Feds may have 'sextortionist'

THE FBI IS investigating allegations that the newly crowned Miss Teen USA was the victim of someone who hacked into a webcam in her Southern California bedroom several months ago in an attempt to extort nude photographs from her.

Agents believe they have identified the person behind the alleged "sextortion" scheme, Laura Eimiller, spokeswoman for the FBI in Los Angeles, said yesterday. No arrest has been made.

Cassidy Wolf, 19, a graduate of Great Oak High School in Temecula, Calif., won the Miss Teen USA crown a week ago.

Earlier this week, Wolf told the website of NBC's "Today" show that several months ago she received an anonymous email in which the sender claimed to have stolen images from the camera on her home computer.

The emailer threatened to go public with images captured from Wolf's webcam unless she would provide nude pictures of herself, Eimiller said.

Instead, Wolf went the authorities.

LOS ANGELES - Robin Thicke is asking a federal judge to determine that his song "Blurred Lines" doesn't copy from elements of two other songs.

The suit states representatives of the owners of copyrights to Marvin Gaye's song "Got to Give It Up" and George Clinton's song "Sexy Ways" have warned Thicke that he and his collaborators have used elements of the songs in "Blurred Lines."

"The basis of the Gaye defendants' claims is that 'Blurred Lines' and 'Got to Give It Up' 'feel' or 'sound' the same," the lawsuit states. "Being reminiscent of a 'sound' is not copyright infringement. The intent in producing 'Blurred Lines' was to evoke an era."

The hit is spending its 10th week at No. 1 on Billboard's Hot 100 chart.

NEW YORK - She's the F to the E, R, G, the I, the E.

Fergie has officially changed her name: The singer born Stacy Ann Ferguson is now Fergie Duhamel.

The 38-year-old singer is married to 40-year-old actor Josh Duhamel. She is pregnant with their first child.

NEW YORK - Russell Simmons apologized for a parody video of Harriet Tubman in a sex tape that appeared on his All Def Digital YouTube channel.

The clip features an actress portraying Tubman having sex with her white slave master as someone films it so the abolitionist can bribe her boss.

Simmons said he removed the video after a call from the NAACP.

Simmons added that he doesn't condone violence against women and that he's "sincerely sorry" to those offended by the clip.

Though Simmons removed the video, it still lives online.

DALLAS - Canadian actor August Schellenberg, who starred in the "Free Willy" films, has died at his Dallas home after a fight with lung cancer. He was 77.

Schellenberg appeared in numerous television roles and was in all three "Free Willy" movies. In 2007, he was nominated for an Emmy for Best Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Movie for his role as Chief Sitting Bull in "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee."

One of Schellenberg's last notable works was in 2012, playing the lead in Shakespeare's "King Lear" in an all Canadian cast at the National Arts Centre Ottawa.