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11:35 AM ET, February 28, 2008

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Perez Hilton:
When Daddy Bangs Your Friend!  —  The Hogan family is just full of dramz these days.  —  We.  Love.  It.  —  Reports are surfacing that the Hulkster had an affair while he was still living with his wife, prompting the hulking Linda Hogan to file for divorce from him.  A divorce that's recently turned u-g-l-y .
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NY Daily News:
Store can't handle a Brit fit  —  Britney Spears keeps coming up with weird requests for her favorite L.A. boutiques.  —  She flummoxed staff at the Betsey Johnson on Melrose Ave. this month by turning up with a Dolce & Gabbana dress she wanted the store to copy - in all white - to be ready by that evening.
Rich Shapiro / NY Daily News:
2 docs probed over Ledger pain pills  —  Federal drug investigators are probing two doctors over the death of actor Heath Ledger, the Daily News has learned.  —  The doctors - one in California, one in Texas - are believed to have supplied the “Brokeback Mountain” star with the powerful painkillers Oxycontin …
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X17 Online:
Doctors Investigated In Connection With Heath's Death  —  Federal drug authorities are investigating doctors in Texas and in California in connection with Heath Ledger's death last month, according to the NY Daily News.  —  Autopsy results reported an accidental mixture of prescription drugs …
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People.com:
COVER STORY SNEAK PEEK: Nicole Richie on How Baby Changed Her Life
Henry Seltzer / Us Weekly:
Owen Wilson and Kate Hudson “Hooking Up”  —  After a suicide attempt last August, Owen Wilson has been given a second chance at life - and, it seems, love.  —  The actor was seen driving his silver Toyota Prius away from Kate Hudson's Pacific Palisades home on Feb. 23.
Discussion: Hollywood Offender
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Daily Mail:
Back on?  Kate Hudson ‘rekindles her romance’ with troubled ex Owen Wilson
TMZ.com:
LAPD Now Confirms Britney Investigation  —  The LAPD is finally commenting on the investigation first reported by TMZ earlier this month.  —  As we said, Sam Lutfi is under investigation by the Robbery Homicide division of LAPD for allegedly drugging Brit.  LAPD officials first said there was no such investigation.
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Associated Press:
Police reviewing alleged Spears drugging
The Sun:
Jolie to raise her baby in France  —  ANGELINA JOLIE and BRAD PITT will have their next child in France to honour the actress's late French-Canadian mother.  —  And I can also reveal that, despite rumours the pair are expecting twins, it will be just one girl to add to their growing family.
Lina Ritchie / Daily Mail:
Fading away: Jordan's a shadow of her former self at Peter Andre's birthday bash  —  She's recently reduced her 32FF famous breasts to a more manageable D-cup, and now it seems the rest of her is shrinking too.  —  Katie Price, who has built a career on her cartoon-like assets in her alternate guise …
Discussion: Seriously? OMG!
TMZ.com:
“Idol” Nurse Busted for DUI  —  “A.I.” finalist Amanda Overmyer plead guilty to DUI back in October 2006 near her hometown of Crawfordsville, In.  —  She received a suspended sentence of 60 days and was placed on 180 days probation, which ended in August 2007.  —  Story developing ...
Discussion: The Hollywood Gossip
New York Post:
JESSICA'S BURDEN  —  JESSICA Alba knows the trauma of developing a big chest at an early age - she says she was labeled a sixth-grade slut by her elementary school principal and a couple of “self-righteous” PTA moms.  “The accusation still ricochets . . . They think I'm...
Daily Mail:
Amy Winehouse bizarre night out as friends claim she's ‘back on drugs’  —  Amy Winehouse emerged from rehab earlier this month looking better than ever, but less than three weeks on it appears the star has resumed her destructive lifestyle.  —  The 24-year-old singer's was back to her bizarre antics …
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New York Post:
BLOGGERS' SORDID ONLINE CHAT  —  MARIO Lavandeira - better known as online gossip “Perez Hilton” - encouraged a handsome young blogger to send sex tapes of himself while he was making promises of promotion for the blogger's own fledgling Web site.  —  Jonathan Jaxson - a former publicist …
Discussion: Gawker and Jossip
Agent Bedhead:
nicole kidman: something she'd like to forget  —  by agent bedhead in film, nicole kidman, tom cruise  —  The year was 1983.  Nicole Kidman appeared in BMX Bandits, a film about two expert bikers who, along with some chick, find a box of walkie talkies and unwittingly get pulled into a bank robbery scheme.
Discussion: Pajiba and Webster's Is My Bitch
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Alissa R / Us Weekly:
Rep: Pregnant Nicole Kidman Didn't Drink Wine at Oscars
Discussion: X17 Online and CelebWarship
New York Post:
MEDIA MOCKERS  —  WILL Ferrell dragged retired news anchor Tom Brokaw onstage with him during the last night of his “Funny or Die” tour Sunday at Radio City Music Hall.  Ferrell, acting as his famous “Anchorman” character, Ron Burgundy, quipped, “I don't know if you remember that broadcasters' convention …
Discussion: New York Magazine
 
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Max Tani / @maxwelltani:
Memo: WaPo's Matt Murray lays out plans for WP Ventures, the “third newsroom”; Krissah Thompson will be editor and Samantha Henig will be general manager

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How Spotify used its Perfect Fit Content program to rig its system against musicians, filling popular playlists with “ghost artists” to cut its royalty payouts

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Trump appoints Mark Burnett, the British TV executive who created and produced the reality show The Apprentice, as a special envoy to the UK

 
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