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• Madonna is reportedly "taking a more active role" in promoting boy toy Jesus Luz's career. She turned up to hear him spin at the Valentino party the other night, danced with "some hot fashion guys," mingled for a little, and then they left together. But that doesn't mean she's offered to do a song with him. "There are steps!" he said. "You can't just start out and collaborate with Madonna." He also says that he always plays her stuff because, you know, "It's great." [P6, NYDN]
• After Michael Lohan released a sob-filled phone call from Lindsay yesterday, she Twittered that her dad is "such a loser"; "those recordings are from years ago"; and "he needs the book for dummies on how to be a man." She also indicted she may ask her lawyer to file a restraining order against her dad and/or sue him. So, no hopes for a reconciliation just yet then? [TMZ, NYP, Us]
• Making matters worse, there is now another recording of LiLo chatting with her mother that's been released. [Radar Online]
• Mariah Carey said she'd been a victim of emotional and mental abuse on Larry King Live last night: "To really get out, it was difficult because there was a connection that was not only a marriage but a business thing, where the person was in control of my life." Tommy Mottola, anyone? [CNN, People]More

Happy Birthday | Break out the Cristal. Mr. Sean Combs turns 40 today. Perhaps he'll get together later to celebrate with Bethenny Frankel of the Real Housewives of New York: She's turning 39. Others blowing out candles today: Matthew McConaughey is turning 40. Kathy Griffin is turning 49. Laura Bush is 63. Survivor host Jeff Probst turns 47. Author Charles Frazier is turning 59. Playwright Jon Robin Baitz is 48. Literary agent Andrew Wylie is turning 62. Publishing industry honcho Jonathan Galassi is 60. Anne Sweeney, the president of Disney/ABC president, is turning 51. Ralph Macchio of Karate Kid fame is 48. And Trishelle from The Real World is 30.

Spotted | Matthew McConaughey leaving the Mandarin Oriental Hotel to head to Central Park to go jogging ... Matt Damon and wife Luciana having lunch yesterday at Sant Ambroeus ... Helena Christensen walking in the West Village ... Dustin Hoffman talking on his cell phone ... Julianne Moore walking around in the Village ... ... Michelle Williams taking daughter Matilda to school in Brooklyn ... Mark Wahlberg hanging out on the set of The Other Guys downtown ... Sienna Miller walking her dog in SoHo and later getting iced coffee from Green Symphony on West 43rd Street ... and Kurt Russell walking uptown in his Yankee cap.

Spotted | Mischa Barton shopping downtown before heading to the gym ... Catherine Zeta-Jones crossing the street on the Upper East Side ... Christina Milian leaving her hotel ... Hugh Jackman walking daughter Ava to school ... Matthew McConaughey and Camila Alves arriving at JFK ... Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg hanging out on the set of The Other Guys ... Michelle Williams walking daughter Matilda to school ... the singer Monica sitting in an SUV outside her hotel in Midtown ... Shakira standing in front of the Plaza Hotel ... and Sienna Miller walking her dog downtown.

• Are Michelle Williams and Spike Jonze planning to head down the aisle this summer? That's what the Star claims, since the two have been together "almost a year" and supposedly "don't see why they should wait much longer." As good a reason as any! [Star]
• Sam Ronson changed her relationship status on Facebook to "It's complicated," and says she and LiLo have started talking again, which may mean they're getting back together. [Us]
• Mary-Kate Olsen "kept touching" actor Bradley Cooper at a Tribeca Film Festival party, which could be a sign that they might be dating. [NYDN]
• Parker Posey showed off her new man at the festival, too. She's dating a sculptor named Scott Lenhardt. [NYM]More

• Both Katie Holmes and Nicole Kidman have active cases of herpes, reports Page Six, something you should probably keep in mind in the event either woman tries to plant a kiss on you. [P6]
• William H. Macy will take over for Jeremy Piven in Speed-the-Plow now that the Pivster has overdosed on sushi and will need to take time off to cleanse his sacred temple from mercury. [NYP]
• Marci Klein, SNL producer and daughter of Calvin, is calling it quits with her husband of eight years, Scott Murphy. [P6]More

Happy Birthday | Not only does Diddy get to vote or die today, he gets to celebrate his birthday, too. He's 39. There probably won't be much to celebrate in the White House today, but Laura Bush will have one reason to. She's turning 62. Also celebrating: Literary agent Andrew Wylie is 61. Playwright Jon Robin Baitz is turning 47. Book publisher Jonathan Galassi is 59. Matthew McConaughey is celebrating his 39th. Kathy Griffin is 48. Disney/ABC president Anne Sweeney is celebrating the big 5-0. Walter Cronkite is 92. Survivor host Jeff Probst is turning 46. Author Charles Frazier is 58. And the Karate Kid, Ralph Macchio, is 47.

• Britney Spears is supposedly furious with her mother over her upcoming tell-all, which accuses the pop star's former manager of grinding up pills and sneaking them into her meals. She should be in a better mood, however, after she reads all the positive reviews from her appearance on the VMAs last night, where she kicked off the show and later won three awards. [P6, NYP]
• Uma Thurman has been buying dresses two sizes larger than usual, which means she must be pregnant. [R&M]
  
• Beyonce showed off her engagement ring from Jay-Z for the first time on Friday night, an 18-carat diamond that cost more than $5 million. [People]
• Newlyweds James Gandolfini and Deborah Lin celebrated their wedding with a second reception inside a Manhattan loft on Friday night, where the Sopranos cast partied until the wee hours. [R&M]
• Fabian Basabe says his wife, Martina Borgomanero, is pregnant. He also is planning to open a restaurant in Coral Gables, in case you care. [P6] 

• Michael Lohan is is convinced his daughter is drinking again, and that Lindsay's relationship with Samantha Ronson is to blame. In other Lohan family news, Samantha may be writing a book about her relationship with Lindsay—whose 48-year-old father recently popped the question to his 24-year-old girlfriend, Erin Muller. [MSNBC, E!, OK]
• MSNBC personalities Joe Scarborough, Keith Olbermann, Chris Matthews and David Shuster don't get along much, in case you haven't heard the news. [P6]
• Tragic news: More than two years after they first got engaged, Michael Bolton and Nicolette Sheridan have called it quits. [NYDN]

• Julia Stiles and her boyfriend of two years, Jonathan Cramer, have split up, which may explain why she was so rude to a group of diners at a cafe the other day. [Page Six]
• Rumor has it that Alex Rodriguez has agreed to donate $500,000 to Madonna's Malawi charity. [R&M]
• Kate Moss is hinting to friends that she may get married to boyfriend Jamie Hince in Ireland by the end of the year. [Mirror]
• Julianne Moore was rejected when she tried to board the Jitney on Thursday morning, even though she'd already reserved a seat. [Page Six]
• Not everyone thinks the way Kathie Lee Gifford talks over guests on the Today show is cute: There are now three anti-Gifford groups on Facebook. [NYT]

• John Edwards probably won't be invited to speak at the Democratic national convention unless he addresses those nagging rumors that he had a love child with Rielle Hunter. [Page Six]
• Rumor has it Agyness Deyn and Albert Hammond Jr. are engaged. [Us]
• Mariah Carey is paying $125,000 to rent Stone Meadow Farm in East Hampton for one week this month. Is that where she and Nick Cannon are throwing the big wedding they've been talking about for months? [Page Six]
• Georgina Bloomberg would be heading to the Olympics in Beijing right now if her horse hadn't gotten injured right before the Olympic trials. But she'll compete for a spot in 2012! [R&M]

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• The biggest loser in the Jimmy Kimmel-Sarah Silverman breakup? Howard Stern, who sounds despondent about the split. He was supposed to hang out with the couple on vacation last week, but they never showed, and when Howard later heard the news, he was so upset he had to take a walk to calm down. [Page Six]
• As for Jimmy, he's already moved on: He's supposedly dating the head writer on his show, Molly McNearny. [The Insider]
  
• Al Reynolds is trying to sell a book about finance, even though he hasn't actually had a job since he met Star Jones years ago. [Page Six]
• Andy Dick was arrested in California yesterday for exposing a 17-year-old girl's breasts outside a chicken wings joint. When officers arrested him, he was intoxicated and in possession of marijuana and Xanax. [Page Six]
• Billionaire hotelier Patrick Denihan went crazy after a couple set up their umbrella too close to his weekend home on the Jersey Shore. [Page Six]

• After weeks of battling in court, Christie Brinkley and Peter Cook negotiated a "surprise" settlement last night, which they announced at 6 AM this morning. Many of the details are still fuzzy—they'll explain more when they get to court this morning—but custody will likely stay as is, and Christie will likely retain ownership of most of the couple's properties. [NYP]
• East Hampton cops caught Arden Wohl scrawling "Ralphy Lip-shits" in lipstick on the front of Ralph Lauren's store Saturday night. Now she's been charged and is expected to appear in court in August. [Page Six]
• Cynthia Rodriguez says she stills loves Alex, and partially filed for divorce to prove to him that she's not weak. Also, she says she's not out to damage her husband in the press! [Cindy]
• Madonna might show up at a charity party A-Rod's throwing at the 40/40 club next Monday. [ET]
• Madonna's brother—you know, the one who is shopping a tawdry tell-all about his sis—is telling people that she has a huge ego. [NYP]
  

• Ashley Dupre might be leaving the beaches of New Jersey for the beaches of California to star in a new reality show. Just what the show will consist of isn't clear (or what network is going to pick it up), but there's a possibility it could be a dating show a la Tila Tequila. [E!]
• Cynthia Rodriguez's divorce lawyers now claim Madonna and A-Rod didn't have sex, but they did have "an affair of the heart," which caused A-Rod to emotionally abandon his wife. Because of this, Cynthia wants a judge to throw out her prenup and award her more than half of A-Rod's earnings. [People]
• For his part, A-Rod is sniping at his estranged wife for the $100,000 she racked up at spas and restaurants during her trip to Paris last week, and for suggesting she was cheating on him with Lenny Kravitz. [NYDN]

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• Anne Hathaway dumped her scandal-plagued boyfriend Raffaello Follieri for all the obvious reasons: his legal troubles, the potential damage to her image, etc. Plus her parents despised him and her dad hired a PI to follow them around. [NY Post]
• Joan Rivers was booted off a British talk show for describing Russell Crow as a "fucking shit." [Guardian]
• Ashley Olsen and her boytoy-of-the-moment, actor Justin Bartha, are coming out of hiding. The two were spotted huddling at a movie screening on Monday night. [Page Six]
• Matthew McConaughey went on a surfing trip to Nicaragua, where he danced at a bar, slept in a ditch, flipped out over losing his flip-flops, and tried to make out with a woman (who was not his soon-to-be baby mama Camilla Alves). [Rush & Molloy]