Lohan Sued, Lara's Nude Flight

If you're looking for something special for your honey on Valentine's Day... the engagement ring made famous by the couple once known as "BENNIFER" is up for sale a year after they called off their wedding.

According to the Associated Press, famed jeweler to the stars HARRY WINSTON has re-acquired the $1.2 million engagement ring that actor BEN AFFLECK gave to former fiancee JENNIFER LOPEZ. The stunning piece of jewelry is now available at Winston's flagship store on New York's Fifth Avenue. Lopez reportedly returned the 6.1-carat, pink-solitaire to Affleck when they split in February of last year, just five months after they called off their $2 million Santa Barbara nuptials.

LOHAN SUED OVER CAR ACCIDENT
February 3, 2005

Teen drama queen LINDSAY LOHAN is being sued by two people who claim she injured them in a vehicle collision last year.

The 18-year-old actress/singer allegedly struck EDDIE PAMILTON's vehicle in Studio City, California, on August 3, leaving Pamilton and passenger ILEX HARRIS with considerable "pain, discomfort and physical disability."

Pamilton and Harris filed a personal injury suit in Los Angeles Superior Court on Wednesday, asking for unspecified damages and compensation for medical expenses, lost earnings and income.

Lohan's publicist has yet to comment on the lawsuit.

ZITTY DIDDY
February 3, 2005

Rap mogul SEAN "P.DIDDY" COMBS has signed on as a spokesmodel for anti-acne regimen Proactiv Solution.

Combs has already established a range of careers, including rapper, actor, fashion designer, restaurateur, record/TV producer and songwriter, and has just signed a deal to star in promotions for Proactiv.

Diddy joins fellow celebrities VANESSA WILLIAMS, JESSICA SIMPSON, STEPHANIE SEYMOUR, ELLE MACPHERSON and BRITNEY SPEARS who all swear by the zit cream line.

In a 30-minute infomercial, Combs tells actress Vanessa Williams, "I definitely had an acne problem. I have to make sure my sexy is all the way right."

PAULA SAVED KYLIE'S CAREER?
February 3, 2005

In an interview with The Associated Press, 'American Idol' judge PAULA ABDUL is taking credit for reviving singer KYLIE MINOGUE's pop career.

" I'm responsible for helping Kylie Minogue come back," she declared, who co-wrote 'Spinning Around' for the Australian singer in 2000. "She couldn't get signed to a worldwide deal... She entered for the first time ever on the U.K. charts No. 1 on a song I wrote."

In related news, Abdul, who was also a late 80's popstar, is talking about reviving her own solo career saying that after this season, she's going to get back in the recording studio.

" It's something that we've talked with her about. Even during the commercial breaks on 'American Idol,' we try and get her to stand up and perform for the studio audience," RYAN SEACREST told 'Extra'. "Good luck Paula, we're all here for you -- except Simon(COWELL), and he's just jealous."

HOUSTON ATTEMPTS SUICIDE
February 2, 2005

According to MTV news, R&B newcomer HOUSTON has attempted suicide. The singer apparently tried to jump out of his London hotel room window last Thursday before being stopped by his security guards. He was then locked in his hotel room where he proceeded to gouge out his left eye.

Bodyguard MARCO POWELL said Houston told him he "had to do it."

" Houston is going through spiritual warfare right now," Powell said. "It's like good versus evil. He grew up in a Christian family, and since he's signed his record deal he's been subjected to, in his own words, 'sins and devils in the business' like drugs, alcohol and all this stuff that he's not used to. He didn't want to be around that. He just wasn't happy with management - he just wasn't happy. He didn't know which way to turn."

The Los Angeles singer scored a hit last year with "I Like That" featuring CHINGY and NATE DOGG. The catchy song was also used in a McDonald's campaign.

SNOOP SUED FOR SEXUAL ASSAULT
February 2, 2005

Rapper SNOOP DOGG's makeup artist KYLIE BELL has accused him of rape. The $25 million lawsuit alleges Snoop -- real name CALVIN BROADUS -- and members of his entourage drugged and raped her in a dressing room two years ago after a January 2003 taping of late-night talk show "Jimmy Kimmel Live".

Snoop filed his own lawsuit against Bell last December alleging she had been trying to extort $5 million from him in exchange for not telling her story.

She alleges she was drugged and sexually assaulted by Snoop, 32, and four other men after drinking what a member of the hip-hop star's posse told her was champagne.

The suit names Broadus, TV network ABC, comedian JIMMY KIMMEL's show and ABC's parent company, the Walt Disney Company as defendants and seeks $25 million in damages.

Bell is an Emmy award winning makeup artist, who did work for "Six Feet Under" and "G.I. Jane." In her lawsuit, she claims she was hired by Snoop to do his makeup during his "Jimmy Kimmel Live" gig. She says that while in the rapper's dressing room, Snoop and his crew continually smoked marijuana "blunts" and drank champagne. Her suit also claims that she once saw Snoop snorting cocaine.

Four months after the alleged incident, according to the complaint, Bell told the Kimmel show she was contacting the police, soon after which she began having her living expenses paid through an ABC investment subsidiary.

Once those checks stopped flowing, Bell claims Broadus began paying her expenses, and that by October the rapper's lawyers opened negotiations with the woman's attorneys. The lawsuit alleges that the negotiations eventually fell through.

FLEA ENGAGED
February 2, 2004

Red Hot Chili Peppers rocker FLEA has gotten engaged to his supermodel girlfriend FRANKIE RAYDER.

The flamboyant bassist proposed with a big "fat diamond ring" a "very happy" Rayder tells Page Six.

Flea -- real name MICHAEL PETER BALZARY -- has been married once before, from 1988 to 1990 to LOESHA ZEVIAR, the mother of his 16-year-old daughter CLARA.

FLYNN BOYLE'S NUDE FLIGHT
February 2, 2004

British newspapers report that actress LARA FLYNN BOYLE has been spotted stripping nude and trying to seduce a fellow passenger during a recent first-class flight to London.

Bewildered passengers claim the skinny star started behaving strangely halfway through the 10-hour British Airways journey from Los Angeles to the London's Heathrow Airport.

But they were absolutely bewildered when Flynn Boyle stripped off her clothes and tried to climb into the bed of a sleeping stranger.

Flynn Boyle's publicist says, "It genuinely is completely inconsistent with her character and behavior."

A British Airways spokeswoman confirms, "First-class passengers on board Flight BA 282 from Los Angeles to Heathrow reported that a female passenger in the cabin was behaving strangely."

A shocked witness adds, "People recognized she was Lara Flynn Boyle ...

" She was starkers, woke a passenger up, tried to get into bed with him, pulled open the blind and said, 'We're landing, get your clothes on,' even though we were more than four hours away from London."