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12:50 PM ET, March 31, 2008

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TMZ.com:
Is There a Levert Curse?  Sean Dies While In Jail  —  How much tragedy can one family take??  Another Levert has died — and this one was in jail!  —  Sean Levert, son of O'Jays singer Eddie Levert and brother of late R&B legend Gerald Levert, died over the weekend while in a Cleveland jail.
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Kim Wendel / WKYC-TV:
R & B singer Sean LeVert dead; brother of the late Gerald LeVert  —  CLEVELAND — The brother of the late R&B singer Gerald LeVert was pronounced dead just before midnight Sunday at Lutheran Hospital.  —  The Cuyahoga County Coroner's office said Sean LeVert's body was taken to the hospital from the Cuyahoga County Jail.
Stella Foster / Chicago Sun Times:
Son of O'Jays lead singer reportedly found dead
Angel / CONCRETELOOP.COM:
NEWS: SEAN LEVERT FOUND DEAD
Discussion: Right Bollywood
People.com:
Andy Roddick Engaged to Swimsuit Model  —  Andy Roddick and Brooklyn Decker in New York in December  —  It's love - love for Andy Roddick and Brooklyn Decker - they're engaged!  —  The tennis star is officially off the market after popping the question to Decker last Tuesday, sources, including Decker's rep, confirm to PEOPLE.
New York Post:
DON'T COME BACK  —  DON'T expect to see Ashlee Simpson back on “Saturday Night Live” any time soon to promote her new album “Bittersweet World.”  An insider said her father, Joe Simpson, “wanted her to go on ‘SNL’ - where her first appearance, in 2004, was marred by her lip-synching fiasco …
Kevin Mazur / Us Weekly:
Uncle: Heath Ledger May Have Had a Love Child  —  Heath Ledger may have had a love child, his estranged uncle, Haydn Ledger, is telling the Australian media.  —  The actor — who died of a prescription drug overdose in January at the age of 28 — had a fling with a 25-year-old woman when he was 17.
Discussion: iVillage and Celebrity Gossip
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Rich Cohen / Vanity Fair:
Madonnarama!  —  As she nears 50, Madonna's narrative is shifting.  Yes, there's another new super-pop album, Hard Candy, with Justin Timberlake and Pharrell Williams.  But there's also Filth and Wisdom, the feature film she's co-written, produced, and directed, and I Am Because We Are …
NY Daily News:
Side Dish: Rudy Giuliani's black eye  —  Fergie and Quentin Tarantino with Nelly (far left) and music producer Polow Da Don (far right)  —  Rudy Giuliani may have parried the rhetorical punches of his GOP opponents during the primaries, but a Florida sidewalk proved a more formidable foe a few weeks ago.
Lindsay Powers / Us Weekly:
Reese Witherspoon Volunteers at New Orleans School  —  Reese Witherspoon visited at a New Orleans school for at-risk kids for the upcoming Idol Gives Back special.  —  Airing April 9, the show features Witherspoon, 32, at a Children's Defense Fund Freedom School where troubled children learn to become community leaders.
Brian Orloff / People.com:
EXCLUSIVE FIRST LISTEN: A New Sound for Destiny's Child's Michelle Williams  —  It's a hot new look - and new sound - for former Destiny's Child member Michelle Williams, and PEOPLE has your exclusive first listen to “We Break the Dawn,” the synth-heavy first single from her album, Unexpected, due in August.
Phil / Egotastic!:
Bikini Party Girl, George Clooney's Girlfriend  —  Sarah Larson isn't a celebrity, but she is hot, and she is George Clooney's girlfriend, so when pictures of her in some very girls-gone-wild-esque poses surface, well, that's what we in the blogosphere call post-worthy.
MSNBC:
Kathie Lee Gifford returns to morning TV  —  The Emmy-winning daytime personality will co-host TODAY's 4th hour  —  NEW YORK - What could possibly lure Kathie Lee Gifford — a former daytime television personality for 15 years — back to an morning co-hosting gig with the TODAY show?
Christina E. Sanchez / Tennessean.com:
‘Hannah Montana’ fans can be in her movie  —  Disney is not only bringing the making of the Hannah Montana movie to Nashville, but it is also looking for local people to take part in the filming.  —  Extras are needed to be background actors in the motion picture movie starring 15-year-old pop sensation Miley Cyrus.
Discussion: Faded Youth Blog
Julie Jordan / People.com:
Giada De Laurentis Welcomes a Baby Girl!  —  The Food Network Star - and Today show contributor - becomes a mom  —  Celebrity chef Giada De Laurentiis is the new mother of a baby girl, PEOPLE has confirmed.  —  “De Laurentiis and husband Todd Thompson welcomed their first child …
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New York Post:
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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Disney, Fox, and WBD say they have agreed to discontinue their Venu Sports streaming joint venture and will focus on existing products and distribution channels

Wired:
Live blog: The US Supreme Court hears oral arguments in TikTok's appeal against the divest-or-ban law

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Court docs: Mark Zuckerberg approved the Meta team that trains AI Llama models to use data from LibGen, a “links aggregator” to pirated, copyrighted material

 
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