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Cindy Margolis, known as the "Most Downloaded Woman" on the Internet, is following up her win on "Celebrity Cooking Showdown" with a career first — posing nude for Playboy. The mother of three told The Associated Press that she finally agreed to pose for the magazine when they called on her 40th birthday. "Thank goodness for 'Desperate Housewives.' You're not dead just because you are married and have children," the actress and model said Monday, on the phone from her Los Angeles home.

Catfight! Tensions between bombshell cover girl Cindy Margolis and fun-loving actress Tara Reid boiled over into a full-blown bar brawl in Atlantic City last Saturday. The object of their disaffection: Margolis's husband, restaurateur Guy Starkman, who used to date Reid. The dueling beauties fell to the floor in a two-fisted tussle at Boardwalk bar Duke Macks. A shocked spywitness tells us: "Words were exchanged when Reid made a disparaging remark [about Starkman] to Margolis. Cindy grabbed Reid's hair and physically yanked her off her bar stool onto the floor," - a statement not contradicted by Margolis' publicist, Neil Cirucci, who...

Maybe Not Quite So Hot as an Investor A just-added plaintiff in the big Los Angeles civil lawsuit accusing William Gross, the founder of faltering business incubator Idealab, of lining his own pocket from the $1 billion raised: Cindy Margolis, 35, whose cheesecake photos have made her famous as the self-described "most downloaded woman on the Internet." —Seth Lubove