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12:30 PM ET, December 22, 2008

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NY Daily News:
Sam more dynamic as a duo with Linds  —  Samantha Ronson may want her relationship with Lindsay Lohan to work for more reasons than just love: Since dating the actress, the deejay's fee per gig has jumped from around $1,500 to as much as $25,000, netting Ronson close to $3 million over the last year.
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Suzanne Rozdeba / Life and Style:
LIFE & STYLE EXCLUSIVE: SAMANTHA RONSON'S BIG SCARE  —  Friends of celebrity DJ Sam Ronson tell Life & Style they received frantic phone calls last night that the DJ was suffering from exhaustion and stress.  “She was calling around.  She knew she had done something wrong,” the friend tells Life & Style.
Colleen Barry / Associated Press:
Beckham, wife enjoy a posh introduction in Milan  —  MILAN, Italy (AP) — David Beckham insists this has everything to do with soccer and nothing to do with fashion and celebrity.  —  The 33-year-old midfielder also acknowledged on Saturday that playing for AC Milan on loan from the Los Angeles Galaxy is a gamble.
Discussion: POPSUGAR, Lifeline Live and popsugar
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CNN:
On-loan Beckham geared up for Italian job
Discussion: Socialite Life
Alessandro Poggi / Bloomberg:
Beckham Gets Muted Response From AC Milan Fans, Pledges to Help
FemaleFirst:
Victoria Beckham's Milan Frockathon
Discussion: Ayyyy!
Maysa Rawi / Daily Mail:
Free and easy Amy Winehouse looks the picture of health as she piles on the pounds … Amy Winehouse appears to be winning her battle against drugs as she looked the picture of health during a winter break in the sun.  —  And the singer also seems to have gained a considerable amount of weight over the last month.
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HisHighness / ianundercover.com:
IUC Exclusive: Michael's Brother Confirms IUC exclusive about Jackson's health  —  Just days after ianundercover broke the world exclusive about Michael Jackson's life-threatening illness, which also appreared in a breaking new feature story I gave to In Touch Weekly, his brother Jermaine Jackson appears to have confirmed the report.
Ken Baker / E! Online:
Jessica, Ashlee Simpson Celebrate Family Texmas  —  Los Angeles (E! Online) - It's going to be a holly jolly hoe-down holiday for Jessica and Ashlee Simpson—and their significant others.  —  Sources tell E! News that Jessica and Dallas Cowboys QB boyfriend Tony Romo and Ashlee …
Discussion: POPSUGAR, Perez Hilton and CelebWarship
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Access Hollywood:
Jessica, Tony, Ashlee & Pete Planning Texas Christmas Celebration
Michael K / Dlisted:
Mary-Kate Olsen Loves A Good Recession!  —  While some of you are considering sucking dick in a back alley way to pay your rent this month, Mary-Kate Olsen is skipping through department stores and having the greatest time ever!  —  Page Six claims the evil troll was in an elevator at Barney's …
Discussion: Pajiba
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New York Post:   RECESSION FAN  —  MARY-Kate Olsen (above) has found the silver lining in the recession.
Roger Friedman / Fox News:
‘Entourage’ Star Bashed For Being Diva  —  Actor Jeremy Piven apparently wasn't so popular with his Broadway cast mates in the revival of David Mamet's “Speed the Plow.”  —  After yesterday's matinee, the remaining actors — Raul Esparza and Elizabeth Moss — bashed Piven to their audience after their curtain call.
New York Post:
DIRECTOR STRESSES OUT CROWE  —  THE long professional relationship between Russell Crowe and director Ridley Scott could come to a cataclysmic end if Crowe gets Scott fired from “Nottingham.”  —  Scott turned Crowe into a major star by casting him in “Gladiator” (2000), a role that won him the Best Actor Oscar.
Discussion: Jossip and Hot Momma Celebrity …
Starpulse:
Pamela Anderson's Lumpy Boobs & Busted Face  —  Pam Anderson made an appearance at a car auction this weekend (seriously) and it was not pretty.  The former Baywatch-beauty's endless plastic surgeries don't seem to be holding up too well.  The smeared on make-up, giant lumpy boobs …
Daily Mail:
Madonna ‘loved up with new Latino toyboy Jesus’ ... and there's no sign of A-Rod … Newly single superstar Madonna is rumoured to be having a passionate fling with a hot Brazilian model named Jesus.  —  The Kabbalah-loving Material Girl met ‘smoking hot’ male model Jesus Luz while in Rio de Janeiro shooting a spread for W magazine.
Discussion: Bitten and Bound and OH NO!!
 
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