THE JUMPOFF RUNOFF: 6/15/08

EDWARD NORTON TRYING TO SABOTAGE HIS HULK FLICK (PAUSE)

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Word on the street is the Eddie wasn't too cool with some of the changes made to the new Hulk movie in the cutting room....Not exactly sure how it all went down but as I ascertain more info I'll follow up!

BRITNEY'S L.A. HOME GOING ON THE MARKET

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Jamie Spears, who has legal control of his pop star daughter Britney's interests, reportedly is planning to sell her hilltop Studio City, Calif., home.

Spears' father was granted conservatorship over his daughter's affairs after she was hospitalized for psychiatric treatment earlier this year. He reportedly will retain that control until a July 31 hearing.

People.com said it is not clear where the singer is to live once her high-profile house is sold.

But a source close to Britney Spears told the entertainment news Web site, Having more privacy and wide open spaces for her to raise her boys has been a goal for some time.

Spears is the mother of two toddler-age sons with her ex-husband Kevin Federline. Federline has temporary physical and legal custody of the children, while Spears has several monitored visits with them a week.

LIL' WAYNE BUSTS A MILLI ON THA CARTER III

The tattooed hitmaker has stunned chart watchers by debuting his new album Tha Carter III at the top of the new Billboard 200 chart with over one million first week sales.

It's the first time any artist has scored a sales week of over a million copies of an album since 50 Cent debuted big with The Massacre in 2005.

It's a good week for rap and hip-hop all round as Plies debuts Definition of Real at two, with 215,000 opening week sales.

Chart compilation Now 28, last week's chart topper from rockers the Disturbed and Usher's Here I Stand complete the new top five.

Other high new entries on the countdown include N.E.R.D.'s Seeing Sounds at number seven and Alanis Morissette's Flavors of Entanglement at eight.

And, after thrilling Bonnaroo Festival fans with a three-hour set on Friday night, My Morning Jacket score their first top 10 album - Evil Urges debuts at nine.

SWIZZ BEATS DENIES THAT ALICIA KEYS

WAS THE CAUSE OF HIS MARRIAGE ENDING

Rumors have been goin' on for a hot minute about Alicia and Swizz...but they both had/have signif' others...here, we find that Swizz is still living that that state...

The beatmaker - real name Kaseem Dean - announced he and his R&B singer wife Mashonda were splitting in April.

Rumors have since surfaced online suggesting Keys was involved in the break-up, but Swizz insists that is far from the truth.

He tells MTV.com, "That s*** just looks like drama. They got another big name involved. Only thing I'm commenting on is music-related. I don't comment on my personal life. Why start now? You start commenting on that s***, then they start twisting it out. I'm not gonna speak about nothing.

"I'm not hiding anything. I can see if I was hiding something. I'm a grown man. Nobody is living no perfect life... Nobody wants to look at that s***. They wanna look at Alicia Keys. That s*** is ignorant."

And Swizz has further played down reports of a rift between him and his ex by revealing they are still on good terms.

FIF (50 CENT FOR YOU SLOW PEOPLE):

"I'M NOT MARRIED TO CIARA"

Fiddy's always got some 'ol bullshit surrounding him about this, that, or the other...well at this point we have a new piece...His alleged marriage to Ciara...

Gossip sites went crazy after footage of 50 Cent, real name Curtis Jackson, wearing a wedding band first appeared online.

But his spokeswoman insists the rap star plays a married man in his new film Microwave Park, and the photos come from the Louisiana set.

But that hasn't stopped gossips from claiming the ring is a sure sign that the "In Da Club" hitmaker and "Goodies" singer Ciara are man and wife.

50 has been romantically linked to Ciara after the pair posed topless for their video "Can't Leave 'Em Alone" last year.

But a spokesperson for 50 insists the rapper is not a married man.

A statement reads: "50 Cent is not engaged or married. He is currently in production on a film where the character he plays is married."

Last year Ciara denied the romance rumors, insisting the rapper was "a really great friend," and adding, "Everybody turns everything into something else.

"They said we have a ranch in Atlanta. I just died laughing. It's amazing to hear the things people make up. It's funny."

WOMAN SUES OVER DEFECTIVE THONG

Los Angeles (KFI-AM) - A 52 year old Los Angeles woman is suing Victoria Secret after she claims a decorative piece from a thong flew off the underwear, and hit her in the eye.

Macrida Patterson says she was hurt by the defective "low-rise v-string." She filed a lawsuit last week in Los Angeles Superior Court.

According to Patterson's lawyer, a "design problem" lead to the decorative piece coming off, and striking Patterson in the eye.

The woman alleges her cornea was damaged, and had to miss a few days of work. Patterson is a traffic officer with the Los Angeles Department of Transportation.

Her attorney also claims missing those days of work will be "affecting her the rest of her life."

The complaint did not specify monetary damages sought.

MAN PAYS ALIMONY AFTER HIS EX HAS A SEX CHANGE

A Florida man resents paying alimony to his ex-wife, now that his ex-wife is a man.

"I didn't marry a man. I didn't divorce a man. The law is making me pay to a man," Larry Roach told WSTB-TV in Tampa.

Roach said that he wishes the former Julia Roach -- now Julio Silverwolf -- luck. But he resents paying $1,250 a month to maintain Julio's gender identity.

The couple met on a blind date and married a few months later. He said that he wondered why his wife had cut her hair short, her voice had deepened and she needed to shave.

But he said he only realized his wife had a new sex-changed identity when she got into an accident after their divorce and he looked up the police report. He discovered that she was now Julio.

Roach has remarried and would like to get out from under his alimony payments. But a judge told him that legally his ex-wife is still entitled to them.

JAPAN MAKES ROBOT FOR LONELY MEN...LOL

TOKYO (Reuters)- She is big-busted, petite, very friendly, and she runs on batteries.

A Japanese firm has produced a 15 inch tall robotic girlfriend that kisses on command, to go on sale in September for around $175, with a target market of lonely adult men.

Using her infrared sensors and battery power, the diminutive damsel named "EMA" puckers up for nearby human heads, entering what designers call its "love mode".

"Strong, tough and battle-ready are some of the words often associated with robots, but we wanted to break that stereotype and provide a robot that's sweet and interactive," said Minako Sakanoue, a spokeswoman for the maker, Sega Toys.

"She's very lovable and though she's not a human, she can act like a real girlfriend."

EMA, which stands for Eternal Maiden Actualization, can also hand out business cards, sing and dance, with Sega hoping to sell 10,000 in the first year.

Japan, home to almost half the world's 800,000 industrial robots, envisions a $10-billion market for artificial intelligence in a decade.