Jerome Allen "Jerry" Seinfeld doesn't mind being called a homewrecker. In fact, the comic and "The Marriage Ref" co-creator replied, "I love it, I love, I love it!" when we asked for his reaction to former contestant Howie Kohlenberg's claims that his appearance on the show last season led to his divorce."When people get upset I enjoy it," Seinfeld told at the All-Star Comedy Roundtable at the Nantucket Film Festival on Sunday. "That he's having problems, and blaming me, it's all -" Seinfeld paused, then added, "Anything that alleviates the withering, blithering boredom of existence I'm in favor of."  IKohlenberg, 47, a Manhattan cosmetics salesman, reportedly claimed that after he and his now-ex-wife appeared on the show, she became so obsessed with becoming a celebrity that she left him and their son to chase her Hollywood dreams.

La Toya Jackson Sister of Pop King Michael Jackson Said, Michael Jackson spent the last months of his life frightened and on edge, convinced that he would be killed by people wanting to get access to his valuable music catalogue.Jackson makes the claims in her new book, Starting Over, which also chronicles her own troubles, including an abusive marriage to her late ex-manager/husband, Jack Gordon.Jackson says that she and her brother went through similar experiences of being controlled and manipulated by shadowy figures that cut them off from their family."The difference is, I was eventually able to get away and start over, Michael can't start over," she said.

Yesterday marked the two-year anniversary of the King of Pop's death at age 50. Dr Conrad Murray is charged with involuntary manslaughter. He has pleaded "not guilty" and the trial is set for September.However, Jackson's sister called Murray "the fall guy." She said there were other people who needed to be investigated and described Jackson's death as part of a wide conspiracy. "This is definitely something that was premeditated, that they had planned to do, and they planned to take my brother out, and my brother knew it, and that's why my brother told me repeatedly, repeatedly and repeatedly, that this was going to happen to him," she said in an interview on Wednesday. "He explained to me, ‘It's because of my catalogue.'"

 

Anna Nicole Smith and one time husband J. Howard Marshall are both years dead. but their relationship has lived on in the form of an ongoing courtroom drama surrounding whether or not. Former Playboy playmate Anna Nicole Smith's heir is not entitled to share in the $1.6 billion estate of her elderly Texas husband, the Supreme Court ruled, apparently ending a Dickensian legal struggle.

Because the battle over oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II's wealth outlived most of the parties to the suits, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. compared it to "Bleak House," Charles Dickens' novel about a lawsuit that never ends.Vickie Lynn Marshall, who was better known as Anna Nicole Smith, married the 89 year old billionaire a year before his death in 1995. Although he had given her many gifts and apparently promised many more, she was not included in his will.

She sued in Texas probate court, alleging that Marshall's son Pierce, a prime heir, had conspired to deny her as much as $400 million that her late husband had promised. That case went to trial, and she lost.

She filed separately for bankruptcy in Los Angeles. Pierce Marshall filed a claim against her in California bankruptcy court, accusing her of defaming him. She filed a counter claim asserting that Pierce Marshall had schemed to deny her the money his father had promised, and won big. In 2000, the bankruptcy judge awarded her $475 million in damages, essentially the amount she had sought from the estate.

Since then, the case has been in the hands of appellate judges, seeking a ruling on which court had the authority to decide the matter: the state probate court in Texas or the federal bankruptcy court in California. The case made several trips to the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco as well as two trips to the Supreme Court.  

The US Supreme Court has ruled against Anna Nicole Smith’s heirs, bringing an end to their US$88 million claim to the estate of the late J. Howard Marshall II.

Marshall met Anna Nicole, a former playboy playmate, in a Houston strip club, and the two were wed in 1994 when he was 89 and she was 26. Marshall died the following year on August 4 after only 14 months of marriage to Smith; he failed to include her in his trust or will.

Smith challenged the will, claiming that her deceased husband promised to leave her more than $300 million in addition to the cash and gifts he gave her during their brief marriage. A bankruptcy judge in California originally decided in her favor, awarding her $475 million from Marshall’s estate, with a federal judge reducing that amount to $89 million in 2002.

Since then the case has been scattered over multiple jurisdictions in Louisiana, Texas, California and eventually in 2006 up to the Supreme Court, which allowed Smith the right to try and collect on the inheritance by sending the case back to the courts.

In 2010 however, a Houston jury said Marshall was mentally fit and under no undue pressure when he wrote a will leaving nearly all of his $1.6 billion estate to his son, Pierce Marshall, and nothing to Smith, a decision that has been upheld by the federal appeals court in a 5-4 vote.

The legal case began more than 15 years ago and many of the story’s principal protagonists have died, which further complicated the case that reached the highest US court.

The ruling, which was a huge victory for Marshall’s heirs, was important because it decided that the bankruptcy courts did not have constitutional authority to rule outside of a bankruptcy court on a state law counterclaim.

American musician, record producer and occasional actor Jack White and his wife, model,singer Karen Elson, have announced their divorce, but it doesn't seem like there are hard feelings between them. They plan to commemorate the ending of their six-year marriage with a divorce party this weekend."Karen Elson and Jack White announce today that they are getting divorced," a statement about their divorce reads. "We remain dear and trusted friends and co-parents to our wonderful children Scarlett and Henry Lee. We feel so fortunate for the time we have shared and the time we will continue to spend both separately and together watching our children grow.

"In honor of that time shared, we are throwing a divorce party," the statement continues. "An evening together in Nashville to reaffirm our friendship and celebrate the past and future with close friends and family."This is the second split for White this year. Earlier this year, Jack and Meg White officially dissolved the White Stripes. The musical partners had also been previously married to one another. White married Elson  in 2005 in Brazil, quickly expanding their family with a son and daughter. They reside in Nashville where the party is expected to take place on Friday night .An invitation says that the unusual party will have "dancing, photos, memories and drinks with alcohol in them. ... Please help us celebrate together this anniversary of the making and breaking of the sacred union of marriage with our best friends and animals.

ANGELINA JOLIE

On marriage :

“We are obviously extremely committed to the children and as parents together.”

On her mother’s death : 

“That will never heal. But somebody gave me great advice. They said to me, ‘You’ll never get over it and you’ll never want to.’ My mum was my role model. Her integrity was unbreakable. The world couldn’t darken her. And now my daughters are very strong, too.”

On her big family : 

“When Brad and I decided to have a large family we decided we’d only do it if we could be really hands-on and take the kids with us, seeing them every day. I am always there  on weekends, I only ever work a five-day week, and I am often there for breakfast or dinner. When I’m working they come up at lunch.”

On Brad :

“I am very lucky with Brad. He is a real gentleman, but he is also a real man’s man. He’s got the wonderful balance of being an extraordinary, great, loving father, a very, very intelligent man and physically he’s a real man in all things that it means."

BRAD PITT

On romance :

“There are no secrets at our house. We tell the kids, ‘Mom and dad are going off to kiss.’ They go, ‘Euw, gross!’ But we demand it.”

On Marriage :

“The kids ask about marriage. It’s meaning more and more to them. So it’s something we’ve got to look at. ”

On home life :

“Jolie and I do everything we can to carve out some semblance of normalcy for them, to re-create the kinds of moments that were special for us. It’s not unusual for the kids to be covered in paint. We have mud fights. It’s chaos from morning until the lights go out, and sometimes after that.”

On fatherhood :

“Kids hold up a mirror to you. You can’t make excuses. You’ve got to make sure they’ve brushed their teeth and eaten a good breakfast. You want to be present if they wake up with a bad dream.”