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OCTOBER 21--David Gest, the estranged husband of Liza Minnelli, claims in a lawsuit filed today that the singer regularly beat him during the couple's 16-month marriage. In the below New York State Supreme Court complaint, Gest, 50, describes Minnelli, 57, as an overweight, raging alcoholic who seriously injured him during a June attack (the couple separated the following month). According to Gest, whose lawsuit seeks $10 million in damages, he became a "victim of domestic violence" who, as a result of Minnelli's beatings, now lives in "virtually constant, unrelenting pain" that requires "11 prescription medications per day, some more than...

<p>Start spreadin' the news: Liza Minnelli and husband David Gest have split.</p> <p>"They are separated," Minnelli's spokesman in Los Angeles said Friday night.</p>

GIRLS GONE WILD by Rick Kisonak (12/18/2002) "I called my other personality Celestia. I believed I was from another planet. I could see into the future. I could heal people. I was, in my mind, learning it from God." Anne Heche - September 2001 Maybe it's an undetected side effect of Botox. Maybe it's something in designer bottled water. Perhaps it's the L.A. air. Who can say? All I know is that something is affecting high profile female showbiz personalities, turning them into out of control, occasionally dangerous wackjobs and nothing is being done to stop it. Mariah Scary...sorry, I...