Who is Kimberly Noel Kardashian?

Kimberly Noel Kardashian is an American celebutante, socialite, model, actress, apparel retailer,[1] and television personality. She is perhaps best known for her social life, sex tape scandal, and her role on the E! reality show Keeping Up with the Kardashians.

Kardashian was born October 21, 1980, she is of Armenian (father), Scottish and Dutch (mother) descent,[2] the daughter of attorney Robert Kardashian and Kris Jenner (née Houghton). Robert Kardashian, best known for being O. J. Simpson’s lawyer during his murder trial, died on September 30, 2003.[3] Her mother, Kris, divorced Robert in 1989, and married former Olympian Bruce Jenner in 1991.[4]
Kardashian has two sisters, Kourtney and Khloe, and one brother, Robert. She also has stepbrothers Burton Jenner, Brandon Jenner, and reality TV star Brody Jenner, stepsister Casey Jenner, and half-sisters Kendall and Kylie Jenner.[5] O.J. Simpson is Kardashian’s godfather.[6]
While attending high school Kardashian worked at her father’s music marketing firm, Movie Tunes.[1]

Kardashian starred in the 2008 film Disaster Movie as Lisa, alongside Carmen Electra and Vanessa Minnillo. The film, which spoofed disaster films, received negative reviews and had mild success at the box office. At end December 2008, after its DVD release, the movie was rated the 2nd worst film ever made at the Internet Movie Database.

Kardashian was one of thirteen participants on the seventh season of Dancing with the Stars.[7] She was partnered with Current DWTS Champion Mark Ballas. Kardashian was the third contestant voted off the show on September 30, 2008.[8]

On May 2, 2008, Kardashian released a workout DVD, Workout with Kim Kardashian, and a set of workout cards with the help of trainer Kathy Kaehler.[9]
In July 2008, Kardashian announced on her personal blog that she is working on her own perfume line to be released in 2009.[10]

In 2007, a pornographic home video she had made with then-boyfriend, R&B singer Ray J, was leaked.[11] Vivid Entertainment was the distribution company against which Kardashian pursued legal action for ownership of the tape. Kardashian later dropped the suit and settled with Vivid Entertainment for US$ 5 million.[12]

In 2000, Kardashian married music producer Damon Thomas; their relationship ended in divorce in 2004. She began dating R&B music artist Ray J. This relationship ended soon after and, in 2007, she began dating NFL star Reggie Bush.[13] more

Police Chief Willie Fuller Suspended for charges of soliciting sex

Suspended Virginia Commonwealth University Police Chief Willie Fuller appeared briefly in a Chesterfield County court this afternoon for arraignment on charges of soliciting sex with a minor in an online sting operation.
Fuller, who appeared by video teleconference from the jail, did not yet have an attorney. A preliminary hearing was set for April 2.
After the hearing, Chesterfield Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney Dave Rigler said Fuller thought he was talking to a 14-year-old girl, not a detective, when the alleged offenses occurred Jan. 10.
“There was one day of chatting,” he said, “everything he was charged with happened on that one day.”
He was charged with two counts of using a computer to solicit sex from a minor and two counts of attempted indecent liberties with a minor.
Fuller is 50, but Rigler said he portrayed himself online as being about 35. Fuller’s screen name was hotcop2006, Rigler said.
Earlier today VCU said it had suspended Fuller without pay.
–Mark Bowes
12:36 p.m.
Virginia Commonwealth University Police Chief Willie B. Fuller has been arrested in an online sting operation in Chesterfield County and charged with soliciting sex from a 14-year-old girl, police said today.
Police said Fuller, 50, was arrested last night at his home in the 9000 block of Meadowfield Court in Henrico County. He was charged with two counts of using a computer to solicit sex from a minor and two counts of attempted indecent liberties with a minor.
His arrest resulted from a sting operation that involved undercover detectives going to online chatrooms or other Internet sites popular with juveniles. The detectives then create fictitious posts and pose as minors.
Although police declined to provide more specific information in this case, meetings are usually arranged between the detectives and the people with whom they communicate, most of whom are seeking sex.
Chesterfield Police Maj. Dan Kelly said Fuller clearly believed he was communicating with a 14-year-old girl.
“I’m not sure which [Internet] medium the detective was using at the time it occurred,” Kelly said. “But it was part of our ongoing online efforts in these areas. When time permits, our detectives trained in this area will utilize their time and go online.”
Kelly declined to say when Fuller made contact and over what period of time.
“We’re going to wait to talk more about the investigation at a later time,” he said.
Fuller is being held without bond in the Chesterfield Jail pending a pre-trial hearing this afternoon in Chesterfield Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court.
VCU suspended Fuller without pay and appointed Carlton Edwards, a VCU police captain, as interim chief.
“We’ve taken action,” said VCU Rector Thomas Rosenthal. He said he received a call from university President Eugene Trani this morning about the arrest.
“We regard this situation as extremely serious,” Trani said in an alert sent to member of the campus community. “We have taken aggressive action to address it, and we will cooperate in all appropriate ways with the Chesterfield County Police investigation.”
Fuller came to VCU as police chief in 2000 from Virginia State University, where he was also police chief, said John M. Bennett, VCU senior vice president for finance and administration. Fuller also previously worked for VCU police.
Bennett said VCU instituted criminal background checks on all employees at some point after Fuller was hired, but he said he knew of no complaints against him.
He also said he did not know if any VCU computer equipment had been taken by Chesterfield police from Fuller’s home. Bennett said VCU did not plan its own investigaton.
Chesterfield Police Chief Thierry Dupuis notified VCU officials this morning of Fuller’s arrest, Bennett said. The board of visitors was notified and about 30 minutes later VCU President Eugene Trani alerted the university community by e-mail. more

Teen shot by neighbor over TV s

Police are looking for Cloves Roche, who is suspected in a shooting of a Harlem teenager over a 32-inch television.
Eleventh-grader Rodney Lewis just wanted his family’s TV back, but he was shot to death Wednesday by the neighbor who borrowed it, his family said Wednesday.
The East Harlem 17-year-old confronted his downstairs neighbor Wednesday afternoon demanding the return of 32-inch set. Words led to punches in a fourth-floor hallway inside the Woodrow Wilson Houses on E. 105 St., and the neighbor ended the fight with two shots, police said.
“He went to get one of his cousin’s television back,” said Yolanda Lewis, who lives a floor above her son’s suspected killer. “No one in their right mind is going to kill somebody over a TV.”
The Manhattan School for Career Development student was pronounced dead minutes after arriving at Metropolitan Hospital.
Cops were hunting for neighbor Cloves Roche, 26, Wednesday night. Investigators released a picture of the ex-con who was recently released from state prison. Roche just finished a five-year stint for robbery and drug charges, records showed.
Lewis’ relatives said Roche pulled out a gun during the brawl, shooting the teen in the leg and stomach. more

Teen shot by neighbor over TV s

Police are looking for Cloves Roche, who is suspected in a shooting of a Harlem teenager over a 32-inch television.
Eleventh-grader Rodney Lewis just wanted his family’s TV back, but he was shot to death Wednesday by the neighbor who borrowed it, his family said Wednesday.
The East Harlem 17-year-old confronted his downstairs neighbor Wednesday afternoon demanding the return of 32-inch set. Words led to punches in a fourth-floor hallway inside the Woodrow Wilson Houses on E. 105 St., and the neighbor ended the fight with two shots, police said.
“He went to get one of his cousin’s television back,” said Yolanda Lewis, who lives a floor above her son’s suspected killer. “No one in their right mind is going to kill somebody over a TV.”
The Manhattan School for Career Development student was pronounced dead minutes after arriving at Metropolitan Hospital.
Cops were hunting for neighbor Cloves Roche, 26, Wednesday night. Investigators released a picture of the ex-con who was recently released from state prison. Roche just finished a five-year stint for robbery and drug charges, records showed.
Lewis’ relatives said Roche pulled out a gun during the brawl, shooting the teen in the leg and stomach. more

Who is Colette Sheridan?

Who is Colette Sheridan?The world knows her as Nicollette Sheridan, she is a Golden Globe-nominated British-born American actress. She has appeared in soap operas, movies and television series, and is perhaps best known for her roles as Paige Matheson on Knots Landing and as Edie Britt on Desperate Housewives.

Sheridan was born November 21, 1963 Colette Sheridan in Rustington, West Sussex, England, the daughter of British actress Sally Sheridan (née Adams).[1] She is of Indian Punjabi descent through her maternal side.[2][3] Contrary to rumour, Sheridan is not related to actress Dinah Sheridan. Sheridan’s biological father has never been identified, but Sheridan has said that she considers her mother’s late ex-boyfriend, actor Telly Savalas, to be her father (and not stepfather). Sheridan’s half-brother, Nick Savalas, is his son. Sheridan attended school at Millfield in Somerset and emigrated to the United States in 1973.[1]

Sheridan made her debut in Paper Dolls, but her breakthrough came in 1986, when she joined the cast of the CBS night-time soap Knots Landing as “Paige Matheson”. She started out in a recurring role, but proved to be so popular that she was a regular during the 1988-89 season. For her performance in the role, she won the 1990 Soap Opera Digest Award for “Outstanding Lead Actress: Prime Time” and the 1991 Soap Opera Digest Award for “Outstanding Heroine: Prime Time”. The same year, she was named one of People Magazine’s “50 Most Beautiful People”. After the series ended in 1993, she appeared in several made-for-TV movies and the films Spy Hard and Beverly Hills Ninja and auditioned for the role of Grace Adler on Will & Grace (on which she would later guest-star). Despite her carefully cultivated sex symbol image, Sheridan has only done one nude scene during her career, in the low budget 1999 film Raw Nerve, opposite Mario Van Peebles.

In 2004, Sheridan’s role as sexy divorcee Edie Britt in ABC’s Desperate Housewives brought her renewed media attention. She was nominated for a 2005 Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress and was named #48 on Maxim’s 2006 List.[4] Less positively, she was named 2004’s “worst dressed” by Mr. Blackwell. Blackwell’s citation probably resulted from the colourful and boldly-cut gown Sheridan wore as a presenter at the American Music Awards on November 14, 2004 but he had earlier (TV Guide, July 22, 1989) praised her fashion sense: “daring … with her panache, she brings it off without a hitch. For the adventurer in all of us, she’s the one to watch”.

On November 15, 2004, Sheridan was cited by the FCC for her appearance in a sketch that opened the evening’s Monday Night Football broadcast. The Desperate Housewives-inspired sketch, showing Sheridan dropping a towel to attract the attention of football player Terrell Owens who then said “ah hell”, was widely condemned as being sexually suggestive.[5][6] ABC was forced to apologize for airing it, but the citation against Sheridan was dropped on March 14, 2005.

On November 22, 2004, World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) aired a controversial parody showing WWE Diva Trish Stratus dropping her towel to attract

WWE Superstar Shelton Benjamin,

but being caught in the act by the company’s chairman, Vince McMahon.[7]

Todd Schnitt of radio station WFLZ-FM in Tampa, Florida, placed an early-morning telephone call to Sheridan on November 18, 2004, waking her to discuss the Monday Night Football controversy (which had come to be called “Towelgate”). On January 30, 2007, the FCC levied a $10,000 fine because the station violated regulations in failing to inform Sheridan that the interview was being broadcast.

Toward the close of the fourth season of Desperate Housewives, conflicting reports circulated regarding Sheridan’s future in her role. While Hollywood.com reported in April that series creator Marc Cherry had said Sheridan would depart at the end of the season,[8] another source stated that Sheridan was confident she would return for the series’ fifth season.[9] By May 4, Entertainment Weekly reported that Sheridan would likely make several appearances in the upcoming season, but not necessarily as a regular cast member.[10]

Actress Dana Delany, who plays Katherine Mayfair, confirmed that Nicollette Sheridan would be back to reprise her role for Season 5 of Desperate Housewives,[11][12] and the Hollywood Reporter reported Nicollette’s character might be seducing another boyfriend, played by actor Neal McDonough.[13]

When season five aired, Sheridan did indeed reprise her regular role as Edie, and as the wife of a character played by McDonough, now with the surname Williams.

From 1979 to 1985, Sheridan dated the then teen-idol Leif Garrett. They began dating when she was still about 15 and lived with him in his mother’s home while still an underage (minor). As an adult, Sheridan was involved in an unsuccessful attempt to end Garrett’s drug abuse.
Sheridan was married to actor Harry Hamlin from September 7, 1991 through 1993. Because the marriage lasted exactly two years (the amount of time required for an American citizen’s spouse to receive permanent residency), it was rumored to be a “green card marriage”. However, this is unlikely the case as both Savalas, her half brother, and TV network CBS could have sponsored her for any needed visas without her needing to resort to a false marriage.

From January to October 2005, Sheridan was engaged to Swedish personal trainer, Nicklas Söderblom.

After their break-up, Sheridan returned to ex-boyfriend Michael Bolton, to whom she became engaged in March 2006. Sheridan was reportedly pregnant with his child but both of them have denied these rumours.[14]
In 2006 Nicollette Sheridan and Michael Bolton sang a duet titled The Second Time Around for the album Bolton Swings Sinatra.[15]
In March 2008 Nicollette Sheridan posed naked for a London Fog charity ad which also featured Nicollette’s fiancé, Michael Bolton.[16]
On March 25, 2008 Nicollette Sheridan settled a lawsuit brought by a former manager who alleged that he was fired by the actress to avoid paying a commission.[17]
It was confirmed on August 26, 2008 that Michael and Nicollette had broken their engagement.[18] more

Who is January Jones?

Who is January Jones She currently appears in the AMC original television drama series Mad Men as young suburban housewife and mother Betty Draper. She is also well known for her role as Cadence Flaherty in American Wedding (2003), from the American Pie comedy film series.
She had the lead female role in the movie Love’s Enduring Promise as a pioneer family’s oldest child. Her character fell in love with a mysterious man who saved her father’s life.
Jones has had supporting roles in Anger Management (2003), Love Actually, and Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights. In 2005 she appeared as a U.S. border guard’s frustrated wife in the film The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada directed by and starring Tommy Lee Jones. In We Are Marshall (2006), she played the role of Carol Dawson, wife of football coach William “Red” Dawson.
She appeared in the Season 18 Law & Order episode “Quit Claim”, playing a slippery, manipulative con artist who matches wits with Assistant District Attorney Cutter. She is the lone surviving suspect connected to a real estate scam involving organized crime.[1]
She will star in The Boat That Rocked, to be released in 2009.
Jones was ranked #82 on the Maxim Hot 100 Women of 2002.[2]

Jones was January 5, 1978 and raised in Sioux Falls, Minnehaha County, South Dakota. She is named after January Wayne, a character in Jacqueline Susann’s Once Is Not Enough.[3] She graduated from Roosevelt High School in Sioux Falls.

Jones dated Ashton Kutcher from 1998-2001. She also dated singer Josh Groban from 2003 to 2006.[4]
She announced in Vanity Fair in 2009 that she has joined Oceana as a celebrity spokesperson, working on behalf of endangered sharks.[5]

In 2005 Jones won a Camie (Character and Morality in Entertainment Awards) for Love’s Enduring Promise (2004) (TV), shared with Robert Halmi, Jr. (executive producer), Larry Levinson (executive producer), Lincoln Lageson (executive producer), William Spencer Reilly (executive producer), Michael Landon, Jr. (Film director/screenwriter), Cindy Kelley (screenwriter), Janette Oke (author of original book), Logan Bartholomew (actor), Mackenzie Astin (actor), Dale Midkiff (actor) and Katherine Heigl (actress).
In 2006 she won the Bronze Wrangler at the Western Heritage Awards for Outstanding Theatrical Motion Picture for The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005), shared with Tommy Lee Jones (director/producer/actor), Michael Fitzgerald (producer), Luc Besson (producer), Pierre-Ange Le Pogam (producer), Guillermo Arriaga (writer), Barry Pepper (actor), Dwight Yoakam (actor), Julio Cedillo (actor), Levon Helm (actor), Melissa Leo (actress) and Vanessa Bauche (actress).
In 2008 she was nominated for the Actor award at the Screen Actors Guild Awards/14th Screen Actors Guild Awards for Outstanding

Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series for Mad Men (2007), shared with Bryan Batt, Anne Dudek, Michael Gladis, Jon Hamm, Christina Hendricks, Vincent Kartheiser, Robert Morse, Elisabeth Moss, Maggie Siff, John Slattery, Rich Sommer and Aaron Staton.

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Rookie bank robber scares woman to death

RALEIGH, N.C. — Larry Whitfield was on foot, his getaway car wrecked, his rookie attempt at robbing a bank thwarted by a set of locked doors, according to detectives. Looking for a place to hide, police say, he found himself inside the home of a frightened old woman.
There’s no evidence Whitfield ever touched 79-year-old Mary Parnell. Authorities say he even told the grandmother of five he didn’t want to hurt her, directing her to sit in a chair in her bedroom. But investigators have no doubt he terrified her so much that she died of a heart attack.
Now Whitfield, a 20-year-old with no prior criminal record, is charged with first-degree murder, a rare defendant accused of literally scaring a person to death.
“He could’ve avoided all this by turning himself in, and life would’ve went on for Mrs. Parnell,” said Capt. Calvin Shaw of the Gaston County Police Department, which handled the investigation.
Under a legal concept known as the felony murder rule, it’s not uncommon for prosecutors to bring a murder charge against a defendant who doesn’t intentionally harm a victim. The rule exists in some form in every state and lets authorities bring murder charges whenever someone dies during a crime such as burglary, rape, or kidnapping.

“If you’re committing any of those offenses and a person dies, that’s first-degree murder,” said Locke Bell, Gaston County’s district attorney and the prosecutor in Whitfield’s case.
Prosecutors typically use the rule to charge all of the suspects with murder when, say, one of them shoots a teller during a bank robbery. But cases of prosecutors using the felony murder rule to charge a defendant with scaring someone to death are isolated.
Jurors convicted Willie Ingram in 1982 after 64-year-old Melvin Cooper died from a heart attack in his New York home, caused by what medical experts said was the “emotional upset” of a robbery attempt. Likewise, a Pittsburgh jury convicted Mark Fisher last year in the 2003 murder of 89-year-old Freda Dale, who medical examiners said died in her home from a fear-induced heart attack.
Whitfield is being held without bail, and his attorney and his family declined to comment. He’s charged with several other crimes in addition to murder, and has not entered a plea. He faces life without parole if convicted.
Authorities said Whitfield and an accomplice, armed with semiautomatic rifles, planned to rob the Fort Financial Credit Union in Gastonia. The bank’s staff locked its security doors as the men approached, leaving them stuck outside. They fled but crashed on Interstate 85. Officials said the other man was caught shortly after the crash, while Whitfield ended up at Parnell’s doorstep.
Parnell’s husband came home from a funeral and found her around 4:30 p.m., slumped over in the chair. Whitfield, police say, had fled after Mary Parnell went into cardiac arrest and broke into another nearby home. He was arrested while walking in the neighborhood.
Parnell’s autopsy report said she had an enlarged heart, was overweight and had advanced liver disease, kidney disease, hypertension, heart disease and was a diabetic, all of which were decided to be secondary factors. Dr. Steven Dunton, the deputy chief medical examiner in Dekalb County, Ga., said an autopsy finding of natural causes can be upgraded by what he calls an external environmental factor.
In Parnell’s case, doctors listed her cause of death as a heart attack due to “stress during home invasion.”
“There’s nothing seen by the pathologist that would show a person died that way,” Dunton said. “That’s entirely from circumstantial information.” more

Rookie bank robber scares woman to death

RALEIGH, N.C. — Larry Whitfield was on foot, his getaway car wrecked, his rookie attempt at robbing a bank thwarted by a set of locked doors, according to detectives. Looking for a place to hide, police say, he found himself inside the home of a frightened old woman.
There’s no evidence Whitfield ever touched 79-year-old Mary Parnell. Authorities say he even told the grandmother of five he didn’t want to hurt her, directing her to sit in a chair in her bedroom. But investigators have no doubt he terrified her so much that she died of a heart attack.
Now Whitfield, a 20-year-old with no prior criminal record, is charged with first-degree murder, a rare defendant accused of literally scaring a person to death.
“He could’ve avoided all this by turning himself in, and life would’ve went on for Mrs. Parnell,” said Capt. Calvin Shaw of the Gaston County Police Department, which handled the investigation.
Under a legal concept known as the felony murder rule, it’s not uncommon for prosecutors to bring a murder charge against a defendant who doesn’t intentionally harm a victim. The rule exists in some form in every state and lets authorities bring murder charges whenever someone dies during a crime such as burglary, rape, or kidnapping.

“If you’re committing any of those offenses and a person dies, that’s first-degree murder,” said Locke Bell, Gaston County’s district attorney and the prosecutor in Whitfield’s case.
Prosecutors typically use the rule to charge all of the suspects with murder when, say, one of them shoots a teller during a bank robbery. But cases of prosecutors using the felony murder rule to charge a defendant with scaring someone to death are isolated.
Jurors convicted Willie Ingram in 1982 after 64-year-old Melvin Cooper died from a heart attack in his New York home, caused by what medical experts said was the “emotional upset” of a robbery attempt. Likewise, a Pittsburgh jury convicted Mark Fisher last year in the 2003 murder of 89-year-old Freda Dale, who medical examiners said died in her home from a fear-induced heart attack.
Whitfield is being held without bail, and his attorney and his family declined to comment. He’s charged with several other crimes in addition to murder, and has not entered a plea. He faces life without parole if convicted.
Authorities said Whitfield and an accomplice, armed with semiautomatic rifles, planned to rob the Fort Financial Credit Union in Gastonia. The bank’s staff locked its security doors as the men approached, leaving them stuck outside. They fled but crashed on Interstate 85. Officials said the other man was caught shortly after the crash, while Whitfield ended up at Parnell’s doorstep.
Parnell’s husband came home from a funeral and found her around 4:30 p.m., slumped over in the chair. Whitfield, police say, had fled after Mary Parnell went into cardiac arrest and broke into another nearby home. He was arrested while walking in the neighborhood.
Parnell’s autopsy report said she had an enlarged heart, was overweight and had advanced liver disease, kidney disease, hypertension, heart disease and was a diabetic, all of which were decided to be secondary factors. Dr. Steven Dunton, the deputy chief medical examiner in Dekalb County, Ga., said an autopsy finding of natural causes can be upgraded by what he calls an external environmental factor.
In Parnell’s case, doctors listed her cause of death as a heart attack due to “stress during home invasion.”
“There’s nothing seen by the pathologist that would show a person died that way,” Dunton said. “That’s entirely from circumstantial information.” more

Man received 5 years for filming woman having sex with dogs

TULSA — A man received a five-year prison term Monday for videotaping a co-defendant — who got no prison time — as she engaged in sex acts with dogs.
Donald Roy Seigfried He pleaded no contest in November to one count of committing a crime against nature.

Donald R. Seigfried, 56, pleaded no contest in November to one count of committing a crime against nature.
Tulsa County District Judge William Kellough sentenced Seigfried to five years in prison and ordered him to spend three years on probation.
Co-defendant Diane Sue Whalen, 55, received a five-year suspended sentence and no prison time in October. She pleaded no contest in September to one felony count.
Records show Seigfried has prior felony convictions for theft and drug offenses committed more than 25 years ago. Whalen had no prior criminal record.
Attorney Jerry Truster, representing Seigfried, said if Seigfried had not had the past convictions, he would have had a possibility of serving his entire sentence on probation.
According to Whalen’s sentencing report, she was recorded on video engaged in sex acts with three dogs. more

Man received 5 years for filming woman having sex with dogs

TULSA — A man received a five-year prison term Monday for videotaping a co-defendant — who got no prison time — as she engaged in sex acts with dogs.
Donald Roy Seigfried He pleaded no contest in November to one count of committing a crime against nature.

Donald R. Seigfried, 56, pleaded no contest in November to one count of committing a crime against nature.
Tulsa County District Judge William Kellough sentenced Seigfried to five years in prison and ordered him to spend three years on probation.
Co-defendant Diane Sue Whalen, 55, received a five-year suspended sentence and no prison time in October. She pleaded no contest in September to one felony count.
Records show Seigfried has prior felony convictions for theft and drug offenses committed more than 25 years ago. Whalen had no prior criminal record.
Attorney Jerry Truster, representing Seigfried, said if Seigfried had not had the past convictions, he would have had a possibility of serving his entire sentence on probation.
According to Whalen’s sentencing report, she was recorded on video engaged in sex acts with three dogs. more