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[...] her former maid GABY GIBSON claimed the troubled supermodel hit her on the head.

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According to British newspaper The Sun, Gibson told cops, "She assaulted me too - and for the same reason as the other girl - over a pair of jeans. She hit me with her hand on the back of the head when I couldn't find her Stella MCCartney jeans. "She was cursing me. Naomi was so upset. She was threatening that she was going to get me arrested and put me in jail for stealing her clothes."

"Extra" has learned exclusively that Rosie O'Donnell will be named the newest co-host of "The View," replacing the exiting Meredith Vieira.

ABC is expected to make the official announcement Friday, April 28.

The short list of other candidates reportedly included Connie Chung, Patricia Heaton and Soledad O'Brien.

Meredith is going to co-host the "Today" show on NBC, taking over for Katie Couric.

"If you have to have a gastric bypass because you feel it's a medical emergency and you have no alternative, then you have that, and there are repercussions to having that,” O’Donnell told Access Hollywood during the red carpet premiere of “Rosie’s Family Cruise.” "But to pretend that you lost it doing Pilates, it's kind of delusional."

[...] a memoir titled Don't Pity the Fool, which will address the "whole ordeal" of her very public and extremely messy divorce from her Jamaican-born husband, Jonathan Plummer.

The seven-year marriage unraveled after McMillan discovered that Plummer, who is 23 years her junior, was gay. The revelation cast a new light on their romance, which was the basis of McMillan's hit 1996 novel, How Stella Got Her Groove Back.

McMillan remains bitter about the divorce, which she says has cost her $363,000 in legal fees alone.

Tuesday, April 19, 2005, 1 p.m.

Yeah, I just got your other e-mail and I am a little confused because ahhh you told me that was something you only told a couple of people and this and that and I just again you continue to be deceitful and mischievous and sneaky and you’re a fucking liar. Okay. You’re a fucking liar so you know what it’s like...fuck you. Okay, I hope you rot in fucking hell. You’re a piece of shit fucking liar and I hope you fucking rot in hell. So fuck you. I hope I never fucking talk to you again you fucking cunt. Fuck you. You’re a coward and a liar and a fucking nigger alright so fuck you.

No matter. Welcome to the fold, Denise!!!

The crown prince rejects a bevy of beautiful princesses, rebuffing each suitor until falling in love with a prince. The two marry, sealing the union with a kiss, and live happily ever after.

"Lethal Weapon" star Danny Glover, usually never in the gossip rags, finally made the grade over the weekend, according to published reports.

Glover was leaving Cipriani's, a West End restaurant in London, with a date when a waiting photographer started coming at him with his cameras snapping. He apparently lashed out, allegedly calling the unfortunate picture-taker a "mother[bleep]" and throwing punches at him.

Punching wildly, Glover ranted, "No, no, not tonight. If you take another shot, you mother[bleep] ..."

The individual escaped uninjured after Glover fled to the nearby hotel, Claridges.

The star is in London to promote in his death penalty play "The Exonerated", along with Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins and Alanis Morissette.

"Our priorities is gettin' fucked. Lil Jon-I love his music. But why are the East Side Boyz names Big Sam and Lil Bo? What the fuck? What's next, Kunta and Kinte? The South should know better. This is the same country that ran up in Fred Hampton's crib and shot him in bed with his pregnant wife. You think the rules changed cause niggas got No. 1 records? What are we supposed to tell our kids? After Malcolm, Martin and Dubois we got Sam-Bo? I'm supposed to be down with that 'cause it makes me dance?

Jimmy Iovine, Lyor Cohen, Doug Morris...all of these dudes were not prepared in their schooling or in any of their social upbringing for a world where they have to deal face to face with, not only people who are outside of their class, but people who in their minds could very well be their servants. Now you gotta deal with somebody you've been trained to deal with as your underling as your partner. It's a bitter fuckin pill to swallow cause now you need this person. Jimmy Iovine is not your buddy. Lyor is NOT happy about Jay Z being president of DJ. I dont give a fuck what he say. If the dude could go from rhyming to being a CEO in 10 years or less, what is he going to be in 15 or 20? He might have Lyor's job at this rate.

Paris Hilton don't really care about ya'll niggaz, man. She can't even hear ya'll niggaz. I'm just keeping it real. THis shit is entertainment to them. We're adopting their morals like we them and we never been them. We don't have the same struggle. Dudes is no more than 20 years removed from real poverty. For dudes to have this much access to money and it's not translating to people power, it's inexcusable."

ACTOR-turned-singer Jamie Foxx has announced he is going to rescue the R & B music scene.

The cocky star's album Unpredictable took the US by storm in 2005 and now he reckons he can save the charts from more bland soul releases.

He says: "I am the saviour.

"I'm definitely going out there with my mic and my shield to declare: 'I am here to save R & B'.

"I will have the people saying: 'Sire, there is a man at the musical gates saying he is here to save R&B'."

[...] a strange thing happened to Kate Moss on the way to rehab. Far from becoming a pariah or experiencing a serious fall from public grace, she developed an unexpected level of luster. The 32-year-old woman who has been the subject of controversial press since she was discovered at 14, the onetime waif, the person pilloried for allegedly promoting anorexia, the freewheeling seductress of the British tabloids, the tempestuous destroyer of hotel rooms, the confidante and bosom buddy of Anita Pallenberg and other rock chick survivors from the heyday of hard drugs, found herself bumped up a notch to the status of that most nebulous of beings, the cultural avatar.

Ahead of the New York Times

A new dinosaur species, one of the largest known carnivorous dinosaurs, has emerged from the red sandstone of Patagonia, in Argentina, where reptilian giants seem to have thrived 100 million years ago.

Paleontologists reported yesterday that they had found the fossils of seven to nine individuals of a species they are naming Mapusaurus roseae.

An analysis of the bones showed that an adult exceeded 40 feet in length, which the discoverers said was slightly larger than specimens of both its close relative, Giganotosaurus, and Tyrannosaurus rex. Some scientists think that a Spinosaurus species from North Africa is the largest meat-eating dinosaur, but that is still debated.

Despite Katie Holmes' Catholic upbringing, there will be no baptism for the first fruit of her labor.

"You can be Catholic and be a Scientologist. You can be Jewish and be a Scientologist," Tom Cruise--movie star and male half of the relationship otherwise known as TomKat--told Diane Sawyer in an interview scheduled to air Friday on ABC's Primetime. "But we're just Scientologists."

Kenny Edmonds, aka Babyface, has sued singer Anita Baker for allegedly failing to pay him for a song he produced for her.

In the lawsuit, filed Thursday in Los Angeles Superior Court, Babyface claims that Baker refused to pay him producer's fees and royalties for the song, 'Like You Used to Do,' which he produced and Baker recorded. Babyface claims he also co-wrote the song with Baker. 'Like You Used to Do,' was included in Baker's album, 'My Everything,' which achieved gold record status.

The New York Times is making plans to terminate its own gossip section, Boldface Names, dispatching toppertopper Campbell Robertson to the theater desk in the Arts section.

The Times created Boldface Names, a daily column that ran in the paper's metro section, in part as a response to the success of Page Six. But it struggled to define itself as a section that would feed the appetite for gossip created by the tabs while continuing to speak with the broadsheet's traditional voice.

We can only hope, people. We can only hope.

On April 7, when Britney Spears and Kevin Federline realized that their baby, Sean Preston, had been sleeping more than usual, panic bells went off. Just six days earlier, the 7-month-old had taken a major fall from his high chair, a tumble that had his parents worried that he might have been critically injured.

They had every right to fret. After rushing Sean to a nearby hospital, they discovered he had a minor skull fracture (sometimes called a "scalp fracture" in babies), and a blood clot. And the doctors weren't the only ones to take notice! The next day, the Department of Children and Family Services began looking into the incident.

In her interview with Elle magazine, Paris Hilton reveals she's the most awesomest girl on the planet and so talented she makes Mozart look like horse shit. She says:

"I’ve always had a great voice. You either have it or you don’t. It’s something you’re born with. I’m a brand, a model, an artiste, an actress, a designer. I write books."

Bronx bombshell Jennifer Lopez filed a lawsuit in L.A. yesterday to stop a salacious tell-all by her hunky first hubby - claiming Cuban stud Ojani Noa broke a no-tell pact and tried to shake her down for $5 million. J.Lo claims he's using the racy manuscript to make a buck off their brief 1997 marriage. Among other tidbits, Noa claims J.Lo cheated on Sean "P. Diddy" Combs in 1999 with her current husband - but then-married-to-someone-else - Marc Anthony.

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...the former flack for celebrities such as Sean 'Diddy' Combs, Aretha Franklin, Deborah Cox, The Notorious B.I.G. and Toni Braxton, steps to the forefront and unveils a book that should be required reading for women everywhere.

...the memoir, which is causing major buzz within the literary community, the best-selling author of 'Soul Food' and 'Web of Deception,' reveals a haunting era of her life: being swept off her feet by what she thought was the man of her dreams, quickly marrying him, and later discovering that he had full blown AIDS -- and was at death's door.

[click to go to Wendy's website for more info]

Kiefer Sutherland has inked a $40 million deal to remain on the pulse-quickening drama for another three seasons, according to trade reports Monday, ensuring CTU's main man will be fighting terrorists through 2009.

Peace my Sista, I wanted to drop this on you, just so you'd know.

When I was in the lowest point of my life, I was in the Texas State Jail in Dayton, TX and they had one copy of your book "Child of God" in the whole jail. That book stayed out of the Library but word of it flew out threw the prison and EVERYBODY wanted to read it.

Fortunately for me I had family that sent me books and magazines DAILY, along with DAILY letters. I felt so bad for some people, when mail time came they would cry, they never got their names called. They would come and ask me for magazines and books to read.

So I asked my family to send every copy of that book and every book you wrote that they could find. They did.

Unfortunately for me, I was always questioning the things that they did, the way they treated us, my lawyer was always visiting, filing papers with their Ombudsman and the State Facility Regulators. I wasn't crying innocence, I was just trying to do my time, pay my debt to society. But they wanted to treat me inhumane. My family flew into rages and let their asses have it, so they sent me a note rejecting the books on the subject matter. Even though they carried it in the library. I took it thru the legal library and to court, they still denied it. I am now out but still fighting jail censoring books and mail. They used to read my mail, read my magazines take the samples for themselves, give them to me in shreds. Its cool because I way beyond the personal stuff they did to me. I am just letting you know about your books. They inspired people to read that had never looked at a book before. I used to tell them, don't cry, they may have you here, but not your mind. I'd give them a book and say take a break from your life and go to Paris, go see what some else's life is like.

Finally I did get a lot of books in there and I left them there to free minds, but they never would let yours in, I guess I wanted it too bad. They even let all the E.Lyn Harris books in! So I knew they were lying.

...LEADER...

A New York Post Page Six staffer solicited $220,000 from a high-profile billionaire in return for a year's "protection" against inaccurate and unflattering items about him in the gossip page, the Daily News has learned.

In two 90-minute meetings, characterized by a shocking breach of ethics, Jared Paul Stern, a fixture on the city's gossip scene who also edited Page Six The Magazine, asked for a series of payments from Ron Burkle, the managing partner of Yucaipa Cos., a conglomerate with interests in supermarkets, celebrity clothing lines, and media.

It was all a setup, a sting monitored by law enforcement, including the U.S. attorney's office and the FBI, who are now investigating the extortion attempt. The meetings, on March 22 and March 31, were videotaped.

The shakedown began with a series of e-mails sent last month by Stern to Burkle.

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An exasperated Burkle finally said, "How much do you want?" after Stern said he could control coverage by Richard Johnson, the column's chief writer, and his staff. "Um, $100,000 to get going and then you could get it to me on a month-to-month, maybe like $10,000," replied Stern.

"Okay, that's a great deal," said Burkle, the subject of numerous Page Six items including a "date" with supermodel Gisele Bundchen, meetings with other women and a nasty breakup with a longtime lover.

Totally Explains The World Of Page Six.

The 34-year-old Delaware teacher is facing rape charges for allegedly having sex with a 13-year-old student 28 times during a one-week period last month. Holt, a science teacher at Claymont Elementary School, allegedly had sex with the boy, a student in her class, at her Wilmington home. According to a probable cause affidavit filed today in Justice of the Peace Court, the boy's father contacted cops yesterday afternoon and told them his child was having "inappropriate contact" with Holt. Last night, in an interview at New Castle County police headquarters, Holt admitted she had intercourse with the boy 27 times and performed oral sex once during the last week of March. She also revealed that another student, 12, had watched her having sex with the boy and that she had provided both boys with beer. Holt is being held in a local lockup in lieu of $560,450 bail.

Even if you manage to avoid developing brain cancer from using your mobile phone, you still have to worry about the possibility of an angry Naomi Campbell hurling one at your head. One of the largest mobile device makers has teamed up with the aging supermodel to introduce the most fashionable phone to ever hit the runway. Studded with sparkling pink Swarovski crystals and featuring an exclusive 3 carat diamond, no one would guess that with a push of a button, this innocent little phone becomes a dangerous Ninja shuriken. The antenna doubles as a grenade pin...just pull and toss at your enemy! A set of Swiss army knives are also included, along with a high quality nail file and secret lipstick compartment.

Compton-born gangsta rapper Jayceon Taylor (a.k.a. the Game) says he is "about peace, not war" — especially on the home front. And his home is now in Glendale, where he has purchased a residence for just under $2 million.

The split-level contemporary, built in the late '50s but recently remodeled, has three bedrooms and five bathrooms in nearly 5,000 square feet.

The kitchen overlooks a great room adjoining the living and dining rooms. The house also has a game room with direct access to a swimming pool and a garden. A terrace at the rear of the house has a barbecue, TV and sound system.

"I wanted to tell all of you out there ... that after listening to my heart and my gut ... I've decided I'll be leaving 'Today' at the end of May," she said. "I really feel as if we've become friends through the years."

The 49-year-old Couric, the longest-serving anchor in "Today" show history, is expected to replace Bob Schieffer on the third-rated CBS broadcast in September.

Following a months-long guessing game that has consumed the TV industry, Couric chose the 15th anniversary of her first day as "Today" co-host in 1991 to say that it's time for a change.

Check out these gorgeous earrings sent to me by Lo Zone reader and friend, Janeth Walker. (Yeah, that's me wearing them...that's my long neck.)