Table of contents for July 14, 2025 in Globe

A PANICKED Jennifer Lopez is freaking out that her ex-husband Ben Affleck will reveal all the salacious details of their rollercoaster love affair on a new podcast, sources tell GLOBE. Ben, 52, is being offered big bucks to do a podcast with best bud Matt Damon — a nightmare scenario for J.Lo, according to an insider. Although Ben is keen to spill his guts about the highs and lows of his chaotic love life, the series is actually being pitched as a way to build their studio, Artists Equity. “A weekly show from Matt and Ben would be a cheap way to crank up cash flow and create a direct line to their fans like never before,” says a snitch. “Everybody who knows Matt and Ben knows they have a…

TATUM & MAC PUT ANGER ASIDE The June 14 Napa, Calif., wedding of KEVIN McENROE and actress FERN COZINE was especially momentous because his famous battling parents — Paper Moon actress TATUM O’NEAL and former tennis superstar JOHN McENROE — reunited to bury the hatchet. “The anger is gone,” says the 61-year-old O’Neal. She and the 66-year-old former ball banger had Kevin, 39, SEAN, 37, and EMILY, 34, during a stormy eight-year marriage from 1986 to 1994. But the daughter of abusive father RYAN O’NEAL, the late Love Story actor, became a junkie and lost custody of the kids to the Grand Slam winner, now wed to singer PATTY SMYTH, 68. O’Neal admits during the depths of her druggie despair, she thought of ending it all, but “love” for her…

DESPERATE dad Brad Pitt is teaming up with his former father-in-law Jon Voight in a lastditch bid to win his kids back, sources tell GLOBE. The F1 star, 61, has a close relationship with the Midnight Cowboy legend, 86, who is also estranged from Angelina Jolie, 50. “Brad figures anything’s worth a shot at this point, and he’s asking Jon to try to talk sense into Angie for both their sakes,” an insider exclusively dishes. As readers know, the vindictive actress still hates her ex’s guts with a passion even though they recently settled their eightyear divorce war. “Brad’s asking other family members and L.A. friends to help, too, but he’s starting with Jon and hoping he can have an impact,” a source dishes. A source close to Brad…

CONTROVERSIAL song-bird Sabrina Carpenter’s S&M–themed cover for her Man’s Best Friend album has outraged even her most devoted fans! The photo depicts the 26-year-old in a minidress and heels posing on her hands and knees while a man appears to be grabbing her by the hair. Online commenters called out the image as “misogynistic” and even claimed it encourages violence against women. “Sabrina was definitely aiming to be a little provocative, but she never expected this kind of reaction!” an insider says. “It’s very hard for her to wrap her head around how riled up people are over this when plenty of other pop stars have pushed the envelope. “Just look at Madonna — this isn’t nearly as hard core as some of the things she’s done and she’s seen…

HARRY POTTER scribe J.K. Rowling and Culture Club frontman Boy George got into a noholds-barred brawl on X over trans rights. The best-selling author, who believes being female is defined by biology, asked, “Which rights have been taken away from trans people?” “The right to be left alone by a rich bored bully!” the Karma Chameleon singer, 64, who is openly gay, responded. And with that, the gloves were off! The Fantastic Beasts author, 59, posted a reply of her own, writing, “There are many differences between us, George, but some are particularly relevant to this debate … You’ve been wealthy and famous since your early 20s. I didn’t become well known until I was well over 30…. “I’ve never been given 15 months for handcuffing a man to a…

MADONNA’S bizarre social media posts are getting more concerning and pathetic. The increasingly Immaterial Girl was once one of the world’s biggest stars, but instead of accepting that she has aged out of the pop star demographic, she dresses like a teenager, takes milk baths, gets unflattering plastic surgery, shows off her latest inappropriately young boytoy and pushes the edges of absurdity. Madonna’s way-out attempts to cling to youth and stay relevant are verging on nutty. The Desperately Seeking Susan actress recently released social media pics of her modeling a bunch of outfits as if she were still the youthful Like a Virgin singer instead of the desperate for attention diva she’s become. While one was an ageappropriate Dior dress splashed with prints of butterflies and palm trees, others were…

CRITICS hated it, but moviegoers ate up MARTIN LAWRENCE as an undercover FBI agent in a super-jiggly fat suit in the 2000 crime comedy Big Momma’s House. As opposed to the two sequels, the first in this franchise was a genuinely great comedy with an all-star cast — including PAUL GIAMATTI, NIA LONG and TERRENCE HOWARD — and got away with scenes like the one where the fake midwife Big Momma, totally grossed out, delivers a baby using Crisco and oven mitts. Poor Lawrence had to endure a six- to eight-hour daily prosthetic and makeup session, including fake fingernails and varicose veins; he could only stand to wear the thing a few hours at a time.…

BIG MOUTH Barbra Streisand has stunned fans by dishing eyebrow-raising details about a steamy rendezvous with Warren Beatty, and both their spouses are flipping out over her NSFW confession, sources tell GLOBE! In a bombshell new interview, the A Star Is Born diva, 83, shockingly recounted that she doesn’t remember whether she and longtime friend Warren Beatty, 88, ever had sex back in the day. “I know I slept in the bed with him, but I can’t remember if we actually had penetration. I swear to God, I can’t. There are certain things I block out,” Streisand told The New Yorker. Now tipsters tattle this truthbomb is threatening to implode both her and Warren’s marriages! According to our insider, the Hollywood legend’s husband of 26 years, actor James Brolin, 84,…

Frozen actor and former debater JOSH GAD was guest star at a Speech & Debate competition in Des Moines, Iowa, when a “disturbed” 22-year-old man rushed the stage, triggering a panic and stampede. Gad says “like many others, I ran in fear and was trampled numerous times,” adding he’s still “traumatized.” Police say no weapons were involved and no injuries reported. Josh stars in the upcoming MEL BROOKS sequel to his Star Wars satire, Spaceballs, set for 2027. Sanford and Son actress LYNN HAMILTON was “surrounded by her loved ones” when she passed away at age 95 of natural causes June 19. Born in Yazoo City, Miss., and raised in Chicago, where she studied at Goodman Theatre, she played Donna Harris on the hit ’70s REDD FOXX sitcom and appeared…

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KENTUCKY kook Jonathan Mason — known to locals as Cowboy Cody — let a live raccoon loose inside a bar to get back at staffers after he was kicked out of the establishment for unruly behavior, lawmen say. According to a probable cause affidavit obtained by Law & Crime, officers responded to the Big Apple Grill and Bar in Murray, about 200 miles southwest of Louisville, after receiving reports of the ring-tailed rascal running amok. Police say Mason, 40, was blamed for unleashing the mammal before fleeing in his pickup truck — and the suspect later pulled into a parking lot after spying officers in pursuit. Officials report that Mason was placed under arrest, but his uninsured ride was “left in neutral and rolled backwards,” striking a police vehicle. According…

BRADLEY COOPER’s galpal, Gigi Hadid, and Brad Pitt’s partner, Ines de Ramon, have a lot in common — they’re both desperate for their men to finally put a ring on it! Insiders say model Gigi, 30, and jewelry executive Ines, 34, have struck up a close friendship and are turning to each other for tips on how to handle their commitment-phobe partners. As GLOBE has reported, both stars are dragging their heels when it comes to popping the question, despite being in serious long-term relationships. Meanwhile, their glamorous girlfriends were joined at the hip in New York as Brad, 61, joined Bradley, 50, for a bite to eat. “Gigi and Ines have hung out several times and they get on great — their friendship is really building,” an insider says.…

A MIDDLE-of-the-night emergency call made from Party of Five star Scott Wolf’s house brought cops rushing to his door. A woman believed to be his estranged wife, Kelley, made a long rambling call to 911 at 2:50 a.m. “I’m going through a very bitter divorce,” she told the dispatcher. “I’m standing outside in my robe … I believe I am being psychologically abused!” Police responding to the call took her to a local hospital out of concern for her wellbeing. Kelley, 48, claimed on Instagram she’d been taken against her will, but five days later, she posted a picture at a bar with a cocktail that she captioned, “God bless.” Scott, 57, confirmed he’d filed for divorce from Kelley, his wife of 21 years and the mother of his three…

KIM KARDASHIAN The reality star admits she’s a pushover when it comes to her four kids, North, 12, Saint, 9, Chicago, 7, and Psalm, 6, with ex Kanye West. “Sometimes it gets just like a little intense,” the 44-year-old complained. “I want to be more strict like [sister] Khloé but I don’t know why I have a hard time just saying ‘no is no.’ I think I also just don’t want to deal with the whining and the tears of not getting their way.” Instead, she said, she sometimes locks herself in the bathroom! ZOE SALDAÑA The Star Trek actress has three sons with husband Marco Perego, 10-year-old twins Cy and Bowie and 8-year-old Zen. “It’s fun as hell,” the 47-year-old said of being a boy mom, but added, “At…

JAVA EDITION: Coffee beans aren’t beans — they are “coffee cherries,” seeds from the fruit of the coffee plant. They just look like beans. The priciest coffee is Kopi Luwak, made from beans that have been eaten and excreted by the catlike Asian palm civet. The beans emerge fermented by digestive juices for a smooth, less bitter taste — at $600 per pound. Legend has it coffee was discovered when an Ethiopian goatherd named Kaldi noticed that his herd got buzzed after eating the red berries of a certain tree. Coffee has health benefits — but it can kill you with its toxicity if you drink 100 cups of it to get your day started! Beethoven may have been deaf, but he had sharp eyes — he counted out exactly…

MELLOWED Mission: Impossible hunk Tom Cruise has agreed to meet with ex-wife Nicole Kidman and their two adopted kids this summer in Europe — and also hopes to clear the air with her current husband, country singer Keith Urban, sources say. The Babygirl beauty, 58, got hitched to the Nashville hitmaker, 57, in 2006 — four years after ending her decadeplus marriage to longtime Scientologist Cruise, 63. An insider says, “Tom used to be incredibly dismissive of Keith. He saw him as some hillbilly crooner who wasn’t good enough for Nicole and couldn’t believe she’d ended up with a guy like that. But over the years, Tom’s perspective has shifted.” The tipster says Cruise has “come to respect” that the former boozer and recovering drug addict has “cleaned up…

OUTER Banks starlet Madelyn Cline has come along swimmingly since her breakout role in the Netflix series — and she’s now poised to be crowned a scream queen with her role in 2025’s I Know What You Did Last Summer. The slasher flick is a direct sequel to 1998’s I Still Know What You Did Last Summer and is Madelyn’s first horror movie. Here are 10 things you don’t know about the 27-year-old beauty. 1 She appeared in multiple television commer-cials as a kid, including a spot for a Chuck E. Cheese toy pizzamaker. 2 She was featured on the covers of Lowcountry Parent and Parent & Child magazines. 3 During her youth, she suffered from an eating disorder and explains, “I would eat like six almonds for breakfast because…

OLD stinker Patrick Francis Mitchell urinated on over $10,000 worth of products at a Florida big-box store, including 3,384 cans of Vienna sausage and 2,760 cans of Spam — then kicked back on some display furniture, officials say. According to Lake County records, Mitchell, 70, is charged with criminal mischief resulting in over $1,000 in damages and disorderly conduct. Lawmen allege that the geezer ambled into the business in Lady Lake, a town near Orlando, and took a leak on the food items. A probable cause affidavit states that a female customer used her cell phone camera to document the alleged incident and reported the pissy perpetrator to store employees. The document further alleges that surveillance footage captured Mitchell as he “walked up to two pallets, [faced] the shelf, placed…

TRAGIC Food Network star Anne Burrell was praised for her lively personality, bold style and spiky blond locks, but insiders reveal that offcamera, the bubbling celebrity chef was being eaten alive by anxiety, doubt and fear in the weeks leading to her shocking death at age 55. When the kitchen queen’s lifeless body was discovered on the shower floor by her husband, Stuart Claxton, she was reportedly surrounded by a large amount of “illegal substances.” Police are investigating while the official cause and manner of death are waiting on toxicology reports, but “they’re saying it could have been a drug overdose and, whether accidental or not, the dozens of pills found near her body suggest that things were not right in her life and she may have been grappling with…

AMBITIOUS George Clooney’s political obsession is at an all-time high, and insiders say he’s under pressure to run for president — but sources say he fears his wild partying past and string of failed romances could torpedo his chances. “Running for president is something people talk to George about every single day,” says an insider. The Hollywood heartthrob, 64, has just finished his starring run on Broadway in Good Night, and Good Luck, a fiery political drama that explores Cold War paranoia and one newsman’s battle against corrupt power. “During the run of this play, he’s been surrounded by actors and crew who absolutely worship him and share his intense political passions, so the issue has been on his mind and right in his face,” explains our source. “He has…