People: She’s not under Holmes arrest?
Katie Holmes is an equal partner in her marriage to Tom Cruise, not a prisoner, her friend Jada Pinkett Smith insists.
“People think Tom and the Church of Scientology got something on Kate? They don’t,” the actress wife of Will Smith says.
“Kate is running her own show. … Let me tell you: Kate ain’t no little wimpy kitty cat,” Pinkett Smith adds, calling Holmes a “tigress.”
Cruise, 44, has been depicted in the tabloids as a controlling husband who uses Scientology to keep Holmes, 28, in line.
“People want to focus on, ‘She’s tied up in the basement and he throws steaks to her at night and she gets to see (daughter) Suri only on Sundays,’ ” Pinkett Smith says. “It’s ridiculous.”
Suri was born last year. Cruise also has two children, Isabella and Connor, from his previous marriage to Nicole Kidman.
“She’s young, she popped into motherhood very fast,” Pinkett Smith says of Holmes.
“If you think about the transition she’s done, with as much grace she’s had, and on top of it with the (media) attacks – I don’t know how she does it.”
Checking in?
Paris Hilton should be jailed for 45 days for violating terms of her probation for an alcohol-related reckless driving conviction, Los Angeles city prosecutors say.
They also want Hilton to stay away from alcohol for 90 days and wear a monitoring device that will chart whether she complies. And they are seeking to have her license suspended for an additional four months.
The recommendation will be reviewed by a judge when Hilton appears for a probation violation hearing today. The judge can accept it or impose a different penalty. The maximum penalty is 90 days in jail.
Hilton, 26, pleaded no contest in January to reckless driving stemming from a Sept. 7 arrest in Hollywood. She was later pulled over for speeding and charged with the probation violation for driving with a suspended license.
Should fetch a pretty penny
The 52-room mansion that 50 Cent has called home for more than three years – once owned by boxer Mike Tyson – is up for sale.
The rapper (real name: Curtis James Jackson III) bought the 48,000-plus-square-foot dwelling in September 2003 for $4.1 million. He has reportedly spent up to $6 million on renovations, including adding a helicopter pad.
Said a local real estate agent: “He’s put a lot into it, and it’s all very tasteful, except the stripper poles.”
Rock chips in
Kid Rock is helping out a high school girls’ golf team from his native Detroit area.
The rock-rapper arranged to have new custom golf clubs sent to the coach and five players after learning that the equipment had been stolen from the coach’s car.
Gambling on Bette
Bette Midler will replace Celine Dion as the headliner at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.
Dion’s show, “A New Day,” has grossed more than $500 million since it began in March 2003 in the hotel-casino’s 4,100-seat Colosseum theater. She announced in January that she would end her run at the end of the year.
Midler said she hadn’t decided all the details of her show, but allowed: “I love showgirls and I love feathers and sequins, so I’m hoping there’ll be plenty of that.”
Listing to the left?
Heartthrob Leonardo DiCaprio and envelope-pushers Rosie O’Donnell and Sacha Baron Cohen are among the entertainment newsmakers on Time magazine’s list of 100 people who shape the world.
The list, in the issue on newsstands today, also includes Martin Scorsese, Kate Moss, Oprah Winfrey, George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Justin Timberlake, Tyra Banks, Cate Blanchett, America Ferrera, Tina Fey, John Mayer and Michael J. Fox – but not President Bush.
The birthday bunch
Guitarist Dick Dale is 70. Singer-songwriter Nick Ashford (Ashford and Simpson) is 65. Country singer Randy Travis is 48. Actress Mary McDonough (“The Waltons”) is 46. Comedian Ana Gasteyer (“Saturday Night Live”) is 40. Singer Lance Bass (‘N Sync) is 28.