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It's 9 AM ... do you know where your kitty is?

Wearing a full-length fur coat that looks like it's made entirely out of house cats, soul legend Patti LaBelle braved the cold outside her Washington D.C. hotel Thursday night.

Ke$ha wants everyone to know ... she's still standing after her stint in rehab for her eating disorder.

The singer looks good after her 60 days of intensive therapy.

Ke$ha arrived at LAX and certainly looked happy. She says she's working on music again and feels great.

Ke$ha originally was supposed to spend 30 days in rehab, but she stayed twice as long ... on her own accord.

Prior to entering the facility , she had dumped a ton of weight and looked painfully thin.

Congrats.

This might be the coolest family connection ever -- Brad Pitt and Spike Lee ARE COUSINS ... 12th cousins sure ... BUT STILL!!!

The people over at Geni.com (a genealogy website) just made the bizarre connection -- you can see in the diagram how Brad and Spike are connected 12 generations ago. Basically, Brad's great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather was the brother of Spike's great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandmother.

Simple.

Alanis Morissette claims her housekeeper stole her precious pooch out of revenge and she and her husband are both heartbroken and PISSED.

Alanis' husband, Mario Treadway, filed a lawsuit ... claiming he and Alanis found a stray, 10 lb Chihuahua/Pug mix roaming the streets back in May, 2011. Mario says they did the right thing and took the dog to an animal shelter but no one came to retrieve it.

So Alanis and Mario adopted the pugnacious pooch, which they named Circus.

All was fine until January, when they fired their housekeeper (in rich people's lingo they call it "House Manager"), Maria Garcia.

According to the lawsuit -- filed in L.A. County Superior Court -- Maria wanted Circus as part of her severance, because they claim she had the dog and refused to return it. Maria sent an email to their business manager saying she wanted "ownership" of Circus. Apparently Maria grew attached to the dog because she took care of it while Alanis and her hubby were on the road a lot.

Now Alanis and Mario are out for blood. They're suing Maria, asking for more than $25K and they want the judge to order the return of the dog.

UN-FUN FACT: Under California law dogs are considered property ... so an individual dog is almost never considered so special that a judge would order its return ... the only remedy is money. And that's a sad dog tail.

The perks of being the #1 tennis player in the world ...

With just days until he's scheduled to hold court at the BNP Paribas Open in California, Rafael Nadal was chillin' in Mexico with his hot girlfrend Maria Xisca Perello.

The two were seen kayaking together on Tuesday -- the tournament begins on Thursday ... though Rafa has a first round bye since he's a #1 seed.

Wearing a fancy shirt unbuttoned to his belly, Joe Simpson thanked his lucky stars and stripes at a party in Beverly Hills Tuesday night -- getting handsy with a man dressed as the American Flag, sitting on his lap.

Robert Lopez struck a pose that said ... "SUCK IT" ... right after his Oscar win put him in an exclusive club with the likes of Mel Brooks and Whoopi Goldberg.

Gotta love the bravado ... Lopez flashed his big swinging statuette to reporters and photogs backstage shortly after he and his wife won the Oscar for Original Song for "Let It Go" from "Frozen."

Robert's got reason to brag ... he's now one of 12 people to ever earn the elusive EGOT -- winning an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony -- and he did it in 10 years ... way faster than anyone else.

Heidi Klum's not afraid of a little PDA -- donating some fresh spit to her young art dealer boyfriend Saturday night at a Hollywood nightclub ... in the middle of the crowded dance floor ... and TMZ has obtained photos.

The DFMO (dance floor make out) went down at 1 OAK -- Klum grabbed 27-year-old Vito Schnabel's face and passionately kissed him in front of everyone.

She looks really into it. Vito looks like a prom virgin.

Then again, he's the one dating a supermodel.

Simon Cowell is drawing a line in the sand ... paparazzi who want a piece of him will have to answer to his bitches.

Cowell's Yorkies -- Squiddly and Diddly -- aren't taking crap from the photogs who got their owner in trouble earlier in the week for allowing them on the beach in Miami. Cops gave Simon a warning ... one which he clearly didn't heed.

Can you guess which star strapped on this incredible string bikini and flossed her perfect posterior on the luckiest beach in Miami, Florida earlier this week?

Robin Thicke is GUILTY of a floral assault ... bombarding his estranged wife with begging-for-forgiveness bouquets ... at least that's the way it seems.

Paula Patton's Hollywood Hills home was inundated with gigantic, expensive floral arrangements Thursday ... hours before Robin got on stage and told the audience he's gunning to get his girl back.

True enough ... it's possible Robin didn't send the flowers, but it would be remarkably coincidental that they came from someone else.

Simon Cowell is the new Winston Churchill -- last night he took his current girlfriend AND his ex-fiancee out to dinner ... at the same time ... and somehow, it didn't end in World War 3.

Simon treated baby mama-GF Lauren Silverman and ex-fiancee Mezhgan Hussainy to a fancy dinner at Miami's Prime Fish, where they ate outside and basked in Florida's stifling humidity.

The three later emerged from the restaurant without a single scratch.

Guess Mezhgan wasn't lying when she said she was happy for Simon and his new girl -- the $8 million mansion Simon gave her probably didn't hurt either.

Amanda Bynes has turned it around in a big way ... and one of the markers is that she is now remorseful about things she did and said when she was at her worst -- particularly her comment about Drake, "I want Drake to murder my vagina."

Sources directly connected with Amanda tell TMZ ... she is in the territory of being her old self again. They say the fact that the Drake comment "horrifies her" shows she again has a sense of the difference between right and wrong.

But there's more. We're told Amanda has stopped smoking weed, she's in the process of removing a number of inappropriate tattoos, and she's kind to people with whom she interacts.

Most impressive ... Amanda is now at FIDM -- the Fashion Institute of Design Merchandising in Orange County -- and she's become so self-confident she makes presentations to her entire class and freely interacts with her classmates.

TMZ broke the story ... Amanda was diagnosed with schizophrenia and bipolarity. It's apparent the meds and the therapy are working.

With the combine underway in Indianapolis, the biggest NFL prospect of them all was training hard on the beach with his dad in California ... and we've got the pics.

Tom Brady and his 4-year-old son Ben were running drills in Santa Monica this week -- with Tom even breaking out the cones to add to the workout.

No word if Ben's received any scholarship offers yet ... but with only 14 years to go until his freshman season, it's never too early to start recruiting ... right Alabama?

This is WhatsApp co-founder Jan Koum in Spain with his girlfriend ... celebrating Facebook's $19 BILLION purchase of his company, and his 38th birthday.