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Can Jon Gosselin possibly be engaged to his new 22-year-old girlfriend already? Depends on whom you believe.

Just weeks after filing for divorce from wife Kate, Gosselin, the 32-year-old father of eight, is rumored to have purchased a ring from jeweler-to-the-stars, Edouard Nahum, while in St.-Tropez with girlfriend Hailey Glassman.

In Touch Weekly says that the ring was a $180,000 engagement ring, designed by Nahum, featuring four black diamonds surrounding a skull. In Touch's source says Jon has been telling people that they are in love, so why waste time? The source says: "They started dating two months ago and they both just knew the other was the one instantly."

E!'s source, also agrees saying: "They're engaged but nobody is allowed to say. They've been warned to keep it secret."

But Gosselin downplayed the engagement talk in People, saying: "No. We're just having a cool time and enjoying each other."

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Michael Jackson had an art appreciation, sometimes gaudy and strange. But E! Online reports that Jackson was in negotiation to purchase a large collection of celebrity nude photos. Celebrity Sleuth is a collector of nudes of stars beginning from the 1920s and '30s, and Sleuth tells E! that Jackson had offered 'eight figures' for a large portion of never-before-seen nudie pics. During his molestation trial, it was revealed that Jackson also collected photography books featuring nude children.

The home belonging to actor Orlando Bloom was broken into, and a fair amount of personal belongings were taken, according to People. Bloom is believed to be filming in New York, and was not home at the time of the break-in.

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Reality TV personality Kim Kardashian was temporarily stranded in Africa after losing her passport. While traveling from Botswana to South Africa, Kardashian lost her passport on the airplane, and was held up at customs. A quick search of the plane was unsuccessful, and put Kardashian on edge, but boyfriend Reggie Bush convinced officials to allow him back on the plane to look. Bush found the passport and Kardashian was allowed to re-join the Russell Simmons Diamond Empowerment trip, which is raising awareness on the diamond industry.

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Debbie Rowe is said to be threatening a lawsuit against the friend who leaked e-mails where she says "Hell no" to the idea of gaining custody of the children she had with Michael Jackson. Rebecca White leaked the e-mails to Extra TV and Rowe's attorney has sent a letter to White "disputing the truth of her statements and demanding that she make retraction in order to avoid legal action." 

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Robert Redford was married over the weekend in Germany to girlfriend Sibylle Szaggars. The 71-year-old Hollywood legend was married before 230 of his friends and family in a "very intimate ceremony" at the Louis C. Jacob Hotel in Hamburg.

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Brandy has settled a civil lawsuit related to the December 2006 car accident that killed one Los Angeles woman, and injured another.

-- Dave Valenzuela