A court issued arrest warrants for Hollywood actor Richard Gere and Bollywood star Shilpa Shetty on Thursday, saying their kiss at a public function "transgressed all limits of vulgarity," media reports said.

Judge Dinesh Gupta issued the warrants in the northwestern city of Jaipur after a local citizen filed a complaint charging that the public display of affection offended local sensibilities, the Press Trust of India news agency reported.

Gupta earlier viewed television footage of the event, which he called "highly sexually erotic," saying the pair violated India’s strict public obscenity laws.

Gere and Shetty "transgressed all limits of vulgarity and have the tendency to corrupt the society," PTI quoted the judge as saying.

Gere left India shortly after the kissing incident and it was not immediately clear how the warrant would affect him. Under Indian law a person convicted of public obscenity faces up to three months in prison, a fine, or both.

Click here to see the video. It is obvious that Shilpa was forced into the kiss by Gere, so he is at fault. Gere has little respect for conservative values in the U.S. also, so it’s no big surprise that he offended ultra conservative India. If he gets jail time, which is doubtful, maybe he will change his behavior to respect others’ values more. Then again, that’s like wishing the sky would change from blue to green.

In his opening statement in the Phil Spector case, prosecutor Alan Jackson told the jury that actress Lana Clarkson initially thought Spector was a woman.

The B movie actress only found out Spector was a man when she confronted him about not being on the guest list for the House of Blues, where she was working as a hostess.

Spector has been charged with killing the blonde bombshell at his California home on February 3, 2003.

Defense attorneys are supposed to speak this afternoon.

It took about eight months for authorities to charge Spector with murder. They are proceeding on a theory of "implied malice," alleging he did not intend to kill Clarkson but caused her death by reckless behavior and taking an extreme risk.

If convicted of second-degree murder, he could face 15 years to life in prison.

One of the nicest guys on the planet and a great singer Willie Nelson, and his tour manager, were spared jail time Tuesday after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor count of marijuana possession.

Nelson and tour manager David Anderson, along with Nelson’s sister, Bobbie Nelson, and two drivers, were issued citations on Sept. 18 after state troopers said they found marijuana and hallucinogenic mushrooms on the country legend’s tour bus during a commercial-vehicle inspection on Interstate 10.

State District Judge Paul deMahy fined Nelson and Anderson $1,024 each and put both on probation for six months. As part of a plea agreement, the citation against Bobbie Nelson was dismissed.

St. Martin Parish Assistant District Attorney Chester Cedars said he dismissed the citations against the two drivers because there was no indication they "had anything to do with the contraband."

Word spread quickly that Nelson was in this small southern Louisiana town, and a crowd of about 25 fans gathered outside to wait for the entertainer after his brief court appearance. When he emerged, Nelson obliged, shaking hands, signing scraps of paper and posing for photographs.

"Thank y’all," he said, waving as he climbed into a waiting car.

Click here to see the stash of drugs Willie was busted with.

Chris Rock is under fire from a woman who claims he’s her 13-year-old baby’s daddy, but cops say the woman behind the allegations has been full of s**t for years.

Kali Bowyer (36), who Rock never denied having a fling with several years before he met wife Malaak, has an extensive criminal past riddled with numerous bizarre police encounters, and a penchant for telling wild stories. According to a thick stack of government documents, Bowyer was convicted of DUI in Georgia, charged with theft by deception last summer, and is facing charges of running an elaborate cell phone scam.

In the last two years, more than ten incident reports detail some truly strange encounters with police, including one in which cops say she claimed to have been held at gunpoint and forced to "ingest some white powder," a tale which her own son contradicted under questioning. Bad checks, domestic disturbances, and several veracity-questionable incidents left police scratching their heads.

Bowyer first popped up ten years ago when the boy in question was 3-years-old, claiming that Rock was the dad, but then, we’re told, she disappeared after Rock agreed to a DNA test. Though she claims that the comedian’s the dad, Bowyer oddly didn’t list Rock on the birth certificate.

Yesterday, Rock indicated that he would still take a DNA test to determine paternity, even offering to help support the child if he is, in fact, the dad. (source)

Three lawyers filed complaints in Indian courts against actor Richard Gere and Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty for kissing at a public function, a news report said Wednesday.

In his complaint, attorney Poonal Chandra Bhandari accused the actors of committing "an obscene act" in a public place, which India’s conservative society cannot tolerate, Press Trust of India said.

Two other lawyers filed another complaint in a court in Ghaziabad, a town on the outskirts of the Indian capital, against Shetty and private television channels for showing videos of the kissing incident, the news agency added.

What should Gere do to make things right?