Gossip / Rumors

The 62-year-old Scientolostar said she didn't even know what the photog was talking about -- and the rest weren't too thrilled with the line of questioning either.

In case you were hoping to sit front row at George Clooney's next fashion show, sorry. Reports that Clooney is developing his own clothing line are untrue. (Booooo.)

Clooney, by way of his rep, issued TMZ the following statement: "This is a HOAX. I have no connection whatsoever with any clothing line bearing my name, and more specifically GC EXCLUSIVE by George Clooney."

Rumors of the Lachey/Burke affair began two years ago when the d-listers were partnered on "Dancing with the Stars" but have recently resurfaced. Cheryl Burke's rep denies the two danced the horizontal mambo.

According to a crazazy report by the New York Post, most of the Jackson clan isn't fairing too well financially -- some of the Jackson boys are even still living at home! Check out a rundown of the current state of events.

TMZ tried to get her to open up for Drew Lachey questions outside WeHo hotspot Foxtail, but his "Dancing"/rumored hook-up partner kept her mouth shut. For the record, her rep says it's all BS.

Bobby "Brokedown" Brown has hit a new low. Now he's stiffing the working man!

We hear Brown was in St. Louis for a concert a few weeks ago, and hired a chauffeur to transport him and his entourage from the airport to their hotel.

Sources say Bobby and crew enlisted in the help of a couple of airport skycaps to load his massive luggage. Bobby's brother, el cheapo Tommy, asks the chauffeur, "So, do you guys take care of the skycaps or what?" The shocked driver informed the Brown crew that it's not a part of his job description to pay for skycaps -- so we're told Bobby asked for a loan!

Our source says Brown asked, "Hey, man, do you have like ten or twenty dollars on you?" Evidently with all the people traveling with Bobby -- they didn't have enough cash to scrape up 20 bucks!

The driver loaned Brown the money, and dropped him off at his hotel -- but our source says Bobby never came back down to pay his debt!

Whitney must be laughing all the way to the ATM.

But no one would be surprised if Best, renowned on more than one continent for douchebaggery, was responsible for hawking a tape. What do you think?

BTW, It's a felony in California to surreptitiously record someone where there's a reasonable expectation of privacy.

UPDATE: A rep for Best tells Us it's not him,

Will Smith says just because he's a Friend of Tom doesn't mean he's a Scientologist ... not that there's anything wrong with that.

Smith tells Rush & Molloy, "You don't have to be Jewish to be a friend of Steven Spielberg. You don't have to be a Muslim to be a friend of Muhammad Ali. And you don't have to be a Scientologist to be a friend of Tom Cruise." So what is Smith, anyway? "I am a Christian. I am a student of all religions."

During a recent radio interview in Stockholm, urban diva Rihanna made it clear why she sticks to singing and not commenting on foreign policy -- and an umbrella doesn't cover up this one!

According to a Nordic TMZ source, the sultry songstress claims to love South American** and Thai food, but "doesn't like Mexican or Asian food."

Clearly Rihanna- anna- anna thrived more in her music classes than geography. Shut up and eat!

**Clearly we are aware that Mexico is not in South America.

Ivanka Trump came to TMZ to clear up a touchy little subject -- namely, a rumor that's been floating around that she makes her assistant touch up the nails on her wax figure every week at Madame Tussauds in NYC's Times Square.

One lit-tle, itsy-bitsy problem, she tells us: "I don't even have a wax figure! My mother and father have wax figures, but I don't." She tells us she hardly has time to get a real manicure and pedicure, with her various day jobs, much less trouble -- and, let's face it, totally demean -- her assistant with such a ridiculous task.

Lanky Jaslene Gonzalez, "America's Next Top Model" cycle 8 winner, was flat-out denied from Snoop Dogg's "Ego Trippin" album release party at Touch in NYC last night. The Covergirl tried to be easy, breezy, and beautiful - but after posing and strutting for paps, Miss "ANTM" was still not allowed past the velvet rope. Awkward!

Jermaine Dupri and Snoop Dogg both arrived after the incident, and pimps walked right into the club. Well ... it was the Doggfather's party.

When asked about the situation - Lizzie Grubman, Jaslene's publicist, told TMZ "Why wouldn't they let a beautiful supermodel in -- it's news to me!"

Is skunky Amanda Overmeyer's time in L.A. coming to an end? The "American Idol" contestant took a can of Aquanet to her blond weave hair, then went shopping on Melrose over the weekend.

Our spies saw the "singer" -- complete with spiked out bangs -- browsing for winter coats.

The glamazon laughed off the rumors while standing next to beau Djimon Hounsou, then asked, playfully, "Which girlfriend?" But -- just like that -- KLS seemed to turn diva anew, requesting the paps' business cards, before taking down our photog's phone number.