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Her appearance at the MTV Video Music awards left Britney Spears' comeback up in the air. But the "star" seems intent on putting custody issues to rest.

Spears attended a meeting with Federline and his lawyer, Mark Vincent Kaplan, Wednesday. The exes arrived at offices of Spears' attorney, Laura Wasser.

The meeting fell on son Jayden James' first birthday and five days before they are due to face each other before a family court judge on Monday.

The meeting was Britney Spears' idea, according to a source close to her.

"Britney asked for [the meeting]. She wants to put an end to this public debacle," says a Spears source. "However, Kevin [has] refused. He needs more money so he's determined to win this."

Court documents released August 30 show that Spears' income is an incredible $737,868 a month and that Kevin Federline receives $20,000 a month in spousal support, but has no "net income after business expenses."

A source close to FedEx confirmed the meeting, but said that Federline was not - as is speculated - drawing out the process due to financial self-interest.

"He's not going for additional child support in the court papers that were filed. It's not about the money," says the insider.

When asked if Britney Spears was hoping to settle, the Kevin Federline source retorted: "She might settle, she's got stage fright."

Britney Spears' Las Vegas weekend featured eight party-hopping nightclub excursions and one epically disastrous nationally televised dance number.

Could she have avoided sych public embarrassment? According to a report in the The New York Times, the singer's record label, Jive, was reluctant to put her on stage, until one of her lawyers, Gary Stiffelman, advised otherwise.

Meanwhile, American Idol, which specialize in turning embarrassments around, reportedly wants to do the same for Spears, according to FOX News.

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She is, indeed, the great Shar Jackson. Bitches!

The shirt speaks for itself. The only question is what Shar means to imply with this particular wardrobe choice. It's either:

• A play on "It's Britney, bitch," the opening line of Britney Spears' new single, "Gimme More"
• A tribute to Dave Chapelle
• A cheap ploy for attention

Regardless, celebrity photo agencies cameras Shar Jackson wearing the simple and declarative t-shirt at the Rolling Stone Star Lounge Beauty, Style & Gifting Suite this past weekend.

If Shar Jackson, who has two children by Kevin Federline and four in all, were really trying to take a shot at Britney, well, the least she could is get the words right. Right?

If it's just a dumb t-shirt, well, carry on, Shar. Carry on.

From Halle Berry and Gabriel Aubry to Kate Bosworth and James Rousseau, the hot actresses dating male models trend seems to be gaining serious steam.

The latest entry to that club? Natalie Portman and Nathan Bogle.

The Closer star and her model boyfriend were seen walking hand-in-hand as they enjoyed take a romantic stroll through Central Park on Thursday.

Looking very cozy and happy, Natalie Portman and Nathan Bogle checked out the exhibits at the Whitney Museum and went shopping on Madison Avenue.

Portman pretty much confirmed her couple status with Nathan Bogle when they were spotted snuggling up to one another at the U.S. Open last week.

And here we thought all the hunks were on the court.

The pair have been spotted together off and on for at least four months. It looks now like this is a legitimate relationship, which begs the ultimate question:

Which do you prefer as their celebrity couple name?

1. NatNat
2. Porgle

Out, about and seemingly healthy, troubled singer Amy Winehouse stopped to pick up some beauty supplies in London on Wednesday. Hey, even the beehived, tatted one knows the importance of accessorizing.

You gotta look good if you're in show biz, after all. It's vital that one's cosmetic choices match one's designer bag, combat boots, blouse, or whatever.

Or perhaps, given some of Amy Winehouse's recent, um, shenanigans with husband Blake Fielder-Civil, she's more concerned about finding a nice shade of lipstick that corresponds with something else altogether ...

Man, Jamie Hince is really sticking it to Pete Doherty. Or, if you want to look at it literally, he's really sticking it to Pete Doherty's ex-girlfriend.

If you know what we mean. What we're trying to communicate here is that Jamie Hince is the latest to see Kate Moss naked.

Yes, Kate Moss and her new man, who's a guitarist in the band The Kills, are seen here leaving a pub in London after a romantic lunch Thursday.

Kate Moss and Jamie Hince have reportedly been dating for a few weeks after she split from long-term lover and waste of space drug addict Pete Doherty.

A pal of Moss' revealed to the UK's Daily Mail:

"Kate says Jamie has little traits and characteristics that remind her of Pete. She always goes for the same sort of men - dangerous and seemingly unavailable."

"Jamie Hince is a great guy and Kate really likes him. Sometimes she loves the fact he reminds her of Pete as that's what she knows best and it's comforting for her, but she has told us sometimes it drives her nuts."

We don't suspect this relationship to last long. Certainly not as long as the feud between Lauren Conrad and Heidi Montag. Those gals can fight!

Completely buried by the fact that Britney Spears humiliated herself and gave celebrity news sites endless fodder with her god-awful performance at the MTV Music Video Awards is the controversy over one of her new songs.

As we reported last Thursday, Britney Spears' "Baby Boy" (a.k.a. the slow jam leaked by Perez Hilton that sounds nasally, whiny and incomprehensibly bad) sounds eerily similar to a song by singer-songwriter Kim Ross.

Follow the link to listen to Kim Ross' "Beautiful Lies."

Did Britney and her managers steal the song? It certainly looks that way, but one reader isn't buying it. The tracks sound more than just similar - they're exactly the same, says Jz (no relation to Beyonce's boyfriend), who believes this to be a stunt.

Here's what this reader of The Hollywood Gossip writes:

"Just a minute. I listened to both tracks. Usually when I hear a rip off, I hear something very similar. BUT in this case, the two songs have THE SAME EXACT, IDENTICAL instruments and sound effects! Normally when someone rips off a track, the musicians disguise it by changing the instruments etc.

For some reason I can't under stand one person had to have access to the others source recordings! No one would rip that blatantly. For that, I'm suspecting this is some kind of publicity stunt to get Kim Ross noticed.

I mean, HOW could Britney Spears' producers get a hold of the EXACT sounds from Kim's recordings unlesshe [sic] shared them? Is there a karaoke version with no words to one of the songs? What going on here? I realize that with EXTREME effort a songs instruments could be made to sound that close, but WHY? Copying instruments isn't needed to rip a song... Plus it gets the person doing it caught. Again, something is fishy about this claim. I wish I understood it better."

So do we. What do you think? Did Britney Spears bogart the track? Or do you buy this alternate theory? And did anyone see her at the VMAs? She was bad!

To think we used to make a big deal out of the feud between Lauren Conrad and Kristin Cavallari. While the Laguna Beach hotties clearly didn't care for each other in high school, that was nothing compared to this drama.

No, the bitch-fighting and rumors surrounding Lauren Conrad and Heidi Montag, her ex-roommate and ex-BFF, reaches new heights by the day.

The latest rumor, courtesy of Cosmo Girl: A bitter Lauren Conrad make a call... to Heidi's parents. Heidi claims that LC tried to sabotage her budding relationship with Spencer Pratt - and went to absurd lengths to do it.

Lauren Conrad vs. Heidi Montag: The saga continues ...

"They don't show the footage of how Lauren was obsessed with Spencer... or how she called my mom in Colorado and told her I was involved in an abusive relationship," Heidi Montag says in the October issue of the magazine.

A source tells Us Weekly that Montag "found out about LC's call to her folks from her sister Holly" last spring â€" shortly after rumors of a Lauren Conrad sex tape rumors with Jason Wahler (which Montag was accused of starting) emerged.

Was LC out for revenge? Or just acting like a mother hen in regards to her friend? Responds a Lauren Conrad friend, "That's completely ridiculous."

We'd have to agree. Almost as ridiculous as how little Whitney Port is on the show. Come on, MTV! More Whitney scenes! And play more videos.

We know these are old pictures, but as a tribute to the U.S. Open this month, and to the train wreck that is Britney Spears, we present to you this photo finish....

Which bald individual has the better backhand: A rehab-fleeing, umbrella-wielding Britney Spears, or eight-time grand slam champion Andre Agassi?

These two have gone at it in our celebrity look-alikes feature, but the battle continues. Even if Britney now rocks the weave instead of the cue ball look.

Of course, Andre Agassi had the sense to retire before he became a joke. After Britney Spears' VMA disaster, she might want to give it some thought.

A quiet life with Sean Preston and Jayden James has to be better than this.

Move over, Hillary Clinton.

50 Cent is singing the praises of another buzzed-about woman - Britney Spears - and saying Kayne West's outburst against her Sunday was unwarranted.

"He was upset," 50 told Ryan Seacrest on his radio show, referring to West's backstage meltdown. "He's not used to not being recognized. Period."

Kanye West, however, will be recognized in one unlikely place â€" Seacrest announced Wednesday that Kanye will perform at Sunday night's Emmys.

As for 50 and Kanye, both rappers appeared on BET's 106 and Park on Tuesday, and West said he wished he could have opened the VMAs.

"It was always my dream to open the show with 'Stronger' but they talked me into doing the suite thing," he said. "Then when they had Britney Spears open, I said, 'How are you going to have Britney open? Because she's not ready'."

But, according to 50 Cent, Kanye West was out of line.

"[Kanye] expressed that he felt that Britney Spears shouldn't be actually opening the Video Music Awards - almost like he forgot that Britney Spears sold 50 million records. She did," the rapper told Seacrest.

"He is not thinking about her full body of work. She deserved to headline the show better than anybody else that was on it ... even in the state she is in."

Asked if he thinks West will go through with his threatened boycott of MTV, 50 Cent answered: "I don't think he can. I don't think it's possible. I think he [got] carried away in the moment. MTV doesn't need him."

After he appeared with 50 Cent and looking friendly on BET, later that day Kanye West bailed on a scheduled TRL appearance.

"He's nervous," 50 Cent joked about West's cancellation. "You think he had a problem with MTV? Nah. He knew he had to be here today ... He was like, 'You don't want to give me no trophies? Okay, I quit.'"

West also pulled out of a scheduled appearance on the Today show.

A rep for West told the New York Post: "It was a creative decision. There were problems ... Kanye wanted to do things a certain way with an elaborate light show and he would have had to move indoors for that ... He was contrite."

CAUTION: The faint of heart should avert their eyes from the terrifying pic below. A heinous creature from the Jurassic has mysteriously emerged.

Here, we see Mary-Kate Olsen leaving Barneys New York, where she's out to prove that retail therapy is the best medicine... for osteoporosis.

Mary-Kate Olsen continues to sport her signature style: Grandma Chic.

When she finished up her shopping, the more well-known member of The Olsen Twins took off her cataract protective glasses and returned to the set of Weeds, where she will have a recurring role this season.