• Finally, an explanation as to why there was an empty front-row seat for Matt Damon at the L.A.M.B. show! It was all because of a crasher. Some dude talked his way into the show by pretending to be Damon's agent. The empty seat caused an all-runway media pile-up the likes of which we have not seen since the Spitzer hooker got seated at Yigal Azrouël. Throngs of photographers and reporters crowded the empty seat, rumors were started (for a time, it was believed that the seat was not for Matt Damon but for Matt Dillon) and then corrected (this was clearly disinformation intended only to weed out those who lacked the conviction necessary to pursue front-row reporting); things just got more mysterious when it was said that backstage, someone had asked Gwen Stefani about why Matt Damon should be at her fashion show, and Stefani had replied that she didn't even know Matt Damon. It turns out that a man who took the wrong moral lesson from Six Degrees of Separation was the cause of all this consternation. Peter Gianquinto goes to events and pretends to be the manager of someone famous, essentially. Dylan Bernstein, the son of the Beatles manager, has experience with the smooth-talker. "He befriended himself to our family as Peter Mellon of the Mellon banking family," says Bernstein. "It is ironic that Peter used Matt Damon's name when Peter himself reminds me of a harmless Talented Mr. Ripley." [P6]
• Sarah Jessica Parker skipped the Halston show at New York fashion week — but turned up at a trade show called Fashion Coterie to man the Halston booth, model samples, and talk to buyers. [P6]
• Artist Marc Quinn — best known for his sculptures Alison Lapper Pregnant, which was installed in Trafalgar Square, and Siren, a life-sized gold statue of Kate Moss with her legs behind her ears — says that Akris used some of his prints without his permission in its spring collection. "To take someone's copyright material and turn it into a commercial product without their permission is completely unacceptable," says Quinn. Akris admits its creative director, Albert Kreimler, was inspired by a trip to a gallery, but says "Within his design process Albert too [sic] this as inspiration — adding his own creativity and artwork." [Vogue UK]

[Los Angeles, January 30. Image via Pacific Coast News Online.]

• Britney's new single drops next week!

• A day after hinting at the contents of Mariah Carey's uterus, Nick Cannon said on a radio show, "I haven't told my wife I'm doing this so I'm probably gonna get yelled at for not getting permission...We are having twins!"

• A spokesperson for Russell Brand and Katy Perry called the newlyweds "Mr. and Mrs. Brand." It all feels so different now.

• Nicole Richie is pissed at the paparazzi.

• Kim Kardashian, who regrets posing nude for Playboy, is nekkid on the cover of W.

• Demure and ever-so-humble pop star Lady Gaga says her new album will "change the world."

• A source claims that Girls Gone Wild founder Joe Francis "physically attacked" two female employees, one of whom was "visibly pregnant," after he discovered that one of the employees was using her phone to talk to a media outlet:

• Nicole Kidman's breasts looked oddly large and round at a charity event in Hong Kong yesterday, prompting speculation that she got implants.

• Last week, Us Weekly declined to publish a photograph picturing Jesse James doing a "Heil Hitler" gesture. But this week, guess who's running the picture?

• Ugh. 90s weight-loss spitfire Susan Powter has a video message for Gabourey Sidibe:

• Martha Stewart's ex-best friend has written a book, in which she claims that Martha is desperate for a new husband.

• Someone claiming he co-starred with Corey Haim in the 1985 NBC Movie of the Week A Time To Live is selling Corey's belongings, including gym shorts and t-shirts, on eBay because the Haim family can't afford the funeral.

• Oh, snap: Heidi Montag says: "No longer is my husband the face of my business or managing my career."

[Los Angeles, March 7. Image via Getty]

• Mariah Carey has sparked baby rumors after making this comment at the Independent Spirit Awards:

• Lady Gaga says she's decided "to be single at this point in my life because I don't have the time to get to know anybody. And you know what? It's OK. Even Lady Gaga can be celibate."

• Jon Paul Buchmeyer, who worked as a publicist for Tyra Banks during her Inside Out book tour, has spilled some secrets about the Smize Queen in his new memoir:

• Justin Timberlake's mom Lynn Harless calls Jessica Biel "one of us." She says:

• Apparently when Grammy Awards organizers say to be on time they mean it: Rihanna showed up a few minutes late and security guards wouldn't let her in the theater.

• Victoria Beckham says the dresses in her fashion line are, "For women of all different shapes and sizes. Actually, the one I tried on yesterday was the one Jennifer [Lopez] wore..."

• Don't cry for Conan O'Brien. Sources say NBC is giving him a $32.5 million severance package. In return, Conan can't host another show until September and NBC gets to keep his characters, including Triumph the Insult Comic Dog.

• Nene and Kim might get evicted from Real Housewives Of Atlanta?!?! Aren't they the most entertaining ones?