Dancing With the Stars Duo Karina & Maks Split!  —  Welcome to today's episode of Splitting With the Stars.  —  I just learned that the dance-happy duo of Karina Smirnoff and Maksim Chmerkovskiy have uncoupled and called off their long-pending nuptials.  —  “I am confirming that they did indeed break up,” Karina's rep tells me.

George Clooney and Elisabetta Canalis Go Public  —  George Clooney and Elisabetta Canalis in Venice  —  His hand still bandaged from a motoring accident last month, George Clooney was spotted arriving in Venice Monday sporting something that's all the rage in Italian trends - TV presenter Elisabetta Canalis.

Jon Gosselin: I “Despise” Kate  —  In more of his interview with ABC News, Jon Gosselin continues to trash estranged wife Kate, claming she took his wedding ring and may have had an affair with her bodyguard.  —  Jon, 32, says their relationship has gotten so sour they have to film their hit TLC reality show separately.

Milian and The Dream — Secret Wedding in Vegas  —  TMZ has learned Christina Milian officially tied the knot with music producer The Dream in Vegas last week ... at a place famous for its “Drive-Thru Tunnel of Vows.”  —  It all went down close to midnight at the legendary Little White Wedding Chapel …

Kathy Griffin confesses all about torrid, gross Jack Black affair  —  For fans of Kathy Griffin's My Life on the D-List, this news is nothing new.  Kathy talked about her brief, torrid affair with comedian-actor Jack Black a couple of times, and she was always surprisingly nice about it.

Janet Jackson — If the Glove Fits  —  Janet Jackson has been busting her butt rehearsing for a Michael Jackson tribute at the MTV Video Awards this weekend — and it promises to be a nipple-free affair.  We think.  —  Ms. Jackson is set to put on a huge MJ-honoring performance featuring 20 backup dancers …

Soap Star Michelle Stafford Expecting  —  Thanks to the help of a surrogate, The Young and the Restless star Michelle Stafford is expecting her first child this December.  —  Stafford, 43, who has won two Emmys for her role as scheming Phyllis Summers on the CBS daytime drama …

Lady GaGa: ‘My father saved me from a deadly cocaine addiction’  —  Lady GaGa has revealed her tough no-nonsense father save her from drug addiction.  —  GaGa admitted spending long periods snorting cocaine alone in her cramped New York apartment, playing music by The Cure.

Aubrey O'Day Defends Dyeing Her Dog  —  Doggone it, there's nothing wrong with dyeing a dog, according to Aubrey O'Day.  —  The former Danity Kane singer, 25, has been criticized on some websites for constantly dyeing her 1-year-old teacup Maltese Ginger.  —  “She likes to have looks,” O'Day tells Usmagazine.com.

How Not To Solve A Gender Dispute: Semenya's Magazine Makeover [Beauty/contest]  —  What could make the convoluted saga of Caster Semenya's disputed gender even more public and upsetting?  How about a makeover?  —  Yes, Semenya is now on the cover of South Africa's You magazine, wearing makeup, a dress, and a new hairdo.

Pregnant Heidi Klum: My “Thighs, Butt” Have Exploded  —  Heidi Klum — who is due in October with her fourth child, a girl — says the last month of pregnancy is the worst.  —  “The last month is unbelievable, how rapidly your stomach goes.  It's huge,” Klum, 36, tells Page Six magazine (out Sept. 10).

More True Blood Stars Hooking Up  —  But this time, we are not happy about it!  —  Sources are telling us that Evan Rachel Wood and the delectable Alexander Skarsgard are more than just co-stars.  —  That whore!  —  A Perezcious reader sent us this tip about the newly happy saddening couple:

Greed Is Bad, Gekko.  So Is a Meltdown.  —  Last Tuesday afternoon, a black Cadillac Escalade arrived at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in Lower Manhattan, built in the 1920s to resemble the Renaissance-era palaces of Florence, Italy.  From a rear seat stepped a man in a cashmere sweater and dark slacks.