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Lawyers for Paris Hilton and investors have settled a lawsuit in Miami that claimed she didn’t do enough to promote her 2006 movie “Pledge This!”

Court papers filed late Thursday indicate a settlement was reached last week. No terms were announced and final documents must be filed by Nov. 11. Hilton’s spokeswoman and an attorney for the investors had no immediate comment Friday.

The investors originally sued the 29-year-old actress and celebrity socialite for $8.3 million. But after a trial, a federal judge ruled they could not collect that much. Earlier this year, the judge said Hilton could be liable for about…

NEW YORK (AP) — Vogue subscribers may have noticed an e-mail from Tina Fey in their inboxes. The fashion magazine mailed a note from the actress promoting her cover story for its March issue.

Vogue said that Fey used her self-deprecating humor to describe her Vogue experience. She compared it to things you might expect to only see once in your lifetime — Haley’s Comet or the eruption of Mount St. Helen’s volcano.

The promotional e-mail includes links to renew a…

Yeah…that really is Kelly Osbourne! How freakin’ amazing does the cleaned up star look these days? It looks like she’s kept off the weight from her stint on Dancing With The Stars and lost even more in recent months! Good for her, right?! To emphasize just how much she’s changed over the past couple of years, we’ve gathered a gallery of Kelly’s weight ups and downs for you to check out. Don’t forget to share your thoughts in the comment section!

Miranda Lambert and Dierks Bentley are the latest stars to speak out on Carrie Underwood’s recent engagement.

During the Grammy Awards, Miranda Lambert gushed about what kind of bride and wife Carrie will be. “Carrie is very down to earth and stable. She’s a great girl. She really is. I’m happy for her.”

Dierks also gave his congratulations to the couple “They are really cute together. They seem pretty devoted to each other, and they come from a good background, so I think that’s the key to a good marriage.”

As for Carrie herself, well, girls just…

BERLIN (AP) — Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio celebrated nearly a decade working together as they presented the director’s latest film, “Shutter Island,” at the Berlin film festival Saturday.

Based on a novel by “Mystic River” author Dennis Lehane, the 1950s psychological thriller is the fourth film pairing Scorsese with DiCaprio, after “Gangs of New York” (2002), “The Aviator” (2004) and the Oscar-winning “The Departed” (2006).

“Each experience has been unique. It’s been a progression, now it’s been 10 years,” DiCaprio, 35, said at a news conference with the director as their new film premiered out of competition in…

Ellen DeGeneres joined “American Idol” last night. This morning ET talks to fellow judge Kara DioGuardi to get her take on Ellen’s judging skills, but also her feelings about the rumor that Howard Stern is being considered to replace Simon Cowell when he leaves next season.

“Right now that is a rumor, and I don’t even know if I can speak on it, because I don’t think he has musical background,” Kara says about Howard. “If you are going to replace Simon, you have to have that background. You have to have somebody…