Perez Hilton

Perez Hilton is now a father to a baby boy! The openly gay blogger, whose real name is Mario Lavandeira Jr., took to his eponymous blog Wednesday afternoon in a post titled "A Very Important Message from Perez" to share the news "directly from me, right here. " "I am ready to announce that earlier this month I was blessed with the birth of my first child, a beautiful and healthy baby boy - with lots of hair on his tiny head. My family is overjoyed at this newest and most cherished addition," the 34-year-old wrote.

The sleek man at the door bears no resemblance to the chubby pink-haired troublemaker whose snarky website made him as famous as the celebrities he loved to torment with nicknames like Sluttyienna (Sienna Miller), Potato Head (Rumer Willis) or Maniston (Jennifer Aniston). Gone are the schlubby T-shirts and hoodies. A body-skimming gray sweater now conceals rock-hard abs. Gone, too, is the outlandish hair color, replaced by a slightly thinning curly brown mop. His Park LaBrea condo and its Pepto-Bismol-hued room are history.

Gossip columnist Perez Hilton is making his New York stage debut, joining the cast of the off-Broadway musical "NEWSical the Musical: End of the World Edition" for a four-week run starting next month at the Kirk Theatre at Theatre Row. Hilton begins preview performances Sept. 8; his official opening date is set for Sept. 17. “NEWSical,” like Hilton, turns headlines into punchlines in its revolving lineup of songs that lampoon current events and celebrities such as President Obama and  Lady Gaga.

Perez Hilton is now a father to a baby boy! The openly gay blogger, whose real name is Mario Lavandeira Jr., took to his eponymous blog Wednesday afternoon in a post titled "A Very Important Message from Perez" to share the news "directly from me, right here. " "I am ready to announce that earlier this month I was blessed with the birth of my first child, a beautiful and healthy baby boy - with lots of hair on his tiny head. My family is overjoyed at this newest and most cherished addition," the 34-year-old wrote.

Perez Hilton is not sorry. He is not sorry for trashing Miss California for saying marriage should be between a man and woman. He is not sorry he accused Michael Jackson of faking it on the day he died ("Heart attack or cold feet?"), though he did redact his post to remove the cynical speculation.  He is not sorry he posted photos of Oscar-winning "Milk" screenwriter Dustin Lance Black, avatar of gay family values, having unprotected sex with a porn actor. ("If you make a sex tape or pictures, they will get out. And I will post them!"

It's hard to know whom to sympathize with in this fight. On one side: the paparazzi who stalk celebrities in their moments of greatest vulnerability — at doctors' offices, with their newborns, when they are falling-down drunk. On the other: a blogger who helps himself to those photos, scrawls puerile comments on them, and posts them on his immensely popular and profitable website. The owners of one L.A. photo agency are so frustrated with what they consider to be blatant theft by self-styled "gossip gangsta" Perez Hilton that they've decided to make a federal case of it. On Nov. 30, X17 Inc., known for the aggressive pursuit of celebrity prey, filed a $7.6-million federal copyright infringement lawsuit against Hilton, alleging that he has used 51 photos without permission, payment or credit.

There he was on national television, the self-styled "Queen of Mean. " Celebrity blogger Perez Hilton sat bolt upright in an almost-conservative jacket and tie. He pledged: no more nastiness, no more bullying and no more outing of gay men. When I called Hilton this week, it had been a little more than seven weeks since his appearance on "Ellen. " He pronounced himself, yes, nice. Or at least nicer. "I have done what I said I would do," Hilton said. "There is no going back. " In recent weeks, there's no doubt that the Viceroy of Venom, the Prince of Puerile has sheathed his deadliest lance.

The sleek man at the door bears no resemblance to the chubby pink-haired troublemaker whose snarky website made him as famous as the celebrities he loved to torment with nicknames like Sluttyienna (Sienna Miller), Potato Head (Rumer Willis) or Maniston (Jennifer Aniston). Gone are the schlubby T-shirts and hoodies. A body-skimming gray sweater now conceals rock-hard abs. Gone, too, is the outlandish hair color, replaced by a slightly thinning curly brown mop. His Park LaBrea condo and its Pepto-Bismol-hued room are history.

Robin Abcarian's piece (on Perez Hilton, "Wired for Conflict," Aug. 9) was fantastic. It was honest and funny and enlightening. I have mailed Mr. Hilton numerous times, just to let him know he is appreciated and I occasionally throw some fun stuff his way, which sometimes, surprisingly, ends up on his site! I am a straight Mormon from Ohio, and when Prop. 8 passed, I sent him a letter of encouragement, letting him know that not all Mormons are small minded. But more importantly, I told him to have hope.

Hollywood blogger Perez Hilton filed suit Wednesday against the Black Eyed Peas' manager over an altercation outside a Toronto nightclub that left the gossip maven bloodied and turning to Twitter to summon police help. In the L.A. Superior Court suit for battery and intentional infliction of emotional distress, Hilton's lawyer alleged that a "brutal physical assault" by manager Liborio "Polo" Molina capped repeated verbal attacks by the Black Eyed Peas' members Fergie and will.i.am.

Gossip columnist Perez Hilton is making his New York stage debut, joining the cast of the off-Broadway musical "NEWSical the Musical: End of the World Edition" for a four-week run starting next month at the Kirk Theatre at Theatre Row. Hilton begins preview performances Sept. 8; his official opening date is set for Sept. 17. “NEWSical,” like Hilton, turns headlines into punchlines in its revolving lineup of songs that lampoon current events and celebrities such as President Obama and  Lady Gaga.

There he was on national television, the self-styled "Queen of Mean. " Celebrity blogger Perez Hilton sat bolt upright in an almost-conservative jacket and tie. He pledged: no more nastiness, no more bullying and no more outing of gay men. When I called Hilton this week, it had been a little more than seven weeks since his appearance on "Ellen. " He pronounced himself, yes, nice. Or at least nicer. "I have done what I said I would do," Hilton said. "There is no going back. " In recent weeks, there's no doubt that the Viceroy of Venom, the Prince of Puerile has sheathed his deadliest lance.

David Perel's celebrity news and gossip website, RadarOnline.com, was so overrun with Internet traffic Friday morning that it temporarily crashed. "It was the longest 20 minutes of my life. The tech people were telling me not to pull my own Mel Gibson," joked Perel, the site's executive vice president. He was, of course, referring to Gibson's angry language in a series of audio tapes released by Radar, in which the actor loudly berates his former girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva and spews racial slurs.

And thanks for drawing MORE attention to your daughter's behavior and your parenting skills (or lack thereof). U r real smart! -- Perez Hilton to Demi Moore twitter.com/PerezHilton you really have no clue what you just started with me! You have 5 jobs! I have one job making your life a living HELL!!! -- Spencer Pratt to Ryan Seacrest twitter.com/spencerpratt Reflection and restraint are not the traits that have made NFL star Terrell Owens famous. Yet the outspoken Buffalo Bills wide receiver initially managed to check his temper with reporters after he failed to catch a single pass in a recent game.

Robin Abcarian's piece (on Perez Hilton, "Wired for Conflict," Aug. 9) was fantastic. It was honest and funny and enlightening. I have mailed Mr. Hilton numerous times, just to let him know he is appreciated and I occasionally throw some fun stuff his way, which sometimes, surprisingly, ends up on his site! I am a straight Mormon from Ohio, and when Prop. 8 passed, I sent him a letter of encouragement, letting him know that not all Mormons are small minded. But more importantly, I told him to have hope.

Perez Hilton is not sorry. He is not sorry for trashing Miss California for saying marriage should be between a man and woman. He is not sorry he accused Michael Jackson of faking it on the day he died ("Heart attack or cold feet?"), though he did redact his post to remove the cynical speculation.  He is not sorry he posted photos of Oscar-winning "Milk" screenwriter Dustin Lance Black, avatar of gay family values, having unprotected sex with a porn actor. ("If you make a sex tape or pictures, they will get out. And I will post them!"

THE white-hot center of the celebrity gossip world is currently a back table at a heavily trafficked Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf on Sunset Boulevard, just west of Fairfax. There, Perez Hilton, a slightly pudgy, recently blonded 28-year-old Cuban American blogger, has leveraged his reign as "queen of all media" to become a one-man celebrity outing operation, doing his best to uncloset as many gay celebrities as he can, because, as he sees it, they have forfeited their right to privacy on that point.

Hollywood blogger Perez Hilton filed suit Wednesday against the Black Eyed Peas' manager over an altercation outside a Toronto nightclub that left the gossip maven bloodied and turning to Twitter to summon police help. In the L.A. Superior Court suit for battery and intentional infliction of emotional distress, Hilton's lawyer alleged that a "brutal physical assault" by manager Liborio "Polo" Molina capped repeated verbal attacks by the Black Eyed Peas' members Fergie and will.i.am.

When Perez Hilton was allegedly assaulted on Sunday night by the manager of Black Eyed Peas singer will.i.am and didn't get an immediate response from police, the famed celebrity blogger felt he had only one place to turn: the Internet. In an age when even gossip blogs are becoming too slow and perhaps too filtered for Internet-savvy celebrities, Hilton's feud with will.i.am exploded on Monday over Twitter and in a series of competing online videos.