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Kobe Bryant’s messy and disastrous personal life elicits nothing but derision and contempt.

Ekaterina Rybolovleva and Petra Ecclestone may both be billionaire heiresses yet the two could not be any more dissimilar.

Last week Friday, word got out that Vanessa Bryant gave her husband Kobe Bryant divorce paper after more than 10 years. Since the announcement there have been plenty of speculations as to who Kobe Bryant may have been caught with. But while speculations continue here are the women Kobe Bryant has loved before.

It seems the hacker who leaked Lindsay Lohan's Playboy pictorial ahead of its release date didn't prevent the magazine from making huge sales. Even though the magazine has hit the newsstands, many are still looking to find the photos online.

A federal grand jury in Los Angeles has indicted a Turkish national on terrorism-support charges for allegedly wiring money to Pakistan to help fund attacks against American military personnel.

The morning weather forecast on Los Angeles CW affiliate KTLA was cloudy with more than a chance of hissy-fit on Monday.

Will Drake and Tony Bennett be the next to pair off on one of Bennett's Duets tunes? Maybe not. But the rapper and crooner are among the guest who'll perform on NBC's New Year's Eve With Carson Daly special on December 31.

More and more automakers find themselves strapped for cash, picking and choosing which shows to exhibit their new products. This year, Jaguar and Land Rover, both owned by Indian conglomerate Tata Motors, said they will both skip the Detroit Auto Show in favor of the Auto Expo in New Delhi, India, next month.

Following are brief profiles of the 15 teams in the National Basketball Association's (NBA) Western Conference ahead of the 2011-12 season.

Hospitals in California that served a greater proportion of black patients were more likely to shutter their emergency departments in the past decade than hospitals with fewer black patients, according to a new study.

Broadway is enjoying a renaissance -- and Hollywood is hoping to get a piece of the action.

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close director Stephen Daldry has secured what is expected to be the final slot on the Palm Springs International Film Festival's Awards Gala lineup, taking the Director of the Year Award from the fest.

The Rocky IV actress is in pain but OK.

An ESPN radio host is in hot water after referring to two WNBA teams as the Los Angeles Lesbians and the Phoenix Dyke-ury.

Toymaker Hasbro, who owns the Transformers toy line, is suing ASUS over the name of their new Android tablet called the Transformer Prime.

On Wednesday, Henry DiCarlo, weekday meteorologist for the KTLA 5 Morning News in Los Angeles, went out to do a live interview in downtown Los Angeles' Union Station. However, as he was getting ready to interview, producers radioed in that DiCarlo also had to cover the regular weather broadcast, which caused the weatherman to throw a fit.

The Los Angeles mansion that is featured on FX's hit series will likely go up for sale in 2012 for $17 million.

Cargo traffic at the Port of Los Angeles was disrupted on Wednesday after longshoremen discovered a shipping container with the word bomb spray painted on it, a spokesman for the facility said.

When director David Fincher decided to make a film of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Hollywood was abuzz with who might play the starring role of abused, vengeance-seeking computer hacker Lisbeth Salander.

History was made on a Virginia Beach pier on Wednesday when two women sailors, one just home from 80 days at sea, became what was believed to be the first same-sex couple to share the Navy's traditional first kiss.

With Tilda Swinton having racked up Golden Globe and SAG Award nominations for her role in We Need to Talk About Kevin, distributor Oscilloscope Laboratories has pushed up the New York City release date for the psychological thriller.