Dashing Grooms... Runnaway Brides...Top 10 Stars Left at the Alter

1.   Hugh Hefner and Crystal Harris

 

Hugh Hefner tweeted Tuesday that “the wedding is off. Crystal has had a change of heart.” Sources said Hefner, 85, and Crystal Harris, 25, supposedly had a “nasty argument” over the weekend, and Harris moved her things out of the Playboy mansion pretty much immediately—only a week before the wedding.

2.   Gwyneth Paltrow and Brad Pitt

 

Paltrow stated she was too young for the commitment. “My internal stuff really tripped up and I felt really responsible and also like I was the architect of my own misery and I just made a big mess of it and…I was very upset for a long, long time about it,” she said. The broken engagement, she said, was responsible for her later relationship with a man she called a “total knucklehead,” although she refused to name names.

 

3.   Julia Roberts and Kiefer Sutherland

 

 

She broke up with Sutherland just three days before the ceremony. Then she ran off with Sutherland’s best friend, actor Jason Patric. More than a decade later, he said, “I commend Julia for seeing how young and    silly we were, even as painful and difficult as it was.”

4.   Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez

 

 

Dubbed “Bennifer” by the press, “I don’t think I’ve ever been heartbroken in that way before—had so many hopes and dreams on something,” Lopez said after rumors seeped out about Affleck’s having a “wild night of sex” with a Canadian stripper at a party at Christian Slater’s house.

5.   Katie Holmes and Chris Klein

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Only weeks after they broke up, Holmes made her first public appearance with Tom Cruise at the David di Donatello Awards in Italy, with Cruise saying he was “beyond enamored.” Only three months after her breakup with Klein, Holmes and Cruise were engaged.

6.   Alec Baldwin and Janine Turner

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Turner said she was so broke she was “trying to hock” her engagement ring from Baldwin to pay her rent. Baldwin and Turner could not have gone in more opposite directions. Turner said she began to get “blackout drunk” and that “the devil was trying to get me down."

7.   Carson Daly and Tara Reid

 

 

 

Not necessarily a recipe for marital bliss, Tara said later, "if I had married Carson, I’d probably have kids by now…I wouldn’t have had all that crazy partying. My life would have been completely different.’ But you know what? If it was meant to happen, it would have…but I’ve never loved anyone the way I’ve loved him.”

8.   Demi Moore and Emilio Estevez

 

 

“She and I have seen each other socially over the years,” Estevez told People magazine. “But to work with her, man, was old home week.” Though they’ve since each been married and divorced (the second for Moore and the first for Estevez), Moore is head-over-heels in Twitter-advertised wedded bliss with Ashton Kutcher

9.   Lance Armstrong and Sheryl Crow

 

 

“She wanted marriage, she wanted children; and not that I didn’t want that, but I didn’t want that at that time because I had just gotten out of a marriage, I’d just had kids,” Armstrong wrote in his 2009 book Lance. 
Since then, Crow battled breast cancer and adopted two boys. Armstrong also added two more children to his brood, having a son and a daughter with girlfriend Anna Hansen.

10.   Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shortly after her mother lost the election, Palin also lost Johnston. The engagement was called off. Despite the public feuding and some Playgirl modeling, the couple kissed and made up in July 2010, announcing their engagement was back on. “It felt right, even though we don’t have the approval of our parents,” then 19-year-old Palin told Us Weekly. But three weeks later, the rings were off and the claws were back out.

'Jackass' Star Ryan Dunn Dead At 34

Ryan Dunn, who along with his "Jackass" cast mates made Americans cringe and snicker at vulgar stunts, died early Monday in a fiery car crash.

Dunn, 34, who gained notoriety for diving into a sewage tank among other unsavory stunts, was driving his Porsche in Philadelphia when it careered off the road, flipped over a guardrail, crashed into the woods and burst into flames. A passenger was also killed, and speed may have been a factor in the crash, police said.
Dunn appeared on MTV shows "Jackass" and "Viva La Bam" and the three "Jackass" big-screen adaptations. He also starred in his own MTV show, "Homewrecker," and just began hosting the show "Proving Ground" on the G4 cable network. A G4 spokesman said the show, which premiered June 11 with the second episode slated to air today, would be pulled until the network can discuss its future.

Other Tidbits

‘Wild Thing' rapper arrested

The rapper Tone Loc has been arrested on suspicion of felony domestic violence. Burbank, Calif., police Sgt. Tracy Sanchez said 45-year-old Anthony Smith — Tone Loc's real name — was arrested Saturday.
Sanchez could not confirm that the man arrested is Tone Loc, but Smith's birthdate and description in jail records match those of the rapper.
Tone Loc is best known for the 1989 hip-hop hits "Wild Thing" and "Funky Cold Medina."


Iconic dress fetches $4.6 million

The Marilyn Monroe dress that flirted revealingly with a gust of New York subway air in "The Seven Year Itch" fetched $4.6 million at an auction of nearly 600 Hollywood costumes and props collected by film star

In "The Seven Year Itch," Monroe's character cooled off by standing over a subway grate to catch the breeze as a train sped underneath — sending her dress north and exposing a shocking amount of leg and undergarment for a 1955 movie.

USC Stripped of 2004 National Championship

The Bowl Championship Series on Monday officially stripped USC of its 2004 championship as a result of major infractions involving star running back Reggie Bush.
The BCS title will be vacated for that season. The Associated Press previously announced USC would remain its 2004 champion.





"The BCS alerted us today that their presidents have voted to vacate USC's 2005 BCS Championship Game victory," USC Athletic Director Pat Haden said in a statement. "This was not an unexpected outcome. We will comply with all requirements mandated by the result of this BCS vote."
The ruling came less than two weeks after the NCAA denied USC's appeal to have some of the sanctions reduced. The Trojans were slapped with a two-year ban on postseason play and the loss of 30 scholarships.
USC, however, effectively forfeited its 2004 title last year when it admitted Bush was an ineligible player during the Trojans' run to the title. USC claimed the crystal trophy with a 55-19 victory over Oklahoma in the 2005 Orange Bowl. 

"Now that this is behind me I look forward to the future and winning more awards and championships here in New Orleans! Who Dat!"

NCAA had ruled in the school's favor because the Trojans' appeal was asking only for the sanctions to be reduced. The official ruling came after a meeting of the NCAA's Presidential Oversight Committee.
"The BCS arrangement crowns a national champion, and the BCS games are showcase events for postseason football," BCS Executive Director Bill Hancock said in a statement. "One of the best ways of ensuring that they remain so is for us to foster full compliance with NCAA rules. Accordingly, in keeping with the NCAA's recent action, USC's appearances are being vacated.

"It's been fun New Orleans."  Bush's tweet - seemed to confirm the inevitable: the oft-injured, high-salaried running back and the Saints will be parting ways before the 2012 season.

The BCS was only waiting for the appeal process to be completed. USC would have lost its title even if the
"This action reflects the scope of the BCS arrangement and is consistent with the NCAA's approach when it subsequently discovers infractions by institutions whose teams have played in NCAA championship events."
The title trophy is awarded by the American Football Coaches Assn. USC will lose 10 scholarships a year for the next three years and will be bowl ineligible next year and not allowed to compete for the first Pac-12 championship.

"Each individual carries the legacy of the award and each one is entrusted with its good name ... It is for these reasons that I have made the difficult decision to forfeit my title as Heisman winner of 2005." Reggie Bush