Hooman Karamian, the wannabe Perez Hilton...
Sometimes, God sends you free room service. That's what it felt like a couple of days ago when Hooman Karamian's flack with the mega firm of 5W PR called me and offered him up to me on a silver platter. Hoo-da Hooman? You know him better as "Nik Richie," purveyor of ribald pics of drunken nightlifers vomiting and/or exposing themselves for the camera. Karamian's decidedly retail genius is that through a variety of Web sites spun off from The Dirty.c
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Just a few of the undercover deputies used on "Smile...You're Under Arrest!"L.A. publicists are wonderful folks. As I blogged a while back, a PR flack for the firm 5W PR contacted me in November and hooked me up with an interview with The Dirty's Nik Richie, a.k.a., Hooman Karamian, a.k.a., Corbin Grimes. In it, I got to ask Richie/Karamian/Grimes some questions he doesn't commonly get asked, at least till the PR chick pulled the plug on me.More recently, one Lisa Bustamante, a publicist for La-
This unidentified westside cat, who's apparently living large, was a previous target of Nik Richie's scorn.
Call me crazy, but has TheDirty.com gotten a little tired?
Don't get me wrong, I've had loads of fun gawking at ribald snapshots of Ed Hardy-clad scenesters or other human train wrecks that the notorious tattletale Web site has specialized in since it launched two years ago (when it known simply as Dirty Scottsdale).
But the endless embarassing pics of skanks and $30k millionaires at t
A topless photo of Miss California published yesterday (that's part of it, at the right) on the locally run gossip blog, "The Dirty," could be the tipping point for pageant officials who are considering taking away her crown. The officials are also ticked Carrie Prejean has been shilling for Jesus and an anti-gay-marriage group in her spare time.Gossip site guru Nik Richie, who was revealed to be California resident Hooman Karamian -- or is it Corbin Grimes? -- after getting busted for a DUI
