Kara DioGuardi is releasing a memoir on April 26, and inside she reveals that she was molested as a child and date-raped by a well-known music producer. When she was 11 years old, DioGuardi says a family friend’s son in his late teens repeatedly abused her: “On one particular day, he took me into the back shed of his house and put his hands all over my breasts and vagina,” she writes. “I remember freezing and not knowing what to do.” Much later in life, as her career as a songwriter was taking off, DioGuardi claims that after she had dinner with a producer, “within a few hours, he was on top of me, pumping, sweating, and speaking to me in Spanish, not a word of which I could understand.” And! A few years later, DioGuardi found herself sexually harassed by a “hugely successful artist.” DioGuardi continued to work with the artist because, she writes, “I wasn’t gonna let this bastard deter me from doing the job.” [E!]
Lady Gaga will release the video for “Judas” on Easter. Expect to see her dressed as Mary Magdalene… if Mary Magdalene had a subscription to Italian Vogue. [Digital Spy]
Kate Hudson did one of those pendulum reading things — holding a pendant over her pregnant belly — and the spirits say it’s a girl! [ET]
Kate Hudson says being pregnant is “wonderful.” “You do get the pregnant mush-brain… you know what it’s like? It’s like getting stoned.” [Extra]
- In addition to playing Victoria Gotti, Lindsay Lohan might be in another movie called Mob Street, which also involves the mafia. Has she found her niche? [Radar Online]
- Lindsay Lohan has asked the judge to reschedule her court hearing on Friday because it’s Good Friday and Lindsay is a good Catholic girl who plans to observe the holy day. [Radar Online]
- Breaking: Lea Michele is mean. [E!]
- Susan Sarandon, 64, and her ping-pong pal Jonathan Bricklin, 33, were seen at the movies, hugging and holding hands. It’s so on. [Gatecrasher]
- Tom Cruise might play a failed pop star on Glee? Meh. [Showbiz Spy]
- Kim Kardashian used to wax her forehead. Also, she first got a bikini wax at 12 years old. Twelve. [ONTD]
- 50 Cent keeps getting targeted for credit card fraud. Since everyone knows his real name and where he lives in Connecticut (Mike Tyson’s old mansion) thieves have tried to use American Express card numbers to make unauthorized purchases. Sucks. [Gatecrasher]
- Like most of us do after getting wasted and making bad decisions, Nicolas Cage has gone back to work. [E!]
- Owen Wilson‘s baby went to the beach. [Radar Online]
- Carrot Top with straight hair: What do you think? [Janet Charlton’s Hollywood]
- “Courteney and I looked at each other and were like, ‘We could be their mothers.'” — Neve Campbell on meeting her Scream 4 costars, Hayden Panettiere and Emma Roberts. [Showbiz Spy]
- “I think Obama is an idiot for doing what he’s doing.” — Charles Manson. Yeah, I know. [Radar Online]