Aaron Buerge, star of the second season of ABC’s hit reality/dating series The Bachelor is apparently ready to give up his single status in real life, according to People.com. Buerge –who angered many fans when he broke up with elementary school psychologist Helene Eksterowicz at a Starbucks months after his televised proposal to her during the show’s 2002 finale– is set to marry commerical [...]

Actors Bill Murray, Robert Duvall and James Caan were some of the big Hollywood names to attend a special cermony in Havana on Thursday for fellow actor Benicio del Toro. The Hollywood Reporter says a guild of Cuban artists and writers presented del Toro with the International Tomas Gutierrez Alea Prize in honor of his portrayal of Ernesto “Che” Guevara [...]

Pop superstar Madonna has added the title of newspaper correspondent to her already-long list of celebrity accomplishments, having written an article about her religious beliefs for Yediot Ahronot, Israel’s biggest daily newspaper. According to the AP, the Material Girl’s byline in today’s edition of the paper details her involvement in the Jewish mystical faith known as [...]

A Boston University graduate student has been ordered to pay four record labels $675,000 for illegally downloading and sharing online music by such artists as Nirvana, Green Day, and Smashing Pumpkins, according to the AP. Today’s ruling came a day after Joel Tenenbaum of Providence, R.I. admitted in federal court that he downloaded and distributed more than [...]

One of Michael Jackson’s former physicians claims he tried to warn the pop star about the dangers of using the powerful anesthetic propofol, according to People. A lawyer for Dr. Allan Metzger –an L.A.-based rheumatologist who was Jackson’s doctor prior to 2003– claims his client told Jackson about the dangers of using the sedative during a [...]

What happened in the wide, wonderful world of celebrity news & gossip today? Here’s a quick recap of the top stories in Starpulse News for Friday, July 31, 2009: Read more! Source: Starpulse Entertainment News Blog

Three members of the original cast of the Fox animated series Futurama are returning for the series’ reboot, thanks to a deal just sealed with 20th Century Fox TV. Variety is reporting that Katey Sagal, Maurice LaMarche and Tress MacNeille will continue to provide their character voices for 26 new episodes of the animated Matt Groening sci-fi [...]

Approximately 100 people gathered in suburban Pennsylvania today for the private funeral of American Idol contestant Alexis Cohen, who died July 25 after being hit by a car in Seaside Heights, N.J., People.com reports. Various donors helped pay for the plot and burial services for Cohen, who lived in South Whitehall, a poor neighborhood just north of Allentown, according to her [...]

The two Ohio police chiefs accused of breaking into the home of the woman who gave birth to Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick’s twins were charged July 31 with multiple felonies, including burglary, according to the AP. Chiefs Barry Carpenter and Chad Dojack are accused of entering the eastern Ohio home of Michelle Ross in May to allegedly [...]

A classical album featuring the voice of Pope Benedict XVI will be released worldwide this November, according to USA Today. British record label Geffen UK/Universal –home to such artists as Aerosmith, Beck, Snoop Dogg and Neil Young– licensed the use of the Pope’s voice from Vatican Radio, which records the head of the Roman Catholic [...]