Tom Cruise is one of the names in a federal lawsuit filed in Florida by ex-Scientologist Peter Letterese which details harassment by the notoriously thuggish and litigious organization which runs Scientology. Here are the details from Access Hollywood:

Using the RICO statute, former Scientologist Peter Letterese filed a lawsuit in the Southern District Court in Florida on July 15 against the church alleging harassment, according to the New York Daily News’ Rush & Molloy gossip columnists.

Letterese reportedly calls the Church of Scientology a “crime syndicate” in the suit and wants it dismantled under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization law.

Tom Cruise is said to be the “right-hand man” of church head, David Miscavage, according to Letterese.

”[Miscavage is] aided and abetted by the actions of Tom Cruise, his right-hand man for foreign and domestic promotion, as well as for foreign and domestic lobbying. He has assisted the syndicate in acquiring funds and [made] his own donations of money believed to be in the multiple tens of millions of dollars,” Letterese reportedly alleges in the suit.

Cruise’s lawyer could not be reached for comment when contacted by The Daily News.

A rep for the Church of Scientology told the newspaper, “This is a frivolous suit based on falsehoods.”

Well, isn’t that the pot calling the kettle black. Scientology’s made a killing filing frivolous law suits based on falsehoods. What’s more interesting, is another report states that Mr. Letterese’s lawyer received a call on his home number from a member of Scientology and told his wife he was having a sexual relationship with her husband. Lurid lies from the Church of Scientology? Surely you jest?

It was a matter of time and financial resources before someone went after the Church the way they have so masterfully gone after anyone who dare criticize their money-making religious cloaking (coined by ex-Scientologist Larry Brennan.)

For a full listing of Glosslip’s extensive coverage on the Church of Scientology, including many excellent guests on our radio show, click here.

Casey Anthony with friends at Fusian

So, this is what Casey Anthony was doing during the time her 2-year old daughter Caylee was said to be missing?

Although, Casey, did tell police she was “doing her own investigation” into her daughter’s disappearance by searching the clubs “alleged kidnapper” Zaneida Hernandez-Gonzalez frequented. Somehow, I don’t think this is what officers had in mind. I guess you can call this “extreme” undercover work.

But wait, there’s more…

Oh yeah.  Great news!

It seems that Britney Spears, on a quest to clean all the junk outta her life, has decided to kick former hanger-down Sam Lufti to the curb, and he can stay there as far as she’s concerned:

“Britney has made clear to everyone that she does not want to be further harassed or contacted in any way by Osama ‘Sam’ Lutfi, now or at anytime in the future,” Spears’ attorney Samuel D. Ingham III said in a statement to The Associated Press.

Lutfi, for the time being, seems willing to go along with those wishes.

He called the AP late Wednesday and released the following statement: “Mr. Lutfi and Mr. Spears have mutually agreed in private that no hearing or order is necessary at this time.”

He declined further comment. [...]

It is unclear how long Spears’ affairs will remain under her father’s control, but Ingham wrote that he does not expect her feelings about Lutfi to change.

“If Mr. Lutfi makes any future attempt to contact Britney after the temporary conservatorship has concluded, Britney has made clear she will take all appropriate legal action,” Ingham wrote.

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Remember, today is the day that all concerned are due back in court.  It was supposed to be to see if the conservatorship should be made permanent, but instead they are going to look into other issues.  Perhaps that decision isn’t ready to be made just yet.  And that’s okay…if Brit isn’t ready to take over her own life again, but could be ready in the future, nothing wrong with delaying it a bit.  As long as she continues to get well, that’s all that matters.

Oh, and about that little pseudo-scandal with one of her sons trying to grab her smokes at her pool?  First of all, that was her own backyard, so people should respect her privacy.  Second, if you took everyone who smokes and asked them how many times their little kids had grabbed their ciggies when they weren’t looking, we’d have a monumental number.  Yes, Brit should have put them up somewhere where her kids can’t get to them, but she’s a little out of practice.  If this keeps up several months from now, maybe it will need to be addressed, but one slipup does not an unfit parent make.  So yeah.  Non-issue.  Next!

Everyone’s favorite fantasist Heather Mills has been accused of lying, and trust me…I’m just as shocked as you are.  Shocked, I tell you!

First, that dramatic statement that Heather was at one time so despondent at everything that was going on in her life regarding Sir Paul and the press that she considered suicide?  Hold on a second, says her former publicist Michele Elyzabeth, in an interview with Access Hollywood:

ME:  I thought, “Why are you saying this?” [...]  Heather calculates way too much to, you know, to do that, she would never commit suicide.  She didn’t commit suicide when she lost her leg!

And remember those little tapes Heather supposedly had, the ones of Sir Paul abusing her and being a big ol’ meanie?  It would seem that it is very, very, very likely that they simply do not exist:

AH:  She intimated that she had mini-cam video recordings of their fights, also videotape evidence of their fights that would prove something…

ME:  No, no.  I really don’t believe she did.  I mean, I was close enough, I heard a couple of conversation, but…now that I know what I know?  I don’t really think that Paul ever really went after her for anything.  I mean, they may have fought, you know, who doesn’t in a couple?

AH:  So what did she have?

ME:  She had, basically, nothing.  She had tapes of her being in the studio with him, uh, her being, uh, on the road with him, uh, you know, private moments. [...]

I don’t see [Paul] being a violent person.

Michele also claims she was working for free and is owed over $100,000 in fees.  Heather, for her part, claims that everything Michele is saying is totally false…as is usual for Heather.

So basically Heather seems to be lying about the abusive tapes, just like she lied about…pretty much everything else.  What, you want me to list all the lies?  Come on, I have a life!

This non-story is so ridiculous, I just had to write about it.  Forget the war in Iraq or soaring gas prices or missing toddlers or the upcoming elections, this is some serious stuff and it must be brought to the attention of the masses.  It seems that there is a dispute over who started the trucker hat craze, Justin or Ashton:

“It’s funny,” Timberlake says in the new issue of Fashion Rocks magazine. “I keep hearing Ashton Kutcher say how he was responsible for trucker caps. I’ve heard him make that statement before.”

But Timberlake insists he and his William Rast fashion line partner and childhood friend Trace Ayala are the real trendsetters. “Trace and I were wearing them when we were seventeen,” Mr. SexyBack says.

I’m glad that stars are finally concentrating on serious issues which face the world we live in and have moved away from silliness and superficial stuff which, in the long run, doesn’t really matter.

And I got news for both Justin and Ashton.  You didn’t invent trucker hats, ladies.  You see, there’s a reason why they’re called trucker hats.  I’ve seen them since I was a little girl right here in the flyover states and I know they’ve been around long before that.  The current crop of pre-broken-in vintage look trucker hats are just pretenders…us true fashionistas in the Midwest have had the real thing since the ark.  It isn’t our fault that it took the shiny happy people forever to copy a trend which has been going full force for years.  Come on, girlz, get with it!

Holy hell, these people are beyond the pale. Last night Cindy Anthony, the grandmother of missing two-year old Caylee, did yet ANOTHER media interview, this time with CNN’s Larry King. The transcript of the video shows us a very important component in this case. Cindy Anthony and Casey Anthony are now working together to conceal the truth, cover up for their lies and protect only one person, Casey Anthony.

First of all, I have NO idea whether missing toddler Caylee Anthony is merely missing, or the victim of a homicide. I am NOT a homicide detective, a psychologist or a forensic expert — but — I am a mother, an informed person and someone very interested in the safety of children. Everything in my experience, all my instincts, all my perceptions of these types of cases leads me to believe that without a doubt, Casey Anthony is lying about her daughter’s disappearance.

But wait, there’s more…

And look…he got a new skateboard!  Here we see mom Linda Bollea doing her best Donatella Versace imitation while bringing Nick his birfday present.

In other brithday news, Nick got to transfer out of juvie and into the adult section:

Bollea turned 18 Sunday, and he was transferred from a juvenile housing area of the jail, to a direct supervision area with other adult men.

“I’m sure he’s going to blend in fine. Nick is a likeable guy and I think he’ll end up making friends and getting through the rest of this just fine,” said Linda Bollea, who showed up to wish her son happy birthday.

She brought him a skateboard she had to take back with her when she left. “He’s been looking at this skateboard for a long time so I finally got it for him,” Linda Bollea explained.

Maybe he can use it when he gets out and goes to visit John Graziano in the hospital.  It makes Nerf tag so much more fun!

Daddy Hulkster explained that his son is doing great and doing his thing:

The Hulk said his son has a new perspective on life, “He’s very grateful, which is the highest frequency to be vibin’ on. He’s very present which means he’s walking in the spirit of Christ.”

Uh, yeah.  For more on that whole high vibin’ thing, click here.

I sincerely hope Nick and the whole Hogan family has learned something from all this, but I seriously doubt it.  See the entire GlossLip coverage of the Hogans here.  And boycott any show the Hogans are involved with.

How do I start an article like this one?  I swear, this whole Charlie/Denise he said/she said thing just gets weirder and weirder.  With the ratings for her reality show tanking faster than her performance in The World Is Not Enough, Denise called for an emergency court meeting claiming that Charlie molested their two daughters:

Richards dragged Sheen into a Los Angeles courtroom early last week for a mysterious “emergency” child-custody hearing to screen videos of their girls, Sam and Lola, supposedly acting in strange and disturbing ways. Sheen’s lawyers – who got the “evidence” dismissed – presented their own videos of the girls acting normally at his house.

A source said, “Denise’s accusations were vile. She was basically trying to say Charlie [manipulated] the kids and acted inappropriately with them. It’s disgusting and totally untrue. Charlie is furious . . . Denise has really pushed it too far this time.

“She came after Charlie because the ratings on her E! reality show ['It's Complicated'] have tanked and they were threatening not to renew,” the source said.

“She thinks a court battle would be good for ratings so she wants all overnight visits with the girls ceased, and monitored visits with her nanny. She invited the media circus to the hearing and even wanted reporters in the judge’s chambers – which wasn’t allowed. It’s ridiculous.”

Charlie has had enough and is coming out swinging:

Sheen is said to be so furious, he’s “out to prove Denise’s lack of veracity and sue her in civil court for defamation. Then he’ll sue for child custody.

“Sheen feels Richards has defamed him, especially after she denied sending [current wife] Brooke an e-mail in which she claims to want his sperm for another child. Richards says the e-mail is a fake. Sheen claims he has the e-mail and is getting forensic computer geeks to verify its authenticity.

“Charlie has now been forced to take a stand and do what’s best for the girls,” our insider said. Reps for Richards and Sheen declined comment.

All this from the mom who thought it was okay to whore out her children on television for ratings.  After all, putting the lives of toddlers and young kids on TV can’t possibly be bad for their developing psyches, can it?

Look.  Fighting over custody and visitation and dental bills and whether or not they get vanilla ice cream (like they get at mom’s) or chocolate ice cream (like they get at dad’s) before bedtime is one thing.  Accusing your ex-husband of child molestation is another thing entirely.  That is serious business and definitely not something to throw around lightly.

The thing is, so much mud has been thrown around in this case in hopes something will stick, you just don’t know what to believe any more.  On the one hand, Charlie has always seemed to love his daughters.  On the other hand, Denise has admitted that both girls are in therapy, but has so far not said why (not that it’s any of our business, but then again it isn’t any of our business that the kids are in therapy in the first place, but she just had to make it our business, probably so she can point out that if Charlie wasn’t such a sucky dad the kids wouldn’t need therapy to start with).  Denise also claims that she has caught Charlie looking at internet pr0n, some of which were what appeared at first glance to be underage girls.  Charlie, for his part, hasn’t always been an angel when it comes to women, with the whole “stay away from hookers” thing eluding him.

So, honestly, I’m not sure what to believe, since I hate taking the side of either of these screwups.  IF this is not true and Denise is just exhibiting some Divorce-Munchhausen’s-Syndrome-By-Proxy behavior (you know, where she makes up or exaggerates behavior by the kids and then blames the father for it), then she is truly one of the lowest forms of scum.  Accusing someone of child molestation is a serious thing and not something to be said lightly.  But IF this is true, then Charlie Sheen is the other of the lowest forms of scum.  The thing is, with these two chuckleheads, nobody knows what is true and what isn’t.  Who knows, maybe the girls are in therapy because their lives have been so disrupted with mom’s new “reality” show, or possibly because mom is a raving lunatic, or because mom thinks she sees behavior that isn’t there and can use that against dad, or they’ve been seriously traumatized by the ongoing custody war that never seems to stop.

Look, people, when you get a divorce and there are kids involved, it isn’t about you any longer.  It’s about the kids.  So straighten up, get some therapy for yourself, and put somebody else first for a change.  And remember, you two morons, someday your kids will be old enough to spell Google.

And continue boycotting her show…maybe we’ll get it off the air yet!  Save Sam and Lola!

LifeStyles Condoms is seeking a new spokeswhore person for their product, which happens to be, condoms. According to Fox News Lifestyles Condoms thinks Miley Cyrus, star of Disney’s wildly popular, “Hannah Montana”, would be a perfect candidate. Here’s more:

LifeStyles Condoms wants Miley Cyrus to be its spokesgirl.

The company says it has offered the 15-year-old Disney star — who has said she won’t have sex until she’s married — $1 million to represent the brand.

“Pop culture proves that teens are more ready than ever to discuss the subject of sex,” says the company’s VP of marketing, Carol Carrozza. “We believe that Miley is both influential and relatable to this afflicted set — and is the obvious choice to get the message of safe sex out to teens across America.”

But Cyrus’ rep says they never got an offer.

“We never received an offer, nor would she consider the offer,” her rep tells E! News.

Meanwhile, Cyrus says she’s almost done with “Hannah Montana.”

“We’re thinking this is our last season,” the star tells E!’s Marc Malkin.

The single Cyrus also told Ryan Seacrest on his KIIS-FM radio show that she would ideally date a “16-year-old [Coldplay lead singer] Chris Martin.”

Miley is done with Disney? Really? Or it could it be Disney is done with Miley for tramping it up over the last year and making a mockery of her fake wholesome image by posting pics of her in revealing outfits, and let’s not forget the whole Vanity Fair debacle with Miley posing naked for Annie Lebowitz (albeit covered in a sheet.)

Miley, like so many of these teens-becoming-women being foisted on society through the meat-grinders of Disney or Nickelodeon, create false expectations on these young women. It’s as though we’ve learned nothing from watching Britney Spears or Jessica Simpson, who both claimed to be wholesome young women, who then went on to consume men raw and whole right before our eyes.

It’s not that I expect Miley, Vanessa, Lindsey, Britney, Jessica – or whomever is the “it” girl of the moment to remain virginal, because I don’t. Most of us grown-ups understand the difference between a pre-pubescent child and a hormonal teen, but this however, does not give these huge corporate entertainment entities the right to treat the consumer (young kids) and their parents, as though we are stupid.

Hey Miley, there are worse things in life than a whorish teenager hocking a device which prevents pregnancy and sexually transmitted disease. For example, getting knocked up at 16 and pretending that raising a baby when you are still a baby is a GOOD CHOICE would be far worse.

No, the title isn’t meant to be ironic, or sarcastic, or even silly.  Amy Winehouse was taken to the British version of the ER over the weekend, but it seems she’s back home now:

Amy Winehouse was discharged from hospital this morning after receiving emergency treatment for a adverse reaction to ‘medication’.

A spokeswoman for University College Hospital, where the singer spent the night, said she was ushered out via a private exit shortly after 9.45am.

She was said to be in good spirits after a ‘comfortable night’. 

The spokeswoman said: ‘Our doctors decided to keep her overnight for observation. She had a comfortable night and will be discharged today.’ [...]

Her father blamed the scare on a mistake with her prescription pills, saying: ‘She’s fine, she just mixed up her medication.’

Her spokesman Chris Goodman added in a statement: ‘Amy Winehouse suffered a reaction to medication at home this evening and was taken to hospital.’

You know what?  I’m going to give Amy the benefit of the doubt on this one and say that she probably did mix up the medication she was supposed to take.  After all, in the drugged-up haze she has been existing in, it’s probably difficult to keep any proper meds straight.

But the trainwreck has continued to roll on this week, with Amy having gone out almost every night, punching a metal gate, pouting, partying, and generally acting like a total bad example, all in full view of the ever-present paparazzi cameras there to record her every move.  Her behavior has always been erratic to say the least, but it seems to have really stepped up since her husband’s sentence was handed down.  She knows the cameras are out there and anything she does is going to be documented, so why do it, other than she just doesn’t care any more?

I wish she would get into an intensive rehab center to straighten herself out, but at this stage of the game I don’t see it happening until she seriously hurts herself in some way (I guess emphysema doesn’t count as bad enough).  I don’t know how people can continue defending her in the state she is in, but I guess some can.

EDITED TO ADD:  Just saw this article in the Daily Mail…an interesting piece written by a reporter who was invited to spend some time in Amy’s home.  Here is a particularly interesting snippet:

Winehouse says all of this is the product of heartbreak over being separated from her true love, whose name appears in a little heart pin she often wears in her hair.

‘To be honest, my husband’s away, I’m bored, I’m young,’ Winehouse tells me.

‘I felt like there was nothing to live for. It’s just been a low ebb.’