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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.