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GIRLS GONE WILD founder JOE FRANCIS has offered call-girl ASHLEY DUPRE $1 million (£500,000) to drop a lawsuit against him - and wants her to take up a job with his company.
Ashley Dupre is seeking more than $10 million (£5 million) in damages in a lawsuit filed on Monday (28Apr08).
Dupre alleges that Girls Gone Wild representatives approached her while she was vacationing in Florida in 2003 and offered her alcohol before encouraging her to expose her breasts for their cameras when she was just 17.
The suit claims Girls Gone Wild has illegally exploited Dupre’s name, picture, voice and likeness in a number of deceptive ad campaigns and on websites.
On Tuesday (29Apr08), Francis offered her $1 million to drop the case because he thinks she has "zero" chance of winning the suit - and has even offered the aspiring songstress the opportunity to work with him hosting Girls Gone Wild events.
He tells The New York Daily News, "It is incomprehensible that Ms. Dupre could claim she did not give her consent to be filmed by Girls Gone Wild, when … we have videotape of her giving consent."

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LATEST: ROGER WATERS’ political pig has been found in California - three days after the inflatable animal flew away during the Coachella Festival.
The two-story high blimp was moored at the California event last weekend (25-27Apr08), but broke free from its tether on Sunday (27Apr08) evening and drifted off into the sky above.
Festival organisers had put up a $10,670 (£5,335) reward for the pig, which had been used as part of Pink Floyd’s stage show since their 1977 album Animals.
But pieces of the pig were found by two families on their driveways in La Quinta on Wednesday (30Apr08), reports Gigwise.com.
It is understood the reward will be split between the two households.

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Disney bosses are preparing to push MILEY CYRUS aside and replace her with a more clean-cut teen star, according to reports.
The 15-year-old’s image has been damaged by the release of ’sexy’ images of her in June’s (08) edition of Vanity Fair magazine.
E! blogger Marc Malkin claims the Disney corporation is deeply unhappy with Cyrus and her bosses are already lining up a replacement in 15-year-old Selena Gomez, who has starred alongside Cyrus in her Hannah Montana TV show.
Malkin writes, "I’m told Disney executives are so worried about Cyrus’ recent controversies that, more than ever, they want to make Gomez an even bigger star."

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The man who killed late BEATLE JOHN LENNON has reportedly become obsessed with actress LINDSAY LOHAN - turning his cell into a shrine to the star.
Mark David Chapman, who has already served 27 years in jail for assassinating Lennon in 1980, has allegedly begged the Mean Girls star to visit him at Attica State Prison, New York.
The murderer has pictures of the troubled star, who plays his girlfriend Jude in the movie Chapter 27, plastered all over his walls at the prison, according to Ireland’s Sunday World newspaper.
A source at the prison tells the publication, "He has been pleading with the authorities to let him write to her and visit him.
"He’s been turned down flat, but he won’t give up." Chapman, 52, who was diagnosed as psychotic and denied parole four times, is still considered so dangerous and at risk from other inmates, he is confined to a special unit at Attica.

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Hollywood actor CHARLIE SHEEN has been accused of regularly using a high-profile escort service.
The Platoon star reportedly answered a newspaper advertisement for Nici’s Girls which charges customers $25,000 (£12,500) per night - and placed an order for four escorts.
The 42-year-old - who was accused by ex-wife Denise Richards of having an unhealthy love for prostitutes and Internet porn - reportedly paid agency owner Nici $20,000 (£10,000) for their services.
Nici made the revelations to Rolling Stone magazine journalist Vanessa Grigoriadis.
The reporter tells New York Post’s PageSix.com, "When Nici dropped four girls off at his penthouse, she found the actor in silk pyjamas with ‘C. MaSheen’ embroidered over the pocket.
"Sheen gave her a $20,000 check for the girls, and she picked them up several hours later." Despite entering court-ordered rehab for substance abuse, Nici "continued to book girls for him, furtively sending them to a doctor’s office in Los Angeles owned by a friend of Sheen’s.
"The orderlies at the rehab centre would let him out for his frequent medical appointments." Nici told Grigoriadis she continued to send girls for Sheen at a hotel in Santa Monica, California until last year (07). Sheen became engaged to fiancee Brooke Mueller in July (07).
In response to the allegations, Sheen’s publicist Stan Rosenfield tells PageSix.som, "This is an old, old, old story. But, if you’re looking for a really good story, I heard that Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe are getting a divorce."

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Rocker STING has a hidden talent - he loves to walk the tightrope.
The singer, whose tantric sex sessions with wife Trudie Styler are well documented, admits he is obsessed with acrobat Philippe Petit, who walked from one of New York’s World Trade Center towers to the other in 1974 on a wire, 110 stories above the ground.
And Sting even admits he has installed a tightrope in the garden of his England home, reports the New York Post’s Pagesix.com.
He says, "Everything I know about wire walking, Philippe taught me."

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R&B star USHER is desperate to record collaborations with both rocker JOHN MAYER and singer/songwriter MICHAEL BUBLE.
The You Make Me Wanna hitmaker has included a duet with fellow singer Ne-Yo on his new album, Here I Stand, but has now picked out the two other stars for possible future projects.
And Usher - real name Usher Raymond IV - has even picked out which songs he would like to reinterpret with each artist.
He says, "I’d like to do something with John Mayer on this song I have on my album called Something Special. I’d love him to play guitar and sing with me on that.
"And I’d love to perform my other song Forever with Michael Buble. I actually wrote that with the intention of him and me doing it together."

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AMERICAN IDOL judge PAULA ABDUL was left red-faced after making an embarrassing blunder on the hit reality TV show.
The singer was flummoxed after the series’ producers changed the judging format from the usual pattern of appraising each contest after they had sung to waiting until all five had performed.
When asked to appraise first performer Jason Castro, Abdul gave her opinions on two performances - even though each singer had only sung once.
She told contestant Jason Castro, "Oh gosh, we’ve never had to write these things down … fast enough. Jason, first song, I loved hearing your lower register, which we never really hear, um … .
"The second song, I felt like your usual charm wasn’t - it was missing for me. It kind of left me a little empty. The two songs made me feel like you’re not fighting hard enough to get into the top four." The audience launched into nervous laughter, before fellow judge Randy Jackson reminded Abdul each performer had only sung once, telling her, "That was just on the first song. Just on the first one." She responded, "Oh my god, I thought you - I thought you sang twice!" before explaining she had got mixed up with her notes for the next performer, David Cook.
Abdul later blamed American Idol producers for her mix up, telling TV show Entertainment Tonight she has been "in the dark" over the change in format.
Fellow judge Simon Cowell also admitted the switch had been difficult, saying, "This was officially the strangest show we’ve ever done but I like that. It’s kind of a bit chaotic tonight."

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EYES WIDE SHUT star LEELEE SOBIESKI has a recurring dream in which she’s a Native American woman.
The blonde-haired, blue-eyed New Yorker insists the dream is so vivid she’s often startled when she wakes up and realises she’s not hunting in a canoe.
She says, "When I close my eyes and imagine what I look like, I’m completely different.
"I imagine myself as a Native American in a canoe with a papoose around my neck and sitting alongside my warrior husband, my long black hair gliding through the water, my bow and arrow poised to shoot us some dinner.
"(Then) I see my light hair and light eyes and it freaks me out, like, ‘Where’s my inner Native American? Who took my canoe?’"

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Oscar winner GWYNETH PALTROW dreams of having the ability to start fires because she can never find matches when she needs them.
The careful mum-of-two admits she often has to search high and low for matches when she wants to light candles in her New York home - but she hides them away from her kids so well she can never find them.
And, as she prepares to light up the big screen as Iron Man’s sidekick Pepper Potts, she admits fire-starting would be a great superpower to have.
She says, "I’m always looking for matches to light candles and I can never find them because I’m so afraid my kids will find them, and then I hide them from them and myself, so I can never remember where I put them."

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GWYNETH PALTROW gave her two young children an introduction to the showbusiness industry by taking them on the set of her new movie IRON MAN.
The actress was exposed to showbiz at an early age through her parents, filmmaker Bruce Paltrow and actress Blythe Danner.
And now Paltrow, 35, is keen to recreate the environment for her three-year-old daughter Apple and son Moses, two.
She tells Britain’s Heat magazine, "I don’t look at it like, ‘Oh no, I’m subjecting them to something that’s not great’ - because I really feel that it will be. I grew up with a working mother and I never felt like she wasn’t around.
"I loved being around actors; it was such a lively kind of atmosphere and everyone was creative. It was a lovely way to grow up."

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THE SOPRANOS star EDIE FALCO kept her 2003 cancer battle a secret from her fellow castmates because she couldn’t bear their sympathy.
The 44-year-old actress was given the all-clear from breast cancer in 2004, but didn’t want to tell her co-stars as their well-wishes would have "driven (her) crazy".
She tells Health magazine, "I kept my diagnosis under the radar, even from the cast and crew, because well-meaning people would have driven me crazy asking, ‘How are you feeling?’ I would have wanted to say, ‘I’m scared, I don’t feel so good, and my hair is falling out!’ "I bucked up, put on my Carmela fingernails, and was ready to work."

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British rockers RADIOHEAD have based the video for new single ALL I NEED on the victims of human trafficking - in order to raise awareness of the issue.
The Creep hitmakers teamed up with MTV’s End Exploitation and Trafficking (Exit) campaign to produce the promo, which is shown in split-screen comparing the lives of children in rich, affluent areas to those who are forced to work in sweatshops.
And frontman Thom Yorke hopes the move will bring the world one step closer to ending the exploitation of vulnerable youngsters.
He says, "I think it is cool that MTV is taking on this issue. The video is a powerful piece and I hope that the emotion of the song will jump out at people in the context of these images of exploitation."

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LATEST: A woman accused of stalking British comedian DAVID WALLIAMS has admitted to harassing the LITTLE BRITAIN star.
Highbury Corner Magistrates Court in London heard on Tuesday (29Apr08) that Sarah Bartholomew, 29, had bombarded Walliams with erotic poems, photographed him secretly in his house and had showered him with gifts since 2004.
In upcoming book Inside Little Britain - co-written by Walliams and his comic partner Matt Lucas - Walliams described how she sent him a 12-page poem "written in various different colours of ink over a period of weeks", and referred to her devotion as "a bit scary". The former veterinary nurse was ordered by Walliams’ lawyers four times not to contact him before the case went to court. However, Bartholomew will not face a jail term for the offence.
District Judge Ian Baker said in court, "This is a serious offence but you are certainly not going to go to prison - I can assure you of that." Bartholomew is due to be sentenced on Friday (02May08).

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The organisers of U.S. music festival Coachella have made an impassioned plea for the return of a giant inflatable pig belonging to ex-PINK FLOYD star ROGER WATERS.
The two-story high blimp was moored at the California event last weekend (25-27Apr08), but broke free from its tether on Sunday (27Apr08) evening and drifted off into the sky above.
And now festival organisers have put up a $10,670 (£5,335) reward for the inflatable animal, which has been used as part of Pink Floyd’s stage show since their 1977 album Animals.
But it’s not the first time Waters’ pig has gone astray - the creature floated away during a photoshoot at London’s Battersea Power Station in 1977, before it was later recovered.

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WU TANG CLAN star RZA’s latest performance sparked outrage in Scotland after he smoked a cigarette on stage and invited female fans to strip.
The notorious rapper deliberately flouted the U.K.’s smoking ban during a performance in Glasgow by lighting up - and followed his law-breaking with an invitation for scantily-clad women to join him on stage.
The Brooklyn rapper - real name Robert F Digs - was playing at the Arches club on Saturday (26Apr08) when a group of women joined him on stage and removed their tops, exposing their breasts.
A spokesman for the venue confirmed the women took their tops off, which was deemed "unacceptable by management". The offending females "were then subsequently asked to leave the club".

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Music mogul DAMON DASH has been accused of taking his teenage son to visit a relative’s dead body in a morgue.
Linda Williams - the mother of Dash’s 16-year-old son Damon Dash II - has added the claim to her ongoing custody battle with the star.
She insists the star took their son to a mortuary to identify his uncle, who had committed suicide by a gunshot to the head.
In documents filed at the Family Court of the State of New York, Williams further claims her son - who is currently residing with Dash - is "living with not hot water (sic) or electricity for two months in his bedroom".
Williams demands Dash pay $3,600 (£1,800) for their son to go to the city’s Hoftstra Basketball Camp and place $10 million (£5 million) in a trust fund.
Williams has been fighting Dash for custody since 2003.
Dash - who is expecting his second child with wife Rachel Roy - was unavailable for comment.

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AMY WINEHOUSE is reportedly planning on leaving her music label Island Records after the release of her next LP.
The Back To Black hitmaker is on a three-album deal with the British-based firm, a subsidiary of Universal Music, and is said to be keen on quitting as soon as she completes her third disc.
And the star is reportedly planning on shunning other music labels in favour of setting up her own company - giving her complete control over her music.
A source tells British newspaper The Sun, "For the first time in her career, Amy is beginning to have her head turned by the cash she can make. "It’s never been a huge deal in the past, but she is beginning to realise everyone else is making all the money out of her success. Her deal with Island ends after the next record. That’s why they are trying to get her to clean up first and make sure it’s a classic. "Once she gets that out she wants to set up her own label. She plans to release her own material on it."

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