Several months after that fateful car ride with Chris Brown, Rihanna has decided to open up about her ordeal. In an interview with Diane Sawyer, Rihanna looks thoughtful, saying, "This happened to me . . . it can happen to anyone." She also reveals that the incident was especially hard on her, since Brown was "her first big love." Rihanna's decision to finally open up about her experience with domestic violence comes at an interesting time - less than three weeks before the release of her new album, Rated R. Brown is currently serving his sentence and is also preparing to release a new album in December entitled Graffiti.

Although Twilight star Robert Pattinson constantly has to fend off advances from his eager fans, according to the actor, it's not easy. In a new interview with Vanity Fair, Pattinson says he's "trying not to drown." Although he's constantly surrounded by mobs of adoring fans, the actor goes on to say, "I'm not much of a crowd person." As to his oft-reported romance with co-star Kristen Stewart, the actor (once again) denies everything. He claims the twosome are just "good friends" and that he admires her deeply. Stewart, in her characteristic shrewish fashion, has more to say about the rumors of a romance with Pattinson: "It's so retarded."

The ever-hypocritical Mel Gibson is officially a father - for the eighth time. His much-younger girlfriend, Oksana Grigorieva, became pregnant with Gibson's child while he was still married to his wife of 30 years, Robyn. The couple officially filed for divorce in April. For Gibson, who backed production of Passion of the Christ and runs his own church, this must be a proud moment.

The latest and hottest celebrity hook-up is a meeting of the Taylors - Swift and Lautner, that is. The New Moon heartthrob and the award-winning songstress have been seen out and about, most recently at a Hockey game in Los Angeles' Staples Center. Swift, 19, picked Lautner,17, up from LAX before heading to a hotel and then out to the game. The couple are co-starring in the movie Valentine's Day. Rumors about their romantic status have been swirling since Swift gave him a very public hug during one of her concerts.

Newlyweds Khloe Kardashian and Lamar Odom recently inked their required pre-nup and decided to celebrate with ink of a whole other kind. Khloe recently showed off her "L" tattoo at the bottom of her thumb - and Lamar's matching "K" one. Nothing says "class" like matching tattoos and a hard-fought pre-nup. The pre-nup clearly provides for the marriage's inevitable demise, down to the last penny. Don't they know tattoos are permanent?

*Jude Law*'s latest baby mama has come forward in an interview with Hello! Magazine, seeming far less bitter than one might expect. Florida resident Samantha Burke, 25, showed off month-old daughter Sophia and shared her belief that the baby girl looks a lot like her father. According to Burke, the serial womanizer is currently starring in Hamlet on Broadway and has yet to meet his new daughter or even send a gift. Despite this, Burke believes Law will "be a wonderful father." Denial, maybe?

British songster Leona Lewis hasn't let fame change her - and she staunchly sticks by the people who have been with her from the start. In a new interview, Lewis, 24, addresses the fact that she is still with her boyfriend of seven years, Lou Al-Chamaa. Lewis says some people think you should ditch the people you knew before when you find fame, and she doesn't agree with that. "For people to think that you should leave someone because, all of a sudden, you're a singer and you have opportunities. I feel sorry for them." Lewis has also kept her residence in the "gritty" Hackney area of London.

There's been another Trump wedding, only this time, it's not Donald Trump playing the groom. Ivanka Trump, daughter of Donald Trump and his ex-wife Ivana, married publisher and executive Jared Kushner in a lavish Jewish ceremony at Trump National Golf Club in New Jersey last weekend. Though both bride and groom are under 30, they're already a power couple. Ivanka hosts Celebrity Apprentice, has her own fine jewelry line and is vice president of Donald Trump's real estate division. Kushner, 28, is publisher of the New York Observer and an executive at his family's company. Hopefully, Ivanka will have more luck with marriage than her father has thus far.

More than four months after the death of their father, *Michael Jackson*'s kids are still trying to adjust. LaToya Jackson recently opened up about how the kids are doing, and how each of them are trying to cope in their own way. Blanket, age 7, is "just a very sad, shy little boy. He cries." Meanwhile, his older sister Paris, 11, "thinks and writes about her father all the time." But it's the eldest boy, Prince, 12, who has LaToya most concerned. "Prince just doesn't want to speak about it. I do worry about him very much". According to LaToya, all three children are currently in therapy to help them cope.