LOOPY LINDSAY CAME 'IN PEACE'  —  KIN: DWI BIMBO WAS JUST TRYING TO 'HELP' EX-AIDE  —  By MARIANNE GARVEY in Santa Monica, Calif., and KIERAN CROWLEY in New York  —  New details have emerged about what sparked a wild drunken car chase and near-brawl involving Lindsay Lohan and her former aide's mother …

24/7 SIZZLER EXCLUSIVE!  Ali Lohan Speaks Out!  —  "Lindsay will be fine she is just going through a rough time right now but she will be fine."  —  "My father is telling all lies to people...my father was never there for us."  — Ali Lohan, in an email to 24/Sizzler's David Caplan

Nicole Richie to Break Her Silence  —  Pregnant and soon-to-be on trial Nicole Richie has spent her summer so far on media blackout.  —  Next week, however, the Simple Life star will finally come out of hiding for an interview with Diane Sawyer.  In three segments set to air August 2nd …

Is This the New Britney Song?  —  UPDATE: We're told this song may have been first recorded in 2003 and leaked in 2006.  So why would someone leak it to us again?  Hmmm... It's all I gots y'all!  —  Hand-delivered to the TMZ offices this morning was a yellow padded envelope with a CD inside that simply read, "Britney — Get It."

Hasselhoff: 'Drunken video gave me closure'  —  David Hasselhoff credits the drunken video of him eating a burger off the floor with bringing "closure" to a troublesome period in his life.  —  The former Baywatch star has battled alcohol problems in the past and during a relapse this year …

'VIEW' PROSPECTS  —  EXPECT an announcement any day on the new lineup for "The View," Barbara Walters' estrogen-heavy chat-fest with Joy Behar and Elisabeth Hasselbeck.  We'd heard that Whoopi Goldberg, Kathy Griffin and Sherry Shepherd would all be hired and fill the empty seats left behind …

Angelina Depressed Over Her Film Flop  —  Bad Box office numbers can be a real bummer.  According to a source close to Angelina Jolie, 32, the actress is "devastated" by the audience rejection of her movie A Mighty Heart (it has earned just $9 million).  —  "She poured her heart into the story …

'Pulp' actor's drug drama  —  Zed's a crackhead, baby?  —  Actor Peter Greene - who, as Zed the Gimp-keeper, was memorably dispatched by Bruce Willis in "Pulp Fiction" - was arrested Tuesday night in the East Village for possession of crack cocaine.  —  Greene, who also played …

Heidi's Klum-thing else  —  Naked truths ... Heidi strips off for Arena  —  WELL-HEELED supermodel HEIDI KLUM posed naked - except for her shoes and a strategically placed cushion for Arena mag.  —  The mum-of-three - who is married to Brit singer SEAL - agreed to the sexy new photo shoot …

Paris Hilton Buys (Another) New Pooch  —  Paris Hilton already has a huge family of pets - but she added one more to the brood with a new Chihuahua on Wednesday.  —  The heiress adopted the young, male pooch from Pets of Bel Air in Los Angeles just after 1 p.m.

WE HEAR  —  THAT Brad Pitt is reuniting with Gwyneth Paltrow for "Dirty Tricks," a political drama on the aftermath of the Watergate scandal with Annette Bening, Meryl Streep and Sharon Stone . . . THAT Heather Graham and Dominic Chianese, who star in "Adrift...

ABC Exec Calls NBC "Clueless or Stupid" About Isaiah  —  ABC entertainment president Stephen McPherson says his counterpart at NBC, Ben Silverman, was either "clueless or stupid" in his remarks about hiring Isaiah Washington for a role on Bionic Woman.  —  Silverman, in one of his first acts …

Ian Ziering 'Disappointed' at Price Is Right Rebuff  —  Ian Ziering lit up the floor on Dancing with the Stars earlier this year - but he won't finish 2007 hosting The Price is Right, as he'd wished.  —  "I guess I was a little disappointed," Ziering, 43, told PEOPLE at Tuesday's …

Claire Danes Nipple Slip Pictures  —  Oops!  Looks like Claire Danes might want to wear a bra next time... This Claire Danes nipple slip happened while claire was doing an on-camera interview at MTC Canada, though I don't know if it was just one lucky photographer, or an entire country's worth of a lucky audience.

Scarlett Johansson Buys $8 Million Hollywood Mansion  —  Actress Scarlett Johansson has splashed out $8 million on a mansion in the Hollywood Hills.  The Lost In Translation beauty, 22, bought the spacious property from movie maker Harold Becker, and the house boasts seven bedrooms and seven bathrooms.

CHOCO-LICIOUS  —  KELLY Rowland once wanted to look white.  "It's said that brown-skinned girls don't sell magazines and that's so sad," the sexy songbird tells next month's Essence.  "I remember wishing I was more fair-skinned, but Tina Knowles, Beyoncé's mom, would say, 'Don't you know how beautiful you are?'