Celebs

Talent show winner Leona Lewis became the first British female solo artist in over 20 years to top the U.S. pop ratings on Thursday when her single “Bleeding Love” hit number one in the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The 22-year-old Londoner, who shot to fame in Britain after winning “The X Factor” in 2006, appeared on Oprah Winfrey’s talk show this month, helping to boost the... 

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Filmmakers seem determined to bring out Audrey Tautou’s sweetness and spunk. She dispensed random acts of kindness as “Amelie,” set off in search of her fiance in “A Very Long Engagement” and played a street-smart but sensitive police cryptologist in “The Da Vinci Code.” That’s what makes “Priceless” a surprise: Tautou plays a manipulative,... 

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The Los Angeles Times on Wednesday apologized for publishing a story about the 1994 shooting of rapper Tupac Shakur, after a Web site questioned the authenticity of documents the paper used for the report. The story by Pulitzer Prize-winner Chuck Philips sought to link rap music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs to the assault on Shakur through two men the paper said were Combs’ associates.Shortly... 

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Britney’s younger sister Jamie Lynn Spears is set to marry her longterm boyfriend and father of her unborn baby Casey Aldridge, according to reports. The star of Nickelodeon’s Zoey 101 has been flashing a diamond engagement ring to friends and family in her hometown of Kentwood, Mississippi. A source close to the Spears family tells People: “She’s got an engagement ring. She’s... 

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The editor of the Los Angeles Times says an internal investigation will be done concerning the authenticity of documents cited by the newspaper that implicate associates of Sean “Diddy” Combs in a 1994 assault on Tupac Shakur. The investigation was disclosed by Editor Russ Stanton in a story posted Wednesday on the newspaper Web site. Stanton says he ordered the review after the editor... 

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“Desperate Housewives” star Nicollette Sheridan has settled a lawsuit brought by a former manager who alleged the actress fired him to avoid paying a commission, her lawyer said. The British-born actress, who plays scheming blonde real estate agent Edie Britt in the hit television series, was accused of sacking Rob Lee in late 2004 after he had helped her secure her role in the show, a... 

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The presidential candidates may have star qualities — and they also have stars in their families, according to a genealogical study linking Hillary Clinton to Angelina Jolie and Barack Obama to Brad Pitt. The New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS) in Boston on Wednesday released a study in which it traced the family trees of all three presidential candidates to find they all had famous... 

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A man charged with stalking Tyra Banks has been ordered to stay away from the talk-show host or face going to jail. Brady Green, according to a criminal complaint, has followed Banks from coast to coast since January, sent her letters and flowers, and tried to telephone her. Last week he was issued a court order requiring him to leave her alone. Green, of Dublin, Ga., was arrested when he showed up... 

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