So Shepard Fairey is, of course, the world famous street artist behind Obey clothing and some of the most iconic images of our time: Andre the Giant Has a Posse, the Obama “Hope” poster, etc. Of course, as a “street artist, ” a large portion of Fairey’s work consists of surreptitious night time wheat pasting, mural painting and other forms of street art. It would be naive to assume that Fairey actually does any of this legwork himself anymore, but still, I guess it’s a big part of his image, that of the rogue, graffiti artist. So the look he gives his wife in this video, when she lets it slip to the paparazzi at LAX that Fairey hasn’t actually been out on the street making “his” art in quite some time is pretty much priceless. Somewhat less priceless is the dressing down that Fairey proceeds to give his wife in front of the same paprazzi, but hey, I guess he doesn’t want the world to know that he leaves the street shit to interns, lackeys and Banksy these days, while he concentrates on stacking loot in some air conditioned office. Ain’t no shame in that, man! Check the video on TMZ, then see what Fairey’s been doing with his time now that he’s not climbing buildings all night on the Obey Clothing brand page at TruckerDeluxe.com.
So by this point everyone know Charlie Sheen consumes more cocaine and bangs more porn stars in one day than most ’80s hair bands did in their entire careers and as a result, had had his hit comedy show, Two and a Half Men cancelled, has spent a fair amount of time in various hospitals and rehabs and has become the focus of a nationwide countdown to a seemingly unavoidable epic burnout. But as this hour-long (and totally tl;dw) two-part live interview with TMZ conducted this morning shows, Sheen is still strangely coherent, if not a little idiosyncratic. And coked completely out of his fucking brain. [click to continue…]
Rapper T.I., who only just recently got out of prison after serving 7 months for having machine guns and silencers and all sorts of other gangster shit, is probably heading back there shortly, after he and his new wife were pulled over on Sunset Blvd. in Los Angeles and arrested for possession of a controlled substance last night. TMZ is reporting that the “controlled substance” in questions are styrofoam cups of purple drank aka sizzurp, known to regular people as codeine cough syrup. Dude is driving a $350,000 Maybach and he’s sippin’ on sizzurp out a styrofoam cup like a suburban teen who raided his grandma’s medicine cabinet? Dude is tripping. Whatever happened to the days when ridiculously rich people had chauffeurs to drive them around?
Ah, how time heals all wounds! Just three days ago, professional head smasher Tito Ortiz and reformed pornstar Jenna Jameson were engaged in the mother of all public break-ups, with Jameson calling the police on Ortiz for domestic abuse and Ortiz returning fire with allegations that Jameson was hooked on drugs. A scant 72 hours later, however, the couple were falling over each to be the first to tell TMZ (aka everyone) that it was all just a big misunderstanding:
Jenna, who accused Tito of injuring her during an argument, now tells TMZ, “What actually happened has now been dramatically distorted and misinterpreted and remarks that both Tito and I made after the police arrived reflect the state of shock that we were both in.” Translation — he didn’t hurt me.As for Tito, we’re told he’s now backing off what he strongly insinuated … that Jenna is an OxyContin addict. We’re told Tito’s position now is that he found two OxyContin pills and may have jumped to conclusions. Tito’s lawyer, Chip Matthews, tells TMZ the whole thing was “a big misunderstanding.”
Former UFC champ Tito Ortiz, who just two weeks ago mysteriously dropped out of his scheduled main event fight with Chuck Liddell at UFC 115, apparently decided to take on a slightly easier opponent: former pornstar and mother of the couple’s children Jenna Jameson. Ortiz was arrested yesterday in Huntington Beach on charges of domestic violence:
According to TMZ, police officers went to the home of the 205-pound, 35-year-old mixed martial arts fighter and the 110-pound, 37-year-old porn star after receiving a 911 call reporting a “disturbance.” Ortiz was soon removed from the home. Later Monday, Jameson, who retired from the adult industry back in 2008, was photographed with her arm bandaged.
However, this morning Ortiz came out with a PR counterpunch of his own, accusing Jameson of being addicted to Oxycontin:
“Jenna has been fighting a battle with OxyContin addiction for the past year. For Tito and her family this has been an uphill battle. Unfortunately this morning she had a relapse,” Ortiz attorney Chip Matthews said. “Tito was trying to help her, she has threatened suicide before. Tito has done everything in his power to protect her privacy and the privacy of their children.”
Jameson, who had walked back her story to earlier in the day – telling TMZ “He did not beat me. If he would have beat me, I would be dead right now” – promptly reversed her reversal, calling Ortiz a “wife beater.” Doubtless more juicy details will be forthcoming, as this public battle goes in the later rounds. Guess that’s what you get for marrying a pornstar/dude who beats people up for a living.
