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10:55 PM ET, June 28, 2009

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TMZ.com:
Pitchman Billy Mays Found Dead  —  TMZ has confirmed TV pitchman Billy Mays was found dead today in his home in Tampa, Florida early this morning.  —  According to the Tampa PD, the 50-year-old TV pitchman was found unresponsive by his wife Deborah at 7:45 AM.
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TMZ.com:
FAA — Billy Wasn't Wearing a Seat Belt on Plane  —  The FAA is already deflecting blame for the death of Billy Mays — claiming the legendary TV pitchman wasn't wearing a seat belt when he took a shot to the head during a rough landing on a flight he was on yesterday.
Fox News:
Report: ‘Infomercial King’ Billy Mays Found Dead in Home  —  DEVELOPING: Television pitchman Billy Mays — who built his fame by appearing on commercials and infomercials promoting household products and gadgets — died Sunday, FOX News confirms.  —  Police said there were no signs …
Richard Fausset / Los Angeles Times:
Billy Mays dies at 50; boisterous TV pitchman
Discussion: Extra and Crabbie's Hollywood
Daphne Barak / Times of London:
What nanny who worked for Michael Jackson saw  —  Grace Rwaramba who cared for King of Pop and his children has shocking secrets of his addictions and bizarre nomadic life  —  I was in the bar of a London hotel on Thursday night with a senior television executive when a figure in a jumpsuit ran …
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Michael Jackson / News of the World:
SUPERSTAR AND FAMILY MAN  —  MICHAEL Jackson's two eldest kids face a tug-of-love battle after their mum Debbie Rowe confessed he was not their father.  —  In an astonishing interview Debbie - mother of Prince, 12, and Paris, 11 - said she was artificially inseminated by an anonymous donor.
Stephen M. Silverman / People.com:
Former Nanny Tells of Michael's Drug Use
Perez Hilton:
Michael Jackson's Father Hits The Red Carpet  —  Everybody grieves in their own way.  Joe Jackson, who - according to many accounts - physically abused his son, Michael, decided to hit up the BET Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday.  —  He was interviewed by CNN on the red carpet.  —  Check it out (above)!
Discussion: Associated Press and omg!
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Stephen M. Silverman / People.com:
Joe Jackson Appears at BET Awards Tribute to Michael  —  There was an unexpected but most welcome figure on the red carpet of Los Angeles's Shrine Auditorium for Sunday night's BET Awards: Michael Jackson's father, Joe Jackson.  —  Sporting a black hat, sunglasses and a dark suit …
Discussion: Socialite Life
Stephanie Chavez / L.A. Now:
Michael Jackson's death: Second autopsy completed at the request of Jackson's family
Discussion: Us Weekly and EW.com
Jennifer Garcia / People.com:
Kendra Wilkinson Weds at Playboy Mansion  —  In a wedding fit for a princess, Playboy Playmate Kendra Wilkinson wed her NFL player beau Hank Baskett at her onetime residence, the Playboy mansion in Los Angeles's exclusive Holmby Hills, on Saturday, PEOPLE confirms.
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RADAR:
EXCLUSIVE: Vanessa Minnillo Hooks Up With Topher Grace  —  Nick who?  —  Just days after announcing her breakup with Nich Lachey, beautiful Vanessa Minnillo seemed to heal her broken heart very, very  —  fast - with Topher Grace!  —  And it all happened right before our Radar eyes.
Paul Chi / People.com:
Ugly Betty's Ana Oritz Welcomes a Baby Girl  —  Ugly Betty star Ana Oritz and her husband, musician Noah Lebenzon, have welcomed their first child, a daughter, on Saturday, PEOPLE has learned exclusively.  —  “She is elated and completely glowing,” said Ortiz's rep. “She is surrounded …
Vicki Sheff Cahan / People.com:
Eddie Van Halen - in Flip-Flops - Weds Girlfriend  —  Guitar virtuoso Eddie Van Halen is no longer a solo: Saturday night he married Janie Liszewski, his girlfriend of three years.  —  The ceremony took place in the garden of his seven-acre estate in the hills above Studio City, Calif. …
Discussion: Gabby Babble and Bitten and Bound
Pamela McClintock / Variety:
‘Transformers’ on top with $201.2 mil  —  Pic scores best five-day haul after ‘Dark Knight’  —  Aside from its whopping five-day domestic tally — the second highest of all time — Paramount's “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” broke records in several countries overseas …
Discussion: Hollywood Elsewhere
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Associated Press:
‘Transformers’ takes to sky with $112M weekend
Discussion: Fan Fare and Gabby Babble
Ian Halperin / Daily Mail:
'I'm better off dead.  I'm done': Michael Jackson's fateful prediction just a week before his death  —  Whatever the final autopsy results reveal, it was greed that killed Michael Jackson.  Had he not been driven - by a cabal of bankers, agents, doctors and advisers …
News of the World:
Zombie  —  But, like every chapter in the troubled music legend's life, his final moments were riddled with macabre twists and turns.  We can reveal:  — THE kids and Jacko's personal doctor Conrad Murray thought he was playing a practical joke by PRETENDING to be dead.
Discussion: X17 Online
Time:
Michael Jackson 1958 - 2009  —  The self-proclaimed King of Pop dies after suffering cardiac arrest at his Los Angeles home.  A look back at his life
 
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