Scandals

Cine actress Joemol filed a case against her parents at the Judicial First Class Magistrate Court, Kunnamangalam, on Monday, for ‘cheating, misappropriation of assets and breach of trust’. An emotionally-charged Joemol, along with her husband Chandrasekhar Pillai and lawyer, told a news conference that her father has taken away all her assets she earned through acting from 1997 to 2002. “It was my father who handled the remuneration I got from films, inaugurations and other functions which would roughly come to around Rs. one crore. What is left in my bank account is only Rs 614. The rest is with my father,’’ she said. Joemol said she has learnt that her father K.A. John owns a petrol bunk. “My brother has bought a costly motorbike. All this is using my money because I was the on...

Former beauty queen Anara Gupta, facing charges of appearing in a porn video, gained a reprieve when Jammu and Kashmir police on Mar 18 told a court here that a forensic report confirming she had acted in the blue film was "irrelevant". Judge Gupta was hearing a petition filed by Shiv Sena leader Amit Chauhan, who had sought a probe into the scandal on the basis of the Feb 5 report from the Chandigarh laboratory. The Crime Branch had filed objections in response to Chauhan's petition. Narain Gupta said there was nothing in the case against Anara and the state high court was seized of the matter. The high court has already reserved its judgement in the case. Anara's travails started in October last year, when police picked her up from her house and kept her in illegal detention for...

Kim Kardashian naked on the cover of November, U. This is the third annual edition of the magazine Art. Of course, the naked reality stars on the front of the publication has nothing to do with art, but it has everything to do with selling copies. According to a recent story in the Wall Street Journal, the U.S. magazine newsstand sales fell 5.6% in the first half of 2010, while total circulation decreased by 2.3%. The magazine industry has been in trouble a few years, which may be one reason why we see a rash exposed stars on the covers of various periodicals. In other words, celebrities are naked, because the king is naked. Rolling Stone recently put three stars of the vampire series “True Blood” on the cover-nude and spattered with blood. ESPN Magazine, not to be outdone, put Diana T...