Singer Scott Weiland of the rock band Velvet Revolver pleaded not guilty Wednesday in a Los Angeles court to driving under the influence of drugs with a prior conviction.
Weiland’s attorney entered the plea on the singer’s behalf. His next court date is April 4.
The singer, 40, was arrested for DUI in L.A. on Nov. 21, and was freed on $40,000 bail the following day.
Weiland has had several brushes with the law in recent years.
In July 2004, he was ordered to complete a six-month drug program and serve three years probation after pleading no contest to DUI.
If convicted of this latest charge, Weiland faces up to one year in jail, a $1,000 fine, and his car could be impounded for 30 days.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

in a new interview, Salma Hayek confesses she suffered from diabetes during her pregnancy and that she was hoping for a son – but now she’s loving being a mom to her five-month-old daughter, Valentina Paloma Pinault.

“I feel I was born to have this girl,” she tells the April issue of Glamour magazine.

Pregnancy for the 41-year-old, first-time mom was a humbling experience. “I had diabetes while I was pregnant. I became huge. And I said, ‘This is what it takes for me to have this baby, and I really want it.’ Then you don’t know if it’s going to be healthy; you are completely out of control,” she says. “So the experience really makes you humble.”

Hayek’s businessman fiancé, François Henri Pinault, 45, has two children from a previous marriage, and the actress confesses, “I wanted a boy.”
How come? “Probably because I was afraid,” she tells the magazine. “I think women suffer a bit more than boys, and there is always conflict between mothers and daughters.”

“Now that she’s here, I’m so happy she’s a girl,” Hayek says of Valentina. “And I can’t imagine there ever being conflict between us, because I’m in a state of innocence where I love everything she does.”
She concludes: “I just feel so fortunate to be her mother, and it makes me excited about the rest of my life, because I will get to witness her transformation every day.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  Overwhelmed, indeed, seems the operative word. Adds Ashton: “I am eternally grateful for having them in my life. That makes me want to cry and hug them and cry a little bit more.” Kutcher is heard from, too. “At first, I didn’t know how it was all going to play out, but everything fell into place,” he says of having an instant family. “We all support each other. I’m occasionally overwhelmed by everyone’s generosity.”

Demi Moore’s familyDemi Moore’s looks may be the source of constant comment, but in her own mind, they’re sometimes a source of anxiety.
“Look, I would be lying if I said I don’t have moments of panic when I look in the mirror and see things creeping in that weren’t there before,” Moore, 45, tells Harper’s Bazaar for its April issue, about getting older. “But now I stop, and instead of focusing on my flaws, I think about all that I have in my life.”
Those rewards are not only tangible, she says, but human: “I have a wonderful marriage, I have three wonderful daughters, I have an incredible extended family, and I have loving, wonderful friends.”
As a result, she says, “when I look back in the mirror, the reflection I see isn’t so bad, because I’m seeing the beauty of my whole being and my whole life.”

Kutcher’s Introduction
In their first family portrait for a magazine, Moore’s daughters by former husband Bruce Willis – Rumer, 19, Scout 16, and Tallulah, 14 – also ring in with their observations on mom and her life with stepdad Ashton Kutcher, 30, who has been with Moore for the past five years.
In terms of initially bringing Kutcher home (in addition to her girls, Moore’s house in Los Angeles includes three Chihuahuas and an elderly mutt named Wonka), Moore admits, “I didn’t bring somebody into their lives lightly. … Being with me isn’t about just being in a relationship with me; it’s about someone stepping into a situation where there is already a huge level of responsibility.”
And the age difference between them? “People made such a fuss about it, you would have thought the world had never seen it before,” says Moore. “Age wasn’t what I was thinking about, but to the rest of the world it was a very big deal.”
Insofar as her initial reaction to Kutcher’s being beside her mom, Tallulah says: “I was in fourth grade, so it didn’t hit me as much as it did Scout and Rumer. But it still hit me a little, and it still does now. I find it weird that people think my stepdad is hot.”
Scout also notices another change that overtook her mother – ever since Moore took up studying Kabbalah. “She has always moved from religion to religion according to the stages in her life,” says the teen. “Kabbalah is the one she has stuck with the most. I respect that she and Ashton are doing it.”
Another Kabbalah proponent, Madonna, is cited by Moore as one of her personal role models, as is Maya Angelou, Katharine Hepburn, Susan Sarandon, Coco Chanel, Oprah Winfrey, Mother Teresa – and her own grandmother.
Ashton Speaks Up

A petition to have Anna Nicole Smith’s 18-month-old daughter Dannielynnn declared the sole heir to her estate was approved Tuesday by a Los Angeles judge.
In court papers filed in Superior Court Oct. 18, 2007, Howard K. Stern, the executor of Smith’s estate, sought to clarify Smith’s intentions in her July 2001 will, drafted five years before Dannielynn Hope’s September 2006 birth. (Smith died in February 2007.)
“We and Mr. Stern always believed that Anna Nicole never intended to disinherit her daughter,”‘ Stern’s lawyer, Bruce S. Ross, said after Tuesday’s hearing. “I’m pleased to say this chapter in the saga is closed.”
The toddler could conceivably inherit millions from the fortune of Smith’s late husband, oil man J. Howard Marshall, whose estate is still tied up in litigation in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
In addition to confirming Dannielynn as Anna Nicole’s sole heir, Judge Mitchell L. Beckloff’s ruling also establishes a trust on her behalf with Stern and Birkhead as its co-trustees, Ross said.

His famous father was out of town, but little Brooklyn Beckham still packed in plenty of star-power for his ninth birthday party.
David and Victoria Beckham’s eldest son celebrated his big day Tuesday at Century City Mall’s Pink Taco restaurant with his mom, brothers and 25 friends – not to mention Heidi Klum and Eva Longoria Parker.
And apparently little brother Cruz, 3 (who attended the party in a Batman costume), isn’t the only Beckham with an interest in break dancing. After catching a movie at the mall, Brooklyn and his pals were entertained by a team of dancers busting hip-hop moves.
As his crew – including brothers Cruz and Romeo, 5 – gathered around, Brooklyn blew out the candles on a Cold Stone Creamery ice-cream cake (decorated to match the break-dancing theme), while his mom snapped photos on her digital camera.
Klum’s three-year-old daughter, Leni, was the first partygoer to poop out – she was toted out by her supermodel mom at 8 p.m. With bedtime looming, the entire celebration wound down around 8:30.
So where was dad? David – who is traveling Asia with his L.A. Galaxy soccer team – spent Tuesday visiting young leukaemia patients in a Shanghai hospital. He’s slated to play an exhibition match Wednesday.

When Michelle Williams spoke to Elle magazine in January, she had no idea she’d be faced with the death of her ex, Heath Ledger, only days later on Jan. 22. At the time, she was still mourning their breakup. “I didn’t know where to go” after their 2007 split, she says in the magazine’s April issue. “I couldn’t imagine any place in the world that was gonna feel good to me.” Williams, 27, dove into work on several films, because “when I have too much free time, that’s when things start to get a little messy.” She als naturally focused on Matilda, 2, her daughter with Ledger. “She’s bigger to me than any relationship, bigger than the awards,” Williams says. “She’s what came out of it.”

 

Jamie Spears will remain in control of his daughter Britney
finances and other aspects of the pop star’s life until July 31, a judge ruled Wednesday in an unscheduled hearing.

 

No reporters were present for the proceeedings, although two sources
confirm that Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner Reva Goetz
extended the temporary conservatorship that had been ordered on Feb. 4,
during Spears’s second stint in a psychiatric facility.

“I can confirm that the order was issued this afternoon, but I don’t
know the attorneys’ motives,” Superior Court spokesman Allan Parachini
says.The temporary conservatorship had been scheduled to expire March 10.

Hearings are still scheduled before Goetz on that date and on March 17,
sources say.

Jamie Spears has been overseeing his 26-year-old daughter’s
well-being and her estimated $100 million fortune since Feb. 1, when
Goetz named him and Andrew Wallet temporary co-conservators, giving
them the right to employ bodyguards and restrict her visitors.

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