Is Bruce Springsteen’s 20-year marriage to Patti Scialfa on the rocks? The New York Post reports Springsteen has struck up a friendship with a stunning 9/11 widow, a source said. “They’re separated, but everyone has been sworn to secrecy,” a pal of the couple claimed. Springsteen and the unknown woman have been spotted several times at the Beacon Hill Beach Club in Monmouth, N.J., and at the Asbury Park watering hole, the Stone Pony. The widow is said to be a member of the swank Atlantic Club gym in Red Bank, and her children attend the exclusive Ranney School with Springsteen’s children. Victoria Scialfa, Patti’s mother, said: “I don’t know anything about it; I don’t want to talk about it.” A Springsteen rep declined comment.
Mick Jagger’s girlfriend of more than four years, L’Wren Scott, was spotted wearing a sparkling diamond ring on her engagement finger on a shopping trip to London with Nicole Kidman, a source told the British tabloid the Daily Express.
Paul McCartney is donating $3 million to a land-mine charity after dropping out of a Los Angeles fundraiser he was to co-host with estranged wife Heather Mills. According to several British media reports, McCartney was the main attraction, and several celebrities, including Jack Nicholson, had purchased tickets.
Nick Lachey’s backstage encounter with his ex-wife, Jessica Simpson, at the Teen Choice Awards may have been more awkward than previously reported. Simpson co-hosted the show, and Lachey won an award for best love song on Aug. 20. Upon bumping into each other backstages, a source told Us Weekly, “They looked at each other, then Nick looked away and kept walking. Jessica freaked out, though, and (friend and hairstylist) Ken Paves started fanning her.”
Jessica Alba is toothless after a heavy love scene with “Good Luck, Chuck” co-star Dane Cook. “I lost a tooth. Isn’t that disgusting? Dane and I were smashing our faces together,” Alba was quoted by teenhollywood.com. Alba’s publicist, downplaying the incident, said, “She chipped a tooth, and it was easily fixed.”
Will some of Michael Jackson’s art collection end up on eBay? An art-gallery owner in Santa Ynez Valley, Calif., claims Jackson owes him for framing two large murals of the singer: one frolicking with Peter Pan and another dancing in a rainbow of colors, according to Santa Barbara magazine. The gallery owner said he may sell the portraits on the internet. The August/September issue also reports Jackson quietly is unloading his Neverland menagerie. His “elephant sold to a big wheel (circus) near Los Angeles,” a source said. Four of Jackson’s giraffes also available “for $35,000 a pair.”
Kevin Federline claims he aced his GED, a high school equivalency degree. “I actually got amazing test scores on it,” K-Fed told GQ magazine. “Not that it’s the hardest thing in the world. But especially the math. I got pretty high test scores for the state of California.” We’re guessing he’s using all his math skills counting his wife Britney Spears’ money.
Luxembourg Prince Louis, 20, left, announced he will marry Tessy Anthony on Sept. 29, Hello! magazine’s website reported. The couple raised more than a few eyebrows when they became first-time parents of son Gabriel in March. Louis, third in line to the throne, has said when he marries he will give up any claim to be king.
