Posted Aug 4th 2007 1:32PM by TMZ StaffAlleged Lindsay lovah Samantha Ronson busied herself helping the staff at Hyde manage the all-important VIP list -- while between smoke breaks. If the DJ career doesn't work out, it looks like Sam's found another way to make some dough.

Scientology-rific Giovanni Ribisi, Natalie Walker and Macy Gray also hit up Hyde. Ribisi seemed less than thrilled with his night on the town. Walker, on the other hand, entertained paps by claiming to be a question writer for "Jeopardy." She'll take "Upcoming Hot Blondes" for $1,000, Alex.

"Hills" hottie Audrina Partridge tried to make a break for it outside of Les Deux, but couldn't quite beat the oncoming traffic.

And Kim Kardashian and Steve-O hung hard with some more, uh, mature friends. Said Steve, "Tonight is about teaching beautiful old ladies how to party so hard that they have to go to rehab."

Posted Aug 4th 2007 1:30PM by TMZ StaffSo this is how Jack Nicholson keeps so many women on the hook! TMZ has exclusively learned that a new unauthorized biography on the joker suggests that Nicholson has a uniquely shaped member.

That's just one of the things revealed in "Five Easy Decades," the new unauthorized tell-all from author Dennis McDougal. Among the never-before revealed details: A self-portrait that Nicholson scrawled in pen, and photos of the hot tub in Nicholson's Hollywood Hills home. The hot tub is the infamous hot spot where "Chinatown" director Roman Polanski allegedly raped a 13-year-old girl more than thirty years ago.

The book also dishes on Jack's family secrets, and as reported in Page Six, his cadre of illegitimate children.

Posted Aug 4th 2007 11:39AM by TMZ Staff
Filed under: Wacky and WeirdRabble-rousing actor/Madonna ex Sean Penn is taking his show on the road -- with Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez. The politically-charged star has been hanging with Venezuela's socialist leader during a tour of the Venezuelan countryside.

The Chavez-Penn love affair was sparked, said Chavez, because Penn is "anti-Bush." Danny Glover and Harry Belafonte have also had face time with the Venezuelan leader.

Said Penn of his visit: "I'm also here as a journalist and so I owe it to that medium to wait until I've digested, fact-checked and finished my journey here" before saying more. The "Mystic River" actor has also done reporting stints in Iran and Iraq.

Posted Aug 4th 2007 11:04AM by TMZ Staff"Good Morning America" co-host Robin Roberts successfully underwent surgery to treat breast cancer yesterday, and the 46-year-old GMA gabber is reportedly already home from the hospital. This past Tuesday, Roberts announced on-air that she was diagnosed with the disease, and revealed that GMA film critic Joel Siegel's battle with cancer prompted her to get checked out.

Her revelation resulted in an outpouring of support -- and an increase in women seeking mammograms and breast exams.

A rep for "Good Morning America" said that while her surgery was successful, doctors don't yet know the long-term impact.

Posted Aug 4th 2007 10:40AM by TMZ Staff
Filed under: Wacky and WeirdGodfather of Soul James Brown was named the real father of two more children on Friday. He publicly acknowledged six children, but new DNA testing revealed that LaRhonda Petitt, and another unidentified individual are also Brown's kids.

Petitt, who was interviewed by the Augusta Chronicle, is 45-years-old -- the oldest of Brown's identified children. She revealed that Brown picked her mother out of a Los Angeles audience and the two began dating, but that Brown split when he found out about the pregnancy. It's a man's world!

Said Petitt, "I was angry that he was out there making all this money, and he wasn't doing anything for my mother and me. I could have had a better life." Several people have claimed to be Brown's babies, but so far, only two of the dozen or so tested have been positively identified as the late, great soulman's spawn.

Posted Aug 4th 2007 10:05AM by TMZ Staff
Filed under: Celebrity Justice, Wacky and Weird, Paris HiltonA Philadelphia identity theft ring targeted hundreds of people, including Paris Hilton!

The postal villains used celebs' personal information to make up fake checks and apply for credit cards, reports local CBS affiliate KYW. Victims of the mail fraud include Patti Labelle, Whitney Houston and J.Lo.

Two people were arrested yesterday in conjunction with the scam. The scheming scammers used postal service change of address forms to redirect stars' mail to their North Philadelphia row home.

Posted Aug 4th 2007 8:50AM by TMZ Staff
Filed under: Let's Get This Party StartedHot on the heels of a meeting between burned Eddie Murphy mamas Scary Spice and Nicole Murphy, funny man Eddie Murphy released a statement about his most recent spice-y lover. Eddie, according to People, acknowledges paternity of the child Angel, and has paid child support to Ms. Brown as well as covering the expenses of her pregnancy."

Murphy also denied Scary Spice's claim that daughter Angel Iris' birth was planned, saying that he and Brown only dated briefly and never planned a damned thing.

Brown and her lawyer, omnipresent Gloria Allred, claim that Murphy hasn't paid a cent in child support and have filed a paternity suit against the actor, who has five other children with wife Nicole Murphy.

Nicholson's Secret Son Scandal

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Posted Aug 4th 2007 6:00AM by TMZ Staff
Filed under: Wacky and Weird, Style InsiderAloha, stugots! James Gandolfini was in Hawaii with girlfriend Deborah Lin. The two were photographed getting their groove on while wading in the water without concrete shoes.

The hunky "Sopranos" star went nose to nose with his goomah in Oahu. Save the dolphins! Mahalo!