Richie, Madden welcome baby girl
“The Simple Life” just got more complicated for Nicole Richie: She’s a first-time mom.
Richie, 26, gave birth Friday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center to a daughter named Harlow Winter Kate Madden, People magazine reported on its Web site.
The father is Richie’s 28-year-old boyfriend, Joel Madden, of the rock group Good Charlotte.
“We are very blessed she’s healthy and beautiful and so good already,” Madden told People on Saturday. “We are very happy.”
Calls to the couple’s representative at Handprint Entertainment, Richie’s publicist and the hospital were not immediately returned Saturday.
Richie, the socialite daughter of singer Lionel Richie, is perhaps best known for costarring with Paris Hilton in the reality show “The Simple Life.”
Last year, she spent 82 minutes in jail after being convicted of driving under the influence of drugs. She was arrested in December 2006 after witnesses reported seeing her Mercedes-Benz SUV headed the wrong way on a freeway in Burbank.
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Courtney Thorne-Smith has given birth to a baby boy, the actress‘ publicist said Sunday.
“The parents are thrilled, and the baby is healthy, well and beautiful,” publicist Karen Samfilippo said.
Thorne-Smith delivered the baby — her first — at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center on Friday, Samfilippo said.
The father is Thorne-Smith’s husband Roger Fishman, a media consultant. The couple named the boy Jacob Emerson Fishman.
Thorne-Smith, 40, is known for roles in several TV shows including “Melrose Place,” “Ally McBeal” and “According to Jim.”
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Toni Collette has given birth to her first child, a baby girl, Australian media reported Friday.
The Sydney-born actress and her husband, musician Dave Galafassi, welcomed Sage Florence Galafassi into the world Wednesday, a spokeswoman said.
“Both mother and baby are very well and very happy,” the spokeswoman said.
Collette, 35, was nominated for a best supporting-actress Oscar for her role in 1999’s “The Sixth Sense.” Her screen credits also include “Little Miss Sunshine,” “The Night Listener” and “Muriel’s Wedding.”
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A lawyer for G-Unit rapper Tony Yayo, who is accused of slapping a 14-year-old boy on a Manhattan street, wants the charges dropped after prosecutors revealed Thursday that another man has confessed.
Yayo, 29, whose real name is Marvin Bernard, has pleaded not guilty to charges of misdemeanor assault, harassment and endangering the welfare of a child. The boy is the son of Jimmy “Henchman” Rosemond, who co-founded Czar Entertainment and manages Yayo’s rival rapper The Game.
A Yayo acquaintance, Lowell Fletcher, told police during an unrelated jailhouse interview that he had slapped the youth in March and Yayo pulled him away, said the rapper’s attorney, Scott Leemon.
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