Table of contents for April 12, 2021 in Globe

DR. DRE’S estranged wife, Nicole Young, claims the rap mogul “knocked me out cold” during a “drunken rage!” It’s the latest bombshell in the couple’s brutal divorce war — with Nicole making the explosive charge in an application for a restraining order that was denied by a judge. She also alleges Dre punched her “squarely in the face” after he felt she “disrespected” him at a party in 1999. Nicole claims she woke up in their car “with Andre speeding at over 100 miles per hour, drunk and out of control. He was swerving and weaving. I thought I was going to die.” She also claims a “drunk and angry” Dre held a gun to her head during a 2012 dispute, saying: “I was terrified he was going to kill…

PREDATOR Jeffrey Epstein’s accused madam Ghislaine Maxwell’s third desperate bid to get out of jail on bail has been nixed by a federal judge. The 59-year-old British socialite is rotting in a Brooklyn, N.Y., federal slammer denying charges she recruited underage girls to be sex slaves for her late lover Epstein, whose 2019 death in his jail cell is suspected of being a staged murder — despite an official ruling of suicide. On March 22, Maxwell’s offer to plunk down $22.5 million and give up her citizenships in England and France was nixed by Judge Alison Nathan, who agreed with prosecutors the suspected Israeli intelligence asset was still a flight risk. “The defendant continues to have substantial international ties, familial and personal connections abroad, substantial financial resources, and experience evading…

The ballad of John and Becky? Real World star REBECCA BLASBAND believes she had an otherworldly, 15-year beyond-the-grave relationship with Beatles legend JOHN LENNON’s ghost! “It got more and more real … we realized that we could hear each other very clearly. And this was the beginning of a very, very long journey,” reveals the 53-year-old reality star, claiming she first conjured up the Come Together rocker, killed outside his Big Apple apartment in 1980, years ago using a Ouija board. “Every now and then he would drop in. It was such an honor,” she spills. “He could tell things that I was thinking, and he said, ‘You remind me of me sometimes.’ ” She also let him share her mortal flesh! “I had asked him, ‘Can you share my…

GREY’S Anatomy alum Katherine Heigl boasts she’s “bionic” after having two titanium disks inserted in her neck! The 42-year-old actress says the surgery has freed her from “the most excruciating pain.” Katherine shared a photo on March 17 showing her in bed with a neck brace. “I am now bionic!!” she captioned the Instagram photo, jokingly adding: “Two titanium disks now inhabit my neck and I can probably stand on my head for, like, hours.”…

A VILE veterinarian has been collared on charges of child porn AND having sex with dogs in his care, according to a criminal complaint! The hateful horndog appears to be the first person in Florida to be charged under the Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture Act — which was designed to stop animal-sex torture videos and signed into law in 2019. Prentiss Madden, 40, was taken into custody by U.S. Homeland Security Investigations agents on charges of possession of child pornography, receipt of child pornography and animal abuse. The Caring Hands Animal Hospital in Aventura, where Madden was medical director, says it fired the sick puppy as soon as it heard he’d been charged with “these heinous and unthinkable crimes.” The suspect is being held at Miami’s Federal Detention Center…

FURIOUS perfume mogul William Lauder is battling to kick his former mistress Taylor Stein and their 13-year-old love child out of her home — and into the street — because their supposedly secret love affair was revealed, sources claim. The big stink reportedly exploded after the 60-year-old Estee Lauder heir learned his secret teen daughter wrote on social media that her parents were divorced. Actually, Lauder never wed blond beauty Taylor, 54, but kept her like a queen in a $7 million, 6,000-square-foot Bel Air mansion with a $1 million annual allowance for years. The only condition was that she keep their affair — and child — under wraps, he claims in an L.A. court. But the Park Avenue playboy claims she blasted their pact to smithereens when his illicit…

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LONG-LOST letters written by Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler’s father, Alois, reveal the freaky Führer grew up to be a cruel, tyrannical, arrogant lout — just like his old man! The 31 letters were discovered by retiree Anneliese Smigielski in the attic of her house in the Austrian town of Wallern and are the basis of a new book — Hitler’s Father: How the Son Became a Dictator — by historian Roman Sandgruber. Penned to Anneliese’s great-great-great-grandfather Joseph Radlegger, who sold retired customs official Alois a farm when future Nazi monster Adolf was six in 1895, the letters reveal Hitler’s dad was a brutal boozer and boss of the house — but depended on the skills and money of his third wife, Klara, a former servant girl the cheating creep had…

THIGHMASTER beauty Suzanne Somers brags she and 84-year-old hubby Alan Hamel are having sizzling sex three times a day — before noon! “At this stage of life, most people think that’s, you know, over the hill,” says the former Three’s Company sitcom star. “But what time is it, like noon? I’ve had sex with him three times so far today.” The blond actress, 74, blames doses of “hormones” for their frisky urges in their golden years. “Man, are we having fun!” she gushes.…

TV TIGRESS Sharon Osbourne is demanding at least $10 million to walk away from The Talk after being accused of racist and sexist attacks on co-hosts, sources claim. Insiders tell GLOBE the salty-tongued chatterbox is playing hardball, saying she was wrongly vilified for branding lesbian co-star Sara Gilbert a “fish eater” and calling Chinese-American Julie Chen “slanty eyes.” While Sharon, 68, insists she never used the slurs, sources claim CBS bigwigs would rather dump the diva than continue in turmoil! “It’s going to become a battle royale. Sharon’s made her demands clear and will fight tooth and nail,” snitches a source. “She’s a street fighter and is used to playing down and dirty, owing to her years as a hard-nosed rock manager for husband Ozzy Osbourne!” Tensions exploded on the…

BILLIONAIRE Queen Elizabeth is bracing for a big pay cut. Due to the financial crash triggered by the COVID pandemic, the Sovereign Grant — the tax money allowance the royals get — is expected to be slashed by more than 25 percent when it comes up for its five-year renewal in 2022. Last year, Her Highness raked in $114.2 million from taxpayers, but an insider notes that bundle “was exceptional and we cannot expect that to be repeated.” A major cost — besides allowances for the royal family — is a renovation of Buckingham Palace, which prices out at $500 million over ten years. One saving is Prince Harry and wife Meghan have been stripped of their titles and public paychecks. The insider says Her Majesty is aware of the…

FOLLOWING the heart-crushing suicide of her brother, Elvis’ granddaughter Riley Keough has become a death doula, a counselor who helps terminal patients and their family cope with the devastating trauma. The 31-year-old actress, who co-starred with James Bond hunk Daniel Craig in Logan Lucky, announced she’d completed her training on social media, writing: “Today I finished my Death Doula training, on The Art of Death Midwifery training course by @sacredcrossings so I guess I’m an almost certified death doula now hehe. “And I just felt like writing such a deep thank you to this community who are teaching and training people in conscious dying and death work. “We are taught that it’s a morbid subject to talk about. Or we’re so afraid of it that we’re unable to talk about…

Vanderpump Rules star LALA KENT, 30, and producer fiancé RANDALL EMMETT, 49, produced their first baby together, a daughter. The tot’s name: OCEAN. Must be something in the water, ‘cause NCIS star WILMER VALDERRAMA, 41, and fiancée AMANDA PACHECO, 30, named their newborn daughter NAKANO OCEANA. Kindhearted Good Place star KRISTEN BELL, 40, adopted a three-legged rescue dog named Whiskey who’d lost its limb after a “fight with a truck.” KRISTIN CAVALLARI’s reportedly no longer dying to date comedian JEFF DYE, her boyfriend of five months. “Freedom. It feels really damn good,” posts the MTV reality star, divorced from NFL quarterback JAY CUTLER. RHONY socialite TINSLEY MORTIMER, 45, who dumped the hit Bravo reality show and moved to Chicago for fiancé SCOTT KLUTH, reportedly now finds herself dumped by the…

WINDY Wendy Williams is a gas! The 56-year-old broadcaster broke wind in a stunning fart-burp combo while she was live on camera, right in the middle of discussing Kim Kardashian’s divorce from Kanye West. And this is not the first time the flatulent gabfest facilitator has cut the cheese on-air! Her bodily functions seemed in full bloom on a January episode of her show as well. The gassy lassie seemed surprised at her own outburst and apologized to the audience.…

REALITY TV momager Kris Jenner is worth an estimated $190 million and masterminded the megabucks careers of her reality star daughters, but she confesses she was clueless about handling dough when she became divorced. The 65-year-old Keeping Up with the Kardashians star confesses first hubby Robert Kardashian — O.J. Simpson’s pal and mouthpiece — handled everything and she “never paid a bill” during their 13-year marriage that ended in 1991. “One day, my friend Shelli Azoff said to me when I was going through my divorce [from Robert], ‘How much is your gardener?’ And I said, ‘I don’t know.’ “And she said, ‘You don’t know?’ That was the turning point for me: I was embarrassed that I didn’t know. I woke up one day to responsibilities that I hadn’t had…

REALITY queen Bethenny Frankel looks like a million bucks — thanks to the engagement ring Paul Bernon, 43, just put on her finger! Jewel experts figure the former RHONY star, 50, is sporting a band of sparklers worth seven figures. The three-stone ring “features a huge eight- to ten-carat emerald-shaped center stone,” says expert Apeksha Kothari. “If it’s a real, natural diamond, I’d estimate its retail value at up to $1 million.” And Mike Fried of The Diamond Pro thinks it “should definitely top $1 million!”…

KLUTZY comic Chelsea Handler joked about her subpar skiing skills online — but later revealed she wrecked her knee and broke two toes after she “flew into the trees” on a snowy slope in Canada! The former Chelsea Lately host confesses she took the terrible tumble in British Columbia, where she was training with a personal instructor. The funnylady’s fall came nearly a month after her topless skiing stunt in Vancouver to celebrate her 46th birthday.…

RAUNCHY reality queen Kim Kardashian has been getting back in touch with her body big-time now that she has booted Kanye West from her bedroom and her life, say sources who claim she’s been strolling around totally nude! With the pair’s six-year marriage officially kaput, insiders tell GLOBE the 40-year-old mom of four is gleefully letting it all hang out — while indulging in once-forbidden McDonald’s french fries. Billionaire rap mogul Kanye, 43, “made a habit of telling Kim to cover up and picked her to pieces for wearing sexy outfits — he said she needed to class up her act and grow old gracefully,” a tipster tattles. “Now she’s free to express herself and a lot of the time — especially when Kanye’s looking after the kids — she’s…

BARACK OBAMA, Hillary Clinton and Martin Luther King have all won more Grammy Awards than Katy Perry. Why aren’t we surprised? BROOKLYN film director Alexis Ramírez-Mallis, 36, is chasing the sweet smell of success — by selling audio recordings of his friends’ farts for $85 a pop! MYSTERY solved! Turns out an interstellar object dubbed Oumaumau, Hawaiian for messenger, ain’t an alien spacecraft after all. Arizona State University scientists say the cigar-shaped object that invaded our solar system in 2017 is merely a chunk of frozen nitrogen. MIAMI bicyclist Fred Medina, 58, drowned after trying to beat a rising drawbridge over the Miami River. An eyewitness says Medina “tried to overtake the opening” and cross when the bridge began to move.…

CADDYSHACK cutup Chevy Chase secretly cheated death after a secret heart condition landed him in the hospital for five long weeks — and now friends fear the crotchety comic may never be out of the woods! The 77-year-old, who is now recovering at his Westchester, N.Y., home, recently revealed a “heart issue” snuck up on him. But according to tipsters, the 1970s-era Saturday Night Live funnyman needed valve replacement surgery — and recovering boozer Chevy’s long history of swilling alcohol had left him with an enlarged heart and acute cardiomyopathy — a disease that makes it harder for the organ to pump blood to the rest of the body. An insider dishes, “His heart problems stem from his years of drinking — plain and simple. It’s affected his heart, weakened…

JEOPARDY! contestants want celeb medic Dr. Mehmet Oz axed as guest host! Casting the “dubious” doc celebrates “the elevation of talking head[s] at the expense of academic rigor and consensus,” a group of the game show’s former winners and contestants wrote in a letter published on medium.com. The letter cites instances in which Oz “used his authority as a doctor to push harmful ideas,” and referred to a 2014 letter penned by faculty at Columbia Medical School, where Oz also teaches, calling for his removal from the program. Inviting Oz “to guest host is a slap in the face to all involved,” the letter concludes. Other fans piped up on social media, noting a 2014 study found “half” of all Oz’s medical advice to be “baseless and wrong.” The TV…

PRINCE HARRY has landed a job as a hotshot exec of a firm providing mental health and life counseling — but insiders say it sounds like the tech start-up company is really using him as a celebrity showhorse. Harry, who studied art and geography in college, will be “chief impact officer” for BetterUp Inc., saying: “I intend to help create impact in people’s lives.” BetterUp CEO Alexi Robichaux refused to say how much he’s paying the prince, but noted the Duke of Sussex will have “a meaningful and meaty role” and will attend all employee meetings at the San Francisco headquarters. Robichaux also hinted at Harry’s true value, saying he’ll be a special guest at company events. “In other words, the company will use him as a ‘celebrity draw,’ ”…

TOPHER GRACE’s TV career seemed to go up in smoke after he left That ’70s Show in 2005. Although he returned the following year to reprise his role as straight man Eric Forman in the comedy’s series finale, Topher didn’t have another regular small-screen gig until scoring a part in the new ABC sitcom Home Economics. Here are ten things you don’t know about the 42-year-old actor. 1 He was born in New York City but raised in Darien, Conn. 2 Future indie film darling Chloë Sevigny was his babysitter. 3 In middle school, he was friends with Blue Crush beach babe Kate Bosworth. 4 He dropped out of the University of Southern California in his freshman year. 5 His stage name is an abbreviated version of his first name…

STAR Trek’s William Shatner is creating an artificial intelligence–powered version of himself! In true sci-fi fashion, people in the future will be able to ask “him” questions about his life and times! The 90-year-old Hollywood icon is the first person to be captured by an advanced video and sound system developed by the L.A.–based company StoryFile. “With StoryFile, we can now be present in the future. Your authentic self, for all time,” says the actor famed for playing Capt. James T. Kirk. “This is for all my children and all my children’s children. That’s my gift to you down through time.” StoryFile co-founder Heather Maio-Smith adds: “William Shatner is going where no one has gone before. Generations in the future will be able to have a conversation with the real…

GAL rock roadie Tana Douglas is snitching on music superstars — including George Harrison and Iggy Pop — who she got close to during her wild years traveling with bands. In her book, Loud, she recalls her job hauling equipment for bands nearly ended at age 21 when former Beatle Harrison was ready to propose — but she blew it. The two were getting close under a kitchen table after Harrison fled his own birthday party, where he was embarrassed by his present — strippers. She ruined the mood by firing up a cigarette. “I would marry you tomorrow if you gave up smoking,” he told her. But the first female rock roadie couldn’t kick butts. The Aussie wild child had run away from home at 15 to join a…

SMOKE from naturally occurring wildfires is more harmful to humans than pollution caused by cars, claims a recent study. According to researchers from the University of California, San Diego, particles in wildfire smoke — which can measure roughly one-twentieth the diameter of a human hair — are ten times more dangerous than those coming from man-made sources, such as vehicles. Scientists say these microscopic pollutants can easily bypass the body’s defenses, infiltrate the bloodstream and travel to vital organs — raising the risk of respiratory problems, heart attacks and strokes. “There’s been a lot of work that has shown that the health impacts due to wildfire smoke are on the same order of magnitude, or possibly even greater, than the direct physical cost,” says study co-author Tom Corringham.…

TROUBLED Tori Spelling’s got the marriage blues — she’s been out and about without her wedding ring, sources blab. The 47-year-old mom of five was spotted buying veggies at Underwood Family Farms in California’s Moorpark with her kids on March 19 — minus hubby Dean McDermott and her wedding band! Sources snitch Tori’s fed up with her 54-year-old mate, whining he’s not doing his share around the house or paying her enough attention! “They’ve found themselves in a real rut where they spend less and less time together and barely mention one another on social media,” spills an insider. “They haven’t had a date night since goodness knows and Dean is never in the romantic mood. “Lately, they’re more like brother and sister than husband and wife.” The former Beverly…

VIN DIESEL’S son, Vincent, is learning it’s a good career move to have a movie star dad — the ten-year-old has landed a $1,000-a-day role in his father’s new Fast and Furious flick. The kid plays the younger version of Vin’s character Dominic Toretto in the already completed, ninth F&F film. Vincent’s mom is Vin’s longtime galpal, Mexican model Paloma Jiménez, 37, who also has two daughters with 53-year-old Vin. But unlike his dad’s megabucks salary, Vincent got the basic $1,005 daily rate, say sources.…

POP tart Britney Spears confesses she’s been so wrapped up in battling the conservatorship over her estate, she forgot about singing — until her mom reminded her! The Oops! … I Did It Again songbird hasn’t cut an album for five years as she’s battled dad Jamie for control of her $60 million fortune after a court gave him control when she went bonkers in 2008. She now realizes she’s neglected her career after mom Lynne sent her a video of her singing You Got It All at a ‘90s concert in Singapore. “Geez … My mom sent this to me and reminded me that I can sing,” tweets the 39-year-old Princess of Pop. “She said: ‘You never sing anymore … you need to again!’ ”…