Table of contents for June 27, 2022 in Globe

AFTER a judge gave Brad Pitt joint custody of their kids, vindictive Angelina Jolie secretly sold her half of the couple’s French winery to a Russian oligarch, who would “harm” the movie hunk by taking over the business using “cutthroat tactics.” That’s the 58-year-old Troy hunk’s shocking claim in a lawsuit against his 47-year-old ex, which tries to void the 2021 sale of her share of their $164 million Miraval estate to Yuri Shefler. Pitt claims Shefler, owner of Stolichnaya Vodka and who counts Russian warmonger Vladimir Putin as a pal, plans to take over his successful Miraval Rose wine business using shady business practices. He claims Jolie was bitter because a judge had awarded him 50/50 custody of their six kids. At the time of the ruling, which has…

EMBATTLED game host Pat Sajak is vowing to keep his job as Wheel of Fortune fans howl for his head over his tacky comments to co-star Vanna White and his insulting treatment of contestants! A mounting online crusade to oust the Wheel frontman is even shaking show bosses, who also “are sick and tired of Pat’s lousy attitude,” dishes an insider. “The fear is they’ll lose viewers if they don’t do something about it. Fans are already calling for Pat to retire and the pressure’s starting to get hectic.” But the 75-year-old host isn’t flinching. “Pat’s a sensitive guy and finding all the pressure and daily attacks too much to take,” spills an insider. “He acknowledges he’s angered some with his dry sense of humor, but to paint him as…

ROYAL runaways Prince Harry and wife Meghan were embarrassingly snubbed by his family — and scorned by the British public — during their visit to Queen Elizabeth’s Platinum Jubilee celebration. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex showed up at the fourday spectacular even though they were purposely not invited to some of the events, including the most important — viewing the Trooping of the Colour military parade with the rest of the royal family from the palace balcony. They were so unwelcome, Harry and Meghan boarded a flight back to America and their California mansion an hour BEFORE the grand finale pageant kicked off and the queen made a last appearance on the balcony. “If they were lepers, they couldn’t have been shunned more,” says a royal insider. “Their decision…

KATHIE LEE GIFFORD became a first-time granny, thanks to her son CODY GIFFORD, 32, and daughter-in-law ERIKA BROWN, who welcomed an eight-pound, eight-ounce boy, FRANK. It’s a boy, PARKER JAMES, for Property Brothers star DREW SCOTT, 44, and his wife, LINDA PHAN, 37, who welcomed their first baby after a dozen years together. DWTS judge DEREK HOUGH, 37, and his longtime girlfriend, dancer HAYLEY ERBERT, 27, got engaged after seven years of dating. Former Disney actress BELLA THORNE, 24, and Italian singer BENJAMIN MASCOLO, 28, waved arrivederci to their yearlong engagement. Hips Don’t Lie singer SHAKIRA, 45, split with her boyfriend, Spanish soccer star GERARD PIQUÉ, 35, after a dozen years together. They share two sons, MILAN, 9, and SASHA, 7. Actor MICHAEL B. JORDAN, 35, and STEVE HARVEY’s 25-year-old…

SEX SLEAZE Harvey Weinstein has lost a bid to toss his 2020 rape and sexual assault conviction after a New York appellate court pooh-poohed his claim he was the victim of bad rulings by the trial judge! “We perceive no basis for reducing the sentence, and we have considered defendant’s remaining arguments and find them unavailing,” says the unanimous court decision. The 70-year-old former movie wheeler-dealer is serving a 23-year sentence and facing trial in another rape case.…

A BRATTY bozo upset with his galpal broke into a museum in Texas, took his anger out on irreplaceable antiquities and intentionally demolished more than $5.2 million worth of artwork during a childish temper tantrum, authorities say. According to an arrest warrant, Brian Hernandez, 21, forced his way into the Dallas Museum of Art at night and became a one-man wrecking crew. Lawmen say security cameras captured the piece of work using a stool to smash two ancient Greek vessels — a curved vase from the sixth century B.C. and a cylindrical box with a lid dating back to 450 B.C. — which were collectively valued at $5 million! Footage suggests the punk also bashed a Greek ceramic bowl from 550 B.C. worth about $100,000 and a contemporary Native American alligator…

HORROR flick babe Neve Campbell is yelling at the top of her lungs she quit the sixth film in the hit scary-movie Scream franchise because bigwigs wouldn’t fork over enough bucks. The 48-year-old actress has played survivor Sidney Prescott in all five of the previous installments, but says movie bosses don’t appreciate her “value.” “As a woman I have had to work extremely hard in my career to establish my value, especially when it comes to Scream,” she says. “I felt the offer that was presented to me did not equate to the value I have brought to the franchise.” The Scream flicks began 25 years ago. The fifth version — featuring original stars Campbell, Courteney Cox and David Arquette — raked in a whopping $140 million while costing just…

TODAY show divas Hoda Kotb and Savannah Guthrie are going at it fang and claw when the cameras stop — and double-dealing co-star Jenna Bush Hager keeps egging on the catfights, sources say. “Jenna claims to be Savannah’s best friend, but then whenever Savannah’s not there she’ll turn around and buddy up to Hoda and the two of them will take shots at Savannah,” says an insider. “But when she’s with Savannah she’s happy to join in and gripe about Hoda. “She’s totally two-faced. It’s so catty.” As GLOBE previously reported, Hoda, 57, and Savannah, 50, are all smiles on-air, but are really huge rivals — and Jenna, 40, is taking advantage that “these two can’t stand each other,” snips the insider. “Instead of trying to play peacemaker, Jenna’s been…

MARIAH CAREY is being sued for a whopping $20 million by a dude who accuses the songbird of stealing his country tune’s title for her holiday hit, All I Want for Christmas Is You. Andy Stone claims he co-wrote a song by the same title for Vince Vance & the Valiants in 1993 and Mariah and her co-author Walter Afanasieff swiped it for their holiday tune, which has different words and melody, a year later. Mariah’s tune has become a huge money-spinner — ranking No. 1 on the charts in 2019 and 2020.…

ARIES March 21 - April 20 The sun in Cancer has you feeling overly emotional and you may say something you regret to someone near and dear. Apologize to avoid an awkward, tensionfilled summer. A bad dream midweek holds the key to a financial windfall — take note. Splurge on a wardrobe item Saturday — the price is right. GEMINI May 22 - June 21 Creative pursuits flounder, but this is only temporary, Twin. Inspiration under Friday’s waxing Leo moon puts you back on track. A wandering stranger could lead to luck in love or money Thursday. Follow their advice to the letter. Stay away from travel this weekend to avoid a sticky situation. LEO July 23 - Aug. 23 Beware. A backstabbing acquaintance could cause you a social catastrophe.…

TALK about catching a buzz! A gigantic swarm of 15,000 bees was removed from Delta Air Lines’ luggage handling equipment at New Orleans’ Louis Armstrong International Airport last month. PHILADELPHIA’s Academy of Music is the oldest opera house in the United States, opening in 1857. TURTLES lose their first and only tooth — which helps them break out of their eggs — an hour after being born! Otherwise, turtles don’t have teeth. PRESIDENT Martin Van Buren, the first commander-in-chief to be born in the United States, grew up speaking Dutch and worked at his father’s New York tavern as a kid! DON’T kill a mockingbird in Florida, Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennessee or Texas where the winged wonder is the official state bird.…

KELLY CLARKSON’s bitter ex Brandon Blackstock is planning to even the score with an embarrassing bombshell exposing the talk show queen’s secret warts, insiders dish. “Brandon’s sat back and stewed for years now while Kelly painted him as the ultimate bad guy,” tattles an insider. “He’s always said there are two sides to this story and one day he’ll correct the myths and clear his name. “He figures this is a great time to drop a tell-all. Since his spousal support is locked in, there’s no gag order on him and it’ll be great to stick it to Kelly ahead of her taking Ellen DeGeneres’ TV slot in the fall.” As GLOBE has reported, Kelly, 40, shelled out a huge settlement to Brandon, 45 — paying her former manager a…

KIDNAP victim Elizabeth Smart — who was snatched at age 14 and held captive and raped for nine months — credits her mom for pushing her to keep going through her torment of “shame” and “guilt.” Now 34, married to Matthew Gilmour, dad of her kids, Chloe, 7, James, 5, and Olivia, 3, Smart says her horrific ordeal 20 years ago changed her forever. But she praises her mom, Lois, for helping her survive after her rescue. “Whenever I had a bad day, she’d be like, ‘Elizabeth, what do you do when a horse bucks you off?’ “And I hated that so much. I was like, ‘Just let me feel sorry for myself for five minutes,’ ” says the brave survivor. “She always wanted me to get back up. She…

SHANNA BIDS FAREWELL TO TRAVIS’S DIAMOND Timing is everything! On the heels of tattooed rocker TRAVIS BARKER’s well-publicized wedlock with KOURTNEY KARDASHIAN, his ex-wife, former Playboy Playmate SHANNA MOAKLER, 47, auctioned off the four-carat, round-cut solitaire diamond engagement ring the Blink-182 drummer dreamily gave her nearly 20 years ago. Shanna scored $96,500! So, out with the old and in with the cold, hard cash. “Know your worth, even if it gets lonely,” the model posted the very day after Travis, 46, got hitched to his 43-year-old reality star neighbor. BETROTHAL BLING’S A HOLLYWOOD THING Speaking of pricey sparklers, ANDIE MacDOWELL’s actress daughter MARGARET QUALLEY, 27, got a shiny new engagement ring from hip music producer/musician JACK ANTONOFF, 38, who happens to be TAYLOR SWIFT’s record producer. The Once Upon a…

WILD and crazy guy Steve Martin racked up his sixth Golden Globe nomination with his role in Only Murders in the Building, the comedy series he co-created with John Hoffman. The Hulu show kicks off its second season this month and once again sees Martin, 76, sharing the screen with Saturday Night Live alum Martin Short and Selena Gomez, pop singer and former kid star of Barney & Friends. Here are ten things you don’t know about the banjoplaying funnyman. 1 He was a cheerleader at Garden Grove High School in California. 2 He first picked up the banjo at 17 and credits the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band’s John McEuen with helping him learn how to master the instrument. 3 His first job was selling guidebooks on weekends at Disneyland…

ANGRY Angela Davis lashed out when she caught her horny hubby masturbating to porn on his cell phone at their Florida home — and beat him so badly with a belt his back was covered in marks, cops claim. According to an arrest affidavit, the 51-year-old man — whose name was withheld by investigators — says the hotheaded harpy, 30, got whipped into a frenzy after catching him red-handed and attacked. The affidavit states a responding officer observed “several red marks across the back of the victim,” in addition to a “large raised red lump” on the guy’s arm that had “very good detail and appeared to be the buckle of a belt.” Davis claims she acted in self-defense but was charged with aggravated battery and witness tampering.…

CBS News anchor Norah O’Donnell is making a whopping $3.8 million a year — and that’s after taking a 52 percent pay cut! The 48-year-old talking head was making more than $8 million annually, but feared she was on the firing line with CBS bigwig Neeraj Khemlani so she snapped up the new deal, blab sources. At negotiations, network execs delivered a “low ball” offer thinking she’d turn it down and were shocked when she snapped it up, a source says. Meanwhile, network mouthpieces deny any clashes between Norah and Neeraj. “Wrong again,” yaps a flack. “Neeraj led the effort to retain and re-sign about a dozen of our biggest anchors and correspondents over the last year including Norah O’Donnell and Gayle King — and recruited a few new ones like…

EVIL Vladimir Putin has been trying to terrify the West with threats about nuclear weapons, but famed psychic Uri Geller says not to worry — any A-bomb attack sent by the Russian will be snuffed — by space aliens! The 75-year-old seer, famed for bending spoons with his mind and his friendship with the late King of Pop Michael Jackson, pooh-poohs Putin’s threats aimed at stopping the U.S. and Europe from arming the Ukrainians with weapons to use against his invading force. He notes man’s modern technology can do amazing things, but alien gadgets are even more incredible. “With one click of a button we can stop the traffic on the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco and we can knock out radar systems,” says Geller. “We can do anything…

THE ultra-religious Amish — who spurn modern life — are being ripped apart by a shocking incest scandal that accuses their community of encouraging fathers and brothers to bed girls as young as 11 years old! The shameful charges are detailed in an explosive Peacock TV documentary — Sins of the Amish — exposing the horrors four women from different Amish communities say they were forced to endure as children. “It’s a predator’s paradise,” says Mary Byler, who was raised in a remote Amish community in Wisconsin. She displayed what she claims is a church-sponsored pamphlet given to female children titled To the Girl of Eleven that insists incest is normal! Mary also says the publication blames young girls for being raped by fathers and brothers. According to the pamphlet,…

YIKES! Man-hungry widow NENE LEAKES, 54, has been accused of a big no-no — stealing another lady’s hubby just nine months after losing her own to cancer! Enraged baby mama MALOMINE TEHMEH-SIOH’s hauled the Real Housewives of Atlanta lightning rod into a North Carolina court demanding $100Gs for breaking up her marriage to NYONISELA SIOH! According to Malomine’s suit, NeNe and the lying dog fashion designer began “an adulterous affair” that destroyed her marriage and now wants to be compensated for the heartache, a.k.a. emotional distress, mental anguish and loss of affection! By the way, former reality beauty NeNe met her new guy just weeks after her 66-year-old hubby, GREGG LEAKES, lost his cancer battle in September — and Malomine says she dumped Nyonisela in December, the day she saw…

SUPERSTAR Tom Cruise is not Top Gun — he was banned from flying the $70 million fighter plane seen in his new jet-jockey epic by the U.S. Navy. While he likes to boast he does his own stunts, the 59-year-old star was not in the cockpit piloting the F-18 Super Hornet at twice the speed of sound — 1,535 mph — as his character in Top Gun: Maverick. Movie top gun, producer Jerry Bruckheimer confesses that while Cruise applied to fly the craft, Navy bigwigs refused to put a $70 million weapon in the hands of an actor.…

REALITY housewife Erika Jayne’s estranged hubby was disbarred in California for violating ethics rules — more than a year after being accused of embezzling funds from clients! Disgraced attorney Tom Girardi, 83, who split with the Beverly Hills babe, 50, was also ordered to pay $2.3 million plus interest in restitution for pocketing a settlement meant for orphans. Girardi, who didn’t fight the disciplinary charges, was diagnosed with dementia in 2021.…

PEDOPHILE predator Jeffrey Epstein’s notorious Orgy Island is so repulsive to potential buyers the late billionaire’s estate has already slashed $15 million off its asking price! The private Caribbean hideaway of Little St. James — along with neighbor isle Great St. James — are now being hawked to the filthy rich at the bargain-basement price of $110 million, or 12 percent off the original March price of $125 million. The island hellhole was the hub of Epstein’s sex trafficking ring. His lawyers say proceeds of the sale will go toward the 135 women who have accused him of trafficking and abusing them when they were underage — some as young as 11! The disgraced financier died at 66 in his prison cell in August 2019 under mysterious circumstances. His death…

A NASTY money war has exploded in pro golf where legendary stars are taking nasty swings at each other for joining a new tour offering big bucks from Saudi Arabia, which is accused of human rights abuses. Tiger Woods nixed a “mind-blowingly enormous” $1 billion deal to leave the PGA and join the LIV Golf series financed by Arab money, according to retired Australian icon Greg “The Shark” Norman, who heads the new organization. Other big names like Rory McIlroy, Jordan Speith and Justin Thomas also say they’re sticking with the veteran Professional Golfers Association tour. But Dustin Johnson snapped up the $125 million offer by LIV, which has already bought 27 of the world’s top 150 players. Even icon Phil Mickelson, 51, who’s worth $300 million and makes $50…