■ Bill Murray and his wife of nearly 11 years are divorced. Documents filed in Charleston County in South Carolina show that a judge approved a divorce agreement June 13, barely a month after Jennifer Butler Murray filed divorce papers. Under the agreement, the couple's four children will live with their mother. Bill Murray, 55, will have visitation rights and will pay child support. Jennifer Murray will get the couple's home on Sullivans Island, S.C., and their second house in Hemet, Calif. Other documents were sealed at the couple's request. The court papers were first obtained by the Web site TMZ.com.
■ As Paris Hilton's sidekick on The Simple Life, Nicole Richie showed a flair for comedy -- and an impish glee at cracking jokes at others' expense. She will again display a caustic streak in a guest spot on NBC's Chuck, portraying the mean-spirited high-school nemesis of undercover CIA agent Sarah Walker (Yvonne Strahovski). In the episode, which will be broadcast this fall, Sarah must confront Richie's character when she has to attend her 10-year high-school reunion for a mission with fellow agent Chuck Bartowski (Zachary Levi) as her date. Richie has previously been a guest star on TV's American Dreams and 8 Simple Rules ... for Dating My Teenage Daughter.
■ The devil may wear Prada -- but the pope does not. According to the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, the bright-red loafers that Pope Benedict XVI wears are not designed by the Milanese fashion house, as has long been rumored. "Obviously the attribution was false," the Vatican newspaper said in its editions yesterday. "Such rumors are inconsistent with the simple and somber man who, on the day of his election to the papacy, showed to the faithful gathered in St. Peter's Square and to the whole world the sleeves of a modest black sweater," it said. L'Osservatore Romano said that the pope's interest in sometimes apparently off-beat clothing has nothing to do with fashion and everything to do with liturgy -- the symbolism that traditional garments can bring to the Christian liturgy.
■ The California Supreme Court refused Wednesday to take up music producer Phil Spector's claim that the judge who presided over his deadlocked murder trial was biased against him and should be disqualified from handling his second trial. The decision clears the way for Spector's second trial to proceed. It is scheduled for Sept. 29, with a pretrial hearing July 29. Judge Larry Paul Fidler of Superior Court, who presided at the first trial, rejected the defense claims months ago and signed a declaration that he was not biased against any party in the case. Spector, famed for his revolutionary "Wall of Sound" recording technique, is accused of killing actress Lana Clarkson at his mansion on Feb. 3, 2003.
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