Born Eleanora Fagan in Philadelphia in 1915, the chips were stacked against her from the very start and never really gave her a break. Alcohol and drugs plagued every moment of her life. Somehow, despite the continuous knocks life dealt her, she managed to become one of the world’s most revered blues singers.
Read more ...UPDATE: Former California high school teachers Melody Lippert and Michelle Ghirelli have pleaded guilty to having sex with a 17-year-old student during their drug and sex filled party on the beach last January (2015.) Michelle Ghirelli also pleaded guilty to a felony count of furnishing a controlled substance. While neither of the women will face jail time, Lipper and Ghirelli will both be sentenced to three years probation. Lippert will also have to perform 15 days of community service while Ghirelli will serve 180 days in a lock-down rehab facility. The prosecution said that even though the women won't face jail time they will receive a much bigger punishment which is having their teaching credentials revoked for life in the state of California. Original story follows...
Read more ...The self proclaimed Prince of Darkness of the rock and roll world, Ozzy Osbourne has had a really dark past that includes drug and alcohol abuse.
Read more ...It's been a tough few years for Amanda Bynes, but her bad behavior never seems to stop. The former child star from the Nickelodeon series All That and The Amanda Show, as well as movies What a Girl Wants and Easy A, has proven time and time again that she is a very, very (very) unstable person (for additional proof, check out her Twitter page! She's a loon!).
Read more ...UPDATE: As originally reported in an update at the end of May 2015, Dustin Diamond had been found not guilty of a second-degree felony of recklessly endangering safety. He was however found guilty of carrying a concealed weapon and disorderly conduct. Now at the end of June (2015) Diamond has been sentenced to serve 4 months in jail. He was also sentenced to 15 months' probation.
Read more ...Mike Sorrentino checked into rehab for treating his alcohol and substance abuse problem about two weeks ago in March. But now the star of the reality show ‘Jersey Shore’ has checked out of the Cirque Lodge at Utah.
Read more ...James Argent one of the stars of the British reality television series The Only Way Is Essex has reportedly checked Into Rehab on December 7th. This was not in the script! Let's see if we got this right. The Only Way Is Essex (known to fans as TOWIE) is a BAFTA award-winning "scripted reality" television soap opera based in Essex, England. Hmmm scripted reality... that means totally fake, right? Just checking.
Read more ...Have you ever seen a photograph of Judy Garland at the end of her life? If you know her only as Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz, you might see that later photograph and think, "Hey, that's nice... a child star who had an impressive career and lived to a ripe old age." That is, If you consider 47 ripe and old.
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