To print this page, select "Print" from the File menu of your browser salon.com > People April 18, 2000 URL: http://www.salon.com/people/col/reit/2000/04/18/nptues Owe ho ho Now play nice! Mariah Carey's sister sells all then tells all. Plus: Dog defiles Jagger's shoe; Easter Bunny slain. - - - - - - - - - - - - By Amy Reiter Does Mariah Carey owe her success to her sister's career as a ho? Q Online reports that Carey's sister Alison is publishing a new book, "Mariah and Me," in which she claims she worked as a prostitute to support Mariah as she launched her singing career. "Mariah tells the world about 5 percent of the truth about herself," Alison declares. "This book contains the other 95 percent -- everything a vain and heartless multimillionaire pop icon will do anything not to have told." Alison further claims that Mariah has "tried to bribe me and had me threatened to stop the publication, but it's too late now." And you thought it was bad when your sister borrowed your clothes. - - - - - - - - - - - - The headless hopper "Luckily no kids saw the Easter Bunny getting its head torn off. But he scared the living daylights out of this poor lady who was dressed in the bunny costume." -- Police office Chris Anderson, after a homeless man stole an Easter Bunny's head in a Florida mall on a $10 dare, in the St. Petersburg Times. Police later recovered the head. - - - - - - - - - - - - I'm a-splattered! Mick Jagger reportedly lost his shit during a recent recording session when a dog peed on his shoe. "He was having a good day and we were getting on well with the songs. Then my dog crept into the studio when someone opened the door," producer Arthur Baker told dotmusic.com. "No one noticed him there so when he wanted to get out to go to the toilet he went over to the only person in the room -- who was Mick." But when the dog couldn't get what he wanted, he got what he needed. "The poor thing couldn't hold it and urinated all over Mick's shoes," Baker explained. "Mick went crazy and started shouting 'Out! Out! Just get out!' at the dog and pointing at the door. It wasn't the dog's fault but he really shouted at him." So much for sympathy for the little devil ... - - - - - - - - - - - - Brainy Spice Poor Geri Halliwell. Every time she tries to fulfill her United Nations Goodwill Ambassador duties, her mouth gets in the way. There she was, exposing herself to a group of teenagers at a U.N. summit in London ("Maybe you do [know all about sex], but I know I certainly don't"); reinforcing the safe-sex message with cryptic public transportation metaphors ("That's 22 double-decker buses full of pregnant women crashing to their death every day -- no survivors"); and flattering the little squirts that they all have the potential to be the next "Einstein, Mozart or Madonna." Well, she meant well. - - - - - - - - - - - - Fill 'er up "Over Christmas, I took a job at a gas station because I was frustrated at not being on a movie set." -- "Erin Brockovich" star Aaron Eckhart on his workaholism, in the Calgary Sun. - - - - - - - - - - - - Related to the mob? Jon Bon Jovi has a raging addiction: "The Sopranos." The rocker/actor has been professing his deep love for the HBO show, which takes place near his New Jersey hometown, to any reporter who'll listen. "The guys on the show could be relatives of mine," Bon Jovi told the press. "My parents literally live on Tony Soprano's block." He started watching it because his old buddy, Steven Van Zandt (aka Little Steven) plays Silvio on the show, and Bon Jovi says he "just couldn't believe he was acting and wearing a toupee at the same time." And now he's desperate for a walk-on. "I've been working it hard, believe me," he says. "I visited the set. I called [series creator] David [Chase] and pitched him the idea of me appearing as me, but he said, 'Bon Jovi is too big to be friends with Tony Soprano's crew.'" I don't know. Tony Soprano's pretty big himself. - - - - - - - - - - - - Juicy bits Gentlemen prefer falsies? The U.K. Sun reports that Marilyn Monroe boosted her bustline with rubber boobs. Apparently undertaker Allan Abbott has now seen fit to come forward and tell the world about the flesh-colored breast pads with the nipple-shaped tips she favored. He was asked to bury her in them, but found them a tough posthumous fit. ("You could still smell the perfume on them," Abbott reports.) So he stuffed her bra with cotton balls and sold the falsies at auction for more than 5,000 clams. Sheesh, if you can't trust your undertaker ... Paula Jones: rock-and-roll groupie? The word out of Arkansas is that the twangy-voiced presidential accuser is spending a little too much time lurking around backstage at concerts in Little Rock. Jones has been spotted mooning around the likes of Willie Nelson and Bruce Springsteen, and a source tells me that, just last week, she was hanging around behind the scenes at a sold-out KISS concert "wearing a skin-tight leather mini-skirt and a very low-cut blouse and toddling on high heels." Because Gene Simmons would never ask her to kiss it. Guess Lisa-Marie ain't big on culture. Scotland's Daily Record reports that Elvis Presley Enterprises, controlled by Lisa-Marie Presley, forced the closing of "The King," a ballet based on Elvis' life that was scheduled to open in Edinburgh on Tuesday. They're all shook up. salon.com | April 18, 2000   - - - - - - - - - - - -