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Roosevelt Hotel Fights Back: ‘Our Pools Are 100% Corpseless’

9:02AM Seth | Our noting of this morning’s Page Six story about a death in the Roosevelt Hotel’s pool and an alleged failure to drain its water—resulting in Lindsay Lohan’s first direct brush with death since the approximately 75,000 others she experienced before entering Cirque Lodge—elicited a response from a concerned hotel spokesflack, who wanted to set the record straight on exactly what transpired. It’s after the jump: More »

Source: ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ Head Writer Not F**king Jimmy Kimmel

4:50AM Seth | Yesterday, we noted a Gawker item suggesting that Molly McNearney, who swiftly ascended the Jimmy Kimmel Live! ranks from lowly Chinese Theatre Chewbacca-wrangling assistant to that show’s head writer, had been the woman who came between Kimmel and Sarah Silverman. A Defamer tipster who knows McNearny wrote us to say this couldn’t be further from the truth: More »