- Name
- Alicia Keys
- Date of Birth
- January 25, 1980
- Birth Place
- New York, N.Y.
With 2001's
Songs in A Minor, Alicia Keys convinced an entire generation hooked on Britney, boy bands and backup dancers that the simplicity of a woman and her piano can have pop appeal. Her blend of R&B, hip hop and classical music has sold more than 20 million albums and earned Keys nine Grammy Awards.
Keys grew up in Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen where her single mother pushed her into the arts, and at 16, she left Columbia University to embark on her music professionally – blossoming under music mogul Clive Davis's J Records label.
Keys, who parlayed her fame into philanthropic work as an ambassador for HIV/AIDS organization Keep a Child Alive, is currently working on her next project: a baby with fiancé, music producer Swizz Beatz.
Heidi Montag leaving a Santa Monica, Calif., courthouse
Heidi Montag is reportedly another step closer to getting the alone time she says she needs.
The reality star, 23, filed for legal separation from husband Spencer Pratt at a Santa Monica courthouse on Tuesday, listing irreconcilable differences as the reason for the split.
But Montag did not file divorce papers. According to reports, filing for legal separation means the reality star’s earnings will become her separate property beginning on the date of separation, which she lists as June 8. The
Hills star's papers do not list a lawyer.
After news of their separation first broke, Montag told PEOPLE she moved out of the Pacific Palisades, Calif., home she shared with Pratt. "There are so many lies out there about me and I just needed space – even away from my husband," she told PEOPLE at the time. Saying she needed to "to concentrate on myself," the reality star moved in with a pal, Jen Bunney. The two will also be filming a reality show, and Montag says she wants to write a movie script.
But Montag's
Hills castmates were skeptical about the breakup, calling her split with Pratt just another publicity stunt.
"I think it's a joke," Audrina Patridge told PEOPLE at Sunday's MTV Movie Awards in L.A. "I don't believe it. They're inseparable and in love."
Reps for Montag and Pratt were not immediately available for comment.
TMZ.com first reported news of the legal filing.
Something set off Lindsay Lohan's alcohol-monitoring bracelet – and that set off a judge.
An arrest warrant was issued Tuesday for the actress by the same Los Angeles judge who earlier issued a warrant when Lohan failed to show up to court.
Superior Court Judge Marsha Revel found Lohan violated the terms of her bail and upped her bail to $200,000. A bond was later posted, sparing Lohan from being arrested until a hearing takes place next month.
A source close to the case tells PEOPLE the court-ordered alcohol-monitoring bracelet, called a SCRAM device, was triggered Sunday evening during an MTV Movie Awards after-party.
District Attorney spokeswoman Jane Robison says the device was set off by "an alcohol-related violation." Lohan, 23, was fitted with the bracelet last month as part of her probation case after two DUI convictions.
On her Twitter page, Lohan denies being in violation of bail. "My scram wasn't set off," she writes in a series of Tweets full of misspellings, grammar errors and profanity.
"Its physically impossible considering I've nothing for it to go off – All of these false resports are absolutely wrong," she writes. "This is all because of FALSE accusation by tabloids & paparazzi & it is f------ digusting – I've been more than I'm compliance & feeling great."
Her last scent may have been about the bond between mother and child–but this time around, Jennifer Lopez is bringing her focus back to Love and Glamour. The actress’s newest fragrance puts Hollywood style in the spotlight with a juice inspired by J.Lo’s return to life on the A-list. “What I always like to do is look at where I am in my life at the moment,” Jennifer explains to WWD of her creative process as a perfumer. “[Here] it was right after the babies and was when I was getting back to work and getting back to what I do again. It just felt like a time of a lot of love and that seemed very romantic to me — I said it seems like love and glamour.” The campaign for the scent, shot by photographer Craig McDean, is intended to mirror this inspiration, featuring close-ups of Jennifer taken on an actual movie set. Hitting counters this October, the fragrance will feature notes of Italian mandarin, guava, water lily, jasmine petals and sandal wood, with prices starting at $49.50 for a 1.7 oz. bottle
When Kristen Stewart sauntered onto the red carpet in Seoul, South Korea earlier today to promoteThe Twilight Saga: Eclipse, it wasn’t just her runway-ready sheath that left style fans gasping. Seemingly overnight, Kristen had added supermodel-glam inches to her chestnut hair, which she pulled back into a sleek ponytail. The 20-year-old is no stranger to switching up her look every now and then–who could forget the shag that she sported to film The Runaways? This newest transformation, however, proves that the actress can pull off high fashion just as well as downtown grunge.
Kristen Stewart
No sooner did excerpts from July's British
Elle make their way to the Internet on Wednesday than the blogosphere exploded in outrage.
In an offending quote,
Twilight saga star Kristen Stewart compared paparazzi photos of herself to images of a woman being raped. Almost immediately, everyone from fans to spokespeople for rape victims' advocacy organizations were publicly criticizing the actress.
"I really made an enormous mistake – clearly and obviously," Stewart, currently in Korea to promote the new installment of the
Twilight series
Eclipse, tells PEOPLE exclusively. "And I'm really sorry about my choice of words."
Stewart, 20, is not known as one to mince words. "I've made stupid remarks before, and I've always reasoned: 'Whatever. They can think what they want,' " she says.
