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A thief made off with a reported 2 million dollars in jewelry and other items from Paris Hilton’s Hollywood Hills home on Friday (Dec. 19).
In an interview with Life & Style Weekly Hilton said she was shocked by the break-in, telling the gossip mag, “I cannot believe someone broke into my home. They took items that had such sentimental value that no one will ever be able to replace.”
According to the LAPD, a man wearing a hooded sweatshirt and gloves forced his way into Hilton’s home through the front door and proceeded to ransack her bedroom.
Football legend OJ Simpson was sentenced to 15 – 33 years in prison by a Nevada judge yesterday (Dec. 5) for his role in a September 2007 armed robbery at the Palace Station Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, he will be eligible for parole in 9 years.
Simpson and co-defendant C.J. Stewart were convicted on 12 counts of kidnapping and robbery on October 3. Stewart was also sentenced to 15 years behind bars.
From Msnbc.com:
A weary and beaten-looking O.J. Simpson was put away Friday for at least nine years — and perhaps the rest of his life — for an armed robbery in a hotel room, bringing a measure of satisfaction to those who believed the football star got away with murder more than a decade ago.The 61-year-old Hall of Famer listened stone-faced, his wrists in shackles, as Judge Jackie Glass pronounced the sentence — 33 years behind bars with eligibility for parole after less than a third of that.
Moments before, Simpson made a rambling, five-minute plea for leniency, simultaneously apologizing for the holdup as a foolish mistake and trying to justify his actions.
He choked back tears as he told her: “I didn’t want to steal anything from anyone. … I’m sorry, sorry.”
The judge said several times that her sentence in the Las Vegas case had nothing to do with Simpson’s 1995 acquittal in the slaying of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman.
“I’m not here to try and cause any retribution or any payback for anything else,” Glass said.
OJ addresses courtroom before sentencing:
Judge sentences OJ:
Nevada Judge Jackie Glass has turned down an appeal O.J. Simpson’s attorney for a retrial on grounds of jury misconduct. Simpson’s lawyer Yale Galanter, in a motion to the court, had objected to the selection of Paul Connelly as jury foreman. Galanter and the attorney for Simpson’s co-defendant Clarence Stewart had argued that Connelly was biased towards their clients because he had been fired from a previous job for making a racially disparaging comment.
Stewart’s lawyer, Brent Bryson, also argued that after the trial Connelly told the press that he thought Simpson should have been convicted of the murders of his wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman.
But Judge Glass disagreed, telling Galanter and Bryson, “I find that nothing has risen to a level of juror misconduct… Your motions are being denied.”
O.J. Simpson was found guilty on all 12 counts on October 3, stemming from an armed robbery that he took part in last September at the Palace Station Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. He and co-defendant Clarence Stewart face life in prison when they are sentenced on December 5.
Comedy legend George Carlin die on Sunday (June22) of heart attack. Mr. Carlin checked himself into St. John’s Health Center in Santa Monica, CA complaining of chest pains, he died later that evening.
Among his many accomplishments, Mr. Carlin is remember for his ‘Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television’ routine in 1972 in which he was arrested for disturbing the peace. When the routine later aired on New York radio station WBAI-FM it led to a US Supreme Court ruling over government censorship and free speech.
“So my name is a footnote in American legal history, which I’m perversely kind of proud of,” he told the Associated Press news agency. “In the context of that era, it was daring.”
“It just sounds like a very self-serving kind of word. I don’t want to go around describing myself as a ‘ground breaker’ or a ‘difference-maker’ because I’m not and I wasn’t,” he added.
“But I contributed to people who were saying things that weren’t supposed to be said.”
Other’s will remember Mr. Carlin’s role as Rufus in the 1989 stoner-time traveler hit Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure. In his lifetime Mr. Carlin produced 23 comedy album, 14 HBO specials and authored a number of books including: “When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?”, “Brain Droppings”, “Napalm & Silly Putty” and “Three Times Carlin: An Orgy of George”.
Mr. Carlin was 71 years old.
• Actress Tatum O’Neal arrested in lower Manhattan drug bust after purchasing cocaine and crack from dealer.
• 50 Cent’s multimillion dollar Dix Hills mansion burns to the ground, inspectors suspect foul play.
• A fire raged through Universal Studios’ back lot in California destroying a number a sets and movie reels.
