Mischa Bartob looks fantastic pumping in her sexy leggy black stocking with her friend in West Hollywood on Feb 4, 2010.

Mischa Barton - Pumping gas in West Hollywood

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Jimi Hendrix’s stepsister Janie Hendrix refused to believe her brother had passed away on the day he died – because the family had been targeted by a death hoax just a month earlier.

Janie, now the president and CEO of Experience Hendrix, was just nine years old when a classmate broke the news that the superstar had died on September 18, 1970.

She refused to believe her friend’s claims, and rushed home for reassurance – but was left devastated to learn the news was true.

Hendrix tells Britain’s The Sun, “I didn’t believe it because a month before someone had called the house saying Jimi had died but, of course, it wasn’t true. People did cruel things like that.

“So I walked home, and thought, ‘If there are lots of cars outside our house then it’s true.’ I walked slower and slower and, as I turned the corner, the street was flooded with cars.

“My dad hugged me and took me to his bedroom. He was crying and said, ‘Jimi passed away. Life will never be the same.’”

Hendrix was 27 when he choked to death on his own vomit in a London hotel, but the exact circumstances of the tragedy have remained a mystery.

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“He was found dead this morning,” McQueen’s communications director Samantha Garrett said by telephone.

The British designer, whose wild creations rocketed him to the top of the fashion world, died days before the start of London Fashion Week and ahead of Paris Fashion Week, where he was set to unveil his new collection on March 9.

A statement released by his office — referring to the designer by his given first name, Lee — read: “On behalf of Lee McQueen’s family, Alexander McQueen today announces the tragic news that Lee McQueen, the founder and designer of the Alexander McQueen brand, has been found dead at his home.

“At this stage it is inappropriate to comment on this tragic news beyond saying that we are devastated and are sharing a sense of shock and grief with Lee’s family.

“Lee’s family has asked for privacy in order to come to terms with this terrible news and we hope the media will respect this.”

Born in London on March 17, 1969 as the youngest of six children, McQueen left school at the age of 16 and gained an apprenticeship at the traditional Savile Row tailors Anderson and Shephard, moving on to neighboring Gieves and Hawkes.

The former British Designer of the Year winner eventually gained a masters degree in fashion design from London’s prestigious Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design.

In 1996, the man nicknamed “the hooligan of English fashion,” with his close-cropped hair, Doc Marten boots and shocking designs, was named head designer at the staid Paris couture house Givenchy.

His first collection for Givenchy was not widely considered to be a success, but he went on to establish his own label, drawing in fans, customers and fame and earning a place on the top catwalks of Paris.

The Alexander McQueen fashion design house is part of the Gucci group of brands owned by French retailer and luxury goods group PPR.

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Ashton Kutcher is grateful he can publish details of his private life on Twitter.com – because he’s become less attractive to the paparazzi since he joined the social networking website.

The actor and his wife Demi Moore are avid followers of the micro-blogging website, with Kutcher becoming the first person to attract over a million Twitter fans last year.

And the Just Married star is thankful he is able to express his views on his personal page, because it allows him to control what is published in the press.

He says, “The immediacy of it (Twitter) is great. The connection people have with each other and the pool of individuals out there. It’s a beautiful environment.

You can take the control back in your relationship with the media. You can dictate your own view. My ability to self-publish has resulted in a big reduction in strangers following me around with cameras.”

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The ‘Careless Whisper’ singer wandered off from his property in north London, leaving the front door to his £5 million mansion wide open – prompting a security guard to call the police in the early hours of Tuesday morning.

After a brief search of the area, 46-year-old George was found safe and well nearby.

It is not clear whether George was visiting one of his neighbours or was at his recording studio, which is located 180 metres from his home.

A source said: “Although George lives in a posh area, nowhere in London’s that safe. To leave your door open is mad – a clear invitation to would-be burglars.”
George’s erratic behaviour once again raises concerns over his lifestyle.

He was arrested in September 2008 after being caught in a public toilet in possession of crack cocaine and marijuana.

A year previously he was handed 100 hours community service for drug driving after being found slumped at the wheel of his Mercedes car by police.

In a frank interview last year George insisted he had cut down his marijuana use, smoking only “seven or eight” cannabis-laced cigarettes a day from 25.

George – who is in a long-term relationship with art dealer Kenny Goss – also admitted he was frustrated that people judge him for his drug use and penchant for casual gay sex.

He said: “People want to see me as tragic with all the cottaging and drug-taking. I don’t see them as weaknesses any more. It’s just who I am.

“I’ve done different things at different times that I shouldn’t have done, once or twice, you know. Of course, nobody wants to regularly smoke crack.”

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Jennifer Lopez is convinced she would struggle as a single mother – because she relies heavily on husband Marc Anthony’s help.

The couple welcomed twins Max and Emme in 2008, and after shooting her film The Back-Up Plan – about a woman who is artificially inseminated – she’s ruled out undergoing in vitro fertilisation to have any more children.

And Lopez insists she admires women who go through the treatment without a partner to help raise the child.

She tells USA Today, “I know a couple of people, both people I work with and friends, who have done this. I just don’t know if I could do this, honestly. Now I know how much I rely on my partner.

“Knowing what single mums go through, I think it takes such an amazing person to do that. You get to a point in your life and you think about it, and I think it’s a beautiful thing to be able to find the strength to do that on your own.”

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The Grammy-winner took to his Twitter page to make amends for his latest inflammatory comments – this time, in the March edition of Playboy.

In it, he calls former girlfriend Jessica Simpson “sexual napalm” and says Jennifer Aniston is a technophobe who wishes she could go back to her career prime in 1998. He also uses the N-word.

On Twitter Wednesday afternoon, he apologized for the racial epithet and said he has to stop “trying to be so raw in interviews.”

“It started as an attempt to not let the waves of criticism get to me, but it’s gotten out of hand and I’ve created somewhat of a monster,” Mayer tweeted. “I wanted to be a blues guitar player. And a singer. And a songwriter. Not a shock jock. I don’t have the stomach for it.”

There were plenty who didn’t have the stomach for his remarks in Playboy, in which he talked about Simpson’s sexuality, his problems with Aniston, his love of porn, why he doesn’t date black women and being beloved by the black community.

“Someone asked me the other day, ‘What does it feel like now to have a hood pass?’ And by the way, it’s sort of a contradiction in terms, because if you really had a hood pass, you could call it a nigger pass,’” he said, then added: “But I said, ‘I can’t really have a hood pass. I’ve never walked into a restaurant, asked for a table and been told, ‘We’re full.’”

Mayer said he should have never have used the N-word in any context and will never say it again.

“And it’s such a shame that I did because the point I was trying to make was in the exact opposite spirit of the word itself. It was arrogant of me to think I could intellectualize using it, because I realize that there’s no intellectualizing a word that is so emotionally charged,” he said.

The racial comments were hardly the only explosive comments in the interview. He said he still loved Aniston, but then noting their age difference (she just turned 41), he said: “I can’t change the fact that I need to be 32.”

He also said she didn’t appreciate new technology: “The brunt of her success came before TMZ and Twitter. I think she’s still hoping it goes back to 1998. She saw my involvement in technology as courting distraction. And I always said, ‘These are the new rules,’” he said.

Of Simpson, he talked about her sexual ability, and said: “That girl, for me, is a drug … That girl is like crack cocaine to me.”

In the interview, he also explained why he didn’t date black women, comparing his genitals to “a white supremacist.”

Mayer – known for his loose tongue – has made a habit out of outlandish comments. Last month, he gave an interview with Rolling Stone where he talked openly about his love life, including sex with other women – and himself.

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