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The engagement ring actress Sharon Tate was wearing when she was butchered by Charles Manson’s psycho posse is going on the online auction block.

Bidding for the oval opal ring given to Tate by filmmaker Roman Polanski will start at $10,000.

“Who knows where the bidding will end up. She was so beautiful and innocent, and very popular,” said Pete Siegel of the midtown auctionhouse Gotta Have It! Collectibles.

Besides belonging to a big-screen bombshell, the ring is a macabre memento of one of the most twisted crimes in Hollywood history.

“It’s a great item of Hollywood collectibles,” said Siegel, adding that an autographed photo of Tate sold earlier this year for $13,000.

The auction will start on Nov. 30 on the web site Gottahaverockandroll.com and runs through Dec. 9.

Polanski gave Tate the four-karat opal stone — which is surrounded by garnet gems — in 1967, a year before they wed in London.

Tate — star of the 1967 film “Valley of the Dolls” — was eight months pregnant when Manson sent his brainwashed disciples to her Los Angeles hills home on Aug. 8, 1969, to kill her.

Despite pleading for her life, she was stabbed 16 times. Two of Tate’s friends were also murdered.

Tate was wearing the ring when she was killed, said Siegel. Polanski removed it from her finger when he went to identify her body at the L.A. County morgue.

Polanski gave the ring to a friend, who eventually sold it to pay off a debt, Siegel said. The current owner of the ring wishes to remain anonymous.

Other auction items will feature Michael Jackson’s hair, sketches and notes, as well as a beaded and sequined evening dress worn by Princess Diana.

Bernie Madoff’s birth certificate with his newborn footprints is also expected to fetch big bucks. Bidding for the imprisoned Ponzi king’s birth certificate will start at $5,000.



22 year old super model Brooklyn Decker is featured in a new ad campaign for La Senza Lingerie. Check out the video below.



A year ago, Nicki Minaj released her debut Pink Friday album to the world and it did exceptionally well on charts all over the world. A little while ago, Nicki took it to her Twitter account to announce that she will be releasing her sophomore album entitled “Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded” on Valentines Day of 2012.



Kim Kardashian is on the cover of the December 2011 issue of Marie Claire Magazine. Here are a few excerpts from the interview.

On Kris: “I’m not worried about him at all. We have a lot of trust, and I don’t think either of us would do anything to break that. It makes life so easy. He’s such a good guy; he is so down-to-earth, and it’s such a reality check. He is a normal guy, and I just want to chill out and be normal and not get glammed up all the time. He gets it. Sometimes my life can be really intimidating for people, but he allows me to work and do what I’ve gotta do.”

On the family’s reality shows: “We made a pact as a family and said we would be truly authentic because people don’t buy bull—. We’ll just be who we are, and – love it or hate it – we have each other. I think that’s what makes it so relatable, because we are not afraid to show crazy things.”

For more from Kim, visit MarieClaire.com!



Justin Timberlake followed through on a promise to take a Marine to her unit’s annual ball.

The singer and actor posted a photo along with a letter on his website Sunday that the Marine Corps Ball in Richmond, Va., was “one of the most moving evenings I’ve ever had.”

Cpl. Kelsey De Santis had invited Timberlake through a YouTube video to Saturday night’s event and Timberlake accepted. Timberlake wore a tuxedo to the ball at the Greater Richmond Convention Center.

De Santis, Timberlake wrote, “seemed like she was nervous about the whole evening and if I was going to enjoy myself. ‘Are you ok?’ she asked 2 or 3 times. ‘I hope you are having fun. I know you will once my crew of friends get here to the table.’ I have to tell you, it’s not every day that I meet a 23 year old girl and she’s more worried about if I’m having fun or if I’m comfortable!”

Timberlake’s “Friends With Benefits” co-star, Mila Kunis, earlier this year accepted a similar invitation to a Marine Corps Ball in Greenville, N.C.



A popular Hawaiian recording artist turned a top-security dinner of Pacific Rim leaders hosted by President Barack Obama into a subtle protest with a song in support of the “Occupy” movement.

Makana, who goes by one name, was enlisted to play a luau, or Hawaiian feast, Saturday night for leaders assembled in Obama’s birthplace Honolulu for an annual summit that is formulating plans for a Pacific free-trade pact.

But in the midst of the dinner on the resort strip Waikiki Beach, he pulled open his jacket to reveal a T-shirt that read “Occupy with Aloha,” using the Hawaiian word whose various meanings include love and peace. He then sang a marathon version of his new song “We Are The Many.”

“I was pretty nervous. In fact I was terrified. I kept thinking ‘what are the consequences going to be?’” Makana, 33, told AFP.

“It was incredibly comical. I was terrified but also enjoying it,” he said.

Makana, who was born Matthew Swalinkavich, said the song prompted awkward stares from a few of those present but the Obamas appeared too absorbed with their guests to notice what was happening.

The performance occurred at a dinner for summit participants from 21 economies around the Asia-Pacific, including Chinese President Hu Jintao and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, amid a security lockdown in Waikiki.

As Makana sang, about 400 protesters including anti-globalization and native Hawaiian rights activists staged a protest march toward the dinner site but turned back after encountering the smothering security.

Makana released the song on the Internet the day before and decided to play it at the urging of fans, he said.

Inspired by the anti-capitalist movement that began with the “Occupy Wall Street” demonstrations in New York, it denounces Washington politicians, corporate greed and what he sees as an unfair American economic system.

The song features the refrain, “We’ll occupy the streets, we’ll occupy the courts, we’ll occupy the offices of you, till you do the bidding of the many, not the few.”

He sang it “over and over” for 40 minutes, varying his tempo and delivery to avoid triggering an overt reaction.

“Whenever I felt the heat might come down, I would ease off. It was a very careful procedure,” he said.



Things aren’t all doom and gloom in the Kardashian family!

Thursday is Kendall Jenner’s 16th birthday! While her distraught sister, divorcee-to-be Kim Kardashian, bailed on the rest of her promotional Australian tour, Kendall celebrated her special day in L.A. with her family — and hoped for a car!

“Every teenager wants a car when they turn 16 because it gives them that sense of freedom,” Kris Jenner told E! News recently. “Kendall has to ask to be driven everywhere and her school’s kind of far away from where we live so I think it would be a good thing for Kendall to have some wheels. So it just depends. She’s such a great kid.”

Kris, 55, told E! News that Kendall and her famous sisters are currently in the midst of planning her Sweet 16 Birthday Bash, which will air in a special on E! A source tells Us the special will include Kendall shopping for a car — and getting a belly button ring or tattoo! “They are trying to like up Nicki Minaj or Kanye West to perform,” adds a source.

But her mom clarified: “She’s not a partyzilla. Her mother is though. I wanted this big party for Kendall and she was like, ‘Mom, calm down.’”

Khloe Kardashian tweeted “Happy Birthday” to her kid sister Thursday morning, adding, “I love you more than you know!”

Rob Kardashan wrote that he “[couldn't] believe [his] little sis is 16,” while mom Kris pleaded: “Promise me you won’t grow up too fast!”



Tamar Braxton is setting the record straight regarding her plastic surgery and career goals.

“I would like to say I did not have series of work done,” she told BET.com. “I just had my nose done. These are my lips. Everybody forgets we have full lips – I’m a Black girl, sorry. It’s not my fault that I’m light-skinned and, no, I don’t bleach [my skin]. But don’t get it twisted; I would if I wanted to.”

She also added: “I do wear weaves and I do wear wigs.”

“Braxton Family” values returned for a second season on Thursday, November 10 and showed Tamar Braxton engaging in an angry confrontation with her mother, Evelyn. The show debuted earlier this year and showcases the lives of the two, Toni Braxton, 45, and sisters Towanda, Trina and Traci.

Tamar Braxton is the youngest of the Braxton sisters, who once sang in the R& group The Braxtons before Toni Braxton began her solo career in the early 1990s. She is known for commercial hits such as “You’re Makin’ Me High” and “Unbreak My Heart.”

Warning: Spoiler alert!

Tamar Braxton is currently working on a own solo album. Upcoming episodes of “Braxton Family Values” will show her picking out a music producer and trying to manage her the acting career of her husband, Vince, who is recovering after suffering a pulmonary embolism. She also takes on the task of working as a radio DJ.

She told BET.com she wants to take her career “to the next level,” adding: “I waited my whole entire life to have a career and to be noticed and accepted as Tamar. I had no idea that this show would be platform for me to launch my singing career, I promise. This show is definitely about our family and the women in my family and how we live our lives and how it parallels all our viewer’s lives.”



Tiger Woods is the victim of a death hoax.

According to a gross prank from Global Associated News, “Pro golfer Tiger Woods was found unresponsive in his luxury vacation rental house near the Roko Ki golf resort in the Dominican Republic earlier today and later pronounced dead from what appears to be natural causes.”

The false rumor is spreading on Facebook, Twitter and other social media.

Woods is NOT dead.

He’s alive and well.



Penn State football coach Joe Paterno is going to retire at the end of the season. I think he should quit now or be fired now. I don’t think you owe him anything. Yes he has been a coach at Penn State forever, but this is a man who could have stopped almost 15 years of boys being molested and did nothing. In case you have not been following the story, his former defensive coordinator, Jerry Sandusky, has been charged with sexually abusing at least eight boys over a 15 year period. In 1998, a graduate assistant at Penn State saw Sandusky molesting a boy and reported it to Joe Paterno who did not do anything but tell HR. Nothing else. He felt no obligation to follow up or to wonder why a boy was being molested in the football locker room. I don’t know why he should be allowed to retire on his terms when the boys who were abused had no say and no support from him.



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