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Nolan Wells' mom is laying the legal groundwork to potentially sue over her son's mysterious death ... asking a Mississippi court to put her in charge of his estate.

According to new legal docs, obtained by TMZ, Christine Wonsley filed a petition Monday to open Nolan's estate and appoint her as its administrator ... saying the estate's assets would consist "solely of claims for damages resulting from the circumstances surrounding his death."

Put simply ... the appointment would give Christine the authority to file a lawsuit on behalf of Nolan's estate if anyone is ultimately found legally responsible for his death.

11:12 AM PT -- TMZ has obtained dispatch audio of the car crash.

9:22 AM PT -- Authorities say Kaylee Hottle was riding in a 1995 Honda Accord when the driver veered off a Maryland road and slammed into a roadside ditch early Tuesday.

Kaylee Hottle -- a deaf actress best known for playing Jia in two 'Godzilla' films -- is dead.

Her father, Joshua Hottle, tells TMZ ... his daughter was killed in a car accident early Tuesday morning in Maryland.

Joshua also shared the tragic news in a nearly 23-minute-long social live stream ... explaining in ASL that he had to fly from Texas to claim her body.

Joshua says he learned Kaylee was involved in a serious car accident ... and officials called him shortly after this initial shock to inform him her heart stopped on the way to the hospital.

Guess Spider-Man doesn't need to come swinging in to get between his woman and a would-be suitor ... because Zendaya is telling any flirts she and Tom Holland are hitched -- kinda.

Check out the video ... Zendaya was in Mexico on Wednesday rocking the red carpet for "Spider-Man: Brand New Day" ... and one of the paps just couldn't contain himself shouting, "Will you marry me please?!"

Then, with a shrug ... Zendaya responds, "you're too late" ... all but confirming what everyone's been dying to get in fine print -- that she and Tom are married.

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Jeana Keough's battle with tongue cancer has taken another difficult turn ... her daughter says the former "Real Housewives of Orange County" star hasn't been able to eat a meal for two weeks straight ... and it's not looking good.

Kara Keough shared a health update Tuesday, revealing Jeana was scheduled to have a feeding tube placed directly into her stomach so she could finally get some nutrition ... but the plan was scrapped.

Jeana's daughter says doctors uncovered a deep vein thrombosis (DVT) clot in Jeana's leg, along with an infection.

Because of the infection, doctors can't place the feeding tube until they have more clarity, and Jeana's chemotherapy and radiation treatments have been temporarily paused.

Brandi Glanville's getting candid about cocaine, claiming everyone did it back in the day ... herself included ... but times have changed, and her kids are too "boring" to party.

The 'Real Housewives' alum was talking to her podcast cohost James Maas about how Kristin Cavallari's 'Hills' castmates once accused her of doing drugs on the show ... and she said she used to do cocaine in the 90s ... but stopped when the fentanyl crisis hit.

The Bravolebrity clearly feels coke isn't as taboo a topic as some folks might think, unashamedly exclaiming she's hit the slopes a few times in her day.

Amber Rose is suing a members-only dining club ... claiming one of their holiday decorations fell from where it'd been hung … landing on her head.

According to the lawsuit, obtained by TMZ, the model claims she was at Gravitas in Beverly Hills on New Year's Eve in 2024 when one of the "solid, oversized decorative spheres" suspended above where she was sitting detached and fell on her noggin. She says the impact briefly knocked her out.

Amber also claims she suffered headaches, dizziness, blurred vision, nausea, confusion, and neck pain.

Terry Dubrow wants Vicki Gunvalson to shut up about how he and Heather Dubrow made their money ... and thinks he can squash the speculation with a not-so-friendly wager.

We got Terry outside Steak 48 in Beverly Hills Monday, and he had a lot to say about "The Real Housewives of Orange County" star running her mouth.

Here's the deal ... VG's saying Terry and Heather didn't work for their wealth, but actually inherited it from Terry's late brother, Kevin.

But the Dubrows say Vicki's full of it.

This new video from the day Nolan Wells went missing might reveal the first clues about who he was with during the last hours of the Horn Island 4th of July party.

TMZ obtained the video recorded that fateful day ... as the camera pans around to show multiple boats and tons of people partying, you can see a Black man standing on the back deck of a boat, apparently bending over to get a drink.

Check the video ... the man is wearing trunks matching the color of the ones Nolan was wearing in the infamous July 4 pic with his friends on a boat.

Lizzo is officially a Sports Illustrated Swimsuit cover girl ... and the singer looks good as hell!!!

The 38-year-old "Good as Hell" singer is the magazine's July 2026 digital cover model ... posing in black, blue, and burgundy swimwear.

Safe to say Lizzo feels it's "About Damn Time" she landed the coveted cover spot.

The big reveal comes on the heels of Lizzo announcing she's gained 20 pounds since last year ... though judging by these shots, she's looking confident in her swimwear.

Can you guess which hot actress flaunted her toned tummy on socials in this eye-popping shot?!?

Her breakthrough role was on ABC's sitcom "Fresh Off the Boat," but you probably know her best as Rachel Chu from the "Crazy Rich Asians" movie.

Bud Light didn't find anything humorous in Dustin Poirier's arrest last month ... 'cause the fighter just revealed the beer giant wasted no time firing him from his lucrative sponsorship deal after the incident.

"They terminated my contract immediately. It's all good, man. I don't need that f****** poison in my life," Poirier told Ariel Helwani during an interview on Tuesday.

"It sucks that my family is missing out on the money I had left on the deal with them, which was a few hundred thousand dollars, but also if I'm representing something I'm not gonna be taking part in, promoting stuff, it is what it is."

Millie Bobby Brown is among the sea of fans who are gutted by Kaylee Hottle's sudden death ... and she's paying tribute to her late costar, who died in a car crash.

Millie starred alongside Kaylee in "Godzilla vs. Kong" ... and after Kaylee's death Tuesday, Millie took to Instagram to remember her fallen friend.

MBB shared an image of Kaylee from their movie and said Kaylee would be "deeply missed." She also said she was "devastated" to learn Kaylee died.

Here's the aftermath of the fatal car crash that killed Kaylee Hottle ... the front of the vehicle is a mangled wreck ... and it looks like the result of a heavy impact.

Kaylee was a passenger in the 1995 Honda Accord ... and in our photo, the car is being loaded into the back of a flat-bed tow truck. The hood is smashed up, the hubcaps are missing and the tires appear damaged ... possibly from a fire.

The passenger side door is hanging off at an angle ... seemingly unable to close properly ... and there's damage to a side-view mirror.