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SWIPED: Police are looking for a red vinyl dress worn by Gwen Stefani of No Doubt for the band's first hit album. The garment, which was on a mannequin behind a plastic glass wall has been stolen from Southern California's Fullerton Museum Center, the Associated Press reports. Stefani, 35, who attended high school and college in the area, wore the sleeveless dress with matching red boots for the cover of the 1995 album, Tragic Kingdom, which included the hits "Don't Speak" and "Just a Girl" and sold some 15 million copies worldwide. Museum curator Jim Washburn said the dress could be worth up to $5,000.
VISITED: A dozen jurors and six alternates on Thursday visited the crime scene where Robert Blake's wife was murdered, reports Reuters. The jurors first went to Vitello's Italian restaurant in Studio City where the couple dined the night Bonny Lee Bakley was killed, then were taken to the murder scene about one and a half blocks away. Bakley was shot twice in Blake's car after he said he went back to Vitello's to retrieve a gun he had left there. Blake, 71, has pleaded not guilty to killing Bakley, 44, his wife of four months and says she had many enemies from a lonely hearts scam that she ran.
WITNESSED: Ricky Martin, 33, toured Thailand's tsunami-battered Phuket island, visiting with survivors and joining relief agencies in warning that orphans could fall prey to child traffickers. "I am here to learn and came here to see in which way, shape or form I am going to be able to literally help," Martin said Thursday. "I came here to talk with the victims. It's all about the most vulnerable ones, in this case, the kids of Phuket." Such child-welfare groups as UNICEF have warned that well-established gangs in countries such as Thailand, Indonesia and Sri Lanka could whisk orphaned children into sex trafficking networks. "I need to speak on behalf of these children," Martin said.
BORN: Grammy-winning R&B singer Lou Rawls, 69, and his wife Nina celebrated their first wedding anniversary with the birth of a son, Aiden Allen Rawls, born Monday in Akron, Ohio, and weighing 6 lbs. 14 oz., a rep for the singer tells AP. The couple called their son "the perfect belated first anniversary gift," according to Paul Shefrin. Rawls and his wife, who is also his manager, were married Jan. 1, 2004. He has three grown children.
ANGERED: Jamaicans reacted negatively on Thursday to plans by Bob Marley's widow to exhume the reggae legend's remains and rebury them in Ethiopia, an African country holy to Rastafarians, saying it would rob the Caribbean island of its national heritage. The news ignited radio call-in programs and Internet chat rooms in Jamaica and around the globe, with most people coming down strongly against moving the remains of the singer, who died of cancer in 1981 at age 36.
EXPOSED: Supermodel Naomi Campbell, 34, topped even Janet Jackson's stunt in Brazil on Thursday, reportedly revealing both breasts at Fashion Rio, a weeklong event of fall/winter collections, say published accounts. Campbell kicked off the fashion show for the TNG label, and while wearing designer Tito Bessa's white flower print dress with a white mink stole, Campbell showed more than possibly Bessa had intended. It remains to be explained whether a loose strap or button caused the wardrobe malfunction.
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