Every day, celebrities across the world are followed and photographed by the omnipresent paparazzi, often to entertaining results. From Taylor Momsen in London to Julia Roberts in Los Angeles to Lady Gaga in Taiwan, here are some of the more amusing shots from the past week.

Back in the aughts, actor and former jeans model Jack Scalia set up charities to benefit both 9/11 victims and military vets. The charities raised some money, but apparently distributed less than they received. Where did all the money go? Scalia doesn't know—he was busy.

Since Tea Partying hostess-with-the-mostest Rep. Michele Bachmann declared her presidential candidacy, Dr. Marcus Bachmann—her gay-barbarian discipline-advocating therapist-husband—has been drawing heightened attention on his own. Some people, including famous-type ones, think maybe Bachmann's a gay barbarian as well.

The LAPD has seized on Los Angeles' most valuable natural resource, celebrities, for help in broadcasting a highway closure. They've reached out to Ashton Kutcher, Demi Moore, Lady Gaga and others to tweet the news.

Every day, celebrities across the world are followed and photographed by the omnipresent paparazzi, often to entertaining results. From Lady Gaga in Japan to Madonna in London to Kim Kardashian in Los Angeles to Justin Bieber in New York, here are some of the more amusing shots from the past week.

Russell Simmons initially got famous by starting up Def Jam, a hip hop label that was, believe it or not, dynamic and countercultural. And cool! That was a long, long time ago. What is Russell up to today? Oh, just defending Fox News chief Roger Ailes (again):

Every day, celebrities across the world are followed and photographed by the omnipresent paparazzi, often to entertaining results. From Oprah in Chicago to Snooki in Italy to Nick Jonas in Los Angeles to Beyonce in Nice, here are some of the more amusing shots from the past week.

Every day, celebrities across the world are followed and photographed by the omnipresent paparazzi, often to entertaining results. From Snooki in Italy to the Kardashians in Los Angeles to Jennifer Lopez in London to Will Smith in New York, here are some of the more amusing shots from the past week.

Ice-T and Coco renewed their vows over the weekend, and their new show, Ice Loves Coco, premieres this Sunday. Who is Coco? How would you explain her to your mom? Well, we found out. [Jezebel]

Forbes has released their annual Celebrity 100 List, in which celebrity power is ranked using a dartboard complicated algorithm. The big news this year is that Oprah Winfrey, who's held the top spot for four of the last seven years, has been dethroned by Lady Gaga.

The Gwyneth Paltrow media onslaught continues today, with a Talk of the Town piece in The New Yorker about the wisp of diamond vapor's new cookbook. The piece is mostly the usual assemblage of celebrity friends fawning over her culinary acumen, we learn nothing new, but there is one truly amazing tidbit.

Benicio del Toro's publicist, on Rod Stewart daughter and Paris Hilton also-ran Kim Stewart: "Kimberly is pregnant. Benicio is the father and is very supportive. Although they are not a couple, they are looking forward to the arrival of the baby." Good to know. [L&S, images via Getty]

Like Gwyneth Paltrow before him, rapper and mogul Jay-Z thinks that he knows exactly how you should live your life. He quietly launched his new website Life and Times today, and it proposes how you should dress, what music you should listen to, and which crazy cloud pictures you should look at.

London-based artist Christina Christoforou has drawn hundreds of celebrities, rock stars, fictional characters, and famous personages in her unique style—using only their hair—for her new book Whose Hair? Can you guess who these coifs belong to?

Paris Hilton's racism is well documented. In his forthcoming book Everyone Loves You When You're Dead, professional poon-chaser Neil Strauss adds another instance of Hilton horror: When she was 18, Paris told Strauss she had a "one percent" rule against dating black men. "I can't stand black guys. I would never touch one. It's gross."

Hours after Chris Brown smashed a dressing room window at Good Morning America, a tipster photographed a man working on the window. But was he repairing it, or preserving it as evidence?

An enterprising hacking ring has reportedly stolen nude pics and videos from more than 50 female celebrities, including Vanessa Hudgens, Scarlett Johansson and Natalie Portman, and the FBI is on the case. They've also been targeting sports stars and politicians. (Oh, boy.) But who's the mysterious "ringleader?" We've dug up some possible clues.

It seems every other week brings news of some, usually female, celebrity's Twitter or Facebook page being taken over by hackers. It's possible they were all perpetrated by the same individual(s). According to TMZ, 50 celebrities have been targeted by a "hacking ring," which has broken into their computers and cell phones and stolen embarrassing pictures and videos. Scarlett Johansson supposedly had a nude picture stolen from her iPhone and Vanessa Hudgens met with the FBI yesterday over her own leaked nudes, according to TMZ.

Britney Spears posed for Out magazine and did a Q&A by email. She hate flying, loves Sarah Jessica Parker's shoes, and thinks "everyone should be equal."

Everyone loved that Emma Watson, cute British pixie, had decided to hole herself up in Providence and spend a few years at Brown. But now the Harry Potter actress and blossoming starlet has announced on her website that she's taking some time off from school to focus on promoting the final Harry Potter movie and to work on other film projects.