As In Touch's publisher has pointed out, publicists would have little reason to bribe a West Coast editor for cover treatment, as the original report from Complex had it. In Touch selects photos and paparazzi out of New Jersey.

But if the goal was to kill a story, instead of promote it? In that case, bribing a West Coast editor sounds perfectly plausible, especially for a publicist who has already had luck with a different editor in the same company.

The FBI, who are said to be working former In Touch staff in Los Angeles, could be looking at the New Jersey editor as well: he eventually jetted out to Los Angeles to work for a different celebrity magazine, the source said.

Bonus second clip: Twnety paparazzi SUVs try to turn left at once. [Fox LA, TMZ]

Fashion Designer Marc Jacobs' company is under investigation for giving $30,000 in goodies to use a historic New York armory at 25th and Lexington and for possibly underpaying taxpayers in the process. What, exactly, did Jacobs give 30-year state employee James Jackson in exchange for use of the armory? Exercise equipment, because apparently Jacobs can never stop trying to make everyone and everything look perfect and fabulous, and how is that a crime?! Oh also, he gave "illegal tips," but that was probably just for some new outfits because the old bureaucrat couldn't fit into samples. After the jump, director Sofia Coppola and novelist Francine Prose unwittingly provide advance warning of Jacobs' shenanigans.

In an excerpt from a Sundance Channel documentary on Jacobs airing later this month, Coppola says Jacobs is "creative" and "mysterious" (the attorney general would agree) and Prose says Marc Jacobs is in "a charmed situation" and his "cachet is extraordinary." (She clearly meant to say his cash is extraordinary.)

The former Miss Nevada USA, who was stripped of her title after the publication...

I can't decide which is better: The Broncos kid acting tough ("Your ass is gonna get handed to you!"), or the prom queen calling her tormentor an asshole and immediately apologizing. But yes, laughing at either means you're going to hell.

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