Rupert Murdoch’s British newspaper company on Thursday agreed to pay damages to 36 high-profile victims of tabloid phone hacking, including actor Jude Law, soccer player Ashley Cole, and former British deputy prime minister John Prescott.
In the 15 settlements whose financial terms were made public, amounts generally ran into the tens of thousands of pounds (dollars) — although Law received 130,000 pounds (about $200,000) to settle claims against the now-shuttered News of the World tabloid and its sister paper, The Sun. READ FULL STORY »

Lindsay Lohan is facing a lien for nearly $94,000 that the federal government claims she owes in unpaid income taxes. According to the lien filed in Los Angeles County last Thursday, Lohan has an unpaid balance of $93,701.57 from the 2009 tax year.

Lohan’s rep Steve Honig responded to EW’s request for comment with the following statement: “Lindsay’s personal finances are her business and no one else’s.”

Lindsay Lohan and her chauffeur, Paola Demara, have been sued by a paparazzo named Grigor Balyan who claims that, on Jan. 10, 2010, he was injured when the actress’ vehicle ran over him outside of a club in Hollywood as he was trying to take pictures of the troubled star.

According to Balyan’s suit, filed yesterday in Los Angeles Superior Court, “Defendants, each of them, so negligently, carelessly, and recklessly operated, maintained, repaired, owned, and controlled their automobile so as to cause an accident which resulted in personal injuries and property damage to Plaintiff.”

Inside the court documents obtained by EW, the suit is marked as an “unlimited civil case,” which means that the damages Balyan is seeking exceed $25,000. He is suing Lohan for personal injury, property damage, and general negligence.

The actress who is suing Amazon and its subsidiary the Internet Movie Database (IMDb) for exposing her age revealed her name in an amended court filing on Friday. EW has confirmed that 40-year-old Huong Hoang of Texas is the woman behind the much-ballyhooed lawsuit, which was originally filed last October. Hoang, who has adopted the Americanized stage name Junie Hoang, states in the claim that her Asian name has led to industry discrimination.

Hoang’s IMDb page shows that the actress has regularly appeared in small-budget films throughout the last decade, but she claims that she was driven to sue when the subscription-based IMDbPro took her personal information from a credit card and refused to take it down. Hoang subscribed to IMDbPro to increase her exposure, and noticed that her legal date of birth had been added to her public profile shortly after. This, according to Hoang’s filing, has led to a “substantial decrease in acting credits, employment opportunities and earnings.”

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