Lately, we’ve been on a bit of a legal kick over here at Jossip headquarters.
First, of course, there was the fight for custody of Anna Nicole Smith’s fortune, followed quickly by Joe “Tax Evasion Gone Wild” Francis’ incarceration, Don Imus’ wrongful termination (or was it breach of contract?) suit, Jared Paul Stern’s unabashedly settlement-motivated […]

TMZ paying off public officials for publicly available information? As if! But that’s not the way California State Assemblywoman Julia Brownley sees it, which is why she’s introduced legislation to make it illegal to pay for information about criminal investigations. (Why there aren’t already laws on the books prohibiting these types of bribes is, um, […]

May 8, 2007 (Memo from Bill Keller to NYT staff: Jill Abramson was in an accident)
Jill Abramson was involved in a traffic accident this morning, and is in the emergency ward at Bellevue Hospital. She is conscious (in fact, she managed to be both funny and stoic through her morphine haze, so the essential Jill […]

In precedent-setting legal news, a judge ruled today to reduce assault charges against former Creed frontman Scott Stapp, who is accused of intentionally hurling a (presumably empty) bottle of Orangina at his wife’s—what’s the word? Oh yeah, face.
The court’s rationale? “Sticks and stones will break my bones, but an ice cold Orangina will never […]

Apparently, not everyone agrees with the New York Post’s decision to confront Jared Paul Stern and Ian Spiegelman’s allegations head-on in Friday’s Page Six. However, the Post nevertheless stands by their decision in today’s paper.

Because nothing shows an unwavering commitment to truth, justice and the pursuit of journalistic integrity like reprinting the unsolicited payola confessional […]

Earlier, we told you Page Six had taken a preemptive strike at former freelancer Jared Paul Stern in a lengthy item entitled “Lies & Smears Aimed At The Post.” Despite the fact that, as recently as four months ago, the very same column attempted to cast Stern as a martyr, today they opted to actively […]