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To get at the truth, the family of Kandi Burruss's late fiancé is looking to raise the dead.

A.J. Jewell did not have sickle-cell anemia, according to a spokesman for Jewell's relatives, who have requested that a second autopsy be performed by a private coroner to clear up any inconsistencies surrounding his death last month from a head injury sustained in a fight outside an Atlanta strip club.

Results are expected in about two weeks. The Real Housewives of Atlanta fixture was laid to rest over a month ago.

The Fulton County medical examiner ruled Jewell's death a homicide and the other guy in the fight, Frederick Richardson, has been charged with voluntary manslaughter.

But Jewell's family disagrees with the finding that sickle-cell anemia aggravated his injuries.

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Sometimes the heavy bars on a jail cell aren't just to keep people in.

Nicholas Prugo, one of the key suspects in of a series of celebrity-targeting burglaries, was placed in protective custody after a Nevada court errantly shared an affidavit with the media that detailed how he ratted out his cohorts what the 18-year-old L.A. teen had been telling investigators about the crimes.

Interested parties apparently frown on such things, because both he and his family have since been the target of threats, according to Prugo's attorney, Sean G. Erenstoft.

"This is horrifying," Erenstoft told E! News, referring to the Clark County Court's slip-up, which he says was a violation of Prugo's civil rights.

"This court's staff violated 200 years of common law...I think they were trying to please the media. I'm not saying whether it was intentional or just neglectful."

The document also revealed just how important Prugo is to the L.A. district attorney's case, Erenstoft says.

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Ecstatic screams and fluttering hearts translate the same in any language.

"Thank you all so much for coming," Robert Pattinson told a crowd of adoring fans in Tokyo, his latest stop on the whirlwind New Moon publicity tour.

"It's always really surprising, whenever we go anywhere in the world, there seems to be so many people everywhere who are just as passionate...It's always just amazing to find that out."

You'd think the British über-heartthrob would be used to it by now.

The largely female crowd started lining up hours ahead of time for Rob's appearance at Shinigawa Intercity Hall, where the ambiguously attached vampire portrayer took questions from the audience—which was instructed beforehand not to inquire about his personal life.

Yet the Edward-lovers found stuff to ask him, maybe about the movie or whatever. New Moon director Chris Weitz was also on-hand for the Q&A session and to take pictures afterward, as was Japanese pop star Miliyah Kato, whose song "Destiny" has been heard in some of the film's trailers.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the world, Bella and Jacob held court...

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Randy Quaid's going to be spending his Christmas vacation in the clink if he's not careful.

The Santa Barbara District Attorney's Office is drawing up the paperwork to have Quaid and his wife Evi extradited from Texas, where the duo opted to remain rather than show up for a court hearing today in their unpaid bill case.

"The D.A.'s Office will be seeking extradition of the Quaids," spokesman Lee Carter tells E! News. "That process will take at least two to three weeks. I started to prepare the extradition paperwork when they did not appear last week."

What foresight!

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Now here's a woman Justin Timberlake is definitely not into.

The Grammy winner obtained a restraining order today against one Karen McNeil, whom Timberlake's camp says has been treating herself to cab rides to his front door, E! News confirmed.

She showed up Thursday and wouldn't leave, resulting in her arrest when JT's staff called the cops.

Authorities brought her to a local hospital to get checked out, with doctors determining that McNeil did not qualify for a 5150 (danger to herself or others) psychiatric hold. She was released from custody today.

But this isn't the first time McNeil has let her fan flag fly way too high: The L.A. District Attorney's Office confirmed to E! News that she pleaded no contest to two counts of disobeying a court order in 1997. Reports from that time say she violated an order of protection granted to Axl Rose.

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We hope everything turns out all right for Matt Damon.

The oft-involved actor was forced to pull out of a charity event tonight in San Francisco due to a "family emergency of a serious nature," his rep confirms to E! News.

"He wouldn't have missed this otherwise," she said.

Organizers for the Second Annual OneXOne Fundraiser, which Damon had been scheduled to host, had said earlier today that it's main man couldn't make it.

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Caution: Paparazzi in mirror are closer than they appear.

A security car trailing a vehicle that was carrying Michael Jackson's three children was rear-ended by a photographer this afternoon in Los Angeles, TMZ reports.

Prince Michael, Paris Katherine and Blanket are said to be fine, though we feel they're a little young to be experiencing the Hollywood starlet treatment.

Lindsay Lohan, for instance, was famously involved in several smashups caused by over-eager paparazzi who just couldn't seem to stay off the girl's fender.

Luckily, teh Jackson brood had a whole other vehicle between them and the offending photog, who took off before police arrived at the crash site, which was just a few miles away from the Jacksons' compound in Encino. A hit-and-run report was filed close to 2:30 p.m.

Earlier this month, a judge determined that the kids were doing "wonderfully" under the care of their grandmother Katherine.

She knew enough to arrange for that extra layer of vehicular paparazzi protection, didn't she?

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Can't the paps just leave 'em alone? It would be a shame if the wee Jacksons end up in this gallery of celebs giving photogs the one-fingered salute.

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Michael Jackson's comeback may have been a career killer for Dr. Conrad Murray.

The Nevada-based cardiologist hasn't been able to practice medicine since getting sucked up in the postmortem Jackson saga and that's why he now looks like a deadbeat, according to Murray's attorney.

"One of the reasons he went to work for Michael Jackson was to pay this off," lawyer Chris Aaron tells E! News, referring to the more than $13,000 in support payments he owes the mother of one of his children.

Not only did Murray never get paid for the weeks he spent as Jackson's personal physician, but all the media scrutiny has made him persona non grata in the public eye.

Murray missed a hearing on the child-support issue on Oct. 7 and a bench warrant was issued for his arrest. Aaron, who's repping the doc in these family matters, said his client's absence from the hearing was a simple oversight.

"Normally, he has a staff," Aaron said. "With everything going on, he's been in California, he's been having to go back and forth, and it just slipped through the cracks."

There is quite a bit going on.

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David Hasselhoff is doing fine. But, as usual, the media's a bit on the sick side.

According to his attorney, the Hoff's trip to the hospital yesterday was a minor incident and was blown out of proportion after the fact.

"He is totally normal," lawyer Mel Goldsman told E! News Monday. "He was released almost immediately after he arrived at the hospital."

The America's Got Talent judge felt dizzy at his home Sunday afternoon and was taken to a nearby hospital by ambulance, prompting speculation that he had been nipping at the cooking sherry.

In fact, he was good to go after about an hour, Goldsman said. A rep for Hasselhoff explained that the actor was experiencing a side-effect from taking the antinausea drug Antivert and Antabuse, which is used by recovering alcoholics to create acute sensitivity to booze.

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Way to kill two birds with one stone.

Police have charged an 18-year-old man with felony burglary in connection with break-ins at the homes of both Lindsay Lohan and Audrina Patridge, E! News confirmed Thursday.

Nicholas Prugo, who's accused of burglarizing the ladies' respective residences, was arrested at around 7:30 a.m. by Hollywood burglary detectives, according to LAPD spokeswoman Officer Sarah Faden.

"They arrived at the 3500 block of Gladiola Drive in the city of Calabasas, where they took Nicholas Prugo into custody," Faden said.

"He's being charged with felony burglary and being held on $20,000 bail. The case will be presented to the District Attorney's Office and at this point it is still pretty much ongoing.

When contacted for comment, a receptionist at Prugo's father's office said he had left for the day.

Well, here's hoping Patridge and Lohan—who has since moved from the scene of the crime—can rest easier tonight.

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The aftermath of Michael Jackson's death continues to unfold in black and white.

Having already combed through Dr. Conrad Murray's Houston offices and a public storage space, the Los Angeles Police Department and Drug Enforcement Administration assembled a team to tear through Murray's Vegas offices and home.

Authorities were looking for any signs of the anesthetic propofol and pretty much any document, correspondence or electronic record mentioning Jackson or one of 19 aliases, including the name Omar Arnold, a pseudonym the King of Pop had used in the past for medical purposes, and Prince Michael, Jackson's eldest (perhaps) son.

A few hours after executing their search warrants, officials toted away a few plastic bins and some thick manila envelopes. Who knows if among the following items they'll find some answers, too:

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Angelina Jolie may be a woman of the world, but, at the end of the day, she's ours.

The roving Goodwill Ambassador and son Maddox returned to Los Angeles Friday following their whirlwind trip to Iraq on behalf of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

Mother and child kept their eyes on the prize—their chauffeured SUV—as they made their way out of LAX's Tom Bradley International Terminal, through a back entrance, accompanied by one bodyguard and one assistant.

When asked by our camerman how the trip went, Jolie nodded and said, "It was great."

And then she couldn't help but smile as she got into her waiting car, perhaps thinking of all the paparazzi waiting for her outside the front entrance of the terminal.

Not to mention the dude waiting for her back home.

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