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12:45 PM ET, October 5, 2006

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Lisa Ingrassia / People.com:
Nicole Richie & Brody Jenner Split  —  Nicole Richie and Brody Jenner ended their relationship Wednesday.  "Nicole and Brody are no longer dating but remain friends," Richie's rep confirms to PEOPLE.  Richie and Jenner had been dating since August, but have known each other since they were toddlers.
Discussion: Dlisted
Contactmusic.com:
BARTON BLASTS RICHIE  —  MISCHA BARTON has lashed out at NICOLE RICHIE for severing their friendship, branding THE SIMPLE LIFE star "fickle".  THE OC beauty used to be spotted regularly at glamorous parties with the daughter of soul star LIONEL RICHIE, but their relationship has gone cold after Richie stopped returning Barton's calls.
PerezHilton.com:
Nicole & Brody: Inside The Split!
POPSUGAR:
Nicole and Brody "Break-Up"
Discussion: Celebguru
Adam Gonshor / andPOP:
Travis Barker Ordered to Rest for 8 Weeks, Same Day as Ex-Wife's Fight with Paris Hilton  —  RSS Feeds:  —  (andPOP) - Wednesday is finally over and it's not going to go down as one of the greatest days for Shanna Moakler and her ex-husband Travis Barker.  —  Early Wednesday morning, Moakler got into a fight with Paris Hilton.
Discussion: Dlisted and SPANK CHEEKS
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NY Daily News:
She socks it to Paris  —  Hilton charges model swatted her in face  —  BY MICHELLE CARUSO in Los Angeles and JO PIAZZA in New York  —  Paris Hilton says she got crowned by a former Miss USA yesterday, taking a roundhouse right to the jaw during a nightclub brawl with the beauty queen.
Jo Piazza / NY Daily News:
Hands off my man!  —  If you think another girl's trying to steal your dude,  —  she is: Like Paris, she's a New York man-poacher  —  It has gotten so hard for women in this city to find a man that they have started stealing other women's boyfriends.  —  Man-poaching may be as old as dating itself …
Discussion: Metadish
Chris Auchterlonie / Splash News Online:
Paris Hilton knows how to cope  —  After her little dust up with Shanna Moakler, Paris Hilton did they only thing she knows how to do (besides being promiscuous), she went shopping!  I don't know for sure which side of her face she was hit (or if she was hit at all) but it almost looks …
Discussion: The Superficial
People.com:   Shanna Moakler, Paris Hilton Have Dustup
Associated Press:
Auction for Cher's goods collects $3.5M  —  BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - Of the dozens of vintage gowns and flashy costumes Cher put up for auction, a skimpy black number made of fishnet, rhinestone and patches of fabric got the highest bid.  —  The Bob Mackie-designed outfit …
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Cher Auctions Off Personal Items
Andy Dehnart / reality blurred:
Keith says someone planted the books in his room; Vincent threatened to quit because of his laundry  —  The "never before seen footage" on reunion shows tends to consist of footage that was not shown before for good reason, usually because it's dreadfully boring.
Discussion: Dlisted and Defamer
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Miuvonf / A Socialite's Life:
Project Runway: 'Reunited Cuz' It Feels So Good...'
Discussion: bravotv.com
Starpulse:
Katie Holmes Visits Paris With Victoria Beckham, Leaves Suri at Home  —  Pop star-turned-fashion designer Victoria Beckham has invited new pal Katie Holmes for a Paris city break - without their respective children.  The actress, 27, has spent most of the year relaxing at home …
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FemaleFirst:
Katie Holmes' Posh trip to Paris
Discussion: Dlisted
People.com:
Inside Anna Nicole's Surprise Ceremony  —  In the early morning hours of Sept. 28 Anna Nicole Smith, her lawyer and confidant Howard K. Stern and a nanny clutching Smith's 3-week-old daughter Dannielynn Hope slipped aboard the 41-ft. catamaran Margaritaville and pushed out to sea off the coast of the Bahamas' Paradise Island.
Discussion: goldenfiddle, Hollyscoop and Derek Hail
NY Daily News:
A new reason to call her Ma-donna  —  Angelina and Brad, get ready for a play date.  Madonna and Guy Ritchie plan to adopt a child in Malawi, according to government officials there.  —  Her Madgesty's rep, Liz Rosenberg, yesterday confirmed that Madonna was in the southern African nation to help AIDS orphans.
TMZ.com:
Nicole and Brody Split — Nic's Heart "Never In It"  —  After two months of trying to elevate their longtime friendship to something resembling a relationship, Nicole Richie and Brody Jenner have called it quits, but say that they're remaining "close friends."
Monica Rizzo / People.com:
Vivica A. Fox's Dancing Ouster  —  After last week's Dancing With The Stars upset in which Harry Hamlin was kicked off, this week saw Vivica A. Fox - one of the show's stronger dancers - eliminated.  —  She had received strong marks and solid praise from the judges on Tuesday's edition of the show …
Sky News:
BRAD WANTS FOOTY TEAM  —  If anyone thought Brad Pitt was struggling after becoming a dad-of-three pretty instantaneously... think again.  —  He is already planning the next three.  —  Footy mad Brad, 42, wants to have enough kids with lover Angelina Jolie for his own team.  —  "I'm not joking around.
Discussion: HotOnlineNews.com
Liza Hamm / People.com:
Maggie Gyllenhaal, Peter Sarsgaard Have a Girl  —  Maggie Gyllenhaal and her fiancé, Peter Sarsgaard, have welcomed their first child, a rep for the actress confirms to PEOPLE exclusively.  —  The baby girl, who was born Tuesday afternoon in a New York City hospital, is named Ramona.
TMZ.com:
Model Eats Runway ... Twice  —  If you thought Carrie Bradshaw had it bad as "fashion roadkill" on "Sex and the City," you ain't seen nothin' yet.  —  One poor model had not one, but two incredibly embarrassing falls at yesterday's Vivienne Westwood show during Paris Fashion Week.
Associated Press:
Star of Cleopatra Jones films dies  —  BALTIMORE - Tamara Dobson, the tall, stunning model-turned-actress who portrayed a strong female role as Cleopatra Jones in two "blaxploitation" films, has died.  —  Dobson, 59, died Monday of complications from pneumonia and multiple sclerosis …
Stephanie Rosenbloom / New York Times:
A Simple Show of Hands  —  ON a brisk autumn afternoon, in the shadow of the marble arch in Washington Square Park, a couple visiting from Ohio walked along holding hands like two teenagers going steady, decades after "going steady" went out of vogue.  —  When a stranger asked why they had chosen …
Discussion: Gawker, Jossip and Towleroad
 
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