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Don't mess with 50 Cent when it comes to his name and image. The rapper is suing Taco Bell for using his name without his permission in their "Why Pay More?" campaign. The ads were promoting cheap eats for 79, 89 and 99 cents and had asked Fiddy to change his name to 79 Cent, 89 Cent or 99 Cent, while also sending a fake letter requesting the name change to various media outlets. 50 Cent is suing the chain restaurant for $4 million in damages. Meanwhile Taco Bell is defending itself, claiming, "We made a good faith, charitable offer to 50 Cent to change his name to either 79, 89, or 99 Cent for one day by rapping his order at a Taco Bell, and we would have been very pleased to make the $10,000 donation to the charity of his choice."

Congrats go out to third-time daddy Ethan Hawke. He and wife Ryan Shawhughes welcomed a girl, Clementine Jane Hawke, on Friday in New York. Ethan has two children with his ex-wife, Uma Thurman. Ryan used to be the nanny to their two kids and she and Ethan got married last month in New York.

Paris Hilton has vowed to address all false rumors about herself on her MySpace blog.

She's also a regular caller to Ryan Seacrest's KIIS-FM show to denounce these reports, like the one she denied today about crawling over 10 soccer players at Villa just to get close to Cristiano Ronaldo last Wednesday—only to be dissed by the star athlete.

So then why did she feel the need to tell Ryan that she has "learned to not pay attention"?

"[Benji and I have] made it a rule that we don’t even read that stuff anymore," says Paris.

"I have too many important things going on to pay attention to some writer who’s sitting in their office bored and who’s just gonna write mean things."

It's OK, Paris. You don't have to pretend like you're too cool to care. Heck, everyone from L.C. to Kanye logs on to blog about their side of the story. Might as well join the fray.

LONDON - The darkness around Batman has deepened: While audiences were shattering weekend box-office records in the U.S., Christian Bale was in London, where his mother and sister reportedly leveled assault allegations against the star of "The Dark Knight" that have yet to become clear.

Bale said the allegations were false Tuesday, hours after the Wales-born actor was arrested, questioned by London police and released on bail. The 34-year-old actor spent four hours talking with authorities but was not charged.

British media reported that Bale's mother and sister told police he assaulted them at the Dorchester Hotel in London on Sunday night, a day before attending the European premiere of "The Dark Knight." The Sun newspaper said the complaint was filed by sister Sharon Bale and mother Jenny Bale.

"Christian Bale attended a London police station today on a voluntary basis," read a statement from Bale's lawyer, Simon Smith, of the London-based firm Schillings. "Bale, who denies the allegation, cooperated throughout, gave his account in full of the events in question, and has left the station without any charge being made against him by the police."

A woman thought to be Bale's sister Sharon told reporters "it's a family matter" from her home in Corfe Mullen, 110 miles southwest of London. A man who answered the door at the home of Jenny Bale in nearby Bournemouth said she did not want to comment.

The reports surfaced just days after "The Dark Knight," which co-stars Heath Ledger as Batman's nemesis the Joker, took a record $158.4 million at the box office in its opening weekend. Ledger, who took the iconic villain to a deeply disturbed and diabolical place, died earlier this year of an accidental drug overdose in New York — a circumstance that has only added to the movie's brooding mystique.

Asked Tuesday whether Bale had been arrested, a London police spokesman did not refer to him by name but said: "A 34-year-old man attended a central London police station this morning by appointment and was arrested in connection with an allegation of assault."

The spokesman requested anonymity because he is not authorized to be identified under police policy. British police do not name suspects who have not been formally charged.

The force later said in a statement that the man had been released on bail pending further inquiries and told to return in September. It did not specify the date.

The Sun said police did not question the actor Monday because they did not want to interfere with the premiere of the movie. The next scheduled stops on the film's European premiere tour were Madrid, Spain, July 23; and Tokyo on July 28.

In the sequel to "Batman Begins," Bale reprises the role of wealthy playboy Bruce Wayne and his crime-fighting alter-ego Batman, a brooding vigilante superhero still scarred by the murder of his parents.

In his destructive battle of wits with the Joker, Batman pushes his own ethical boundaries, and ultimately is forced into the shadows. Winding up what may be the darkest — and most critically acclaimed — superhero movie ever, Bale's Batman truly becomes, as coined by Bruce Wayne's butler Alfred: "The Dark Knight."

Bale first made a splash as the child star of Steven Spielberg's "Empire of the Sun" in 1987 and as an adult has made his name with intense screen roles. His earlier films include "American Psycho" and "The Machinist."

Bale is the youngest of four children and is the stepson of Gloria Steinem. Her assistant said Tuesday that the author and feminist leader was at a writing retreat and unavailable for comment.

Bale's current project is playing John Connor in "Terminator Salvation," scheduled for filming this week in New Mexico. The film "will continue to shoot with Mr. Bale when he has completed his International tour for 'The Dark Knight,'" said Lee Anne Muldoon, unit publicist for the movie.

A records check turned up no criminal record for Bale in the Los Angeles area, where he's lived with his wife, Sibi Blazic, and their young daughter.

By RAPHAEL G. SATTER, Associated Press Writer

Today 8:00 AM PDT by Gina Serpe

Maybe they should have called it The Really Dark Knight.

Batman star Christian Bale has been arrested in London after turning himself in to a police station to undergo questioning on allegations that he assaulted his mother and sister.

The incident allegedly took place in the box-office champ's Dorchester Hotel room in London on Sunday, the day before the blockbuster film's European premiere.

A Metropolitan Police spokesperson tells E! News that Bale presently faces "no charges, all we are saying at the moment is that a 34-year-old male attended a central London police station this morning, by appointment, and was arrested in connection with an allegation of assault.

"He currently remains in custody."

Per standard Scotland Yard procedure, suspects are not named until formally charged, but the age and allegation match up with the Bale reports.

It's unclear what exactly went down, but the Welsh-born Bale's 61-year-old mother, Jenny, and 40-year-old sister, Sharon, reportedly went to a Hampshire police station to make the allegation. The local cops subsequently turned the case over to London's Metropolitan Police.

Although his family lodged the charges prior to Monday night's premiere, police waited until today to question Bale to allow the event to go on without headline-grabbing interruption.

Bale made a promotional appearance on the U.K. morning show GMTV Monday morning, hours after the alleged assault, and he was his typical serious self. A production source tells E! News the actor "seemed fine" during the segment.

(Originally published July 22, 2008 at 6:18 a.m. PT.)

Melbourne, July 21 (ANI): Six months on from Heath Ledgers untimely death, his former fiancee Michelle Williams is finding a supporting shoulder in the late actors best friend Trevor Di Carlo.

Di Carlo, who had grown up in Perth with Ledger, has been spotted dining and taking walks around Brooklyn with Williams and Ledger’’s two-year-old Matilda in tow, the Daily Mail reported.

“I dont see them go out often. When they do go out, I see them at a small pizza restaurant, Daily Telegraph quoted one neighbour as revealing.

“People are very protective of her in the neighbourhood,” the neighbour said.

No romance has been reported between the two, and Di Carlos mother Dianne, clarified their relationship as just being friends.

“Michelle and he are the best of friends, Dianne said.

“It is a very special time for him to be with Matilda,” she revealed.

Di Carlo and Ledger had known one another since the age of three, and they had even moved to Sydney together when Ledger headed east at 16 to try his luck as an actor.

News of the friendship between Di Carlo and Williams comes amid reports that 27-year-old Williams is planning a court action to win a chunk of Ledgers 15 million dollars estate for her daughter.

Ledgers performance as The Joker in new Batman movie The Dark Knight has been tipped to earn him a posthumous Oscar nomination.

But sources at Warner Bros say they fear any legal battle over the will might affect his chances of winning. (ANI)

Angelina Jolie's twins Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline are "so cute," her obstetrician, Dr. Michel Sussmann, told The Jewish Journal Tuesday.

"It was not an easy operation – a second cesarean with twins is difficult – but it went perfectly," he says of the cesarean he performed to deliver the two five-pound babies Saturday at the Fondation Lenval hospital in Nice, France.

(See 15 photos of her bump.)

Father Brad Pitt cut the umbilical cord.

"The delivery was very emotional and exceptional as Ms. Jolie is a superstar, but I think that it happened on Shabbat [Saturday] made it that much more moving," Sussmann said.

"Jolie and Pitt were always laughing and having a good time together, even during the birth operation," the doctor added.

Sussmann told the Journal that while is he is the 33-year-old actress' doctor, that doesn't mean he wants to be her friend.

"We had an excellent rapport," he said. "She is so, so nice and never complained about anything. There are negative things sometimes written about her on the Internet, but don't believe them."

Tell Us: Are photos of Angelina's twins worth the reported price of $20 million?

Jennifer Aniston couldn't be happier for her ex Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie.

"She hopes the twins are beautiful," a pal of the actress, 39, tells Us Weekly in its latest issue, on stands now.

"She'd never want anyone to be unhappy with their kids," the friend adds.

Compare the lives and loves of Jen and Angie here.

Aniston " who would have celebrated her eighth anniversary with Pitt, 40, on July 29 " has been heating up her summer with John Mayer.

See Brad and Angie's most romantic moments.

She has joined him at his shows in London, Toronto and St. Louis.

"You can tell Aniston's his biggest fan," a St. Louis concert staffer told Usmagazine.com on July 4.

She cheered him on from the side of the stage during Mayer's 90-minute set in Rothbury, Mich., July 6.


Aniston was photographed in West Hollywood at a furniture shop on Wednesday, while Mayer put in a surprise appearance at a Billy Joel concert in New York. (Mayer joined Joel on stage, playing guitar on the song "This is the Time.")

The beeyotch is back.

The CW has confirmed that erstwhile Brenda Walsh Shannen Doherty will be reprising her role as one-half of Beverly Hills' best-loved Minnesota twins for a multiple-episode stint when the 90210 spinoff hits small screens this fall.

Doherty's reprisal marks the fourth official return from a Beverly Hills, 90210 regular to the spinoff, joining Tori Spelling, whose Donna Martin is now an upscale boutique owner, Joe E. Tata, whose Nat is still the owner of the Peach Pit, and—cue the maniacal moustache-twirling—Jennie Garth, whose Kelly Taylor is now the guidance counselor at West Beverly High.

It remains to be seen whether she—Taylor or Garth—also reprises her role as a certain brunette's mortal frenemy.

Though murmurs of such a casting coup have been circulating for weeks, with E! Online's Kristin Dos Santos reporting earlier this month that Doherty's appearance was a done deal, the network only made it official this morning, with an announcement at the Television Critics Association conference.

As for Doherty, she will apparently remain the show's resident drama queen.

Since leaving West Bev, Brenda has become a successful theater actress and director who divides her much-sought-after time between the London and New York stages. She is dragged back into the high school fray when her alma mater approaches her to direct a musical production for the students.

For more details on what's in store for the gang come the Sept. 2 premiere, jump over to our TV blog.

Spider-Man Batman forever.

The Dark Knight chased Spider-Man 3 from the record books with a $155.3 opening weekend gross, per Exhibitor Relations Co. estimates today.

The figure capped three days of eye-popping figures for the Christopher Nolan film. Among them:

• The Dark Knight made more money in Friday midnight screenings ($18.5 million) than its predecessor, Batman Begins, made in any one day.
• The Dark Knight made more money in one day ($66.4 million on Friday) than Batman Begins made in any one weekend.
• The Dark Knight made about as much money in its second-biggest day ($48 million on Saturday) as Batman Begins made in its biggest weekend ($48.7 million).

• The Dark Knight made more money in its third-biggest day ($39 million on Sunday) than Get Smart and You Don't Mess With the Zohan, to name two recent hits, made in their respective opening weekends.
• The Dark Knight made more money in its biggest day than Hancock, WALL-EKung-Fu Panda, to name three recent super-sized hits, made in their respective opening weekends. and
• The Dark Knight made more money in its opening weekend than the previous top-three-opening Batman movies (Batman Forever, Batman Begins, Batman Returns) made in their opening weekends—combined.

About the only thing The Dark Knight didn't do was keep up the frenetic pace it set with Friday's $66.4 million blowout, a performance which set new records as Hollywood's biggest-ever opening day and biggest-ever single day.

"Some people probably stayed away [to avoid] the crowds," Exhibitor Relations' Jeff Bock said.

Bock does not think audiences will stay away next weekend. He expects The Dark Knight will become only the second movie this summer, after Iron Man, to hold the No. 1 position at the box office for more than one weekend.

"Spider-Man 3 was savaged by critics, and it fell off pretty quickly," Bock said. "I don't expect anything to happen with The Dark Knight."

Especially not with the Heath Ledger factor at play.

To Bock, The Dark Knight's box office benefited immensely from both curiosity and buzz surrounding Ledger's performance as iconic Batman foe, the Joker. The role was the last completed by the young actor before his death in January.

"This is really unprecedented, an actor in a blockbuster film dying before the release," Bock said.

If one word could sum up this weekend, unprecedented would be it.

NICE, France -- Angelina Jolie has left the Lenval hospital in Nice, France with her new babies, Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline. It has been a week since she gave birth.

"Mrs. Angelina Jolie left the clinic Santa Maria of Foundation Lenval early in the morning, on July 19," the hospital said in a statement to Access Hollywood on Saturday. "The mother and her babies are doing very well."

According to People, Jolie left the hospital at around 4 AM, taking a grey Volkswagon minibus through the courtyard entrance and avoiding a crowd of journalists at the front of the hospital. She'll be rejoining her family at Chateau Miravel, the multimillion-dollar chateau that Jolie and partner Brad Pitt rented in May.

Jolie delivered on July 12 by ceasarean section. After the birth, her doctor, Michel Sussman, said that the delivery went "perfectly."