Inhaltsverzeichnis für March 8, 2021 in Globe

REALITY beauty Bethenny Frankel’s romance with ex Paul Bernon is back on! The former Real Housewives of New York City star, 50, and Paul, 32, were spotted together in Miami in January and were later snapped holding hands in his hometown of Boston. In an Instagram post on Valentine’s Day, the Skinny-girl tycoon shared a selfie with Paul standing behind her, writing: “Behind every woman… (you fill in the blanks here.) Happy Valentine’s Day xoxo.” The two hooked up in 2018 after Bethenny’s on-off boyfriend Dennis Shields died at 51 of a prescription pill overdose. The Big Apple babe gave her Beantown beau the boot last fall — saying geography made it impossible to sustain a relationship, according to sources.…

After years of long and painful family legal battles to regain her financial freedom, BRITNEY SPEARS won big in her latest attempt to rid herself of dad JAMIE SPEARS’ control over her life. While the Toxic singer wants his conservatorship totally gone, he’ll now have to share duties with a financial institution appointed to protect the pop star’s $60 million fortune. It’s a major step for the 39-year-old, who’s refusing to perform until Jamie is sent packing! Meanwhile, thanks to the new documentary Framing Britney Spears, fans are demanding apologies from folks who did her wrong, like famous first boyfriend JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE, now 40. “I’ve seen the messages,” professes the hunk, now married to JESSICA BIEL. “I am deeply sorry for the times in my life where my actions contributed to…

PENNILESS Paulina Porizkova says she was driven to depend on pals for food after the 2019 death of her estranged Cars frontman husband, Ric Ocasek. As GLOBE reported, bitter Ric, 75, cut the former cover girl, 55, out of his will for “abandoning” him during their pending divorce — despite her caring for him until the end at his Manhattan townhouse. “I literally went through a year of asking my friends to buy us groceries,” says the mom of two.…

AMISSOURI funeral home’s van — and the corpse inside — were swiped when the driver left his motor running while ducking into a convenience store! St. Louis County police say two suspects, Brian Schaake, 38, and his sidekick, Christina Kalb, tore out of a QuikTrip lot in a white 2012 Nissan NV1500 van that was carrying precious cargo — a cadaver in a casket! Lawmen say the van, which prominently features decals for the William C. Harris Funeral Home, was left running while the driver dashed into the store to use the bathroom. When he was done, his ride and the body were gone. Police say surveillance footage showed Schaake and Kalb, who are both residents of Springfield, Ill., walk across the street from a drugstore, get into the van…

FEISTY Miranda Lambert can’t get to Texas fast enough for a trio of back-to-back concerts, say sources who insist she’s telling hubby Brendan McLoughlin to stay home when she goes! A source snitched to GLOBE the gig is coming at just the right time — because the Bluebird singer, 37, is desperate to fly away! Miranda eagerly announced she’d be playing Billy Bob’s Texas in Fort Worth April 22 to April 24. “First concert in over a year. Texas, I can’t wait to come home!” she gushes on Instagram, along with a heart emoji. “She’s saying this is work and there’s no need for him to come along — but that’s not the whole truth and he knows it!” spills an insider. “Secretly, Miranda’s looking forward to some alone time…

ROCKET Man Elton John has dropped at least 30 pounds on a no-nonsense diet, and now alarmed pals fear the hollow-eyed 73-year-old superstar is headed for a health catastrophe! A source tattles the five-foot-eight Bennie and the Jets rocker’s “clothes are hanging on him since dropping to 192 pounds last year” — and he’s lost about 30 pounds since then. “His sparkly blazers have to be taken in again,” snitches an insider. “Elton thinks he looks great, but he really shouldn’t lose anymore. “He needs to add some fleshiness to those sunken cheeks and hollowed eyes. “It’s worrying to the people around him.” Elton’s been living on steamed vegetables, fruit, a piece of steamed fish and brown rice, according to the insider, who claims the star “usually ends up pecking…

CASH-STRAPPED Priscilla Presley is holding the “king of all yard sales” after selling her lavish Beverly Hills mansion and downsizing to a condo! Sources claim the 75-year-old ex-wife of “The King of Rock and Roll” has little money coming in and is selling off thousands of items to keep her head above water! “Priscilla took millions from Elvis’ estate, but all that money is gone,” says an insider, who insists The Naked Gun actress once got a $3 million payoff and $1 million a year for ten years from her late ex-hubby’s holdings. Though she got $13 million for her mansion, Priscilla owed $6 million on the seven-bedroom palace, according to the insider, who claims, “She’s alone and needs cash to see her through the rest of her years.” Her…

REALITY babe Heidi Montag shot down rumors she’s carrying her second child — by admitting she has simply packed on the pounds! “No I am not pregnant yet,” tweets the 34-year-old The Hills: New Beginnings cutie. “Just a little overweight.” The hefty hubbub began after Heidi was photographed splashing in the California surf in a barely there, neon-green bikini. To cap off the controversy, Heidi also tweets: “There would be no show without me — so you’re welcome.”…

THE CROWN star Gillian Anderson has won a tug of love over the show’s creator, Peter Morgan! Pals say Gillian, 52, was stunned after the couple’s four-year relationship blew up in December and Peter, 57, quickly “moved on” with gorgeous Brit socialite Jemima Khan, 47. But after just a few weeks, Morgan has gone crawling back to Gillian, leaving Jemima “shocked and confused,” pals say. “Peter pursued Jemima, rather than the other way around. He persuaded her that they would be great together but has now gone back to Gillian,” tattles a source. “It seems really rather unstable. He had said he was serious about Jemima and she was certainly serious about the romance with him.” Gillian was reportedly “bemused” by how quickly her ex hooked up with Jemima, a…

After a 17-year estrangement, MSNBC talking head Rev. AL SHARPTON, 66, has filed for divorce from wife KATHY JORDAN SHARPTON. They broke up way back in 2004 after 24 YEARS together! Third time’s a pain for Younger star HILARY DUFF, expecting baby No. 3 at 33 with current spouse MATTHEW KOMA. She’s suffering from pregnancy sciatica, a condition causing shooting pains in the lower back and legs. After welcoming secret twin babies via a surrogate last June, former SNL star KRISTEN WIIG, 47, has now landed a secret husband. She privately exchanged vows with her fiancé of two years, AVI ROTHMAN. PRINCESS EUGENIE and hubby JACK BROOKSBANK welcomed their first royal tot, a baby boy. Cats star REBEL WILSON, 41, is moping over her breakup with boytoy beer heir JACOB…

ALEX TREBEK’S loving legacy continues from beyond the grave — his family has donated a chunk of the late Jeopardy! host’s wardrobe to down-on-their-luck people who need to spiff up for job interviews! Matthew Trebek packed up 14 suits, 58 dress shirts, 300 neckties and more from his dad’s closet for The Doe Fund, which helps folks get back on their feet after bouts with addiction, homelessness and incarceration. Alex, 80, died Nov. 8, 2020, from pancreatic cancer.…

THE yolk’s on folks who eat eggs, according to a new study that suggests consuming just one a day increases the risk of death by 14 percent! Chinese researchers tracked the diet of more than half a million Americans and found those who consumed 300 milligrams of cholesterol daily — in addition to eating whole eggs with cholesterol-laden yolks — were 19 percent more likely to die! According to co-author Professor Yu Zhang, of Zhejiang University, egg eating coupled with elevated cholesterol consumption “were associated with higher all-cause cardiovascular disease and cancer mortality.” The study suggests limiting artery-clogging cholesterol in the diet and “replacing whole eggs with egg whites/substitutes or other alternative protein sources for facilitating cardiovascular health and long-term survival.”…

HEARTTHROB Robert Redford is launching a comeback at age 84 — and sources say second wife Sibylle Szaggars is pushing him out the door! While the Hollywood legend loves his retirement, 64-year-old German-born artist Sibylle believes his talent is too great to put to pasture — and that’s lit a small fire under his boots, spies dish. Despite appearing in The Old Man & the Gun and the Avengers: Endgame blockbuster two years ago, the Butch Cassidy hunk walked away from movies in 2019, saying he was tired of “endless meetings and reading scripts.” But an insider says “his desire to spend as much time as possible with Sibylle” prompted his retirement to focus on “horseback riding, collect antiquing and collecting art.” Now that he has his wife’s blessing, Redford…

RAPPER Nicki Minaj’s estranged, 64-year-old dad, Robert Maraj, has been killed by a hit-and-run driver. New York’s Nassau County police say Maraj was rammed while crossing a Mineola, N.Y., intersection. He battled for life in a hospital before finally succumbing to his injuries on Feb. 13, police say. The 38-year-old songbird has accused her dad of being “abusive” and says her goal was to make enough money so she and her mom, Carol, could leave him. “That was what always drove me,” she says.…

HOLY crap! Adolf Hitler’s personal white wooden toilet seat from his Bavarian mountain retreat — liberated by American GI Ragnvald C. Borch at the end of World War II — just fetched $18,750 at auction! OREGON’S Crater Lake is the deepest body of water in North America, bottoming out at 1,932 feet. The lake was created by a volcano explosion 8,000 years ago. MOMMIE Dearest Joan Crawford starred in at least one porn flick, Velvet Lips, before making it big in Hollywood. Word is her studio, MGM, shelled out about $25,000 to buy — and burn — all the negatives. NOT everything’s big in Texas! America’s smallest wild cat, the jaguarundi, lives in the Lone Star State feasting on small game. The 30-inch long predator, related to the mountain lion, is endangered.…

EARTHSHAKING new documents contain a shocking admission from the Pentagon — America’s military has been testing unearthly technology salvaged from crashed UFOs! While the confession created shock waves at other news organizations, GLOBE readers already knew the Army, Navy and Air Force have been reverse engineering alien technology. Last week, GLOBE uncovered — and revealed — U.S. armed forces have been filing patents for mind-blowing weapons and time-bending devices engineers say could not be from Earth and were taken from spaceships. Now, 150 documents released by the Pentagon under a Freedom of Information Act request filed three years ago confess the military has been working on advanced technology recovered from UFO wreckage. According to researcher Anthony Bragalia, who requested the files, the documents show tests were performed by Bigelow Aerospace…

JOHNNY LEE’S PARKINSON BATTLE Country star JOHNNY LEE wants to be left in the dark when it comes to his battle with Parkinson’s disease, a disorder of the central nervous system that affects movement and leads to tremors. “I don’t really know anything about it, and I don’t want to know anything about it,” confesses the 74-year-old singer, who shares the disease with fellow hitmakers OZZY OSBOURNE, NEIL DIAMOND, LINDA RONSTADT and JEFF COOK. “I guess it kills you. But people live a long life with it.” The singer, who’s had two brain surgeries since his 2018 diagnosis, recently released a new album titled Everything’s Gonna Be Alright. He adds: “I look forward to going out singing. I don’t look forward [to] sitting on a stool while I am singing.”…

LONGTIME soap star Cameron Mathison followed up a 14-year stint on All My Children with gigs on Good Morning America, Entertainment Tonight and the Hallmark Channel’s Home & Family, which he’s co-hosted with Debbie Matenopoulos since 2018. Here are ten things you don’t know about the 51-year-old Canada native. 1 As a toddler, he was diagnosed with Legg-Perthes disease — a hip disorder that limits the range of motion in the joint, which was corrected by four years in a leg brace. 2 He graduated from Quebec’s McGill University with a degree in civil engineering. 3 He tried out for All My Children in 1997 while he was in New York City to visit friends — and says winning the role of Ryan Lavery changed his life. 4 Cameron took…

AUSSIE swim champ Scott Miller went from Olympic hotshot to the czar of a $1.6 million drug ring, say cops. The 46-year-old aquaman, who nabbed silver and bronze medals in the 1996 Atlanta Games, was busted in his waterside pad in Sydney’s suburb of Rozelle after lawmen found loads of methylamphetamine, known as “ice,” secretly stuffed in eight candles, say Down Under cops. Det. Superintendent John Watson says the former world butterfly champion was the head of a large “well-organized and well-financed operation.”…

THE bullet-riddled body of former model and Miss Manhattan reality star Rebecca Landrith, 47, was found in a Pennsylvania roadside ditch — riddled with an astonishing 18 bullets in her head, neck, throat, chest and hand! Texas truck driver Tracy Rollins, 28, has been charged with criminal homicide and abuse of a corpse in the savage murder and is being held on $1 million bail. Cops say Rebecca — a 2014 finalist in the reality show beauty pageant and a contestant on America’s It Girl — had a note in her pocket with the trucker’s name, phone number and email address. Investigators say Rollins revealed he’d been traveling around the country with a woman named “Leslie” he picked up at a truck stop in Connecticut in December. They later learned…

ARIES March 21 - April 20 Make patience your mantra for this somewhat frustrating week and you’ll do fine, Ram. But if you insist on pushing things through and forcing others to bend to your will, it could lead to fiery displays of temper. Midweek, look for a chance to earn cash with an unusual talent. The letter O is linked to love. GEMINI May 22 - June 21 Tired of financial losses or illness limiting your lifestyle? Take heart, Twin. There’s a light at the end of your tunnel — an amazing change in circumstances is headed your way during the Pisces new moon. Single? Someone you once dated wants to try again — it could lead to summer wedding bells! LEO July 23 - Aug. 23 A mood…

ACTRESS Ashley Judd nearly lost her leg in a “catastrophic” accident in a South African rainforest! The 52-year-old Double Jeopardy star was tracking bonobos, an endangered species of great apes, when she tripped over a fallen tree in the dark. Her leg was shattered in four places and it took what she called an “incredibly harrowing 55 hours” to get her from the jungle to a clinic. While stuck for five hours with a “badly misshapen leg,” she was biting on a stick in pain and “howling like a wild animal” before being ferried to a trauma unit on a motorcycle. “I was at the edge of my very edge,” she says from her ICU bed in South Africa.…

NOW that disgraced jailbird Lori Loughlin has done her time for her role in the college admissions scandal and flown prison, she wants to fly away — but Uncle Sam has her passport! The 56-year-old former Full House star’s lawyers have asked the court to return Lori’s ticket to ride, which she had to surrender during her criminal case. When she does get her passport back, she may have to travel solo — husband Mossimo Giannulli, 57, has yet to finish his five-month sentence!…

THE livid widow of legendary TV talking head Larry King is gearing up to battle his secret will that left $2 million to his five kids — and didn’t give her a dime! While other news outlets are now breathlessly reporting the shocking slap in the face, GLOBE reported months ago Shawn King, 61, was cut out of her 87-year-old estranged hubby’s will because they were in the middle of a sometimes nasty divorce. Larry’s handwritten last wishes — penned and filed with a California court in 2019 — left his cash to the son from his second marriage, Larry Jr., 59, and the two boys he had with Shawn, Chance, 21, and Cannon, 20. His two other kids, Chaia, 51, and Andy, 67, were also named, but they died…