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The sun came up yesterday, so it should come as no surprise to anyone that billionaire "Birther" bozo Donald Trump made a complete ass of himself.In addition to making an ass of himself all day yesterday, "the Donald" made an ass of himself all day today -- and will continue to make an ass of himsel ... More >>

Donald Trump Could Always Just Give $5 Million to Charity. But He Won't

Billionaire media slut Donald Trump's not-so-earth-shattering announcement yesterday that he will donate $5 million to a charity of President Barack Obama's choice if the president releases his college transcripts was essentially brushed off by the White House as the shameless PR stunt that it is.Fo ... More >>

More Guy Fieri Bashing, Michael Anthony at Yale

Anthony Bourdain called Guy Fieri's new restaurant a "terror-dome." He blamed Fieri for "single-handedly turning the neighborhood into the 'Ed Hardy district,'" and mused that the sunglasses-wearing chef "set back spelling two decades." [Sirius XM] The guys over at Big Gay Ice Cream also visited F ... More >>

Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, Noxious Anti-Islam Video Producer, Was Government Informant

This is interesting: Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, the guy believed to have produced that anti-Islam movie which apparently sparked the murder of a U.S. Ambassador in Libya was a federal informant, The Smoking Gun reports. Nakoula, 55, flipped and informed on Eiad Salameh, who was running a major check ... More >>

James "Jimmy Henchman" Rosemond Implicated Himself in 1994 Tupac Shakur Attack: Court Testimony

For nearly two decades, drug lord James Rosemond, a/k/a "Jimmy Henchman," denied accusations of his involvement in the near-fatal 1994 ambush of rap star Tupac Shakur at New York's Quad Recording Studios that marked a pivotal moment in American pop history. The attack on Tupac triggered a bicoastal ... More >>

Tupac Shakur, the Los Angeles Times, and Why I'm Still Unemployed: A Personal History by Chuck Philips

Last week, a trial in Brooklyn started off with a strange twist. At the federal criminal trial of James Rosemond -- a/k/a Jimmy Henchman -- one of the first things Rosemond's attorney did was kick an unemployed journalist named Chuck Philips out of the courtroom by naming him a witness in the case. ... More >>

The Best Reasons Why You Should Doubt the Allegations in the John Travolta Sex-Assault Lawsuit

Monday evening, we wrote that the sex-abuse lawsuit filed against John Travolta read like something someone had imagined in a dream. The account by "John Doe" that was described in the lawsuit's complaint stretched credulity beyond the breaking point, and was one of the sloppiest jobs of lawyering t ... More >>

Robert Maresca Abandons Attempt to Trademark Occupy Wall Street

Not one of Robert Maresca's t-shirts.​The Long Island couple who tried to trademark "Occupy Wall Street" have officially abandoned the idea, according to a document released by The Smoking Gun today. Robert Maresca was the object of near-universal derision for his attempt to cash in on the mov ... More >>

Robert Maresca Tried to Trademark "Occupy Wall Street," Says He's Not a Jerk

emilydickensonridesabmxThis is not one of Maresca's Occupy Wall Street shirts.​Robert Maresca has been the object of a certain amount of ridicule ever since it was revealed yesterday that he has applied for a trademark for the phrase "Occupy Wall Street." Initially published at The Smoking Gu ... More >>

Amish Scofflaws Nabbed in Buggy Safety-Triangle Scandal

​ Those photos are the single best group of mugshots in the history of the world. They're also as perfect an illustration as you could ask for of what can go wrong when the Amish lifestyle bumps up against that of the modern world; these men were arrested for refusing to pay fines after for not p ... More >>

Rightbloggers Ejaculate Over the Women of Weinergate

Here is what everyone knows about Weinergate: A picture of bulging underwear, which Democratic Congressman Anthony Weiner won't deny is his, exists, and a link to it appeared in his Twitter stream. Weiner says he didn't send it out himself, but was "hacked" or "pranked," depending, and he has been ... More >>

Katy Perry Demands That Her Drivers Don't Talk To Her!

​The first line of my current column about why I hate celebs is "They claw their way to the top, then act like they're desperate not to be noticed." Well, I've been vindicated once again because real-life examples are popping up like deranged hedgehogs! Our friends at thesmokinggun.com just ... More >>

Sixth Grader Arrested For Spilling Milk

​A 12-year-old Indiana boy was handcuffed and arrested after he refused to clean up milk he'd spilled on the cafeteria floor. A school employee told the kid to wipe up the milk, and the tween refused, saying "This is stupid, you're retarded." A school resource officer (a kind of cop) told him aga ... More >>

Vince Shlomi, the ShamWow Guy, Charged With Stalking and Other Creepiness

​So, the ShamWow guy might be kind of a creep. Allegedly. Jennifer Kosinski, a 23-year-old model who worked as the ShamWow guy's assistant (the ShamWow guy is named Vince Shlomi, for the record, and he's also the Slap Chop guy) is charging him with all sorts of bad behavior, including stalking ... More >>

Man Traps Ex-Girlfriend's Mother in Fold-Out Couch; Comedy Nation Rejoices

​Via The Smoking Gun, our latest favorite crazy person is facing a battery charge after he showed up at his ex-girlfriend's mother's house, asked to use the bathroom, and then allegedly folded the poor woman into the fold-out couch upon which she was lying. These people live in Florida. It is ... More >>

Denny's Fight Club: First Rule Is Post it On YouTube (Updated)

File this video under Crazy Americans. Late night, in a Denny's in Chicopee, Mass. on Sunday, Feb. 20, two men, and three women duke it out during an extremely profane and vicious argument that supposedly started over maple syrup, at least according to whoever posted it on YouTube. Well, we made ... More >>

Yesha Callahan Outed Chris Lee, the Craigslist Congressman: No Gawker Source Is Safe

Eliza Kruger, once anonymous​When Gawker took down New York GOP representative Christopher Lee of the 26th district, they did so based on the emails of an anonymous woman who made a Craigslist posting. In it, the woman begged, "Will someone prove to me not all CL men look like toads?" In respo ... More >>

Man Does Very Gross Thing on F-Train

via FailImage.com​There are certain things we post as news, certain things we post as warnings, certain things we post as cautionary tales, and certain things we post because, well, they're just gross, and sort of funny at the same time. This video from The Smoking Gun of a man going spelunkin ... More >>

Worst Ex-Boyfriend Ever Handcrafts "Vibrator Bomb" for Christmas

This guy! Via The Smoking Gun​Oh, God help. You think you're having a nice, pleasant, snowy news day, just talking about abortions and bed bugs, and then all of a sudden some mullety creep appears who "fixed up" a Christmas gift vibrator real nice for his ex-girlfriend so that it would explode ... More >>

Lady-Part Stench Leads to Amusing Antics All Around

Here she is, fellas.​Today is a day for crazy, apparently. Which is good. We like crazy. Crazy is kind of a gift, really. Especially when it happens in West Virginia. In this instance...a 41-year-old woman with three names (Melissa Lee Williams) who lives in a room at the 77 Motor Inn (conveni ... More >>

Dustin Dominiak: The Guy Who Sleazed Christine O'Donnell, Says Friend (Updated)

​Remember that time earlier this afternoon Gawker took some guy's sleazy story about the time three years ago on Halloween he hooked up with Christine O'Donnell, the would-be Senator from Delaware, and published it anonymously after paying the guy off?

Vote No On Wyclef Jean: Why the Former Fugee's Run For the Haitian Presidency Is Totally Misguided

Wyclef Jean opens NASDAQ on the six month anniversary of the earthquake in Haiti. Photo via Yele Haiti.​So it's official: Wyclef Jean is running for the Haitian presidency. The former Fugee confirmed the news to the New York Times last night; later today, he's expected to go on Larry King Live ... More >>

Anna Fermanova, the Latest Hot Spy, Has Hot Facebook Photos, Too!

​Brace yourself for the hotter, blonder, Russian Anna: Anna Fermanova. The new improved Anna attempted to smuggle high-tech night vision googles (worth $15,000 and considered weapons) from the United States to Russia, and she now faces a federal felony charge, according to The Smoking Gun. Not ver ... More >>

J. Edgar Hoover Called Us Liars: Yes, We're Thrilled!

​J. Edgar Hoover had his FBI eye on Runnin' Scared in 1969, just-released Teddy Kennedy files reveal. In fact, he called us liars, the greatest blurb quote we've ever garnered.

Wyclef Jean's Haiti Charity Made Dubious Payments: Smoking Gun

​Governor Paterson's office suggests a number of venues to which citizens may donate Haiti relief funds, among them the Yele Haiti site, whose sponsor Wyclef Jean has used Twitter ("text 'Yele' to 501501") to score over $1 million in contributions for the devastated country. The effort is he ... More >>

Wyclef Jean's Haiti Charity Is Probably OK, But Why Not Just Give to the Red Cross If You're Worried About It?

​Lackluster accounting practices and what looks to have been some self-patronage probably should not shatter people's faith in the Wyclef Jean Foundation, which has already raised a ton of money for relief in Haiti. The Smoking Gun's digging mostly just turned up irregular tax returns and a fe ... More >>

Feds: Terror Suspect Cheerfully Visited Ground Zero, Wanted to Kill Soldiers, Citizens, Officials

​The latest man arrested on terrorism charges is Tarek Mehanna of Sudbury, Massachusetts. He is charged with providing material support to terrorists by flying around the jihad world in pursuit of terror training and automatic weapons, and planning to shoot up a mall. Prosecutors say he also w ... More >>

Obama Takes "PO$H" Vacation in Taxachusetts While the People Suffer

  "Despite growing unemployment numbers across the U.S.," the Post breathlessly announces, "the first family is planning to spend their summer vacation on a lavish East Coast getaway that could cost taxpayers up to $50,000 a week." And since the Obama's will be spending one week there, that co ... More >>

TSG: Danielle Staub Coke/Kidnapping/Escort Criminal Records

We hate reality shows and never had any interest in the gruesome-sounding Real Housewives of New Jersey, but we're a little more tempted now that The Smoking Gun has laid out Housewife Danielle Staub's criminal records under her old name, Beverly Ann Merrill. "Testing" cocaine for dealers? Involved ... More >>

Phil Spector's Prison Barber Is Extremely Relieved Right Now

via the Smoking Gun, of course Right. So that haggard, emaciated, disintegrating man in the photo above is Phil Spector, pictured sometime around day one of the 19 years to life he's serving in a California state prison for murdering the actress Lana Clarkson in the foyer of his gun-riddled mansion ... More >>

Weird Sex Strangle Death Launches David Carradine Dirtfest

We're going to milk this fucking David Carradine thing for all it's worth. For one thing he's a celebrity nude as well as a celebrity corpse. For another, there are shocking new revelations: The Smoking Gun has divorce papers from Carradine's fourth ex-wife which accuse him of "deviant sexual behavi ... More >>

Gambino Crime Big Had an American Blast!

Say what you will about him, John Gotti considered himself a bona fide red-white-and-blue patriot. Back in the day, the dearly departed Dapper Don mounted a 4th of July fireworks show for his Ozone Park nabe that was the biggest and best thing east of Macy's barges. And maybe that was the inspiratio ... More >>

Andy Giuliani's Golf Team Suit Rejected; Judge Cites Precedent, Caddyshack

You may remember that last September Andrew Giuliani, the famously ill-behaved son of our former Mayor, filed suit against Duke University for cutting him from the school golf team. Giuliani fils said he was entitled to his place on the team by "contract"; Duke said they cut him for cause (including ... More >>

Smoking Gun scoop: the FBI stoolie who ignited baseball's steroid scandal

Pictured above: Nobody who's in the story below. By the way, kids, don't try this at home without your parents' help. In news fresh off the server that should set the Hot Stove League blazing, The Smoking Gun unravels the tale of one Mike Bogdan, allegedly the previously unnamed FBI informant who ... More >>

Obama Heroin Discovered

Remember the story of Obama's "circle of wealthy, drug using Pakistani friends"? The mainstream media ignored it, and here is the result of their negligence: Obama heroin sold in the streets! The Smoking Gun reveals the branded dope bags were seized by cops in upstate Sullivan County. Other brands s ... More >>

Crash Landing: Hudson River Rescue Roundup

The remarkable emergency landing of US Airways Flight 1549 preoccupied news outlets. Some took a new-media angle. "Hudson Plane Crash & Obama Show Social Media Legitimacy," bragged WebProNews, and everyone swooned over the twitpic of the fallen jet taken by Janis Krums from a rescue ferry. Reporte ... More >>

"The City" Toff, Golden Globes Get Ahead of Themselves

No, no, no -- you're supposed to get arrested for soliciting after you're famous, and announce the winners during the award ceremony. The Smoking Gun reveals that James Nevan Donahue, who plays a friend or something of "social" Olivia in the MTV car-wreck "The City," was arrested in 2007 for approa ... More >>

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