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Followers of the Kardashian clan were introduced to an unlikely new character this week: Marianne Williamson, the independent candidate running for soon-to-retire Representative Henry Waxman’s seat in California’s 33rd district. “I went to hear @mariannewilliamson speak the other night w @kourtneykardash & @rachel_roy,” Kim reported on Instagram. “Very inspiring!” Also inspired by the 61-year-old author and spiritual adviser: Katy Perry and Nicole Richie, who attended a recent campaign event sporting new green and purple dye jobs respectively; Steven Tyler and Chaka Khan, who performed at a fund-raiser; and former Desperate Housewives Eva Longoria and Marcia Cross, who reunited at another...

The Editors of The Fashion Time Magazine on a constant search for celebrities boldly expressing an award-winning elan and couture gravitated towards… Nicole Richie, who attended House of Harlow 1960 Holiday Collection Launch in LA.

Wow, wow, wow! Is that Nicole Richie on the cover of the upcoming Black Book magazine’s April issue? The former heiress is totally re-vamped up for the issue and we are digging her scene and electrifying ensemble. Wild, complete and chic, her own style trend rocket launches tres successfully.

Hollywood socialite Nicole Richie has lent her voice to a campaign to stop dogs peeing on lamp posts. When Paris Hilton's dog-loving pal learned of Swedish inventor Lennart Järlebro's plans to design a urinal for dogs, she immediately vowed to spread the word in the United States. "This invention is just so clever. It's a cute rubber cup attached to the post and a hose that pipes urine into the gutter," Richie, 26, told the Daily Star. Lennart Järlebro began designing a toilet for dogs after reading a newspaper report about the corrosive effects of dogs' urine on lamp posts....

LYNWOOD, Calif. - Nicole Richie was released from jail Thursday after serving 82 minutes of a four-day sentence for driving under the influence of drugs. The reality show star, who checked into jail in this Los Angeles suburb at 3:15 p.m., was released at 4:37 p.m. "based on her sentence and federal guidelines," Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputy Maribel Rizo said without elaborating.When asked whether Richie, who is four months pregnant, spent her brief sentence in a jail cell, Rizo replied: "I have no further comment." A call to Richie's attorney, Shawn Chapman Holley, was not immediately returned Thursday. An...

Excerpt - NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Monday overruled regulators who decided that expletives uttered on broadcast television violated decency standards, a major victory for TV networks. The Federal Communications Commission had ruled in March 2006 that News Corp.'s Fox television network had violated decency regulations when singer Cher and actress Nicole Richie blurted out profanities during the 2002 and 2003 Billboard Music Awards' shows. However, no fines were issued. ~ snip ~

Nicole Richie's lawyer appeared in Superior Court in Glendale without her client Tuesday and entered a not guilty plea on Richie's behalf to a driving under the influence charge. The complaint alleges Richie was under the influence of an alcoholic beverage and an unspecified drug when she was arrested Dec. 11. A pretrial conference was scheduled for April 2. Richie, who starred in the TV reality show "The Simple Life" with Paris Hilton, was not required to appear for arraignment because the charge is a misdemeanor. Richie, 25, was arrested after 911 callers reported seeing her car headed the wrong...

LIFE STYLE EXTRA (UK) - Nicole Richie allegedly collapsed at a Hollywood nightclub in the early hours of yesterday morning (29.10.06). 'The Simple Life' star - who announced on Friday (27.10.06) that she was seeking medical treatment for her dramatic weight loss - passed out at 2am at hip night spot Hyde. A source told gossip website TMZ.com: "An employee approached Nicole and her friends and said he was calling 911. They told him not to make the call and that they would take her to hospital themselves. Then they carried her out of the back door." It is not...

Socialite-turned-actress Nicole Richie has faced up to her weight loss after once insisting she's just naturally thin. The star has opened up to style magazine Vanity Fair, admitting she shudders at the thought of young women trying to obtain her skinny look. Richie accepts her slim look can be a concern and admits she has a weight problem. She says, "I know I'm too thin right now, so I wouldn't want any young girl looking at me and saying, 'That's what I want to look like.'" But she insists her weight problems are not connected to an alleged eating disorder,...

LOS ANGELES - Nicole Richie irritated a local family during taping of "The Simple Life" by asking an 11-year-old boy, in graphic language, if she looked attractive. The boy was playing basketball Wednesday in the driveway of his home. Richie, pushing a baby carriage, approached and questioned the youth about how she looked, using a profane word. Two camera operators and another crew taped the exchange. The boy's father refused the crew's request that he sign a release giving them the right to use the clip with his son. Instead he complained to the show's production company. "The Simple Life,"...

DENNIS TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) - Paris Hilton's reality show "The Simple Life" is disputing allegations that a deer was illegally killed so that it could be gutted by the socialite and her sidekick, Nicole Richie. State officials said the deer was killed Tuesday night and they believe it was to be gutted for the show. Investigators are looking into accounts the deer was shot by someone firing a gun from inside a car. Two men working for the Fox show could face fines of between $100 and $500 for permit violations and hunting out of season, said Elaine Makatura, spokeswoman...

In terms of brilliant television casting, it certainly would have trumped the addition of Don Knotts to "Three's Company" in 1979. Unfortunately, it wasn't meant to be. Sen. Rick Santorum won't be joining Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie for a new season of the pair's Fox TV series "The Simple Life"... Fox contacted the offices of Santorum and House Speaker Dennis Hastert, of Illinois, to inquire about possible internships for the dynamically dim duo... In pitching the idea to Santorum's office, associate producer Ryan Crow suggested that Hilton and Richie could perform administrative tasks, help enact certain policy reforms or...