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One Direction will get presidential treatment at the InterContinental Hotel in NYC, because the boys just made the joint a must stay in the Big Apple.

The group featured the hotel in their new music video for their song, "Perfect." The marquee showing the hotel's name is plain as day.

The manager at the hotel tells us the free ad has been a bonanza. The penthouse, where Harry Styles laid on the bed, is booked solid for the rest of the week at $5k a night.

Same for the Manhattan suites, which will only set fans back $1,500 a night. Sold out.

The hotel had no idea it would score prime real estate in the music video ... they insist they didn't pay for the plug.

Harry, Liam, Niall, Zayn, Louis ... best pitchmen ever.

"Million Dollar Listing" star Josh Flagg just made $1 million off his Beverly Hills fixer-upper without so much as laying down a single nail, and he has MySpace to thank for it.

Flagg sold the joint to the social networking site's co-founder Chris DeWolfe -- not the Tom guy -- for just under $6 million.

Flagg bought the house 4 months ago for around $5 mil with intentions of flipping it, but he quietly put the word out he'd sell if the right buyer came around and the price was right.

Fact is ... Flagg probably could have gotten more than $6 mil ... he planned to list it for triple the purchase price post-renovation, but who can turn down a hassle-free, easy million?

We reached out to Josh for comment, but calls were not returned.

Arnold Schwarzenegger's negligence and failure to eliminate a virus from a California prison during his time as Governor caused one man to die ... according to a new lawsuit.

The family of Rodney Taylor Sr. -- who was a prisoner at Avenal State Prison from 2010 to 2014 for a drug offense -- claims he contracted Valley Fever while in custody. They say the virus eventually killed him and the ex-Gov failed to "warn and properly educate" Taylor about the sickness.

Valley Fever attacks the body's organs ... victims may suffer skin lesions, limb amputations and brain damage. The disease is spread by spores found in soil -- and Taylor was allegedly exposed to it.

As we've reported, Schwarzenegger is already facing a lawsuit from 22 current and former inmates at another California prison for exposure to the disease.

Beyonce just won a victory in court -- her song "XO" was not a rip-off of a song called, "XOXO" -- and one of the main reasons is, for once, Bey wasn't raunchy or sexy enough ... according to a judge, anyway.

A federal judge threw out the lawsuit a singer named Ahmad Javon Lane had filed against Beyonce -- accusing her of copying his tune, "XOXO." The judge said the songs were not the least bit similar musically or lyrically ... and beyond that he said the themes were also different.

He points out Lane's song is raw and raunchy with "explicitly sexual" lyrics ... such as describing himself as "horny" and loving every inch of someone.

On the other hand, the judge said Beyonce's "XO" is more tame and filled with romantic metaphors.

Case closed.

xoxo

He's quietly become one of the most dominant athletes on the planet -- but now Gennady Golovkin is finally cashing in outside the ring with HUGE endorsement deals, TMZ Sports has learned.

In fact, Gennady recently got into business with Apple and was just featured in a commercial for the Apple watch. According to his rep, it's the beginning of a growing relationship.

"It's an ongoing deal. They shot him for about 5 1/2 hours. They have a lot more content to come."

But Apple seems to be just the beginning for Gennady, whose stock has SKYROCKETED over the past year as he's knocked out opponent after opponent on his way to a 34-0 record.

Ex-NFL superstar Irving Fryar didn't look too happy when he posed for his mug shot to begin his 5 year prison sentence ... after he was convicted of running a mortgage fraud scheme earlier this month.

After he was sentenced on October 2nd, the 53-year-old was taken into custody and eventually wound up at the Central Reception and Assignment Facility in Trenton, NJ ... where he took this mug shot.

As we previously reported, Fryar and his mother were found guilty of conspiring to defraud banks out of more than $1.2 MILLION through a home equity loan scam.

His 74-year-old mom was sentenced to 3 years probation -- in part, because of her age.

Master P's wife claims her estranged husband is using their famous son to rob her in their bitter divorce.

Sonya Miller just sued Romeo, claiming his dad is using him to hide assets ... making it look like P has a lot less than in actuality.

Sonya gives examples, the main one being their record label No Limit Records, which she and P created in the '90s. She says in 2010 P and Romeo started a label called No Limit Forever, which is essentially the same company with one big difference ... Romeo is the named founder and owner, which means she can't touch it. Sonya believes it's just a ruse and controlled by Master P.

Sonya also makes mention of the reality show on Reelz called "Master P's Family Empire," and she says he got $750k for the first season and she believes P shielded the money by putting Romeo on the payroll docs.

Sonya is very careful in the lawsuit not to blame her son, saying he may just be an unwitting pawn.

That said, we got Romeo out a year ago and he threw some shade on his mom.

Dave Chappelle is about to make comedy fantasies come true, because he's not saying "NO" ... to a possible dream team concert with Eddie Murphy.

There's more buzz than ever about Eddie possibly returning to the stage to do stand-up comedy after he killed it in D.C. over the weekend. Sooo ... lo and behold, we run into Chappelle who's also in D.C. and asked what he thought about an Eddie comeback, and who should join him?

Check out his response -- Dave's definitely down to play his part in what could be the greatest lineup ever! Question is ... who the hell's gonna pay??!!

11:00 AM PST -- Kevin just tweeted, "I threw the guy's cell phone because he was being disrespectful ... I'm really mad my little ass didn't throw it further."

Kevin Hart was smack in the middle of a melee outside a Canadian strip club over the weekend, and it ended with a shoving match, a broken cell phone and a pissed off waitress who got stiffed.

It all started with hired muscle ... Kevin and his bodyguards were leaving the club and apparently pushed through the crowd to make their exit. House security at Quebec's Le Pigale were none too pleased and pushed back.

The bodyguards scuffled with Kevin in tow and it ended up in the street, where Kevin apparently didn't like a fan filming the action, so he grabbed the cell phone, threw it and broke it. You see it clearly in the video.

And speaking of the video, you'll see a ticked off waitress who approaches Kevin's SUV, angry that Hart didn't pay the $65 bill. The SUV left, as the waitress walked back empty handed.

There aren't a lot of people who can make Vince McMahon feel poor ... but Jerry Jones is definitely one of those people.

The two moguls came face-to-face behind the scenes at WWE's 'Monday Night Raw' in Dallas last night ... and as our good friends at BSO pointed out, it was the meeting of some HUGE bank accounts.

Question is ... who's got the bigger wallet?

Well, according to Forbes, it ain't even close -- with the Dallas Cowboys owner reportedly worth about $5 BILLION and Vince worth somewhere in the $1 billion range.

As co-creator of "The Simpsons," Sam Simon amassed an epic collection of memorabilia ... which you can own, if you got the cash.

Simon's estate teamed up with Sotheby's for "The Creative Genius of Sam Simon: A Lifetime of Memorabilia," to auction off serious 'Simpsons' swag, and stuff from his other sitcoms he wrote and produced.

Sotheby's tells us the most sought after items include one of Simon's drawings of Bart, expected to go for $1,500 ... and an animation cell from an episode, estimated to fetch $2,000.

The crown jewel might be concept drawings of 'Simpsons' characters from the early planning stages of the show. Sotheby's thinks that will pull at least $5k.

Lil Wayne hashed out a settlement with the tour bus driver who claims Weezy threatened to kill him, but the problem is he forgot to send the check ... according to the driver, who's filed a new lawsuit.

According to the docs ... Mark Jones claims he hasn't seen a cent of the $75k settlement dough. We broke the story ... Jones claims Wayne unloaded a death threat during a 2014 ride between tour stops.

Jones also wants an extra $887.52 in interest ... which he's been calculating from August 29th.

Oprah Winfrey made $45 million Monday ... off of one stock.

Oprah announced this morning she bought 10% of the outstanding shares of Weight Watchers -- a $43.2 million investment.

The stock soared from $6.79 Monday AM to $13.92 at the close of trading, grossing her a cool $45 mil.

The announcement Oprah was investing in the company made investors go crazy ... the volume of shares traded was 70 times more than normal.

Lamar Odom's near-death experience has intrigued so many people, the Love Ranch brothel now has a month-long waiting list.

Ranch owner Dennis Hof tells TMZ, since his staff placed the 911 call last Tuesday, business has tripled. The average number of customers pre-Lamar averaged around 20 Johns a day.

Hof says in the last week, the brothel has attracted an average of 75 men a day.

Hof says the real cache is the room Lamar had booked. There's now a 1 month waiting list for the suite, and 16 want the room for at least one overnight stay.

And get this ... if anyone pays more than $500 while they're at the Ranch, whenever possible Hof will show them the room.

Former Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist John Frusciante will have to pay his estranged wife Nicole more money, but it's a light year away from what she wanted.

John will have to fork over $53k a month. He was only paying her $20k so it sounds like he lost, but that's not the case for several reasons:

-- John was paying Nicole $20k, TAX FREE, meaning he had to pay Uncle Sam, which is almost another $20k. Now she gets $53k a month, but she has to foot the tax bill.

-- Nicole was asking for $75k a month, TAX FREE, which is in the vicinity of $150k a month. She only got a third of that.

John also has to pay $71k for her legal expenses.

Blake Shelton has just declared war on In Touch -- suing the magazine over a cover insinuating he checked into rehab after his split from Miranda Lambert ... and he's looking for MILLIONS.

Shelton's beef is over a September 28th cover that featured a picture of Blake along with the headline, "Rehab for Blake ... He Finally Hits Rock Bottom."

In his lawsuit, filed in L.A. County Superior Court by Shelton's attorney Larry Stein, Shelton says he's NOT in rehab and has no plans to go to rehab -- and he wants to set the record straight by suing In Touch's parent company, Bauer Media.

In fact, Blake calls BS on several specific lines from the article, including:

-- "Blake has hit rock bottom"
-- "His friends are terrified that he could end up dead at this rate"
-- "Blake's drinking and womanizing are what helped torpedo his 4-year marriage"
-- Mr. Shelton was "caught" by Ms. Lambert with "a bunch of naked women" in their home
-- "His close friends have talked about an intervention"

Blake wants AT LEAST $2 MILLION to make things right.