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Kim Kardashian has infuriated Sephora by opting to sell her perfume line to mass-market retailers after signing an exclusive deal with the chain, according to sources. The reality star and the fragrance's manufacturer and branding company, Lighthouse Beauty, inked a deal with Sephora to exclusively sell the perfume, which is now its top-seller. But a rep for Kardashian confirmed that Lighthouse Beauty plans to widen distribution to other stores including Target and Macy's.

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Wyclef Jean has lashed out at the provisional election council (CEP), claiming the body violated Haiti's constitution when they disqualified him from the upcoming Presidential race.

While no reason was given, Wyclef Jean  was presumably denied a bid to run because he did not meet the country's residency requirements because he has not lived in the country for five consecutive years.

The rapper can appeal the ruling, although there is no higher governing body in the country other than the CEP.

The AFP reports that the rapper recorded a message in Creole and distributed it to the Haitian media.

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If so, there's plenty of time for her to sign on for next season's Dancing With the Stars. But should she even consider it?

DWTS pro Mark Ballas said he wouldn't mind a twirl on the dancefloor with LiLo.

"I'm up for a challenge," Ballas told me at the Creative Arts Emmys.

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Former top-flight entertainer, Garfield 'Zebra' Vassell, was relocated from the Spanish Town lock-up recently after it is alleged that he threw urine on a policeman.

Vassell, who is facing a rape charge in the Spanish Town Resident Magistrate's Court, was reported to have done the act early last week.

Since the incident, THE STAR has learnt that the deejay was transferred to the Portmore police lock-up.

Allegations are that the incident occurred after Vassell started to defy the rules of officers on duty at the jail. He is reported to have confronted an officer and then the liquid was thrown on him. The police is reported to have then subdued the accused.

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Two weeks after being hospitalized for overdosing on aspirin and a sleep aid, singer Fantasia Barrino says she knew exactly what she was doing. She wanted to die.

"I didn't have any fight in me. I didn't care about anything. I just wanted out," the American Idol winner, 26, tells VH1 in a new Behind the Music interview, airing 9 p.m. ET/PT Tuesday, the same day her new album, Back to Me, is released. "At that moment, I wanted out. I wanted it to be over with – all of it, all of that [expletive]."

She continues: "I just sat in the closet and looked at the mirror and took all the pills in the bottle. I wanted to go to sleep and just be at peace. I knew exactly what I was doing. You can't accidentally take a whole bottle of pills."


Barrino's manager, Brian Dickens, recalls finding her lying on the floor in her room. "Her emotions were extremely low," he says. "She'd been crying all day. Fantasia was just numb. Fantasia texted me, saying 'I love you.' I wrote back, 'I love you more.' Then it hit me."

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Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz are in their honeymoon phase – and still basking in wedded bliss.

"Everything was just wow. It was a blessing," Beatz, 31, tells Access Hollywood about their July 31 nuptials. "It was positive energy, and we're still in those moments."

The couple, who tied the knot at a private home on the Mediterranean Sea, are also expecting their first child together.

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Between filming Keeping Up The Kardashians, promoting her expanding fashion and beauty empire, and dealing with the ever-present paparazzi, Kim Kardashian rarely steps out of the house without a full face of a makeup on. “Makeup is my life,” Kim tells Allure in its September issue. In fact, when Kim was just 14, her father enrolled her in beauty school “to learn how to apply makeup properly, so I wouldn’t have too much on or look crazy.”

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Dr. Frank Ryan, a well-known plastic surgeon who performed Heidi Montag's  extensive procedures last year, died in a single-car accident Monday in Los Angeles, according to a report.

Ryan's Jeep careened off the Pacific Coast Highway and landed on the rocks below, according to TMZ.com. Ryan, 50, was pronounced dead at the scene.