Blog Posts by Kathleen Perricone

Marshall. (Jim Spellman/WireImage)

Penny Marshall is paying the price for being such a huge Los Angeles Lakers fan. The film director and "Laverne & Shirley" actress was reportedly scammed out of $5,000 by a man claiming to be the personal assistant of Lamar Odom, a former Lakers star best known for being the husband of Khloe Kardashian. The bizarre story began last month when Marshall, 69, was approached by the mystery man at a home game and given what he told her was Odom's phone number. Over the course of the following days, the two exchanged friendly text messages before "Odom" asked her to loan his assistant the money — and she did.

Although a rep for Marshall would not comment on the scam, a source tells TMZ that after forking over the five grand, she never heard from "Odom" or the assistant again and she got suspicious. She then got the contact information for the real basketball player, who has not played for the Lakers since last year after being traded to the Dallas Mavericks, and he informed her that he does not even have an assistant. According to TMZ, Marshall has filed a police report with the LAPD and they are opening a grand theft investigation.

Scout. (Andrew H. Walker/Getty Images)

Demi Moore and Bruce Willis' middle daughter Scout is giving them trouble once again. The 20-year-old Brown University student was arrested on Monday night in New York City after a police officer saw her drinking an eight-ounce Pakistani beer out in the open in the city's Union Square just before 7 p.m. After she was caught, Willis presented an identification card with the name Katherine Kelly, but then admitted, "My name is Scout Willis," according to the criminal report. "The first ID isn't mine. My friend gave it to me. I don't know Katherine Kelly."

Willis, who was in the Big Apple to perform with her band Gus + Scout (with Rolling Stone founder Jan Wenner's son Gus), was booked for criminal impersonation and a violation of the open-container law, both misdemeanors. She was eventually released without bail on Tuesday morning, but will have to face the charges in Manhattan Criminal Court on July 31.

Octomom. (Clint Brewer Images/Splash News)

Get ready to see a lot more of Octomom. Nadya Suleman will be stripping at a West Palm Beach gentlemen's club over the course of five nights next month in order to help dig herself out of debt. According to TMZ, the single mom of 14 (she had six kids before the octuplets were born in 2009) will be earning "thousands" for the gig at T's Lounge, which will consist of two shows a night from July 11-15. But before fans get their dollar bills ready, they should be warned: Suleman will only be topless and has no plans to give private lap dances in addition to her stage show.

The source who spoke to TMZ also tells the site that Suleman, 36, now feels "sexually liberated" after filming a solo sex video last month. While embarking on her new "movie" career, she told TMZ that she hoped to use her salary to buy a "safe" home for her children. The four-bedroom residence the family of 15 had been living in will go up on the auction block June 6 because Suleman stopped making payments on it a year ago. The La Habra, California, home was initially supposed to be sold off in early May, but then Suleman filed for bankruptcy, which delayed the process.

Monaghan. (Albert L. Ortega/WireImage)

An airplane isn't the only thing that crashed on "Lost" — so did the relationship between the show's two stars, Dominic Monaghan and Matthew Fox. On Sunday, two years after the hit ABC series went off the air, Monaghan accused Fox of abusing women in a bizarre Twitter conversation with a fan to promote his new documentary, "Wild Things." When the fan asked the actor to get the former "Party of Five" star to join the social network, Monaghan responded, "He beats women. No thanks." In a follow-up tweet, he reiterated his previous statement, adding, "Not isolated incidents. Often."

Indeed, Fox was accused of attacking a female party bus driver last August when she would not allow him to board her vehicle because he was so intoxicated. According to the woman, the married-with-children actor punched her in both the chest and crotch after he refused to get off her bus. "He just kept staring at me with his mouth wide open and not saying anything," explained Heather Bormann at the time. "I told him, 'You have to leave buddy. You are trespassing on my bus.'" The charges against Fox — who also got arrested for DUI on May 7 — ended up being dropped, but the victim still planned to sue him for $25,000.

Simpson and baby Maxwell. (Tony Duran for PEOPLE)

After what felt like an eternity waiting for her to get here, Jessica Simpson's newborn daughter Maxwell Drew has finally made her debut to the world. In exclusive photos that will appear in People magazine on newsstands this Friday, the new mom proudly shows off her adorable little bundle of joy, who was delivered via c-section on May 1 and weighed 9 pounds, 13 ounces. On the cover, Simpson, dressed in a cream-colored nightgown, happily cradles a sleeping baby Maxwell. In the accompanying article, she gushes, "Life has completely changed. From how I sleep to what I think about, Maxwell has definitely taken over everything!"

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Simpson, 31, and her fiancé, former NFL player Eric Johnson, also reveal that their first child has inherited her famous mother's eyes and her daddy's calm demeanor. "We stare at her all the time," says the fashion mogul of Maxwell, whose first name is Johnson's middle name (Drew is Simpson's mother Tina's maiden name). "We can't get enough!" Simpson also added that recovering from her c-section has been rough and breastfeeding baby Maxwell is "a full-on job."

Lindsay. (Andy Kropa/WireImage)

So much for that reconciliation. Lindsay Lohan's oftentimes estranged father Michael says in a new interview that he believes his famous daughter's use of prescription pills that "she doesn't need" are negatively affecting her acting abilities. "I have to say this … on 'SNL,' Lindsay was not using any illicit drugs or drinking, but she still is on prescription drugs that they gave her," Michael told CelebrityVIPLounge.com. Although he would not disclose the exact drugs Lindsay is on, court documents from 2010 revealed that at the time she was taking anti-depressants Zoloft and Trazodone, attention deficit medication Adderall, and the super-strength painkiller Dilaudid for her previous dental issues. "The meds that they give her are meds that they say she needs, but she doesn't need them. But they kind of make her flat. She's not acting at a full potential. It's like the screen is down over her."

So when he heard that she had scored a guest role on "Glee" — playing herself — he suggested to her that she give up her habit, which he claims she did for a few days. "I said, 'Linds, get off the damn medication and let people see who you really are," Michael, 52, adds. "And there were tears in my eyes when I watched 'Glee.' That was Lindsay. Yeah, that was her acting. That is Lindsay Lohan at the 'Parent Trap,' 'Freaky Friday,' and 'Mean Girls' potential. That is what she was."

Left: Shiloh in March. (Juan Sharma/PacificCoastNews.com) Right: Maddox in 2006. (Buchan/Issaei; PacificCoastNews.com)

With two older brothers she idolizes, it's impossible for Shiloh Jolie-Pitt, the daughter of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie who turned 6 on Sunday, not to mimic their style -- but the little tomboy actually raids their closets! Over the past few years as she's traded dresses for cargo pants, Shiloh has stepped out all over the world in fashions her brothers Maddox, 10, and Pax, 8, have already rocked.

Miley looks happy with Happy. (RS/X17online.com)

Miley Cyrus' new puppy is one lucky dog! A week after her rescue pup Happy accompanied her on a trip to Miami, the star had the pampered pooch cradled in her arm while running errands in Studio City yesterday.

Dressed in a black-and-white skeleton-inspired mini-dress and carrying a leopard-print bag, the 19-year-old went shopping and grabbed a bite to eat with Happy in tow. During the excursion, Miley logged lots of snuggle time with the dog, a possible Rottweiler-beagle mix, whom she rested on her shoulder and nuzzled while she walked.

Happy joined Miley's pooch posse earlier this month after the actress found the dog abandoned in a box at Walmart and brought him home. Just two weeks later, she and her boyfriend, Liam Hemsworth, adopted another dog, Mary Jane, bringing her total canine count up to five, including her other dogs Lila, Floyd, and Ziggy.