Coolio is dead at 59. The rapper, whose real name is Artis Leon Ivey Jr., died on Wednesday, September 28, at a friend’s house in Los Angeles, California. “We are saddened by the loss of our dear friend and client, Coolio, who passed away this afternoon,” a rep for Coolio told Us Weekly on Wednesday. “He touched the world with the gift of his talent and will be missed profoundly. Thank you to everyone worldwide who has listened to his music and to everyone who has been reaching out regarding his passing.

After making music together for a decade, Dan Smyers and Shay Mooney were nearly ready to give it all up — until they turned a corner in their friendship. “When we stopped trying to force things, Dan and I got together and really [decided to rekindle] this friendship,” Mooney, 31, told Zane Lowe during a Friday, August 4, interview with Smyers, 35, on Apple Music 1. “And we decided, ‘Let’s get together two, three times a week and just hang out.

In her recent hit “Heart Attack,” Demi Lovato croons, “If I ever did that, I think I’d have a heart attack,” but based on her latest confessions about her intense drug and alcohol abuse, it seems The X Factor judge can withstand more than the average person.  Lovato, 21, gave Access Hollywood a very candid interview on Dec. 10 in which she revealed some shocking details about her troubled past. 

It’s a bachelorette party for The Bachelorette!  Season eight Bachelorette star and season 15 Bachelor contestant Emily Maynard celebrated the end of her single life this week with a wild bachelorette party.  The reality star fêted her upcoming nuptials with a “white trash bash” with her friends, including Eric & Jessie‘s Jessie Decker. Her Instagram photos show her in a pink Hummer limo in Nashville.  Wearing a pair of distressed denim shortalls over a camo-print tank top with a matching fanny pack, she accessorized with a backwards cap, knee socks, and an armful of bracelets while sipping champagne.

Supporting her love. Eva Mendes hyped up Ryan Gosling‘s new movie, The Gray Man, and it turns out her longtime beau is fulfilling all of her childhood fantasies. “My man making all my 1980s action star dreams come true,” Mendes, 48, captioned a poster for the upcoming Netflix movie on Tuesday, May 24, via Instagram. Gosling, 41, stars as a deadly CIA operative nicknamed Sierra Six in The Gray Man. Lloyd Hansen (Chris Evans), a former cohort at the CIA, is hired to kill Six, and he’ll stop at nothing to take him out.

Montenegro what? When Angelina Jolie told Vanity Fair that her 4-year-old daughter Shiloh "has Montenegro style," she left everyone — even fashion insiders — scratching their heads. "I don't think anybody knows what that means," TV personality and style expert Robert Verdi tells UsMagazine.com of the globe-trotting star's reference to the European nation, located on the Adriatic coast of the Mediterranean Sea. "I think she was trying to say something intellectual or funny, and it just sounded dumb.

The fern and the fury! Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week creator Fern Mallis aired her true feelings about Kanye West at the Jeremy Scott show on Wednesday, Feb. 18. According to Page Six, both Mallis and West attended the New York Fashion Week show at Milk Studios in NYC, where the rapper was "swarmed" by fans. Mallis, meanwhile, was reportedly unimpressed by Kim Kardashian's husband, who hauled a bodyguard to the runway event.

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