Winds reaching nearly 100 mph are wreaking havoc on Los Angeles -- and Eric Dane and Rebecca Gayheart felt it first hand when a giant tree toppled over outside their Beverly Hills home.

Dane and Gayheart were reportedly at home at the time, but didn't get hurt. The tree -- which the LA Fire Department says was 50 feet long and weighed 800 lbs. -- also took down power lines ... so the area was sealed off.


Trees have been knocked down all over town, from Pasadena to Sunset Blvd.

Sometimes living in L.A. really does blow.

Eric Dane's wife is pregnant with a 2nd kid ... and he thinks it might be another girl -- but are TWO daughters a blessing ... OR A CURSE!?!?!?!?  

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Eric Dane is in a rehab facility to treat an addiction to pain medication.


The "Grey's Anatomy" star's rep tells TMZ, "Eric Dane voluntarily checked himself into a treatment facility to help him get off of pain medication that he was prescribed for a sports injury that he suffered over the recent hiatus."

The rep continues, "He reports back to work this week. Business as usual."

New dad Eric Dane has the body of a champ, and the tattoo of a Champion ... sweatshirt.


While vacationing in Italy on Monday, the 37-year-old showed off his ripped chest, snug swimsuit and his, er, interesting corporate logo ink.

McSteamy's anatomy ain't grey ... it's blue and red.

Eric Dane and Rebecca Gayheart are looking to settle the score with the website that published their naked non-sex threesome tape.

Dane and Gayheart filed a lawsuit today in L.A. County Superior Court, claiming Gawker.com had not only unlawfully posted almost 4 minutes of the private video that was shot behind closed doors, but "maliciously" distributed the video and included nude shots of the fabulous threesome -- the third wheel was former beauty queen Kari Ann Peniche.

Dane and Gayheart want more than $1 million in damages. Their lawyer -- legal pit bull Marty Singer -- is also asking for an injunction to pull the plug on the video.

UPDATE: 5:30 PM ET: Gawker's publisher, Nick Denton, just twittered his response to the lawsuit: "To quote the great Marty Singer -- Eric Dane's lawyer -- if you don't want a sex tape on the internet, 'don't make one!'"

Fully dressed and not recording his wife in a tub with another chick, Eric Dane emerged from his home for the first time since that nude threesome video hit the Internet and went to the gym in L.A. yesterday.


The 36-year-old "Grey's Anatomy" star has to keep his body in shape for his next home video movie.

He's only a puppy -- but Kari Ann Peniche's 18-month-old doggie may have already had a dangerous brush with cocaine.



It all went down back in July -- back before Kari Ann's naked threesome tape surfaced with Eric Dane and Rebecca Gayheart. Peniche's house sitter noticed her Pekingese puppy "Buster" began to vomit, experience diarrhea, and twitch uncontrollably.

Kari Ann had a house sitter because she was shooting Dr. Drew's "Sober House" at the time. When she found out her pooch was in distress, she immediately left the rehab facility and rushed home to take him to the vet .

According to the veterinary report obtained by TMZ, Kari Ann told the doc Buster may have been exposed to Xanax, cocaine, methamphetamine or other unknown drugs.

So how would Kari Ann know about Buster's exposure to drugs? It's a mystery. What we do know is that Mindy McCready was living in the house at the time. Mindy told us, "I've never hurt an animal and I don't do any drugs." For the record, Mindy pled guilty in 2004 for using a fake prescription to buy OxyContin.

After the vet ran tests, it was determined Buster was suffering from "unknown toxin/drug exposure." But don't worry, Buster was treated and eventually recovered.

The other girl in the bizarro 3-person naked romp vid with Eric Dane and Rebecca Gayheart wants everyone to know she was "just having fun with my friends."


Last night at a gas station in West Hollywood, a clothed Kari Ann Peniche told us she's unsure if she'll be taking legal action against her former roommate/singer Mindy McCready -- who Peniche claims stole the tape from their apartment after a dispute over money.

As TMZ first reported, Dane owns the rights to the video and is planning to sue anyone who publishes it.

Eric Dane and Rebecca Gayheart did not have sex with Kari Ann Peniche -- but according to Peniche, they had plenty of fun.

Kari Ann -- a dethroned Miss United States Teen -- tells TMZ the video featuring the whacked-out naked trio was shot more than two years ago in her apartment. Kari Ann insists there was absolutely no sex involved -- they played dress up and the two women then soaked together in a bathtub as Eric called "action" behind the camera.

In the video, Gayheart says her "alter-ego" name is "Nina," Kari's is "Fifi" and Dane goes by "Peter," "Cocaine Manor," "Tristan Daily," and "Tuff Hedeman," a famous bull rider.

Kari Ann says the video was stored on the hard drive of her computer, but stolen by Mindy McCready, who was her roommate after the two completed a stint on the TV show "Celebrity Rehab." Kari Ann says she got into an argument with McCready over money and believes the singer took her hard drive when she moved out. Kari Ann freaked out about certain personal information about her on the hard drive and filed a stolen property report with the LAPD.

Last month there was a summit between Eric, Rebecca, Kari Ann and Mindy. Their reps hammered out a deal as to who got what on the hard drive. Eric got full rights to the video and everyone assumed that was that ... until the tape surfaced on the Internet yesterday.

So a little song, a little dance a little betrayal down your pants.

It didn't take long -- TMZ has learned there's already a legal war raging over the Eric Dane, Rebecca Gayheart naked threesome tape.

Legal pit bull Marty Singer, who reps Dane and Gayheart, tells us he will sue anyone who publishes the video, which he calls "a private, confidential tape."

Singer says he just spoke with third wheel Kari Ann Peniche and asked how the tape got leaked. Her response: "I have no idea. I had nothing to do with it."

As for reports there's a full-blown, uncensored sex version of the tape, Singer said, "From what I've seen it's a naked tape, not a sex tape." Singer added, "At most it's 3 people maybe wanting to have sex."

And that's why we love Marty Singer.

The newest celebrity XXX tape has already hit the Internet -- a threesome -- this one featuring "Grey's Anatomy" star Eric Dane, his wife Rebecca Gayheart and a former beauty queen//Hollywood madam named Kari Ann Peniche.



In the video -- which was first posted by Gawker.com, Gayheart and Dane take turns filming as the naked trio hangs out in Peniche's Southern California apt. It appears they are all seriously inebriated in some way -- at one point Rebecca can be heard saying she needs to lay down because she's so high.

At the end of the tape, Gayheart and Peniche are nude in a bathtub together, while Eric films them. According to Gawker, the 3-minute clip is cut down from roughly 12 minutes of footage.

So far, no statements from anyone's reps.

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