Question: Isn’t it odd to have Stern even in the running? There’s something to be said for “Idol” judges and their ability to detect real singing ability. What does Stern know about talent? The only people he’s made into stars are midgets and strippers. If he came aboard, would “Idol” change its name to “Topless Women Singing”?
Three weeks later, Lynde brought Zoe, 12, to the vet when she who was unable to stand because of an unknown trauma. She had to be euthanized.
In late November, Strate returned a badly injured cat name Willie to its original owner. Two days later, Lynde brought 3-month-old Betty to a different Upper West Side vet dead, saying she had fallen off a kitchen counter.
Emo, a 2-month-old male, suffered a mysterious broken paw in on Dec. 21 and subsequently vanished. Bonafide, also a 2-month-old male, somehow broke two vertebrae in his neck, slipped into a coma and died.
Lynde pleaded guilty to killing Bonafide, and to a charge of criminal contempt for violating a court order to stay away from Strate. He’d posted a picture of her on Craigslist along with an ad soliciting sex.
Rumors of resignation and scandal are just that — rumors,” said Paterson spokeswoman Marissa Shorenstein. “The governor has not engaged in any inappropriate or illegal behavior and suggestions to the contrary are entirely false and deeply irresponsible. This is a new low, even by the standards of Planet Albany. Gov. Paterson is the governor today, he will be the governor tomorrow and he will win reelection this fall.”
A spokesman for the Times declined to comment.
But the suggestion that another New York Democrat would be forced from office by personal scandal has strategists worried.
“It’d be very tough to have to go through this again,” said Rodney Capel, a New York-based Democratic strategist. “You don’t want to have another situation where it looks like the governor was unable to complete their term because of some issues of infidelity and what have you.”
Gov. Eliot Spitzer (D) resigned from office in disgrace in March 2008 in the wake of a Times report linking him with a prostitution ring. Paterson, who was the lieutenant governor at the time, took over for Spitzer.
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Jackie Collins Grilled on Beatty, Brando … and Pattinson
The Hollywood novelist’s latest roman à clef, “Poor Little Bitch Girl,” comes out Tuesday
Jackie Collins has been the queen of the Hollywood roman à clef for 40 years. Her latest, “Poor Little Bitch Girl,” out Tuesday, gives us more of the juicy same: the jet set, celebrity call girls, corrupt senators and the movie-star murder that ties them all together.
Collins talks to TheWrap about her new book, sleeping with Marlon Brando as a teen, getting thrown out of boarding school and saying no to Warren Beatty.
Are the people in your books based on real people? They are a mixture of people I’ve met over my life. I’ve had an extremely interesting life because my husband used to own, when he was alive, discotheques. So we had a Tramp in L.A. and a Tramp in London and everybody passed through our doors from sports stars to movie stars to boxers to athletes. I mean it was amazing the things that I’ve seen over the years. So I take these characters, a little bit of this one and that one, and mix it all up.
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Former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, who launched Mr. Kerik’s career by naming him police commissioner and recommended him as the Bush administration’s nominee to lead the Department of Homeland Security, did not submit a letter on his behalf.
The defense memo described a strikingly different man from the unscrupulous figure outlined by prosecutors. Mr. Kerik’s lawyers praised his “extraordinary public service,” and said his legal troubles had left him “tormented by daily guilt and remorse” and “plagued by enormous debt and mounting legal fees.”
Hector J. Santiago, a retired police detective who worked with Mr. Kerik in the late 1980s, wrote that Mr. Kerik had taught him “discipline, honor and integrity,” and was “one of the toughest guys on the team, yet he always treated people with compassion and respect.”
While the defense memo focused on Mr. Kerik’s dramatic biography — he has written that his mother was a prostitute who abandoned him — the prosecutors’ memo reviews in detail Mr. Kerik’s crimes.
New York Gov’s security detail transferred amid drugs, sex rumors
Governor David Paterson’s spokespeople are denying any possible-career ending scandal that will push him out of office as a result of a bombshell story The New York Times is said to have on him. Unconfirmed rumors relating to sex, drugs, and women appear to be the most brought up topics surrounding the story.
However, Mr. Paterson seems intent on running for office, as reports say he plans to announce his campaign for governor next week. Serving as Eliot Spitzer’s Lieutenant Governor, Mr. Paterson came to New York’s Governor’s mansion after Mr. Spitzer resigned in disgrace amid a sex scandal involving a prostitute.
“I think its going to have to be something really bad for him to resign. He admitted to past drug use. I don’t think anybody would be surprised or necessarily all that shocked if he and his wife had an understanding. It would have to be something beyond the pale for him to resign,” a long time Albany insider with GOP ties said to The Washington Times Water Cooler.
In his first full day as Governor, Paterson publicly admitted that he had had several affairs with women, including a state employee, during a rocky period of his marriage from 1999 until the early part of his tenure as Senate minority leader in 2002.
Could the State Police be the Deep Throat in this latest speculation about whatever dirt the New York Times is supposedly getting ready to spread around on Paterson?
“People have a right to their private lives. We didn’t do anything wrong,” Paterson said. “Elected officials are really just reflections of the people that we represent,” he added.
Paterson, 54, became Governor in March 2008 after disgraced former Gov. Eliot Spitzer resigned when his involvement in an international prostitution ring was revealed along with his past history of patronizing prostitutes.
Who’s smiling in all of this? No doubt it’s Andrew Cuomo, the state attorney general, who is widely expected — no, wait: Rumored! — to be the Democratic nominee for governor. He’d either clobber Paterson in the September primary or his huge financial advantage would chase Paterson out of the race. Either way, he’s the next governor. I don’t know anyone, including me, who expects the nominee to be Paterson.
Cuomo has been devilishly quiet about his plans. Just doing the job I was elected to do, he would say. Not thinking about politics, he would add.
Bullfeathers.
But there’s no reason for Cuomo to tip his hand. Paterson — who became governor in March 2008 when incumbent Eliot Spitzer (D) was forced to resign following his involvement in a prostitution scandal — has been treading water, barely, for more than a year. Even the White House has made it clear that President Obama wants him to step aside, under the assumption that he couldn’t win the election in November.
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He said it has distracted him from the state’s fiscal crisis and tense budget negotiations with legislators, and from defending his veto of what he considers the Legislature’s weak ethics reforms.
He said he is unsure who pushed the rumors and wouldn’t speculate, saying “that would be just as unfair … but it is certainly serving others’ interest and not mine, and I think it’s a callous and sleazy way to treat a governor who is just trying to do his job and, in a democracy, is trying to keep his job.”
Paterson ascended to the job in 2008 when Eliot Spitzer resigned amid a prostitution scandal. When he became governor, Paterson admitted he had been unfaithful to his wife in an attempt to head off questions about his personal life.