Glamour's 20th annual Women of the Year awards at Carnegie Hall brought together world leaders and royalty with the Hollywood varietal. And the clothes? From regal to royal mess!

• We've heard about it before, but apparently the specter is persistent: Lady Gaga is "terrified" and "annoyed" by a ghost that has been following her while she's on tour. The ghost's name is Ryan.

• Lady Gaga is now the most-followed user on Twitter.

• Breaking: Katy Perry kissed a girl. [TMZ]
• Also! Katy Perry bought her mom a facelift. Katy's dad says:

• Susan Sarandon, the self-described "Johnny Appleseed of ping-pong," is working on a reality show about her ping-pong nightclub SPiN, and the young players trying to make it to the Olympics. "It won't be the Jersey Shore," says Susan.

• Katy Perry has posed topless for Esquire UK.

• Today Mel Gibson's camp put the word out that he's filed a restraining order against his ex Oksana Grigorieva. However, she actually got a restraining order against him first, claiming domestic violence. She explains, "He's playing dirty."

[Beverly Hills, June 24. Image via Pacific Coast News Online.]

• Mad Men star January Jones allegedly crashed her Range Rover into three parked cars and then left the scene.

• Rachel Bilson, the new Sunglass Hut "style director," posed for pictures in, you guessed it, sunglasses. "It's fun to wear [aviators] with something a little more dressy because it adds a little edge to your outfit," opines the actress. [People]

[Paris, June 4. Image via Bauer-Griffin.]

In this week's compilation of pop culture crap, we meet Snooki's parents, see Ramona Singer's booger, and hear Bret Michaels fart.

[Paris, June 3. Image via INF]

If you want to feel really, really uncomfortable and really, really confused, and yet simultaneously stultified, we recommend you devote an hour to the most baffling, metaphor-larded and least enlightening coming-clean, ever, Sarah Ferguson's discussion of her recent bribery scandal:

[London, May 28. Image via Getty.]

Apparently looking to shorten the arc from scandal to redemption, Sarah Ferguson is taping Oprah tomorrow for a show to be broadcast Tuesday, according to The Sun. She'll apologize for her attempted influence-peddling, which was caught on tape. [The Sun]

• It would be fairly epic if Madonna became a judge on American Idol.

• Brittany Murphy's husband, Simon Monjack, was found dead last night in the couple's Hollywood home.

[Milan, May 13. Image via INF]

[London, May 8. Image via Bauer-Griffin.]