Justin Bieber is turning his sights on acting, winning a guest role in the hit TV crime series CSI, CBS television has confirmed. Bieber, 16, will play a troubled teen who is faced with a difficult decision regarding his only brother. The pop singer will appear in the season premiere of CSI in America in September, and then make other appearances later in the year as his storyline concludes. CSI is one of the most-watched drama series on US television and is widely syndicated around the world. CSI producers called Bieber – whose music video for Baby has a record 250 million views on YouTube – a world phenomenon. “We’d like to believe that the phenomenon of CSI has had the same impact on popular culture. The opportunity to bring them together in the premiere is a great treat for our audience and all of its new viewers. “This will be true event television,” executive producers Carol Mendelsohn, Don McGill and Anthony Zuiker said in a statement. Bieber signed a record deal at age 14 after posting home videos on YouTube and now causes mob scenes of hysterical girls wherever he goes. He is currently on tour promoting his No.1 album My World 2.0.

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Michael – the father of incarcerated actress Lindsay – was charged by the Southampton Police Department and will be formally arraigned on August 18, according to gossip website TMZ.

It relates to an apparent violent showdown between Michael and Kate Major at their home in Southampton, New York, on Monday.

If he does not appear for his arraignment a judge is allowed to issue a bench warrant for his arrest.

Michael, 50, denies all of the accusations made by Kate and has released a statement, via his attorney Lisa Bloom, which says: “Michael Lohan 100 percent denies each and every one of Kate Major’s allegations.

He has never threatened to harm her, never assaulted her, and never physically abused her in any way.

“Kate was heavily intoxicated during the verbal argument between Michael and Kate in the early afternoon on Monday. Michael Lohan has been clean and sober for six years.

“Michael Lohan is fully cooperating with the police investigation. No charges have been filed. He expects to be fully vindicated.”

Former magazine reporter Kate claims he threw her off a chair and kicked her in the face during an argument and has reportedly filed a restraining order which will prevent her ex-partner from contacting her or going anywhere near her.

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The world’s favourite nasty judge Simon Cowell is being sued for $5.2 million  by a former contestant on Britain’s Got Talent, according to British press reports.

Cowell and his TV show are being sued by contestant Emma Amelia Pearl Czikai, who claims she was humiliated and degraded on the show in a broadcast in May 2009.

Czikai first lodged her complaint of unfairness and discrimination with a British employment tribunal in January.

The tribunal action emerged in the press following a pretrial review at the central London tribunal court.

Czikai, representing herself, accused the show and its judges of “exploitation, humiliation, degradation and barbarism”.

She also claimed the show was guilty of disability discrimination because it had not made adjustments for her, such as lowering the level of backing music and microphone levels.

Czikai said: “This program makes a select number of rich people very, very rich on the backs of the ordinary man and woman in the street through exploitation, humiliation, degradation and a re-emergence of modern-day barbarism with all its inherent cruelty.”

The one-time nurse reportedly told the tribunal she suffers from cervical spine neuritis, which can cause head and shoulder pain, which in turn caused her singing to suffer.

The pretrial review, which will decide if a full hearing will go ahead, was told that she was seeking £300,000 for injured feelings, compensation of $1 million and loss of earnings of $1.25 million.

She said if she was awarded any money, it would go to charity.

Czikai had previously lodged a complaint with the British media regulator Ofcom that she was unfairly treated on the show. The complaint was rejected.

Watch Emma’s performance here.

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Casey Affleck’s upcoming documentary about Joaquin Phoenix has dropped a bombshell $2 million lawsuit on the filmmaker/actor, claiming she was subjected to lurid sexual harassment and denied her producing fee after she refused to spend the night in a hotel room with him.

Amanda White alleges in a lawsuit filed Friday afternoon in Los Angeles Superior Court that she was forced to endure debauched behaviour during production of I’m Still Here: The Lost Year of Joaquin Phoenix, including “uninvited and unwelcome sexual advances in the workplace” and an impromptu shoot in a Las Vegas hotel room filled with hookers and transvestites.

White, who worked on Good Will Hunting with Affleck and his brother, actor/filmmaker Ben Affleck, and later collaborated with producer Chris Moore on several projects, says she agreed orally to a US$50,000 fee to help produce the unconventional documentary about the attempts of actor Phoenix (Affleck’s brother-in-law) to reinvent himself as a rap artist. But the offensive behaviour allegedly began almost immediately.

“On one occasion, Affleck instructed a crew member to take off his pants in order to show (White) his penis, even after (White) objected,” the complaint alleges. “Affleck repeatedly referred to women as ‘cows’; he discussed his sexual exploits and those of other celebrities that he allegedly witnessed; and asked (White), after learning her age, ‘Isn’t it about time you get pregnant?’”

The complaint also says White was prevented from going to her bedroom during shooting in Costa Rica because “Affleck and Phoenix locked themselves in her bedroom with two women.” According to the lawsuit, “Affleck also attempted to manipulate (White) into staying in a hotel room with him, and when she resisted, he grabbed her in a hostile manner in an effort to intimidate her into complying.”

A rep for Affleck, who is married to Summer Phoenix, declined to comment on the lawsuit. Neither Joaquin Phoenix nor Magnolia Pictures, which recently picked up distribution rights to the film and plans to release it in September, is named as a defendant in the suit.

ONE OF SEVERAL

The case signals a recent Hollywood trend of sorts. Thursday, actor David Boreanaz and Bones producer Twentieth Television were sued for sexual harassment by a female extra on the show. That case comes on the heels of Nicollette Sheridan’s US$20 million assault and harassment lawsuit against ABC Studios and Desperate Housewives creator Marc Cherry, which ABC is vigorously defending.
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White includes this tale of what she and female cinematographer Magdalena Gorka allegedly endured:

“One afternoon, (White) produced a shoot at the Palazzo Hotel where Phoenix performed a set as a rap artist,” the complaint reads. “Following the set, Affleck told (White) that he and Phoenix wanted to shoot another sequence in their hotel suite that evening. (Affleck) procured the services of several prostitutes, including male transvestites, for the evening shoot. (White) was not aware of what Affleck planned for that shoot.”

Then, when White and Gorka arrived at the shoot, “there were approximately 35 people at the hotel suite including prostitutes that had been procured for Affleck,” according to the lawsuit.

Judging by the pre-release press and Phoenix’s infamous February 2009 David Letterman appearance, during which he alternated between unresponsive and incoherent, it’s not surprising that production of the film would include some odd and offensive behaviour. But White says that “none of the conduct that occurred in the hotel suite is in the version of the film that will be released to the public.” Instead, she believes that Affleck orchestrated the shoot “for his personal gratification and unfairly subjected (White) and Gorka to the conduct involving the prostitutes for reasons having nothing to do with the purpose of the project.”

STRONG-ARMING ALLEGED

The complaint doesn’t reveal exactly what went on in the hotel. But it does discuss an alleged encounter between White and Affleck when the production moved to San Francisco.

She says Affleck asked her to share a hotel room with him, and when she declined and told Affleck she needed to return to Los Angeles, “Affleck became hostile and aggressive,” according to the complaint. “He violently grabbed (White’s) arm in an effort to intimidate her into staying.” When she refused, “Affleck continued his abusive conduct by sending her abusive text messages and calling her profane names for refusing to stay with him,” White alleges.

White says she repeatedly informed Affleck that she was upset and that she would stop working on the film if she didn’t get her US$50,000 producing deal in writing. Shortly thereafter, the production’s attorney David Weber (of the talent firm Sloane Offer Weber & Dern), allegedly entered into settlement discussions with her. But in September 2009, Weber allegedly began taking a more negative tone with her. White says she then realized she wouldn’t be paid and quit the movie.

“Affleck refused to compensate (White) as agreed because she objected to his harassing and abusive conduct, and because she refused to share his hotel room during the shoot in San Francisco,” the complaint alleges. “Affleck encouraged and participated in the harassment of (White) and Gorka for his own twisted gratification; indeed, on information and belief, virtually none of the acts complained of herein are contained in the film that will be shown to the public.”

The 19-page lawsuit, filed by attorneys Skip Miller and Brian Procel of Los Angeles firm Miller Barondess, demands at least US$2 million for sexual harassment, retaliation, failure to prevent harassment/retaliation, constructive discharge in violation of public policy, breach of oral contract, unjust enrichment, and negligent and intentional infliction of emotional distress. Defendants are Affleck and production company Flemmy Prods.

Affleck, who’s currently on screen as a murderous sociopath in The Killer Inside Me, is in negotiations to star in Fox Searchlight’s romantic comedy The F-Word.

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Getting settled into her temporary digs at the Century Regional Detention Facility, Lindsay Lohan is lined up for quite the lonely weekend behind bars.

Having been taken into custody on Tuesday morning (July 20), the “Mean Girls” starlet has already used up her allotted visits for the week – as her mother, Dina, and former girlfriend, Samantha Ronson, came to see her over the past few days.

Talking about jail protocol, Steve Whitmore told press, “Inmates are allowed two 30 minute visits a week, from family and friends. Those don’t include professional visits by attorneys. Ms. Lohan already has had her two thirty minute visits for the week.”

And while inmates are usually required to have their visitors show up on weekends, LiLo got the weekday treatment over jail safety concerns.

Whitmore tells, “Ms. Lohan was allowed the visits during the week for security reasons.”

As for her upcoming outlook, the latest reports tell that Lindsay will most likely be released in early August before being let loose for the probation department to keep tabs on.

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Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan reportedly blacked out and fell onto his drummer’s kit during a live showin Florida on Wednesday evening. R

Singer Billy Corgan, 43, was performing their hit song “Bullet with Butterfly Wings” when he lost consciousness.

“That wasn’t a stage move or clumsiness, that was me blacking out and wiping out,” Corgan said on Twitter. Corgan doesn’t remember the fall, “but I can tell you I’ve got quite a good bruise [and] am moving slow.”

Corgan and the Smashing Pumpkins are set to perform in Knoxville, Tennessee tonight.

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essica Simpson has been very unlucky in love and now friends worry that the singer may be taken advantage of by her new boyfriend, Eric Johnson.

Sources report that Jessica Simpson’s pals worry that her unemployed new boyfriend, Eric Johnson, is possibly using her for her money.

Eric Johnson was dropped by the New Orleans Saints in 2008 and has remained unemployed since that time.

Johnson has been living in Simpsons’ $5 million Redwood, California mansion and also went with her to Italy to celebrate her 30th birthday. Eric stayed with Jessica in her $3,000-a-night hotel suite and lounged on her $5,000-a-day chartered yacht.

“Jessica is so starved for love, she just doesn’t see any of Eric’s faults,” one insider tells Star. “She’s been paying for everything in their relationship, and it doesn’t seem like Eric intends to stop that anytime soon.”

Do you guys think Jessica has found love finally or that Eric could be using her?

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Rick Ross can not seem to get any love from any of the REAL gangsters of America.

Previously it was ex drug king pin Ricky “Freeway” Ross who took legal action against the rapper for profiting off his name. Now it is the grandson of the late John Gotti, who is putting Rick Ross on blast. Here is what New York Daily News reported…

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Gotti’s grandson, Carmine Agnello, has publicly attacked rapper Rick Ross for naming his new album Teflon Don and said permission should have been requested to use the convict’s nickname.

“He should have asked for permission. A stand-up, respectable guy would come and ask ‘If I could use the nickname,’

“I think he’s a great artist, but you can’t just start calling yourself that to sell records. He wants to go for that whole image, but hey, be yourself. Only in America can you go from being a corrections officer to calling yourself Teflon Don.”

Careful Rick, Italian mobsters are not the kind of people to want to upset.

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