Celebrity Buzz

Mar 16, 2018 | 6:30 AM

ANGELINA JOLIE SHARES ODD HAIR-TINTING TIP: Angelina Jolie recently sat down with InStyle to toast the launch of Mon Guerlain Eau de Parfum Florale (she’s the face of the brand), and she discussed some of her grooming tips, and how they’ve changed. When she was a teenager, she says she “was a bit of a punk. Nowadays it’s very popular to dye your hair blue, for example. In my day you bleached it and used a Sharpie [for color].” She also opened up about how she is approaching raising her six children to see beauty in the age of social media: “Put what’s inside you forward and find you, figure out who you are. Beauty-everybody has a different opinion about what that is. Intellect is the most beautiful. When you see somebody who has a mind on fire, that’s sexy. A person who is empathetic and thoughtful and passionate-there’s nothing more attractive than that. There’s nothing you could wear or put on your face to cover up if your mind is blank and your heart is dark.”

ANDERSON COOPER AND BENJAMIN MAISANI ARE DONE: After nine years together, CNN host Anderson Cooper and NYC nightclub guru Benjamin Maisani, 45, are over. The pair dated for nine years, and Cooper tells The Daily Mail they are still very much in each other’s lives, despite breaking off their romance. Photos of Cooper a 33-year-old Dallas doctor named Victor Lopez have circulated recently, prompting the official statement.

SHARON STONE GIVES FANS PEAK INSIDE HER HOME: The 60-year-old Sharon Stone lives in a stunning French chateau-style home in L.A. full of glam finishes. For the first time, fans are getting a glimpse of her luxe digs via Architectural Digest. She tells AD she bought the home 25 years ago after her career-making role in 1992’s Basic Instinct. She says her approach to the gut reno was hands on: “I worked with a chteau restorer to give the place texture and a sense of history,” she told the magazine. “We installed an antique-tile floor from Agra in the powder room off the foyer and brought in the dining-room floor from a chteau in Switzerland. I also put in the moldings, mantels and other architectural details that are so essential to the integrity of the space.” She shares the space with her three sons: Roan, 17; Laird, 12; and Quinn, 11.

DARREN CRISS SAYS IT WOULD BE ‘UNFAIR’ TO IDENTIFY AS ASIAN-AMERICAN: Darren Criss is half-Filipino, but the American Crime Story star believes it would be unfair to refer to himself as Asian-American. He told Vulture: “No. I think that’d be unfair. I think that’d sound like I’m reaching for the minority card on a college application. I think that would be unfair. Yeah, my mom’s Asian-American. She’s from the Philippines and came here and then married a white guy, and here I am.” After he was accused of being ashamed of his heritage on Twitter, he clarified via the platform: “1 of my favorite things about myself is that I’m half Filipino. I happen to not look like it, but THAT fact is not what I like.”

CASH ME OUTSIDE GIRL OFF PROBATION: Danielle Bregoli is officially off her five-year probation, according to reports. She pleaded guilty to grand theft and filing a false police reports in August. The 14-year-old, who rose to notoriety as a guest on Dr. Phil, enlisted Tiger Woods‘ former attorney for help, managed to stay out of trouble and complete 100 hours of community service, which reportedly prompted the decision to end her probation early.

BILL COSBY LOSES LATEST APPEAL IN JANICE DICKINSON DEFAMATION CASE: Janice Dickinson can proceed with her defamation suit against Bill Cosby. In the last round of the ongoing legal battle, the California Supreme Court has rejected Cosby’s request to overturn an appeals court decision that favored Dickinson. Former model Dickinson sought – and last November was granted – court permission to make use of certain documents that she claims support her contention that Cosby defamed her as a liar. Dickinson has alleged that she was raped and drugged by Cosby in 1982, and that Cosby and members of his legal team accused her of lying when she later made the accusation.