Neighbors of Leonardo Dicaprio filed a lawsuit this week alleging the Blood Diamond actor's construction of a basketball court on his LA property has caused damage to their uphill property for the nearly three years. The couple claim Dicaprio "maliciously" cut and removed hedges from their property and excavated "earth, granite and bedrock," which they say has destabilized their deck and pool and caused damages in excess of $250,000. They also accuse the actor of ignoring their repeated demands to halt construction.
Leonardo Dicaprio, Kate Moss, George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Justin Timberlake, Cate Blanchett, Oprah Winfrey, Rosie O'Donnell and Borat star Sacha Baron Cohen are among the celebs listed in Time magazine's 100 most influential people in the world. Barbara Walters penned a few words about her View co-host for the mag: "And so, last September, we began a thrilling roller-coaster ride," Walters writes of O'Donnell. "We followed Rosie's passion and compassion, her feuds and fearlessness, her humanity and humor." Director Martin Scorsese says of his oft muse Dicaprio, "Dicaprio is another guy a lot of us underestimated as a pretty boy type," and calls him a "true actor." Time also named fourteen "power givers," including Bill and Melina Gates and Angelina Jolie.
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have confirmed that they will present their film A Mighty Heart at the Cannes Film Festival next month. The movie, produced by Pitt's film company, stars Jolie as Mariane Pearl, the widow of reporter Daniel Pearl. "The story unfolds like a mystery," Jolie told EW mag. "You've got people collecting clues and trying to solve what happened. But it's also very real and personal. We didn't want it to be too melodramatic or too polished. We didn't want it to be a typical movie." Other big names scheduled to visit the South of France for the festival include Jude Law, Natalie Portman and Rachel Weisz, who will open the fest with My Blueberry Nights; George Clooney, Matt Damon and Don Cheadle in support of Ocean's 13; Michael Moore will present his latest doc, Sicko; and Leonardo Dicaprio is set to promote a special screening of the environmental documentary The Eleventh Hour.
Leonardo has put recent rumors to rest that girlfriend Bar Rafaeli is pregnant, with his rep telling Us mag the story is "totally b.s." and "100 percent made up bollocks." A British newspaper started the tale after Rafaeli wore a loose-fitting top to a party in Vegas and drank mineral water instead of booze.
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