Josh Hartnett is suing the Daily Mirror over the story that they printed about his alleged sex romp in a London hotel library that was caught on CCTV. Here is the supposed eye-witness report:

“Unfortunately the hotel has security cameras all over the place - the library included. This means their every spit and cough was recorded, and cringing hotel workers saw all of Josh’s X-rated moves. Josh didn’t seem bothered that the library wasn’t locked and anyone could just burst in. He just kind of went for it.

“After the event, someone had a quiet word in Josh’s ear and he was asked to take his personal business elsewhere in the future. Josh took it on the chin and didn’t kick up a fuss. He’s been as good as gold since.”

Josh denies that incident ever happened and during an interview on a British talk show said:

“It’s incredible the stories they the come out with. In the States at least they have to make a call to a representative and try to make a reality out of the situation. Over here they just make things up.”

Josh’s lawyers filed the lawsuit today and he’s seeking damages along with a public apology, according to the BBC:

The allegations are “not only untrue but a complete fabrication,” said his legal representatives, adding they were “defamatory and unsubstantiated.”

Instead of suing Daily Mirror, I think he should be thanking them. Seriously, when was that last time you heard his name in the tabloids? At least we knew he was having some fun on his time off. Now to tell us that it was all a lie and he really is as boring as he looks? He needs to just crawl back under the rock someone pulled him out from under. Why, oh, why?

In papers filed in federal court yesterday Verne Troyer, who is 2′8″ and weights 40 lbs., is accusing his ex, aspiring actress Ranae Shrider, who is 5′5″ and 110 lbs, of intentional infliction of emotional distress and battery. Troyer is asking for $20 million in damages.

Troyer says his ex-girlfriend once picked the lock to his bedroom, pushed away his 100 lb scooter that was used to block the door and threw him to the ground.

Ed McPherson, a lawyer for Troyer, told TMZ that “when you pick up a 2 foot, 8 inch human being and throw him to the floor, it hurts.”

Troyer feared for his safety and “did not want to go into his own home without having someone else accompanying him,” according to the court documents. The papers describe one instance in which “Shrider grabbed [Troyer] very forcefully by the arm, held him against his will, and did not let him get away from her.”

Responding to Troyer’s lawsuit, Shrider released a statement late yesterday afternoon.

“This law suit is ridiculous and riddled with lie upon lie from Verne Troyer and his camp. It is in our opinion a transparent attempt to secure as much publicity as he can from his less then average career in the wake of his most recent failure in The Love Guru.”

“The only abuse that ever occurred in their household was that of emotional abuse inflicted upon Ranae and her dog Lacy on the occasions when he hit Ranae and her dog with his ‘reaching sticks’ or kicked them when having one of his drunken rages.

“This alleged abuse certainly has not seemed to affect his recent round of interviews or his golf swing over the weekend. Is this not the same man who is renowned as a professional stuntman in all his movies?”

This lawsuit comes after Shrider admitted that she leaked footage of their sex tape.

Troyer recently told Us Weekly about the humiliation he experienced after the footage surfaced.

“I put all the trust in her,” Troyer told Us. “She kept the tape in her camera on top of the closet where I couldn’t even reach it!”

Asked how he feels about Shrider, he told Us: “Hate is a good word.”

Troyer next stars in “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus” with Johnny Depp and Jude Law.

Halle Berry has filed suit against pap photogs for taking pictures of her and her baby because they got them in a shady way.

These sleeze balls trespassed onto her private property! Creepy! I am sorry, but that is a stalker move if I ever heard one!

The Oscar winner was in her own backyard with her newborn daughter, not out and about in public streets, when the pictures were taken. She (of course) flipped out when she saw the pictures on the internet and in two celebrity mags.

Her lawyer said a criminal complaint has been filed and an investigation is under way. Those guys are lucky they didn’t get shot! Her lawyer also said there are witnesses who saw the photographers in the middle of a “very blatant and invasive trespass.”

Something has to be done; it is one thing to be out shopping in public streets and having your picture taken, it is quite another to have your privacy invaded when you are in your own home!

What do you guys think? If you are a celebrity does that give the paparazzi free reign?

Rapper 50 Cent, who’s real name is Curtis Jackson, filed a defamation lawsuit against his ex-girlfriend Shaniqua Tompkins. Jackson is seeking $20 million dollars in damages for Shaniqua publicly accusing him of burning down his Long Island home in which she was living. Shaniqua alleges that 50 Cent was “trying to kill” her.

Jackson’s lawyer, Brett Kimmel, says, “It’s simply not true.” The ex-couple had been involved in a lawsuit regarding the rightful ownership of the home that burned down on May 30th, 2008. The battle has been escalating and Tompkins claims that Jackson had threatened her one week prior to the fire. The fire has been ruled “suspicious” by fire authorities and is still under investigation. I guess this is 50’s way of still getting his money.

Laura Boyce, the second nanny involved in the Rob Lowe lawsuit has filed a cross-complaint against Sheryl Lowe.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               Boyce is accusing Sheryl of sexual harassment, wrongful termination, unpaid wages, and other labor code violations.  Boyce worked as a nanny for the Lowe family for seven months back in 2007 and claims that Sheryl created a, “extremely sexually offensive and hostile work environment…. behaving in a … perverted, disgusting, and crude manner.”  Boyce claims that Sheryl would walk around naked exposing herself to her, openly talk about her sex life with Rob, she would ask Boyce about her sex life, and even asked about her boyfriend’s penis size.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               The Lowe’s lawyer Larry Stein issued a statement in regard to the allegations saying, “Having struck out against Rob Lowe, Gloria Allred now seeks to drag his wife and children into the fray.  In response to a lawsuit against Laura Boyce by the Lowes.  Ms. Allred filed a cross-complaint on behalf of Boyce, which contains false allegations, in an apparent attempt to divert the negative publicity which Allred’s client, Gibson, has universally received.  Although framed as a sexual harassment claim against both Sheryl and Rob Lowe, the cross-complaint alleges only words by Sheryl and never mentions any word or conduct by Rob whatsoever.  The alleged statements by Sheryl are totally unrelated to, and do not provide any support for, Gibson’s claim against Rob.”                                                                                                 Rob and Sheryl Lowe claim that they are the victims of a $1.5 million extortion scheme. 

Ashley Dupre filed a lawsuit yesterday against Girls Gone Wild founder Joe Francis for $10 million for exploiting her name and image for profit.

Dupre claims that while vacationing in Florida in 2003, GGW reps came up to her and offered her alcohol before inducing her to expose her breasts and sign a wavier.  All of this while she was underage- 17.

Joe Francis is “amazed” that she is suing him because the tape was never released because she was underage at the time.  He does say that it “doesn’t matter” if she was underage, since she showed false identification and claimed to be older:

“It is incomprehensible that Ms. Dupré could claim she did not give her consent to be filmed by Girls Gone Wild, when in fact we have videotape of her giving consent, while showing her identification,” Francis told Usmagazine.com…“She’s seeking $10 Million for topless photos taken in front of a room full of people, including two newspapers and multiple crews we had in the room,” he said. “These images were taken in public places and contain no sexual contact. We expect to triumph in this matter and continue to offer the best and hottest girls.”

Joe Francis has just recently been released from Nevada jail last month and continues to be facing federal tax evasion charges in that state.

He is currently being charged in Florida for allegedly filming underage girls in Panama City. He claims that he is not liable because the girls lied about their ages.

Dupre has not made a public appearance since the Eliot Spitzer scandal broke 6 weeks ago.  She has ambitions of becoming a pop star, and is said to have received over $200,000 for downloads of her songs. The NY Daily News reports today that she has a new manager for her music career and is shopping around for a label that will have her. Her Myspace has received over 10 million views.

                                            Michael Douglas is being sued for breach of contract.  Zack Norman, Douglas’s business partner and former co-star of the 1984 film Romancing the Stone, filed the lawsuit against Douglas on April 24 at L.A. Superior Court.  Zack Norman claims that Michael Douglas promised to pay him $1 million dollars if he bought into a company that helped develop projects with him and Douglas never paid.  Norman is now looking towards the legal system to get him his money.  I don’t understand why he didn’t just pay the man, a million dollars is pocket change for Douglas.

Woody Allen appeared in a U.S. District court in Manhattan on Monday to file a lawsuit against American Apparel for $10 million for using his image without his consent. Apparently American Apparel has been using Allen’s image from a scene in “Annie Hall” were he is dressed as a Hasidic Jew for their billboard and website ads. Allen is claiming that he has never given American Apparel permission to use his image for any of their advertisements. Allen stated in court that he does not endorse U.S. commercial products or services. The lawsuit also states that this makes the May 2007 billboards and websites for American Apparel “especially egregious and damaging.” Woody Allen described himself in his lawsuit as one of the most influential figures in the history of film and claims that he maintains strict control over all projects that he is associated with.

Source: The Wall Street Journal

One media mogul of a woman slapped with two separate lawsuits all just this week. One was filed by an audience member of the Oprah Winfrey Show who was injured when the excited audience members stampeded into the auditorium to get their choice seats during a taping. The second was filed by a Boston mother who claims that she fed Harpo Studios the idea of Oprah’s new television show, Oprah’s Big Give, and has yet to get credit or compensation.

The first suit by the audience member was filed in Chicago’s Cook’s County Circuit Court (I dare you to say that 5x fast) by Orit Greenberg who is seeking at least $50,000 in medical fees and other damages because she says she has suffered “severe and permanent injuries.”

I’m saying only $50k for permanent and severe injuries?! Come’on girl–you can dream bigger than that! If I had permanent injuries cuz they couldn’t do some crowd control…hmmmm…I’m thinking at leat a mil, no?

The suit blames Harpo for the incident, saying the company failed to exercise adequate crowd control measures and was careless to allow energetic women to battle it out out for the perfect seats.

As for the second suit, filed by Darlene Tracy, who claims that she pitched a reality show back in February of 2005, called The Philanthropist, to Ellen Rakieten and Jennifer Thornton (the executive producer and a producer of Winfrey’s daytime talk show). The idea? Contestants would be judged on their ability to help those less fortunate.

So, about a year & a half later, in November 2006, Winfrey announced her plans for a show with a similar concept—way too similar for Tracy’s liking! Tracy filed a complaint in Boston’s U.S. District Court to prevent the Big Give from airing, though a judge quickly dismissed the filing after Winfrey’s lawyers argued that Massachusetts wasn’t the place to embark on the legal battle. Recently, Tracy filed an appeal, which includes documentation of her correspondence with the Oprah Winfrey Show producers.

For the first case, a Harpo rep told E! News on Friday that the company does not comment on pending litigation.

But for the second, a Harpo rep went on to say that Winfrey’s team was “confident that the Court of Appeals will agree that Tracy has no claim.”

Big money usually wins, so whether these chicks are right or wrong, I’m betting it’ll likely go in O’s favor–at least the 2nd lawsuit for sure seems unlikely to get a win…

Tyra Banks has no shame. She’s stooped to an all time low by suing 38 year old Jodi Hughes, mother of two and cancer survivor. Hughes’ two sons Jordan, 17 and Nick 10 (who by the way is also legally blind), had submitted their mother’s name to Tyra’s “Holiday Girl Party!” make over show. She had been previously digagnosed with stage 4 cervical cancer and lupus. Of course producers of the Tyra Banks show would jump all over an independent and strong woman… a true survivor. Well… the trouble started when Hughes and her sons showed up for the make over. The producers of the show had left Jordan and Nick on a curb outside the lot while their mother underwent her “transformation” without food, water, money, or transportation. Did I mention 10 year old Nick is BLIND!?!?!?! Hughes “makeover” consisted of a dress and a hairweave that she had to later get surgically removed due to a scalp infection.

Of course Tyra apologizes profusely and begs for forgivness for this terrible treatment towards Jodi right? WRONG. Tyra threatens to sue Hughes and instates a gag order against her. All Hughes wanted was an apology. No money. Just an apology. Nice Tyra. Nice. You’re not the next Oprah. Stop fooling yourself.