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Rocker Jon Bon Jovi credits fear with keeping his marriage alive 20 years after he wed high school sweetheart Dorothea Hurley because he’s terrified of her.

While other showbiz unions have fallen by the wayside, the Bon Jovis are stronger than ever, and celebrate their platinum wedding anniversary in 2009.

The hitmaker explains the secret to their happiness, “Let’s get that right here, right now. I’m afraid of my wife.” He adds, “Trust me, she is the best. I am very happy.”

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Somewhere in Boston, a songwriter is angry. And he’s suing Jon Bon Jovi for $400bn.

Yes, 400 billion dollars, roughly 200 billion pounds, an amount that recalls the number of stars in the Milky Way and brings us halfway to Gordon Brown’s bank bail-out plan. Even if Bon Jovi lived forever, we scarcely think he could collect that much dosh.

But Samuel Bartley Steele may not accept any less. In a federal lawsuit brought this week, Steele claims that Jon Bon Jovi stole the lyrics and chorus to his song (Man I Really) Love This Team, using them for his hit I Love This Town.

“I know I’m the little fish and they’re the big fish, but they fucked with the wrong piranha,” Steele said to the Boston Herald.

Samuel Steele, 37, lives in the Chelsea area of Boston. He is also the frontman for the Chelsea City Council, which is a band and not an actual city council. According to his thinking, Jon Bon Jovi either received a copy of (Man I Really) Love This Team, or else heard Steele busking outside Fenway Park while the star was campaigning for John Kerry in 2004.

When questioned, Jon Bon Jovi’s management told journalists that they had not yet seen the lawsuit.

“I know that I’m right,” Steele insisted. “I want credit, acknowledgment and an apology.” Either that or … 400 billion dollars.

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Jon Bon Jovi is set to become the latest celebrity-turned-restaurateur, according to reports.

The 46-year-old star is reportedly teaming up with billionaire pal Ron Perelman to reopen East Hampton, New York eatery, Blue Parrot.

The Tex-Mex hotspot – known for its karaoke nights – has been closed for two years.

According to the New York Post, Bon Jovi has planned the restaurant’s grand opening for next summer.

As WENN went to press, a spokesperson for Bon Jovi had not answered requests for comment.

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Rocker Bon Jovi held a fund-raiser at his New Jersey home that brought in a whopping $3 million for presidential candidate Barack Obama and the Democratic National Committee, the New York Post reports.

About 100 people attended the event Friday at Bon Jovi’s mansion in Middletown, NJ, paying about $31,000 each to mingle with the singer and other Democratic supporters, the Post said.

Obama gave a brief speech at the gathering, saying he will stand up to any dirty campaign tactics by the Republicans. “We’re not going to be bullied, we’re not going to be smeared,” he said.

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Jon Bon Jovi rocked New York’s famous Central Park on Saturday night, and described the spectacular gig as a ‘dream come true.’

The rocker and his band performed to 70,000 revellers in the park’s Great Lawn.

The free concert was organised by Major League Baseball, in conjunction with the All Star Game, which took place at New York’s Yankee stadium on Sunday.

Bon Jovi told fans between belting out the band’s classic hits, “We dreamt about this for 25 years. This is the one you dream of. It’s the one the Beatles and the Stones never did.”

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