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At about this time last year, Paris Hilton gal-pal, Kim Kardashian, grabbed media attention for her entanglement in a shocking sex tape scandal. This occurred after the unexpected leak of her sexcapades tape with her ex beau, Ray J, who reportedly became the new boy toy of Whitney Houston. As you may know, Kim is the daughter of famed attorney Robert Kardashian, and the step-daughter of Bruce Jenner.

According to TMX.com, the raunchy tape featuring Kardashian and Ray J has the two engaged in various sex acts, reportedly including a "golden shower."

TMZ.com confirmed at the time that the tape does exist. The tape also has somehow made its way to Internet porn firm SugarDVD.com.

SugarDVD.com execs reportedly offered Kardashian a $2 million deal for the exclusive rights to the tape.

Kardashian insisted, however, she wanted nothing to do with the sale of the sex tape. Kim also insisted that Ray J would not want to cut a deal either.

"There is no tape being shopped. Ray J and I remain friends, and there is nothing he would do to spite me," Kim told TMZ.com at that time.

Kardashian remained skeptical about news the sex tape has been leaked.

"I would love to see what they've seen," Kim says.

Well, now you, Kim and Ray J can see the tape, Kim Kardashian Superstar. Click the link or the photo below.

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At most events thrown by designer Donatella Versace, plunging necklines and thigh-flashing gowns grab the spotlight.

Not so at the glittering reopening of Versace's flagship boutique on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue on Feb. 7, where all eyes were on a 6'2" blond with broad shoulders, a chiseled jawline and-oh yes-Halle Berry on his arm.

While celebs such as Jennifer Lopez, Kate Hudson and Nicolas Cage worked the room, Berry, 39, and her new boyfriend, Canadian model Gabriel Aubry, 30, let go of each other's hands only once (to flank their hostess on a couch) during the party.

"Oh my God, it's like you can read it on their faces," says a pal of Aubry.

"They are so smitten."

And smitten they have been since they met shooting a Versace ad in L.A. in November.

A month earlier, Berry was still seeing ex-beau Michael Ealy, her costar in the TV movie "Their Eyes Were Watching God." But at the shoot, says Aubry's friend, they noticed each other "in a big way."

By Christmas, when Aubry flew to Montreal to spend the holiday with his father, Gérard, 62, and his eight brothers and sisters, he spoke of Berry "with brilliance in his voice," says Gérard.

Showing that kind of emotion is unusual for Gabriel, who overcame a tough childhood-he lived with five foster families between the ages of 3 and 18 until moving in with his dad-before rising to the top of the modeling world.

"He's a very quiet person, with good values," says Nadia Canova, whose Montreal-based Montage Models Inc. discovered Aubry in 1997 at a Quebec ski resort.

Last month, Aubry, a Manhattan resident, squeezed in time during fashion week in Milan, says his friend, to "buy a few bottles of red he knew Halle would enjoy."

Meanwhile Berry, who is in the city filming the thriller Perfect Stranger with Bruce Willis, skipped out of a Feb. 10 dinner party in NoHo because Aubry had an early shoot the next day.

When asked about the romance, Berry playfully zipped her lips.

But Aubry is clear about his feelings, says his dad:

"He told me he was in love."

January 4, 2006--When TidewaterAlive learned Donatella Versace had picked Halle Berry to star in the next Versace campaign, we should have expected Berry to look this hot!

Photographed by Mario Testino in LA for the spring/summer 2006 ads, the Oscar winning actress follows Madonna and Demi Moore in becoming the face of the label – and Donatella's new best friend.

"I have always chosen inspirational women to represent Versace," says the Italian designer.

"Halle represents everything that is great about this collection – someone who loves colour, has a real sensuality, who is strong yet feminine and who is a real woman who has lived.

"For me she is easier to relate to and more relevant than a model and of course she looks simply beautiful in the clothes. Furthermore I have known Halle for many years and have always admired her determination and her professionalism."

"Our campaign was photographed during the shooting of X Men 3 and as she only had one day off in which to complete it, she worked tirelessly from 5am to 1am the following morning – 20 hours straight – without batting an eyelid."

The combination of elegance and masculinity has become the trademark of Gabriel Aubry in the world of fashion. As one of the top male models in the business, this proud Canadian radiates his glamour and elegance in many of his works. Perhaps, this quality is the essence that captivates his fans worldwide, and drives designers repeatedly to seek his image in representing their products, Hugo Boss, Tommy Hilfiger and many more.

Gabriel Aubrey is a native of Montreal Canada, where he was born and raised. Gabriel was discovered when he was approached by a stylist. His following exposure on local fashion news spreads lead to his early assignments with Calvin Klein, Versace, Exte and a few others, but Gabriel didn't achieved his supermodel status untill the arrival of the new millenium, when he was exclusively featured in Hugo Boss ad campaigns.

This beautiful adonis now belongs to the group of elite models in the industry. Currently residing in New York constantly under the attention of fashion media, Gabriel is still a little reserved and timid around paparazzi, maybe because he is from Canada and is still influenced by the relatively conservative Canadian tradition.

This young man is very far away from the sexy image and "glamour", of which his principal employer Hugo Boss portrays him in publicities.

"I was always a super-shy person. I do not like to be made and followed by the cameras." says Gabriel.

Contrary to most women, men do not dream of being mannequins, they often become it by accident.

Gabriel is described as the prototype of androgynous or boyish model that seems to prevail at the moment in the fashion. The sharpened nose, the blue eyes and the square chin are his own characteristics in addition to his challenging and seductive glance.

He is on the runways in fashion capital cities in the world. He also projects a portrait of the perfect gentleman during his photoshoots. His work for Hugo Boss is one of his most important stints as a model.
On the runways, Gabriel is one of the favorites of Versace, Cerruti and Ralph Lauren, and among others.

OSCAR-winning actress Angelina Jolie is pregnant with a child fathered by actor Brad Pitt, his spokeswoman said this morming.

Publicist Cindy Guagenti also confirmed reports Pitt has filed papers to become the legal adoptive father of Jolie's two adopted children, son Maddox, four, and daughter Zahara, who is about 11 months old.

Guagenti acknowledged Jolie's pregnancy but declined to give further details, including when the baby was due, or to say whether the couple had plans to marry. Representatives for Jolie were not available for comment.

News of Jolie's pregnancy was first reported today by People magazine, which quoted the actress as telling a charity worker in the Dominican Republic, where she is working on a movie, "Yes, I'm pregnant".

The magazine said the 30-year-old actress is expecting her baby this northern summer. Pitt, 42, and Jolie met in 2004 while working together on the film Mr and Mrs Smith, in which they played married assassins ordered to kill each other. The movie ends with the two still alive and happily married.

Rumours of an affair heated up after Pitt and his ex-wife, former Friends star Jennifer Aniston, split up in January 2005. Tabloid reports speculated at the time that Pitt wanted children but that Aniston was not ready for motherhood.

Pitt's divorce became final in October, but he and Jolie have until now publicly denied being anything more than friends, despite recently published photos showing the two spending private time together with her two children.

Pitt also has recently joined Jolie, a goodwill ambassador for the UN refugee agency, in efforts to promote various humanitarian causes, including greater assistance to fight poverty in Africa. The actor accompanied Jolie to Ethiopia in July when she visited that country to finalise the adoption of her infant daughter. And he travelled with her to Pakistan last month to visit a remote area stricken by an earthquake.

Jolie, who won an Academy Award as best supporting actress for playing a psychiatric patient in Girl, Interrupted, was divorced from actor Billy Bob Thornton in 2003.

Before that she was married to actor Jonny Lee Miller, whom she divorced in 1999. A spokesman for Aniston said the actress would have no comment. "Jennifer is not in the practice of commenting on the lives of other people," he said.

Asked about news of his daughter's pregnancy, Jolie's estranged father, Oscar-winning actor Jon Voight, told the syndicated TV show Access Hollywood: "Angie is my daughter, and I am always wishing the best for her".

Angelina is currently in her second trimester. Judging the bump on Jolie, early summer may be a good guess for the blessed arrival.

VIENNA, Austria -- The execution of Stanley Tookie Williams on Tuesday outraged many in Europe who regard the practice as barbaric. So outraged are some politicians in Austria, the native home of California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Austrian policy makers have called for their homeboy's name to be removed from a sports stadium in his hometown.

At the Vatican, Pope Benedict XVI's top official for justice matters denounced the death penalty for going against redemption and human dignity.

'We know the death penalty doesn't resolve anything,' Cardinal Renato Martino told AP Television News. 'Even a criminal is worthy of respect because he is a human being. The death penalty is a negation of human dignity.'

Capital punishment is illegal throughout the European Union, and many Europeans consider state-sponsored executions to be barbaric. Those feelings were amplified in the case of Williams, due to the apparent remorse they believe the Crips gang co-founder showed by writing children's books about the dangers of gangs and violence.

Leaders of Austria's pacifist Green Party went as far as to call for Schwarzenegger to be stripped of his Austrian citizenship — a demand that was quickly rejected by Chancellor Wolfgang Schuessel despite his government's opposition to the death penalty.

'Whoever, out of political calculation, allows the death of a person rehabilitated in such an exemplary manner has rejected the basic values of Austrian society,' said Peter Pilz, a Greens leader.

In Schwarzenegger's hometown of Graz, local Greens said they would file a petition to remove his name from the southern city's sports stadium. A Christian political group went even further, suggesting it be renamed the 'Stanley Tookie Williams Stadium.'

'Mr. Williams had converted, and unlike Mr. Schwarzenegger, opposed every form of violence,' said Richard Schadauer, the chairman of the Association of Christianity and Social Democracy.

Williams was executed early Tuesday at California's San Quentin State Prison after Schwarzenegger denied Williams' request for clemency. Schwarzenegger suggested that Williams' supposed change of heart was not genuine because he had not shown any real remorse for the killings committed by the Crips.

Criticism came quickly from many quarters, including the Socialist Party in France, where the death penalty was abolished in 1981.

'I am proud to be a Frenchman,' party spokesman Julien Dray told RTL radio. 'I am proud to live in France, in a country where we don't execute somebody 21 years later.'

'Schwarzenegger has a lot of muscles, but apparently not much heart,' Dray said.

In Italy, the country's chapter of Amnesty International called the execution 'a cold-blooded murder.'

'His execution is a slap in the face to the principle of rehabilitation of inmates, an inhumane and inclement act toward a person who, with his exemplary behavior and his activity in favor of street kids, had become an important figure and a symbol of hope for many youths,' the group said.

In Germany, Volker Beck, a leading member of the opposition Greens party, expressed disappointment. 'Schwarzenegger's decision is a cowardly decision,' Beck told the Netzeitung online newspaper.

From London, Clive Stafford-Smith, a human rights attorney specializing in death penalty cases, called the execution 'very sad.'

'He was twice as old as when they sentenced him to die, and he certainly wasn't the same person that he was when he was sentenced,' Stafford-Smith said.

Rome Mayor Walter Veltroni said the city would keep Williams in its memory the next time it celebrates a victory against the death penalty somewhere in the world.

Rome's Colosseum, once the arena for deadly gladiator combat and executions, has become a symbol of Italy's anti-death penalty stance. Since 1999, the monument has been bathed in golden light every time a death sentence is commuted somewhere in the world or a country abolishes capital punishment.

'I hope there will be such an occasion soon,' Veltroni said in a statement. 'When it happens, we will do it with a special thought for Tookie.'

Fans are grieving now, but the Mike Epps the actor who will play Richard Pryor in an upcoming biopic, was aggrieved for Pryor while Pryor was still alive.

As broadcast on the Oprah Winfrey Show this week, both Terry McMillan and Jonathan Plummer agree that the love they shared during their marriage was real. "I think that Jonathan did love me," Terry says. "After all of this started happening, I kept replaying the movie [Stella] trying to figure out…you can't fake this stuff."

"I want people to know that I did love her," Jonathan says. "And I still do…not to the extent that, you know, she wanted me to."

Despite their differences, both Terry and Jonathan say they've found closure after recently spending some quality time together. But neither Terry nor Jonathan plan to become romantically involved ever again. "It's not like we're rekindling what we lost," says Jonathan. "It's never going to happen again."

"I've already accepted you for who you are," Terry tells Jonathan. "But we're not gonna be kickin' it."

The marriage crumbled last year when Plummer told McMillan he might be gay, and she said she wanted to bash his face in with a halogen lamp. The breakup was phenomenally bitter, with Plummer claiming McMillan harassed him with gay slurs and McMillan saying he married her for a green card and money. At the time, Plummer denied ever acting on his impulses. But Plummer's most recent confessions to Oprah Winfrey differs from his previous ones. 

"I had to act on my curiosity," he admitted on the show as Terry rolled her eyes. "I had to see whether or not I was gay or straight or confused."

And under other questioning by Oprah, he confessed also to having affairs even before the split.

Jonathan maintains that he wasn't intentionally lying about his sexuality when he was married to Terry, but agrees that he was repressing something. "I identified as heterosexual when I was 20," he says. "I may have thought about [being gay], but I didn't act on it. It was not the right thing to do at the time."

He says that in the final two years of his marriage to Terry, he began to have conflicting feelings about his orientation. "Sometimes [Terry] would, you know, bring it to my attention that guys were looking at me, especially gay guys…and women, too. But she would emphasize those guys are looking at me."

"And," Jonathan says, "I liked it."

Being honest about one's sexual orientation is important, Oprah tells Jonathan. "There are a lot of young boys and girls who are watching you right now who need the truth. And every time somebody tells the truth you free other people to also be truthful. There's no reason at this point to pretend anything. For every other gay guy out there who's repressing his feelings, at least honor who you are now."

"I didn't do anything to jeopardize my health nor Terry's health," he said, apparently referring to McMillan's rants that she could have been exposed to the AIDS virus.

McMillan conceded that when she married Plummer after a three-year courtship, she didn't expect it to last because of the 24-year age difference.

"He was like having a new puppy," she said. "You treat them good and you give them unconditional love, and they will lick you and love you back."

What do Terry and Jonathan think their relationship has taught them?

"It taught me to try and be a better person," Jonathan says. "To be truthful despite how it may hurt the other person."

"I still believe in the love that I felt from Jonathan all those years—I'm going to hold on to that. Nobody can snatch that away from us."

So the couple seems to have patched things up a bit. Plummer recently stayed the night at McMillan's, and while they didn't get romantic, they did take a bath together.

"I was on my side and she was on her side," Plummer said.

"It was sort of like closure," McMillan added.

McMillan, 54, the author of "How Stella Got Her Groove Back," finalized her divorce last month from Plummer, a Jamaican-born boy toy she picked up at a resort.

After a judge ruled that Plummer couldn't challenge the prenuptial agreement he signed in 1998, he got only $50,000 in the divorce settlement.

Hollywood star Johnny Depp has joked that he doesn't want to become  typecast as an eccentric, and therefore, wants to star in a porn film to save his career from bombing.

Depp, who has played a string of eccentric roles, including his latest role in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, fears that he will become typecast, and only be able to play the weird parts.
 
"These kind of characters are not so far from my own personality, but I don't want to become typecast as an eccentric. Maybe next time I should do something totally different and film a cracking porn with Tim (Burton). That would really send my popularity down to the depths," femalefirst  quoted Depp as saying to German magazine Gala.

Snuppy, the cloned puppy grown from a single cell taken from the ear of a 3-year-old male Afghan, marks a milestone in the race to reproduce genetically identical beings for research or, as with this reproduction, for companion animals.

So, researchers at the Seoul National University in South Korea have created the world's first cloned dog: a playful black, tan, and white Afghan hound, which they named Snuppy.

The achievement required a staggering amount of work. Multiple surgeries on more than 100 anesthetized dogs and the creation of more than 1,000 laboratory-grown embryos led to the birth of just two cloned puppies -- one of which died after three weeks.

But the feat suggests that a market in cloned dogs, through which people grieving the loss of their favorite pets could order genetic duplicates, may not be as futuristic as some had thought. By leapfrogging a seven-year-old, multimillion-dollar US effort, the success has clinched South Korea's quickly growing reputation as a premier center for cloning and stem cell research.

The researchers said canine cloning will allow them to test stem-cell therapies under development for people and, perhaps, cure some dog diseases.

''Wouldn't it be great if the first beneficiaries of stem cell medicine were our best friends?" asked Gerald Schatten, a reproductive scientist at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine who served as a consultant for the Korean team.

Snuppy's birth announcement, published in the journal Nature, was greeted with scorn by some animal care activists, who decried the work as inhumane and wasteful given the glut of unwanted dogs.

''The cruelty and the body count outweighs any benefit that can be gained from this," said Mary Beth Sweetland, a vice president at People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals in Norfolk, Va. Others expressed concern that publication of the team's advanced techniques may help rogue scientists create the first human clone. But the researchers and others defended the achievement as an important step toward boosting the usefulness of dogs as biomedical research tools.

Dogs are extremely diverse, and many of the more than 400 breeds are predisposed to particular diseases. Scientists hope clones with propensities for specific illnesses will help them decipher the molecular underpinnings of those syndromes and develop treatments for the human diseases those dog ailments mimic.

''Dogs are really good models for biomedical research," said Mark Westhusin, a researcher at Texas A&M University who a few years ago abandoned a costly effort to be the first to clone a canine. Scientists have cloned mice, cows, sheep, goats, rabbits, cats, and a few other mammals since Dolly the sheep -- the first cloned mammal -- was born in 1996. But dog cloning has proven a formidable challenge, largely because of the dog's quirky reproductive physiology, Westhusin said.

In the new study, a team led by Woo Suk Hwang of Seoul National University fused cells from an adult hound's ear to eggs obtained from fertile female dogs. Within hours after a blood test confirmed that ripe eggs had been released from a dog's ovaries, Korean veterinarians anesthetized the dog, surgically exposed her reproductive tract, and flushed the barely visible eggs into laboratory dishes.

Of about 1,400 embryos created by fusing those eggs to skin cells with an electrical shock, 1,095 were deemed healthy enough to be transferred to the reproductive tracts of surrogate mother dogs -- each of which also had to be in heat, to support the growth of those embryos into fetuses. That required more surgeries, with five to 12 embryos transferred to each of 123 surrogates.

Follow-up sonograms indicated that three of the 123 surrogate mothers were pregnant. One miscarried, and the other two gave birth. One newborn died from pneumonia after 22 days. The survivor is Snuppy, for ''Seoul National University puppy."

The Science of Snuupy

A team led by Hwang Woo Suk and Lee Byeong Chun of Seoul National University announced that it had achieved the dog cloning, representing another milestone for the team of South Korean stem cell experts.

Professor Hwang Woo-suk and his team collected oocytes (eggs) matured inside dog bodies about 72 hours after ovulation.

Somatic cells were obtained from an ear-skin biopsy of a three-year-old male Afghan Hound, named Tai.

An average of 12 eggs from each female were collected and a total of 1,095 reconstructed canine embryos were transferred into 123 recipients.

Three pregnancies were successfully established in surrogate dogs using somatic cell nuclear transfer techniques defined by Hwang’s team.

One fetus miscarried and two others were carried to term. The first cloned dog was delivered after 60 days by a surrogate yellow Labrador female on April 24.

The second cloned pup was carried by a mixed-breed surrogate and was also delivered at 60 days on May 29. The pup suffered from respiratory problems during the first week and seemed to recover, but died on day 22 as a result of pneumonia.

DNA analysis of the puppies revealed them to be genetically identical to the donor dog, the Afghan Hound Tai.

This cloning technique is inefficient. It took nearly 2,000 eggs to make some 1,000 embryos -- all of which produced just one healthy puppy.

Nicole Murphy, wife of Actor Eddie Murphy for 12 years, filed for divorce from the star on Friday and sought joint custody of their five children, court papers showed.

Murphy, 44, issued a statement saying, "The welfare of our children is our main concern, and their best interests are our first priority."

The Saturday Night Live alumnus and star of such films as Beverly Hills Cop and remakes of Dr. Dolittle and The Nutty Professor has five children with the former Nicole Mitchell, a model, whom he married in March 1993.

Murphy also has a son from a previous relationship.
Nicole Murphy cited "irreconcilable differences" in seeking a divorce and asked for joint custody of the children, who range in age from 3 to 15. She also sought spousal support.