Lindsay ran squealing to gossip show Access Hollywood, calling her father "out of control" and just sorta, you know, defeating the purpose of telling someone else to rein it in. But later on, Lindsay decided to close the barn door herself and write a "sensible" and thorough blog post, perhaps not realizing that a whole Assateague Island's worth of horses had already escaped. Samantha demurely (as far as "demurely" goes in this festering hellhole of a world) circumvented all the conventional channels and went right to the people first. Via her MySpace blog of course! Lindsay and Sam are not the first people of note to do this, but they are embroiled in some pretty high profile antics, unlike other MySpace celebrity bloggers like the low-profile, dim and withered Courtney Love. Which is to say, right now these girls are pretty famous and wouldn't it be interesting to see someone huge like, say, Katie Holmes, respond to scandal with a humble blog entry?

While it's debatable just how modest and un-self-possessed a blog entry, aimed at the public, about oneself, really is, it's certainly less middlemany and corporate and hungry than going on a television show to air one's delicates. Plus you have control over your own words! (Though, you do run the risk of drunk-blogging.) It may seem suicidal, but it would be fascinating to watch the celebrity-to-civilian relationship develop into a one-on-one internet relationship, completely strangling the gossip industry, which would be forced to just repurpose blog entries that everyone had already read.

I mean cause that's totes not what we do already.

• Tim Gunn of Project Runway thinks Katie Holmes is regressing, fashionwise, with the baggy jeans and overall tomboy look. But maybe husband Tom Cruise likes the tomboy look. Or, better still, hates it! Maybe she's regressing to more independent days. [People]
• Meanwhile, Cruise phoned up ole Liz Smith at the Post for some friendly chatter about how he doesn't "run United Artists, I just own it" and how his ousted business partner Paula Wagner "wants to produce elsewhere and in her own venue, and I don't intend to stand in her way." [Post]
• Lindsay Lohan posted to her MySpace account a blog entry about her dad, who lashed out at her girlfriend Samantha Ronson for supposedly trying to exploit Lindsay's fame. "He has become a public embarrassment and a bully - to my family, my co-workers, my friends, and a girl that means the world to me... His recent attack on my life and my loved ones is simply for an ADDICTION THAT HE HAS - FAME." [Myspace via Sun]
• Maybe Eliot Spitzer's hooker Ashley Dupre ratted the then-governor out on behalf of her mob buddies? This idea was written by a private eye in an epilogue in the paperback edition of a book by an editor at CNBC. So it must be true. [P6]
• Magazine editors really like appearing on Gossip Girl. The next one is from Gotham. [P6]
• Onetime teen star McKenzie Phillips was arrested at LAX airpot trying to bring bags of cocaine and heroin through a security checkpoint. That's actually a useful trick for checking into rehab super quick. [National Enquirer]
• Naomi Campbell's Russian billionaire boyfriend bought her a $19 million apartment in a fancy part of Sao Paolo, Brazil. It comes with a complete staff of servants for her to brutalize. And extra cell phones! [P6]

• Anne Hathaway: "I was kind of afraid of [Barack] Obama the first time I saw him... I was afraid to trust him and I was afraid to have hope when I first kind of became aware of him. It was around the time that he gave his speech on race that I just said 'I can't deny how I feel about you, Barack Obama.'" Please just stop talking, Anne. This is almost worse than the Madonna/McCain/Hitler thing. [AP]
• Lindsay Lohan's girlfriend Samantha Ronson is supposedly writing a book, which some people speculate will include prominent mentions of Lohan. Lindsay's estranged, constantly-courting-the-press father Michael piped up to complain: "People never even knew who Samantha Ronson was until she met Lindsay." Actually, Ronson had some renown as a DJ. Michael Lohan, on the other hand, was basically unknown. [Sun]
• Jennifer Aniston flaunted the paparazzi attention her ex John Mayer so desperately craves. She also pretended to have a thrilling date at one of Mayer's favorite restaurants, proving that neither party has a lock on desperation. [OK!]
• Ellen DeGeneres signed on to the big celebrity anti-cancer event being led by all the big broadcast news anchors. [E!]

• Madonna probably helped John McCain a bit by showing a video of him alongside images of Hitler, Robert Mugabe, starving children and global warming. Obama was depicted as Gandhi and John Lennon. Luckily for Obama this video has not yet been shown in the U.S. [Times]
• The creator of Gossip Girl hates how the CW is advertising Gossip Girl. [New York]
• After breaking up with fellow billion-heiress Courtenay Semel, Casey Johnson took a "really hot brunette" named Lisa to a party in honor of Kathie Lee Gifford. Both women wore skimpy S&M-themed outfits, which were deemed "inappropriate" because they were more edgy than what Regis Philbin was wearing. Well then! [P6]
• Lindsay Lohan and her girlfriend Samantha Ronson went baby clothes shopping. [R&M]
• Due to her 8,000 children, Angelina Jolie can get more free money from the French government than many Americans earn through actual physical labor. Or so says an English tabloid. [Sun]
• Jennifer Aniston's ex is maybe engaged to Cameron Diaz, who used to date Aniston's ex, John Mayer. Mayer, meanwhile, can't get any attention from the paparazzi now that he's not attached to Aniston.
• Heidi Montag is dressing up as Olivia Newton John to sell her terrible music. [Hot Or Not]
• TV chef Jamie Oliver, whose books include a recipe for a bacon sandwich just perfect after a long night at the pub, slammed the Brits as people who would rather get drunk than eat well. [Mail]

SidAndFinancy's new line beats the original, "Yeah I'm Going to Heaven. Lindsay's Only Halfway There."

At one stage, the friend added, both Courtenay and Samantha were separately visiting Lindsay at a rehab unit called Promises.

The pal went on: “By now Lindsay was sending ‘I love you’ notes to Samantha and signing them ‘Lindsay Ronson’ but telling Courtenay she loved her too."

By October, Courtenay appeared to have the upper hand. She and Lindsay moved into a rented house in Beverly Hills. “But still Lindsay brought men back,” the pal added. “Courtenay would throw fits of rage, writing her hundreds of angry e-mails from another room in the house.

“The sexual attraction between them was electric though and they’d still kiss and make up."

Eventually, Semel moved out and Lohan ended up with with Ronson. In this light, Semel's makeout with Tequila could be seen as kind of a sad attempt to get attention from her long-rumored ex.

The truly sad part of the tabloid report, though, is its assertion that Lohan devolved into drug addiction amid her relationship with Semel because she didn't know how to cope with her lesbianism. Her father Michael, from whom she is estranged, is a devout Christian and skittish about homosexuality, which might have left Lohan without a support network. Against this backdrop, Lohan's recent defacto coming out looks both genuine and necessary for her health.

[News Of The World]

• John Mayer dumped Jennifer Aniston after the actress pushed him for "a timetable" and to promise not to tour so much when they eventually make babies together. (Sounds clingy.) There was a trial split first. Aniston was said "furious" initially but now is pretending that she's "already dating someone else in LA."
• Keith Olbermann is not so sure MSNBC should be teaming up with Rupert Murdoch on some stupid "citizen journalism" project involving MySpace, so in retaliation the Post ran the absolute fattest, least attractive picture of the Countdown anchor it could find. [P6]
• Jeffrey Epstein has been visited in prison by the 29-year-old woman who used to find him "willing young women," and also the 23-year-old he once supposedly dubbed his "Yugoslavian sex slave." [P6]
• Samantha Ronson, 31, on Lindsay Lohan: "She's great. She's also 22 years old." [E!]
• Britney Spears doesn't want her kids to go into show business, and her Dad says Kevin Federline's "heart is right." [Scoop]
• Shelley Malil, who co-starred in the movie 40-Year-Old-Virgin, is suspected of having stabbed his ex-girlfriend 20 times. [LA Times]
• Some British boutique made an ad featuring a fur coat draped over a woman wearing a Stella McCartney bra. Stella's kind of a big time animal-rights activist who detests fur coats. Hilarity ensues, LOL. [P6]

Charlotte designs t-shirts or dresses or whatever and does charity stuff, producer/DJ Mark, while talented, got his start with his famous parents' connections, and his sister DJ Samantha followed on his coattails. She's admitted to not knowing how to use DJ equipment during her first gigs.

(The Ronsons don't have an "adopted" daughter, as Royal Tenenbaum always mentions when introducing his daughter Margot, but they do have children from their mom's second marriage that aren't featured.)

[Harper's Bazaar]

• Sad Tori Spelling is un-joining the 90210 spinoff because she's making like half as much as Shannen Doherty. Which is unfair because Spelling wrote a bestseller! Wait, really? (Yes. Sigh.) [Deadline Hollywood]
• A blogger successfully pissed off a real-life princess! Very awesome, New York Social Diary. [P6]
• Katie Holmes skipped a huge Scientology party in LA to take her daughter to see Mary Poppins in New York, where she's preparing for her Broadway debut in All My Sons. What does she have against flying on Tom Cruise's jet to Tom Cruise's crazy Scientology party?? [X17]
• Tom Cruise told Ben Stiller, "I want to have big hands," then did a crazy dance. Stiller: "If this thing was on YouTube, it would be all over the world." [Scoop, second item]
• Courtenay Semel, who is a lesbian and the daughter of the ex-CEO of Yahoo and who does spell her name like that, is officially having a fling with Tila Tequila. But she at least admits it's a publicity stunt. (Not being a lesbian, but being a Tila Tequila lesbian.) [P6]
• Paul McCartney might marry Nancy Shevell of the Hamptons. [Oh No They Didn't]
• Bill Cosby's daughter Evin, who has a boutique in Tribeca, has been told "you speak like a white woman," so she can totally relate to Barack Obama. In fact, maybe she should try emailing him about that! [R&M]
• Diane von Furstenburg, the designer and the wife of IAC honcho Barry Diller, made inappropriately racy dresses for Mena Suvari. [P6]
• Lindsay Lohan requested the song "I kissed a girl" from Samantha Ronson, so let's all giggle. [Mirror]
• Gloria Gaynor is re-recording "I Will Survive," for some reason. Be afraid! Be petrified! [New York]
• Alex Rodriguez donated "at least" $500,000 to Madonna's charity for children in Malawi, supposedly. [R&M]

"'Police chiefs shouldn't get involved in everybody else's business or their personal lives. It's inappropriate,' Lohan told the photographers as she made her way through Los Angeles International Airport."

"Ronson, 30, said in an update on her Facebook page that Bratton should 'talk less and do more.'

"At a news conference on Thursday, Bratton dismissed a reporter's question that his remark about Lohan was inappropriate. 'No one is more supportive of gay rights than I am,' he said." [Reuters]

Nice save there, Bratty!

Lindsay Lohan and DJ girlfriend Samantha Ronson rolled up to my Monday night Twin Cheeks party at the Cock shortly before 3am last night and shut down the place with us at 4am, dancing to the Ting Tings' That's Not My Name and making small talk with the gays... The cute couple made out here and there but mostly enjoyed themselves, giving me the literal thumbs up at my playlist.

If a celebrity has a lesbian make-out session in a crowded gay bar and no one snaps a cameraphone pic, was she even ogled?

[Twerking]

(Photo via Twerking)

"I spotted Lindsay Lohan & Samantha Ronson in New York Penn Station on July 23 around 6:15 pm. No paparazzi or screaming fans or security. I believe they were trying to catch a train - problem was every train was cancelled due to a power outage. They didn't look like a couple and weren't carrying much luggage but Lohan did have a ticket/boarding pass for something

Boarding pass! Lohan DOES appear to be leaving, and not just the Waverly Inn, people.

They seem to be spiraling outward from Houston and Mott. Hurricane Dolly ain't got nothin on this pair.

Here's the customized map.

As always, send in your sightings to stalker@gawker.com and scream your heart out at the computer screen while perusing our comment-less map.

Bell County's new line beats the original, "No, No. They're Just Commitment Hats"

1. Because of all those celebrity fauxmances

Before Scarlett Johansson was having a supposed email affair with the Democratic nominee she was comparing cup size or at least exchanging some intense glances with her The Other Boleyn Girl co-star Anne Natalie Portman in the pages of W magazine. But that didn't pan out! And don't even get us started on the possibility of a Scarlett — Penelope Cruz affair that was fueled by the steamy trailer for Woody Allen's movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona. We don't want to have to say it. Okay, we'll say it: caliente! Also, back in the day, Penelope and sexy pal Salma Hayek were rumored to be much more than friends. But now Penelope is with some actor dude and didn't Salma recently had a kid with some rich dude. It's going to take a lot more than kissing in public to make us buy a girl-girl star coupling.

2. Because they didn't try to hide it

Plenty of people have had secret affairs they want to cover up (and we're not just talking about Republicans). But Lindsay and Samantha came up with a new way to keep their obviously hot 'n heavy relationship under wraps. By cavorting in public! It's genius. Why would we think she's gay? After all, this ex-rehabber is well versed in the machinations of the celebrity industrial complex — and she has a reputation to protect. Still, she stepped out with her girl toy, getting burgers, holding hands, buying groceries. Regular people do that stuff — not famous lesbians.

3. Because Samantha's not that cute

There. We said it. Not that Long Island Lindsay is really Marilyn Monroe's heir apparent or anything, but the ugly-black-hat-and-sweater-vest wearing DJ is not even the best looking person in her weird family. Could LaLohan really be going out with...her?

4. Because all the gossip blogs said it was so

You just don't buy the whole gay celeb thing when it's shove down your throat. Call it a healthy distrust of the celebrity blogosphere made skeptical by all those crudely drawn sex organs Perez Hilton puts on peoples' faces. A pair of girls or guys can stand within five feet of each other and not set off our gaydar, people. And just because two stars of a popular TV show about New York private school kids decided to shack up, it's no biggie. Wait, that one's obviously true.

Well despite our best efforts not to believe it, now it's really out there. Of course we had our LinRon coming out as well when we labeled Lindsay a gay hero (and at this point she's shooting up our hero list — probably somewhere between Sponge Bob and T.R. Knight). And now it looks like as if the world's most closeted out couple are finally done with the charade.

Not content to just allow the pictures and blogs speak for themselves, LiLo's doing some talking. It's been reported that Lindsay was overheard at her 22nd birthday party telling friends: "I just wanna live a happy, healthy year, continue on the path that I've been on and be with the person that I care about." And the gossip press will just have to accept that Lindsay's here, she's queer—and not just for our titillation.

The matriarch, socialite/writer Ann Dexter-Jones, is a rigorous and shameless self-promoter. It's not an accident her kids are mildly famous! As someone told New York magazine, she's "society with a small 's', the kind of person Nan Kempner thinks it's terribly amusing to know." The kids grew up with stepdad Mick Jones of Foreigner; they're recently divorced and she told the Observer last year she was living in the Bowery Hotel. (She "forgot" to look for a house.) She's also a reiki master!

"I am known as 'Mummy Dearest,' " Ann goes on, eyes narrowing. "I changed the locks when Mark snuck out to stay at Sean Lennon's house because Pearl Jam was coming over. I told the nanny — I was away at the time — he will not sneak in the back door!"

Samantha, 30, a DJ: Her most recent claim to fame, of course, converting her friend Lindsay Lohan to lesbianism. "I have no idea why the media is interested in us," she told New York at 22 years old. "But as long as I'm makin' loot, it's all good." She's the part-owner, along with Chris Noth, of New York nightclub the Plumm, and has a band.



Mark, 32, a DJ: He grew up in London down the street from the McCartneys until age 8. At 14, he got an internship at Rolling Stone. (Jann Wenner's wife was friends with his mom). He started DJing professionally as a senior at Collegiate prep school. He's been labeled a "trust-fund DJ" by the Observer but even Jay-Z concedes that "Nigga is sweet." He bought a $1.8 million apartment in Greenwich Village two years ago and used to be engaged to Rashida Jones, Quincy's daughter. (Now he's dating Gavin Rossdale's long-lost teenage model daughter, Daisy Lowe.) He's also a music producer and has won three Grammys.

Sean Lennon, son of John and Yoko, was his best friend growing up. They used to hang out at kiddie-porn enthusiast Michael Jackson's house when they were kids. Says Mark of the experience:

It's a weird story, but I didn't touch him. We (Ronson and Lennon) used to watch the porn channel because we were, like, 10 and, 'Oh my God, [boobs]!' So Michael was in bed. And me and Sean said, 'Michael, do you want to see something cool?' We turned the dial to the porn channel and there were strippers shaking their [boobs] around. We were like, 'Michael, Michael, how cool is this?' We turned around and he was cringing, saying, 'Ooh, stop it, stop it, ooh, it's so silly.' We were like, 'Michael, you have to look, maybe you're not seeing it right, it's naked girls!' He was not down with the program whatsoever! I think he had really strong feminist views on porn. [Popwrap]

Charlotte, 30, fashion designer: Samantha's twin sister and sort-of socialite has her own line ("Charlotte C. Ronson"), and a Manhattan store. She graduated from NYU. She had a little run-in with Page Six years ago where she accidentally smacked her friend with her car and he needed over a hundred stitches, but hopefully those days are behind her. However, Page Six did say she recently avoided teenage soap star Leven Rambin at a party recently because she had made out with her brother, Mark. Guess Mark likes the young ones?

TedSez's new line beats the original, Sunday in the Park With Georgia Rule.

First of all, the rumors actually have some foundation. The duo were photographed cuddling at a party on P. Diddy's yacht in Cannes, a high-profile affair at which Lohan and Ronson kissed very publicly. They've also been spotted together in New York, L.A., and Chicago. Lohan's Dad is all duh, saying that the nature of their relationship is "evident to anyone with half a brain."

That means nothing. Photos can be misinterpreted or staged. Paris Hilton has made out with other girls, and nobody thinks she did so for any reason other than a need for attention. Even if the two were actually dating, Lohan's crush could be put down to the bisexual experimentation of an emotionally needy 21-year-old. And the Mean Girls star's creepy father Michael is so desperate to reinsert himself into his daughter's life that he'd say anything.

But tellingly, there's been no denial of the speculation from Lindsay's camp. Her PR rep Leslie Sloane said simply that the two are "close friends." Dina Lohan was quoted in US Weekly saying that Samantha was a "a sweetheart" and "the best spinner around," praising her DJ skills. Celebrity weekly insiders are convinced the romance is real—and serious.

Here's what's cool: Lohan has been entirely matter-of-fact about the whole affair. She's continued to appear in public with her rumored lover. There has been no moaning from her about private-life intrusion from the media, and no cries from her cougar mom to "Leave Lindsey ALONE!"

Of course same-sex relationships aren't as scandalous in Hollywood as they once were. There are plenty of openly gay actors and TV personalities, from Ellen De Degeneres to Jodie Foster. But they tend to be much much older when they come out—actors, for instance, when they're no longer up for parts as the heterosexual romantic lead and have less to lose professionally. In the case of leading man Cary Grant, for instance, it was only decades later that his "roommate" Randolph Scott was revealed to have been his lover.

So Lohan's openness is a big deal, and it's awesome! Despite her bouts of rehab and some unfortunate recent roles, she's young and still has most of her career ahead of her, so the stakes are high. Lohan acts as if she's in love with another woman—and she's put her personal happiness over any standard Hollywood career logic. Lohan's love has conquered all! She may be a mess; but someone give her one of those GLAAD awards for surprising us all as a modern gay hero.

[Photo: Celebrity Vibe via People.com]

• Victoria Gotti didn't realize she was getting a $70,000 memoir advance to dish dirt on her mobster dad John. Or maybe she did, but she never thought HarperCollins would have the stones to demand it back. [Post]
• Woody Allen concedes there are threesomes and lesbian scenes in his movie involving Penelope Cruz and Scarlett Johansson and, but explains they constitute "not even 20 seconds of sex." So... about 75 cents per second at the multiplex? Sold. (Oh, the guy: Javier Bardem.) [Showbiz Spy]
• Lindsay Lohan's girlfriend Samantha Ronson posted a MySpace picture of the couple kissing, then thought better of it and removed the picture. [Perez Hilton]
• Someone found an insurance company insane enough to cover Lohan's forthcoming movie, Labor Pains, a romantic comedy that will fix Lohan's life forever. [R&M]
• Still under a spell cast by Vanity Fair mystic Annie Leibovitz, normally chaste 15-year-old Miley Cyrus hooked up with her 22-year-old backup ancer "Marshall." And there are a couple of pictures. [ThinkFashion]
• Heather Mills, yelling in a New York penthouse about puppy mills and feeling a little victimized herself: "I haven't been up for 24 hours and flew here from London to be ignored!" [P6]
• Designed Tommy Hilfiger is going to be in some sort of Bravo special. [P6]
• Meadow Soprano is moving to LA for some TV work. [OK!]

• OMG smoking gun: Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson are hugging and holding hands and putting their faces close together and everything! It's nearly almost practically lesbian kissing, and thus proof that they are girlfriends in that way. [Egotastic] (Photo via Egotastic)
• Yesterday it was reported that singer Amy Winehouse "fled her home, claiming ghosts were trying to harm her." Today the ghosts kept her from showing up on time to accept a prestigious songwriting award for her tune "Love Is A Losing Game." Wait, I think I know this ghost — kind of smoky, likes to hang around glass?
• Hooker-loving actor Charlie Sheen is — go figure! — having a very nasty divorce from Denise Richards, and yesterday he and his friends spread word about the $52,000 per month in tax-free child support Richards gets from Sheen, plus a disputed email in which she asked for access to Sheen's sperm. Today Richards fired back with a purported text message from Sheen: "I hope you and your worthless retarded father get cancer and join your stupid mom. Rot in hell you [bleeping] whore." [P6]
• Tom Cruise had his lawyers threaten a baby boutique owner for supposedly leaking to the press false info that Cruise and wife Katie Holmes spent upwards of $350,000 on baby clothes for Suri in just two years. That money was specifically earmarked for stuck-thetan dry cleaning, and Cruise has the receipts to prove it! [TMZ]
• Can Miley Cyrus ever say no when asked to pose for racy photos? This time it was fellow teen star Nick Jonas who did the asking, and Annie Leibovitz hadn't even put her under hypnosis yet. [Oceanup]
• The woman who voices Lisa Simpson filed for divorce from her husband. E! Online wrote that the divorce came "despite having all the answers on The Simpsons," while TMZ decided to go with "Lisa Has A Cow."

During the whole "Lindsay Ronson" Facebook reveal and the earlier "Get...away from my girlfriend" brouhaha, the freckled scarecrow never really made a peep, to deny or otherwise. Unlike her male counterparts, like former boybander JC Chasez and his possible roommate/lover Chace Crawford (from Gossip Girl, natch), who doth protest too much, it's (can't believe I'm going to say this) almost admirable that Lohan has chosen to take the high road on this one. Of course, she could just be a crazy person who doesn't have any sense of how to handle her PR and her career (this is very, very likely). Or! She's an almost-cool "eh, fuck it" lesbian-type. That would be a fun development in the mostly tired Lohan saga, no?

Image from Splash.

Lohan friend sues blogger for defamation [AP]

Plaintiffs: Samantha Ronson Defendants: Sunset Photo and News, LLC; Jill Ishkanian; Mario Lavandeira dba Perez Hilton Court Name: Los Angeles Superior Court Central District, California Case Number: BC374174 Filing Date: 7/13/2007 Summary: Libel. Plaintiff was falsely accused of planting drugs in Lindsay Lohan's car and setting her up for photographers. Local Plaintiff Lawyer: Bruce Friedman Local Plaintiff Firm: Bingham, McCutchen