Melissa Etheridge and Tammy Lynn Michaels have called it quits after being together for over nine years. The pair staged a commitment ceremony in 2003, and planned to make their union official after authorities in California gave homosexual couples the right to wed in 2008. However just a few months after the rights were given to the famous lesbian couple, the ruling was overturned and they missed the chance to be legally wed.

A representative for Etheridge tells People.com, “Melissa and Tammy Etheridge are saddened to announce that they are now separated,” while a statement from the former couple adds, “We ask for consideration and respect for our family as we go through this difficult period.”

Tammy Lynn Michaels gave birth to the couple’s twins that were conceived via an anonymous sperm donor in 2006, daughter Johnnie, and son Miller. Melissa Etheridge also had two children with her previous partner Julie Cypher, Bailey, 13, and Beckett who is 11.

How do you feel about this break-up???

50 Cent said that Paul McCartney didn’t know who he was when he asked Paul for an autograph. Even though McCartney didn’t know who the rapper was he signed an autograph for him. 50 is so pleased that he included McCartney one of his new songs, titled “Do you think about me?” However I don’t know if McCartney will like what he hears….

50 Cent rhymes, “It’s like Paul McCartney stuck in my head/fell in love with a b-tch walked away with one leg/she ain’t even have to run to get away with the bread/that’s some f–ked up sh-t/think about that kid.”

The lyric references McCartney’s divorce from the one-legged Heather Mills.

50 says, “That’s interesting. You figure if you’re gonna marry a woman with one leg, she’s gonna stay!”

Jennifer Lopez has turned up the heat on her ex-husband’s plans to release a satirical documentary about their short-lived marriage – she is suing him for $10 million in damages.

Ojani Noa, who was married to the actress/singer between 1997 and 1998, is preparing a documentary, entitled How I Married Jennifer Lopez: The J.Lo and Ojani Noa Story.

Due to a legally-binding settlement in which Noa agreed not to release any information about the former couple’s time as husband and wife, Lopez’s legal team issued a cease-and-desist missive demanding that he scrap all his plans for the film.

However, Noa has laughed off the threats, insisting his movie is “100 per cent parody” and therefore does not breach the agreement the pair made in 2005.

Nevertheless, Lopez doesn’t find the situation amusing, and after hearing home movie footage from the pair’s honeymoon would feature in the satire, she filed suit at Los Angeles County Superior Court on Friday claiming the terms of their settlement have been broken.

Lopez is demanding a permanent ban on Noa releasing any footage of her, and wants a whopping $10 million in damages.

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Whitney Houston married her ex-husband Bobby Brown to end speculation about her sexuality, according to her former partner.

Prior to her troubled marriage to the singer, rumors spread that Houston was in a relationship with her female assistant, Robin Crawford.

Brown, who divorced Houston in 2007, claims the “I Will Always Love You” hitmaker wanted to get married and have children so the media would stop speculating about her sex life.

In his new tell-all book, “Bobby Brown: The Truth, the Whole Truth and Nothing But…,” Brown writes, “(The marriage) was doomed from the very beginning… I think we got married for all the wrong reasons. Now, I realize Whitney had a different agenda than I did when we got married…I believe her agenda was to clean up her image, while mine was to be loved and have children.

“The media was accusing her of having a bisexual relationship with her assistant, Robin Crawford. Since she was the American Sweetheart and all, that didn’t go too well with her image…In Whitney’s situation, the only solution was to get married and have kids. That would kill all speculation, whether it was true or not.”

Avril Lavigne has filed for divorce from rocker Deryck Whibley.

Avril announced her separation – but not a divorce – from the rocker on her website last month.

“Deryck and I have been together for 6 and a half years. We have been friends since I was 17, started dating when I was 19, and married when I was 21. I am grateful for our time together, and I am grateful and blessed for our remaining friendship. I admire Deryck and have a great amount of respect for him. He is the most amazing person I know and I love him with all my heart,” she wrote at the time.

“Deryck and I are separating and moving forward on a positive note…”

The “Girlfriend” hitmaker has moved to officially end her marriage to Sum 41 singer over “irreconcilable differences,” according to papers filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on Friday. Avril lists their date of separation as September 4, 2009, three years and one month after their July 15, 2006 wedding.

The estranged couple has no children and Avril has asked that Deryck not receive spousal support.

Guy Ritchie’s shared his thoughts with Esquire magazine about his ex-wife Madonna. He still loves her even if she’s a little wacky. Here’s what he had to say:

“She’s a manifester, if there ever was one. First-rate manifester. Madonna makes things happen. Put Madonna up against any 23-year-old, she’ll outwork them, outdance them.”

“And, of course, here you go: I still love her,” Guy finally added after a little nudging from the interviewer. Aww shucks, how sweet. But Guy isn’t all lovey-dovey now that his romance with Madge is dead and gone. “But she’s retarded, too.”

Yes, Guy just called Madonna retarded.

The first single off of Usher’s upcoming album Raymond vs Raymond is a song called ‘Papers’. In the song, Usher talks about his highly publicized divorce from Tameka Raymond.

Will ‘Papers’ be as successful as ‘Confessions’? You decide.

After roughly three months of marriage, Fred Durst announced on his Twitter today that his marriage to is over:

For those of you inquiring I will confirm that Esther and I have decided to go our seperate ways and we both thank you for your support.

What do you think happened guys? His bizkit go limp? JK!

LeAnne Rimes continues Affair With Eddie Cibrian. The two joined each other at the gym this weekend in Pomona, followed by her concert at the fairgrounds.

Do you think they bought fried pickles?