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Chris Brown Case To Be Investigated Further; Duff/Dunaway Feud Continues

Margaret — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 18:30:00 EST

The fallout from Chris Brown's arrest for allegedly attacking Rihanna continued today, even as the District Attorney's office said they needed police to do more investigative work to find out what really happened.

Chief investigator Detective Deshon Andrews hand carried case documents to the DA today because he won't allow any copies to be made to prevent photos and documents from leaking to the media. The LAPD has also denied media requests to hear the 911 call, which Andrews said is mostly of "a screaming woman." Police did not identify the woman as Rihanna, but said she "suffered visible injuries and identified Brown as her attacker." [CNN]
Ugh, now a "highly placed source" in Chris Brown's legal camp is suggesting that Rihanna started the fight after Brown got a phone call from a woman with whom she suspects he is cheating. "She went ballistic and began to "beat the sh*t" out of Chris (while driving). She was so uncontrollable, that Chris began to fight back in self defense, which ensued the fight," said the source. [Bossip]
But other sources say "Chris knocked her around" and that Rihanna suffered a black eye, a swollen split lip, and two red and purple contusions on either side of her forehead. An unidentified friend says Rihanna is "in a safe place" now and adds, "I would be so sad if she went back to him." [People]
Rihanna's grandma denies that she has a broken nose, and says, "I don't want people to worry. Rihanna is fine and she is doing well." [Perez Hilton]
T.I. says he spoke to Chris Brown and he is "cool." He added that people shouldn't be so quick to judge Brown because, "you people gotta remember, we celebrities and we entertainers but we still human. All of us. Don't expect us not to make mistakes ‘cause we will." Here we must agree with Perez Hilton, who remarked, "Since when is beating on a woman a 'mistake'?" [Perez Hilton]
Kanye West discussed the situation on a radio show this morning and had a lot of kind things to say about Rihanna. "It's so devastating. As a person, I don't care how famous she is or if she just worked at McDonald's, that should never happen. It should never come to that place," said Kanye. [Just Jared]
Chris Brown's "Got Milk?" ads were scheduled to end this week and the company said they will not be using him once the run ends. [Entertainment Tonight]
A Pittsburgh radio station has decided to stop playing Chris Brown's music. Will other stations follow their example? [WPXI]
Tameka Foster, Usher's wife, is still in a Brazilian hospital suffering from "complications from routine surgery." The hospital refused to release information on her condition, saying "the family has demanded total privacy." [Yahoo]
The lawyers in Britney's conservatorship case got permission to withdraw more money from her accounts because she needs to hire more lawyers to defend her against Sam Lufti's defamation case. The two lawyers will cost a total of $935 an hour. [TMZ]
This is an interesting eight minute video about Salma Hayek's humanitarian trip to Sierra Leone. But the only part anyone cares about is that she breastfeeds a sick baby that is not her own five minutes into the video. [D Listed]
Salma Hayek says she thinks of her current boyfriend and ex-finace Francois-Henri Pinault when she is kissing Alec Baldwin on 30 Rock. Also, their baby is 16 months old and speaks English, French, and Spanish. [People]
Simon Cowell: still a jerk. Reports that he saved Fantasia Barrino's house from foreclosure are untrue. [Showbiz Spy]
Anne Heche will star in the new HBO series Hung as the ex-wife of the main character, Ray, a "well-endowed, struggling high school basketball coach." [UPI]
In the next chapter of the Hillary Duff-Faye Dunaway feud, Duff says: "[Dunaway] started acting way later than I did so I think I have time to grow and grow with each project. I am learning and work hard at my craft… [What I said was mean but] it's not okay for people to take stabs at you and to say mean things for no reason." [Just Jared]
Cybill Shepard will star in a new comedy on Lifetime called Alligator Point. Shepard will star as the owner of Mae's Oyster Bar, "a Southern-fried hangout where a group of eccentric Floridians are forced to befriend a Yankee." And it gets weirder: the pilot was directed by Kelsey Grammar and it was originally developed as a pilot for NBC seven years ago starring Nathan Fillion and Jaimie Pressly. [Entertainment Weekly]
Seven of the people at the party where Michael Phleps was photographed smoking pot have been arrested, along with the owner of the house who did not attend the party. Police have also confiscated the bong, which the owner was trying to sell on eBay for $100,000. [WIS10]
Though Justin Timberlake developed the concept for the NYC BBQ and ribs restaurant Southern Hospitality, that's where his involvement ends. He's still friends with the owner and eats at the restaurant, but is not an investor or partner in the business. [People]
DMX is in solitary confinement for 23 hours in an Arizona jail because he refused to report for his mandatory job, did not show up to receive his medication and then demanded it an hour later. [Perez Hilton]
A source says John Mayer wrote Jennifer Aniston a special song for her 40th birthday tomorrow. Is this the same song we learned about earlier, which is based on something dumb Jen told him about love? [People]
Queen Latifah will sing the song "I'll Be Seeing You" during the In Memoriam montage at the Oscars this year. [The Mirror]
According to the father of another Russian tennis player, Maria Sharapova isn't absent from professional tennis because of an injury, but because she is concentrating on a love affair. [The Daily Express]
Patrick Swayze has written a letter to legislators urging them to increase funding to the National Institute of Health for the fight against cancer. [E!]
Hit hard by the recession: Paris Hilton. The company that holds the licenses for all of her products reported dismal 4th quarter earnings. [Fashion Rules]
The Jonas Brother say that Sasha and Malia Obama were "so grateful, so nice, so composed and so awesome," when they met them on the night of the Inauguration. They performed "Love Bug" and "SOS" for the girls and gave them guitars. [Access Hollywood]
Lauren Conrad is renting the four bedroom house where The Hills was filmed, for $11,000 a month. It even includes a guest house for roommates you want to shun. [TMZ]
Michelle Pfeiffer, who turned 50 last year, says she is getting offered more interesting roles now, and that "It seems my leading men keep getting younger the older I get." She explains, "It seems people have an aversion about casting me with men my age. Lucky for me; I don't really mind." [Yahoo]
Ashton Kutcher edited a video on his Twitter page to make it look like the paparazzi were harassing him at LAX, but a TMZ video shows there were only three photographers there and they were friendly. [TMZ]
KISS singer Paul Stanley and his wife Erin welcomed their second child, a baby girl named Sarah, on January 28. "Erin and I feel truly blessed with the addition of this Star Child into our lives," said Stanley. [People]
In a poll of 2,000 people to determine the 20 most timeless film beauties, Audrey Hepburn finished first, beating out Angelina Jolie. [The Telegraph]
Vincent Pastore, a.k.a. "Big Pussy" on The Sopranos, has settled a lawsuit with his ex-fiance for $150,000. His ex, Lisa Regina, was suing him because she claimed he roughed her up after a fight in her car. [NY Post]
Scarlett Johansson says she wasn't trying to copy Marilyn Monroe in her recent Dolce & Gabanna ad campaign. "I am a curvy woman who is blonde, and perhaps we are both comfortable in our femininity, but I think that is as far as the comparison goes," says Johansson. So that makes Johansson just about the only starlet who doesn't want to be compared to Marilyn. [The Daily Express]

Addison Gets Dumped; Pete Wentz Loves Boobz

Jessica — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:00:00 EST

Alex Young, the husband of Private Practice star Kate Walsh, has filed for divorce from the actress. They've been married fourteen months, and got engaged after a five-month courtship in early 2007. [ETonline]

Pete Wentz's favorite feature of Ashlee Simpson's? "I would start with the breasts.” At least the boy's honest! [Daily Express]
The Mirror calls this set of Cosmo photos Scarlett Johansson's "hottest shoot yet," but we're unmoved. This is maybe a five out of ten on the Johansson hot Richter scale. [Mirror]
Kylie Minogue says she wants to get back into acting after focusing on her music career for so long. "Acting definitely plays a role in music and many aspects of my musical career but I do look forward to more film or stage acting in the future."[The Sun]
Ugh, why does everything coming out of Billy Corgan's mouth sound so obnoxious, even when it's about something benign like spirituality? "I'm not a humble musician, but I am a humble human being, I have perspective, I have God in my life. [In the band] we talk a lot about spirituality and about why God made us musicians and why we’re here to do what we do. And we have decided in our estimation that God put us here to try new things, and be innovators," the Smashing Pumpkins frontman says. [Observer]
Those of you who enjoy rocking all night and partying every day will be pleased to hear that Kiss is making their first album since 1998's Psycho Circus. "It's going to be very much a vintage, classic, '70s KISS album without much regard to what's happened since then; it's back to the roots," said Kiss guitarist Paul Stanley. [Reuters]
More bizarre news from Natasha Lyonne-land: the actress's Gramercy penthouse studio was sold for $440,000. In Manhattan real estate, $440,000 for a studio is so low its unheard of, especially since the place allegedly had "a 42-foot wraparound terrace, a beamed ceiling, open views and ample closet space." Did she smear dog poo on the walls or something? [NYM]
An Iraq veteran who has been attempting to deliver a letter to Tom Cruise at his Beverly Hills manse has been ordered by a judge to stay away from Tom Cruise. Vet Edward Van Tassel's lawyer says "He is not there to stalk Mr. Cruise as some sort of fan-obsessed person. He wants to enlist him in his mission to get appropriate remedies for soldiers of the Iraq War." This Van Tassel fellow does not sound like the most stable person, as he " waved a gun and an American flag on a Highway 101 overpass and stopped traffic for hours in Santa Barbara last month." [AP]
Speaking of Tommy, Brooke Shields has apparently fully recovered from their postpartum depression tiff a few years back, and offered Tom many, vaguely undermining congrats on his Golden Globe nomination for his role in Tropic Thunder. "I'm so glad for him! I think it's ironic, all the work that he does [and] that's what he gets nominated for. I think he's done tremendous work so I think he's probably chuckling about it too." [People]
Watch out L.A. County motorists! Miley Cyrus just got her learner's permit. [Perez]
Usher and his wife Tameka had baby boy number 2, Naviyd Ely Raymond, yesterday at 2:33 a.m. That baby already loves the nightlife! [People]

Loose Lips

Jessica — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 17:40:00 EDT

Shock of all shocks, food is "not a priority" for Rachel Zoe. In an interview with Harper's Bazaar, Zoe, who was photographed for the magazine wearing padding to make her size 0 frame appear to be a size 8, says that she sometimes only has grapefruit and coffee all day because she is so busy working (click on Zoe's image to see a larger picture of her "transformation.") • We don't normally thank TMZ, but we appreciate them pointing out Heidi Montag's hypocrisy. Spotting Montage out with Joe Francis, TMZ notes, "Heidi Montag's boyfriend/mouthpiece says she'll never do Playboy because it's against "her faith" — but being buds with pimpresario Joe Francis, that's cool with the big dude upstairs, right?" • Kiss member Paul Stanley's wife, Erin, is expecting the couple's second kiddo in December. This will be the third child for 56-year-old Stanley and the second for the couple. [Us, Harpers Bazaar, TMZ, People]