I would PAY to learn the true statement behind the making of the banned Leonardo DiCaprio and Tobey Maguire movieDon ’s Plum .
1.I honestly can’t believe more people don’t talk about theKaty Perryvs. nuns debacle. Essentially, Perryboughta former convent in 2015 — only the nuns of Most Holy and Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary had already sold it to restaurateur Dana Hollister, who had moved in. The archdiocese, who sold the property to Perry, claimed the nuns hadn’t had the right to sell the property, and a messy legal battle began. In one post-judgement hearing (after the judge ruled against the nuns), one of the nuns, 89-year-old Catherine Rose Holzman, collapsed and died.
Hours before her death, Holzmanspoketo the press, saying she and the other nuns had asked the Vatican for help. Holzman pleaded with Perry “to please stop” pursuing the purchase, saying, “It’s not doing anyone any good except hurting a lot of people.” The last surviving nun, Sister Mary Callinan,toldtheNew YorkPost in 2019 that Perry has “blood on her hands." It’s unclear if the sale even ever actually went through, and it doesn’t look like Perry has ever lived there.
2.Speaking of Perry — I feel like most people aren’t aware of her sexual misconduct allegations, beyond theviral uncomfortable videoof her kissing anAmerican Idolcontestant. She’s additionally beenaccusedof touching andkissing a Russian TV host without consent andexposing model Josh Kloss’s genitals to others at a party. Oh, and remember the time she squeezed 18-year-old Shawn Mendes’s butt?
3.I also feel likeJenny McCarthydidn’t get quite enough flack for forcibly grabbing and kissingJustin Bieberonstage at the2012 American Music Awards. Justin, who was 18 at the time, even said directly after the incident that he felt “violated.” McCarthylater said,“I couldn’t help it, he was just so delicious, so little, and just,ahhhk, I wanted to tear his head off and eat it," and that she “kind of molested him.” She added, “I want some Bieber fever — and I want a Bieber rash. It’d be like cougar rape.”
4.I feel like the controversy people talk about surroundingNicki Minajis usually related to hervaccine-related tweets, but the one they should be talking about is far worse. Back in 2021, Minaj and her husband Kenneth Petty were sued for intimidating a woman (Jennifer Hough) who had previously accused Petty of raping her at gunpoint. In fact, Petty had been convicted of attempted rape back in 1994 and served four and a half years in prison. In the lawsuit, Hough alleged Minaj had “directly and indirectly intimidated, harassed, and threatened [Jennifer Hough] to recant her legitimate claim that Defendant Petty raped her.”
5.Shia LaBeouf garnered critical acclaim for his filmHoney Boy, which was meant to be based on his childhood. Notably, in the film, the main character’s father is abusive. Except LaBeouf lateradmittedthat the depiction of his father as abusive was “fucking nonsense” and that he’d “vilified [him] on a grand scale.” He continued, “My dad was so loving to me my whole life. Fractured, sure. Crooked, sure. Wonky, for sure. But never was not loving, never was not there. He was always there…and I’d done a world press tour about how f***ed he was as a man. … My dad never hit me, never.”
6.Kevin Hartadmittedto domestic violence in his memoirI Can’t Make This Up: Life Lessons,even saying he once spent the night in jail after an argument with his then-partner Torrei turned physical. Hedescribed thinking,“When it got violent where we’re fighting — Am I really fighting? Am I holding my hands up as if she’s a man right now? Oh my God. This is…I’m out. I’ve really got my hands up to not defend, but counter. Like, I’m waiting for you to throw a punch. Cuz I’m about to counter the s*** out of you.”
7.Jamie Dornanonce stalkeda woman in order to prepare to play serial killer Paul Spector inThe Fall.“This is a really bad reveal: I, like, followed a woman off the train one day to see what it felt like to pursue someone like that. I really kept my distance," herevealed to the LA Times.“She got off a few stops earlier than I was planning so I said right, I have to commit to this. I followed her around a couple of street corners and then was like: What are you doing?”
“It felt kind of exciting, in a really sort of dirty way. I’m sort of not proud of myself,” Dornan continued. “But I do honestly think I learned something from it, because I’ve obviously never done any of that. It was intriguing and interesting to enter that process of ‘what are you following her for?’ and ‘what are you trying to find out?’”
8.Joe Jonasreportedlyasked out Gigi Hadid when she was only 13 years old. “He asked me to a baseball game, and I said no,” Hadid revealed. “I was so nervous; I literally didn’t even know what it meant to hang out with a boy.” If Hadid’s timeline is right, Jonas would’ve been 19 at the time, but since Hadid says this happened at the Grammys, it was more likely when Hadid was 14 and Jonas was 20 (as this was the first time Hadid attended the Grammys). After Hadid told Jonas “maybe next time,” she says Joe “wrote his number on a piece of paper and gave it to my mom.” The two later dated in 2015, when Hadid was 20 and Jonas was 26.
9.Am I the only one who didn’t know that Robert De Niro, along with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., onceoffered$100,000 to anyone who could prove that vaccines are safe? This came after participating in a panel that flouted debunked vaccine claims, including that they cause autism. (De Niro’s son has autism.) Oh, and De Nirowantedto put an anti-vax film in the Tribeca Film Festival, calling it “very personal” to him, though he later pulled it.
10.We also obviously know about the Amber Heard and Johnny Depp defamation trial, but one part that consistently gets overlooked is Paul Bettany’s part. Bettany, a friend of Depp’s,exchangednumerous texts with Depp about Heard, some of which concerned burning and drowning her. “I’m not sure we should burn Amber,” Bettany wrote after Depp suggested it. “She is delightful company and pleasing on the eye. We could of course do the English course of action and perform a drowning test. Thoughts? You have a swimming pool.”
Depp reportedly wrote back, “Let’s drown her before we burn her!!! I will fuck her burnt corpse afterwards to make sure she’s dead.” Bettany reportedly replied, “My thoughts entirely. Let’s be certain before we pronounce her a witch.”
11.Speaking of Depp —unsealed court documentsfrom the same defamation trial suggest that Depp was investigated by the LAPD and the Department of Family Services for allowing his then-15-year-old daughter, Lily-Rose, to live with her 23-year-old boyfriend next door to him in his condo. No charges were filed, and Depp has never publicly responded to these allegations, though the witness in the documentstestifiedthat they felt Depp had made false statements in order for the charges not to be filed.
“I asked him afterwards, I said, ‘It must have gone pretty well,’ and he said, ‘Yeah,'” the witness, who appears to be his former agent Tracey Jacobs*, described. “I said, ‘Well you couldn’t have told them the truth.’ And he just smiled.”
12.While Halle Berry has never publicly named her attacker, she hasclaimedthatone of her exes, a well-known star, once “hit her so hard, her left eardrum was punctured” causing her to flee so quickly “there were skid marks.” Singer Christopher Williams, who dated Halle, laterallegedthat the attacker was Wesley Snipes. Ex-boyfriend David Justice later claimed the same in a series ofnow-deleted tweetsthat were supported by Berry’s ex-husband Eric Benét.
13.Sean Penn wasalsoaccused of attacking Madonna when they were married. He allegedly tied her to a chair for nine hours, until she was able to escape and run to the police station. Originally, Penn was charged with battery and inflicting “corporal injury and traumatic conditions,” but Madonna later pulled the complaints, though she did file for divorce.
14.R&B singer Michel’le has publicly accused Dr. Dre (with whom she shares a child) of beating her so badly that she had to get plastic surgery on her nose to repair the damage. In the Season 1 reunion special ofR&B Divas: Los Angeles, when host Wendy Williams pointed out that she had to be referring to Dr. Dre, Michel’lereplied, “He knows it. That was very public,” and said he often gave her black eyes right before she’d shoot music videos. According to Michel’le, they also started a relationship when she wasonly17.
Dr. Dre laterpublicly apologizedfor his past behavior toward women (which Michel’le didn’t feel was genuine because it was public and not personally to her), and acknowledged thatsomeallegations against him were true, though he then denied having abused Michel’le.
15.And finally, we’ll end on the scandal surrounding the never-released Tobey Maguire and Leonardo DiCaprio movieDon’s Plum. Basically, Maguire and DiCaprio starred in a movie that was essentially about a group of awful people talking in a diner. The movie was never released in the US, andin factis not allowed to be released in the US after a legal battle where Maguire and DiCaprio claimed they had never been informed the film was a feature with a commercial release. (Director R. D. Robb and producer Dale Wheatley later settled with Maguire and DiCaprio.) Years later, Wheatleymadethe film available via request on his site freedonsplum, writing “Leonardo DiCaprio has done everything in his power to bury this film and me along with it.”
Wheatley also alleged frightening behavior from Maguire, whohe saysscreamed at him for 12 hours about releasing the film. Oh, and he’s alsotweetedthat “Leo is Tobey’s little bitch,” and that “there’s something strange about their relationship — I do believe Tobey has something on Leo.” One man’s opinion, sure, but I still think this whole saga is pretty wild, and there’s a lot we don’t know.
