Globe July 30, 2018

THE BEST CELEB PHOTOS EVERY WEEK! WHAT THE CLUCK? Scrawny star MELANIE GRIFFITH is teetering on tiny chicken legs! HOLY CROWE! Gladiator hunk RUSSELL CROWE is eating his heart out — and it shows! LAST LICKS Die Hard’s BRUCE WILLIS gets his just desserts at Disneyland HORSING AROUND Hippy chick KOURTNEY KARDASHIAN sports some saggy saddlebags as she parties off the coast of Italy MAKING SCENTS Actor ANTONIO BANDERAS sniffs out the situation at a party for his perfume line MEAN GIRL Golden Girl BETTY WHITE, 96, looks fierce during a Hollywood outing…

HOLLYWOOD is hiding a horrifying epidemic of elder abuse with frail and dying TV and movie stars trapped in living nightmares of torture and terror, GLOBE reveals in an explosive special investigation! Experts insist money and power are behind the abuse — with charges of extreme mistreatment, neglect and brazen theft leveled against the caretakers entrusted to nurture the stars in their fading final days. In the latest shocker, J.C. Lee, daughter of Marvel mastermind Stan Lee, 95, was granted an elderly abuse restraining order against her famous father’s former manager and caretaker, Keya Morgan, on July 6. J.C., 68, charges Morgan kept her from contacting Lee while controlling the comic kingpin’s $50 million fortune. But the Spider-Man creator insisted he was not the victim of abuse, that any claims…

AFTER packing on more than two dozen pounds, movie beauty Katie Holmes has become obsessed with her figure and is working out like a demon fearing her career — and love-in with hunky Jamie Foxx — will fizzle if her figure doesn’t sizzle, sources say. “Katie is pulling out all the stops to keep Jamie happy and spice up their romance,” an insider blabs. “Katie’s big paranoia is Jamie won’t find her as attractive as she gets older. But she’s still desperate to keep hold of him and figures giving herself a body overhaul is her best shot of making it happen.” And the 39-year-old knockout has reason to fret. Jamie, 50, has been partying up a storm with a bevy of babes in Tinseltown and Miami while she was…

ABITTER battle royale between Prince William’s wife, Kate, and Prince Harry’s bride, Meghan, exploded in a shocking palace showdown that’s ripping the blueblood brothers apart! The fed-up Duchess of Cambridge accused her new sister-in-law of mimicking her every move and demanded the upstart American stop it — immediately! But the former TV sexpot told Kate to take a hike — and the tension was obvious behind the formal smiles as William and his wife christened their new son, Prince Louis! Shockingly, the women’s war is fueling a feud between the once inseparable brothers, too! “Kate is spitting mad,” a palace insider tells GLOBE. “She told a palace confidant, ‘I’ve been betrayed! “‘I bent over backwards to help Meghan find her way as a royal, teaching her the rules, giving her…

BIG Bang Theory cutie Kaley Cuoco’s second marriage turned into a honeymoon from hell — after just five days — as the battered bride was rushed to a hospital for emergency surgery on a mysterious injury. Sadly, the surprise situation is stressing the new hitching as groom Karl Cook becomes a “babysitter” for a “demanding” bride, tattles a snitch. “Karl’s been forced to play nursemaid while Kaley’s taken over the house with her pillows and blankets and ice packs,” says the source. “She’s constantly barking orders at him to get her cookies and tea or whatever else she wants. “So far, marriage has been all about Kaley! Karl must be wondering what he got himself into.” The 32-year-old blond bombshell was barely wed to pro horse-jumper Karl, 27, when she…

JUDGE SPANKS SHAMELESS SHEEN! HIV trainwreck CHARLIE SHEEN’s in hot water for trashing women. Sheen is being sued by a gal, who charges he never revealed he was infected with the deadly virus before they had sex. His court papers have branded the Russian-born hottie a “professional hooker party girl” who’s had “hundreds, if not thousands, of sexual partners.” The fed-up judge blasted good-time Charlie’s legal team — and the washed-up actor — warning them to stop “slut shaming” his accuser while ordering the case to go to arbitration — instead of trial. MOVIE BEAUTY’S ‘UGLY’ PAST! Stunning blue-eyed blonde AMANDA SEYFRIED is a big-time movie star, but she’s still whining about her ugly duckling past. The 32-year-old wails she was cruelly taunted by schoolmates for her pale skin and…