, violence broke out at a number of clubs. A shooting broke out at a Hollywood nightclub where, according to TMZ, a number of famous rappers were present. Early Monday morning, sometime around 2:30 AM

Industry insiders are reporting that most of the cast of ABC’s The View is being fired, with both Jenny McCarthy’s and Sherri Shepherd’s jobs on the chopping block. Only Whoopi Goldberg is being retained. Sources tell TMZ that Shepherd and

Last year, Joey Patterson allegedly murdered the two-year-old son of Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson. This week, Patterson allegedly kidnapped and assaulted the deceased boy’s mother, Ashley Doohan. How did the criminal justice system allow an accused child murderer

TMZ Sports reports that Mickey Mantle’s moving farewell address, which he wrote as he was dying in 1995, has sold at an auction for $24,000. Mantle wrote the note on a PGA scorecard just before he gave a speech on

Gold-medal Olympic swimmer Amy Van Dyken has released the shocking x-ray images of the recent spinal cord injury she suffered that left her paralyzed from the waist down. The images also show the effects of a risky surgery meant to pin

ESPN reports that Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling’s estranged wife, Shelly Sterling, is scheduled to appear Thursday in court to argue that her husband and his attorneys have threatened, intimidated, and harassed witnesses scheduled to testify in the July

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver responded to Donald Sterling’s lawsuit to block the sale of the Los Angeles Clippers in a halftime interview during Game 3 of the NBA Finals. “It’s so unfortunate that that’s what we’re talking about,” Silver held.

The mercurial Donald Sterling, who vowed legal action to retain ownership of the Los Angeles Clippers before announcing that he wouldn’t sue, has filed a lawsuit to block the sale of his team to former Microsoft executive Steve Ballmer. Sterling’s

(AFP) Hollywood power couple Antonio Banderas and Melanie Griffith announced the end of their 18-year marriage Friday, saying they had agreed to divorce “in a loving and friendly manner.” The pair, who dismissed rumors of marital strains two years ago,

A new video has surfaced, the second one in a week, that shows Canadian singer Justin Bieber using the word “n**ger.” The first video was of a 15 year-old Bieber (who’s now 20) telling a joke with the N-word as

Jonah Hill, a two-time Academy Award nominee and star of the upcoming “22 Jump Street,” was caught on video calling a photographer a “faggot” over the weekend in Los Angeles. TMZ has the video and reports that the photographer followed

Charlotte Hornets center Bismack Biyombo is being sued by a professed scout/agent charging that the NBA player did not honor a contract that would have paid him $2 million in commissions. TMZ Sports reports that Igor Crespo claims in his lawsuit that