Drew Pinsky

The 10 Douchiest Drummers of All Time

What would music be without a beat, a rhythm or a backbone? Though they qualify as the first instruments ever created, the drums are probably the last thing most music fans can live without. And while we worship plenty of drummers in modern music, there are some Gods of Thunder that might actually d ... More >>

Sylvia Melkonian, Anti-Drug Crusader Whose Late Son Inspired Film Festival Movie, Accused in $4.2 Million Real Estate Scam

The mother of a popular South County high school student whose prescription drug overdose death helped inspire an anti-drug documentary making its world premiere at the upcoming Newport Beach Film Festival has been arrested for participating in a $4.2 million real estate "flipping" scheme that inclu ... More >>

Dennis Rodman's Celebrity Rehab: Pouring and Downing Patron Shots on Newport Pen

​Starz Uncut ("Where the fans tell the story") has a question for NBA Hall of Famer Dennis Rodman after a "drunk-infused night" with him at Fuji Yama on the Newport Beach Pen:"What happened to Celebrity Rehab?"The Worm, who appeared last year on season three of VH-1's Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew ... More >>

Octomom Nadya Suleman Cries Broke Again

​Despite Celebridate, Celebrity Boxing, a horror movie role, paid interviews with the foreign press and her self-professed financial genius, Octomom Nadya Suleman is crying poor again.The unemployed single mother of 14 whines to Dr. Drew Pinsky that she cannot afford basic home repairs and must wa ... More >>

Poorman, Big City: Jim Trenton in New York

​In June, the Weekly told you about Poorman getting name checked by actor Tom Hanks, who was slumming on the KTLA Morning News set. Poorman returned the favor a week later via a hilarious Fourth of July YouTube video.Alas, the back-and-forth may soon end, at least here in SoCal, as Poorman (a.k.a. ... More >>

Octomom Nadya Suleman Whopper of the Month: Dr. Kamrava Drugged Me into Having 8 Babies

​A new month, a new whopper from Octomom Nadya Suleman.Having formerly defended her fertility doctor Michael Kamrava, the Beverly Hills physician stripped of his medical license on July 1, now La Habra's single mother of 14 is saying Doc Mike drugged her into signing the consent form that led to 1 ... More >>

Octomom Nadya Suleman's Latest Octo-idiocy: Having 14 Kids Necessary to Fill "Emotional Void"

​Kids say the darnedest things, and Octomom Nadya Suleman of La Habra has 14 to keep the darned things coming and coming and coming. But is there really beating anything coming out of her own reconstructed piehole? From saying she's a Muslim-raised workaholic to "babies disgust me" (and those are ... More >>

[UPDATED with More Details:] Newport Beach Film Festival May Seek Legal Action Against Andy Dick

Dick's most-recent booking photo from Temecula.​UPDATE, MAY 16, 8:57 A.M.: More details have been released about the April 29 incident that resulted in the Newport Beach Film Festival (NBFF) considering taking legal action against troubled comic actor Andy Dick.The piss-destroy-chew episode (see o ... More >>

The Real Rap Sheets of the Jackass Cast

​ Jackass star Steve-O was arrested in Calgary this week for allegedly assaulting a heckler there eight years ago. Call us jaded, but we think the Canadian authorities are overreacting to behavior that's more an extension of the Jackass brand than a threat to public safety. While Steve-O and his ... More >>

[UPDATED] Jason Davis Busted for Druggin' In Zooport 2 Nights After Saying He Was Clean on Celebrity Rehab

​UPDATE, FEB. 24, 8:04 A.M.: Oil heir Jason Davis, who was busted for alleged heroin use and pipe possession in Newport Beach last month, could get up to three years behind bars if convicted of the charges prosecutors have filed against him.The grandson of billionaire Marvin Davis faces three felo ... More >>

Jason Davis Busted for Druggin' In Zooport a Night After Saying He Was Clean on Celebrity Rehab

TMZ​A day after the airing of a Celebrity Rehab With Dr. Drew reunion special on VH-1 that featured Jason Davis professing to be clean, the grandson of billionaire Marvin Davis and brother of Brandon "Greasy Bear" Davis was apparently arrested Thursday night in Newport Beach for possession of a c ... More >>

Tawny Kitaen Sells 2 Homes for $4.3 Million, Which is Less Than What She Paid for Them

Tawny Kitaen in Bachelor Party​Years ago, Tawny Kitaen was in the movie Bachelor Party with Tom Hanks. Years later, she owned the ultimate bachelor pad: an Irvine penthouse apartment with 2-story-high windows, Viking appliances, Kohler fixtures, marble counters and a private balcony, within a con ... More >>

Reality TV Brings Crime to the Real OC, Says Study; But so Do Our Reality TV Criminals

​Guns don't kill people, only you can prevent forest fires and Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County causes crime to spike in Laguna Beach: the real Orange County city. The latter bit is wisdom comes from two Occidental College professors who crunched the crime data and now say rapes ... More >>

Gossip Mag Picks Up Poorman's Dr. Drew Tales

"From your lips to God's ear" is how the old saying goes. A new twist would be "From Poorman's Facebook page to Life & Style Magazine." Poorman's Facebook pageJim "Poorman" Trenton and David "Dr. Drew" Pinsky party at a KROQ bikini search in 1983.​

Dennis Rodman: Drunk Celebrity or Ultimate Promoter?

Dennis Rodman, seemingly sober with his estranged wife Michelle Moyer.​On Thursday, the same day the new season of Celebrity Rehab With Dr. Drew premiered on VH-1, one of the celebraholics was drinking vodka in an Irvine restaurant and had to eventually be escorted out by police, reports TMZ.com. ... More >>

Saturday: Guns N' Roses' Steven Adler to perform with DJ RUSH at Sutra

​There are some collaborations you just never expect to see in your life time, but they happen anyway...Nelly and Tim McGraw, Michael Jackson and Paul McCartney, Paula Abdul and MC Skat Cat. But famous Guns N' Roses drummer Steven Adler with DJ RUSH? Now that's just crazy. After reading Adler' ... More >>

Crime Time: F-Bombers, Tiki Takers, Beatles Fans, Creepy Molesters and Tawny Kitaen on the Loose

FACES OF TAWNY Actress, ex-Anaheim Angel wife, car hood buffer, supposedly reformed druggie and all-around hot mess Tawny Kitaen is shown on a February 2004 Weekly sex issue cover (left); in a booking photo from her April 2002 assault on then husband Chuck Finley in Newport Beach (top right); and wr ... More >>

Former Guns N' Roses Drummer Steven Adler Now Has an Appetite for Rehabilitation

That's Not a Virus Infecting Your Computer, It's Poorman

He's been all over the radio dial. He's burned through all the local broadcast television channels. Now Poorman is headed for the infinite bandwidth of the World Wide Web. God help us all . . . Newport Beach, CA - January 21, 2009 - Picture Jay Leno meets Loveline meets Wayne's World with the l ... More >>

Looking Back at 2008: The Celeb-Reality Edition

It was Oliver Wendell Holmes who opined that a new truth is better than an old celebrity-tinged news item, or at least he would have opined that had he lived in our celeb-obsessed times. So it is in that spirit these 15 Orange County brushes with famous folks in '08 are unveiled.   1) Newpo ... More >>

Sex on the Beach ... With Mom and Dad?

A local mom is pissed that her daughter was recently approached at Huntington Beach Pier by MTV staffers looking for teens to appear on Sex … with Mom and Dad, which has so shocked the executive director of the Downtown Business Improvement District that she plans to take the matter up with the Ci ... More >>

Enter Poorman

Life's a (bikini) beach for KDOC's returning late-night host

Like Pigs to Slaughter

Cast of old men in leather pants on the road to nowhere good in Wild Hogs

Keep Your Shirt On

We get Lit at the Weenie Roast