Controversial S#!T

A mother whose daughter used ChatGPT to write her suicide notes heard Sam Altman's response ... and she's not happy with the OpenAI honcho.

Journalist Laura Reiley says Altman taking "the privacy high road" in refusing to turn over potentially insightful chat logs is "a little rich."

She called out the hypocrisy of Altman's OpenAI and other tech companies earning revenue from advertising strategies that involve users' personal information.

It seems racist social media posts can't cancel Roseanne Barr forever ... because she's back on our TV screens and starring in a new comedy series.

According to Page Six, the controversial actress just wrapped production on her new TV show, "Meemaw."

The 8-episode comedy series reportedly centers around a "mixed-race family of preppers in Texas," and Roseanne -- playing the family's matriarch -- is determined to "throw her granddaughter the most fantastic bat mitzvah Texas has ever seen."

Kimberly Guilfoyle reportedly begged a Trump donor to wire $100K straight to her American Express account ... messaging him "Honey please" as part of her plea.

According to Signal messages reviewed by the Wall Street Journal, Donald Trump Jr.'s ex-fiancée was messaging former Kentucky congressional candidate Eric Deters in July 2025 when she made an urgent request for a payment that wouldn't leave a paper trail.

Guilfoyle was allegedly trying to get Deters to pay down her credit card balance before her congressional hearing to become the U.S. ambassador to Greece.

A Democrat running for Congress on Long Island isn't backing down over his BDSM past ... saying the kinky photos have zero bearing on his ability to serve.

House candidate Chris Gallant joined "TMZ Live" Wednesday and addressed the photos that surfaced last month showing him modeling for San Francisco fetish brand Mr. S Leather.

Gallant says the shoot happened about 15 years ago with his then-partner and was completely consensual ... and he later asked the company to take the photos down.

Los Angeles' infamous "trash house" is buried in garbage once again ... and witnesses say bugs are flying all around the property.

New photos obtained by TMZ show the Fairfax District home's front yard chock full of trash, litter, old furniture, boxes, and other debris. The piles appear to spill from the property toward the sidewalk.

Witnesses tell TMZ ... the area is filled with flying bugs as the trash continues to accumulate.

New York congressional candidate Chris Gallant isn't exactly running from his kinky past ... in fact, he's leaning all the way in after photos blew the lid off his BDSM secret.

Gallant -- the Democrat running against Republican Rep. Nick LaLota on Long Island -- is speaking out after The New York Post revealed last month he'd appeared in explicit promotional photos for San Francisco fetish brand Mr. S Leather.

His reaction? I'm sexy and I know it!!!

In a new interview with The New York Times, Gallant says his friends have always known he's "kinky as hell" ... adding, "I make Christian Grey look like amateur hour."

The University of Arizona has suspended activities at a slew of its fraternities while investigating accusations of misconduct by their members, TMZ has confirmed.

Chrissy Lieberman, the Dean of Students, penned a letter saying all 21 Interfraternity Chapters at the university received an immediate action notice of an interim activities suspension due to multiple alleged violations.

According to the letter, obtained by TMZ, the fraternities on suspension include Zeta Beta Tau, Sigma Phi Epsilon, Sigma Chi, Phi Delta Theta, Theta Xi, and Phi Gamma Delta.

A woman who allegedly got drunk before an American Airlines flight took her induction into the Mile High Club into her own hands ... literally ... because she's on video pleasuring herself, and only TMZ has the shocking footage.

In the 7-second clip ... a bottomless Katy Inzer is seen stretching out across a row of seats near First Class, rubbing her hand between her bare legs as she puts her feet against the window. No wonder airlines block off First Class with a curtain.

Her solo mission to Mile High Club status was anything but subtle ... because the man seated in front of her told cops he heard her moaning, and another passenger caught her on camera.

11:57 AM PT -- TMZ has obtained video of the incident.

The American Airlines passenger who allegedly took off her underwear and jeans to masturbate on a flight pressed her legs against the window and moaned as she pleasured herself ... at least according to the man sitting in front of her.

According to a witness statement to police, obtained by TMZ, Katy Inzer was seated behind a husband and wife aboard an AA flight from Baltimore to Miami on September 11 when the husband heard "strange loud moaning sounds" coming from the row behind him.

The man told police when he spun around and saw a half-naked Inzer pleasuring herself with her legs against the window.

Sunny Hostin says the Wicked Witch of the West had some positive feedback amid all the backlash on her comments about the Cornell frat bros accused of rape ... with Cynthia Erivo encouraging her to lead with empathy in the future.

The co-host of "The View" revealed her conversation with the actress and singer during an episode of the "Behind the Table" podcast ... saying Cynthia told her many people who originally saw her talk about the alleged gang rape couldn't really take in what she was saying -- because she led with the law.

Cynthia encouraged her to lead with empathy in the future ... to make her legal point more palatable.

Donald Trump's hatred for liberals reached new heights at a rally Monday night when he suggested that Iran wipe out Los Angeles and San Diego. 

The commander-in-chief was speaking at the political rally in Nebraska when he made the shocking statement about the 2 liberal cities ... while discussing how the Iran war caused fuel prices to spike across the U.S., forcing drivers to pay a "little bit" more at the pump.

Trump then told the packed crowd that Iran had the firepower to take out an American city ... without offering any evidence that the country had long-range weapons of mass destruction.

Sebastian Maniscalco taking over a SiriusXM comedy channel has caused an uproar with some comedians ... but the radio company is defending the famous comedian against the backlash, TMZ has learned.

The comedian took over Raw Comedy Channel earlier this year, which was a channel that focused on spotlighting a wider pool of lesser known comedians.

Sources familiar with the situation tell TMZ ... SiriusXM regularly reviews how its channels are performing and decided to pursue a new creative direction for the comedy channel while keeping comedy programming on the platform.

Too $hort is walking back his words ... apologizing for saying he would attend Diddy's welcome home party once he gets released from prison.

He posted a video singing a different tune, acknowledging he was "a little insensitive" with his words and claimed not to have known the full extent of the allegations when he made those comments.

Too $hort said ... "I do not condone abuse in any kind of way, not emotional, not physical not sexual, and I don't support anybody that does it."

Sam Altman is feeling conflicted about how to use A.I. to aid in the mental health crisis ... after being confronted about how a woman committed suicide after having ChatGPT edit her suicide notes.

The OpenAI CEO sat down with Vanity Fair, where he was asked about journalist Laura Reiley's 29-year-old daughter Sophie, who died by suicide after lengthy conversations with Chat.

The VF reporter stresses that the A.I. never told her to kill herself ... but was acting as her therapist and helping her with her suicide notes.

Kim Kardashian may have more nannies than kids ... but she is all about being part of her children's daily routine.

In a wide-ranging interview with The Times ... Kim told the publication that while 1 nanny is on duty ... she has 4 others in her rotation.

Despite the help ... Kim makes sure to pick up and drop off her 4 kids at school each day -- and they all have dinner each night.

The fired Portland Trail Blazers announcer is apologizing for the offensive tweets that got him sacked.

Braiden Bell went on X to issue a brief, written apology, saying ... "I am deeply sorry for the language I used on Twitter. These tweets, while wrong, were written by me 14 years ago while I was only 15 years old and have no reflection of who I am today."

He continues ... "I regret this being my first impression to many of you online, but I can take solace in knowing that the people who truly know me understand that this is not the kind of person I am."