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Since various tabloids have had Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie breaking up since the day they got together, what's different about their latest fabled trip to Splitsville?

Well, this time Jolie supposedly cheated on her bearded beau.

But while In Touch Weekly is reporting that the Oscar winner had an affair with the "dialect coach" she worked with for her upcoming spy thriller Salt, the film's resident dialect coach tells E! News the rumor couldn't be further from the truth.

And not just because he didn't even work with Jolie on Salt.

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Long before it was all about the beard, it was all about the music.

More than a year before Joaquin Phoenix set a new standard for lethargy on Letterman, the Oscar-nominated actor wrote and recorded what sounds like a masterpiece.

"He's a Beatles, Oasis, Bowie-style songwriter. I hold it in that high esteem," L.A. musician Julian Shah-Tayler, who collaborated on the album with Phoenix, exclusively tells E! News. 

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Taylor Lautner may be about to pin down another role.

Seemingly seconds after he booked yet another post-Jacob job, sources tell E! News that the 17-year-old actor is in talks to put his New Moon abs to good use in a remake of the 1985 drama Vision Quest.

Which is not what it sounds like—a cheesy sci-fi flick—but rather a coming-of-age romance that featured Madonna's "Crazy for You" as its theme song and starred Matthew Modine as a high school wrestling star who falls in love with an artist—a permtastic Linda Fiorentino—his dad has taken in as a boarder.

Why remake? Let's just re-release that!

But Taylor could wind up playing an updated version of Modine's character in the still-in-development film, which counts Wyck Godfrey and Marty Bowen of Temple Hill Entertainment (and Twilight and New Moon fame) as producers. We hear that Richard Munic has penned a screenplay that is "very faithful" to the original Vision Quest.

"Taylor saw [the script] and is really excited about it," says a source. "It's very much in line with his athleticism. His character is someone who's striving for greatness."

A rep for Lautner didn't respond to a request for comment and Warner Bros., which owns the rights to Vision Quest, remained mum on whether it's  considering the shirtless wonder for the lead, confirming only that the film is in development.

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Taylor has made it impossible to pin him to just one entry in our Casting Couch gallery.

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Paris Hilton can sympathize.

The heiress took to her Twitter Tuesday to express outrage over an alleged burglary that apparently took place today at sister Nicky Hilton's house in Los Angeles.

"The cops finally just got to Nicky's house," Paris, whose own home was ransacked a year ago by an alleged bunch of burglars that targeted celebrities, wrote shortly after 4 p.m.

"She thought her cats escaped in the robbery but she just found them under the bed. Thank God."

Beforehand, the LAPD could not confirm whether a car had been dispatched to Nicky's house—and we know why.

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To get at the truth, the family of Kandi Burruss's late fiancé is looking to raise the dead.

A.J. Jewell did not have sickle-cell anemia, according to a spokesman for Jewell's relatives, who have requested that a second autopsy be performed by a private coroner to clear up any inconsistencies surrounding his death last month from a head injury sustained in a fight outside an Atlanta strip club.

Results are expected in about two weeks. The Real Housewives of Atlanta fixture was laid to rest over a month ago.

The Fulton County medical examiner ruled Jewell's death a homicide and the other guy in the fight, Frederick Richardson, has been charged with voluntary manslaughter.

But Jewell's family disagrees with the finding that sickle-cell anemia aggravated his injuries.

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Sometimes the heavy bars on a jail cell aren't just to keep people in.

Nicholas Prugo, one of the key suspects in of a series of celebrity-targeting burglaries, was placed in protective custody after a Nevada court errantly shared an affidavit with the media that detailed how he ratted out his cohorts what the 18-year-old L.A. teen had been telling investigators about the crimes.

Interested parties apparently frown on such things, because both he and his family have since been the target of threats, according to Prugo's attorney, Sean G. Erenstoft.

"This is horrifying," Erenstoft told E! News, referring to the Clark County Court's slip-up, which he says was a violation of Prugo's civil rights.

"This court's staff violated 200 years of common law...I think they were trying to please the media. I'm not saying whether it was intentional or just neglectful."

The document also revealed just how important Prugo is to the L.A. district attorney's case, Erenstoft says.

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Ecstatic screams and fluttering hearts translate the same in any language.

"Thank you all so much for coming," Robert Pattinson told a crowd of adoring fans in Tokyo, his latest stop on the whirlwind New Moon publicity tour.

"It's always really surprising, whenever we go anywhere in the world, there seems to be so many people everywhere who are just as passionate...It's always just amazing to find that out."

You'd think the British über-heartthrob would be used to it by now.

The largely female crowd started lining up hours ahead of time for Rob's appearance at Shinigawa Intercity Hall, where the ambiguously attached vampire portrayer took questions from the audience—which was instructed beforehand not to inquire about his personal life.

Yet the Edward-lovers found stuff to ask him, maybe about the movie or whatever. New Moon director Chris Weitz was also on-hand for the Q&A session and to take pictures afterward, as was Japanese pop star Miliyah Kato, whose song "Destiny" has been heard in some of the film's trailers.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the world, Bella and Jacob held court...

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Randy Quaid's going to be spending his Christmas vacation in the clink if he's not careful.

The Santa Barbara District Attorney's Office is drawing up the paperwork to have Quaid and his wife Evi extradited from Texas, where the duo opted to remain rather than show up for a court hearing today in their unpaid bill case.

"The D.A.'s Office will be seeking extradition of the Quaids," spokesman Lee Carter tells E! News. "That process will take at least two to three weeks. I started to prepare the extradition paperwork when they did not appear last week."

What foresight!

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Now here's a woman Justin Timberlake is definitely not into.

The Grammy winner obtained a restraining order today against one Karen McNeil, whom Timberlake's camp says has been treating herself to cab rides to his front door, E! News confirmed.

She showed up Thursday and wouldn't leave, resulting in her arrest when JT's staff called the cops.

Authorities brought her to a local hospital to get checked out, with doctors determining that McNeil did not qualify for a 5150 (danger to herself or others) psychiatric hold. She was released from custody today.

But this isn't the first time McNeil has let her fan flag fly way too high: The L.A. District Attorney's Office confirmed to E! News that she pleaded no contest to two counts of disobeying a court order in 1997. Reports from that time say she violated an order of protection granted to Axl Rose.

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We hope everything turns out all right for Matt Damon.

The oft-involved actor was forced to pull out of a charity event tonight in San Francisco due to a "family emergency of a serious nature," his rep confirms to E! News.

"He wouldn't have missed this otherwise," she said.

Organizers for the Second Annual OneXOne Fundraiser, which Damon had been scheduled to host, had said earlier today that it's main man couldn't make it.

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Caution: Paparazzi in mirror are closer than they appear.

A security car trailing a vehicle that was carrying Michael Jackson's three children was rear-ended by a photographer this afternoon in Los Angeles, TMZ reports.

Prince Michael, Paris Katherine and Blanket are said to be fine, though we feel they're a little young to be experiencing the Hollywood starlet treatment.

Lindsay Lohan, for instance, was famously involved in several smashups caused by over-eager paparazzi who just couldn't seem to stay off the girl's fender.

Luckily, teh Jackson brood had a whole other vehicle between them and the offending photog, who took off before police arrived at the crash site, which was just a few miles away from the Jacksons' compound in Encino. A hit-and-run report was filed close to 2:30 p.m.

Earlier this month, a judge determined that the kids were doing "wonderfully" under the care of their grandmother Katherine.

She knew enough to arrange for that extra layer of vehicular paparazzi protection, didn't she?

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Can't the paps just leave 'em alone? It would be a shame if the wee Jacksons end up in this gallery of celebs giving photogs the one-fingered salute.

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Michael Jackson's comeback may have been a career killer for Dr. Conrad Murray.

The Nevada-based cardiologist hasn't been able to practice medicine since getting sucked up in the postmortem Jackson saga and that's why he now looks like a deadbeat, according to Murray's attorney.

"One of the reasons he went to work for Michael Jackson was to pay this off," lawyer Chris Aaron tells E! News, referring to the more than $13,000 in support payments he owes the mother of one of his children.

Not only did Murray never get paid for the weeks he spent as Jackson's personal physician, but all the media scrutiny has made him persona non grata in the public eye.

Murray missed a hearing on the child-support issue on Oct. 7 and a bench warrant was issued for his arrest. Aaron, who's repping the doc in these family matters, said his client's absence from the hearing was a simple oversight.

"Normally, he has a staff," Aaron said. "With everything going on, he's been in California, he's been having to go back and forth, and it just slipped through the cracks."

There is quite a bit going on.

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