Michael David Barrett, the man arrested for secretly videotaping Erin Andrews naked through the peephole of several hotel rooms last year, was sentenced to 30 months in prison today.
Michael pleaded guilty to one count of interstate stalking in December. He will be required to turn himself in by May 3rd, and has also been ordered to keep at least 100 yards away from Erin and her family members at all times.
Charlie Sheen pleaded not guilty to felony menacing, misdemeanor third degree assault and misdemeanor criminal mischief in court today, for his Christmas Day arrest over a fight with his wife Brooke Mueller.
Charlie is reportedly interested in taking a plea deal for a misdemeanor, but not for the felony charges. His trial date has been set for July 21st.
Phil Spector’s lawyers have just filed an appeal to have his second-degree murder conviction thrown out on the grounds of judicial error and prosecutorial misconduct.
The 148-paged appeal filing cited a number of reasons why the legal team believed Phil did not have a fair trial. Phil’s attorneys insisted in the documents that their client was, among other things, improperly convicted because of his bad character, after the prosecution was allowed to have a number of women testify about his threatening actions in the past few years.
Phil, who is 70 years old, is currently serving 19 years in prison for murdering actress Lana Clarkson.
Robert Halderman, who allegedly tried to sextort $2 million from David Letterman last year, has just pleaded guilty to one count of attempted grand larceny in the second degree.
He was sentenced to 6 months in prison, 5 years on probation, and will also be required to perform 1,000 hours of community service.
During his sentencing, Robert apologized to David and one of David’s former mistresses, (and his former girlfriend) Stephanie Birkitt, who he reportedly got most of his information from.
Charles Pearson, who allegedly threatened to feed Dr. Drew’ children to his wife, has just been charged with one felony count of stalking, and five felony counts of making criminal threats.
He’ll be arraigned later today, and his bail will likely be set at $400,000. He’s currently being held on $150,000 bail.
Update: Charles Pearson has just pleaded not guilty to all six felonies. A protective order was also issued, keeping Charles at least 500 yards away from Dr. Drew and his family.
According to a source, Chief Deputy District Attorney Arnold Mordkin - the Colorado prosecutor in charge of Charlie Sheen’s most recent case is set to reject his plea deal.
Charlie is currently facing one felony and two misdemeanor charges relating to his domestic violence incident last Christmas. The source claims that Mordkin, who is currently dealing with a number of serious domestic violence incidents in Aspen, will be using Charlie to “send a message that we as a community do not tolerate this type of behavior”. Charlie is due back in court on March 15.
Jermaine Jackson claimed during a Dutch TV interview yesterday that his son Jaafar had really only purchased the stun gun at the center of the latest Jackson controversy, as a thoughtful little present for him. He told the show,
He was getting this little thing for me. And somehow, someone alerted the press and it got out of hand. There was no encounter with Blanket or anything. It was just to create talk. But my son feels very, very bad because he had told me that he was going to get me something online and then before we left to come out here and somehow it just got out of hand, but Blanket is fine.
The Department of Children and Family Services is still investigating the incident.
It looks like Charles Pearson - the man arrested yesterday for threatening to feed Dr. Drew’s kids to his wife was way crazier than we all first thought.
Apparently, Charles filed a lawsuit in L.A. County Superior Court last month, suing Dr. Drew for $2,500 for medical malpractice, claiming that the doctor “performed illegal surgery” on him, and tampered with his implants (not sure what implants he was referring to). Charles also accused Dr. Drew of being in the KKK and harassing him with his LAPD connections. A court date for that suit was set for March 8th. No word yet on whether or not it’s still on.
Update: That’s Charles Pearson’s mugshot, above. He’s currently being held on $150,000 bail.
Jaafar Jackson was reportedly only able to purchase the taser that got his whole family in trouble earlier this week, because he had gotten his hands on a Visa gift card.
Jermaine Jackson’s 13-year-old son used the gift card as a credit card to place the order, and then supposedly lied and claimed that he was at least 18 years old on the site’s disclaimer.
The purchase was successful, but the taser was confiscated by security when it arrived at the home. The DCFS spent the day yesterday working with the family to control the children’s internet access.
After two postponements, Lil Wayne will finally be sentenced later today for his weapons charge (provided that nothing else happens to delay the hearing a third time).
The first hearing was moved last month to give Wayne time to have his rotting teeth fixed, and the second one was postponed yesterday when a fire broke out in the courtroom where he was set to face the judge. Today, he’s expected to be sentenced to about one year in jail.
In a statement yesterday, Katherine Jackson admitted that Jermaine Jackson’s son Jaafar had purchased a taser online and was caught playing with it in the bathroom. She insisted that Michael Jackson’s sons Blanket and Prince weren’t present in the room at the time, and that the gun was taken away by the family’s security team just minutes after Jaafar began using it.
Other sources are claiming however that Jaafar had the gun in his possession for several days, and that he had been using it to threaten Prince and Blanket.
The Jackson family also denied that there was another gun somewhere on the property. The DCFS is now investigating.
Today, Lil Wayne’s jail sentence for his weapons possession charge was postponed for a second time, after a fire broke out in the basement of the Manhattan courthouse where his case was set to be heard.
The fire was contained in under an hour, but the courthouse has been shut down for the day.
Lil Wayne’s first hearing was moved last month to give him time to have some extensive dental surgery done on his rotting teeth. No word yet on a new court date.
The L.A. County Department of Children and Family Services paid a little visit to the Jackson family home (where Michael Jackson’s three kids are now living) after Jermaine Jackson’s kids ordered a stun gun online and had it delivered to their house three weeks ago.
Someone who learned of the purchase called authorities over the issue. The DCFS showed up at the home last night and took the gun. Social workers are planning to check on the family again today for a routine follow-up.
Update: According to multiple sources, the DCFS was called after Jermaine’s 13-year-old son Jaafar tried to stun Michael’s youngest son, Blanket with the gun.
The family’s security guards confiscated the gun after they heard the children using it. Sources added that the kids had not one, but two stun guns. Only one was confiscated. The other is still somewhere on the property.
A New York woman named Lastonia Levinston has just filed a lawsuit against 50 Cent, accusing him of releasing her homemade sex tape on his website as a joke last year.
According to the lady, 50 somehow got his hands on a sex tape that she made with a boyfriend in 2008. He then edited himself narrating the action while wearing a wig and a fluffy blue robe, and uploaded it to his website for public ridicule.
No word on how much she wants in damages.
Heroes star Adrian Pasdar pleaded not guilty to one misdemeanor count of driving under the influence in court yesterday.
He was caught on January 27 going 90 MPH down the 405 Freeway in L.A. If convicted, Adrian faces a $1,000 fine and up to six months in jail.
