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Kathy Griffin gave Johnny (and his “stans”) one of her classic smackdowns on Brian Karem’s Just Ask the Question podcast yesterday.
She’s one of the few celebrities who’s stuck by Amber from the beginning, even hanging out with her right after those edited audio tapes were first leaked by Team Depp in 2020. And she’s continued to back her throughthetrial.
I’ve followed you forever and love you; it seems the parisexposed videos have been deleted, being annoying is there anyway you have those videos still and would be willing to post them or send them. Hope you’re doing well xoxo 💋
Posting my answer publicly since I’ve actually had a few people ask me this past week about the deleted videos from my Paris Exposed post, especially in light of Paris’ new documentary.
A short while after I made the post back in January 2017, someone reported all the videos, despite them being unlisted and only ever embedded into my post, and YouTube terminated my account without warning, taking with it not only the Paris videos but also countless clips from entertainment news shows (Access Hollywood, Entertainment Tonight, Extra, etc.) and a treasure trove of old paparazzi videos that unfortunately I haven’t been able to find anywhere else, so if you take a look at a lot of my older “This Week In…” posts, you’ll mostly find dead video links. Appeals to get my YouTube account back were useless.
I tried to find all the old Paris Exposed videos, but by the time my account was terminated the videos had conveniently vanished from all the websites I got them from - old gossip blogs, forums, and other YouTube/Vimeo/Dailymotion uploads from way back when. Excerpts of the clips, usually a minute long or less, still exist on some websites, but they’re missing a lot of stuff and have some of the more scandalous material cut out. You can also find a lot of the random sex tapes with Joe Francis or her ex-boyfriend Jason Shaw on porn websites, but that’s pretty much it. I tried to download some old torrents that claimed to have the entirety of ParisExposed.com, but none of those seem to work anymore either. Finally, I tried to search specific file names, and had come across a subscription-only porn website that had listed almost every single video from the original ParisExposed.com, but I wasn’t able to view them without subscribing, so I bookmarked the page and figured one day, when I was willing to throw my credit card information to the wind, I’d go and download everything. This week I checked that website again and - go figure - all of those files have disappeared. I’m not sure where else to look, if there is anywhere else. Probably the only shot we have at finding most of them again is if someone who downloaded them back in 2007 still has them on an old computer, but that’s pretty unlikely at this point.
I managed to recover some videos in their entirety - videos of Paris with Joe and Jason, Nicole Richie licking cocaine off a plate, etc. - but it’s only a fraction of what was once out there. I made a burner Google account earlier today to upload them all in a folder for you guys, and I’ve backed up everything to an external drive incase that gets taken down, too.
What’s there:
Paris, Jason and Nicky in Atlantic City.
Paris in bed with Jason.
Paris and Joe in Saint-Tropez.
Joe filming Paris as she takes a bath.
Paris’ 21st birthday in Hollywood, with Kimberly Stewart and Tara Reid.
Paris singing “Lovefool” in the car with Jason.
Paris filming herself reading lines from a script while topless.
Paris using the computer.
Paris and Nicky on the phone with Don Thrasher, Rick Salomon’s old roommate.
Paris in Las Vegas.
Paris partying with Nicole, and Paris backstage at a Heatherette fashion show with Amanda Lepore.
What’s still missing:
Paris and Nicky celebrating New Year’s, and Paris saying she and Nicky are like “two n*****s.” (You can see brief excerpts of this video on YouTube, but they’re missing a lot of the extra footage.) (UPDATE: Found the full clip in its original quality and added it to the drive.)
Paris in Aspen, and Nicky complaining that Jamie Pressly is obsessed with Paris and ‘stealing’ her hairstyle.
Paris in the Hamptons.
Paris and Jason in Amsterdam. (UPDATE: One clip from the Amsterdam trip has been found and added to the drive, but others are still missing.)
A video of Nicole throwing water at a girl in a nightclub.
Paris singing her own version of “We Are Family” that goes: “We are desperate. I’m an ugly Jewish bitch… I’m a little black whore, I get fucked up the butt for coke… I’m a n****r!” (I think the “fucked up the butt for coke” part is still on YouTube, but the rest is gone).
Paris at a party (maybe in the Hamptons?) talking about the Bush Twins and their cousin Lauren. At one point, from what I can recall, she ignores a phone call to go to a David LaChapelle party in New York, complaining that Lil Kim is going to be there and that Kim is “short” and “weird.”
Paris at a friend’s party saying that someone looks like her after she’s been “fucked by ten n*****s.” (UPDATE: Found the full clip and added it to the drive.)
Paris inexplicably taping herself during a funeral.
Paris visiting Ground Zero and rollerblading through the streets of New York.
Footage from another one of Paris’ 21st birthday parties featuring Kris Jenner and Faye Resnick, the latter of whom Nicky mocks as a “hungry bitch.” (UPDATE: One clip of Jenner and Resnick at Paris’ birthday has been found and added to the drive, but the “hungry bitch” bit is still missing.)
Paris and Nicole Lenz recounting the time Paris called a black security guard at a nightclub the N-word to his face.
Phone calls with Joe Francis, Donald Trump and Bijou Phillips.
A video of Paris saying, “Who wants to go to a party with Bijou Phillips and Corey Feldman? What losers, they’re so pathetic, it’s so lame.”
And scores of others that I’ve either forgotten about or haven’t seen before, but were part of the original leak in 2007.
I’m not tech savvy, so maybe there are some tricks to getting the old videos that I don’t know about. If so, I put under the cut a list of potential file names for the videos that maybe someone can try searching. Also, if you search “ParisExposed Torrent” in Google, there are tons of forums (many non-English) with download links, most appearing to be broken, but if someone’s willing to help me dig I’d appreciate it. There’s also an old LiveJournal community, Pariscarriage07, an offshoot of OhNoTheyDidnt, that’s dedicated to everything from Paris’ storage locker. It was created when ParisExposed.com first went live in 2007. It’s a closed community, so I can’t see if there’s any surviving download links or torrents there, so if anyone knows a LiveJournal user that still happens to be active and a member of that community, try to see if they can find anything, or if they can invite me to join the community so I can dig for any stuff myself.
Figured I’d share this again as it’s been over a year and some of the missing footage still hasn’t turned up. If any fresh eyes want to give the list a look over, I’d appreciate it!
Also, I’m wondering if anyone knows whether one of those YouTube or TikTok people who’s been copying my blog posts has made a video of the “Paris Exposed” one? Lately I’ve been getting a lot of messages about that post in particular, so I figured one of those people must’ve plagiarized it like they did the other posts and I just haven’t happened to see it yet.
On this day in 2002, Rosie O’Donnell came out as a lesbian in an interview with ABC’s Diane Sawyer.
The interview, which aired as part of an ABC primetime special about gay adoption, capped a weeks-long media tease by O’Donnell, who for years had shied away from discussing her sexuality: In January of that year, O’Donnell played a lesbian during a guest appearance on the sitcom Will & Grace, uttering while in character the words “I’m gay” for the first time in her TV career; and in February, reports that O’Donnell’s forthcoming book, Find Me, would detail her past relationships with women were met with a quiet confirmation of O’Donnell’s sexuality by O’Donnell’s pal Barbara Walters on Walters’ daytime show The View. “She’s gay,” remarked Walters, who’d phoned O’Donnell for her blessing to share the news, on February 14. (Walters’ disclosure would trigger a scuffle with her ABC rival Sawyer, whose interview with O’Donnell wouldn’t air for another month. “[Barbara] was not trying to upstage Diane,” Walters’ rep insisted.) And on February 25, O’Donnell came out publicly during a stand-up set at Caroline’s comedy club in New York, telling a packed room, “I’m a dyke,” before poking fun at Walters’ interview with Ellen DeGeneres’ ex-girlfriend, Anne Heche. “What the hell kind of train wreck was that?” O’Donnell joked. “She couldn’t just say, ‘I was a lesbian for two years, it didn’t work out for me.’ … I don’t know why people make such a big deal about the gay thing.”
But in the Sawyer special, which aired on March 14 and was promoted by ABC with teasing magazine ads (“Why is Rosie, at last, ready to talk?”), O’Donnell was more candid, opening up about her sexuality for the first time. “I remember driving my car when I got my permit and I was alone,” she recounted of coming to terms with her identity, “and I was like, ‘I totally think I’m gay.’ I said it out loud in the car.” O’Donnell also struck back at the critics who’d accused her of trying to hide her sexuality. “I have lived my life very openly and very truthfully,” she argued. “When I was with a man everyone knew who my partner was, and when I was with a woman everyone knew who my partner was. There was never any secret or any hiding.”
“Part of the reason why I’ve never said that I was gay until now was because I didn’t want that adjective assigned to my name for all of eternity,” she added. “Gay Rosie O’Donnell.”
The special also touched on the story of Steven Lofton and Roger Croteau, gay foster parents in Florida whose battle to overturn a law in the state banning gays from adopting children had caught O’Donnell’s attention. After reading about Lofton and Croteau’s story, O’Donnell, who’s a partial resident of Florida and a parent of adopted children, contacted the American Civil Liberties Union to pledge her support. “I said I would like to read their case study,” she said, “and if it is what I believe it is, I would like to do a national interview in support of them and identify myself as a gay parent. They were in shock. The ACLU said, ‘Are you kidding?’ I said I’m not kidding.” (In 2010, a Florida Court of Appeals ruled the law unconstitutional.)
Five years after Ellen DeGeneres’ career-damaging coming out, O’Donnell’s own revelation would be met by a more welcoming public. In a People magazine online poll conducted after the interview, only fifteen percent of respondents said O’Donnell’s sexuality would negatively impact their view of her. Ratings for O’Donnell’s daytime show, scheduled to end its six-year run that May, similarly continued unabated. “There are many, many housewives out there who watch the show and who love me,” O’Donnell told Sawyer of her audience, which averaged 2.5 million viewers. “And people have said to me, ‘You don’t want to do this case, because what if they stop watching.’ I said I have more faith in them than that.”
Twenty years ago today, celebrity publicist Lizzie Grubman mowed down a pack of Hamptons clubgoers with her Mercedes-Benz. In honor, I’ve scanned New York Magazine’s 2001 cover story of the onetime Power Girl’s fall from grace.
military, shot, married, beaten, no one cares, bipolar, knocked up, depression, girl gone wild, no one fucking likes you, lesbian, gay, whore, nerd, dead, who the fuck are those two.
I made a few tweets about this, but I figured I’d share some of my thoughts on here regarding the recent Kanye-Trump-Kardashian news cycle.
First things first: don’t make the same mistake.
At the onset of 2015, the Trump brand was tanking. TV ratings slipping. Irrelevance nearing. What happened next? We all know. And in spite of whatever reasons you think Donald Trump - a man who’d spent the past decade on a reality show, trading barbs with his celebrity counterparts in the press, and licensing his name to dozens of projects - ran for the highest office in the country, it’s clear that fame and revitalizing a sinking brand was the main goal. Remember his plans for Trump TV? If you don’t, here’s a refresher.
In the summer of 2016, amidst the presidential race, reports claimed Trump was interested in launching a “mini-media conglomerate” of his own, Trump Productions LLC. He enlisted the help of daughter Ivanka and son-in-law Jared Kushner. The sources in these reports alleged that the response to Trump’s bid for the presidency brought him “to the conclusion that he has the business acumen and the ratings for his own network… So now he wants to figure out if he can monetize it.” Later that year, The New York Times reported Kushner had reached out to a media investment banker to help set up the Trump television channel. (Two years prior, before Trump even announced his run, Kushner had been in talks to purchase American Media Inc. - owner of the National Enquirer, Star, OK!, Globe, RadarOnline, and now Us Weekly.)
Then Trump won, and a campaign designed to achieve maximum fame and brand value for all involved suddenly turned into the very real task of actually running the country.
Nonetheless, the Trumps maintained their media contacts, particularly Harvey Levin of TMZ, whom Donald, Melania, and Trump’s lawyer Michael Cohen had regularly communicated with throughout the presidential race. In return, TMZ ran favorable coverage of Trump.
The Trumps are not political, hence why I’ve often talked about them on this blog. They’re celebrities. They have been from the beginning. Before they were a reality TV family, they were already tabloid fodder. (Trump’s own doing, as he spent years planting stories about himself in gossip columns instead of, y'know, learning how to actually run a successful business without depending on an inheritance or a shitload of loans.) The Trumps are the Kardashians, the Kardashians are the Hiltons, and so on. Self-serving, morally bankrupt reality TV families. They’re all the same. They’re cut from the same cloth. They’re part of the same social circle. They have the same business connections. They’re famous for the same exact reasons, just being themselves. (“But Kim is famous because of a sex tape! Donald is a businessman!” one might cry. Trump was a self-promoter, not a businessman, and his continued fame in the ‘90s rested almost entirely on his sexual exploits - divorce, affair, and another divorce.) The man who helped engineer the release of Kim’s sex tape, Girls Gone Wild creator Joe Francis - who’s been accused of sexual assault, rape, and filming underage girls, amongst many other things Kim has publicly defended - is also a good friend of the Hiltons and the Trumps, dated Paris, and is so close with Donald that he tried to get Francis on The Celebrity Apprentice in 2008. That’s only one small example of the web linking all of these people together.
Right now, the Kardashians are in the position the Trumps were in three years ago. Ratings slipping. Growing irrelevance. Failing brand. Like the Trumps, they’re famous for being famous. Like the Trumps, they stick their name on anything and everything - much of it failing. Like the Trumps, people like to justify their fame by referring to them - particularly Kim and Kris - as “businesspeople,” even though their business skill is just as limited as Trump’s, and Kim’s fame, in my honest opinion, relies more on the circle of men around her, Kris’ friends, who helped present her hyper-sexualized public image as far back as 2007: Francis, Levin (who frequently covered Kardashian on TMZ when she received little press elsewhere, dubbing her “The Tush”), and Ryan Seacrest - who you could even argue is their Mark Burnett.
People also defend the Kardashians in the current climate by saying they endorsed Hillary Clinton. Well, the Trumps once did, too. And I’m sure if the money and publicity were good enough, they would’ve easily swung the other way, since they’re not focused on morality, they’re focused on money and fame - as cheesy as that might sound. Self-interest spans political lines. And let’s consider this: if the Kardashians were given the same opportunity as the Trumps, the same chance, would they really turn it down? Be honest.
I say all of this because people do like to consider the Kardashians harmless, forgetting that you could’ve easily made that same, terribly misguided statement about the Trumps roughly three years ago. It’s believed that because they’re not in the White House, at least not yet, they’re somehow not that bad, although they’re a major player in the same game that allowed the Trumps to thrive, and are likely inching toward that same position of power. A longtime celebrity biographer, one of the few I trust, wrote a year ago that Kris was considering running for a congressional position once Keeping Up With The Kardashians came to a close. If Trump could do it, she supposedly told friends, then what was stopping her? And one of Trump’s biggest allies in the media, the same man he personally invited to Trump Tower after the election for a television interview, and invited to the White House to discuss, as Hope Hicks described it, “future opportunities,” just last year, is also Kris’ biggest ally: Harvey Levin. A man she befriended long before TMZ existed, back when her claim to fame was being the friend of Nicole Brown Simpson, is the one who’s helped propel the Kardashians to fame by relentlessly covering them on a website that receives hundreds of millions of hits - often airing “Exclusives” and inside stories fed directly by the Kardashians, the most recent being an exhaustively covered, and highly orchestrated, cheating “scandal” involving Khloe. Once Harvey ends a call with Kris, he starts one with Donald. It’s a cycle.
Levin, according to people I’ve spoken to inside TMZ, is obsessed with politics. He tried to start a D.C. base for TMZ in 2007 and failed, but he’s finally infiltrated Washington by pushing the tabloid celebrity to Washington. Now if you scroll through the website, there are paparazzi videos shot by TMZ camera crews lurking Capitol Hill as much as there is footage of celebrities palling around outside a Hollywood restaurant. He successfully steered Trump into the political arena, so now he’s steering the Kardashians. He’s also tried to steer another reality star, Hulk Hogan, into politics - pushing the idea during an interview for his Fox News show Objectified, and even interviewing onetime Trump aide Roger Stone, who praised Hogan’s political potential. By destroying the line between celebrity news and actual news, Levin would be able to make TMZ more than a gossip site, he would make it one of the most powerful and influential media outlets out there - especially considering he would have an ’in’ with the celebrities-turned-politicians now deciding the fate of the country. I truly believe this is his endgame. Just today, Harvey personally sat down with Kanye West, on the heels of his pro-Trump tweets, and reported that he was “laser-focused” and far from being “erratic” or in the midst of a meltdown. Kanye emphasized his desire to run for the presidency in the future.
So moral of the story? Don’t make the same mistake again. Ignore the Kardashians. Kanye. Hulk. Leave them behind. Don’t extend their shelf life. Keep D-Listers on the D-List, not D.C. And on that note, ignore TMZ. Drain its power so it cannot empower anyone else. Do we really need another person that partied with Paris Hilton running the country?
And I know it might seem a ridiculous stance coming from me, someone who runs a blog dedicated to celebrity gossip - although its readership is practically nonexistent - but being interested in celebrities and pop culture does not mean you have to support or endorse everybody in it. (People who’ve followed me long enough know I certainly don’t.) Plus, self-awareness doesn’t hurt.
Anyway, sorry for the long post, I didn’t have the energy to format it into one of the detailed posts I usually make. I just wanted to write my thoughts down. Have a good day, guys!
when you’re a gay lion and you accidentally tried to introduce your lesbian lioness friend to one of her own exes at a gay bar and she goes into the bathroom and bitches you out for not being able to tell her endlessly rotating cast of girlfriends apart which isn’t really fair because first of all they all keep dyeing their hair different colors and second of all she keeps getting back together with different ones at different times and meanwhile you’ve been “single” for like 8 months but are spending a lot of time with one specific guy who works at your old co-op and were going to excitedly tell her about it tonight but now you’ve ruined the whole subject of dating by trying to introduce her to her own ex at a gay bar (which is a watering hole. because you’re lions.)
