Leonardo DiCaprio Leo & Alejandro: The Survivors Seriously. That’s what Variety is calling Leonardo DiCaprio and Alejandro G Inarritu on the new issue, just in time for the holiday break, so that Oscar voters can read about The Struggle. I don’t know why they just don’t rename the film The Struggle. As you would By Lainey • Dec 16, 2015 10:40 am
Legal issues Intro for December 7, 2015 Dear Gossips, The Golden Globe nominations are coming on Thursday, exactly one month before the show on January 10, 2016. Lee Daniels could be there to represent Empire. Can someone please invite Sean Penn too? As you recall, Lee namechecked Sean in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter a few By Lainey • Dec 07, 2015 08:35 am
Charlize Theron It must be the hair Scarlett Johansson, Charlize Theron, Minka Kelly… They’ve all been attracted to Sean Penn. Is it the hair? Sean was in Paris on Sunday to meet with the French Minister of Ecology, Sustainable Development, and Energy. They discussed climate issues and securing more help for Haiti. Obviously important issues. Much By Lainey • Nov 03, 2015 01:37 pm
Assy Style Charlize in wet metal & more on Sean Penn Charlize Theron was in Hong Kong yesterday promoting a real estate project. Everyone’s making China money. Look at this dress. The way it takes the light from some angles it looks wet. At other angles it looks like armour. And it’s not just unforgiving, it adds things that By Lainey • Oct 29, 2015 11:18 am
Faux Gossip Sean Penn: Madonna or Freida Pinto? It was Freida Pinto’s birthday yesterday. There was a dinner party in LA at The Nice Guy and Sean Penn showed up. And because Sean Penn is Sean Penn, the Daily Mail is now trying to subtly suggest that there may be shenanigans, even though they left separately and By Lainey • Oct 19, 2015 01:48 pm
BFFs Madonna, Sean, and Amy Madonna’s Rebel Heart tour stopped in Vancouver last night. She has a runway coming out of the stage and at the end of the runway is a heart. The point of the heart sticks out into the audience and that’s typically the VIP section. Lourdes was there at By Lainey • Oct 15, 2015 11:51 am
Girly Throw Downs Sean Penn is not Terrence Howard Sean Penn is suing Lee Daniels for $10 million alleging that Daniels has defamed him. Here’s a quick background: To promote Empire, Daniels was interviewed recently in The Hollywood Reporter and when asked about Terrence Howard being, um, Terrence Howard, and his history of abusing women, Daniels’s made By Lainey • Sep 22, 2015 04:08 pm
Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone Intro for August 17, 2015 Dear Gossips, It was Madonna’s 57th birthday yesterday. There was a party. She posted some photos on Instagram, none of which are as interesting as the photo she posted a few days earlier, of Sean Penn, who turns 55 today. Look at this: Its almost our birthdays!! 2 Leo& By Lainey • Aug 17, 2015 08:59 am
Hook Ups Sean Penn, serial dater Charlize Theron ended her relationship with Sean Penn and then brought home a baby. Sean Penn took Minka Kelly out for her birthday and, well, she apparently didn’t want a second date, perhaps because social media told her he’s gross. When you’re Sean Penn though, being gross By Lainey • Aug 07, 2015 01:08 pm
Break Ups Charlize & Sean at separate airports Charlize Theron was photographed at LAX yesterday. Today Sean Penn was seen at the airport in Paris. As you know, it’s over. And supposedly it ended abruptly. Like one minute they were together in Cannes and doing good and the next, according to US Weekly, she froze him out. By Lainey • Jul 13, 2015 04:18 pm
Hook Ups Sean Penn and…Minka Kelly? TMZ broke this story. Minka Kelly celebrated her birthday at French Laundry in the Napa Valley. Have you been there? I want to! My friend Lorella went there a couple of years ago. Lorella knows her food. And she said the food there is so good it was practically a By Lainey • Jun 30, 2015 03:04 pm
Break Ups Single Sean Penn on Father's Day Here's Sean Penn with daughter Dylan yesterday for Father's Day. It's the first photo we have of him since news broke that he and Charlize Theron are over. Or, more specifically, since news broke that Charlize doesn't want to picture him - By Lainey • Jun 22, 2015 01:40 pm
Break Ups Charlize & Sean: it’s over US Weekly reports exclusively that Charlize Theron and Sean Penn have broken off their engagement. Apparently it was Charlize who shut it down last month after the two were in Cannes for Mad Max and then Vienna for the Life Ball. They looked fine in photos from that event but By Lainey • Jun 17, 2015 05:16 pm
Style Charlize & Sean at the Life Ball Charlize Theron left Cannes to attend the Life Ball in Vienna on the weekend. I was surprised to see her there. Because, you know, the Life Ball, though important and for a good cause, doesn’t normally attract such A listers. It’s typically Hollywood Ebola Hilton. Or Kanye West’ By Lainey • May 19, 2015 04:39 pm
Assy Style Charlize & Sean in Cannes Sean Penn joined Charlize Theron at the Palais in Cannes for Mad Max: Fury Road today. Is this supposed to be our substitute for Brange Cannes? Because I reject that. I was however reminded of previous Cannes. There was a year he was there and I was covering it and By Lainey • May 14, 2015 03:41 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Charlize on Sean & Tom Imperator Furiosa and Mad Max are on their way. So promotion begins with Charlize Theron on the cover of ESQUIRE. I posted photos from the shoot in January. As you’ve heard, Charlize and Tom Hardy weren’t best friends during production. Tom has already admitted that they had a By Lainey • Apr 14, 2015 12:12 pm