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| | Gwyneth Paltrow confirms she will not deign to attend this year's Met Gala | | Added 12 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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The Met Gala is on Monday! So just keep it in mind, on Tuesday we will be knee-deep in fashion coverage. A few years past, CB remarked that the Met Gala turnout was way better than the Oscar turnout that year, and she was right. I think this year will be on par with the Oscars, maybe even a let-down. I don?t think Kim Kardashian and Kanye West are going to be there (so sad). I don?t know if Beyonce and Jay-Z have RSVP?d either. And now comes the confirmation that Gwyneth Paltrow refuses to attend this year?s Met Gala as well! OH NOES.
In the wake of her ?conscious uncoupling? from Chris Martin and whispers that her beloved lifestyle Web site is $1 million in debt, Gwyneth Paltrow will be a no-show at the May 5 Met Gala.
?Gwyneth will not be in New York and is unable to attend the ball,? her rep told Threads.
But don?t cry for Gwynnie. Sources say the perennial attendee was, in fact, invited to the event, even though she slammed it during a tipsy interview last May. Paltrow appeared on an Australian radio show, and after admitting she was ?drunk already,? declared of the posh soiree: ?It sucked. You always think, ?Oh my god, it?s gonna be so glamorous and amazing and you?re going to see all these people,? and then you get there and it?s so hot and it?s so crowded and everyone?s pushing you.?
But sources say designers still invited the goop.com founder to be a guest at their table, and a Vogue rep told Threads the magazine ?is always happy to have Gwyneth attend the Met Gala.?
[From The NY Post]
If you remember, Gwyneth?s attendance at last year?s Met Gala was a complete and utter catastrophe. First of all, she wore that fug Valentino dress. Then Chris Martin attended but he refused to pose for photos with her, even with people inside the tent. Then Goop deigned to declare the Met Gala the most ?un-fun? thing ever. Then she called herself “literally a transvestite.” Then everyone said that she had terrible body odor, like a peasant. Then Chloe Sevigny had the nerve to mock Gwyneth?s tantrums. All in all, Gwyneth had the worst Met Gala experience ever. It makes sense that she doesn?t want to go this year, although I will miss her. We were writing stories about her for like a month afterward. She was the goop that kept giving, gossip-wise.
Speaking of Goop Giving, she posted this photo this week, tagging it: ?spring cleaning @goop #goopgiving?. Um, is she giving away those purses? I?ll take one!
Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame/Flynet and Goop?s IG.
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| | Gwyneth Paltrow 'brags about her peaceful divorce,' she's insufferable (shock) | | Added 12 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Another day, another rumor that Gwyneth Paltrow is a smug, insufferable d-bag. I know, how shocking. I mean, I have to give it to Radar: they know their audience. When most of us hear any story about Gwyneth being insufferable, we?re like, ?Yep, I bet that?s true.? And it probably is. Considering what she?s said publicly, it?s not hard to imagine she?s even worse privately, when she doesn?t have to self-censor for the peasants.
Anything you can do Gwyneth can do better! Park Avenue princess Paltrow and her rocker husband Chris Martin are having the most amicable divorce in Hollywood history but RadarOnline.com has exclusively learned that her smug attitude about the split is wearing on her friends.
?Conscious uncoupling? has become a joke among Gwyneth?s friend,? a source close to the 41-year-old Country Strong star told Radar. ?All she?s doing is bragging about how peaceful her divorce is and how she and Chris planned it so perfectly that it is hardly disrupting their lives.?
Paltrow has become the butt of jokes too, with Joan Rivers slamming her for her uptight attitude, with the 80-year-old comedienne saying she has a ?stick up her rear end.?
And her website GOOP, where she made the announcement about her divorce is bleeding cash as Radar has reported, but none of that seems to phase the cool blonde beauty.
?Gwyneth has always thought she had the most perfect life and even though she?s getting a divorce and both of them are getting bad press she doesn?t care,? the source told Radar. ?She has become insufferable saying how happy she is with the way everything is evolving. It?s so ridiculous to listen to her talk as if nothing bad is going on at all for her. But Gwyneth has always had a protected privileged life and this is no different.?
[From Radar]
One of my favorite headlines to come out of the Consciously Uncoupling was The Superficial?s ?Gwyneth Paltrow Officially Declares Marriage Is For Poor People.? It?s so true. Gwyneth thinks that whatever she?s doing is the most cutting-edge thing, that she?s ahead of the curve. She really believes that divorce is the new ?thing? and that only peasants stay married. That?s what this reminds me of.
Also, as I said on Friday, this week?s Goop-letter is all about everyday toxic products. Gwyneth offers suggestions (expensive suggestions) for how to rid ourselves of toxic chemicals in every day products. The funny thing is that she names a product from Jessica Alba?s Honest Company? and Gwyneth only gave it a ?C? grade. Sort of:
Doesn’t sound like Jessica Alba and Gwyneth Paltrow will be joining forces anytime soon. On Friday, April 25, the recently uncoupled Paltrow fired off a GOOP dispatch from Hong Kong. This week’s installment of her lifestyle newsletter/website, entitled “The Dirty on Getting Clean,” is all about safe, non-toxic and environmentally friendly cleaning products?and at least one item from Alba’s own lifestyle brand, The Honest Company, gets a bad grade. “Many of the ‘clean’ products I proudly use (and have even touted on goop) have turned out to be a product of marketing, rather than actually safe,” Chris Martin’s future ex-wife wrote.
Deferring to Gregg Renfrew of skincare and cosmetics company Beautycounter as well as the Environmental Working Group (EWG) for expert advice on which products are truly safe and which ones aren’t, Paltrow, 41, writes: “I will never give up my perfume, but maybe I can switch to greener and unscented laundry detergent, and remove some of the hand soaps I thought were great until I checked them on EWG.org . . . Food for thought.”
The lengthy post then goes on to explain the hidden hazard (“80% of the chemicals in personal care products have never been tested for safety,” Renfrew says), all of the health risks involved, and then lists dozens of products and their “grades” as provided by EWG.
In the “What We Were Using” list is The Honest Company’s All-Purpose Cleaner, which was given a “C” by the EWG. EWG.org notes that Alba’s product “May contain ingredients with potential for acute aquatic toxicity; respiratory effects; nervous system effects,” and similar products from the Method and Green Works brands get a “C” and “F,” respectively.
Fellow actress/aspiring lifestyle guru Alba seemingly threw more direct shade at Paltrow last March while promoting her book The Honest Life: Living Naturally and True to You, she sniffed of Paltrow’s advice to moms and other women: “Gwyneth Paltrow probably lives a very similar lifestyle, but I didn’t grow up with a bunch of money, so my tips are much more grounded: repurposing things and making things at home,” she told the New York Daily News.
[From Us Weekly]
That will teach that peasant to move in on Gwyneth?s territory. Dame Gwyneth is grounded! Just yesterday, she spoke to a peasant. She saw someone with dark skin and she asked them to retrieve her Mercedes. He was all, ?Ma?am, I?m not a valet? but Gwyneth just ignored him until he brought her car around. And people claim she?s not grounded.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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| | Is Gwyneth Paltrow planning to write a smug 'conscious uncoupling' book' | | Added 12 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Gwyneth Paltrow was in Hong Kong yesterday for an event at the Landmark Mandarin Oriental Hotel. It?s not important what the event was. I?m assuming that for Goop, the event was ?A cool six figures in her bank account.? You can see some photos here ? hand to God, her boobs look bigger. Did Goop get a breakup boob job?
Anyway, there?s a funny story in this week?s Star Mag. Apparently, Gwyneth has already made up her mind to write a book about Consciously Uncoupling. It?s not that off-the-wall ?after all, Goop is a bestselling author? of cookbooks which read like creepy pro-ana blogs. Why not a creepy breakup book? Just imagine all of the nonsense that will come pouring out of Gwyneth?s ghostwriter!
It was the Goopy phrase heard ?round the world: Conscious Uncoupling. Soon the term, which Gwyneth Paltrow used to describe her split from Chris Martin, will be splashed across the cover of her self-help book about the art of divorce. Gwyneth first learned about the concept from her mentor, Dr. Habib Sadeghi, and now hopes to revamp the way people end their marriages.
?In typical Gwyneth fashion, she thinks she will eventually become the expert on divorce and how to do it in a better way,? says an insider, adding that Gwyneth is even hoping to get Chris to write the forward for the book!
[From Star Magazine, print edition]
I know many of you will dismiss it out of hand because it?s Star, but in my opinion, there?s something here. It wouldn?t surprise me at all if Gwyneth was already shopping this book proposal around to publishers.
Meanwhile, you can read this week?s Goop-letter here. It?s all about toxic chemicals in everyday products. It?s a serious issue, for sure, but I couldn?t help staring at the new Restorsea ads that have cropped up, or the blatant shilling for the Goop Store and all of that. After reading that story about Goop-as-a-tax-shelter, I really can?t look at Gwyneth?s little side project the same way.
Photos courtesy of Goop?s IG, Getty and WENN.
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| | Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop.com is hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt | | Added 12 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Last week, we heard about Gwyneth Paltrow?s latest conscious uncoupling, this time with Sebastian Bishop, the CEO of Goop. As I said last week, I was actually surprised that Goop had such a professional CEO-type running the business end, because Goop is a somewhat budget endeavor. I guess the branding is ?these are just tips that Gwyneth is giving to her fans,? like it?s a personal blog or something. But it looks like Goop has grown into a legit business with significant profits. The problem is that Gwyneth spends money like it?s going out of style and she and Bishop were both taking ?interest-free loans? out of the coffers. Radar is about to throw a lot of numbers at you, so just stick it out!
Gwyneth Paltrow?s marriage isn?t the only area of her life that?s in shambles. Just days after the CEO of her lifestyle company, GOOP, announced his unexpected departure, RadarOnline.com has uncovered disturbing corporate filings that reveal the company?s dire financial state: For two years running, they racked up serious losses totaling more than $300,000 ? thanks in part to an interest-free loan Paltrow took from the company coffers!
According to the most recent corporate documentation filed with the Companies House in the U.K., in 2011, GOOP ?incurred a loss of $255,312 (152,060) and had a net liabilities of $259,969 (154,834).? And in 2012, they reported ?a loss of $39,823 (23,718) and ? net liabilities of $298,512 (177,788).?
It?s not that GOOP wasn?t making money. In fact, in 2012, they raked in more than $1.5 million (908,378), thanks in part to $463,486 (276,040) in product sales, as well as an impressive (222,243) from Groupon promotions and $373,159 in commissions. All told, the company made $1,893,065 (1,127,456).
But that same year, GOOP spent $98,150 (58,456) on Goop.com, $79,961 (47,623) on the notorious GOOP newsletter, $189,590 (112,918) on product costs, and a whopping $1,564,995 (932,096) in administrative expenses,? adding up to the grand profit total of a loss of $39,823 (23,718).
Chief among those ?administrative expenses? were Paltrow and CEO Sebastian Bishop?s ?renumeration,? or salaries, for which the company allotted $587,653.25 (350,000), a sizable increase from the previous year?s figure of $172,585 (102,788), despite the company?s losses.
The documents also show that in 2012, both Paltrow and Bishop were the recipient of interest-free ?loans to directors,? with Paltrow?s listed at a balance of $49,025 (29,200), of which none was paid back, and Bishop?s at $83,617 (49,800). Other expenses in 2012 included $456,007 (271,584) in other wages, $34,507 (20,551) on travel, nearly $4,000 (2,118) on ?Entertaining,? and nearly $5,000 (2,951) on ?Staff Entertainment.?
All told, the expenses swallowed up the entire $1.8 million profit for the year and then some, resulting in a loss of $39,823. Paltrow and Bishop?s report had an excuse, insisting, ?As the company started product sales in June 2012, the directors are of the opinion that predicted profits will provide sufficient resources to enable the company to continue trading for the foreseeable future.?
The continued existence of GOOP, it seems, would depend upon it, since the report noted that in addition to the losses, the company owed creditors more than $1.2 million (722,111), all of which would come due by the end of 2013.
[From Radar]
Radar goes on to say that Goop has donated to charity too – $2000 to the David Lynch Foundation so kids can learn transcendental meditation, plus about $9000 more to other charities.
If you really look through the numbers and the details about the business, there are some startling realizations, at least for me. I want to know about the ?commissions? especially. When Gwyneth began Goop, she claimed that people weren?t paying her to promote various products, but that claim seems less and less likely. I also think that the bloated figures given for Goop?s ?expenses? mean that Gwyneth is using company money to go on vacation and whatever trendy therapy she?s into at that moment, and then she writes about it in a Goop newsletter, thus making it ?business.? And how can they spend that much money on operating Goop.com and still have such crappy servers?!
Anyway? just further evidence that Gwyneth?s Goop is just a sketchy scheme to write off her vacations and pay herself to party.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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| | Gwyneth Paltrow is consciously uncoupling from the (attractive) CEO of Goop | | Added 12 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Even though I?m a ?professional blogger? (I still can?t believe I get paid to gossip), I don?t really spend that much time on other blogs. I was sitting here, struggling to come up with a suitable comparison for Gwyneth Paltrow?s Goop.com, and I couldn?t really. I remember when Goop felt more homespun, like it was just a simple pet project from Gwyneth, like she was making a personal newsletter public. Nowadays, Goop.com is an industry with its own online catalogue of specialty products and collaborations with major designers. I still think Goop.com is a poorly operated site though. But, again, I don?t know what I should be comparing it to. Compared to other online boutiques, Goop sucks. Compared to comparably sized blogs, Goop looks amateurish and budget. What?s my point? My point is that I was startled to realize that Goop.com has a CEO. And he?s quitting the Goop.
After Gwyneth Paltrow?s ?conscious uncoupling? with Chris Martin, she now faces another painful split: Seb Bishop, the highlyregarded CEO of Goop, has quit.
Page Six has exclusively confirmed Bishop, a leading British entrepreneur who was international CEO of AIDS-fighting charity (RED) before joining Goop in 2011, has quit Paltrow?s lifestyle blog, on which she announced her separation from Martin last month.
We?re told that Bishop resigned after Paltrow ? in a move to sever her ties to London, where Martin lives ? announced to Goop staff she was moving the office from the British capital to Los Angeles.
Our source said: ?Seb was ready to move his wife Heidi and their children from London, and had even been looking at properties in Los Angeles, but then he abruptly quit.? The source added, ?There is speculation that he and Paltrow disagreed on the direction of Goop, partly that she used the Web site as a vehicle for her personal life, and the ?conscious uncoupling? announcement.?
Paltrow?s rep Stephen Huvane confirmed Bishop is leaving Goop, but denied he abruptly quit in a disagreement with Paltrow.
He told us, ?It?s not completely true. Seb is still with Goop, but has decided not to relocate his family to Los Angeles. He will be transitioning out over time until a replacement is named.?
Either way, the ?corporate uncoupling? is a huge blow to Paltrow. Multimillionaire Bishop, 40, was a top ad agency art director who made his mark at the age of 26 when he founded Espotting, which brought the paid-search online advertising model to Europe. In 2008, he became CEO of (RED), the organization created by Bono and Bobby Shriver to raise money to fight HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa, and is also an investor in mobile news app Summly.
Bishop and Paltrow were photographed together at Goop?s summer party in Mayfair, London, last May. He could not be reached for comment Wednesday night.
[From Page Six]
Basically, Bishop sounds like a heavy-hitter in the world of online content and he?s been working as the CEO of Goop? That?s so weird. Stranger still, he was prepared to move his family to LA so that he could continue his Goop work and now he?s not. Something seems? weird. Very strange. I?m including some photos of Seb and his wife Heidi. Heidi looks like a young Gwyneth. Odd.
So, do you buy the idea that Seb didn?t want Goop.com to be operated as some kind of personal website, that it would defeat the established branding of Goop? While that would be funny if true, I doubt it. So much of Goop.com is personal ? Gwyneth posts personal stuff on there all the time. It?s just that the cat?s out of the bag with how low-tech and amateurish the whole Goop operation is now that their server crashed when Gwyneth and Chris announced their split.
Also: Us Weekly is saying that something is up too, which just goes to the now months-long conspiracy theory that someone in Gwyneth’s camp is leaking like a mofo. Probably a peasant. The unnamed peasant told Us Weekly: “A week and a half ago, he abruptly resigned from GOOP. It’s really suspicious — I think something weird is going on with GOOP.” So many conspiracies!
You can read this week?s Goop-letter here. It?s all about pain and holistic pain-management. I wanted a Vicodin after a skimmed it for a minute.
Photos courtesy of WENN, Getty.
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| | Gwyneth Paltrow allowed her children to eat curry & hot dogs (with Fritos!) | | Added 12 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Gwyneth Paltrow?s son Moses turned 8 years old last week. Time flies, right? Apple is what? Ten years old? Let me see… she?ll be ten in May. Crazy. So, while Chris Martin was in Brooklyn without his wedding ring, Gwyneth organized a birthday party for her son and his friends. And Moses must have begged and begged because there was peasant food at the party. Peasant food like? HOT DOGS. And Indian food. GASP.
Party at the Paltrows! Gwyneth Paltrow threw a fun-filled birthday bash for her 8-year-old son Moses at her home in L.A.’s Brentwood nabe on Saturday, April 12. An eyewitness tells Us Weekly the Goop founder — who announced her split from husband Chris Martin last month — “went all out” for her son’s eighth birthday party.
“Everything took place in the backyard,” the insider tells Us, adding that the set-up of the driveway included blue ombre-faded balloons spelling out the letters “M-O-S-E-S” beside the number “8.” The guest list included 20 of Moses’ friends and a few of 9-year-old Apple’s pals, too.
“Colorful tables were set up everywhere,” the eyewitness recalls, “and hula hoops and balls for the kids to play with.” Along with the toys, the backyard featured a giant inflatable bounce house in the style of a pirate ship. But that’s not all! A magician was also on-site to entertain the kids.
For lunch, the kids and adults enjoyed delightful treats catered by food trucks, including gourmet hotdog vendor Dogtown Dogs and L.A.’s beloved “chow truck” India Jones. Specialties included hot dogs topped with Fritos and Indian street food like samosas, curry and Indian tacos, the source says.
The party ended at around 4 p.m. in the afternoon. Some of the guests were spotted leaving in airbrushed T-shirts, designed at the party, which included each kid’s name and a design of his or her choice.
[From Us Weekly]
Hot dogs with Fritos?!?! What in the world? And do young kids really like all of that spicy Indian food? I couldn?t stand it when I was little, but I?ve developed a taste for it as an adult. I would have never thought that an eight-year-old?s birthday party would be the perfect time for Indian food. But that?s why Gwyneth Paltrow is better than all of us. See? She?s multicultural! She had Indian food! And hot dogs! I bet she had a migraine all day about feeding her innocent children that kind of food. Someone probably found her in a corner, rocking back and forth and whispering, ?Just for the day? just for the day?tomorrow the juice fast begins…?
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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| | Gwyneth Paltrow wanted to 'keep pretending' that her marriage was working | | Added 12 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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We have some sad news and some funny news about Gwyneth Paltrow today. I believe the sad story and I think the funny story is too good to be true, but if it is true? Gwyneth is hilariously delusional, which is why it might be true. Let?s start with the sad story, which is in this morning?s Page Six.
Gwyneth Paltrow didn?t want to go public with her ?conscious uncoupling? from Chris Martin. She wanted to keep pretending to the world that they were still together, sources tell me.
?It was his idea to announce the split. They had drifted apart, and there was no chance they?d get back together, so he felt it was wrong to keep pretending,? said one gossip.
Now Paltrow is upset.
Most people believe it was her fault the marriage ended because of her alleged links to real-estate mogul Jeffrey Soffer and entertainment lawyer Kevin Yorn.
Martin, who didn?t lose his virginity until he was 22, seems to be the innocent naf who couldn?t keep up with an entitled Hollywood princess.
[From Page Six]
Throughout their marriage, Chris mentioned in several interviews that he was not very experienced with women and I think Gwyneth was only his second or third girlfriend ever. He was/is a late bloomer, which might explain his infidelities (have you ever met someone who only became desirable later in life?). Plus, I believe that Gwyneth would have been fine having a pretend marriage. For Gwyneth, all that matters is how things LOOK, not how they ARE. She?s like that about her health and body too. She doesn?t actually want to BE healthy, she just wants to be thin and have a good body. Sad.
Now for the funny story. From Radar:
Who is Gwyneth Paltrow?s favorite actress? Probably herself! As new details emerge about how the actress? ego may have played a part in her split from Chris Martin, only RadarOnline.com has the cringe-worthy details of just how out of control her self-love can get.According to an insider, Paltrow recently tried to re-live her glory days by inviting her family and friends to her home and making them watch her old blockbusters!
Paltrow ?totally embarrassed herself? last summer by holding a private ?Goop Film Festival? event at her ultra-lush Hamptons estate, an insider tells Radar exclusively.
?After the massive success of Iron Man 3, Gwyneth started hosting regular screenings of some of her old 90?s hits,? the source explains, ?including Seven, Sliding Doors and Shakespeare in Love.?
But it wasn?t just a night of entertainment for her invited guests. The weary pal recalls, Paltrow asked her captive audience ?what works about the movies.?
?Gwyneth is really just trying to re-live her glory days,? the friend says. ?The truth is, if you look at her schedule, she?s just not a full-time actor anymore, but she still wants to be treated like a screen legend.?
And though her pals were subjected to the Goop-y screenings the source says one person managed to skip the show ? her now-estranged husband.
?She?s been trotting out the old movies for her friends, but most of them would rather watch paint dry,? the source explains. ?It was pretty embarrassing and interestingly Chris never hung around to watch.?
[From Radar]
Is this true? You be the judge. I?m 50/50 on it. It sounds like something that could have started innocently enough, like one of Goop?s friends saying that they had never watched Sliding Doors or Shakespeare in Love, and Goop was like, ?Hey, we should do a screening!? Or maybe Gwyneth thought that her friends would enjoy a seminar in Gooping On Screen. Reel to Reel: The Goop Years. Sliding Goop. Sky Captain and the Goop of Tomorrow. A Goopy Murder. The Royal Goopenbaums. I could do this all day, just FYI. The Goopiversary Party. And then as a palate cleanser, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Goop.
Goop was out at the Chateau Marmont last night too:
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet and PCN.
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| | Did Chris Martin & Gwyneth Paltrow do an 'uncoupling ceremony' on vacation' | | Added 12 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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No line on the horizon #exumas pic.twitter.com/GOtyAweZuh
— Gwyneth Paltrow (@GwynethPaltrow) April 6, 2014
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| | Gwyneth Paltrow's LA neighbors think she's rude, annoying & talentless | | Added 12 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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I was trying to find the first mention of this in our archives, but all I could find was the story about how Gwyneth Paltrow?s London neighbors hate her and think she?s a gauche, tacky American. But I do remember reading ? months ago? ? that Goop?s LA neighbors hate her too. I guess I just never wrote about it. The main complaint from Goop?s LA neighbors is that she and Chris Martin erected a huge black gate on their property which violated many of the community standards and/or zoning laws. The neighbors asked Gwyneth and Chris to take the gate down, but they did not. And now the neighbors are complaining to Radar:
Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin are staying civil post-split, but it?s a different matter entirely when it comes to their neighbors! RadarOnline.com has exclusively learned that the angry residents who live close to the couple?s $10 million mansion in Brentwood, Los Angeles, have accused the pair of being the neighbors from hell ? and now, Paltrow and Martin are even facing prosecution!
Paltrow and Martin bought the home in 2012. According to neighbors, Paltrow immediately planted four layers of huge fir trees surrounding the property and installed a huge nine-foot black gate that violated zoning laws in the posh neighborhood. A complaint was filed with the Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety. But a year later, they still haven?t torn it down and their livid neighbors are demanding action.
The couple should have replaced it with a smaller gate within 45 days or incurred a $900 fine. A Los Angeles City Council spokesman said that for that particular property the height limitation is 3.5ft ? more than five feet shorter than the one the couple currently has. But this is only the start of the list of complaints by neighbors, who have spent more than a year living next to what one described as a ?building site.?
?There was always work being done at the house,? one neighbor reveals. ?I only got annoyed when the workmen would illegally park in my driveway and they hadn?t even spoken to me about it.?
When faced with such issues, neighbors were forced to go through a middleman instead of approaching the famous duo directly.
?I spoke to a guy called Oliver who seems to deal with all their issues to do with their neighbors, the house and community,? the source says. ?He sorted it. We never got to see Gwyneth; we?d only go through Oliver,? the source explains.
Other neighbors confirmed that Paltrow is barely seen in the neighborhood, despite saying in an interview last year that she was desperate to drag the family to Los Angeles so that their kids Apple and Moses could go swimming and ?pick avocados.? Instead, neighbors say it?s been Martin who?s been overseeing home base for the family.
?We used to see Chris walking the dogs,? neighbor Hilda McGonigle reveals. ?He was a really nice guy. He was the one with the talent; she was the one just writing cook books. To some people, their issues might get on people?s nerves, but I personally didn?t care. I didn?t have much time for her, but I liked him.?
Now that the couple has split, another neighbor says, ?It?s weird timing ? he was building a studio in the back of the house, so it makes no sense he wanted to leave here. He seemed happy. But she wasn?t as popular with the street.?
In fact, some neighbors were even scared to speak about her on the record. One said fearfully, ?I don?t want anything bad to happen to me, so I can?t say anything. Last time I did, then it was difficult, so now I don?t want any problems.?
McGonigle explains, ?It?s a really active community, but we don?t see much of them. When they moved in they had Do Not Trespass signs put up at their school and all over their property. Then they had the big gates put in and four layers of trees. I actually felt bad for them, as there was so much media intrusion when they moved in, I had paparazzi blocking my way into my own drive. It got so bad the police got involved. There was no sense of privacy, but I know it annoyed the neighbor next door.?
Still, she insists that the couple should take down the gate, even as they focus on their divorce. She insists, ?It?s against the zoning laws to do it, as it ruins the sense of community if everyone had those gates.?
[From Radar]
Is this just typical sexist BS? It seems like Chris was the one around more and actually talking to the neighbors and Gwyneth was the one with her nose in the air, ignoring the peasantry and so she got blamed for all of the neighbors? complaints when it was really about Chris and Gwyneth BOTH? Now, all that being said? yes, it wouldn?t kill Gwyneth to deign to speak to her peasant neighbors or to work out some of the issues people have with the big, ugly gate.
Photos courtesy of Pacific Coast News.
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| | Gwyneth Paltrow & Chris Martin's divorce will not be public, gauche or peasanty | | Added 12 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Over the weekend, some UK papers were trying to play it like Chris Martin is super-committed to making his marriage work. Ha. A source told The Mirror: ?Chris still loves Gwyneth and would still like the marriage to survive. He hopes they might be able to rediscover what they had years ago and would love to rebuild their relationship back to what it once was.? Homeboy, please. Now, if ?sources? were trying to convince me that Chris liked the arrangement that he and Gwyneth had where he could bang other women and Gwyneth just had to live with it (and she was banging other people too), then we might be on to something. I?ve been asking myself this for a week: why NOW? What was the ?breaking point? between them? If you told me that it was Gwyneth who finally decided that she couldn?t live the ?open marriage? lifestyle anymore, than I wouldn?t be surprised.
Now, all that being said, I do think those quotes from the UK underline a certain point: both Gwyneth and Chris want to come out of this marriage looking like the ?good one.? Both want to come out with the public sympathy, and both want to make it seem like they really gave it their all and tried to work out their differences. How this whole mess plays out in the media ? especially now that major outlets are confirming the Alexa Chung rumors ? will be interesting to see in the coming weeks and months. But what about the money? Don?t be gauche, darling.
Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin will end their marriage amicably … in large part because they’ve each done things during the marriage they DON’T want ending up in legal docs.
Sources close to the former couple tell TMZ … this is NOT a separation. They are definitely getting divorced. But both are concerned about serious PR damage if the divorce turns ugly, and they don’t want to open the door to media reports about them straying from the marriage as well as other issues.
The concern … even if the case doesn’t go to trial … any allegation put down in legal docs could end up getting leaked … and both Gwyneth and Chris agree … that’s the worst case scenario for both of them.
The soon-to-be-exes even spent the weekend together … with friends … in the Bahamas — more proof this is gonna be totally civil.
We’re told the divorce will be relatively quick and there are no apparent conflicts. They will not fight over money and they won’t fight over custody.
[From TMZ]
But who will custody of the publicists?!?! No, I imagine this is true ? Gwyneth and Chris will figure out some equitable solution to their real estate, financial holdings and custody of their children, and it will probably look a lot like what they?ve already been doing for the past few years. Gwyneth will keep the American properties, Chris will keep the UK property, Gwyneth will have primary custody but Chris will be involved and he?ll get to spend time with Apple and Moses when he?s not touring. But! All of that has nothing to do with the leaks (controlled or otherwise) and public jockeying for sympathy.
Photos courtesy of WENN, Goop.
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