Tom Cruise finally seems to have decided how much Katie Holmes is worth. According to Life & Style Weekly, the prenuptial agreement will give Holmes as much as $33 million, meaning a wedding could be in the offing. Holmes will receive $3 million a year up to $33 million for each year that she is married to Cruise, plus a palatial home in Montecito, Calif. If the marriage lasts longer than 11 years, the prenup is voided and California’s community property law kicks in – half of Cruise’s fortune would go to Holmes. Ain’t love grand?
According to Liz Smith of the New York Post, this is no joke. Jessica Simpson walks into a room and starts chatting with Pamela Anderson at a recent New York event. Simpson asks the former “Baywatch” star, “How were you able to move so slowly in those shots where you were running along the beach and bouncing up and down?” Anderson, the one not playing the dumb-blond role this time, replied: “Oh, honey, it was slow-motion camera work.”
Speaking of ditzy blonds: Paris Hilton reportedly parks in a handicapped spot every time she visit her boyfriend, Arizona Cardinals quarterback Matt Leinart, at his swanky Los Angeles apartment, according to the New York Post. Hilton’s rep said: “I find the reports surprising.”
Kevin Federline is sleeping in the basement, his mother-in-law has hired a “Christian life coach” and Britney Spears is “a hormonal mess,” a source told Us magazine. Life in the Mailbu trailer park, uh, mansion is no parade for the twice-pregnant Spears. Her mother, Lynne Spears, reportedly hired the life coach to get her daughter back to her Baptist roots and to find the power to ditch Federline. An insider said, however, “Britney won’t throw Kevin out. If he leaves, it is because he decided it was time to go.”
Alanis Morissette and actor Ryan Reynolds are splitting up after a two-year engagement, People magazine reported. Morissette, 32, and Reynolds, 29, met at Drew Barrymore’s birthday party in 2002 and dated for two years before becoming engaged.
John O’Hurley and his wife, Lisa, are expecting their first child in December, People magazine reports. The man who played catalog king J. Peterman on “Seinfeld” was married two years ago in August and is “convinced it’ll be a girl. We’re going to name her Annie.” If it’s a boy? O’Hurley replied: “We’re going to name him Neiman Marcus!”
Paul Oakenfold was stunned when he first heard actress Brittany Murphy sing on his new single “Faster Kill Pussycat,” the Sun in London reported. The DJ said of Murphy: “Her voice wasn’t what I had expected. I think people should judge the record for the record. I’d rather they listened to the song first and then know it was Brittany. Otherwise people say it’s another actress trying to do a record and it throws you a little bit.”
Dan Rather’s days at CBS appear to be numbered, the New York Post reported. The former anchorman is likely to leave the network at the end of this year, the Post reported Wednesday, citing an industry insider. Meanwhile, in an unauthorized Rather biography, “Lone Star,” fellow “60 Minutes” correspondent Morley Safer told author Alan Weisman, he “has not been a friend of Rather’s for years, since their days in Vietnam.” The animosity dates to Safer’s report about a platoon of Marines burning a Vietnamese village. “When Rather replaced me … he went to a group of Marines and said, ‘If I were you guys, I would have shot him.’ Or words to that effect,” Safer said. “And that my report should never have gone on the air.” “Lone Star” is due out in September.
