A US judge has ruled that Austin Powers star Verne Troyer is not a threat to his ex-girlfriend’s safety.
Model Yvette Monet’s request for a temporary restraining order to be made permanent against Troyer was today dismissed by a judge in a Los Angeles court.
Monet split from the Mini-Me star a few months ago and since [...]

A US judge has kept a ban in place to prevent the release of intimate home videos featuring Jennifer Lopez that her ex-husband is trying to distribute.
L.A. Superior Court Judge James C. Chalfant issued a preliminary injunction on Tuesday against Ojani Noa and his manager Ed Meyer.
The Louboutin singer sued the pair in November for [...]

David Hasselhoff’s ex says stress caused by her divorce from the Baywatch star and his recent hospitalisation is to blame for a weekend drink driving incident.
Pamela Bach was pulled over by the California Highway Patrol on Saturday night and reportedly gave breathalyser readings of .14 and .13. The legal limit is .08.
She spent more than [...]

Film-maker Roman Polanski has been granted bail by a Swiss court after he was held in jail for sex crimes.
The 76-year-old director fled the country in 1978, after he pleaded guilty to having unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl.
Polanski has been trying to dodge sentencing ever since and was held in Zurich after he flew [...]

A lawsuit filed against rocker Courtney Love by American Express is set to move ahead.
A Los Angeles judge has set a mid-December date for a status conference in litigation between Love and the credit card company, which alleges she owes more than $300,000 in unpaid charges and other fees.
The complaint, filed in late May [...]

Anna Nicole Smith’s ex-boyfriend has settled a defamation lawsuit with a TV journalist out of court.
Howard K Stern’s $60 million defamation suit against Rita Cosby was dismissed on Friday.
TMZ claims the case has been settled and the terms of that deal are confidential.
In her book - Blonde Ambition - Cosby claimed that Stern had [...]

Supermodel Heidi Klum has become Heidi Samuel after a Los Angeles commissioner approved the supermodel’s request to change her surname.
At yesterday’s court hearing, Klum was granted approval to use her singer husband Seal’s surname.
In her application, Klum, 36, cited the fact that they married four years ago and that she gave birth to their fourth [...]

Singer Aaron Carter reportedly owes over $1m in taxes, according to court papers.
In legal documents filed at a Los Angeles court on Monday, the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) claims that the brother of Backstreet Boy Nick Carter owes $1,010,635.08 in back taxes.
The former teen heart-throb, 21, who last week was voted off the US [...]

A lawsuit accusing Miley Cyrus of offending Asian-Americans by making ‘slant eyes’ in a photo has been thrown out of court.
Judge Robert Sohigian said he was not convinced the Disney star’s actions had violated a state law protecting citizens from discrimination by business establishments.
The teen singer’s lawyer, Bryan Sullivan, praised the ruling and said it [...]

Britney Spears’ ex Adnan Ghalib has been sentenced to 45 days’ prison for a hit-and-run crash.
The photographer received the county jail term after he allegedly ran over a court official who was trying to serve him with a restraining order filed by the singer’s father.
Ghalib, who pleaded no contest to a charge of leaving the [...]