JUST ASKING  —  WHICH hard-partying starlet has figured out a way to get high while wearing an alcohol-monitoring anklet?  She was asking where she could score some Ecstasy at a Vegas club the other night . . . WHICH too-good-to-be-real Hollywood leading man and his...

Britney, mom engage in 'shocking slapfest'  —  Plus, Timberlake, Biel ready to take their romance public  —  The bad blood between Britney Spears and her mother has turned physical.  —  The troubled pop princess and Lynne Spears had a "shocking slapfest" in mid-June that …

Mel B: New man has a big one  —  SCARY Spice plans to marry her new man - and insists he's better in bed than love rat EDDIE MURPHY.  —  MEL B has been dating film producer Stephen Belafonte, a friend she has known for seven years, since her split with Beverly Hills Cop star Eddie.

"CSI" Star Beats the Living Crap Out of TMZ Photog  —  Who knew the CS in CSI stood for c**ksucker?  —  Resident "CSI" douchebag Gary Dourdan pulled a Woody Harrelson last night — unleashing a brutal, unprovoked attack on a TMZ cameraman outside of the most celeb-packed nightclub in Hollywood.

Fanning Usher's ire  —  You know things are rough when you're fighting with your own No. 1 fan site.  —  Sources say Usher is trying to shut down usherforever.com because the woman behind the site, Erika Jackson, doesn't care for his fiancee, Tameka Foster.  —  "He's had his lawyer send her papers," said an insider.

Miss Cleo Back On TV!  —  In what is probably the casting of the year, Miss Cleo will reportedly join the cast of The Surreal Life.  Pro-poker player Phil Hellmuth has revealed some of the people moving into the house.  He claims along with Miss Cleo, pro-wrestler Randy Savage, "American Idol's" …

CALMING EFFECT  —  ROCKER and eyeliner connoisseur Pete Wentz counts on his groupie girlfriend, Ashlee Simpson, to help him overcome his anxieties.  Although the Fall Out Boy was terrified to fly, the couple took a seaplane to the Hamptons last Friday night so he could DJ at Hamptons club Dune.

ON HER OWN  —  NOBODY can control Britney Spears.  Now she's taken over as her own business manager and publicist.  Though she's still signed to Jive Records, a source told Page Six, "She is doing all of her own business now."  Our spy saw Spears at Aspen on West...

On-Air With K-Fed?  —  While ex-wife Britney Spears picked up another party gig today, Kevin Federline is looking for something a little more low-key.  —  A source close to Federline tells Usmagazine.com that the 29-year-old dancer and dad of four met with the program director …

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Britney Takes Her Two Sons For a Spin  —  Britney Spears takes her two sons — Sean Preston, 1 1/2, and lookalike brother Jayden James, 10 months — for a spin around Starbucks in Los Angeles on Tuesday.  (To clarify, JJ is the one in green.)  —  After circling the Starbucks parking lot four times …

Hollywood Dating Hell  —  If Cameron Diaz and Jennifer Aniston can't find a guy, is there any hope for the rest of us?  —  Actually, it turns out that being a beautiful, successful, rich woman in Hollywood can make it even harder to make a love connection.

Dave Chappelle Recovering After ER Visit  —  Dave Chappelle checked into to an emergency room in an undisclosed Los Angeles hospital Saturday because he was suffering from exhaustion, his rep confirmed Tuesday.  —  The comedian, 33, was treated and released a few hours later, said publicist Carla Sims, the Associated Press reports.

Gwen Stefani sues Forever 21  —  Claims the store's logo lifts directly from her Harajuku Lovers fashion line  —  LOS ANGELES - It appears Gwen Stefani doesn't "heart" Forever 21.  —  Gwen's Harajuku Lovers fashion line is suing popular retail outlet Forever 21 for trademark infringement …

DROWN THE PAIN  —  O.J. Simpson has been hitting the bottle since he was tricked into semi-confessing to double-murder last year with his "If I Did It" book project.  Simpson was at The Ivy in Aventura, Fla., the other night "falling all over himself and couldn't stand up, even though he tried several times," said our disgusted spy.

Joe's brother Dom angry  —  Friends and family of Joe DiMaggio are blasting the auction of the Yankee Clipper's private diaries.  —  "Joe would turn over in his grave," the sainted slugger's brother, Dom DiMaggio, tells us.  "Had he been alive, I don't think this would have happened."