• It made the news earlier this week when Anne Hathaway broke up with her Italian boyfriend. And good riddance! Raffaello Follieri has been arrested for lying to an investor, saying that he was the chief financial officer of the Vatican. This guy has been doing this sort of sideways sh*t for years. Amazing someone so seemingly beautiful (er, some people think so) and talented as Hathaway would fall for this guy’s crap. Anyhow, police say that because people believed his connections to the Vatican that he was able to purchase properties owned by the Catholic church as huge discounts.

• Paris Hilton is denying reports that she tried to buy a Yorkshire Terrier to use as a prop for a photoshoot she was headed to. Last week it was reported that the heiress strolled into a pet store and wanted to impulsively purchase the dog and was turned down - due to her reputation of owning too many animals and not caring for them properly. She responded to the rumors on her blog, “I read [that I was] walking by some puppies for sale, and demanding that I be given a Yorkie puppy to be an accessory for a photo shoot. I wasn’t looking for a new pet. I wasn’t even at a photo shoot that day. Puppies are not accessories or toys and I love my own pets dearly. I treat them as if they were my children.”
  Hmph. I have always figured this Blind-Item was about the dumb twat . .

• American Idol’s second season winner, Ruben Studdard obtained a marriage license Monday in Birmingham, Alabama.
  Studdard, 29, and girlfriend Surata Zuri McCants, 30, filled out paperwork at the Shelby County Probate Office just before noon on Monday and walked away with their license.
  An eyewitness said, “They looked really happy.”
  No word when the couple plan on marrying, their marriage license is valid for 30 days.

• DMX is one dumb dawg.
  He was arrested in Miami yesterday for driving without a valid driver’s license.
  The moron rapper was arrested last month as well, in Arizona, and was charged with driving with a suspended license and doing 114-mph in a 65-mph zone back in January.
  He obviously didn’t learn anything from it. Three days later he was arrested (also in Arizona) for animal cruelty and felony drug possession charges.

• Larry King’s wife Shawn Southwick King, 48, is currently in rehab for her addiction to painkillers.
  She is King’s sixth wife - the couple have been married for 10 years and have two children.
  A friend of King’s confirmed to Page Six, “Shawn is in rehab for medication issues related to her chronic migraine problem.”

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Madonna headed out of Malawi yesterday without her Maddox clone. “She left Malawi without David because there was very little time to sort out passport and visa issues,” Penston Kilembe, director of child welfare services in the Ministry of Gender, Children and Community Services said. He added that one year old David Banda would be re-united later with Madonna. Malawian rights groups are asking the government to put adoption on hold. They requested the government “hold or delay the implementation of the interim order granted to Madonna. It’s not like selling property; it is about safeguarding the future of a human being who because of age cannot express an opinion.” Under current laws, people adopting a Malawian child have to live in the country for 18 months and are monitored by social workers before they get full adoption rights. How much do you want to be that it won’t be that long for Madge?

A mother of DMX’s child is suing the rapper for $6 million dollars after he claimed in an interview that she raped him. He says that he spent the whole day shooting a video, then came home (to a hotel room) and fell asleep on the couch with his cock hanging out. That’s when he says that she (a groupie) raped him. He magically shot sperm while sleeping and the baby came into the world nine months later. Sounds like rape to me. Idiot.

Grammy Award-winning musician Freddy Fender, 69, who was diagnosed with lung cancer earlier this year, is gravely ill at his Texas home. Doctors discovered tumors in his lungs during surgery in January and recently told him the spreading cancer was incurable. “I feel very comfortable in my life. I’m one year away from 70 and I’ve had a good run,” he told the Corpus Christi Caller-Times in August. Fender is best known for several mid-1970s hit songs, including “Before the Next Teardrop Falls,” “Wasted Days and Wasted Nights” and “You’ll Lose a Good Thing.” He has won three Grammy’s.

*Update: Freddy died today. R.I.P.

Former Supermodel Niki Taylor, 31, is engaged to Burney Lamar, 26, a NASCAR Busch Series Driver. Lamar proposed to Niki at her parents home last month. They plan on having the wedding sometime next year. The couple met at a charity event back in January and Niki said she knew right away that she would be marrying him. It will be her second and his first marriage.

Demi Moore has signed to be the new face of L’Oréal. “She has this charisma, a life that a lot of women aspire to,” said Patricia Turck Paquelier, international brand president of L’Oréal’s prestige and collections division.

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