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| August 24th, 2006 |

SpoofCard has terminated the accounts of more than 50 customers, including Paris Hilton, who the company claims used its service to hack into the voice mail accounts of well-known celebrities like Lindsay Lohan.
SpoofCard allows people to disguise their phone number and keep it from appearing on others’ caller ID displays when they make a phone call. SpoofCards are popular with celebs who want to keep their phone numbers private (so they don’t start getting calls from people like us asking them to the prom and whatnot).
SpoofCard attorney Mark Del Bianco told TMZ, “Paris was entering unauthorized [voice] mail boxes.” When asked about Lindsay, he said, “A number of the 50 persons [who were canceled by Spoofcard] were making unauthorized entrances to Miss Lohan’s voice mail.” A source close to the scandal also told TMZ that Nicky Hilton and Paris’ ex-boyfriend Stavros Niarchos may have been involved.
Paris’ rep Elliot Mintz told TMZ, “I read the original release from Spoofcard and I read the quote given to TMZ by Mr. Del Bianco. A close reading of the press release and the comments do not accuse Paris of violating Lindsay’s voice mail. She has not been accused of that. I find the statements by Spoofcard to be somewhat ambiguous and misleading. Also, historically, I can’t think of anyone in America who has suffered more public humiliation over the invasion of her privacy as it pertains to communications devices than Paris Hilton.”
Us Weekly
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| August 24th, 2006 |
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Johnny Depp gives his fans a handy aye-to-aye as he leaves the set of Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl in Redondo Beach, Calif., on Tuesday.
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| August 24th, 2006 |
With new constant companion Nicole Richie by his side, Brody Jenner gets some hand-holding from another important woman in his life, mom Linda, as they head to Hollywood club Privilege to celebrate Jenner’s 23rd birthday Tuesday.
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| August 24th, 2006 |
Mariah Carey’s multi-octave voice stops Jay-Z in his tracks during their duet of “Heartbreaker” at her sold-out show at New York City’s Madison Square Garden on Wednesday. The Jigga Man wasn’t the only special guest at the concert: Sean “Diddy” Combs and a gospel choir from True Worship Church of East New York also hit the stage.
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| August 23rd, 2006 |
Paramount Pictures has ended its relationship with Tom Cruise, formerly one of the company’s most bankable stars. Sumner Redstone, whose company owns Paramount, said the studio would sever its 14-year relationship with Cruise’s film production company.
“As much as we like him personally, we thought it was wrong to renew his deal,” Mr. Redstone told The Wall Street Journal. “His recent conduct has not been acceptable to Paramount.”
The deal in recent years paid Cruise and partner Paula Wagner up to $10 million a year to develop films and operate an office on the Paramount lot, according to the Journal via the Associated Press.
Us Weekly
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| August 23rd, 2006 |

Audiences were abuzz when cohost Jessica Simpson took the stage with comedian Dane Cook at the Teen Choice awards in L.A.’s Universal City August 20. But it wasn’t their flirtatious relationship that had fans talking: It was Simpson’s newly slimmed-down shape.
“I have been working out five days a week for two hours a day,” the 5-foot-3 singer, 26, told Us the morning after the show. And in the past two weeks alone, she lost 8 pounds. (Most doctors recommend shedding a pound a week for healthy weight loss.) “There are no tricks,” says the size-2 star. “There is no easy way.”
Of course, workouts alone haven’t whittled the waistline of Simpson, who wears size 26 jeans. The singer – who indulged in a pre-diet Caesar salad, sea bass, shrimp cocktail and chocolate lava cake at Beverly Hills eatery the Lodge Steakhouse on August 1 — has revamped her diet as well. Once a devotee of the Zone Diet (she still favors the plan’s snack bars) as well as the South Beach Diet, the meat lover now follows a junkfood-free regime created by her trainer Mike Alexander.
Us Weekly
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| August 23rd, 2006 |
A svelte-looking Victoria “Posh” Beckham puts pregnancy rumors to rest as she makes her way to dinner at London’s Nobu on Tuesday. The latest joint collaboration between the pop star and her footballer husband David? His-and-hers fragrances called Intimately Beckham, which will begin selling in Britain Sept. 1.
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| August 23rd, 2006 |
Mary-Kate Olsen dresses up her T-shirt with some vintage rocks after a shopping spree at famed Los Angeles jeweler Neil Lane on Tuesday. The actress’s first film in two years, the biopic Factory Girl, about pop artist Andy Warhol’s muse Edie Sedgwick, is due out in September.
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| August 23rd, 2006 |
The day after wrapping (and partying for) Georgia Rule, Lindsay Lohan has a quiet Tuesday afternoon of culture with beau Harry Morton at the Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills, where modern sculpture is on exhibit.
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| August 22nd, 2006 |
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