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After a wild phone-hacking spree into some 700 voicemails of frenemies, boyfriends and others, former Dolce & Gabbana publicist and wannabe socialite, Ali Wise, has been arrested and charged on 17 criminal counts. Her accomplice, according to court documents: free software called SpoofCard....

Businesses, insurers, and other analysts have often sought to put a price tag on the value of a human life. In the health-care debate, for example, the magic number is $129,000; by comparison, when Ford designed the Pinto, its number-crunchers determined that the company's customers (or at least...

There's a report out from Nielsen this week saying teens don't use Twitter, which follows a recent report from Morgan Stanley that made the same point. To counter the point, I say flatly, using my best inner teen voice: Whatever. Other inner teen-voice reactions: So what? Who cares? Saying teens...

The media, WalletPop included, have a bit of an obsession with Paris Hilton. We admit it. So it's no surprise that we were interested in learning just how much the media darling takes home each year. Thanks to a lawsuit, which claims -- tsk tsk -- that Ms. Hilton didn't fulfill her duties as an...

Many megabytes have been chewed up about the contest run by the Australian Tourism Bureau to be a highly paid beach bum, what the organizers dubbed "The Best Job in the World." But winner Briton Ben Southall may have cushy $110,000 job lounging around a tropical island, but there are plenty cushier...

It's official: Private air travel is as uncool as taking your mom to prom. After congress scolded the auto industry for taking the costly private jets to DC to request their bailout money it was only a matter of time before the move to ditch private flights caught on. TMZ is reporting that both...

It's hard to believe an Oscar winner who pulled in $38 million in 2008 would need to part with one of his homes because of the economy, but that's exactly why Nicolas Cage is selling his 28-room castle. Citing a "difficult economic situation" as Cage told the German celebrity weekly Bunte (via...

While details of the lifestyles of the formerly rich and famous have started to leak into the news, it has, in many ways, been easy to pretend that the recession was only happening to middle class people. Recently, however, in what is either the most desperate moment of the recession or a sign of...

Cash and clothing have gone hand-in-hand at least since the first dancing girl put on a veil of coin-accented chain mail. However, the last few years have taken legal tender out of the realm of fetish and into the world of fashion. With that in mind, it's worthwhile to take a peek at the changing...

In the 1930s there was Roosevelt and in 2009, there's Paris Hilton. That's right: The heiress best known for reality television and jail has vowed to do all she can to save the economy. SFGate.com reports that Ms. Hilton told a British magazine that "It's really scary about the economy right now....