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2:10 PM ET, October 18, 2006

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Stephen M. Silverman / People.com:
Whitney Houston Files for Divorce  —  Whitney Houston filed for divorce from Bobby Brown this week in Southern California's Orange County Superior Court, her publicist Nancy Seltzer confirms.  —  The move is hardly unexpected - Houston, 43, filed for legal separation from her husband of 14 years on Sept. 8 …
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Associated Press:
Bobby Brown pays back child support  —  CANTON, Mass. - Bobby Brown has paid up $11,000 in delinquent child support, after being threatened with arrest if he stepped back into Massachusetts.  —  A family judge had issued an arrest warrant two weeks ago after Brown failed to show up at a hearing …
Discussion: A Socialite's Life
Associated Press:
Whitney Houston files for divorce  —  LOS ANGELES - After a tumultuous 14-year marriage marked by drug arrests and stints in rehab, Whitney Houston is divorcing Bobby Brown.  —  The pop singer filed divorce papers in Orange County Superior Court this week, a month after filing for legal separation …
Richard Alleyne / Telegraph:
McCartney denies abuse allegations  —  Sir Paul McCartney today denied allegations that he attacked his estranged wife during their four year marriage.  —  The allegations, set out in papers drawn up by lawyers representing Lady McCartney, 38, formerly the model Heather Mills …
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Daily Mail:
Exclusive: Heather and Macca's divorce battle intensifies over attack claims
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TMZ.com:   Allegations McCartney Brutalized Wife
This Is London:
'THROTTLED, STABBED IN THE ARM AND DENIED A BEDPAN'
Discussion: Hollyscoop
TMZ.com:
Scary Spice Pregnant With Eddie Murphy's Baby  —  TMZ has learned that former Spice Girl Melanie Brown, aka Scary Spice, is four months pregnant with Eddie Murphy's baby.  The news comes amid rumors that the couple will marry next month.  —  A source tells TMZ that Brown came …
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TMZ.com:
Eddie's Baby Plot Thickens  —  Eddie Murphy has yet to confirm that he will be the father of Scary Spice's baby, but he ain't exactly denying it either.  —  Cameras caught Eddie Murphy raw last night outside Hyde nightclub in Hollywood, as the actor reacted to a comment about his girlfriend Melanie Brown being pregnant with his baby.
Starpulse:
Scary Spice Pregnant With Eddie Murphy's Baby?
Discussion: Barbie Martini
The Smoking Gun:
Wesley Snipes Indicted  —  Feds: Actor, two cohorts hatched bizarre tax avoidance scheme  —  Wesley Snipes has been indicted on federal criminal charges for his role in a bizarre tax avoidance scheme that allegedly included him seeking $12 million in fraudulent refunds and failing to file six years of tax returns.
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Noelle Hancock / US Weekly:
Pamela Anderson Trying for Another Kid  —  Pam Anderson began filming the new comedy Blonde and Blonder this month in Vancouver.  But a source close to the bombshell tells Us Weekly she and husband of nearly three months Kid Rock, 35, are working on a more important production: a baby.
Discussion: Dlisted and The Evil Beet
Heather Leszczewicz / onmilwaukee.com:
"Project Runway's" Milwaukee model shares her experience  —  Every week on the Bravo network, fans of fashion and drama tune into popular reality show "Project Runway."  As supermodel and host Heidi Klum says "auf wiedersehen" to a designer each week, the models stand by wearing the designs with a chance to be auf'd as well.
Discussion: reality blurred, Dlisted and Gawker
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Marisa Guthrie / NY Daily News:
Project drama  —  'Runway' fans are on pins and needles to learn who's top designer
New York Post:
STORES HOT OVER ICE-T COVER  —  ICE-T and his stripper-wife, Coco, have caused a problem by posing nude in a steamy clinch on the cover of the rap legend's new album - and now stores across the country are demanding it be censored before they stock it.  —  "Gangsta Rap," Ice-T's first studio album …
NY Daily News:
What's eating Al?  Cracker Barrel  —  The Rev. Al Sharpton is due in South Carolina today to stand up for comic Chris Rock's mama.  —  Rose Rock, who helped inspire Rock's sitcom, "Everybody Hates Chris," has called in the Rev to demonstrate outside a Cracker Barrel restaurant where she alleges staffers ignored her.
Mike / FreeIndie.Com:
The OC: Season 4 - Teaser Premiere  —  Ah, my favorite guilty pleasure is back on TV.  I recieved a package from the people over at The OC the other day with the first four episodes of the upcoming season.  Since the main teenage characters have either graduated or died, I was a little worried about this season.
Sky News:
TORI'S WEIRD NECKLACE  —  Finding out you are pregnant is - for most - a joyful moment, one you will cherish forever and ever.  —  And Tori Spelling's hubby has a slightly strange idea for how he can capture their magic moment.  —  Dean McDermott, who married the former Beverly Hills 90210 star …
Discussion: Dlisted
Noelle Hancock / US Weekly:
Us Exclusive: Britney Bounces Back!  —  Shopping sprees are nothing new for Britney Spears, but when the pop princess, 24, called the Malibu, California, boutique Planet Blue on October 9, she had something special in mind: a reward for dropping more than 25 pounds!
Discussion: Celebrity Baby Blog
Jeannette Walls / MSNBC:
Is Hilton's partying too hard on Richie?  —  Plus: Katie and Tom may wed at Clooney's Italian villa  —  Nicole Richie has reunited with her former best friend Paris Hilton - but some of her other friends are a tad worried about it.  —  They say that Richie - who has blamed her startling weight loss …
Alison Gee / People.com:
EXCLUSIVE: Melrose Place's Kelly Rutherford Has a Boy  —  Melrose Place actress Kelly Rutherford, 37, and her businessman husband, Daniel Giersch, 32, welcomed their first child, a son, on Wednesday, Rutherford tells PEOPLE exclusively.  —  Hermés Gustaf Daniel Giersch was born at 8 …
Discussion: Defamer and Celebrity Baby Blog
TMZ.com:
Alison Clinton: I'm Not the Other Woman  —  She's the woman named in Sara Evans' explosive divorce papers but Alison Clinton is fighting back claims she committed adultery with the country singer's husband.  —  "It's just devastating.  It absolutely feels like a death, there's just no explanation for it …
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TMZ.com:
Man-Love for Matt and Lance?  "Wasn't for Us"  —  They might not be gay lovers, but Lance Armstrong and Matthew McConaughey certainly do have cutely butch names for one another.  In the November issue of Details magazine, on newsstands this week, cover boy Lance says that the BFFs call each other …
Noelle Hancock / US Weekly:
Tom & Katie: An Italian Wedding  —  Has Katie Holmes become a bridezilla?  Sources tell Us Weekly that the actress, who had been planning an intimate California wedding with fiancé Tom Cruise for October, recently changed the date - and location.  The couple of 18 months …
Phil / Egotastic!:
Mischa Barton Nipple Slip See Through Pictures  —  I'm really happy I found these Mischa Barton Nipple Slip See-Through pictures.  Not just because you can totally see Mischa Barton's nipples, but because I was getting really sick of writing about celebrity gossip.
Scott Collura / IGN:
Exclusive: Hellboy vs. the Universal Monsters?  —  Del Toro hopes to revive the classic characters.  —  Guillermo del Toro was in Manhattan yesterday for the New York Film Festival, where his latest picture — Pan's Labyrinth — had the distinction of being the closing night film.
 
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