Finally, A House John McCain Doesn't Own

Donald Trump is off the plume. Someone else has stepped up and is purchasing Ed McMahon's house.

Ed has been dogged by his L.A. mansion, which was sitting on the brink of foreclosure. Last week, Donald said he would help the man he admired by buying the property. Ed's realtor, Alex Davis, tells us Trump actually made a written offer but was outbid.

Ed's rep says the buyer surfaced last week, after Trump got all that publicity. We're told escrow opened yesterday but it's still not a done deal.

As for who's buying the house, the out-of-state buyer wants confidentiality. However, Ed's rep says it's not John McCain.

And we just got this statement from The Donald: "...The other buyer has signed a purchase agreement....subject to many contingencies including but not limited to a mortgage contingency. Mr. Trump clearly would not need a mortgage and would be capable of closing this transaction immediately. If the other buyer should be successful in this bid, Mr. Trump truly hopes that they do the right thing by Ed McMahon and not have this 85-year-old American icon removed from the property."

So here's the question -- If Donald really wants Ed to stay in the house, why didn't he just outbid the buyer?




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LA judge asked to allow gun claims in Spector case

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With record manufacturer Phil Spector's murder retrial approaching, prosecutors on Monday asked a judge to reconsider rulings from the first trial that excluded evidence of six multiplication Spector allegedly threatened people with handguns.

The alleged threats would be offered to show "common design or plan" by Spector, world Health Organization is charged with murdering actress Lana Clarkson after taking her home from a night club, prosecutors said.

The six incidents involved workforce and women, and some allegedly occurred in public. Two resulted in gun-related convictions against Spector for which he received probation in the 1970s.

"Spector has a long history of resorting to gun-related violence to exert his volition when he does non get his way," aforesaid the motion filed by prosecutors Alan Jackson and Truc Do.

Defense attorney Doron Weinberg declined to remark but aforesaid a response to the motion would be filed Tuesday.

During the first run, Superior Court Judge Larry Paul Fidler allowed the testimony of five women who claimed Spector threatened them with guns in a way that power have been similar to his actions toward Clarkson, who died of a gunshot lesion at Spector's Alhambra planetary house in 2003.

In allowing the women's testimonial in 2005, Fidler aforementioned it was "a grievous path to go down" legally merely might illustrate the state's theory of motive.

Spector, 68, is illustrious for his "Wall of Sound" recording technique. A pretrial auditory sense is scheduled Thursday, with jury quizzical to begin Oct. 14. The first trial concluded in a jury deadlock.

The six encounters outlined by prosecutors span more than three decades.

In 1972 and 1975, Spector pleaded guilty to gun possession, brandishing and assault charges, and was placed on probation. One incident occurred at a now-defunct club on Rodeo Drive and some other outside the Beverly Hills Hotel.

A 1977 encounter tangled musician Leonard Cohen, wHO claimed Spector held a gun to his chest and aforesaid, "I love you, Leonard," to which Cohen replied, "I hope so, Phil."

Prosecutors said a 1978 incident involved a couple world Health Organization went to Spector's home to hash out music for a TV pilot and later said they were held for hours piece Spector played a piano, displayed a gun and allegedly pointed it at the man.

Another woman alleged that Spector flicked ashes on her dog in 1999, and that when she protested, held a gun to her buttock and made threatening remarks, according to the motion.

The last alleged incident came in November 2003, nine-spot months after the Clarkson killing, when Spector entered a coffee shop and was recognized by trey patrons world Health Organization asked him to connect them for coffee.

Spector allegedly made disparaging remarks about them and said, "I'm gonna go get my gun and blow you ... away," prosecutors said in the motion.

Prosecutors cited "the doctrine of chances" locution that after some 40 years of gun threats, it was unlikely that Spector would unwittingly wind instrument up in a elbow room with Clarkson when she decided to kill herself, as the defense claims.

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Knightley happy to appear naked on-screen

Keira Knightley has said that she has no problem appearing naked on-screen, as she does in her current movie 'The Edge of Love'.
Speaking at a press conference at the Edinburgh International Film Festival to promote the John Maybury directed film, Knightley said: "I always bare my breasts. It's not like it's only in this film!"
The 23-year-old also appeared naked in her last film, 'Atonement'.Referring to a scene in 'The Edge of Love' alongside Irish star Cillian Murphy, Knightley said: "It was very simple. It was a sex scene and I never like them when they've got bras on."
The film was written by Sharman Macdonald, Knightley's mother, who says her actress daughter was the inspiration for writing the period romance that also stars Siennna Miller and Matthew Rhys.
Knightley says that she was more uncomfortable with the fact that she had to sing in the movie, rather than having to appear naked.
She said: "I wasn't particularly pleased that Shar put singing into the script - in the first couple of takes I sounded like a pubescent boy." 
'The Edge of Love' is showing nationwide from today.
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Televangelist Bynum Dumps Beatdown Bishop

The holy war –- the one between televangelist Juanita Bynum and her estranged bishop husband Thomas Weeks III – is finally over, with Bynum agreeing to divorce Weeks. Praise the Lawd!

It's almost a year since Weeks delivered an almighty beatdown to Bynum in the parking lot of an Atlanta hotel after the couple met to work out their issues. Weeks pleaded guilty back in March to aggravated assault, and was sentenced to probation and community service.

Despite his plea, Weeks is still asking for Bynum pay for his lawyer fees. The holy couple has been married since 2002.

Johnnifer Going Wild at Joe's

Jennifer Aniston is cycling John Mayer through her usual romantic treadmill, taking the rocker to Joe Francis' Mexican palace – just like she did with Vince Vaughn.

Vaughniston was memorably spotted at the "Girls Gone Wild" founder's Punta Mita pad, and now, reports People, it's Aniston and Mayer who are enjoying the porntrepreneur's hospitality. Of course, they were just spotted on a double date with Courteney Cox and David Arquette.

Next up -– the sunset ride down the Seine.

Vatican to Hanks – Thou Shalt Not Film

After "The Da Vinci Code" blasted the Catholic church, what were the chances of the prequel getting the church's blessing to shoot in Rome?

Not a snowball's chance in – you know. The diocese of Rome gave the big Catholic hell, no to producers for "Angels and Demons," saying that it would be "unacceptable to transform churches into film sets so that his blasphemous novels can be made into mendacious films."

Party Favors: "Informant" Cleans Up a Hog Trough ... Wills Ridiculed for Robes ... Pellicano Wants Appeal

Our favorite story this morning: When the Matt Damon-Steven Soderbergh corporate thriller "The Informant" came to Moweaqua, Ill., they cleaned up the Hog Trough Too to make it The Cat and the Griddle. Everyone was, according to the Herald & Review, terrifically nice. ... Prince William got the piss taken by galpal Kate Middleton and bro Harry as he was inducted into the Order of the Garter, reports the Daily Mail. ... Convicted dirt-digger Anthony Pellicano has already launched his appeal against his guilty verdict in his federal racketeering trial.



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Ashley Tisdale Covers Rick Astley & Whitney Houston Songs

Ashley Tisdale has a lot to answer for after deciding to slaughter some classic pop songs from the 1980's.

The High School Musical villainess has recorded versions of five hit tunes from two decades ago, complete with her own annoying whiney voice.

The songs she has decided to ruin are:

*Belinda Carlisle's Heaven Is A Place On Earth
*Whitney Houston's I Wanna Dance
*Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give You Up
*Cyndi Lauper's Time After Time
*Cathy Dennis's Too Many Walls

If you feel like torturing your ears, have a listen to some of her musical clips below.

Kim Cattrall: 'Beautiful People Don't Always Have Great Sex'

Kim Cattrall has admitted that like her Sex And The City character Samantha Jones, she enjoys more satisfying intercourse in her mature years because she was too ashamed of her body in younger days.



The 51-year old, who plays insatiable man-eater in the TV series and film, admitted that as soon as she stopped worrying about body image, her sexual conquests improved greatly.



And the actress is now convinced that the best-looking people don't always have the greatest sex.



She tells Cosmopolitan magazine: "Everyone expects great-looking guys and beautiful women to be having great sex. That's not true. I always had a sexy image on camera, but I wasn't having a fabulous sex life.



"Why? Because you can't be intimate with an image. Similarly, I remember going to bed with a really good-looking ladies' man, in the hope he'd teach me what I'd been missing. He didn't."


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