• Donald Trump has offered to buy the site where a Muslim group wants to build a mosque so he can move it further from ground zero and "end a very serious, inflammatory, and highly divisive situation."

• American Apparel can add an investor lawsuit to its list of troubles. They allege that Dov Charney has misled them and mismanaged the company. [PRLog]
• Meanwhile, analysts predict the overextended chain will close many of its unprofitable, redundant stores. [Crain's]

• More on this is Midweek Madness, but Star is reporting that Justin Timberlake and Rihanna are "on." Here's the deal:

[New York, August 3. Image via Bauer-Griffin]

• Radio talk show host to presidential candidate: "America wants to know — would you pardon Paris Hilton?" Thus began a morning of watching the legitimate media — starved as they are for weighty topics — attack the Paris prison scandal like rats to a carcass. Around 7:30 Al Sharpton weighed in on CNN. A few minutes later we found something on the Washington Post op-ed page dubbing Paris our generation's Mona Lisa. And Mozart. And Sun-Tzu. A story in the paper was a bit less reverent: "Be mad! Be glad! You didn't get a vote."