Celebrity Scandals

Good Charlotte. Bad hotel guest.

TMZ insiders confirm that Joel Madden was given the boot on Sunday from his hotel in Sydney because officials found marijuana in his room.

It's unclear what prompted the search, but a police report states that officers swept the musician's room around 10:30 and recovered a "small amount of plant matter believed to be cannabis."

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Stop us if you've heard this before: Adam Jones has been arrested.

The Bengals cornerback was taken into custody on Thursday night after two women approached him and asked for a photo.

The troubled star reportedly agreed… only for one woman to throw a beer bottle at him and for Jones to retaliate with a slap to the face.

It's actually caught on camera around the 50-second mark of this surveillance video:

Adam Jones Slaps Woman

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Rachel Uchitel is single again!

Tiger Woods' #1 mistress is getting divorced after her husband, Matt Hahn, filed the paperwork earlier today. Matt's reason? "Cruel and inhumane treatment."

Seriously. He put that.

The troubled couple frequently engaged in explosive, verbal arguments; Matt alleges that Rachel Uchitel slapped him after he repeatedly called her names. 

There's more. Rachel called 911 on Matt on May 16 after a particularly nasty verbal argument, asking officials for help getting him out of the house.

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2 Chainz was apparently robbed at gunpoint in San Francisco yesterday - in broad daylight - and was not cooperative with responding cops after the incident.

According to TMZ, police responded to a call about shots being fired around 4:30 p.m. When they arrived, the rapper said he wanted to "handle it himself."

2 Chainz told cops his wallet was taken and that's it; no Rick Ross style assassination attempt. Surveillance video shows Chainz was clearly the target.

Whatever the motive, officials are on the hunt for the perpetrator.

Also, the video of the robbery shows that the rapper's entourage of 14 people all bailed "like cockroaches running from a flashlight" when it went down.

So much for safety in numbers.

You know what they say: it's all fun and games until someone pulls a gun on a photographer.

As previously reported, a journalist named Jeffrey Binion accused Justin Bieber's bodyguards of assault last week, stemming from an incident outside The Hit Factory in Miami.

Now Binion has filed a lawsuit against Justin and one of his employees.

He alleges that Justin was behind the attack, ordering a bodyguard named Hugo Hesny to throw the reporter against a wall and grab him by the throat.

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Last week, Tyler the Creator took the heat for Justin Bieber's alleged joy ride, Tweeting that he was driving the singer's Ferrari when neighbors complained it was speeding around town on Memorial Day.

Now, Tyler himself is under fire for comments made in Australia.

Tyler, the Creator Curses Off Critic

It all started with feminist protester Talitha Stone petitioning to have the artist's Visa revoked because there are rules in the nation against visitors who “vilify or incite discord” and “songs advocating rape and extreme violence against women."

In response, during yesterday's concert Down Under, Tyler told the crowd there was someone trying to give him the boot and said:

“I wish she could hear me call her a b—-, too, f—ing whore.”

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It's gonna be hard for Justin Bieber to Tweet his way out of this one.

With assault allegations already looming over his security team from an incident in Miami on Wednesday... TMZ has obtained the audio of ANOTHER altercation between Bieber and a different photographer outside a recording studio around 4 a.m. yesterday.

And it paints Bieber in a terribly negative light, cursing off a reporter; stealing his SIM card; and laughing at his pleas to have the property returned.

Listen now:

Justin Bieber Flips Out on Cameraman

In March, Bieber went off on a paparazzo in London, needing to be restrained and positively flipping out at the shutterbug.

Forget driving lessons. Might Justin Bieber be in need of anger management? Sheesh!

Elmo is once again in the news for all the wrong reasons.

Dan Sandler, who dons an Elmo costume on the streets of cities around the country, was arrested yesterday for trying to extort $2 million from The Girl Scouts of America.

According to The Associated Press, Sandler is accused of sending harassing emails and voicemails to an organization supervisor in which he threatens to spread rumors of sex abuse within the Girl Scouts until he's properly compensated.

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More trouble this week for Justin Bieber. Or for Justin Bieber's camp, at least.

TMZ reports that two of Bieber's security guards were accused of assault a couple days ago in Miami when a photographer tried taking a picture of Justin skateboarding.

The alleged incident when down in The Hit Factory parking lot.

When the reporter starting to snap away at the artist, Bieber's entourage members supposedly choked him, snatched his camera and removed its memory card. Police eventually arrived at the scene and filed a battery report.

It will now to go the State's Attorney for review.

Bieber, of course, was accused of battery in March, with a neighbor telling cops Justin spit on him. That case it also being reviewed and the star may face serious charges.

It is not a good day to be in the commercial business.

First, this Swiffer ad was slammed for sexism. Then, these Happy Prostitute ads were pulled in Brazil.

Now, Pamela Anderson has been deemed an insult to her gender in Great Britain... or at least a commercial that features the former Baywatch beauty.

Pamela Anderson Ad: Sexist?

The country's Advertising Standards Authority stated in its ruling that the above ad for Dreamscape Networks includes a fantasy sequence that is far too offensive for the air.

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