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Elizabeth Smart Describes Her Wedding: ‘It Was Perfect. I Wouldn’t Change A Thing’


Posted on May 07, 2012 @ 02:30PM - 1 comment

By Debbie Emery - Radar Reporter

Five months after she walked down the aisle, former kidnap victim Elizabeth Smart has revealed details of what really was the best day of her life, and RadarOnline.com has video of the blushing bride.

”It was great. It was perfect. I wouldn't change it,” 24-year-old Elizabeth told Anderson Cooper on an upcoming episode of his talk show. “We had it up on the North Shore in Hawaii.”

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Five months after she walked down the aisle, former kidnap victim Elizabeth Smart has revealed details of what really was the best day of her life, and RadarOnline.com has video of the blushing bride.

”It was great. It was perfect. I wouldn't change it,” 24-year-old Elizabeth told Anderson Cooper on an upcoming episode of his talk show. “We had it up on the North Shore in Hawaii.”

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Elizabeth Smart Relives Kidnapping Ordeal: I Felt Dirty, Filthy And Worthless


Posted on May 04, 2012 @ 07:30PM - 9 comments

By Radar Staff

Elizabeth Smart spoke candidly on Friday about how she felt after she was kidnapped at age 14, and repeatedly raped.

Smart, now 24, was the guest speaker at the Law Day Luncheon sponsored by the Palm Beach County Bar Association in Florida, where she received two standing ovations from an audience of 200.

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"I'll never forget how that made me feel, how dirty and filthy and worthless," she told the assembled throng at the West Palm Beach Marriott Hotel. 

"I lost all my self-worth in a matter of seconds. I thought, 'How could anyone love me again, how could my family accept me back?' I thought, 'It would be better if he just killed me,'" she told the awestruck audience.

Elizabeth Smart spoke candidly on Friday about how she felt after she was kidnapped at age 14, and repeatedly raped.

Smart, now 24, was the guest speaker at the Law Day Luncheon sponsored by the Palm Beach County Bar Association in Florida, where she received two standing ovations from an audience of 200.

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Elizabeth Smart Tells Sell-Out Crowd About Her Kidnapping Trauma, ‘Not All Cases End Sad’


Posted on Apr 30, 2012 @ 02:30PM - 2 comments

By Debbie Emery - Radar Reporter

Almost 10 years after her own kidnap nightmare, Elizabeth Smart opened up about her harrowing experience and the abuse she endured at the hands of her captor to a crowd of 700 people at the Child Protection Awareness Event.

Now 24, the Utah native was 14 when she was snatched at knife-point from her bedroom in 2002 by Brian David Mitchell, who sexually assaulted her almost daily during her nine month captivity.

Almost 10 years after her own kidnap nightmare, Elizabeth Smart opened up about her harrowing experience and the abuse she endured at the hands of her captor to a crowd of 700 people at the Child Protection Awareness Event.

Now 24, the Utah native was 14 when she was snatched at knife-point from her bedroom in 2002 by Brian David Mitchell, who sexually assaulted her almost daily during her nine month captivity.

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Imprisoned Trucker Admits To Killing Newlyweds In Mobile Dungeon


Posted on Mar 30, 2012 @ 06:11PM - 1 comment

By Debbie Emery - Radar Reporter

A creepy Texas trucker who is already serving a life sentence for murder has admitted to two more killings in his mobile dungeon of death.

Robert Ben Rhoades, 66, confessed to slaughtering 14-year-old runaway Regina Walters in Illinois in 1990, and has now admitted responsibility to the grisly deaths of a pair of newlyweds who met their demise in the traveling torture chamber in the cab of his long-haul rig, reported ABCNews.com.

A creepy Texas trucker who is already serving a life sentence for murder has admitted to two more killings in his mobile dungeon of death.

Robert Ben Rhoades, 66, confessed to slaughtering 14-year-old runaway Regina Walters in Illinois in 1990, and has now admitted responsibility to the grisly deaths of a pair of newlyweds who met their demise in the traveling torture chamber in the cab of his long-haul rig, reported ABCNews.com.

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Newlywed Elizabeth Smart Shows Off Her Wedding Ring, And Her New Husband!


Posted on Feb 20, 2012 @ 11:00AM - 6 comments

By Debbie Emery - Radar Reporter

After the kidnapping horror of her childhood, Elizabeth Smart got her own real-life Hollywood happy ending on Saturday when she wed her knight in shining armor, and RadarOnline.com has a photo of the newlyweds - and her sparkling wedding ring!

The cute couple looked like they are taking to married life like ducks to water when they stepped out hand-in-hand on Sunday as they took a leisurely walk just one day after their romantic wedding ceremony in Hawai'i on idyllic Oahu’s north shore.

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Orange County Housewife Jeana Keough ‘Extremely Concerned’ For ‘Kidnapped’ Michaele Salahi


Posted on Sep 14, 2011 @ 11:45AM - 8 comments

By Jen Heger - Radar Legal Editor

Real Housewives of Orange County star Jeana Keough is extremely concerned over reports that infamous White House party crasher, Michaele Salahi has been kidnapped, RadarOnline.com is exclusively reporting.

Michaele was reported missing by her husband, Tareq, after she didn't return from a hair appointment that she had scheduled for 11 a.m. - which she never arrived for.

According to Tareq, when he reported his wife missing to the Warren County Sheriff's Department, deputies informed him that Michaele had already called them, and said she was dealing with family issues but that she was safe.

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Joss Stone Kidnappers Being Held On Suspicion Of Conspiracy to Rob And To Murder


Posted on Jun 15, 2011 @ 01:10PM - Add a comment

By Cliff Renfrew
Radar Staff Reporter

New details have emerged about the bizarre kidnapping plot involving pin-up singer Joss Stone, RadarOnline.com can reveal.

New details have emerged about the bizarre kidnapping plot involving pin-up singer Joss Stone, RadarOnline.com can reveal.

The two men arrested after being apprehended close to the singer’s British rural home in East Devon have received further charges after being quizzed by the police.

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The 30-year-old man was arrested for driving whilst disqualified, possession of an offensive weapon and going equipped to burgle or steal.

His 33-year-old accomplice was arrested for possession of an offensive weapon and going equipped to burgle or steal.

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ABC’s Diane Sawyer Scores First Interview With Jaycee Lee Dugard


Posted on Jun 08, 2011 @ 06:58PM - 1 comment

By Amber Goodhand
Radar Staff Reporter

Kidnapping survivor Jaycee Lee Dugard will be giving her first television interview to Diane Sawyer.

Kidnapping survivor Jaycee Lee Dugard will be giving her first television interview to Diane Sawyer.

Dugard, who was held captive by Phillip Garrido and his wife, Nancy, for 18 years, will give a taped interview to the ABC anchor that will air next month, RadarOnline.com has learned.

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Now 31, Dugard plans to release her memoir, A Stolen Life, on July 12 and the interview is slated to air just before that.

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NY Model Pleads Guilty To Baby Kidnapping, Sentenced To Prison


Posted on Apr 01, 2011 @ 11:45AM - 2 comments

Michelle Marie Gopaul, the New York model who pretended to be a Bollywood talent agent in order to kidnap a baby, was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison after she pleaded guilty in a Toronto courtroom Friday to one count of child abduction, RadarOnline.com has learned.

"I was so scared ... I'm so sorry," Gopaul said at Friday's hearing. "I'm not a bad person, I'm so sorry."

Michelle Marie Gopaul, the New York model who pretended to be a Bollywood talent agent in order to kidnap a baby, was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison after she pleaded guilty in a Toronto courtroom Friday to one count of child abduction, RadarOnline.com has learned.

"I was so scared ... I'm so sorry," Gopaul said at Friday's hearing. "I'm not a bad person, I'm so sorry."

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Gopaul said that heartache over an emotional breakup with a boyfriend spurred her to kidnap the child, in hopes she could keep the relationship alive.

Gopaul, 25, used Craigslist to perpetrate the scam that paved the way to her conviction, hosting a phony casting call in which she pretended to be an agent named Dianne Miller willing to pay $15,000 to the family of an Indian baby girl who'd star in a Bollywood film.

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Four couples, including Sejal and Viral Patel, attended the "casting call" with their month-old daughter, Roma on December 30.

Gopaul told the Patels she had to see how the baby would react to strangers and took her in a different room -- only to disappear.

Gopaul was arrested in Scarborough about four hours later when authorities found her with the baby, who was not harmed in the incident.

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"More than anything, I wish I could go back and erase it all," Gopaul said in letter addressed to the court.

Gopaul had been seen in projects such as an American Express TV commercial and a small role in the Nicole Kidman-Sean Penn movie, The Interpreter.

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VIDEO: Jeremy London Breaks Down In Tears, Victim Of 'Terribly Violent Crime'


Posted on Mar 02, 2011 @ 01:50PM - 4 comments

Jeremy London was vindicated on Wednesday when his accused kidnapper pled guilty to reduced charges and RadarOnline.com has video of the press conference the actor held just moments after learning the news.

“Today for the most part I guess is...I guess I'm able to reach a form of closure…certainly vindication for the false accusations that I've been cruelly bombarded with from the media and certain so called family members,” London said.

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“It's been a really, really terrible year. This ordeal has placed irreparable pressures of damage to my family, my career.”

The Party of Five star then broke down in tears as he began to talk about his son, Lyrik, and the judgment he felt he endured.

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