F. Scott Fitzgerald certainly laid it out best about the rich: they are different from you and me.

The Palm Beach society battle between the heirs of the National Enquirerfortune has shifted into high-gear again. As well told you earlier this month, Paul Pope and his mother Lois have been playing out an odd legal joust for the last 20 years. At stake is the controlling chunk of the $415 million payout from the 1989 sale of the tabloid. Depending on who's telling the tale, in one corner you have a harassed old lady or a wasteful socialite; in the other, a son concerned about his family legacy or a conniving party boy. The latter's slash-and-burn PR campaign against his mother put him in handcuffs last week on charges of stalking.

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Fame, money, women -- but no URL.

Men speaking in strange tongues call Rick Ross late in the night and ask him questions involving matters he has no knowledge of.

In English more broken than Tim Tebow's NFL chances, they ply him for info on his next ill beat. They croon how much they love his jam.

Then, the white, 60-year-old cult expert living in New Jersey hangs up the phone, confused, and thinks of all of the money he could bank.

"Over the last month, we've discussed whether or not to auction our domain," says Rick Ross, who runs the cultic studies Rick A. Ross Institute, and has a hegemonic grip on the Rick Ross URLs: rickross.com, rickross.net, and rickross.org.

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Apparently, 43-year-old Jennifer Lopez was filming a video for the song "Live It Up" on Fort Lauderdale Beach yesterday when shots were fired in the vicinity.

Entertainment Tonight co-host Rob Marciano tweeted that he was interviewing her when shots rang out:

"BREAKING: Gunshots fired on Fort Lauderdale Beach DURING my JLo interview. No kidding. Security scrambled her away."

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Lindsay Lohan could be taking her hot-messness to the Lukens Institute in Palm Beach Gardens, if her father has his way.

See also:
-Michael Lohan Is Publishing Memoir, Has Moved to Boca

According to wptv.com, Lohan's attorney has set her up to enter rehab in Morningside Recovery in Newport, California. But her father, Michael Lohan, would rather she enter the luxury rehab center in Palm Beach Gardens.

The oft-troubled actress was ordered by a judge to check into a court-approved rehab program.

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What do I do next?

As the rap and South Florida panorama emerges from the Rick Ro$$ drama, the Miami native has got some heavy soul-searching to do. One minute, he was making it sprinkle at LIV nightclub puffing jeezies with Luda and Diddy for his 37th birthday, and then: Pow!

As MTV eloquently wrote in its coverage of the mayhem: "Things became all too real." Someone shot up his Rolls Royce, and the Bawse crashed it.

Many things about the scenario remain uncertain. For instance, what kind of gun was used to shoot up the car? Was the Bawse intoxicated when he crashed? Who was the shooter? Has art become life? Yada, yada, so on and so forth.

See Also:
- Who Shot at Rick Ross?
- Rick Ross Targeted by Drive-By Shooters in Fort Lauderdale, According to Witnesses
- Rick Ross' Passenger: Shateria L. Moragne-el

But for Ross, one element of this story shouldn't be uncertain: His next move. There are precisely five things he'll most likely do.

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Michael Sorrentino, the pervy loudmouth of MTV's Jersey Shore, has filed a lawsuit against Headrush Brand Apparel, a purveyor of hideous clothing.

Sorrentino, who dubbed himself "The Situation" because of his abs or something, claims in the lawsuit that he's an "internationally known TV star" and that Headrush owes him a custom motorcycle worth more than $100,000.

Copy of lawsuit after the jump.

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South Florida is littered with washed-up celebrities, from Vanilla Ice to Donald Trump. And while it's easy to riff on these past-their-prime peddlers of spectacle, they at least possess a modicum of some redeeming quality. In other words, they're not total failures.

But the newest edition to Palm Beach's gaggle of crazy, Amy Fisher, is simply the worst of the worst. Fisher, who just purchased a $575,000 crib in Wellington, so severely outtrashes every other celebrity in the Sunshine State -- and probably the U.S. -- that we had to compile a list of tawdry facts to remind readers how awful the "Long Island Lolita" really is. From shooting a woman in the face to getting pigeonholed in cougar porn, here's everything you need to know about Amy Fisher.

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Midas touch, really?

South Florida is crawling with famous crazy people. Who has time to keep up with all their yammering? Behold, the weekly roundup:

-- Wellington resident Vanilla Ice plays himself in the new Adam Sandler movie That's My Boy, which opens today. As Twitter commenter @ryan_derosa noted, "Every show I watch @vanillaice is on it now."

-- Palm Beach blowhard Rush Limbaugh called the president "Barack Hussein Kardashian."
Rednecks everywhere are now furiously Googling Kourtney and Kim.

-- Fellow Palm Beacher Ann Coulter called Mitt Romney  "The Midas Touch Man," raising questions about what exactly he's touching.


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Biden is president of Mavericks in Education Florida.

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Anyone with a passing interest in sports is about to be inundated with talk of King James versus Prince Durant, Oklahoma City versus Miami, a wholesome young crop of basketball players versus the most hated/worshiped trio in the NBA. Sports rivalries are fun, especially the kind that are gratuitously hyped to increase Nielsen ratings.

So while it's still early, before the Miami Heat face the Oklahoma City Thunder in the first game of the NBA finals tomorrow, we've compiled a highly unscientific list of reasons Miami is clearly superior in every way.*

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