Morning Links: Stalker who videotaped Erin Andrews researched other women online
A man who stalked and secretly filmed sports reporter Erin Andrews in her hotel room surreptitiously videotaped some 16 other women and did background searches on many other female celebrities, prosecutors say. The prosecutors' documents, which were filed to convince a judge to jail Michael David Barrett for 27 months, claim Barrett "victimized approximately 16 other women in almost precisely the
same way he victimized" Andrews, posting at least 32 "hotel peephole
videos" to the web. Barrett also may have intended to film other celebrities -- he ran Internet background searches on 30 women, including "other female
sports reporters, as well as other television personalities" whose names were sealed. The same documents say Erin Andrews continues to be harassed by fans and has nightmares about the events, and is requesting $335,506.27 in restitution from Barrett.
The pastor who performed the wedding ceremony of Tiger Woods and Elin Nordegren at a Barbados resort says if they abide by his advice, they will "forgive each other ... Be there for each other and it will work out." The Rev. Ricky Kirton said he has been praying for the pair since he heard of the Thanksgiving car crash that revealed Tiger's secret life. Kirton says he hasn't spoken to the couple since their 2004 wedding at the swanky Sandy Lane resort in Barbados, and they refused the premarital counseling h offers every couple. But he recalls Woods and Nordegren as "charismatic," "attractive," and apparently in love.
A lawsuit filed by blogger Perez Hilton against the manager of the Black Eyed Peas has been confidentially settled. Hilton wanted more than $25,000, but sources tell TMZ that the manager is making a donation to charity. Liborio "Polo" Molina socked Perez outside a Toronto club on June 22, after Perez, who is openly gay, used an anti-gay slur against singer Will.i.am during a verbal altercation. Perez posted the photo at left after the attack, which left him with a black eye. The whole crowd was in Toronto for the MuchMusicVideo Awards. Molino also faced criminal charges, but those were dropped after he made a donation to a family violence shelter and wrote Perez a letter in which he apologized -- sort of. Molino wrote, "I apologize for what I did ... even though you engaged in highly offensive comments, including a homophobic slur to my clients, I acknowledge that these kinds of issues should not be resolved through a physical response."
Michael Jackson's longtime doctor (and the rumored biological father of his children Prince and Paris) has maintained for months that Jackson often urinated into cups and bottles in the presence of others, which Dr. Arnold Klein said Jackson thought was humorous. Although the claim was dismissed by Michael's brother Jackie as "absurd," a corner's report did find "a closed bottle of urine" on a chair in the bedroom in which Jackson died. Klein argued that this weird habit of Jackson's explained how a young boy who accused the singer of molesting him knew about skin discoloration on Jackson's private parts. Klein said Jackson started the habit when he was a child on tour with limited access to bathrooms on the road and on stage.
Rapper Lil Wayne was scheduled to report to jail Tuesday to start serving his yearlong sentence on a gun charge but he needed some dental work done. His lawyer, Stacey Richman, says Wayne is scheduled to have surgery on a cracked tooth in Miami on Friday and will need 10 days to recover. Judge Charles H. Solomon gave Wayne until March 2 to get that sentence started. "I don't want this to get pushed back anymore," he told Wayne. "This is the last adjournment."
Lindsay Lohan's father Michael admitted in a Long Island court Tuesday that he's a deadbeat dad. The hearing was closed, so nobody knows officially how much Michael owes ex-wife Dina Lohan, but she has said he was seven months behind and owes some $15,100. Lohan reportedly promised he'd be up to date by the time he returns to court March 24.
Jennifer Aniston has some nice things to say about Gerard Butler, her costar in the movie "The Bounty Hunter," who showed up to join her pals at a 41st birthday celebration last week at a Mexican resort. "We just had so much fun [making the movie] together, you know. He's just fun. Gerry's the most unpretentious guy," Aniston told "Access Hollywood" in a multi-part interview that began airing Tuesday night. "He's a guy's guy," she said, "but he's absolutely the most lovely and sort of self-deprecating [person] and just what you see is what you get. We look at work the same way … We always had each other's back."
Only 6 weeks old, and already the first child of quarterback Tom Brady and supermodel Gisele Bundchen has made a magazine cover. Baby Benjamin is all bundled up in his first public appearance on the cover of the Brazilian magazine Quem. He was born Dec. 8 in the bathtub of Bundchen and Brady's home in Boston, after what Bunchen has said was a pain-free labor. On the Brazilian TV show "Fantastico," Bundchen said, "[It] wasn’t painful, not even a
little bit. The whole time, my head was so focused — every contraction, the baby
is closer, the baby is closer. So, it wasn’t like, 'Oh, what pain.' It was, 'With every contraction, he is getting closer to me.'"
The family of Olympic skater Nancy Kerrigan expressed disappointment that the death of her father has been ruled a homicide. But the coroner has found that a violent assault by his son on Jan. 24 caused the death of Daniel Kerrigan, 70, who suffered from heart disease. The statement from the office of DA Gerry Leone said that Daniel Kerrigan died from "cardiac dysrhytmia following a physical altercation with neck compression, causing injury to the neck in the form of a cartilage fracture to the larynx area." Mark Kerrigan, 45, was charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon on an elderly person and causing serious bodily injury after he attacked his father during an argument over using the phone. "The Kerrigan family is extremely disappointed that the medical examiner would release a cause of death without having all of the relevant facts," says the family attorney.
-- Anne Neville