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Audrina Patridge's birthday was actually on the 9th -- but who cares, really? Btw, no sign of Lauren at the shindig -- fake show frenemies are the worst kind!

Dennis Rodman celebrated his 47th birthday last night at Torrid at the Hawaiian Tropic Zone in Las Vegas -- like nothing ever happened.

Michael Jackson was wearing his usual homemade man-burqa and two different shoes as he and his kids left the movie theater inside the Palms Hotel.

At least his kids don't have to wear masks anymore!

Suge Knight might get his rematch against the guy who knocked him out in one punch -- and it'll all go down in Las Vegas.

TMZ has learned that several Las Vegas promoters -- including Jeff Beacher of Beacher's Madhouse -- have invited Suge Knight and the guy who knocked him out to face up in a bare-knuckled cage match. If all goes to plan, the fight would go down on New Year's Eve and the winner would receive a cool million bucks.

Not what you think, but awesome nonetheless: Lindsay Lohan is recording tracks for her new album with none other than Snoop Dogg – and she's going to be on Motown Records? Does Mary Wilson know about this?

Fox News reports that Lindz has in fact dropped a song for the new disc with his Snoopness, and "insiders" say it sounds "amazing." Timbaland and Pharrell are also helping to produce tracks for the album, which is apparently going to be released on Motown Records, because Lohan definitely fits the race bill there.

Lil' sis Ali is also already in the studio – the one at the age-appropriate Palms Hotel in Vegas.

What in the name of Xenu is going on here? Cher's decided to rip the sheets off a romance that probably would've been best left covered: A fling with Tom Cruise. Shudder.

The diva tells Oprah, according to Vegas Confidential, on an upcoming show that she and Cruise had a "long date" when he was 23 and she was 39, and that she "lived in his apartment" in New York. Cher even says that Tom was "a shy boy" when they hooked up.

"He was so wonderful ... And he was so, like, different," says Cher.

Karina Smirnoff says that she and Mario Lopez might be going through "ups and downs" but that they are "totally fine."

She's not moving out, she tells Us, but oddly she tells the mag that they would be the first to know if she did. (Really? Before Mario? Interesting.) And if this isn't a violins-backed, passionate proclamation of love, we don't know what is: "[Mario] is a great guy, and I support him 100 percent, I know he supports me."

Who said romance was dead?

Not to be outdone, Frenchy Angelique from "Rock of Love" went ahead and gave clubgoers some new mammaries to cherish, while Mary Carey and David Weintraub grossed everyone out with their hand-holding at Prive. Mary J. Blige resorted to none of that and still managed to out-class them all at Tao.

Unlike before, Joe was able to make it past the velvet rope and get inside the club.

Wynn's hotel filed a lawsuit against a Richard Wang, who took a $1.5 million marker from Wynn, and an Ah Fong Chang, who still owes Steve $500K from a $1 mil credit line.

Following in the mansize 11 footsteps of Paris Hilton, and other more demure chicks like Pamela Anderson and Carmen Electra, Audrina from "The Hills" took the stage for the Pussycat Dolls lounge at PURE in Las Vegas. She was dressed in her very best hoochie chic.

Good thing his lawyer, Marc Vincent Kaplan, was there. K-Fed should always just let him do the talking.

The knee-high actor, probably best known for his role in "Austin Powers" and for peeing in the corner on VH1's "Surreal Life," lapped it up with a gaggle of girls while 90s throwback House of Pain performed.

Heidi once again wooed Spence by lip-syncing a song for him -- but this time, it wasn't her horrendous single. It was "Baby Got Back."