Perez Hilton on the ropes

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Variety is reporting that Perez Hilton's webhost, the Australia-based Crucial Paradigm, has dropped Perezhilton.com because of four lawsuits against Hilton pushed by eight photo agenices over Hilton's alleged theft of shots that have run on his site.

The Oz plug-pulling has left the gossip columnist's site temporarily on the ropes, running on "less than full power...a skeleton or temporary situation where he can still post [with] limited interactivity" with his archives missing, etc.

Hilton (i.e., Mario Lavandeira) posted a reaction earlier today, admitting to "feeling overwhelmed by our temporary technical difficulties and other roadblocks" and claiming that going out on the town in Manhattan with friends last night made him feel better. "Fuck being depressed! Fuck the pain away!," he wrote. "Try as they may, can't nobody hold us down."

That sounds like a boozy 15 year-old bitching about parental discipline, no? The kind of pain that Hilton is going through needs to be micro-managed and re-thought and negotiated. It's about money, not feelings.

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Posted by Jeffrey Wells on June 21, 2007 at 9:21 AM

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Monument says ...

Celebrity gossip is never going to go away, but Perez Hilton has brought it to an all time low. I hope the site crashes and burns.

Posted by Monument at June 21, 2007 10:07 AM

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corey3rd says ...

I don't quite get how drawing boogers on a stolen pic somehow gets it covered as parody

Perez makes me wonder why Michael Musto isn't given a Lifetime Award from the Kennedy Center.

the only good part about Perez, is he's normally first with the beaver shots of britney

Posted by corey3rd at June 21, 2007 10:09 AM

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Craig Kennedy says ...

Good riddance.

Posted by Craig Kennedy at June 21, 2007 10:17 AM

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chicbn872 says ...

I completely agree. I am annoyed just by his site's existance. This guy is famous and loaded for doing absolutely nothing. I can use Microsoft Paint and put dumbass stuff on pictures of famous people, he's a hack.

Posted by chicbn872 at June 21, 2007 10:44 AM

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Pelham123 says ...

Fuck'em and his website. Good riddance.

Posted by Pelham123 at June 21, 2007 10:45 AM

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clarifier says ...

For the record, "Fuck the pain away" is a line from a particularly explicit Peaches song.

Posted by clarifier at June 21, 2007 11:48 AM

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BurmaShave says ...

Suckin' on my titties like you wanted me, callin me, all the time like blondiem, check out my chrissy behind! It's fine all of the time!
Like sex on the beaches, what else is in the teaches of peaches? Huh? What?

Posted by BurmaShave at June 21, 2007 1:07 PM

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RoyBatty says ...

And we are supposed to give a fuck about this because...?

I mean, christ, next you'll be telling us about executive changes at Vivid and on-set clashes for the latest RimFire production.

Posted by RoyBatty at June 21, 2007 3:07 PM

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RoyBatty says ...

On second thought, I think most of us would welcome (or is that welcum, yuck yuck yuck) postings about the "other" Hollywood entertainment industry than gossip related bullshit. At least they're upfront about the fact they deal in porn...

Posted by RoyBatty at June 21, 2007 3:15 PM

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