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1:15 PM ET, June 30, 2008

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Stephen M. Silverman / People.com:
Supermodel Plunges to Death in Apparent Suicide  —  Ruslana Korshunova  —  A supermodel plunged to her death Saturday afternoon by leaping from her Lower Manhattan apartment window in an apparent suicide.  —  Ruslana Korshunova, barely shy of her 21st birthday, apparently jumped …
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TMZ.com:
Coroner: Supermodel Jumped to Her Death  —  The supermodel who fell nine stories to her death on Saturday committed suicide, the NYC medical examiner has ruled.  —  The cause of death was blunt impact injuries, says the ME.  Ruslana Korshunova's body was found on Water Street in the financial district on Saturday afternoon.
Discussion: Bumpshack.com
NY Daily News:
Model's suicide shocks boyfriend
Discussion: That Other Blog
Alissa R / Us Weekly:
Singer Britney Spears Has Overnight Visit With Her Boys  —  Britney Spears spent Saturday night with her boys at her Los Angeles home.  —  It was the singer's first overnight visit with Sean Preston, 2 1/2, and Jayden James, 1 1/2, since she was hospitalized at L.A.'s Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in January.
Discussion: Extra and A Socialite's Life
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Ken Baker / E! Online:
Britney and the Boys Have a Sleepover
Discussion: iVillage, POPSUGAR and Celebritology
Vanity Fair:
Bright Young Hollywood  —  Since V.F. first focused on Hollywood's teen titans, in 2003, the YouTube-Gawker machine has upped the ante.  For every Shia LaBeouf success, there's a Lindsay Lohan flameout.  For our August issue, Mark Seliger photographs today's crop of hot young things …
Alissa R / Us Weekly:
Heidi Montag: I Want to Record a Christian Album  —  There is a different side to Heidi Montag that you don't see on MTV's The Hills, the 21-year-old budding singer tells USA Today.  —  “I have been the most religious person since I was 2 years old.  I always felt this crazy connection to God …
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William Keck / USA Today:
Celeb Watch: Heidi Montag is over ‘The Hills’ and the drama; video  —  SANTA MONICA, Calif. — The Hills are alive with the sounds of Montag.  —  Depending on whom you ask, Heidi Montag is the villainess on the hit MTV reality show The Hills.  But ask Montag, and she'll sing a different tune …
The Mail on Sunday:
Baby's Greatest Hits: Nicole Kidman chooses Irish flautist James Galway to help her through childbirth  —  Mother-to-be Nicole Kidman has planned the birth of her first child, due in the next fortnight, right down to the smallest detail.  —  The Oscar winner has reserved a private room …
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Helen / Cele|bitchy:   Nicole Kidman gets ready to give birth in Nashville
New York Post:
‘GOSSIP’ GUYS ARE IN THE CHACE  —  TV's “Gossip Girl” show is engendering big gossip but not about the girls.  About the boys.  On the show Chace Crawford plays the role of Nate Archibald and Ed Westwick plays the role of Chuck Bass.  It's who they're playing with off the show that's causing the juices to flow.
Discussion: Perez Hilton and Faded Youth Blog
POPSUGAR:
Lindsay Lohan Smokes While Pregnant with Samantha  —  Despite all the Lohan drama last week with Lindsay's supposed long lost sister, LL went about her usual routine in LA. She was spotted wearing a fake baby bump on a smoke break on the set of Labor Pains — obviously an unflattering sight …
Discussion: OH NO!!
Mark Jefferies / Mirror.co.uk:
Sienna Miller in messy love triangle with married millionaire  —  Sienna Miller is in a messy love triangle with a married millionaire a month after dumping actor Rhys Ifans.  —  The star has fallen for Balthazar Getty, 33, a member of the super rich oil dynasty.
Discussion: WOW Report and Yeeeah!
3am:
Kelly Osbourne not in the Glastonbury mood as she mourns dead dog  —  VIP BACKSTAGE AT GLASTONBURY  —  Kelly Osbourne was in no mood to party following the death of Minnie, her family's favourite pet dog.  —  The news made the 23-year-old late for a BBQ at the Orange Chill ‘n’ Charge Tent …
Discussion: Seriously? OMG!
Dave McNary / Variety:
Matthew Fox smell's WB's ‘Smoke’  —  Actor in talks to star in comic adaptation  —  Matthew Fox is in negotiations to star in Warner Bros.' “Billy Smoke,” based on the Oni Press comic about a hit man seeking redemption.  —  Project's produced by Basil Iwanyk at Thunder Road and Eric Gitter at Closed on Mondays Entertainment.
NME:
Watch singer scuffle with fans during Pyramid Stage show now  —  Amy Winehouse was hauled away by security after an apparent altercation with a fan at the end of her set on the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury tonight (June 28).  —  The singer appeared to scuffle with someone in the front row …
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Daniel Macht / Telegraph:
Guy Ritchie's mother denies Madonna divorce rumours  —  Guy Ritchie's mother has denied rumours that her son and Madonna are planning to split, describing reports of meetings with high-powered divorce lawyers as “total fiction.”  —  “There's no conversation about divorce because there is no divorce,” Lady Amber Leighton said.
Discussion: Dlisted
Carla Rivera / Los Angeles Times:
Scientology is focus of flap over Will Smith's new school  —  Some teachers at New Village Academy in Calabasas are church members, and instructional methods developed by the religion's founder will be used.  But an official says the religion will not be taught.
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Jovie Baclayon / E! Online:
Will and Jada Fund a New Elementary School
James Wolcott / Vanity Fair:
Who's Up?  Hollywood's Next Wave  —  It's been only five years since V.F. took a reading of Hollywood's youthquake—featuring the likes of Lindsay Lohan, the Olsen twins, and Shia LaBeouf—but the celebrity terrain has gotten rougher.  Nonetheless, the new kids seem more sure-footed amid the YouTube-Gawker-TMZ minefield.
Discussion: X17 Online
Brenda Rodriguez / People.com:
Daughter Matilda Was Heath's Focus on The Dark Knight Set  —  Heath Ledger's maniacal twist on the Joker in The Dark Knight in no way resembled his true character off set - that of a proud father to his 2-year-old daughter, Matilda, his costars say.  —  “Because he died people want a dark story …
Discussion: Extra
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Brad Brevet / RopeofSilicon:
Movie Review: ‘The Dark Knight’
Discussion: Gawker
 
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Emma Loffhagen / The Guardian:
Amazon withdraws from the Paris book festival, after the French booksellers' association said it will boycott the festival in protest at Amazon's involvement

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Ahmad Batebi, a journalist with VOA's Persian service, says he was fired over a clash about VOA limiting coverage of Iran's exiled Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi

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