Publications debate Radcliffe's net worth

Media reports of "Harry Potter" star Daniel Radcliffe gaining access to huge amounts of cash when he turned 18 yesterday were overblown, his publicist's office said. Radcliffe, who was 11 when he was first cast as the schoolboy wizard in the films based on J.K. Rowling's novels, is gaining access to a $19 million investment fund, People magazine reported in its July 23 issue. British newspapers have estimated that he has a net worth of $35 million, with two more movies in the "Potter" series yet to be filmed, the magazine said. "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix," the latest movie starring Radcliffe, Rupert Grint , and Emma Watson, is now in theaters. Rowling's seventh and final book in the series, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," was published Saturday. (AP)

Queen Latifah (inset), Garth Brooks , and Kenny "Babyface" Edmonds will perform at a concert to raise money for a memorial to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to be built on the National Mall next year. The Dream Concert will be Sept. 18 at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. Tickets go on sale Monday through TicketMaster; prices are from $250 to $1,000. (AP)

Comic Drew Carey was tapped yesterday to replace Bob Barker on the CBS daytime game show "The Price Is Right." The deal was set yesterday shortly before a taping of CBS's "Late Show" with David Letterman, where he confirmed it. "I realize what a big responsibility this is," Carey said. (AP)

CNN said yesterday that it has hired anchor Campbell Brown of NBC News, one day after she announced on "Weekend Today" that she would be leaving as host. (AP)

Rappers Ja Rule and Lil Wayne were arraigned in New York on felony gun charges yesterday following their arrests Sunday after a hip-hop concert at which they had performed. Manhattan Criminal Court Judge Abraham Clott set high bails and bonds , but the defendants were expected to be freed immediately . (AP)

A forensic specialist told jurors in Phil Spector's murder trial yesterday that the record producer didn't have to be within arm's length of Lana Clarkson to have gotten blood on his jacket when she suffered a fatal gunshot wound in 2003 . The testimony is critical to the defense claim that Spector was too far from the actress to have shot her but close enough that blood stained his white coat. (AP)

The sister of a man who was suspected of being a sexual predator and killed himself last year as the cameras of "Dateline NBC" closed in on him sued NBC Universal Inc. yesterday for $105 million, accusing it of taking over police duties and then failing to protect her brother. (AP)