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Former “Baywatch” beauty Pamela Anderson said she was gang-raped by seven boys in high school — including her then-boyfriend — and was also subjected to sexual molestation by a babysitter between the ages of 6 and 10. Ms. Anderson, speaking during the launch of her Pamela Anderson Foundation, said she was raped, too, at the age of 12 by a 25-year-old, NBC News reported. “My first boyfriend in grade nine decided it would be funny to gang-rape me, with six of his friends,” she said, NBC reported, citing a transcript of her speech that was posted on her foundation’s website....

raq protester Sheehan returns to Crawford 11 minutes ago Cindy Sheehan, who gained international attention a year ago for protesting the Iraq war, returned to the town near President George W. Bush's ranch on Sunday to resume her protest. Talking to reporters, Sheehan defended the purchase of a 5-acre (2 hectare) plot of land for use as a protest location. The land was purchased by her supporters through a third party to keep secret her connection to it. "I just had a third party do it because I know that they wouldn't have sold property to me," Sheehan said. The...

Sharon Osbourne is still battling bulimia after 35 years with the eating disorder, she revealed on Monday. Sharon, 52, told the Sun newspaper she gorges on pasta and ice cream before forcing herself to be sick. The mum-of-three has had her stomach stapled and spent £300,000 on cosmetic surgery but said even this had not cured her of the condition. She still has impulsive eating binges and makes herself sick once a week, although this is down from a staggering four times a day. She said: "Some people do drink and drugs but for me it's food, food, food. It's...

Though Courtney Love's supposedly enrolled in a live-in rehab facility, the singer stepped out on Thursday night for some L.A. club-hopping, even popping up onstage to play with a local band. Eyewitnesses place Love at two shows less than a mile from each other in the heart of Los Feliz, near Los Angeles' Silver Lake hipster district. From the description of her interaction with clubgoers, it would seem Love went to Tangiers specifically to see power-rock trio the Hard Place, described in an LA Weekly club pick as having the same breathless impact as Nirvana did at Jabberjaw in the...

It happens to all Barbies at some point. The little girls who once idolized them grow up and lose interest, leaving them on the shelf as a reminder of quaint, pre-teen days gone by. Seeking to avoid that fate with her fourth album, "In the Zone," Britney Spears is now in search of a new, edgier identity. But while trying to recapture fans who have moved on to newer, edgier pop stars - Pink, Avril Lavigne, even ex Justin Timberlake - Spears ends up sounding more juvenile than ever. The former Queen of Teen Pop, who on her last album...