Celebrity Court

Graham Shear, the lawyer for actor Jude Law issued a statement which confirmed that Jude met with police regarding an incident with the paparazzi outside of his home.

I can confirm that Jude Law voluntarily attended Marylebone Police Station yesterday following an alleged incident outside his house earlier in the day. Mr. Law provided the police with a statement regarding his denials of allegations by a ‘paparazzi’ photographer against him and made his own allegations concerning the photographer. Jude has the utmost respect for the police and whilst this is an ongoing matter no further comment will be made.

According to previous reports, Jude had “attacked” a photographer who said that Jude “went nuts,” even though the photographer was not taking photos. Jude reportedly also accused the photographer of “being a pedophile that only wanted to shoot Jude’s children.”

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Jude Law, paparazzi, Graham Shear, Marylebone Police

NBA star Shaquille O’Neal initiated divorce proceedings Tuesday against his wife of nearly five years Shaunie O’Neal, according to the Miami Herald. The couple has four children together and each had one child prior to their marriage in late 2002.

According to court documents, Shaq says that the marriage is “irretrievably broken” and that he wants an accounting of Shaunie’s assets because she has been “secretive about her assets . . . particularly with respect to certain properties owned or titled in either [her] name alone or in other entities.”

There are rampant rumors that the divorce is the result of the aforementioned “secretive” hiding of money, but others have speculated that infidelity was involved. The mention of the assets could also stem from the fact that they have a prenuptial agreement and Shaq wants to make sure that he retains the money that belongs to him and may not be the reason for the divorce.

The photo above was taken earlier this summer and they look pretty happy there, so it will be interesting to learn if this was a sudden decision on Shaq’s part after discovering something that Shaunie did or if they have had trouble for some time.

Shaquille O’Neal, Shaunie O’Neal, divorce, Miami

Although he was indicted five years ago on charges of child pornography, R. Kelly has yet to stand trial. The trial was scheduled to begin on September 17th, but Judge Gaughan announced yesterday that the trial would not be starting then. R. Kelly is charged with 14 counts of child pornography in 2002 after allegedly videotaping himself having sex with a 14-year-old girl.

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Following the release of his post-arrest interview tapes on Thursday, Senator Larry Craig resigned from office on Saturday. Craig pled guilty to one count of disorderly conduct following his arrest in a men’s bathroom after police say that he attempted to solicit sex from an undercover officer. The GOP, his own party, had called for his resignation.

In his press conference on Saturday, Craig stated that he did not want to be a distraction. He added:

Few people have had the privilege and the pleasure to represent Idaho for as many years as I have. I have enjoyed every moment. The people of Idaho deserve a senator who can devote 100 percent of his time and effort to the critical issues of our state and of our nation.

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Here is an entertaining video that inter splices Craig’s denial of being gay in his earlier press conference with the Avenue Q song “If You Were Gay.”

Senator Larry Craig, Larry Craig, Avenue Q, solicitation