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A harassment case against MICHAEL LOHAN’s ex-fiancee ERIN MULLER has been= dismissed, following the showbiz dad’s accusations she kicked him in the= head during a heated argument.
Lindsay Lohan’s father has recently been locked in a legal battle Mulle= r, which has seen both parties arrested on separate occasions.
The outspoken patriarch claimed his ex was too "drunk and high" to driv= e during an incident in November (09) - triggering an argument outside hi= s mother’s New York home.
Lohan alleged Muller intentionally kicked him in the head when he opene= d her car door to try and stop her from getting behind the wheel.
Muller turned herself into police on 17 December (09) and faced a charg= e of harassment in the second degree - days after she alleged Lohan had v= iolated a restraining order by calling her.
According to TMZ.com, New York’s Nassau County Court dismissed the crim= inal case against Muller on Wednesday morning (20Jan10).
Lohan’s restraining order against Muller was unaffected by the ruling.
Muller has also filed papers accusing Michael of abusing her over a doz= en times between 2007 and 2008. He has denied her allegations. (JMA/WNWCZ=

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MEL GIBSON has come clean about another past infraction - he once inadver= tently attacked an old lady and an injured man in an Australian drugstore= ..
The actor admits he "wrecked the place" in Coogee, near Sydney as he da= shed from the pay kiosk to the door in an effort to stop his 21-month-old= daughter walking into traffic outside.
The incident took place 27 years ago, but Gibson still shudders as he r= ecalls the moment he realised just how far he’d go to protect his kids.
The Braveheart star tells WENN, "I went to the pharmacy to buy some for= mula for my newly-born twins; they’re now 27. I brought my 21 month old t= o the pharmacy with me because my wife was at home occupied with twins.
"We had a nurse from New Zealand at the time who used to help out durin= g the day. We’re in the pharmacy and I’m buying formula and I take my eye= s off the child for a second and the next thing I look up and I see my ch= ild standing about 25 yards away on the edge of a curb and the nurse is a= t a bus stop on the other side with traffic blowing in front of her.
"My daughter is trying to go over to her and say ‘Hi.’ I’m thinking, ‘O= K, 25 yards and not much time to get the kid.’ "So, needless to say, there was a man with broken ribs and and an old l= ady with a footprint on her face because I completely wrecked the place t= o get to the kid. I broke everything and ran through things and lifted th= ings and threw things out of the way to pluck her out before she got stru= ck by a car.
"I had to apologise to all those people afterwards and they didn’t unde= rstand. They get very angry, of course, because I knocked an old lady ove= r."

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CHARLIE SHEEN’s lawyers have asked the judge overseeing their client’s as= sault case to modify an order preventing him from communicating with his = ill wife while she is in hospital.
Brooke Mueller underwent emergency surgery on her wisdom teeth earlier = this week (18Jan10) and was hospitalised when an infection set in. She wa= s admitted on Wednesday (20Jan10), reportedly suffering from a bout of pn= eumonia.
Sheen has attempted to gain access to his wife in hospital - but he was= refused access due to a restraining order stemming from a Christmas Day = (25Dec10) bust-up between the actor and his wife.
Sheen was charged of assault, menacing and criminal mischief, and jaile= d.
Following his hospital visit, the actor’s legal team asked the judge ov= erseeing the case in Aspen, Colorado to change the rules of the protectiv= e order, so that he could tend to his ill wife.
In legal papers obtained by TMZ.com, Sheen’s lawyer, Richard Cummins, t= old the judge that the actor "is concerned and feels the necessity to ass= ist and care for his wife." Following his visit to the hospital, Sheen told awaiting reporters that= Mueller is "fine" following treatment in the facility’s intensive care u= nit and has responded well to antibiotics.
The two are due to appear in court in Colorado on Friday (22Jan10) for = a hearing about their Christmas Day fight and ongoing restraining order c= oncerns.
Meanwhile, Mueller’s lawyer has confirmed his client is suffering from = an infection caused by oral surgery.
Yale Galanter claims the real estate agent developed a fever following = surgery.

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BEN AFFLECK is begging wife JENNIFER GARNER to get pregnant one more time= and give him the son he’s desperate for.
The couple have two daughters, Violet, four, and 12-month-old Seraphina= , and Affleck is keen for a baby boy to complete the trio.
But Garner is reluctant to abandon the pre-pregnancy figure she worked = so hard to achieve.
The actress tells Us Weekly, "Ben would like a boy, but I don’t want an= other baby right now." And Garner’s friends are on her side, one pal telling the star, "You do= n’t want to do that all over again. You worked hard to get your body back= .."

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Guitarist TOM MORELLO has joined CYPRESS HILL on the rap act’s comeback a= lbum.
Rage Against The Machine star Morello will appear on the title track of= Rise Up and another tune when the new release hits stores in April (10).
The guitarist says, "It was great to work with my longtime friends and = comrades." Cypress Hill are Snoop Dogg’s first signing to Priority Records. The ra= pper is the label’s new creative chairman.

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Cult act VAMPIRE WEEKEND have scored their first U.S. number one album af= ter ending seven weeks of girl power at the top of the Billboard 200.
Susan Boyle and Ke$ha ruled the end-of-the-year and early 2010 charts, = but the New York band have taken over, thanks to debut-week sales of 124,= 000.
Boyle’s I Dreamed a Dream holds at number two, while Ke$ha’s Animal fal= ls to three, Lady GaGa’s The Fame drops to four and The Element of Freedo= m by Alicia Keys rounds out the new top five.
Lady GaGa enjoys double success in the top 10 - her Fame Monster album = jumps up from 10 to six.

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WYCLEF JEAN is desperate for good news about the arts school his Yele fou= ndation built in his native Haiti - because the entire site was crushed b= y an earthquake last week (12Jan10) and he fears all the students and tea= chers are dead.
The Yele Center was less than a year old when it collapsed during the 7= ..0-magnitude earthquake, which shook Haiti, and Jean, who visited his hom= eland at the weekend, admits he fears the worst.
He says, "As of now… everyone passed away.
"The idea of a school collapsing… and every kid in the school, includ= ing the teachers, just completely wiped out is unheard of." The school was responsible for a special line of T-shirts, sold in Timb= erland stores across America.
Jean explains, "These artists did these incredible T-shirts that were i= n Timberland stores all around the world. It was Haiti on a Timberland T-= shirt."

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OZZY OSBOURNE has conceded his family’s reality TV "experiment" almost de= stroyed them.
Ozzy, his manager/wife Sharon and their kids Jack and Kelly invited TV = cameras into their Beverly Hills home to shoot The Osbournes.
Nearly a decade on, the rocker admits the programme becoming a hit was = the worst thing that could have happened.
He says, "It went crazier than anyone expected it to and it has dawned = on me how much it must have f**ked my kids up.
"Jack ended up in rehab, Kelly ended up in rehab, I ended up in rehab."=

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Hip-hop star WYCLEF JEAN fought back tears on U.S. TV talk show OPRAH on = Wednesday (20Jan10) as he recalled the horror he experienced during a rec= ent return to his earthquake-ravaged homeland Haiti.
The former Fugees star, his wife and a cousin shot Flip phone footage o= f their visit to Port-au-Prince following last week’s (12Jan10) 7.0-magni= tude earthquake, as they helped locals collect and bury the dead.
Jean said, "There’s what you see by the airport and there’s inside the = belly of the beast… The entire city feels like a morgue and, for every = two blocks (there are) 15, 16 bodies on the floor, no plastic on them; th= ree of them are children. (There’s) people running through the city holdi= ng their baby in their hands, while the baby’s dead.
"The aid workers can’t do much because there are so many people; they’r= e out of medicine at times." Jean aired the harrowing footage his cousin Jerry shot. It showed the h= itmaker and members of his family taking part in a desperate relief effor= t.
On film, he said, "Everywhere we walked, bodies are abandoned in the st= reet… We spent hours in the heat, piling up the bodies. The smell is ov= erwhelming… The local cemeteries are already overflowing so these survi= vors are digging shallow graves for the dead. Most of these people laid t= o rest here will never be identified." The film also showed Jean trying to find a hospital bed for a 14-year-o= ld girl who had been trapped beneath her home for days - only to discover= the city’s hospital had been reduced to rubble in the quake.
But it was the little hope he witnessed among his fellow Haitians that = had Jean holding back tears.
He added, "The people were singing, despite what they were going throug= h… We know what struggle is.
"It’s will, it’s determination… the only thing we have that we can ho= ld on to is our pride." Earlier in the week (beg18Jan10), Wyclef urged relief officials and U.S= .. soldiers to evacuate Port-au-Prince completely, so the dead could be bu= ried.

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JULIE ANDREWS has ruled out a singing comeback in 2010, insisting reports= she’ll be belting out classics from her films and Broadway shows have be= en exaggerated.
The Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music star doesn’t want British fans = expecting her to perform songs like Do-Re-Mi and A Spoonful of Sugar when= she performs in London this May (10) - an illness earlier this century c= ost her her voice, and she fears she’ll never get it back.
Andrews tells WENN the show at the 02 Arena will be similar to one she = toured America with last year (09) - which was more a tribute to songwrit= ers Rodgers & Hammerstein, and featured Andrews narrating her way through= the songs the duo wrote for her, showing clips from her films.
The actress says, "I am not singing. It just so happens that there was = this erroneous announcement that I was having vocal restoration, which co= incided with the announcement of the concert, which was really unfortunat= e.
"I haven’t had vocal rejuvenation or anything like that. I did five con= certs last year. It’s a gorgeous evening of music. I do participate in th= e five deep base notes that I have. I do sing/speak a lot. I narrate, I t= ell stories and I host.
"I go right out and say, ‘You all know I have had vocal surgery and I d= o have about five bass notes left, so I can assure you I can still sing t= he hell out of Old Man River."

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Argentina, Australia and Kazakhstan will be among the nine countries comp= eting for Oscar gold at the Academy Awards in March (10).
Pedro Almodovar’s acclaimed Broken Embraces has failed to make the late= st shortlist for Best Foreign Film, but Germany’s Golden Globe winner The= White Ribbon will be among those vying for a nomination on 2 February (1= 0), and an award on 7 March (10).
The full list of pre-nominees are El Secreto de Sus Ojos (Argentina), S= amson & Delilah (Australia), The World Is Big and Salvation Lurks around = the Corner (Bulgaria), Un Prophete (France), Ajami (Israel), Kelin (Kazak= hstan), Winter in Wartime (The Netherlands), The White Ribbon (Germany) a= nd The Milk of Sorroe (Peru).
Initially, 65 films were successfully entered for Academy consideration= in October (09). Five from the new shortlist will officially be nominate= d.

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Moviemaker JAMES CAMERON has landed another honour - for his portrayal of= aliens in AVATAR.
Animal rights group PETA has handed the director a Proggy Award for Out= standing Feature Film for "the inspiring message in his blockbuster".
A PETA spokeswoman says, "Viewers will recognise how the plight of Avat= ar’s catlike Na’vi people, who are faced with being driven off their land= by a greedy corporation, closely echoes the real-life plight of animals = on earth, many of whom continue to be torn away from their homes and fami= lies and locked up in cages in zoos, circuses, and laboratories.
"PETA also applauds the movie’s stunning special effects, which beautif= ully illustrate how unnecessary it is to subject animals to the stress of= a film production." The group’s Senior Vice President Lisa Lange adds, "We hope viewers wil= l come away from Avatar with a new way of looking at the world around the= m and the way we treat our fellow earthlings.
"For helping animals with the positive message of this film, James Came= ron is PETA’s ‘King of the World.’"

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CHARLIE SHEEN’s estranged wife BROOKE MUELLER was admitted to a Californi= a hospital on Wednesday (20Jan10), suffering a fever and suspected pneumo= nia - according to online reports.
Mueller checked herself into a medical centre in Sherman Oaks after her= temperature soared to a dangerous 105 degrees fahrenheit, TMZ.com report= s.
Shortly after being admitted Sheen paid his spouse a visit, despite a r= estraining order banning him from having any direct contact with her.
The medical emergency comes just two days before the couple are due in = court to dispute the order.
Their bust-up stems from Sheen’s arrest on Christmas morning (25Dec09) = after a nasty dispute with Mueller in Aspen, Colorado.
He faces charges for second-degree assault, menacing and criminal misch= ief for the incident, after allegedly threatening Mueller with a knife.
The Two and Half Men actor faces up to eight years for the menacing cha= rge, the most serious of the three, in addition to a fine of between $2,0= 00 (=C2=A31,250) and $500,000 (=C2=A3312,500).

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LINDSAY LOHAN is rumoured to be dating French actor AURELIEN WIIK after t= hey were spotted kissing at a party in Los Angeles.
The star, who split from her on/off girlfriend Samantha Ronson last yea= r (09), was photographed embracing the 29 year old during an event at L.A= .. fashion boutique Church in West Hollywood on Monday night (18Jan10).
Wiik is the latest eligible bachelor to be linked to Lohan over the las= t few months - she was previously rumoured to be romancing actors includi= ng Gerard Butler, Entourage star Kevin Connolly and Jason Segel, as well = as model Adam Senn.

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DIANE KRUGER put her life in the hands of director QUENTIN TARANTINO on t= he set of war movie INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS - after agreeing to let the film= maker choke her during a fight scene.
Kruger plays German spy Bridget von Hammersmark in the film about a gro= up of Jewish-American Nazi killers.
In one brutal scene Kruger’s character is strangled - and Tarantino was= convinced the only way to make the struggle realistic was to choke his l= eading lady himself.
He explains, "When you watch the film those are actually my hands that = are on Diane Kruger’s throat strangling her. I made a deal with her early= on. (I told her) ‘We’re gonna have to choke you if it’s gonna actually w= ork and I don’t trust anybody but myself to do it.’ And she didn’t trust = anybody but me to do it … so she was down (ok) with it but I remember t= alking to her about it (and saying) it’s going to be a little uncomfortab= le."

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Tragic actress BRITTANY MURPHY feared her heart condition would kill her = young, her widower has revealed.
Murphy was born with mitral valve prolapse, which prevented one of the = valves in her heart from closing properly.
The condition is manageable and doctors saw no reason why Murphy should= not lead a normal life - but her husband Simon Monjack claims the illnes= s haunted the star.
He tells People magazine, "She had expressed to me a fear of dying youn= g and a fear of her heart. We had it checked out every way you could imag= ine." Murphy died on 20 December (09) after suffering a cardiac arrest, aged = just 32. The cause of her death has been deferred pending toxicology test= results.

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British actor/singer DARREN DAY has pleaded guilty to a charge of drink d= riving.
The star smashed his sportscar into a lamp-post in Edinburgh, Scotland = last month (Dec09) and was subsequently accused of stepping behind the wh= eel while intoxicated He appeared at Edinburgh Sheriff Court on Wednesday (20Jan10) and enter= ed a guilty plea to a charge of driving while over the legal alcohol limi= t. He also admitted a charge of failing to stop to give his name and addr= ess after a traffic accident.
However, he entered a not guilty plea to three other charges - driving = without due care and attention, failure to report an accident and failure= to co-operate with a preliminary breath test.
Day will be sentenced for the drink-driving offence next month (10Feb10= ), when he also faces a hearing for a further charge of possession of a w= eapon, after cops allegedly found him with a kubotan, a self-defence weap= on usually kept on a key-chain.
In the mean time he has been banned from holding or obtaining a driving= license.
The drink-drive arrest came just over a year after Day was handed a dri= ving ban in August 2008 after pleading guilty to drink-driving charges fo= llowing an arrest in Wales.

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BLACK SABBATH rocker TONY IOMMI is documenting his life in the hellraisin= g band in a new autobiography.
The book, Iron Man, is due to be published later this year (10), after = U.S.-based Foundry Literary & Media bought the publishing rights for a si= x-figure sum at auction.
Announcing the deal, Foundry boss Peter McGuigan described Iommi’s tome= as "Angela’s Ashes meets The Ground Beneath Her Feet meets Spinal Tap".
The memoir will follow the 2009 release of former bandmate Ozzy Osbourn= e’s own autobiography.
The two men are currently embroiled in a legal battle over the Black Sa= bbath name. In May last year (09), Osbourne filed suit in a federal court= in New York against Iommi alleging he illegally claimed the band name. I= ommi claims his bandmates relinquished their rights to the name back in t= he 1980s - and is seeking an equal split between all the original bandmem= bers.

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