Jeremy Piven is expected to show up for his Actor's Equity hearing tomorrow to determine whether his "mercury poisoning" excuse was totally made up, duh. The biggest hole in Piven's defense? His exhaustively documented partying.

Rihanna steps out in public, releases statement. [Us]

In the period we live in, the most remarkable thing about the fact that police photos of a battered Rihanna have leaked is that it took a whole ten days for it to happen.

Though Chris Brown was booked on a charge of criminal threats after allegedly beating his girlfriend, Rihanna, E! reports that the singer is being investigated for a multitude of other felonies:

Despite seeing the threat coming, the Weinstein Company never bothered to dodge a new lawsuit from the surviving half of Sam & Dave — the allegedly uncredited sources for last year's bomb Soul Men.

A judge on Tuesday denied Roman Polanski's motion to dismiss his 1977 rape case, but left a cracked-open window for the filmmaker to return this spring to try in person.

Terrence Howard was the sole celebrity to raise a fist voice in solidarity with accused Rhianna-beater Chris Brown—a sympathetic stance that might have something to do with his previous arrest for wife-beating in 2001.

EW reported the other day that Chris Brown was looking to hire a crisis expert, and we imagine that the guru's first advice to him was, "Maybe apologize? For that thing you did? Finally?"

Justifiably, semi-apologies and awards-season censure aren't going far enough to repair Miley Cyrus's SlantyGate-poisoned reputation among Asians. It's going to take a lot more — like $4 billion more — to achieve litigated peace.

The Rihanna/Chris Brown case continues to get complicated: the district attorney may have a weak case based on the criminal threats charge, but information from Rihanna herself could bring new accusations.

Finally, new details are emerging as to how the brutal alleged fight between Rihanna and Chris Brown began—and which hip-hop star has a vested interest in ending it.

Case presented against Chris Brown, further investigation pending. [E!]

O, for the old days of last week, when threats were contained to on-set blowups and transformed into danceable mixes. Here are the latest, unsettling details on the Rihanna/Chris Brown case:

Questions are continuing to pile up in the Chris Brown/Rihanna dispute, including debate over whether there was a deadly weapon involved and speculation that a second felony charge could be coming down the pike.

Joe Satriani calls off his Coldplay-chasing subpeona hounds. [E!]

The moody pop/performance-art troupe Coldplay is getting ready for one of the biggest weekends of its career, rehearsing Grammy acceptance speeches even as its members prepare to dodge Joe Satriani's legal wrath.

There are some things in life that we'll never get tired of. The incarceration of flashcore titsploitation entrepreneur Joe Francis is one of those things. Break out the body shots!

Roman Polanski's fast track to stateside restoration suffered its first setback Monday when he lost his bid to get out of the L.A. courts that he says railroaded him 31 years ago.

"Basically he wasn't under the influence," the Coroner's Office told reporters today after releasing the Scott Ruffalo toxicology report findings . Still, "faint traces" of cocaine, alcohol and morphine were detected.

So the mystery $25 million document at the center of the John Travolta extortion case was a waiver, relieving emergency services from any liability had Travolta opted to airlift his son to a Florida hospital.