Paris Hilton Gets Halloween Scare From Violent Boyfriend

Like the Tim Curry song says, anything can happen on Halloween. Paris Hilton can get choked, Tinsley Mortimer can tape a reality show, Elton John can get sick. It’s Monday’s leftover gossip candy.

• Apparently on a boozy limo ride home from a few Halloween parties where they were dressed as matching tooth fairies, Paris Hilton’s boyfriend Doug Reinhardt threw her phone out the window. It appears that excessive texting annoys him too. Paris got out of the car to look for it on the side of the road to no avail. When she got back into the car, Reinhardt started to choke her. Of course, the paps were swarming and friends tried to stop them from taking pictures. Like a good girl, Paris fought back, kicking and screaming at her man. The good news? A photographer found her phone and returned it. [NY Post]
• Speaking of Halloween parties, Tinsley Mortimer showed up with reality crew in tow for an event to benefit cancer charity City of Hope on Friday night at Marquee. “She showed up with 20 people. The crew shot her walking into the venue, but not inside the party as promised,” says City Of Hope’s Jocelyn Levy. “They just hung out and drank, for free, even the producers. We didn’t ask them to come, they called us.” Hmm. That’s funny, because we were there and we saw with our own two eyes that Tinsley did, in fact, film inside the party. Sure it was in the back by the dessert bar and the production kept a tight perimeter around Ms. Mortimer, but she did actually film inside the party. Don’t go trying to tarnish our Tinz unfairly! [Gatecrasher]
• Nicolas Cage is going to miss a New York screening of his movie Bad Lieutenant, because his father, literature professor August Coppola (brother of filmmaker Francis Ford), died of a heart attack. We love it when celebrities actually do the right thing. [P6]
• Elton John has been hospitalised for a bad case of the flu and a minor case of E. coli and has cancelled several concerts. All his pairs of sparkly glasses tell him to get well soon. [AP]
• Because her life hasn’t been charmed enough, Dakota Fanning is now a cheerleader and the homecoming queen at North Hollywood’s Campbell Hall Episcopal High School, which she is attending. Transformation into mean girl is complete. [E Online]
• Mel Gibson’s girlfriend, Oksana Grigorieva, might have had her baby (Mel’s eighth) two months early. We hope this isn’t like Heidi Klum baby thing where all the tabs were trying so hard to scoop each other that they just started making up the birth. [People]
• Gossip dowager Cindy Adams is obsessed with the making of Wall Street 2. Has she not seen a film in the movie theatre since the original came out 22 years ago, or does she just have a huge crush on Shia LaBeouf? You decide. [Cindy Adams]

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