Reese Witherspoon - Witherspoon Is Top-earning Actress

REESE WITHERSPOON is Hollywood's highest paid actress, according to a new study.

The Legally Blonde star pulls in an estimated $15 to $20 million (GBP7.5 to GBP10 million) per film, putting her at the top of the new Hollywood Reporter rich list, ahead of Cameron Diaz and Nicole Kidman.

Renee Zellweger, Halle Berry and Julia Roberts also make the new trade top 10.

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Longoria's husband sues celeb site

The husband of 'Desperate Housewives' star Eva Longoria, Tony Parker, is suing a celebrity gossip website for at least $40m over allegations that he had an affair with a French model.
The Associated Press reports that basketball star Parker alleges the site X17online posted "false and defamatory" messages about him.
The lawsuit said: "This is false. It never happened. And X17 had to know that the story was false, or, at the very least, it had to have entertained serious doubts about the credibility of its supposed source."
The lawsuit also said that the website never contacted the couple or their representatives before publishing the allegations, and refused to retract them after being told the allegations were false.

John Lennon - Ono Loses Imagine Case

JOHN LENNON's widow YOKO ONO has lost her legal bid to sue a filmmaker for using the former BEATLE's hit track IMAGINE without permission.

Ono and Lennon's two sons Sean and Julian joined publisher EMI Blackwood Music Inc to launch legal action against the filmmakers of Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed.

In a lawsuit filed at U.S. District Court in Manhattan, New York in April (08), Ono demanded Premise Media Corporation, C+S Production LP and Rocky Mountain Pictures ban the track in its movie.

They also sought unspecified damages.

But on Monday (2Jun08), U.S. District Judge Sidney Stein found in favour of the filmmakers based on a "fair use" doctrine.

Stein ruled: "That doctrine provides that the fair use of a copyrighted work for purposes of criticism and commentary is not an infringement of copyright."

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