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7:40 AM ET, August 13, 2007

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Marla Lehner / People.com:
Britney's Pal Alli Sims Served with Legal Papers  —  At 2:30 a.m. on Sunday, Britney Spears's longtime pal, Alli Sims, was served with legal papers concerning the ongoing custody battle between Spears and her ex-husband, Kevin Federline, a source tells PEOPLE.
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Life&Style Weekly:
Breaking News: Britney's assistant Alli Sims served with papers!  —  In the latest chapter of the Britney Spears and Kevin Federline divorce, KFed has taken things to a new level!  Life & Style has learned exclusively that Kevin's lawyer, Mark Vincent Kaplan, initiated a commando-style raid …
Summer / Us Weekly:
Custody War Heats Up: Britney Spears' Assistant Served!  —  The custody battle is officially on between Kevin Federline and Britney Spears.  —  According to an Us source, Spears' cousin/assistant, Alli Sims (along with Spear's music producer JR Rotem) was approached early Sunday morning around 2:30 …
Chris / INF Daily:
Britney ditches the kids, hits the drug store  —  After handing Sean Preston and Jayden James over to estranged-hubby Kevin Federline for the weekend, Britney Spears and her sidekick Alli took a quick trip out to a Rite Aid drug store last night.  They stopped at a drive thru for frozen coffee en route.
Discussion: dailystab.com and Gabby Babble
Nancy Jo Sales / Vanity Fair:
"I'm with Her!"  —  For a happening guy with a clothing line or a music career, hooking up with a starlet like Paris, Nicole, or Lindsay takes fame to a whole new level.  On L.A.'s club scene, the author meets the boys who love the girls who love the spotlight.  —  L
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Michael K / Dlisted:
Spot The Douche!  —  How could these morons all gather in the same room?  I would think the joint would explode from the extreme "toolism."  Yes, that's KFed, Pete Wentz, DJ Steve Aoki, Benji Madden, Cisco Adler and Joel Madden in Brett Ratner's basement!  —  They shot this picture …
Discussion: Cele|bitchy and Gone Hollywood
Stephen M. Silverman / People.com:
TV Mogul Merv Griffin Dies at 82  —  Merv Griffin, whose talk show once rivaled that of Johnny Carson's and whose real-estate empire once rivaled that of Donald Trump's, has died.  He was 82.  —  He died of prostate cancer, according to the Associated Press citing a statement from his the family …
Discussion: Dlisted, Gabsmash and Bumpshack.com
Beth Hale / Daily Mail:
Keira bares all...again (but this time it's for Chanel)  —  AS she would be the first to admit, Keira Knightley is not exactly famous for her hour-glass figure.  —  But her latest role - which sees her posing virtually naked to advertise a perfume - makes her look subtly different.
Jed Dreben / People.com:
Eva Longoria & Tony Parker Want Trilingual Kids  —  Newlywed Eva Longoria says that if she and husband Tony Parker have kids, the couple will teach them all three languages they collectively speak - English, Spanish and French.  —  "We will definitely do that - absolutely, absolutely!" …
New York Post:
THIS ONE OTTO GET A MEDAL  —  IT'S amazing that the star of "Sex and the City" 's sexiest scenes, Kim Cattrall, didn't quit show business after the indignities she suffered on the set of her first movie - in which she had to appear nude and was cruelly berated by a fearsome Hollywood director as a lousy actress.
Jeffrey Slonim / People.com:
Jill Hennessy Expecting Her Second Child  —  Crossing Jordan star Jill Hennessy is pregnant with her second child, she tells PEOPLE.  —  When asked at a party for Hamptons magazine on Saturday if she was expecting, the 39-year-old actress joked, "I don't know what you're talking about.
X17 Online:
A Dawson's Creek Reunion?!  —  Ah, the good 'ol days ... when Katie Holmes was still an innocent little girl, Michelle Williams still had long hair, and James Van Der Beek was still cute ... Well, that's all over now!  But it doesn't mean some old friends can't get together and reminisce!
Discussion: Seriously? OMG!
Michael K / Dlisted:
Yup, That's All Of Them  —  They are actually all together.  The Royal Family of the World visited the Field Museum in Chicago yesterday.  They are in town while Angelina films "Wanted."  —  It's weird seeing them all together.  They are all pretty cute, but Suri is still my favorite.
Discussion: Seriously? OMG!
Starpulse News Blog:
Jesse Metcalfe Back With Girls Aloud Singer?  —  Desperate Housewives star Jesse Metcalfe's relationship with Girls Aloud singer Nadine Coyle is reportedly back on after they were spotted together in Los Angeles on Friday.  —  The couple's 14-month trans-Atlantic relationship ended earlier …
Discussion: celebdirtylaundry.com
The Sun:
Amy Winehouse: I'm suicidal  —  AMY WINEHOUSE fears she is on the verge of suicide - but still won't go to rehab, I can exclusively reveal.  —  I can also disclose the disturbing development that the star had been smoking HEROIN on the night she overdosed.
Ben Widdicombe / NY Daily News:
Ashton in the closet  —  Some surprised New Yorkers had a visit from a very special handyman on Wednesday.  —  Ashton Kutcher, who was researching a role, shadowed a closet installer from the Closet Factory — and did some of the work himself.  —  He made only one house call, says an insider …
Marla Lehner / People.com:
Clive Owen: I'd Never Have an Affair with a Costar  —  Clive Owen can boast plenty of beautiful costars - from Angelina Jolie in Beyond Borders, Julia Roberts in Closer and Jennifer Aniston in Derailed to Monica Belluci in the upcoming Shoot 'Em Up - but the married star says he'd never have an affair with a costar.
Lisa / Celebrity Baby Scoop:
Nicole Richie & Joel Madden in Central Park  —  Awww..sweet picture of Joel Madden and his pregnant girlfriend Nicole Richie in Central Park.  —  People August 20, 2007
Discussion: Gabby Babble
 
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X17 Online:
Britney And Alli Are Back!  —  Britney and Alli are full-on back together!
Discussion: OH NO!!
 

 
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