Demi Moore's "people" want us to think the actress was suffering from exhaustion when her friend called 9-1-1 Monday, and now TMZ reports that Los Angeles City Attorney Carmen Trutanich is requesting any drug references be redacted from the audio recording of the call when it is released to the public. more ›

If you visited the TMZ homepage this morning, you would have found a story about the four Marines videotaped peeing on corpses in Afghanistan. It was positioned comfortably in a panel of stories that included the latest update on Heather Locklear's trip to the hospital and an obituary for Hulk Hogan's mustache. more ›

The Los Angeles County Coroner's office has released the cause of death report for actor and National Football League star Bubba Smith, who died in August in Baldwin Hills. Smith was 66. The first listed cause of death is listed as "acute phentermine intoxication." So basically, Smith's death was in part caused by an OD of diet pills. more ›

Christopher "Kid" Reid of the 90s rap group Kid 'n Play was hauled in yesterday by the Los Angeles Police Department, much to many people's surprise--including Kid himself! Turns out it was all a big mistake; Reid's arrest is being attributed to a "clerical error." more ›

Thousands of fans weren't invited to Wednesday's private screening of the "Electric Daisy Carnival Experience," but promoters want you to know that despite some theaters yanking the movie from their upcoming schedules, the EDC movie will still make its nationwide debut on August 4th. Citing "the incident in Los Angeles," Regal and AMC have decided they will not show the film at their theatres, reports the L.A. Times. more ›

West Hollywood condo owners, beware. Chris Brown could be your neighbor, and he is allegedly "the neighbor from hell," as reported by TMZ earlier this morning. Not only is the 22-year-old R&B artist blasting music, partying and racing dogs in the hallways during all hours of the day and night, he steers his luxury rides into handicapped parking spaces. more ›

If you've seen TMZ, you've seen how their intrepid newsgatherers stand outside Los Angeles hotspots hoping to catch a celeb with their cameras. Last Thursday, outside WeHo's Voyeur, the cameras rolled on University of Southern California tailback Marc Tyler, who find himself suspended today for what he said in the mini interview. more ›

Actor Ryan Rottman, who the Daily News says is probably best known for his role on the show Gigantic, has become first known to us as being the dude who got busted by the LAPD for drinking and driving in Hollywood Thursday night. Rottman, 26, was reportedly enjoying a night out with pals Zac Efron and Rumer Willis at Dillon's Irish Pub, marking the first time we've heard of anyone actually going to Dillon's Irish Pub. more ›

A brief cellphone video obtained and published by celeb gossip site TMZ shows San Francisco Giants fan Bryan Stow in a confrontation with at least one Los Angeles Dodgers fan while in his seat inside the stadium. more ›

Just one day ahead of the 20th anniversary of his infamous and incendiary videotaped beating by Los Angeles Police Department officers, Rodney King found himself being pulled over and cited. The story was first reported late yesterday by gossip site TMZ, who say police in Arcadia "received a complaint about a man driving recklessly in a green Mitsubishi Tuesday afternoon ... and when they located the vehicle, they saw King behind the wheel." more ›

Guitar icon Eric Clapton is on tour in the U.S., and he was spotted in Los Angeles rockin' an unusual house: A laundromat. And he was doing what pretty much everyone does there: His laundry. Leave it to TMZ to catch Clapton in the act of fluffing and folding. more ›

Today it seems no amount of spin can control actor Charlie Sheen, who has taken to the media today on his own campaign to let everyone know he's not crazy, they are. And since he's doing such a bang-up job of spreading his message around the airwaves and internet, and, well, frankly, since it seems like an impossible gig, his publicist has just announced he's quit. more ›

Child star grown up Frankie Muniz is having some tough times lately, and with each day the headlines about the actor keep getting more bizarre and troubling. Today the AP says "Police take gun away from actor Frankie Muniz," (via the Daily Breeze). Apparently Muniz and his girlfriend Elycia Turnbow got into a heated discussion about their past relationships at his Phoeniz, Arizona home, and Muniz "pulled out a gun and held it against his head." Muniz told the cops the gun wasn't loaded, but when they searched the home and found the weapon in a closet, they say it actually was. more ›

TMZ and Starline Tours announced today the offspring of their beautifully unholy union: a sensational new Hollywood Tour called 'Secrets and Celebrity Hot Spots.' More than a Star Map on wheels, this tourist adventure of scandal-soaked dreams promises a custom Starline bus that stops at such locations as Winona Ryder's least favorite department store, and the legendary Laugh Factory, "where 'Seinfeld' star Michael Richards went on his famed racist rant," reports CBS Local. more ›

Actress Lindsay Lohan has managed to find herself the (unwitting?) center of a Los Angeles Police Department investigation regarding the theft of what they call "a one of a kind necklace," worth $2,500 which was taken from a Venice jewelry store. The necklace was taken on January 22, and surveillance video from the store shows Lohan with the necklace as she shopped with friends. Yesterday, the LAPD's Paciifc Area detectives obtained a search warrant for the actress' Venice residence. more ›

We caught up with L.A.-based artist Cole Sternberg at the unveiling of his latest exhibition, "the content bleeds through." Take a tour with us and the artist through his "vision for this apocalyptic moment when media and technology have pushed us so far that all the content blurs together." more ›

TMZ is reporting that actor Charlie Sheen was "taken out of his home on a stretcher and loaded into an ambulance at 7 AM." Sheen was reportedly taken to Cedars-Sinai Hospital for an as-yet unknown condition. The celeb gossip site says that Sheen was taken out of the house with "a towel partially over his face," and that "two young women" accompanied him out. Another gossip site, Hollyscoop, says that they've been told by Sheen's publicist Stan Rosenfield the Two and a Half Men star "was having severe abdominal pains and went to the hospital." A 9-1-1- call was reportedly logged at 6:35 a.m. more ›

Actress Jaime Pressly, most known for her role on TV's "My Name is Earl," was arrested in Santa Monica last night under suspicion she was driving under the influence. Pressly was pulled over around 11 p.m. last night after authorities witnessed her making a traffic violation. The mother of two, who was alone in the car, was booked and held on $15,000 bail, higher than the typical $5000, says TMZ. The gossip site says experts tell them bail is often higher "is when the driver's blood-alcohol level is higher than .15. [TMZ has] not, however, been able to confirm Jaime's level." more ›

Actress Lindsay Lohan seems to stir up trouble wherever she goes, and the Betty Ford Center is no exception. Lohan has been undergoing her court-ordered rehab at the high-profile facility in the desert, but now the facility is the focus of an investigation by the California Department of Health, according to an AP report published by CBS2. more ›

The Halloween hijinx keep coming with today's installment of TMZ celebrity pumpkin stencils! The gossip goblins are offering downloadable images to trace and cut and illuminate this day of candy-filled fear. Slash-o-lanterns! Ozzy-o-lanterns! Chuck Norris-o-lanterns! Ice-T-o-lanterns! Really, who among us wouldn't like to carve up Paris Hilton's face into the side of a tufted gourd? Angelenos, ready your scalpels. more ›

Celebrity gossip site TMZ calls Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa "Mayor Suave," thanks to his affinity for photo opps and cameo appearances. This morning TMZ reports that Villaraigosa is now also officially single, as his divorce from his now ex-wife, Corina, was just granted. A factoid for your water-cooler gathering: "The former couple originally filed for divorce back in 2007 -- but according to documents obtained by TMZ, the judge didn't sign the divorce order until yesterday." more ›

It was the f-bomb heard 'round the world. Or at least it was for those who couldn't avoid being directed to take a closer look at the fingernails of actress Lindsay Lohan, whose colorful manicure held a colorful message: "Fuck You." more ›

Sometime after Sunday's MTV Movie Awards, the SCRAM bracelet strapped to Lindsay Lohan's leg generated an alarm report to law enforcement officials that there had been a violation, TMZ is reporting. more ›

Nothing says class and intellect like the parking lot of Roscoe's Chicken & Waffles, as a TMZ video proves. more ›

Fans of Michael Jackson, and French-Canadian acrobatics, rejoice! Cirque du Soleil and executors for the estate of the late King of Pop have inked a deal for two upcoming shows, according to TMZ. The first show will be a traveling show employing Jackson's songs and an emphasis on dancing, slated to debut in the fall of 2011, with a stop planned for LA's Staples Center, which also served as the venue for Jackson's massive memorial service last year. Las Vegas will be home to a "theme-park-like show" starting n 2012, which is described in its current conceptual stage as being "far more theatrical with emphasis on technology and 3D." Cirque du Soleil and the Jackson estate will equally split both costs and profits; it is expected they will generate a great deal of revenue. more ›

Actress Brittany Murphy was taking hundreds of prescription pills a month prior to her death, and was even using an alias to obtain additional and often duplicate scrips, according to TMZ. The gossip site notes: "Pharmacy records show Murphy was getting regular scrips for hydrocodone (Vicodin), clonazepam and Klonopin (anti-anxiety), and Vicoprofen (a Vicodin/ibuprofen combo) -- doubling up on some prescriptions on certain months," in quantities sometimes as much as 100-300 of each drug. Murphy used the name "Lola Manilow Murphy -- at Eddie's Pharmacy in Los Angeles for nearly two years ... before the pharmacy finally cut her off 4 months before her death." The 32-year-old actress died on December 20th. more ›

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As mentioned previously, earlier this month, local adult publication XBIZ held their eighth annual XBIZ Awards at Avalon in Hollywood. While the AVN Awards may be considered the Oscars of the adult industry, the XBIZ Awards should not be considered the equivalent of the Daytime Emmys as TMZ joked, but rather the Golden Globes, and as a result are still highly-coveted. more ›

Last night, local adult publication XBIZ held their eighth annual XBIZ Awards in Hollywood. Newly relocated this year to Avalon from Boulevard 3, the celebratory industry gala presented awards in 67 categories, including Feature Movie of the Year (Adam & Eve's ), and New Starlet of the Year (Kagney Linn Karter). more ›

As expected, the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office has formally filed charges in Superior Court against 56-year-old Conrad Murray, the doctor who administered a fatal dose of propofol to popstar Michael Jackson last summer, reports LA Now. The complaint implicates Murray for acting “without due caution and circumspection," thereby playing a key role in the singer's death. The charges are the result of a 7-month homicide investigation that focused intently on the role the Nevada and Texas-based cardiologist with financial woes played in Jackson's care and ultimate demise. Murray, who turned himself in as pre-arranged this morning, was spotted by TMZ photographers leisurely reading the morning paper in an L.A. cafe prior to his arrest. more ›