Tom Cruise fired up his Ducati and barreled out of a fancy Hollywood hotel late last night with a BRAND NEW CHICK ridin' on the back ... at least we think it was Tom Cruise ... LET'S INVESTIGATE!!!

Here are the facts ...

We know ... a mystery man sporting a motorcycle helmet left the Chateau Marmont hotel around 11:00 pm with a woman on the backseat.

We could see the man's brow line and nose ... and they bear a striking resemblance to Mr. Cruise.



We also know ... Tom was in town Thursday night, because he was photographed at the L.A. Kings playoff game at Staples Center earlier in the evening.

Plus ... it's no secret that Tom has a penchant for riding Ducatis ... and owns a Ducati superbike ... though the bike he's usually photographed on does NOT have a backseat.



As for the chick ... we don't know squat about her.

We called Tom's rep who insists it's NOT Tom -- Still, we gotta ask ...

Gov. Chris Christie hates Snooki more than Snooki hates sobriety ... so says the MTV star ... and it couldn't have been more apparent during an awkward encounter in NJ moments ago.

Christie and Snooki came face-to-face on the Seaside Heights boardwalk after taping separate segments for the "Today" show.

During the exchange, Snooki complains that Christie is standing too close to her ... so Christie comically leans in even closer.

After Christie extended a handshake to the "Jersey Shore" star -- who was flanked by JWoww and Deena Cortese --  Snook tells CC, "I just wanted to meet you, and just, hope you start to like us.”

As Snooki walks away, she pulls the "I hate your guts" face ... it's classic.

After the encounter, Snook tweeted a photo of the meeting -- and wrote, "Getting told why we are bad for jersey. Amazing."

JERSEY FEUD?!?!??

Kirk Kerkorian -- the billionaire who once owned United Artists and the MGM Hotel in Vegas -- has fired back against his ex-wife who is gunning to put him under a conservatorship, calling her a serial liar motivated by unbridled greed.

Lisa Bonder had filed legal docs claiming the 95-year-old Kirk was being held hostage by people in his company and she wanted someone to step in and, at the very least, allow Kirk to re-establish a relationship with their 15-year-old daughter Kira.

Now Kirk has fired back in legal docs, saying, "The only person Lisa Bonder has ever cared about is Lisa Bonder."  Kirk says Lisa is a proven liar many times over -- for starters, he notes she deceived him into believing Kira was his kid by rigging a DNA test -- he says she took the DNA from Kirk's natural child and passed it off as Kira's. 

Even though Kirk's not the dad, he stepped up for benefit of Kira and agreed to pay child support, but he says it's never been enough for Lisa.  Kirk had agreed to pay $50,000 a month in child support, but Lisa wanted $100,000.  After Kirk agreed to pay her $100k and gave her more than $10 million to just go away, she came back and asked for $500k a month.

Kirk notes in the docs that Lisa has lied to multiple judges about what she claims are Kira's needs, only to be shut down and exposed as a liar.

Kirk believes Lisa wants a conservatorship because she thinks she can screw him out of more money with a conservator.

Short story -- they don't get along.

Cypress Hill M.C. B-Real proved he's insane in the brain last night -- by rolling a joint filled with 6 OUNCES of weed yesterday ... and then taking a photo to prove it!!

And now it's time for some SUPER FUNTIME POT MATH!

According to our amateur marijuana experts, an ounce usually runs around $300 ... so 6 ounces would be roughly $1,800.

BUT ... we're told people who buy in bulk usually get a discount  -- like, "buy 5 ounces, get the 6th ounce free" kinda stuff ... so let's go ahead and call it $1,500.

Bottom line -- that's a lotta weed. Your move, 2 Chainz ...


 

NBA superstar Tim Duncan has filed legal docs in his divorce case, asking the judge to put the brakes on the dissolution of his marriage until the San Antonio Spurs clinch the NBA championship.

TMZ has obtained legal docs filed in Bexar County, Texas, in which Duncan makes the case that his employment "is currently making extraordinary demands on him and hopefully will continue to make those demands for the next 30 or so days."  Translation -- he's banking on a ring.

Duncan's wife, Amy, filed for divorce in March, saying she wanted to end their 12-year marriage which she says has become "insupportable because of discord and conflict."

In the docs, Duncan reveals he has a prenup, which he wants enforced.   This is important because Duncan got married 4 years AFTER he was selected in the first round of the NBA draft.  In 2012, he inked a 3-year, $36 million deal, and that's just the last contract.  Dude is worth a fortune.

Duncan also says he expects he and Amy will reach an agreement on financial support for their two small kids. 

BTW ... Duncan's request may not be wishful thinking.  The Spurs are up 2-0 on the Memphis Grizzlies and just 2 victories from playing in the NBA finals.

Now this is the story all about how Will Smith, DJ Jazzy Jeff and Alfonso Ribeiro reunited this week -- IN EUROPE -- and it was all to support Will's son.

"The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" trio were chillin' out, maxin' and relaxin' at a London club Thursday night to see Will's older son Trey DJ.

Fun Fact -- the mini-reunion went down 17 years -- almost to the day -- after the show went off the air.
 

Amanda Bynes is back on the streets ... the judge released her on her own recognizance moments ago in NYC -- after she offered a hysterical excuse for her alleged bong-tossing arrest.

Amanda told the judge the bong cops say she threw out of her apartment window last night was "just a vase."


Prosecutors requested Bynes be held in lieu of $1,000 bail. The judge instead chose to let her go without bail ... but gave her a stern warning that if she missed her court date in July an arrest warrant would be issued.

Amanda was escorted out of court by an officer ... and left, on her own, in a taxicab.





9:30 AM PT -- Amanda has been formally charged with attempted evidence tampering, reckless endangerment and marijuana possession.

8:52 AM PT -- TMZ obtained the criminal complaint from the incident ... which says a man in Amanda's building told cops he witnessed the actress smoking a joint in the first floor lobby.

The report says an officer went to Amanda's room ... and saw a bong on the kitchen counter.

According to the report, the cop -- wearing a "full police uniform" -- asked Amanda about the bong ... and that's when the actress flipped out.

Here's the cop's narrative -- "I observed [Amanda] grab said bong, run to the westbound-facing window, and throw it out the window where numerous pedestrians were walking on the 8 Avenue and West 47 Street sidewalks below."

Bynes was immediately arrested for reckless endangerment, possession of weed and tampering with evidence.

Amanda Bynes had to remove her platinum blonde wig when she posed for her mug shot last night ... revealing a super short hair cut ... and Bynes didn't appear happy about it.

Bynes sported a scowl and a black shirt when she posed for the photo ... following a bong-throwing arrest in NYC last night.

The 27-year-old actress arrived to court this morning to face a judge -- wearing the wig again -- but it was clear she didn't want to be photographed.

3:50 PM PT -- A rep for Tim Curry tells TMZ, the stroke actually occurred nearly a year ago -- last July.


Tim Curry reportedly suffered a stroke at his L.A. home last night ... but the 67-year-old actor is recovering and is said to be "doing great."

Curry -- who starred in classics like "Rocky Horror Picture Show" and "Clue" -- was in his home in the Hollywood Hills when he suffered the stroke, this according to the Daily Mail.

Curry's agent Marcia Hurwitz reportedly told the DM, "Tim is doing great," ... adding, "'He absolutely can speak and is recovering at this time and in great humor."

Story developing ...

 

Amanda Bynes has just arrived to court to face a judge about her bong-throwing arrest in NYC last night ... sporting the same clothes and platinum blonde wig she was wearing last night. 

Bynes was led into the courtroom in handcuffs ... after spending the night in jail ... and asked photogs not to shoot her as she tried to hide her face.

As we previously reported, Bynes was booked for marijuana possession, tampering with evidence and reckless endangerment after cops say she chucked a glass bong out of her apartment window.

Story developing ...

Amanda Bynes was arrested in her NYC apartment Thursday night for marijuana possession and throwing evidence out the window ... TMZ has learned.

According to law enforcement sources ... a building official called police after spotting Amanda in the lobby with a joint, acting erratically and talking to herself.  We're told when cops arrived they knocked at her door and she let them in. 

Our sources say when police saw the bong Amanda quickly tossed it out the window ... which fortunately didn't hit anyone on the street below.

Amanda, who was wearing a platinum blonde wig, was placed under arrest and went ballistic, yelling, "Don't you know who I am?"

She was booked for criminal possession of pot, as well as reckless endangerment and FELONY tampering with evidence.

Our law enforcement sources say Amanda was briefly taken to a hospital for psychiatric evaluation and then taken to the station for booking. 

But the cop shop wasn't the last stop.  A cuffed Amanda was then taken to night court just before midnight.  She's still there in a holding cell, waiting for a judge.  She should get a hearing sometime this AM.

Amanda's behavior has become increasingly bizarre over the past year -- with numerous arrests, a complete physical transformation and crazy tweets.

Fox News honcho Roger Ailes is coming out SWINGING against the U.S. government ... after the FBI secretly seized a Fox News reporter's phone and email records because of his work on a story about N. Korea's nuclear program.

Backstory -- the reporter at the heart of the drama is James Rosen, who was labeled a "co-conspirator" in a leak investigation for allegedly speaking with State Department contractor Stephen Jin-Woo Kim about North Korea's nuclear program. The Justice Department charged Kim with violating the Espionage Act for his contact with Rosen.

Now for Ailes -- who just fired off a letter to Fox employees yesterday, voicing his anger over the government's actions.

"The recent news about the FBI’s seizure of the phone and email records of Fox News employees, including James Rosen, calls into question whether the federal government is meeting its constitutional obligation to preserve and protect a free press in the United States."

He continues, "We reject the government's efforts to criminalize the pursuit of investigative journalism and falsely characterize a Fox News reporter to a Federal judge as a 'co-conspirator' in a crime."

"The administration’s attempt to intimidate Fox News and its employees will not succeed and their excuses will stand neither the test of law, the test of decency, nor the test of time. We will not allow a climate of press intimidation, unseen since the McCarthy era, to frighten any of us away from the truth."
 
"To be a Fox journalist is a high honor, not a high crime."

Shades of Watergate paranoia?  Seems like this BS is more nonpartisan than everyone thought.

Just hours before Jose Canseco allegedly committed rape ... the alleged victim posed for a very flirty pic with J.C. in a Vegas casino and joked that they had just gotten married, TMZ has learned. 

The pic was taken on the floor of the MGM Casino at 2:51 AM on May 10 -- with the woman cozying up for a couply shot with Jose ... with her open right hand placed on the center of his exposed chest.

The person who took the photo says he's a huge Canseco fan (apparently those still exist) ... and had recognized Jose strolling around the casino with a female companion.

The fan asked Jose if he could snap a shot -- and Jose obliged, striking a pose with the woman while she giggled and told the photog she and Jose had just tied the knot.

For the record -- we've done some digging, but couldn't find any proof of a Canseco marriage.

The photog told us the two seemed happy ... no signs of distress.

Of course, things changed -- 'cause the woman reportedly told police Jose drugged and raped her later that day.

Jose has denied the allegations -- claiming his accuser is making up the story for publicity.