CELEBRITY NEWS
A-Rod, wife split
Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez and his wife, Cynthia, have split less than three months after the birth of the couple's second daughter, according to a report in the New York Daily News. The story on the newspaper's website comes amid reports linking Rodriguez to Madonna. Rodriguez refused to address the topic on three occasions Tuesday. Cynthia Rodriguez's mother, Evangeline Scurtis, denied a gossip website report that her daughter had gone on a romantic getaway with rocker Lenny Kravitz in Paris. (AP)
Model: Life 'vanished'
Christie Brinkley testified at her divorce trial yesterday that the day she learned her husband was having an affair with a teenager was the day "my life as I knew it had vanished." The former model took the stand in New York's Supreme Court, a day after testimony by her architect-husband, Peter Cook, and his former mistress. Brian Platt, a police officer and the stepfather of the then-18-year-old, informed Brinkley of the affair at a 2006 graduation at Southampton High School. He tapped her on the shoulder, she tearfully recalled, and said, "That husband of yours won't knock it off. He's having an affair with my teenage daughter." Brinkley said she looked at Cook, sitting in the front row, and when he shook his head in denial, she thought: "My God, it's true." Later, Brinkley's mood brightened when her cross examiner tried to portray her testimony as acting. "If you want to call me an actress, that's fine. I'm no Meryl Streep, but I have been in a very successful movie," she said with a sheepish smile while referring to "National Lampoon's Vacation." (AP)
'Wild' suit dropped
The call girl linked to the sex scandal that prompted the resignation of then-New York Governor Eliot Spitzer has dropped a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against "Girls Gone Wild" founder Joe Francis. A statement from an attorney for Ashley Alexandra Dupre said the complaint, filed in April in federal court in Miami and alleging illegal use of Dupre's name and image, was withdrawn yesterday. "Ms. Dupre wants to eliminate all negativity from her life and focus on the positive," the statement said. (Reuters) 