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The Federal Trade Commission has spoken and Skechers USA (SKX) owes $40 million in the latest example of bad behavior in advertising. It turns out that slipping on Skechers $100 Shape-ups shoes will not give you a Kim Kardashian-like body; the reality star appeared in ads to tout the product the company claimed would help you get trim and tone up, due to its specially curved bottom (the kind of bottom the shoes won't help you get). If you bought a pair of the shoes -- or of Skechers Resistance Runner, Toners and Tone-up shoes -- you can go here to file for a refund, which most of the settlement will go toward paying out. It remains to be seen how much you might get, as it depends on how many dissatisfied customers file. A separate settlement involving 44 states and D.C. will pay out $5 million. In a statement, the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection Director David Vladeck said Skechers' advertising assertions "went beyond stronger and more toned muscles. The ...

A B-lister for your A-list event? You've been carrying on a one-sided romance with celebrities for years, watching them on big screens and small, dancing to their chart-topping singles and tweeting at every twist and turn of their private lives. Isn't it time you brought one home? Outrageous as it sounds, renting a celebrity today might turn out to be well within your budget. Thanks to the explosion of cable programming, viral videos and reality TV shows such as "American Idol," "The Bachelor," "Survivor" and "Jersey Shore," there are more "celebrities" than ever before -- all anxious to schmooze at your fundraiser, croon at your wedding or shout "Mazel tov!" at your bar or bat mitzvah. "There is a celebrity for every budget," says Mike Esterman, a celebrity booking agent based in Washington, D.C., who places stars at public and private events around the world. "Anybody can buy a celebrity hos...

Kanye West professed his love for reality TV star Kim Kardashian in a new song leaked online on Thursday, and the pair were spotted out on the town in New York together. In "Theraflu," named after the over-the-counter cough medicine, West raps about falling in love with the "Keeping Up With The Kardashians" star at the same time she fell in love with Kris Humphries, who she divorced last November after 72 days of marriage.   West also made a reference to not having rapper Jay-Z, who has minority stakes in the New Jersey Nets basketball team for which Humphries plays, remove the basketball player from the team. "And I'll admit, I fell in love with Kim, 'round the same time she had fell in love with him, well, that's cool, baby girl, do ya thing, lucky I ain't have Jay drop him from the team," rapped West, over hip hop beats by DJ Khaled. West and Kardashian were photographed on Thursday having lunch together at a New York restaurant,...

KIM Kardashian was flour-bombed in Los Angeles last night as she attended a promotion for her new perfume - with alarmed staff calling in the fire department to investigate. The reality starlet was walking the red carpet at the London Hotel in West Hollywood, promoting the scent True Reflection, when she was showered in a white powder, TMZ reported. As the woman who threw the substance at Kardashian was detained, the fire department was called to the scene to determine whether it was harmful. They later gave the all-clear, identifying the white powder as cooking flour. Kardashian disappeared into a private room to clean the flour off her jacket and hair, before joining the festivities. She later told E! Online the incident was "probably is the craziest, unexpected, weird thing that ever happened to me," and laughed it off by adding, "Like I said to my makeup artist, I wanted more powder and that's a whole lot of translucent powder right there."

Kris Jenner look like very awesome. Really she is very nice. Her sexy figure very attractive to the audience. Classically Kardashian's mom very clever and stylish,  But in the case of the Kardashians’ mom, Kris Jenner, the world gets to see her cringe-worthy antics. Most freshly, the 56-year-old mother of Kim Kardashian wore an outfit that would be improved suited for a 20-year-old (in fact, Kim and sister Khloe have damaged comparable outfits): hot-pink undernourished jeans, black leather jacket, extra-large silver handbag, and high-heeled, leopard print mules. It’s an outfit that an adolescent could almost positively pull off, but Jenner is pushing the fashion bounds in this excessively trendy look for her age. The reality TV mom got low marks on the Web. One commenter at the Daily Mail opined the general emotion: “She is a brash attention-seeker. She dresses too youthful for her age.” The publicity-hungry mom made waves lately by wearing not anything at all. In “honor” of her ...