Newsmakers for Wednesday, June 6
Paris Jackson talks
about famous father
LOS ANGELES — Michael Jackson’s daughter, Paris, talks about her late father in an interview with Oprah Winfrey airing Sunday.
Paris Jackson, 14, will be featured on “Oprah’s Next Chapter,” the channel said Tuesday. She and Winfrey discuss how the teenager is faring three years after the 2009 death of her pop star father.
“It never gets easier,” Paris says in a promotional spot aired by OWN, which also shows Winfrey asking if Michael Jackson wanted her to have “a quote ‘normal’ life.”
Paris and her brothers, Prince and Blanket, were closely sheltered during Jackson’s life but have been in the public eye since, appearing onstage at Grammy Awards and on other TV shows.
“Oprah’s Next Chapter,” which also will include an interview with Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, will air at 8 p.m. Sunday on OWN.
NYPD: Willis caught drinking in public
NEW YORK — New York City police said the underage daughter of Demi Moore and Bruce Willis was caught drinking in public and carrying fake identification.
The New York Police Department said Tuesday that officers found 20-year-old Scout Willis sipping a beer Monday evening in Union Square in violation of an open-container law. Police said she also showed them a fake ID — a misdemeanor.
Willis was arrested and taken to a local police station and released with a ticket ordering her to appear in court on July 21.
Bruce Willis’ representative declined to comment on the arrest.
Scout is the second of Moore and Willis’ three daughters together. The couple divorced in 2000.
Crow says she has
benign brain tumor
NEW YORK — Sheryl Crow revealed that she has a benign brain tumor, but her rep said it’s nothing to be alarmed about.
The 50-year-old told an audience about her condition at a recent concert, but her representative, Christine Wolff, said it’s very common.
The tumor is a meningioma, and it’s typically benign and develops from the protective linings of the brain and spinal cord.
Wolff said that Crow is doing great and is healthy and happy.
Crow battled breast cancer several years back. She’s currently on a nationwide tour.
Debra Winger takes talent to Broadway
NEW YORK — Debra Winger, the star of such movies as “An Officer and a Gentleman” and “Urban Cowboy,” will make her Broadway debut this winter in a new work by David Mamet.
Producers said Tuesday that Winger and co-star Patti LuPone will begin performances of “The Anarchist” on Nov. 13 at a theater still to be announced. It will open Dec. 2.
Compiled from
The Associated Press