The couple were said to have troubles on Monday night and along with the prodding of friend, Nicole Richie, Sam has given Lindsay the boot once more.

A source close to the broken up couple says, “Nicole refused even to be in the same room as Lindsay.” Nicole had a birthday party for a friend that Lindsay was not even invited to, and Samantha attended anyways. This really upset Lindsay, reportedly leading to their falling out.

Finally Lindsay Lohan received the text from Samantha Ronson yesterday. The relationship is over via the simplest way of communication…

Why cannot we value Harry Potter as a wonderful book and not as a money industry ? Hope this plagia accusation is the last one…

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc on Monday denied allegations that J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter’s author) copied “substantial parts” of another children book for the writing of “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.”

This book was published in 2000 and is the fourth installment of the hugely successful wizard Harry Potter series that has sold more than 400 million copies worldwide and been turned into a multi-billion-dollar film franchise.

“The allegations of plagiarism made on Monday 15 June 2009, by the Estate of Adrian Jacobs are unfounded, unsubstantiated and untrue,” said Bloomsbury, which publishes Harry Potter in Britain.

“This claim is without merit and will be defended vigorously.”

In an earlier statement, Jacobs’ estate said that it had issued proceedings at London’s High Court against Bloomsbury Publishing Plc for copyright infringement.

“The Estate is also seeking a court order against J.K. Rowling herself for pre-action disclosure in order to determine whether to join her as a defendant to the … action,” the statement read.

It named the estate’s trustee as Paul Allen, and said that Rowling had copied “substantial parts” of “The Adventures of Willy the Wizard — No 1 Livid Land” written by Jacobs in 1987.

It added that the plot of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire copied elements of the plot of Willy the Wizard, including a wizard contest, and that the Potter series borrowed the idea of wizards traveling on trains.

“Both Willy and Harry are required to work out the exact nature of the main task of the contest which they both achieve in a bathroom assisted by clues from helpers, in order to discover how to rescue human hostages imprisoned by a community of half-human, half-animal fantasy creatures,” the estate statement said.

“It is alleged that all of these are concepts first created by Adrian Jacobs in Willy the Wizard, some 10 years before J.K. Rowling first published any of the Harry Potter novels and 13 years before Goblet of Fire was published.”

According to the statement, Jacobs had sought the services of literary agent Christopher Little who later became Rowling’s agent. Jacobs died “penniless” in a London hospice in 1997, it said.

In its response, Bloomsbury said Rowling “had never heard of Adrian Jacobs nor seen, read or heard of his book Willy the Wizard until this claim was first made in 2004, almost seven years after the publication of the first book in the highly publicized Harry Potter series.

“Willy the Wizard is a very insubstantial booklet running to 36 pages which had very limited distribution. The central character of Willy the Wizard is not a young wizard and the book does not revolve around a wizard school.”

Bloomsbury added that the claim was first made in 2004 by solicitors acting on behalf of Jacobs’ son, who was the representative of his father’s estate.

“The claim was unable to identify any text in the Harry Potter books which was said to copy Willy the Wizard.”

Palin’s family hit the headlines again!

David Letterman apologized his sexual joke about Sarah Palin’s teenage daughters, one of Alaska Gov. as a group of Palin supporters planned a rally demanding the late-night TV show host be fired.

“I told a joke that was beyond flawed, and my intent is completely meaningless compared to the perception” Letterman said during Monday’s taping of “Late Night with David Letterman,” according to a transcript.

“And since it was a joke I told, I feel that I need to do the right thing here and apologize for having told that joke,” he said. “It’s not your fault that it was misunderstood, it’s my fault.”

Letterman has this bad habit of doing jokes. Last tuedsay, for example, he joked that New York Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez had “knocked up” the former vice-presidential nominee’s daughter during a family trip to a baseball game.

But the daughter in question was 14 Willow, not the intended target, 18-year-old unwed mother Bristol. Letterman said the following night that he was confused between the two and would never make sexual jokes about a 14.

Despite his explanation, Palin has charged that Letterman made “sexually perverted” comments.

In the transcript from Monday’s show, Letterman also said he was sorry to Palin and both her daughters.

“I would like to apologize especially to the two daughters involved, Bristol and Willow, and also to the Governor and her family and everybody else who was outraged by the joke. I’m sorry about it and I’ll try to do better in the future,” he said.

The apologies came as a group of Palin supporters, calling themselves FireDavidLetterman.com, planned a Tuesday protest outside the show’s studio at the Ed Sullivan theater in New York’s Times Square.

Palin and protest organizers, including Republican New York State Assemblyman Brian Kolb, have said the comments were demeaning to women, and they are comparing Letterman’s case to that of radio host Don Imus, who was fired from CBS radio for offensive comments about a black women’s basketball team.

Representatives for Palin on Monday were not immediately available to comment on Letterman’s apology.

Ben Affleck’s daughter, still a pre-school have troubles with other parents and local councillors because of the father being famous. The little Nursery School in Santa Monica, California has become a target for paparazzi ever since Violet, 3-year-old, became a student there and parents and teachers claim the photographers are robbing kids of a peaceful arrival. Some worried parents claim they’ve been physically and verbally abused by the snappers, and one alleges her four-year-old was almost run over by one of them !!!

Richard Bloom, member of the Santa Monica City Council is now leading a charge to create school buffer zones, where the photographers cannot stand. An attorney, told the Los Angeles Times, “If this were an isolated thing that had happened once or twice, I wouldn’t be spending my time on it.”

The councillor admits he has spoken with the parents (Garner and Affleck) about their concerns: “They expressed to me that they understand this is a part of their lives that they have to accept, but it’s not something that other people should have to experience.”

Bloom joins Los Angeles City Council member Dennis Zine among those leaders trying to restrict paparazzi access in Tinseltown. Zine has spent the past 18 months pushing measures to create buffer zones throughout Hollywood.