Celebrity
Sir Anthony Hopkins’ Residence Destroyed in Palisades Wildfire
One other main celeb had his property ravaged by the Pacific Palisades wildfire … this time it is actor Anthony Hopkins, whose house has burned to the bottom.
Video obtained by TMZ exhibits the smoky stays of Sir Anthony’s mansion, burned to its very basis and diminished to charred rubble.
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As we have reported, a ton of celebs — together with a slew of different residents — have seen their properties destroyed by the wildfires spreading throughout L.A. this week from the Palisades to Eaton to Pasadena and past.
A few of the stars impacted by the infernos embody Jeff Bridges, Sweet Spelling, Mandy Moore, Cameron Mathison, Billy Crystal, Miles Teller and Paris Hilton, all of whom have misplaced their dear houses.
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In the meantime, Sir Anthony has already had a number of run-ins with fires through the years … his residence in London, England, burned down in 2000, however he managed to save lots of his Oscar for “Silence of the Lambs” and different souvenirs. In 2018, a wildfire narrowly missed his Malibu mansion, although his next-door neighbor’s home was destroyed.
One 12 months later, Hopkins bought 2 adjoining properties within the Pacific Palisades, erecting a mansion, which was worn out by the wildfire.
1000’s of individuals have been evacuated from L.A. neighborhoods since out-of-control brush fires started Tuesday morning. Accommodations round city are booked to capability as displaced residents search locations to remain.
In case you are questioning … Sir Anthony — who’s been within the UK all week — simply turned 87 on December 31.
Ex-Seahawks Star Malcolm Smith
Carroll Will Be Nice W/ Raiders!!!
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At the very least one Tremendous Bowl MVP thinks Pete Carroll‘s going to do nice in his new gig … Malcolm Smith tells TMZ Sports activities he is certain the Raiders simply employed the proper man!!
Smith, in fact, is biased … he not solely received a championship with Carroll in Seattle, however he performed for him in school at USC too. Nonetheless, he instructed us simply hours after it was revealed that Carroll was going to Las Vegas that his former boss goes to cook dinner within the Silver and Black.
“I am so excited for him, man,” mentioned Smith, who logged snaps at linebacker in Carroll’s Seahawks defenses from 2011-2014. “I feel he will do an unbelievable job.”
Carroll reportedly signed a three-year take care of the Raiders with a crew possibility for a fourth … and Smith instructed us his first order of enterprise needs to be to discover a quarterback.
Smith mentioned a reunion with Russell Wilson may work … although he urged the crew to start out contemporary with “a younger gun.”
L.V. at present holds the No. 6 decide within the spring’s NFL Draft — which could give them an opportunity at Shedeur Sanders.
Both method, Smith tells us he would not need to be a coach on Carroll’s employees … though it is clear, he’ll have his pom poms able to go to cheer on PC when it is time for his first sport again on an NFL sideline subsequent fall.
Ice Penis Saga
Canadian Circumcision …
Your Personal Fault, Eh?!?
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Karma is a dish best-served chilly, ice chilly … simply ask the naughty patron on the heart of the now-viral ice penis saga.
TMZ broke the story … an unruly bar buyer received intoxicated and argued with others on the East Village Pub & Eatery in Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada earlier this month, which resulted within the man getting pinned down by safety guards on an icy sidewalk … leaving his penis inadvertently caught to ice on the bottom and inflicting an impromptu circumcision, of types.
Now, in new video obtained by TMZ of the incident, it is obvious simply how belligerent the patron was earlier than his detainment and subsequent chilly awakening.
Test it out … the shirtless man is violently combating in opposition to quite a few bar safety guards, who’re making an attempt their greatest to maintain the aggressor slowed down whereas ready for native police to reach.
As he makes an attempt to wiggle free, the perpetrator in query’s pants shimmy down … inflicting his privates — which we have blurred out — to make contact with the bottom.
An eyewitness tells TMZ … the suspect even kicked a safety guard within the groin — simply earlier than he was taken right down to the bottom and held there for an entire 20 minutes.
We’re advised the cops arrived on the scene at this level, the place scorching water was NOT used to help in detaching him from the ice. As an alternative, the eyewitness corroborates what’s proven within the new footage … that the responding officers ripped the person up off the bottom, possible forsaking some pores and skin within the course of.
“Ripoff” has an entire new that means for this Canadian fella shifting ahead … joyful therapeutic!!!
Diddy
Federal Prosecutors Directed Raid On My Cell …
And I Received The Proof!!!
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The notorious raid on Diddy‘s cell in a New York Metropolis jail was spearheaded by the very federal prosecutors who charged the music mogul with intercourse trafficking and different critical crimes — no less than in line with Diddy’s legal professionals, who say they’ve the proof!
Diddy’s legal professionals filed new authorized paperwork flat-out accusing Southern District of New York prosecutors of directing the November 2024 sweep of Diddy’s cell with the assistance of Bureau of Jail correctional officers inside Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Heart.
Within the docs, Diddy’s legal professionals level to a gathering between BOP officers and different federal businesses on the morning of the second day of the sweep to debate a possible search of Diddy’s unit … and so they say supervisors from SDNY, together with the Diddy trial staff’s unit chief, weighed in {that a} search of Diddy’s cell was warranted.
Protection legal professionals declare the opposite businesses inquired with the SDNY unit chief on whether or not a search of Diddy’s cell was vital.
Diddy’s attorneys say the SDNY chief ordered the cell to be searched “partly due to what the Prosecution Group had discovered concerning [Mr. Combs’] conduct at MDC.”
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Diddy’s legal professionals say the chief then spoke with SDNY senior management and so they relayed that data in the end to BOP, which performed the search.
You might recall … prosecutors beforehand stated the search of MDC was deliberate by jail officers nicely prematurely of his arrest and didn’t particularly goal Diddy. As a substitute, they stated, it was to make sure the security and safety of employees and inmates.
Nevertheless, Diddy’s authorized staff insists this is not true and has accused the feds of raiding his jail cell to grab a bunch of privileged supplies, together with notes to his legal professionals about his upcoming trial.
We reached out to the SDNY … they declined to remark.
DJ Unk
‘Stroll It Out’ Rapper Useless at 43
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Atlanta rapper and DJ Unk has died … TMZ has discovered.
Unk’s spouse, Sherkita Lengthy-Platt, posted on Fb Friday afternoon … “Please respect me and my household. I simply misplaced my husband and my youngsters simply misplaced their father. Our life won’t ever be the identical. I LOVE YOU ANTHONY FOREVER”
Unk — authorized identify Anthony Leonard Platt — began out within the late Nineteen Nineties, ultimately forming Southern Model DJs with DJ Montay and DJ Jelly, throwing events round Georgia. Unk obtained signed to Large Oomp Information in 2000, together with Montay.
Unk’s platinum single “Stroll It Out” from the 2006 album “Beat’n Down Yo Block!” cracked the highest 10 on the Billboard 100, and the monitor “2 Step” from the identical album was licensed gold.
He was coping with unspecified well being points in 2009, affecting his profession exercise. He launched a pair extra singles within the following years, and was featured on the 2K Sports activities NBA 2K9 online game.
Unk was 43.
RIP
“Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills” star Erika Jayne’s son, who works as a member of the Los Angeles Police Division, was one of many first witnesses to testify in A$AP Rocky’s assault trial on Friday.
Thomas “Tommy” Zizzo Jr., whom the Bravo star welcomed along with her first husband, Thomas Zizzo Sr., was referred to as to the stand as one of many cops who responded to the alleged taking pictures.
He instructed the courtroom what he noticed when he arrived on the scene, outdoors of a resort in 2021, based on TMZ.
Whereas Tommy’s mom is a Bravolebrity, he has by no means made an look on “The Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills,” and he prefers to maintain it that manner.
“He didn’t select this life — I selected this life — and we attempt to defend him,” Jayne instructed Andy Cohen in 2020 about her son staying out of the highlight.
“I don’t care if he’s an grownup and he carries a gun and a badge. On the finish of the day, he’s nonetheless my boy. He’s a really positive younger man, and I’m tremendous proud.”
A$AP Rocky’s trial started earlier this week after the rapper turned down a plea deal that provided him 180 days behind bars, a seven-year suspended sentence, three years probation and 500 hours of group service.
He additionally would have needed to enter a responsible plea to essentially the most severe of the 2 felonies for which he was charged — assault with a semiautomatic weapon.
The musician felt the deal would have value him his livelihood, a supply instructed TMZ.
“This may successfully finish his profession as a result of he would lose all of his endorsement contracts, together with Gucci, Puma, the Met Gala and, most necessary, he wouldn’t be capable to tour and his profession could be over,” the supply instructed TMZ. “They might have him underneath their thumb for over 8 years.”
The “A$AP Eternally” hitmaker is charged with firing a gun at a former buddy A$AP Relli and is going through a 24-year jail sentence if convicted.
He pleaded not responsible to 2 felony counts of assault with a semiautomatic firearm.
Florida Man Shot by Cop With Personal Gun
Profession Lower Brief …
See You in Courtroom!!!
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A Florida man skilled the shock of his life when he was by accident shot along with his personal gun by a police officer throughout a site visitors cease … and now he is telling TMZ how profoundly this agonizing expertise has difficult his profession.
Jason Arrington tells us he blacked out when Jacksonville Sheriff’s Officer Mindy Cardwell by accident pulled the set off as she tried to take away his gun from his waistband … sending a bullet by his proper hip space, exiting close to his kneecap. He says his first thought was he would die proper then and there.
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BTW, he was legally carrying the gun — a Glock .45 semiautomatic pistol — which he had let Officer Shaun Lowry learn about early on within the December cease, for allegedly working a pink mild. For everybody’s security, Lowry requested him to step out of the automotive … which is when issues rapidly went south.
The wound will get even deeper — Arrington says Cardwell by no means apologized to him … he says she did nothing however anxiously stroll in circles whereas he was gushing blood as a consequence of her negligence. Different officers utilized a tourniquet earlier than paramedics arrived.
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To make issues even worse … Arrington — a crane operator — tells us his job efficiency has suffered for the reason that damage, and his plans of changing into a service provider seaman have been fully squashed. He was tremendous near taking the following step in his profession and even handed the written check. Now … he predicts his bodily state will preserve him off that job path endlessly.
Arrington is at present going to bodily remedy to assist his physique heal … and psychotherapy to assist with the trauma sustained from this wild incident.
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Arrington and his attorneys are engaged on a lawsuit now. Lawyer Kay Harper Williams didn’t specify a greenback quantity, however she says they may plead the jurisdictional threshold to account for all of Arrington’s everlasting accidents, his restoration, and his misplaced future incomes capability.
As for Officer Cardwell … she was slapped with a cost of incompetence and proceedings have begun to formally boot her from the sheriff’s workplace. The state is not going to be going after her for felony expenses, Harper Williams confirms to us.
Harper Williams and Arrington hope the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Workplace sees the weak spots of their coaching as a way to appropriate course, including … “We actually hope that is an instance for legislation enforcement businesses throughout the nation to make use of to display how issues can go mistaken in a short time.”
Sundance
Star-Studded Movie Pageant Begins!!!
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Hollywood is organising store in Utah … as a result of celebs are piling right into a small ski city for a well-known film pageant.
Sundance kicked off Friday and well-known of us like Conan O’Brien and Rose Byrne made a few of the first appearances.
“Depraved” star Cynthia Erivo made it to the snow-covered city too … no phrase if she rode in on a brush.
John Lithgow and Olivia Coleman sat down for a dialog … answering questions and speaking motion pictures.
It isn’t simply movie stars both … Questlove is exhibiting Sundance Movie Pageant some love.
Fairly cool to see all these well-known of us in a single place to rejoice motion pictures, however the actual motion comes once they determine to strap in and ski or snowboard down the mountain.
Take a look at the gallery to see who all is getting concerned this 12 months … the gang’s all right here!!!
Celebrity
Kim Zolciak claims Kroy Biermann stole $1.5K in prescription meds in Christmas bodycam footage
Kim Zolciak was residing a real-life nightmare earlier than Christmas.
The “Actual Housewives of Atlanta” alum, 46, alleged in new bodycam footage obtained by TMZ that her estranged husband, Kroy Biermann, stole over a thousand {dollars} value of treatment earlier than the vacation.
Zolciak reportedly known as police on Christmas Day to report the alleged theft, telling officers within the footage that she “went to work in California” and got here again to a seemingly ransacked home.
“I got here dwelling to nothing. I got here dwelling to the whole lot being gone,” she claimed. The fact star alleged that her ex, 39, swiped her storage unit, closets, secure and even cleaned out their pantry.
Nevertheless, Zolciak appeared most involved over every certainly one of her lacking medicines, which she stated carried a hefty price ticket of $700 and $500, respectively.
“I don’t have time for this s–t in my life, and in the case of my drugs that I’ve to medically have, and it’s gone and stolen out of my fridge? I’ve an issue,” she advised officers, who remained largely silent throughout her five-minute rant.
“I need this man out of my life. I wish to transfer on with my life. …. All of this stuff are simply exhausting.”
Zolciak additionally claimed within the footage that she has a courtroom order that solely offers her entry to the nanny’s room, the place she shops further treatment. She stated, nevertheless, that Biermann allegedly “breaks in on a regular basis.”
The previous Bravo star vented that her marital scenario has gotten “so unhealthy” that her personal youngsters have needed to intervene and known as police to “defend” her.
Zolciak’s rep declined Web page Six’s request for remark. Biermann’s rep, nevertheless, advised us, “Completely each allegation she says is fake and a lie.”
“All the pieces she accuses Kroy of doing is precisely what she is doing. On the divorce proceedings and after, it can all come out with tangible proof for all of it.”
This isn’t the primary time the “RHOA” alum has accused her estranged husband of theft.
In January 2024, Zolciak as soon as once more known as police to accuse Biermann of stealing her purses and jewellery.
The previous NFL participant claimed in bodycam footage launched on the time, although, that he “didn’t do something” and that his “security [was] in jeopardy.”
Cops have been in a position to mediate the scenario on the time and Biermann in the end gave Zolciak again her comforter, cellphone charger, medicines and neck cream.
Nevertheless, three months later, the “Don’t Be Tardy” alum known as 911 once more to report the previous Atlanta Falcons participant had allegedly taken her cellphone and was “going via it” with out her permission.
Police have additionally been known as to the exes’ shared dwelling a number of instances for home violence claims.
Zolciak and Biermann have been in the course of a divorce battle since 2023. That 12 months, the previous couple raced to the courthouse to file towards one another, withdrew the request after which Biermann filed once more.
Nevertheless, the exes have been unable to settle their variations — given a mountain of debt points.
Final December, they appeared to take an enormous step towards going their separate methods, as Web page Six solely reported that Zolciak had lastly moved out of their marital dwelling forward of its foreclosures public sale.
