Pop Culture News

Designer Roberto Cavalli, who is outfitting Jennifer Lopez for her current tour, confirmed to People yesterday that Lopez is pregnant.  In other J. Lo news, the pop star’s next film, “Bordertown,” is going straight to video. Moviefone reports the flick, which was booed at the Berlin Film Festival, will hit stores in January. /DN 2, NYP 10

Pierce Brosnan is being investigated by sheriff’s officials for an alleged battery in Malibu. The 54-year-old former James Bond star allegedly committed the battery Friday night outside a Mexican restaurant. Brosnan wasn’t arrested or detained. /AP

Yesterday Britney Spears was granted two seven-hour visits and one overnight stay a week with her sons despite parenting coach Lisa Hacker’s findings that Spears barely talks to or plays with them. Meanwhile, Spears’ label, Jive, has given up on trying to get her to promote her new album. /DN 2, 20

Heather Mills McCartney said Wednesday she had been pushed “to the edge” by lies in some newspapers and is urging the public to stop buying tabloid newspapers. “We’ve had death threats, I’ve been close to suicide. I’m so upset about this,” she said on an ITV television morning show. “I’ve had worse press than a pedophile or a murderer and I’ve done nothing but charity for 20 years.” /AP

Jane Seymour missed Tuesday night’s “Dancing With the Stars” results show after being sickened by food poisoning, KABC-TV reported. /AP

Rosie O’Donnell will appear on “The Martha Stewart Show” today. The appearance, pre-taped Monday, is O’Donnell’s first major TV appearance since leaving “The View” last spring. According to the Post, O’Donnell barely talks about her former job or her new book, “Celebrity Detox.” /NYP 83

Kiefer Sutherland has stopped giving out autographs since his Sept. 25 DUI bust. Since the arrest, he’s been telling collectors “I don’t do that anymore. You guys screwed me,” collector Michael Wehrmann tells the Post. /NYP 12

Diddy was spotted cozying up to Kid Rock’s ex, May Andersen, Monday night at the Angel Ball. /DN 19

The Post picked up Gayle King’s response to People about Oprah’s South African school scandal. /NYP 83

Barbara Streisand will belt out tunes next month at the opening of the Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino in Las Vegas. /NYP 10

Michael Jackson paid a recent undercover visit to Brooklyn to shoot a cover for Ebony magazine’s issue celebrating the 25th anniversary of “Thriller.” /NYP 11

Naomi Campbell met privately with President Hugo Chavez on Tuesday, becoming the latest in a series of celebrities hosted by the Venezuelan leader. Last month, Chavez met in Caracas with Kevin Spacey and has hosted recent visits by Hollywood stars including Sean Penn and Danny Glover. /AP

Mischa Barton’s younger sister, Hania, was so wasted when she arrived at a Hollywood fashion show last weekend that the designer told her she couldn’t walk the runway. Web site celebritybabylon.com reports that “her legs were like jelly. She was literally chewing on her lower lip.” /NYP 12

Chris Rock has showed up three times in the past month at Hustler Club, where he’s entertained by the same private dancer on one of the private rooms. /NYP 12

Author Karrine Steffans trashes ex Bill Maher in next month’s Vibe magazine. She says, “Bill wants someone he can put down in an argument, tell you how ghetto you are, how big your butt is, and that you’re an idiot…I couldn’t be ‘Bill Maher’s girlfriend’ any more – not when I’m Karrine Steffans…best-selling author.” /NYP 10

Rachel Ray’s hunt for the best cooks in America kicks off Monday on her daytime show. The competition includes five chefs and one will get the boot each week. /DN 78

Animal-rights activist Bob Barker is speaking out about Ellen DeGeneres’ dog adoption controversy. “Everybody is right and everybody is wrong,” Barker tells Billy Bush on tomorrow’s “Access Hollywood.” Meanwhile, Degeneres’ on-air meltdown earned her some of her biggest ratings of the year. /NYP 84

“Grey’s Anatomy” and “Private Practice” creator Shonda Rhimes will be honored by Glamour magazine at its Women of the Year Awards Monday at Lincoln Center. Eric Dane, Justin Chambers, James Pickering and Taye Diggs will present her with her award. /NYP 82

NBC is developing a spin-off to “The Office” that will feature none of the characters from the original show, according to TV Guide. /NYP 84

A bailiff refused on Tuesday to accept a 3,600-signature petition asking that former “Prison Break” actor Lane Garrison receive the maximum sentence for a drunk driving accident that killed a teen, but said the petition would be accepted at Wednesday’s sentencing if it were submitted through the district attorney’s office. Garrison, 27, is scheduled to be sentenced today in Superior Court in Beverly Hills in the Dec. 2 death of his passenger Vahagn Setian, 17. /AP

The long-awaited inquest into the death of Anna Nicole Smith’s son convened briefly in the Bahamas yesterday but was adjourned because Tropical Storm Noel threatened the islands. A jury of four women and three men were sworn in before the hearing was postponed until Nov. 19. /NYP 7

A photographer named Romulad Rat called British newspaper The Sun from the Paris tunnel where Princess Diana lay dying to offer exclusive pictures for $496,000, a court was told yesterday. Rat’s motorcyclist in the night Diana was killed says the photographer did try to help at the scene by keeping others away from the wreckage. /NYP 16

Robert Goulet, the baritone whose Broadway debut in “Camelot” launched an award-winning stage and recording career, died yesterday in L.A. of a rare lung disease. He was 73. The singer was awaiting a lung transplant at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles after being found last month to have a rare form of pulmonary fibrosis. /AP, DN 29

Sam Dana, who was the oldest living former NFL player and once played football alongside Lou Gehrig at Columbia, died in his sleep late Monday night. He was 104. /NYP 63

Slain actress Adrienne Shelly’s husband, Andy Ostroy, says his 3-year-old daughter pulled him out of a deep depression following Shelly’s murder. Ostroy, speaking on the eve of her death, said he began to snap out of it when his little girl told him she didn’t want him to be sad anymore. /DN 12

The NYPD says a serial rapist is stalking women outside popular nightclub The Box. The man first struck Sept. 30 at 3 a.m., and again last Friday at the same time. /NYP 7, DN 5