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Nadya Suleman, famous for having 14 children including eight at once in 2009, is in a triple train wreck of foreclosure, bankruptcy and child welfare problems. As she stares down a number of legal challenges with little outside support, Lawyers.com asked several lawyers to give her their advice for Octomom. Suleman declared bankruptcy, with debts up to $1 million House she lived in with 14 children is up for auction Child welfare officials visited the family recently to check on …

A New York trial judge ordered Prince to pay nearly $4 million to Revelations Perfume and Cosmetics because the singer failed to promote the company’s 3121 fragrance. Prince released an album title 3121 that hit No. 1 in the Billboard 200 rankings. The year was 2006, when Prince agreed to promote the women’s perfume in concerts, TV appearances and store promotions. Over the years, the promises kept coming but The Purple One never delivered, according to the judge. Prince agreed …

In a lesson for online writers and bloggers, a federal judge in New York recently spiked the claims of unpaid bloggers for the TheHuffingtonPost.com who wanted a share of the $300 million bonanza when AOL bought HuffPo. The volunteer bloggers claimed that the company concealed information regarding the money the website earned from their posts. For bloggers, the moral of the story is: Don’t expect to get paid if you don’t have a written contract. Just because the publisher got …

Ah, the spectacle of celebrities behaving badly. It keeps late-night comedians in business. (What would Jay Leno and David Letterman do without the Lindsay Lohans of the world?) It contributes to a nationwide decline in productivity. (How much time did you spend discussing Charlie Sheen’s meltdown with your co-workers?) And–rarely–it draws attention to important subjects we might otherwise ignore. (Case in point: George Clooney getting arrested outside the Sudanese Embassy.)     Check out our rogues gallery for the latest …

Two-time presidential candidate John Edwards used nearly $1 million in campaign funds to cover up an extramarital affair and hide his mistress, in violation of campaign finance laws, prosecutors argued in opening statements Monday. Edwards, 58, a Democrat and former U.S. senator from North Carolina, faces four charges of collecting illegal campaign contributions, one count of conspiracy and one of making false statements. The six felony charges could cost him a maximum of $1.5 million and land him in prison …