Scandals

82-Year-Old Lady on Metrorail Victim of Religious Discrimination

Another Case of Florida Fraud Found After Felon Wore "I Voted" Sticker to Meet With Probation Officer

Rick Scott's supposed plan to derail voter fraud in Florida resulted in nothing but long lines and the discovery of very little voter fraud. But now it seems there was at least one case of fraud in the past presidential election: a convicted felon wore an "I Voted" sticker to a meeting with her ... More >>

Pitbull Beats Lindsey Lohan Lawsuit, Defends First Amendment

When she's not appearing in a Los Angeles County criminal courtroom, Lindsey Lohan can be found filing frivolous lawsuits in the state of New York. And for nearly two years, the most frivolous of suits has been the grievance filed against Miami's Pitbull for his use of "disparaging" and "defamator ... More >>

MLB Steroid Scandal: What's Next for New Times

A Miami Clinic Supplies Drugs to Sports' Biggest Names

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Voter Suppression: Is Mayor Carlos Gimenez Like Fidel Castro?

In this Election, Rick Scott and Carlos Gimenez Are Acting Like Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez

Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. This week, Luke assesses the election debacle in Florida.On the last Saturday of early voting, my wife and I stood in a line that went around the ... More >>

Boy Scout "Perversion Files" Name 160 Florida Men, Nearly A Dozen From Miami

For two decades, Boy Scouts of America leaders kept exhaustive, secret lists of men banned from volunteering, mostly because they'd been caught molesting boys. Many of the thousands of men in the so-called "Perversion Files" were never charged with a crime, as the Scouts fought to keep the records p ... More >>

Kanye West Attacks Female Paparazzi in Miami Over Reggie Bush and Kim Kardashian Question

Kanye West and Kim Kardashian are getting into some pretty freaky sex practices. You know, watching each other's sex tapes. And now, public paparazzi beating. How much kink can Kimye take? At least, it seems to be getting Ms. Kardashian off. Just check the cut to see the grin on Kim's face as Kany ... More >>

Kanye West and Kim Kardashian Moving Into $10-Million Miami Mansion!?

Get ready, everyone. Kanye West and Kim Kardashian are house-hunting for $10-million Miami mansions. The fashionable, ego-centric couple was spotted wandering the MIA's rainy streets yesterday, stopping to check out lots of properties, and grabbing each other's delicious butt cheeks. Oh, to be ri ... More >>

Top Ten Rap Brawls Ever! From 2Pac to Diddy's Gun and Juggalos vs. Headbangers

The most recent edition of the annual BET Hip-Hop Awards was less trophies-and-speeches and more WWE Monday Night Raw. First and foremost, the Bawse Ricky Ross stirred up some seriously harsh vibes when he and Young Jeezy got into a spitty spat that resulted in the senseless smashing of a mirror. ... More >>

Kanye West Records Sex Tape With Kim Kardashian Look-Alike, Cries About It

Kanye West may be a genius, but he's no stranger to double standards. When his "perfect bitch" drops a sex tape, it's totally awesome and everyone should watch it over and over while gettin' freaky. But when Yeezy himself drops a sex tape, it's, like, the worst thing that's ever happened. Sadly fo ... More >>

Chris Brown Lying About Community Service for Rihanna Assault? Breezy's Probation Review

Shortly after beating a woman (you know, Rihanna) and pleading guilty to felony assault charges in 2009, the Superior Court of California slapped Chris Brown on the wrist with a remarkably lenient punishment. In short, the ill-tempered pop star received five years probation and was ordered to serv ... More >>

50 Cent Sues Florida Headphone Manufacturer for $346,429 Plus Future Interest

He's a platinum-selling rapper and movie star. He gets $90 out of your IRA every time you buy a Vitamin Water. He won a rumored $4-million lawsuit against Taco Bell, a hardworking group of first-generation Mexican-Americans who are guilty only of figuring out how to make both tacos and Doritos more ... More >>

Celtics Fans Planning Masked Protest of NBA Referees

Do you think Boston fans are blaming Wednesday's Celtics loss on the weak play of team's veteran core? No, of course not. They're blaming it on the refs. That's just what Boston Celtics fans do. They may have a long list of rivalries with other actual teams, but everyone knows the uniform they despi ... More >>

Connie Mack's Campaign Manager Sends Crazy Letter to George LeMieux Over Charlie Sheen Joke

Yesterday George LeMieux made a mildly amusing (by GOP standards anyway) sort-of-zinger comparing his Republican Senate Primary opponent Connie Mack to Charlie Sheen. Well, now Mack's campaign manager Jeff Cohen has responded with this smarmy, hyperbolic, over-the-top letter addressed to LeMieux. Co ... More >>

Rev. Neil Doherty Hit With $100 Million Judgment in Miami Catholic Church Sex Abuse Suit

​A local jury has returned a $100 million judgment in a civil lawsuit against Rev. Neil Dohetry, a former Catholic priest with the Archdiocese of Miami. Although the money might be impossible to collect, the judgment is the biggest ever levied in a case concerning the sexual abuse of children ... More >>

Pitbull's Lawyers Question Lindsay Lohan's Residency, Cite TMZ and Wikipedia in Court Documents

​Lindsay Lohan's out of jail. But her legal problems aren't even close to being over. The LiLo v. Pitbull, Nee-Yo, and Afrojack saga continues as Mr. 305's lawyers have presented a notice of removal in an effort to shift the case from county to federal court. The document, filed last week in ... More >>

Lindsay Lohan's Dad Arrested on Domestic Violence Charges in Tampa

​It only makes sense that Michael Lohan, the man whose total lack of basic human and parenting skills gives us some empathy for the hot mess that is Lindsay Lohan, now makes his home in Florida. It is, after all, a sunny place for shady people, and Lohan was arrested last night in Tampa for some v ... More >>

Florida Man Arrested for Hacking Scarlett Johansson's Nude Pictures

​Christopher Chaney, a Florida man, has been arrested for hacking into dozens of email accounts belonging to celebrities and others in the entertainment industry. Chaney has been confirmed to be the man who leaked nude pictures of Scarlett Johansson online, but also targeted other celebr ... More >>

Shaquille O'Neal wages war against a Miami computer geek

Shaq's Wire-Wearing Mistress and the Extortion Claim

Extortion, espionage, mistresses, and Delonte West's penis. Just how crazy is Shaquille O'Neal's personal life? Last February, local prosecutors met with Vanessa Lopez, a woman claiming to be O'Neal's former mistress, about an alleged extortion plot, according to a Florida Department of Law Enf ... More >>

Shaquille O'Neal's Miami Beach Police Corruption: The Most Salacious Legal Complaint You'll Read Today

​The mainstream media doesn't quite know how to handle a lawsuit in which a convicted felon has accused Shaquille O'Neal -- one of basketball's most beloved characters -- of attempting to using police connections to try to frame an enemy for possession of child porn. The Associated Press and ... More >>

Dick Pic Nation: Weiner, Favre, and the Death of the American Sex Scandal

House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer: "What the HELL is a Twitter?"​Welp, it's official -- the Honorable Dong from New York's 9th District is "Weiner" by both name and hobby. Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner admitted yesterday that he did indeed tweet a picture of his stiffy to the entire Internet last w ... More >>

Brad Pitt, Bruce Willis, Lindsay Lohan Before They Were Famous: Celebrities in Food Commercials

Lindsay Lohan with freckles and a clean rap sheet.​We all have to start somewhere. Celebrities usually begin with commercials -- mainly because it's easier to shill for a burger joint than the next $500 million action flick. We're sure many actors thought they'd do one commercial that would ... More >>

The more Rick Ross lies, the more we love him

Slick Rick at Club Cinema January 22

George Neville Rucker, Accused Predator Priest, Allowed Aboard Voyages of Discovery Cruise to South America

via bishop-accountability.orgGeorge Neville Rucker​A defrocked Los Angeles priest accused of sexually molesting 33 girls shipped off yesterday from the Bahamas for a three-month tour of South America on a South Florida based cruise line.Voyages of Discovery, a Fort Lauderdale-based cruise company, ... More >>

Catholic Church Full of Gay Priests, Claims Father Cutié

​For years, Father Alberto Cutié was one of the Catholic Church's most media savvy priests. His stints hosting and guesting on television and radio shows and doling out relationship advice in books and newspaper columns earned him the nickname "Father Oprah." Though, the media and his burgeoning ... More >>

Archbishop Thomas Wenski: Tea Party conservative and church radical

McSweeney Man

Jay-Z shows up on Miami PD's gang web page

Golfing With the Tribe

Willard Trent Sues Archdiocese of Miami for $5 Million Over Alleged Sexual Abuse

Fr. Thomas Dennehy, who died in 1999.​Willard Trent, 13-years-old at time of alleged abuse​In what could be the first test of its new leadership, the Archdiocese of Miami is defending itself against charges it concealed the sexual abuse of at least one altar boy since the late 1960s.In a lawsuit ... More >>

Walter Coleman, Retired Priest, Sued for Molesting an Altar Boy in Connecticut

St. Thomas Aquinas Church in Fairfield, CT where Coleman worked at the time of the alleged abuse​It's not just disgraced Latin American dictators who come to South Florida to bury their dirty pasts. Apparently, men of the cloth do as well.Walter Philip Coleman, a retired priest now living in Pompa ... More >>

Shaq Hit With Lawsuit For Attempting to Plant Child Porn on Former Employee's Computer

​Former Miami Heat star Shaquille O'Neal has been hit with an explosive lawsuit filed in Miami-Dade court alleging that the hard court legend planted child pornography in an attempt to frame a former employee, and hacked into various personal accounts of the employee and a former mistress. We've b ... More >>

Marlins Catcher Ronny Paulino Suspended for Taking Diet Pills, Allegedly

Ronny Paulino in his former Pirates gear​Marlins catcher Ronny Paulino is not exactly the slimmest slugger on the roster. Like a trophy housewife he often struggles with his weight, and decided to take the easy way out and get some pharmaceutical help. That's his story anyway. Paulino claims the w ... More >>

Doin' Easy Time: Eight Celebs Who Got Off Light

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.​Did you really think Lindsay Lohan was going to do any hard time for breaking probation yet again? There's better chances of her staring in Freaky Friday II. Sadly, her short-lived incarceration will just hasten what seems more and more likely to be h ... More >>

Lindsay Lohan Spent New Year's Eve on Senate Candidate Jeff Greene's Yacht?

via Salon​Billionaire Democratic Senate candidate Jeff Greene sure has some interesting friends. Mike Tyson (convicted of rape) was the best man at his wedding. "Hollywood Madam" Heidi Fliess (convicted of tax evasion) was a yearlong house guest.Now, it appears he once joined Lindsay Lohan (h ... More >>

Drug dealer Rick Ross sues rapper Rick Ross, legal craziness ensues

Rick Ross vs. Rick Ross Lawsuit Complaint: Top 10 Craziest Excerpts (UPDATED With Full Court Documents!)

​Former drug dealer, Los Angeles-based Ricky "Freeway" Ross, has been threatening Miami rapper Rick Ross with a lawsuit for a while. But this past Friday his attorney, Melvin Sharpe Jr., finally filed the paperwork in the Los Angeles federal district court. Crossfade got its grubby paws on th ... More >>

Michelle "Bombshell" McGee Hosting Party at LIV at the Fontainebleau

via TMZ​Fresh off a skanky smack down at the hands of Tina Fey on this weekend's Saturday Night Live, Michelle "Bombshell" McGee is set to guest host at LIV. Yes, the lady famous for flirting with Nazi propaganda and giving Sandra Bullock's husband full range of her tattooed body will be coming to ... More >>

Miami Herald, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Newspaper, Now Trafficking in Sandra Bullock Nazi Sex Tape Rumors

​We certainly aren't above trafficking in celeb rumors, but we haven't won 20 Pulitzer prizes. In fact, when we do delve into pop culture hearsay we at least make sure it's relevant to the local community, and report it with a heavy tone of skepticism when applicable.The Miami Herald apparently do ... More >>

PrunkTV: Lil Jon, LMFAO, and Steve Aoki

Welcome to PrunkTV, a free online "webinar" for future rock stars. Like the Ancient Iron Raven, WMC spread its Vulcan wings and soared above our majestic city this past weekend. If you watch today's episode of Prunk, you will feel so much better for the rest of your life, dear website participant. ... More >>

More Gerald Posner Plagiarism in Miami Babylon, From New Times, PBS, and Many Others

Back on March 16, Riptide broke the news that South Beach-based author Gerald Posner's latest book, Miami Babylon, had stolen eight passages from Frank Owen's 2003 work Clubland. photo by Bill Cooke New Times and a doctoral student have found more than a dozen new instances of plagi ... More >>

Ricky Martin Joins Forces with Habitat For Humanity in Haiti and Chile Relief

​Locally transplanted Puerto Rican superstar and Latin heartthrob Ricky Martin has always had a strong inclination toward philanthropic ambitions, frequently using his own dough and fame over the years to lend a helping hand to worthy causes. In fact, he has his very own organization, the Ricky Ma ... More >>

Miami Man Claims to Have Invented the iPod, but Sarah Jessica Parker Screwed Him Over

​Franz A. Wakefield, a Miami resident, claims that he not only came up with the idea and names of Apple's entire iPod, iTunes, and iPhone line, but that actress Sarah Jessica Parker totally screwed him over in the deal. Wakefield claims he won a 17th Congressional District Arts Competiti ... More >>

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