Nadya Suleman might consider her decision to have octuplets "irrational," but she's still totally going to sell the birth video. Maybe Ashley Dupre can teach her how to meditate amid 14 screaming kids. Despite what Dr. Phil was told, someone's shopping a tape of Octo-Mom giving birth, shot by one of...

Meet Officer Vaughan Ettienne, the bodybuilder who learned the hard way you shouldn't write like a thug online, or a jury might just suspect you of mistreating a suspect. Ettienne (not pictured above, that's Herc from The Wire) once posted the following under a video clip of a cop punching a handcuf...

Stalker email, five minutes ago: "In case anyone cares...Whitney Port is at Tenjune right now." Is she drunk? Ha ha. Hard to tell. She is bumbling around, staring blankly into space, and looks as if it is taking all of her brain power to not fall over. But heck she looks like that when she is sober....

San Francisco Chronicle journalists are trying to talk investors into buying the foundering daily newspaper and restructuring it as a nonprofit, writes the SF Appeal. Who are the ink-stained wretches courting? The editorial workers would invest some of their own money, a Guild representative told th...

Why would Rihanna record a duet with her abusive boyfriend? Why would Marc Jacobs talk about his junk with Victoria Beckham? Did Quentin Tarantino just ask me for change? Tuesday is confusing. Rihanna might be a "loser" to Donald Trump for going back to Chris "I Will Kill You" Brown, but the singer ...

newVideoPlayer("/drdoom_gawker2.flv", 506, 423,"");Amid the weakest stock-market close in 12 years, Nouriel "Dr. Doom" Roubini decided to scare everyone further, by telling CNBC our depression will last three years, unless maybe we void all mortgages. Roubini reiterated that "most" American financia...

"It was hard for me to believe that you were entirely serious about that socialist question," he told reporters. [Washington Times]...

The economic meltdown is supposed to "reenergize [the] creative economy" of New York by breaking the city's expensive obsession with finance. Instead, it's wrecking artists' best shot at wealth: Through Larry Gagosian. The top-tier art dealer, who bridges the worlds of art and finance, seems panicke...

Peaches Geldof just made headlines in the London tabloids for announcing on Facebook she has "married" her lady DJ friend. It's a joke/publicity stunt, of course, but it did get us thinking: Is the 19-year-old heiress consciously trying to walk in Lindsay Lohan's tear-stained celebrity footsteps, or...

Condé Nast advertising is down a terrifying 30 percent this year, leading to speculation a bunch more people will be fired. Condé's CEO reassured everyone that, yes, they could be fired. Thanks? CEO Chuck Townsend's memo, via Peter Kafka at All Things Digital , is like one of the vague, color-code...