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- Alleged Gene Simmons website hacker arrested
- Michael Jackson's doctor too poor to fund appeal
- Tony Bennett auctions nude sketch of Lady Gaga
| Alleged Gene Simmons website hacker arrested Posted: 13 Dec 2011 05:01 PM PST LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A MAN accused of being part of the hacking group Anonymous was arrested on Tuesday on charges of attacking the website of Kiss frontman Gene Simmons. Kevin George Poe, 24, was arrested in Connecticut and ordered to appear in court in Los Angeles, the U.S. Attorney's office in Los Angeles said. A date has yet to be scheduled. Poe is accused of using a computer program to bombard the GeneSimmons.com website for five days in October 2010 with tens of thousands of electronic requests in a denial of service attack. He is charged with conspiracy and unauthorized impairment of a protected computer and could face up to 15 years in prison if convicted. According to the indictment, Poe used a favorite software tool of the Anonymous collective - a Low Orbit Ion Cannon - to send vast numbers of requests over a network in an attempt to overwhelm a target computer. Simmons, 62, founded hard rock band Kiss in the early 1970s and appeared in the TV reality shows "Gene Simmons Family Jewels" and "Rock School." Authorities did not say why Simmons' website was targeted. Anonymous has previously been linked to attacks on the websites of the PlayStation store, MasterCard, Visa and the Church of Scientology. Full content generated by Get Full RSS. |
| Michael Jackson's doctor too poor to fund appeal Posted: 13 Dec 2011 04:55 PM PST LOS ANGELES - Michael Jackson's doctor on Tuesday asked for a publicly-funded lawyer to handle his appeal on a manslaughter conviction in the pop star's death, saying he could not afford to pay for one himself. Dr. Conrad Murray, serving a four-year jail term for the involuntary manslaughter of Jackson in 2009, filed papers with Los Angeles Superior Court saying he was unable to fund his legal help any longer. "The defendant is indigent and respectfully requests the appointment of counsel on appeal," the court papers said. Murray said he wished to appeal both his conviction and his sentence but so far has not filed formal papers with the California appeals court. The 58-year-old cardiologist had hired two lawyers for his six-week trial, but he was convicted in November of involuntary manslaughter, or gross negligence, after admitting he gave the "Thriller" singer nightly doses of the surgical anesthetic propofol to help Jackson sleep. Jackson, 50, died on June 25, 2009 of an overdose of propofol and sedatives, just weeks before a series of planned comeback concerts. Full content generated by Get Full RSS. |
| Tony Bennett auctions nude sketch of Lady Gaga Posted: 13 Dec 2011 04:53 PM PST LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A nude charcoal drawing of Lady Gaga by singer Tony Bennett went up for auction on Ebay this week, with all proceeds going to both singers' charities. The drawing is a charcoal sketch on watercolor paper, and features Lady Gaga reclining nude, signed by "Benedetto," the name Bennett signs all his art works with. The 85-year-old jazz singer, who earlier this year recorded "Lady is a Tramp" in a duet with Lady Gaga for his album "Duets II," posted on Twitter that he was "thrilled" his portrait was up for auction. Bennett, 85, sketched the picture while Lady Gaga, 25, posed for photographer Annie Leibovitz for the cover of Vanity Fair magazine's January issue. Currently, the highest bid is $6,700, and is expected to rise during the course of the auction, which will end on Dec. 19, with all proceeds going to Bennett's Exploring the Arts charity and Lady Gaga's Born This Way Foundation. Full content generated by Get Full RSS. |
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