Fallen Miss USA admits cocaine use, alcoholism
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Miss USA Tara Conner, who hung on to her crown last month by agreeing to go into rehab, has admitted she used cocaine and says she has struggled with alcoholism since she was a teenager.
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Former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson pleaded guilty Monday to charges of drug possession and driving under the influence stemming from a traffic stop last year as he was leaving a nightclub.
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The sometime singer-actress pleaded guilty in New York Wednesday to disorderly conduct, stemming from a March incident when she nailed a clubgoer in the head with a microphone stand during a performance at a Manhattan nightclub.
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The mother of former Playboy playmate and model Anna Nicole Smith blamed drugs Friday for her daughter's sudden death that ended an extraordinary tabloid life at just 39.
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U.S. reality TV star Nicole Richie  was charged on Friday with driving under the influence,  stemming from her arrest in December when police said she was  driving the wrong way on a Los Angeles freeway.
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A Us Weekly's report said that Williams drove Ledger to Promises, the Malibu rehab facility frequented by celebrities, in March 2006, because he was abusing heroin, cocaine, "a variety of pills," and alcohol. But Ledger refused to check in, and vowed, instead, to clean up on his own.
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A former Miss Hawaii USA, shackled and unkempt, appeared in court Thursday on charges she allegedly was dealing crystal methamphetamine in her neighborhood.
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Troubled actress Lindsay Lohan fell  off the sobriety wagon on New Year's Eve, her lawyer said on  Thursday, ending a year that saw the star check into rehab  several times and land in jail for drunken driving and cocaine  possession.
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ADRIAN, Mich. - A woman arrested after failing a sobriety test and telling police she drank three glasses of Listerine has pleaded guilty to drunken driving.  Police said Carol A. Ries, 50, of Adrian entered guilty pleas Jan. 20.
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U.S. reality TV star Nicole Richie pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to charges of driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol when she was seen driving the wrong way on a Los Angeles freeway.
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Lindsay Lohan is the latest star to tumble from Hollywood's heights into the tumult of substance abuse, continuing a sad tradition of young celebrities who deal with mounting or fleeting fame by turning to drugs and alcohol.
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NEW YORK -- The death of rapper ODB was deemed an accident by the medical examiner, who said yesterday that he died from the combined effects of cocaine and a prescription painkiller.
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By ADAM GOLDMAN NEW YORK - Miss USA Tara Conner, who had come under criticism amid rumors she had been frequenting bars while underage, will be allowed to keep her title, Donald Trump announced Tuesday.
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Tawny Kitaen, who starred in the 1984 Tom Hanks comedy, "Bachelor Party," has entered a drug rehabilitation program after pleading guilty to possessing 15 grams of cocaine.
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Many here south of the border reveled in her disastrous evening: First Miss USA Rachel Smith slipped and fell on her bottom during the Miss Universe evening gown competition. Then she was booed by hundreds in the Mexican audience.
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Pouty and unrepentant, unruly rocker Courtney Love yesterday pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct for letting her microphone stand bash a fan&#39;s head during an East Village nightclub performance last March.
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Troubled former baseball star Ken Caminiti, the first major league player to admit he used steroids in his playing days, died of an overdose of cocaine and opiates, the medical examiner ruled Monday.