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Tattle: Jon ordered to give back 180G to Kate
THOSE ANNOYING Gosselins were back in court yesterday in Norristown and Jon was ordered to return $180,000 in marital funds that he removed in violation of an arbitrator's order.
The judge still has to decide on the rest of the dough Jon took.
According to TMZ.com and Kate's attorney, Mark Momjian, "The remaining sum of $55,000, which Ms. Gosselin used for household bills and expenses relating to the children, will be subject to further determination by the arbitrator at a later date."
Jon has until Oct. 26 to repay the loan or he and Kate could be taken over by New York hedge funds.
Oh, sorry, that's a different case.
On Oct. 26 Kate also has to provide the judge with an accounting of past expenses.
"As difficult as this has been for me, I am pleased that the court has ruled fairly on behalf of myself and my children," Kate said. "Now that this matter has been ruled on, I look forward to returning to private arbitration, as we have agreed to do, to resolve any remaining issues."
Alas, there is nothing private about these two.
Driving Mr. Luckett
Morgan Freeman says Mississippi is "starving" for the right leadership, so the actor is using his celebrity status to help his friend, attorney Bill Luckett, run for governor in 2011.
Freeman has written a fundraising letter and is one of the hosts for a cocktail party in L.A. next week for Luckett, who is seeking the Democratic nomination. Term limits prevent Republican Gov. Haley Barbour from seeking a third term.
"Reform in Mississippi is hard because the base stock of this state is a mule-headed bunch of farmers," Freeman told the Associated Press yesterday, essentially conceding the mule-headed-farmer vote. "Those farmers have ruled the roost for so long because this is an agricultural state."
(Not to nitpick but shouldn't farmers, even mule-headed ones, have a loud voice in an agricultural state?)
Freeman's home town of Charleston, in fact, is a farming town. But it's been plagued by poverty, illiteracy and racial tensions.
"Holding on to the old politics of race, class and region has starved Mississippi for too long," Freeman wrote in the fundraising letter released to AP. " . . . Bill Luckett will work diligently to see that the rhetoric that has divided us will never again keep us from tackling such problems."
Mississippi Lt. Gov. Phil Bryant and businessman Dave Dennis have said they'll seek the Republican nomination. No other prominent Democrats have publicly said they'll run.
Tattbits
* Michael Jackson,
- perhaps you've heard of him - is up against Lady Gaga, Eminem, Kings of Leon and Taylor Swift for the American Music Awards' artist of the year.
Fans will select winners by online voting. The awards will be televised Nov. 22 on ABC.
