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3:05 PM ET, October 18, 2006

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Daily Mail:
Exclusive: Heather and Macca's divorce battle intensifies over attack claims  —  Heather Mills is accusing her estranged husband Paul McCartney of repeated violence against her.  —  Explosive court papers lodged by her lawyers in their £1billion divorce battle portray him as a 'vindictive' man …
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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 …
Discussion: Dlisted and Holy Candy
TMZ.com:
Mills' Allegations Against Paul — Blow by Blow  —  TMZ has obtained a transcript of the allegations Heather Mills has made in court documents against her estranged husband, Paul McCartney.  TMZ obtained the transcript from the Evening Standard, a London newspaper that broke the story.  —  Transcript:
Discussion: The Evil Beet
TMZ.com:   Allegations McCartney Brutalized Wife
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 …
Discussion: Dlisted and The Green Straw
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Associated Press:
Whitney Houston files for divorce
Associated Press:
Bobby Brown pays back child support
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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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NY Daily News:   Wes Snipes a real bad actor - IRS
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: Dlisted, reality blurred 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
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: POPSUGAR and Celebrity Baby Blog
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 …
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.
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.
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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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
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
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.
Daily Mail:
'I'm worried Kate Moss' daughter will be exposed to drugs' claims grandfather  —  The grandfather of Kate Moss' only daughter has hit out at the supermodel's drug addict boyfriend, Pete Doherty, amid fears that the four-year-old will be exposed to drugs.  —  Speaking for the first time about …
Discussion: A Socialite's Life and Queerty
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 …
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.
POPSUGAR:
Stunning Selma Stars in Ugly Betty  —  Selma's show Ugly Betty has helped ABC become Thursday night's Must See TV (sorry NBC).  Now we hear Selma has plans to guest star on the show just in time for November sweeps.  The executive producer will be on the Trust, Lust and Must episode airing November 2nd.
 
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