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Folks, we often think of celebrities as being above the law, and rightly so. For instance, I kill hobos with my bare hands. Nobody touches me because I'm a television personality. I like to think of it as cleansing rain washing the scum off the street. Well, unfortunately, law enforcement officials have not been looking the other way when it comes to certain celebrities.
Starting in Chicago, where singer R. Kelly, best known for his work on various NBA highlight reels, was arrested yesterday on 21 counts of child pornography, stemming from a videotape that allegedly shows him having sex with a 14-year-old girl. Kelly's lawyer insists the girl on the tape was at least 18 years old at the time, at least according to the Aztec sacrificial moon calendar.
The singer has already settled out of court two other sexual misconduct with minors accusations, and one is pending. But R. Kelly insists that none of these allegations are true, because that works more often than not. I'm insisting upon it.
The incriminating tape has been widely circulated on urban street corners and on the internet for months, and has already joined the notorious ranks of the Rob Lowe tape, the Pamela and Tommy Lee tape, That's not the picture I would have taken from that tape, but fair enough. And of course, most infamous of all, the Charles Durning, Dame Maggie Smith steam room sessions.
You really have to see those. In Los Angeles, yet another celebrity is mired in a criminal case, Winona Ryder, who was in court Monday for a preliminary hearing for her shoplifting and drug possession arrest. Prosecutors allege Ryder stole nearly $5,000 worth of merchandise from the Beverly Hills, Saks Fifth Avenue, and they have the surveillance tape to prove it.
Whether or not the cameras actually captured Ryder's shoplifting is arguable, but all parties agree what's on those tapes is way better than autumn in New York. I didn't realize that's the picture from the cover of that thing. Even gear's ashamed. Why not Pretty Woman 5?
The hearing was actually delayed when during her arrival to court, the crush of media caused an overzealous cameraman to ram into Ryder and injure her arm. Ryder's elbow was fractured in the incident, while the cameraman remains in stable but scummy condition.
Ryder's ex-boyfriends, Johnny Depp, Christian Slater, Daniel Day-Lewis, Dave Perner, David Duchovny, Matt Damon, Chris Noth, Beck, Evan Dando, Jamiroquai, Paul Westerberg, Jimmy Fallon, Jack White, Pete Yorn, Ryan Adams, and every member of Wilco could not be reached for comment. If you're still overpaying for wireless, it's time to say yes to saying no.
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