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Sean Penn Hosts Star-Studded Benefit in Cannes
Originally posted 05/19/2012 12:00PM
Sean Penn was in a jovial mood Friday night at the Cannes Film Festival where he hosted a benefit for Haiti, which raised about $1.5 million.
The actor and activist hosted a starry affair attended by David Schwimmer, Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, Diane Kruger, Jessica Chastain, Michelle Rodriguez, Ewan MacGregor, Gerald Butler and Penn's onetime gal pal Petra Nemcova, among others.
At one point Penn joked to the crowd: "I want to ask every woman here to turn to the man next to her and say I won't sleep with you tonight unless you make a big donation."
Two U2 VIP concert tickets and one of Bono's Gretsch guitars fetched 200,000 euros apiece, and three people shelled out $100,000 each to spend three days in Haiti with Penn.
The upbeat evening was a change from Friday afternoon when Penn went on a profanity-laced tirade about how the media and the world has abandoned Haiti in the wake of a devastating earthquake there.
– Dana Kennedy
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Scarlett Johansson Dishes on 'Remarkably Good' Beau Nate Naylor
Originally posted 04/12/2012 03:15PM
Her marriage to Ryan Reynolds was a "beautiful thing." She and Sean Penn were just "seeing each other." And her current romance, with ad man Nate Naylor, is something "totally bizarre" – because he's not used to dating a celebrity.
Nevertheless, Scarlett Johansson finds life pretty good right now.
The actress, poised to open in The Avengers in her Iron Man 2 role of Natasha Romanoff, tells Vogue magazine, "It's been a good time. I've had peace. Relative peace. I just want to work on things that are really hard, and when I'm not working on things that are really hard, I want to hang out with people I like to be with, and that's it."
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Scarlett Johansson: Will She Marry Again?
Originally posted 12/16/2011 11:35AM
For an especially private person, Scarlett Johansson has an especially difficult time seeing her life played out publicly.
So, imagine her horror at reading tabloid headlines about her divorce from Ryan Reynolds, her dating and breaking up with Sean Penn, her time in Paris with Kieran Culkin and in Manhattan with Justin Bartha – not to mention the nude photos from her hacked cellphone. Those went viral.
"The hardest part is actually going through whatever hardship you're facing. Going through it in public is the added unfortunate thing," the actress, 27, tells USA Today while promoting her new movie with Matt Damon, We Bought a Zoo.
Still, "There's nothing you can do about that," she says. "It's just nice to have kind of a blinder up in that regard. It helps keep you sane. I can't follow all that stuff. It's too exhausting."
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Sean Penn Takes His Girlfriend out for Burgers
Originally posted 09/14/2011 10:00AM
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Sean Penn's Girlfriend Is Shannon Costello
Originally posted 08/25/2011 01:35PM
Sean Penn has a new lady in his life and her name is Shannon Costello.
The couple took their romance public at the beginning of July and have been spotted together on the beach in Malibu, at Nobu earlier this month, and dining out in Miami.
Costello, initially misidentified by the media as Stacey Koplin, is the former communications director of the actor's J/P Haitian Relief Organization. She and Penn first met in fall 2009 and became friends. Costello began working with J/P in 2010.
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Scarlett Johansson and Sean Penn Split
Originally posted 06/02/2011 08:00PM
Scarlett Johansson and Sean Penn are no longer dating, a source tells PEOPLE.
Speculation about the pair began after Johansson did not attend the Cannes Film Festival with Penn for his movie The Tree of Life. She has been working on The Avengers in New Mexico, reprising her role of Black Widow from Iron Man 2.
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Scarlett Johansson and Sean Penn's White House Party PDA
Originally posted 05/01/2011 01:00PM
After a series of romantic-looking sightings, Sean Penn and Scarlett Johansson all but confirmed their coupledom with the ultimate public display of affection for super-private stars.
Hand holding.
They were spotted in the incriminating position Saturday night, outside a White House Correspondents' Dinner after-party in Washington, D.C.
Johansson – wearing an Elie Saab cocktail dress and newly auburn hair – started the evening off with her brother, Hunter Johansson, in attendance of the annual event before joining up with Penn at the Vanity Fair/Bloomberg bash. They reportedly left together around 2:30 a.m.
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Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Johnny Depp Bound for Cannes
Originally posted 04/12/2011 09:30AM
Cue the paparazzi: Cinema's rite of spring – the Cannes Film Festival – will feature an all-star cast, as will be officially announced on Thursday. But, for now, PEOPLE has learned that fans can expect to find Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis, Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem, as well as Sean Penn and Scarlett Johansson sharing the spotlight along the Croisette from May 11 through 22.
In addition, invitations to the 64th Cannes Fest are also out to Rolling Stone Keith Richards, Madonna, Jack Black and France's First Lady, Carla Bruni, who happens to be making her acting debut in a Woody Allen movie.
One thing is already for certain: Robert DeNiro will be sticking around the entire fest – he is the head of the jury that hands out the prizes.
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Couples Watch: Britney Spears & Jason Trawick Take Her Boys to Vegas
Originally posted 04/04/2011 06:00AM
• For the second week in a row, Britney Spears headed to Sin City. One week after taking the stage at Rain Nightclub, Spears returned to Las Vegas's Palms Casino Resort along with beau Jason Trawick and her two boys. The four grabbed a casual dinner in the private dining room at Nove Italiano, where the kids enjoyed a mozzarella pizza, which was waiting for them as they arrived. Meanwhile, Spears drank a Sprite and ate halibut. According to a source, "Britney was very quiet … but her kids were very nice and looked great."
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Reese Witherspoon & Jim Toth's Star-Studded Wedding Guest List
Originally posted 03/29/2011 08:30AM
Reese Witherspoon and Jim Toth hosted an intimate, private wedding over the weekend – and their guest list read like a who's who of Hollywood.
It comes as no surprise, perhaps, that an Academy Award winner and top Hollywood agent would have a star-studded social circle, but like any other guest list there's a story behind how the folks who attended the nuptials landed an invite.
• Robert Downey Jr. and his wife Susan
The Iron Man star relies on a super agent to help navigate his career: Toth himself! While the groom is pals with the Downey Jr., Witherspoon also has a friendship with the actor and even had him and his wife up to her Ojai, Calif., estate in 2008 where they went hiking.
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