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Here’s a photo of Courtney Love trashed out of her mind while exiting the Chateau Marmont on 1/13 because she always keeps it classy. That’s just a precursor for this warning to brace yourselves, for there’s a new “tell all” book about Courtney (aptly titled Courtney Comes Clean ) that has been penned by The Fix and is based upon a year’s worth of in-person, phone, and e-mail correspondence with Love, most of which she probably doesn’t even remember. The book goes into depth about Courtney’s struggles with addiction, her issues with men, and more on the money troubles that we’ve heard so much about already. Below, I’ve included some excerpts wherein Courtney blames a lot of her own crap on other people, including such celebrities as Winona Ryder and Andy Dick, but the book also apparently includes call-outs aimed towards Tom Cruise, Sean Penn, Scarlett Johansson, Kirstie Alley, Harvey Weinstein, Madonna, Oliver Stone, Brett Ratner, and Clive Owen. What could she possibly have against Clive Owen? Obviously, Courtney has tried (and possibly succeeded) to smash with both Stone and Ratner , but Clive wouldn’t give her the time of day. Maybe that’s what she’s upset about, but who knows? Only Courtney, and she’s probably already forgotten. Here are those excerpts: On her “sobriety”: “I think of myself as sober,” she says, although she admits that her daily regimen of pills wouldn’t pass muster at an AA meeting. “When you’re used to heroin and cocaine, a few pills doesn’t seem like the end of the world. As they say in AA, it’s about progress, not perfection. I mean, abstinence is a nice idea, but I don’t know if it’s right for everyone. Especially for someone who was nursed on a steady diet of Valium and Ritalin from the time I was seven, thanks to my fine mother. I don’t do street drugs anymore. My medications are all legally prescribed by prominent physicians. I’m entirely legal. But the truth is, I’ve never claimed to be anyone’s role model. I’m not Mother Theresa. All I’m trying to do is stay alive.” On losing it at Pam Anderson’s roast: “That Roast wasn’t a great moment for me. I was doped and dazed, and had lipstick smeared all over my face. I may have even been drooling. But it was all Andy Dick’s fault. He handed me a fat pill right before the show and said, ‘Courtney, here, take this–it’s like Vicodin without the aspirin.’ Winona Ryder slipped me a similar pill a few years ago. I’m such an addict that I just swallowed them both, without asking what they were. So thanks to Andy Dick, I ended up getting addicted to benzos again, which went on to plague my life.” She’s tight with Sam Lufti: 
 Love has dismissed many loyal staffers in recent years, including Marie Walsh Dixon, a veteran associate who decamped to work for Frances Bean. Other employees are suing her for unpaid wages. In their place, she has turned increasingly to Sam “Osama” Lutfi, a 37-year-old sober coach who has played an increasingly prominent role in her day-to-day affairs. A swarthy Svengali who once allegedly worked as a private investigator, Lutfi first rose to prominence in 2007 while representing Britney Spears during her much-publicized breakdown. Lutfi insists he has no formal relationship with Love, whom he describes as a friend. She’s not a Chelsea Handler fan: “I may not like what you stand for, but I do believe in sisterhood,” she [told] Handler, who had recently taken up with Love’s ex-boyfriend, hotelier Andre Balazs. “You don’t want to put gratitude in the hands of a man who doesn’t accept you for who you are and never, ever will…No one in New York City, not even Trump, is despised more! I’m here to serve! Get help and work on your addiction/trauma, Chelsea! The kids call what you’re doing fame-whoring. [Y]ou’re too dumb to get it! Yes I know he’s telling you to take the high road and I’m telling you to take the f&#@ing high road you low-life. GO 2 REHAB!” Inspector Courtney on fraud: In 2008, Courtney complained to the press that various corrupt lawyers and accountants had cheated her out of $250 million. By 2010, the figure had ballooned to $1 billion. In her quest to unmask the alleged thefts, she engaged a “twitter army” of volunteers who took to the Internet and examined property records to track down suspicious leads. But while some of those volunteers have backed up her claims of fraud, her distractions and failure to pay her employees have stood in the way of real progress. The crack really helped too: “The strange thing is, while the crack screwed me up in a lot of ways, it improved me in certain others. I’ve never been good with numbers, but when I was on crack I could do math really, really well. I became a f&#@king whiz at calculus.” Oh wait, Courtney screwed herself: “Shortly after Kurt’s death, the lawyer who was representing me called and said, ‘Courtney, you have over $7 million coming to you, but you need to give me your Social Security number.’ [I couldn't] remember my Social Security Number, so I had to lie and make one up. My mother, saint that she is, had a million husbands. My brothers and sisters were adopted by one stepfather, then by another. Thank God I was emancipated when I was 15, but ever since then I’ve wandered through life wondering who the fuck I am: Courtney Michelle Rodriguez? Courtney Michelle Menelli? Courtney Love? Courtney Cobain? It’s like, I don’t even know my f&#@ing name! How am I expected to know my Social Security number?” [From The Fix ] That part about the social security number is particularly interesting because it illustrates that Courtney has dug her own financial hole from the very moment that Kurt Cobain died, and if she’s hanging with Sam Lufti, Courtney is just begging to get ripped off in the future. Of course, Courtney probably thinks that Sam is just “misunderstood” just like she is, but I find it amusing that he is the one trying to downplay their relationship. When Sam Lufti doesn’t want to be professionally associated with you, well, you catch my drift. The Fix also includes a lot of excerpts on its website about Francis Bean’s deposition that resulted in her emancipation from Courtney. Francis alleges that Courtney took drugs “ for as long as I can remember ” and often fell asleep while smoking, which lead to her nearly burning the house down on three separate occasions. Francis also claimed that her cat was killed by Courtney’s hoarding habit and that her dog died after ingesting some of Courtney’s pill stash. At one point, Francis also had to deal with talking her mother out of jumping from a balcony, and she grew understandably weary of listening to Courtney rage about fraud on a consistent basis. For us, it was exhausting just to read Courtney’s fraud-related rants on Twitter, but Francis was apparently dealing with a bunch of screaming and paranoia about it in real life. Poor Francis — thank goodness she got away from that mess of a mother. Courtney Comes Clean is available for download here . Here’s photos from Courtney with tweaked lips last July at a Valentino-associated museum launch party. Photos courtesy of Pacific Coast News and WENN

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Courtney Love blames her Benzos addiction on Winona Ryder and Andy Dick

CB already covered People Magazine’s cover story this week – Demi Moore and her “dangerous desperation” to stay young and skinny. And now Us Weekly has revealed their cover story – which is also about Demi being desperate, this time about really young guys. According to Us Weekly (and HL), Demi has been trying to hook up with her daughter’s friend (and rumored boyfriend) Zac Efron. Poor Zac finds Demi “creepy” though. Hollywood Life also repeats that gross story about Demi “grinding” on Victoria Justice’s boyfriend’s ass. Fo’ real. You know who has my sympathy at this point? Rumer. That poor girl. The night of Demi Moore’s Jan. 16 911 call was even scarier than it sounded. “Everyone thought she was going to die,” a source tells the new Us Weekly of the emergency, in which Moore, 49, collapsed, and was “convulsing” after smoking an unknown substance. It was the culmination of months of self-destructive partying (and drug use) for the newly single star, struggling to make sense of things as she nears 50 without husband Ashton Kutcher, from whom she split late last year. “She’s been really down, and she’s surrounding herself with young people to make her feel better,” an insider tells Us of Moore, who’s been obsessed for years with staying young and thin. “She’s been mixing pills and Red Bulls, among other things,” another source says. One of Moore’s favorite young stars to party with — and flirt with — is daughter Rumer Willis’s longtime friend Zac Efron, 24, a hunk nine years younger than Kutcher, 33. Not only has Demi Moore, 49, ”literally inserted herself” into 23-year-old daughter Rumer Willis‘ social circle, but she’s even trying to hook up with 24-year-old Zac Efron! “She calls him and texts him a lot, but he’s not interested at all,” a source tells the mag. “He thinks she’s a creepy cougar.” A wired, gaunt Moore “tracked down” the High School Musical star at a party in L.A.’s Venice neighborhood, an insider tells Us. “She seemed out of her mind at this party.” Meanwhile, People reports that Demi has yet another younger guy in her sights — Victoria Justice‘s boyfriend, 27-year-old Ryan Rottman! “She found ways to touch him all night, and at one point when he was in front of her, she was grinding on his butt,” an onlooker said of Demi and Ryan’s behavior at a Jan. 11 party. “His shirt came unbuttoned, and she started tickling his bare chest playfully.” For additional details on Moore’s spiral — her calls and texts with Efron, how her three daughters are coping, her ongoing obsession with staying young, and what’s next — pick up the new Us Weekly, on stands Friday. [From Us Weekly , Hollywood Life ] I don’t even know what to say about this mess at this point. Demi clearly has significant issues, and this has gone beyond a simple public-relations problem , although I do think the root of Demi’s problem might be the dichotomy of how she views herself (hip, cool, young, relevant) versus the reality of who she is now (sad, desperate, kind of pathetic). I don’t think it’s as easy as saying “Demi needs to act her age.” This woman has mental health issues, and a good publicist can’t fix the crazy. So what’s my armchair advice to Demi at this point? Go away for a while. Take a year or two off, don’t work, go back to Idaho or something. Don’t tweet. Don’t give interviews. Get clean and sober. Wear sweatpants for a while and stop messing with your face. Eat real food. And then, after some time has passed, come back. Relaunch yourself as smart and effective producer who still dabbles in acting. Give a few interviews, but only to the major outlets. Write a tell-all book, and really TELL ALL. … But she won’t follow my advice, will she? Photos courtesy of WENN.

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Gwyneth Paltrow is the cover girl for the March issue of Harper’s Bazaar. The photo shoot was done by Terry Richardson, and… I don’t really care for it. It’s like Goop is trying to look all shiny and glitzy/sexy, with maybe some hints of rock-star-trashy. And that style simply doesn’t work for Goop. That being said, I think the subscriber’s cover (the one where you don’t see Goop’s face) is intriguing and interesting. Mostly because you don’t see her face. You can see the full Richardson photo shoot here (and the full online interview too). Here are some highlights from Goop’s Bazaar interview: She doesn’t like Botox: “I’ll take my wrinkles,” she says. “I don’t like the Botox thing.” But she does enjoy sunshine for the vitamin D, despite “my dermatologist yelling at me.” (She admits to “little things, like lasers” and regular facials, often with the London-based Vaishaly Patel.) She still trains with Tracy Anderson: Today, like every other weekday morning, she has spent an hour and a half with her trainer, Tracy Anderson, doing dance aerobics and a precise series of exercises that changes every 10 days. The aim, she says, is “that you’re muscular, but you don’t get used to anything.” She’s detoxing too: Right now, the dedicated eater (see Gwyneth chowing on a bocadillo with Mario Batali in Spain or on fried chicken while filming Country Strong down South) is also on a 12-week detox program. “I have a lot of inflammation in my system, so I’m not having anything I’m allergic to—no gluten, no dairy, no sugar.” The trigger for these seasonal detox sessions, she says, is recognizing her physical symptoms: “I’ll wake up exhausted; I can feel my adrenal cortex being really high. When I get into bed, my heart will pound, my skin won’t be good, I’ll feel cranky, and then I’ll just know it’s time.” But such consciousness has an emotional impetus as well: She cites the death in 2002 of her beloved father, director Bruce Paltrow, from throat cancer at 58—after decades of vodka and smoking—as a catalyst for her own conversion to clean living. “All I’ve learned about nutrition and health came from his cancer,” she says. “I’ll probably have a long and healthy life because he didn’t.” When she’s not detoxing: “I eat whatever I want. I like bread and cheese and wine, and that makes my life fun and enjoyable.” But an outline of her regular diet, along with the rest of her timetable, reveals a model of restraint. She’s up every morning around 7:00 with her two children, Apple and Moses (seven and five, respectively). “I don’t really like eating that early, so I usually just have coffee and then a couple of bites of their leftovers, like granola and yogurt or scrambled eggs.” What does she do all day? During the day, Gwyneth’s attention turns to her rapidly expanding and soon-to-be-redesigned Web site, goop (which now has more than a million viewers a week and is relaunching next month), and its associated apps, including a new range of city guides, starting with Los Angeles and moving on to London and other world capitals. Then there’s her second cookbook to complete. (The first, My Father’s Daughter, came out last spring; this one, as yet untitled, will focus on “really delicious health food.”) The Goop Brand: “Everything I’ve done has been completely organic, and that’s why the brand is a strong brand, because there is no ulterior motive behind it,” she says. Chris Martin is described as “hugely supportive”: The two of them seem affectionately relaxed together—”he’s very communicative,” she says, “which is rare for a British man”—at ease with their nine-year relationship and their roles as parents. “If I’m in L.A. for three days working, then my husband does the school run; it’s always one of us,” although they do have a nanny for the children. “She’s French, so she’s teaching them French, and their previous nanny was Spanish, so they’re fluent in Spanish.” But it’s Gwyneth who gives the children their bath—”we all get into the tub together”—and she’s the one who cooks dinner for them before Apple and Moses go to bed at 8:00. It’s a family dinner, unless she goes out with Chris to eat at her favorite Japanese restaurants in London or for seafood at the members-only Arts Club. She’s archiving her wardrobe for Apple: “I’ve been saving my clothes for her since before she was born. I was like, I’ll bet you anything I’ll have a daughter, and she’ll be a really cool butch lesbian and be so above clothes, and I got a very clothes-obsessed child. So if she’s a lesbian, she’s a lipstick lesbian. She doesn’t like anything avant-garde at all. She likes anything that’s pretty, pretty, pretty or has a bow or a ruffle or is pink.” Goop name-drops Beyonce: As it happens, while Beyoncé was headlining the Glastonbury Festival last June (the night after Coldplay), Gwyneth was watching by the side of the stage with Jay-Z and testifies to the fact that her friend’s performance was punctuated by the miserable side effects of early pregnancy: “She was absolutely incredible, especially as she was barfing in between.” She’s a traditional wife and mother: “I have little kids in school. I want to maintain my marriage and my family, so I have to be here when he comes home.” Hence her recent advice to a girlfriend (who remains tantalizingly unnamed): “She is an actress and in a new relationship with someone else with a big career, and I said this may not be feminist, but you have to compromise. It’s been all about you and you’re a big deal. And if you want what you’re saying you want—a family—you have to be a wife, and that is part of the equation. Gloria Steinem may string me up by my toes, but all I can do is my best, and I can do only what works for me and my family.” On her exes: Gwyneth remains discreet about her previous boyfriends, who include Brad Pitt (they dated for nearly three years from 1994 and were engaged for six months) and Ben Affleck (in the late ’90s). She met Chris Martin in 2002, three weeks after her father’s death, and married him the following year. But she does confess that she knows what it feels like to be betrayed—”I had a boyfriend who used to cheat on me all the time. I was quite naive. I knew on a cellular level, but I bought his story”—while making it clear that infidelity is not part of her marriage. But she’s not judging cheaters: She does not condemn others who stray. “The older I get, the more open-minded I get, the less judgmental I get. Life is long. I have friends who I love and admire who have had an affair. When I was younger, I would have said he’s a terrible person or she’s a terrible person. But who made these laws?” And if the commitment to remain within a relationship can be renewed, she believes, then it should survive the inevitable challenges… “I think you do fall in and out of love and you just keep going, and every time you go through a really difficult phase, you rediscover something new and it just gets better. We’ve been married for more than eight years now, and we’re still into it.” [From Harper’s Bazaar ] I mean… ugh. Nothing she said offended me on a deep level, but there’s some interesting and controversial stuff in here. I find it interesting that Gwyneth is putting herself out there as the anti-feminist, the woman who is holding up traditional values, the one who advises peasant womanfolk to stand by their men and make sure to take care of their families. As for the conversation about infidelity… well… I don’t even know. I think Goop’s marriage is a lot harder than she wants to admit, and she puts up with a lot more than she’ll admit. Which makes me sad for Goop – it feels like she’s “given up” a lot of herself to keep her marriage and family going. Photos courtesy of Terry Richardson/Bazaar, slideshow here .

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Justin Timberlake turns 31 today, and we’re celebrating the milestone by looking back at his hotness over the years with his many female admirers. He’s been lucky enough to date some of Hollywood’s most beautiful women, like Cameron Diaz , Britney Spears , and rumored fiancée Jessica Biel . Actor, musician, dancer, philanthropist, and entrepreneur Justin has also worked alongside lovely ladies, Beyoncé Knowles and Alicia Keys among them. As we celebrate JT’s big day, click through to see all the photos of JT living it up with his ladies. View Slideshow ›

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Happy Birthday, Justin Timberlake! See All the Ladies Who Love Him

Britney Spears kept her engagement ring firmly in place yesterday when she treated sons Sean Preston and Jayden James to a game of bowling. Britney and the boys joined her mom, Lynne, and fiancé Jason Trawick for a fun family outing. Lynne gave the boys, Jason, and Britney a kiss and a hug and left in a separate car. Jayden and Sean have been hanging at Britney’s new Thousand Oaks mansion for the past few weeks while Kevin Federline continues shooting his latest reality series in Sydney. Kevin was rushed to the hospital with chest pains, but has since made a full recovery and has continued with filming. Kevin’s new show Excess Baggage , which begins airing tonight in Australia, chronicles his struggle to maintain a healthy weight. Meanwhile, Britney seems to be keeping herself in top physical condition as she preps for her upcoming wedding . View Slideshow ›

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Scarlett Johansson cozied up to a male friend in NYC over the weekend. The duo were spotted holding hands as they walked around the Big Apple together. It’s just the latest rumored pairing for Scarlett, who was linked to British musician Dan White during her We Bought a Zoo press tour last month and Sean Penn shortly after her split from Ryan Reynolds in 2010. Scarlett recently wrapped work on Under the Skin in Scotland, but she’ll soon be back in front of the cameras to promote The Avengers . We’ll have to wait and see if Scarlett brings her man to the red carpet before the film hits theaters in May. View Slideshow ›

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Exclusive – Scarlett Johansson Holds Hands With a New Man During a NYC Stroll

Looking as happy as can be, Britney Spears emerged from seclusion while being spotted out in Los Angeles, CA on Tuesday (January 24). The “Gimme More” mama smiled from ear-to-ear upon picking up her boys, Sean Preston and Jayden James, from a birthday party at a local playhouse. And now that the super starlet is engaged to be married to Jason Trawick, recent reports are saying that Brit’s father Jamie Spears is ready to end his conservatorship – which would give Britney complete control of her finances and business decisions, once again. Although nothing has been confirmed, rumors are suggesting that Spears and Trawick will tie the knot on Valentine’s Day in Maui, Hawaii and, according to a source, “Jamie wants to go to court in early February so Britney will be a free woman in every sense when she marries.”

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Britney Spears: Playhouse Time with the Boys

President Obama sent Zooey Deschanel a birthday card. WTF? [ICYDK] Snooki without makeup. [IDLITW] Nick Cannon is out of the hospital and doing better. [Celebrity Baby Scoop] Lauren Scruggs is also out of the hospital. [CDAN] Jennifer Lopez & her facially challenged boyfriend are tweeting. [Amy Grindhouse] Bei Ling still exists, looks drunk. [Moe Jackson] If Newt Gingrich touched my nose, I would slap the hell out of him. [The Frisky] Rick Perry is a quitter! [Gawker] Sandra Bullock & little Louis! [INFDaily] Heather Locklear & Jack Wagner are meeting with prosecutors. [Radar] Kelly Osbourne thinks she‘s being bullied. [Life & Style] Old Navy is fighting with Kim Kardashian now. [PopBytes] Channing Tatum looking… meh. [Hollywood Rag] This puppy-filled commercial is one of the cutest things ever. [LimeLife] Michelle Obama covers More Magazine. [Celebs] Ew, why do people get Britney Spears tatts? [CityRag] Gina Carano is really pretty! [Starpulse]

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It was almost nine years ago that Madonna first kissed Britney Spears on the VMAs stage, and tonight, she’s taking a look back at the memorable moment on ABC’s Nightline ! See what she has to say about the famous lip-lock – and about her relationship with 24-year-old boyfriend Brahim Zaibat – in today’s PopSugar Rush.

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Video: Madonna Reminisces About "Good Kisser" Britney Spears