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The Good, the Bad and the Beautiful
Tina's cheek, Phelps' photo leak, and Leo's house on a peak
Monday, December 01, 2008

From published reports

Tina Fey's husband is talking about something the "30 Rock" actress would rather not discuss: the scar on her left cheek.

In an interview in Vanity Fair, Jeff Richmond says a stranger slashed Fey's face when she was 5. He says the incident occurred in the front yard of her house.

Says Richmond: "That scar was fascinating to me. This is somebody who, no matter what it was, has gone through something. And I think it really informs the way she thinks about her life."

Fey says talking about the attack would seem like exploiting it.

Says Fey: "It's really almost like I'm able to forget about it, until I was on-camera, and it became a thing of 'Oh, I guess we should use this side' or whatever. Everybody's got a better side."




Michael Phelps has made a splash in Vegas, but not the kind that brings home gold medals.

According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the winner of eight gold medals in the Beijing Olympics may be swimming in a dating scandal.

The celebrity Web site TMZ.com ran photographs on Friday in which Phelps' girlfriend, Palms cocktail server Caroline "Caz" Pal, appeared to be posing topless in a series of photos.

Phelps reportedly took Pal home to meet his mother over Thanksgiving.

TMZ posted photos that apparently show Pal, 26, in provocative situations alone and with other girls.

Phelps, 23, has been a Las Vegas regular since his record haul of gold medals, which earned him a $1 million bonus from Speedo, the Review-Journal reports. He has been taking poker lessons in hopes of playing in the World Series of Poker next year.

He has been seen partying and making out in public with Pal, who works at Moon nightclub in the Palms Fantasy Tower, where actor George Clooney's former girlfriend, Sarah Larson, used to work.




Leonardo DiCaprio, 34, has just put his estate up for sale for $8.9 million, the Los Angeles Times reports. High on the bluff in Malibu, it's considered almost paparazzi-proof.

It features a two-bedroom, two-bath main house and a guest house with two one-bedroom suites, plus a stairway-to-the-sea to a secluded cove, a steam shower in the bathroom, a four-car garage and a big yard.




Alex Rodriguez and Madonna were together -- in the same city, anyway.

Rodriguez was in the Mexican capital on the same weekend the pop star was performing there. It wasn't immediately known if the All-Star third baseman and Madonna met while in Mexico City.

When asked what he thought about being in the city at the same time as Madonna, Rodriguez said it was "very good," without elaborating.

Rodriguez and his wife divorced in September, months after he made tabloid headlines for a rumored, but denied, dalliance with Madonna. Less than four weeks later, Madonna and filmmaker husband Guy Ritchie announced their own split after nearly eight years of marriage.




Punk musician Travis Barker and celebrity disc jockey DJ AM will perform together for the first time since the duo survived a fiery plane crash in South Carolina.

The former Blink-182 drummer and DJ AM, whose real name is Adam Goldstein, will headline New Year's Nation's Los Angeles New Year's Eve Party at The Lot in West Hollywood.

The performance will be streamed on the Internet and broadcast at other New Year's Nation parties across the U.S. It will be the first concert for the pair -- who go by TRVSDJAM -- since they performed at a free concert for about 10,000 people in Columbia, S.C., before boarding a private plane Sept. 19 for L.A. that crashed and killed four people.




Ivana Trump has been legally separated from fourth hubby, Italian entrepreneur Rossano Rubicondi, for three months.

Trump, who married Rubicondi in April, says she kept quiet about it because she didn't want to ruin Rubicondi's chances as a contestant on the Italian edition of the reality TV show "Survivor."

First published on December 1, 2008 at 6:20 pm
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