Sideshow: Michael Jackson case goes to jury

Michael Jackson was an adult fully responsible for his own actions and died because of his own decisions, a lawyer for AEG Live said on Wednesday said in his closing argument in the Jackson family's negligence suit against the company.

MJ's family blame the company for hiring Conrad Murray, the physician who was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in 2011 for giving MJ an overdose of propofol, an anesthetic used in surgery.

AEG denies it hired Murray, maintaining that it was MJ who insisted Murray treat him.

Attorney Marvin Putnam said that if the company knew of MJ's drug abuse, it would never have partnered with him for his comeback tour.

"AEG would have never agreed to finance this tour if they knew Mr. Jackson was playing Russian roulette in his bedroom every night," said Putnam. MJ, he said, "made some bad choices that resulted in a horrible tragedy. You can't blame someone else for his bad choices. He was a grown man."

The Jackson family attorney made his closing on Tuesday. Now it's up to the jury to decide.

Richard Gere, born 64 years ago in our brave city, and his second wife, Law & Order alum, Carey Lowell, 52, are separated, says the New York Post. Unnamed Source tells the tabloid the couple have "been spending time apart for quite some time." They are headed for divorce, the source claims.

They have a 13-year-old son, Homer James Jigme Gere.

A Gere rep had a "no comment" for USA Today.

Kim Kardashian will guest- star as the voice of an animated alien on a forthcoming episode of American Dad, says Entertainment Weekly. . . . Embattled NBA player and Khloé Kardashian fashion accessory Lamar Odom does not use drugs, his dad, Joe, tells TMZ. . . . Robert Pattinson has been seen holding hands with Sean Penn's daughter with Robin Wright, 22-year-old model Dylan Penn.

Lindsay Lohan's estranged half-sister, Ashley Horn, 18, has undergone $25,000 worth of cosmetic procedures so she could "look like Lindsay in her good days, when she was around 18, 19 years old," she tells In Touch Weekly.

Ashley's mom, Kristi, had a brief dalliance with Michael Lohan while he was still married to LiLo's mum, Dina.

Says Ashley, "[Now] I'm hotter than Lindsay! I have no problem saying that."

"When I was younger I was not a good problem solver, meaning I had a very difficult time with dealing with my problems in life," Jada Pinkett Smith, 42, writes on Facebook.

"I had many addictions, of several kinds, to deal with my life issues." Will Smith's wife of 16 years doesn't give details.

Duck Dynasty's Robertson family are beard-proud. "Phil has the classic, mature beard," his son, Willie, tells Us Weekly.

And Willie's brothers? "Jase's is kind of red - it's weird, like him!" Willie says. "Jep grooms his the most: He's got all these special lotions and perfumes that he puts on."