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RUMOR #1
Nicole Kidman and Russell Crowe are dating

RUMOR #2
Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt are expecting their first child

RUMOR #3
Former Beatle George Harrison is dying

RUMOR #4
Halle Berry was paid $500,000 to appear topless in Swordfish

RUMOR #5
Cyclist Lance Armstrong uses performance-enhancing drugs

RUMOR #6
Katie Couric is quitting the Today show

RUMOR #7
Lisa Marie Presley and boyfriend Nicolas Cage want to close down Graceland

RUMOR #8
Demi Moore is getting remarried

RUMOR #9
Pamela Anderson and Kid Rock are engaged

RUMOR #10
Monica Lewinsky was fired by Jenny Craig for not sticking to the diet

RUMOR #11
Tom Cruise's date with Penelope Cruz was a public-relations stunt

RUMOR #12
The costars of Sex and the City hate one another

How it got started: Citing sources, New York Daily News gossip columnists George Rush and Joanna Molloy reported on July 24 that the fashionable foursome's offscreen relationships are as "chilly as cosmopolitans." The column suggested that Kristin Davis' costars avoided a party Mademoiselle threw to celebrate her August cover.
The truth as we know it: Sarah Jessica Parker called gossip columnist Liz Smith personally to refute the story. "It was horrible to wake up after working 20-hour days and have to read such nonsense," said Parker. "Kim [Cattrall], Cynthia [Nixon], Kristin and I are all friends, personally and professionally. . . . Do James Gandolfini and Michael Imperioli fall in each other's arms when they aren't working on The Sopranos?" As for the Mademoiselle party, their spokespeople say the three others all had prior commitments.
But don't forget: Unlike the cast of Friends, who receive equal pay, Parker is thought to make far more than her costars, which could cause tension in the show's fifth season.

RUMOR #13
Madonna will retire after her Drowned World tour

WRITTEN AND REPORTED BY KEN BAKER, DEBRA BIRNBAUM, SEAN DALY, DIANA ECKER, ERIC GLADSTONE, TODD GOLD, KATE LEE, BEN PAPPAS, MONICA RIZZO, SARAH SAFFIAN, RUSSELL SCOTT SMITH, MIA SULPOR & IRENE ZUTELL

The Rumor Hall of Fame

Elvis is alive. Paul is dead. Jim Morrison is alive. Michael Jackson and his sister LaToya are the same person. Mae West was a man. Britney Spears had breast implants. Cher had a rib removed so she would look thinner. Mikey from the Life cereal commercials died from eating Pop Rocks and drinking Coke. Jerry "the Beaver" Mathers died in Vietnam. Josh Saviano from The Wonder Years became Marilyn Manson. Cary Grant had a gay love affair with Randolph Scott. Keanu Reeves and David Geffen are married. Walt Disney was cryogenically frozen.