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Published: August 7, 2008
■ Singer Lisa Marie Presley, 40, is expecting twins in the fall, her spokeswoman, Cindy Guagenti, said yesterday. Presley, the daughter of Elvis Presley and actress Priscilla Presley, disclosed her pregnancy in March on her MySpace page, saying that she went public after she was ridiculed in the media for looking heavier. She has two children from her marriage to musician Danny Keough, which ended in 1994. She was briefly married to Michael Jackson and Nicolas Cage, and is now married to music producer Michael Lockwood.
■ A judge has dismissed allegations against game-show host Bob Barker in a wrongful-termination lawsuit filed by a Price is Right employee. Deborah Curling, a former production assistant, sued Barker, CBS and production company FremantleMedia North America in October, saying that she faced retaliation after testifying against Barker in another wrongful-termination lawsuit. Judge Malcolm H. Mackey of Los Angeles Superior Court tentatively dismissed several claims against Barker yesterday, saying that Barker could not be sued for wrongful termination because he was not her employer. Barker retired last year after being host of The Price is Right for 35 years.
■ Actor Wesley Snipes must reimburse the government in prosecution costs for his tax conviction. According to court documents, Judge William Terrell Hodges of U.S. District Court ruled last week that Snipes must reimburse the government about $217,000. Snipes, the star of the Blade trilogy and White Men Can't Jump, among other movies, had objected to the cost. A Florida jury convicted Snipes in February of three counts of willfully failing to file his income taxes. He has appealed the convictions and his three-year prison sentence.
■ The woman who was injured along with actor Morgan Freeman in a weekend car wreck apparently is a friend of Freeman's who had offered him a ride home, a witness to the wreck said. Freeman, 71, was driving a car that officials said belongs to Demaris Meyer, 48, of Memphis, Tenn., when it veered off a rural road Sunday night a few miles from Freeman's home in the Mississippi Delta. Bill Rogers, a retired police officer who was the first person on the scene, said that a dazed Freeman told him that he and Meyer "were friends, and she had offered him a ride home and she didn't really know the way, and so he was going to drive the vehicle," Rogers said Tuesday.
Deaths
■ Lou Teicher, 83, of heart failure, in Highlands, N.C. He was half of the piano duo Ferrante & Teicher, whose florid and sentimental versions of movie themes and love songs made them the gods of easy listening beginning in the 1960s.
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